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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 3:45:08 PM
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odw777
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Finally rented this on my Apple TV Saturday night. I wish I had read this thread first -could've saved myself $5 
Jeziz, what a stupid movie. About the only thing that impressed me was how they managed to depict NYC utterly abandoned. Aside from that, the CGI zombies were laughably stupid-looking. WTF?? Is there some reason other than Will Smith sucking up the entire acting payroll why they couldn't use real people with makeup? It's like I've always said about Star Wars: Yoda was twenty-times more believable as a rubber puppet than he was as a digital construct. But directors just don't get that anymore.
I liked the premise of a viral cure for cancer going horribly haywire -something I'd expect Michael Crichton to write. And I'm perfectly happy with movies where everyone dies in the end. It's just too bad this one couldn't be one of those movies. How many times do we have to see this retarded "We blew everything up and everyone dies... almost" crap? War of the Worlds (and, yes, I know that was H.G. Wells' fault, not a studio), Deep Impact, Waterworld, Armageddon, Independence Day, Titan A.E., etc, etc... Give me a small break.
Will someone with some balls please make a movie depicting human extinction without the tidy "colony of survivors" B.S. ending??
I agree.
Ever watch the 2004 Dawn of the Dead? The survivors are pretty much screwed at the end there.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 4:25:13 PM
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I hear the book was pretty good. A lot different from the movie of course. Instead of zombie like creatures. The virus kind of turned them into a race of vampires, who were creating there own society, and remained pretty intellectual.
Will smiths character is actually held on trial for crimes against the vampire people, and that lady with the son he meets in the movie. Is actually a vampire chick spying on him in the book, but comes to actually find he is a good guy. The book was kind of like, its the end of the human era and the beginning of this new vampire race...or so I have been told.
I liked the movie, I thought will smith did a pretty good job especially with the emotional state he was going through being the only human with no other human contact.
In the movies people like to see unbelievable sacrifice, and the human race triumphing over everything. How we can adapt to anything, its not so bad sometimes.
I really liked the new dawn of the dead, you dont necessarily know if they all really do get ****ed or not, but it certainly leaves that impression.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 5:17:01 PM
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Yet
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The real book is about a vampire race? Seriously? I would fxcking read that, and write them a letter telling them that's a badass plot and they shouldn't have strayed from it.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 5:23:08 PM
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The real book is about a vampire race? Seriously? I would fxcking read that, and write them a letter telling them that's a badass plot and they shouldn't have strayed from it.
Yeah. They remember all the stuff from previous lives. Like his best friend comes and yells at him from his front yard.
He also isn't an educated doctor. He is a factory worker kind of thing.
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Well I did have a pretty interesting life so far.....
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 5:30:18 PM
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I REALLY liked the movie, has NO ONE seen the alternate ending!?!?!?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DGsbikMS3Ec
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 5:30:25 PM
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Yet
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WHAT THE HELl!?!?
That sounds so much more badass than the movie. What's the book called?
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Alright, you got me. I am Steven Hawking, and bodybuilding is my new hobby. I am sick of physics. I wish I could train, and not just read about others training.
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In reality all of us here are playing out this scenario just different goals, we put our bodies through god awful time spent working out and eating to a near perfect point for years to MAYBE reach a goal.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 5:33:29 PM
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Red PittBull
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WHAT THE HELl!?!?
That sounds so much more badass than the movie. What's the book called?
I am Legend by Richard Matheson.
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White man came across the sea
Brought us pain and misery
Killed our tribes killed our creed
Took our game for his own need
We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came to much for Cree
Oh will we ever be set free?
-Iron Maiden, Run to the Hills.
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Well I did have a pretty interesting life so far.....
- I was born
- I went to school and didn't really do anything cool
- I learned to play guitar at age 11
- I joined a bodybuilding forum at age 25
- Now I have a desk job where I sit and type stuff on this bodybuilding forum, and I wait to go home so I can play my guitar and lift weights.
- Sometimes there's some naked chicks along the way too.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 5:36:17 PM
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Yet
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Gonna go get it right now.
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Alright, you got me. I am Steven Hawking, and bodybuilding is my new hobby. I am sick of physics. I wish I could train, and not just read about others training.
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ORIGINAL: twistedlink
In reality all of us here are playing out this scenario just different goals, we put our bodies through god awful time spent working out and eating to a near perfect point for years to MAYBE reach a goal.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 5:58:22 PM
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I REALLY liked the movie, has NO ONE seen the alternate ending!?!?!?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DGsbikMS3Ec
Damnit, that's even MORE retarded! Why not get on the radio and announce to all the zombies where the survivors are? I liked it better when Will blew himself up.
Here's another stupid ponderable: if they're so strung out and starving and crazy, why haven't they turned on each other?
Man. That's a couple hours of my life up in smoke.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 6:06:33 PM
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They have the same physical features as the robots in Irobot
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 6:40:37 PM
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Red PittBull
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They have the same physical features as the robots in Irobot
I always thought they were kind of like that..
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White man came across the sea
Brought us pain and misery
Killed our tribes killed our creed
Took our game for his own need
We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came to much for Cree
Oh will we ever be set free?
-Iron Maiden, Run to the Hills.
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ORIGINAL: brihead301
Well I did have a pretty interesting life so far.....
- I was born
- I went to school and didn't really do anything cool
- I learned to play guitar at age 11
- I joined a bodybuilding forum at age 25
- Now I have a desk job where I sit and type stuff on this bodybuilding forum, and I wait to go home so I can play my guitar and lift weights.
- Sometimes there's some naked chicks along the way too.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 7:57:03 PM
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Yet
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Just to let everyone know, I just bought the book, and it's infinitely better than the movie. It's also VERY different.
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ORIGINAL: coldfire
Alright, you got me. I am Steven Hawking, and bodybuilding is my new hobby. I am sick of physics. I wish I could train, and not just read about others training.
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ORIGINAL: twistedlink
In reality all of us here are playing out this scenario just different goals, we put our bodies through god awful time spent working out and eating to a near perfect point for years to MAYBE reach a goal.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 8:26:44 PM
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Nm0ney34
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Yeah it really is. Like someone said earlier, he isn't some hot shot government scientist. Hes an everyday joe smoe.
Im not much of a book guy, or else I would read it for myself. Fill us in when u can Yet!
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Just to let everyone know, I just bought the book, and it's infinitely better than the movie. It's also VERY different.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/21/2008 11:17:26 PM
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If ya post anything about the book that might ruin it please put "Spoiler" or something. I plan on getting the book, but want to keep following this thread...
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/22/2008 5:36:41 AM
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WIth the exception of the "survior" colony.. which I did not like either, for hollywood, thye did not pander to the lowest comon denominator. Really they didn't, other wise it would have been a whole nother movie, with a much more sappier plot line, with the hero living, that would have annoyed the crap out of me.
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Jeziz, what a stupid movie. About the only thing that impressed me was how they managed to depict NYC utterly abandoned. Aside from that, the CGI zombies were laughably stupid-looking. WTF?? Is there some reason other than Will Smith sucking up the entire acting payroll why they couldn't use real people with makeup? It's like I've always said about Star Wars: Yoda was twenty-times more believable as a rubber puppet than he was as a digital construct. But directors just don't get that anymore.
I soo agree with the bold, especially the underline.
However the (I guess I have been ruined by current movies), It could have been so much worse, I expected it to be rediculous CGI over the top CGI, and it wasn't it was spasely done. That is even evident from some of the earier posts in this thread. The" why didn't they use more badass CGI special effects" (loosly quoted)
SO I guess that is why I enjoyed it as much, I kept thinking about how it could have been done worse, I expected it to be done worse. I expected lowest comon denominator,
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/22/2008 5:42:50 AM
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Entertaining...but it wasn't good.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 4/24/2008 5:16:22 PM
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Yet
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Finished the book and let me say, I think the only reason they named the movie I am Legend is because Will Smith was the last person alive.
If you gave the movie a 3/10 you'll give the book a 10/10. It took me about an hour and a half to read, and it's only like 175 pages? Maybe 200.
The ending is abrupt, and the book I got came with all Mathesons other short stories, which I didn't know.
So I was reading and the story right after I am Legend was called Buried Talents.
Actually that was only 6 or 8 pages, but it was a good read.
It's about some guy in a dark suit that plays a carnival game where you throw ping pong balls into fishbowls, and he gets like 15 balls in the same bowl, and then leaves and the guy running the game died from internal bleeding.
So as you can imagine, I was reading that and thinking to myself "What the fxck? Is the book missing pages?!"
Then I read the next one and it hit me.
The book was tits though.
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ORIGINAL: coldfire
Alright, you got me. I am Steven Hawking, and bodybuilding is my new hobby. I am sick of physics. I wish I could train, and not just read about others training.
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ORIGINAL: twistedlink
In reality all of us here are playing out this scenario just different goals, we put our bodies through god awful time spent working out and eating to a near perfect point for years to MAYBE reach a goal.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 5/10/2008 9:23:13 AM
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I REALLY liked the movie, has NO ONE seen the alternate ending!?!?!?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DGsbikMS3Ec
The clip was removed. What happens in the alternate ending?
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RE: I Am Legend... - 5/10/2008 10:19:53 AM
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Yet
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ORIGINAL: SouLja
I REALLY liked the movie, has NO ONE seen the alternate ending!?!?!?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DGsbikMS3Ec
The clip was removed. What happens in the alternate ending?
The head zombie smears his hands on the glass room they're in and it looks like a butterfly, then you hear his daughter say something about butterflies, and then he opens the glass, and strolls the cured zombie out, and gives her to them, and they all leave.
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ORIGINAL: coldfire
Alright, you got me. I am Steven Hawking, and bodybuilding is my new hobby. I am sick of physics. I wish I could train, and not just read about others training.
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ORIGINAL: twistedlink
In reality all of us here are playing out this scenario just different goals, we put our bodies through god awful time spent working out and eating to a near perfect point for years to MAYBE reach a goal.
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RE: I Am Legend... - 5/10/2008 11:09:36 AM
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Weak.
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