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Shared on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 16:09Watched it last night, hoping against hope that something good would come out of it. I won't do that again.
*WARNING....SPOILERS*
I Am Legend - starring Will Smith, was originally based off of an older vampire novel written by Richard Matheson. The title of the movie and the name of the main character is all the 2 have in common.
The film had more in common with the Charleton Heston film "Omega Man"....another film supposedly based off of the Matheson novel.
I am a huge believer in using CG to help tell the story...not overwhelm the film. The idea of special fx is that you aren't supposed to be able to tell. You can't help but notice how bad the fx are in this film. All of the creatures look identical and unrealistic and move in an unrealistic fashion. Yeah they are creatures....but they don't look like anything natural.
The beginning of the film was decent.....up until Nevilles first encounter with the creatures. It goes downhill from there. You really felt the sense that he was alone and that he had something to be worried about. And up until the creatures were revealed....I was convinced and worried right along with him.
But like i said....once the action picked up the movie failed in alot of ways. Unrealistic CG....and theres alot of it. The fact that there are other survivors that discovered Neville is ridiculous.
The original intent of the story...the whole reason behind the title of I Am Legend...was that the world turned into a society of vampires, except 1. Neville. Neville became the vampires boogeyman. He hunted them during the day while they slept. He was the legend....their creature that scared them.
After Hollywood had its way with the beginning and middle of the film....they had to put the cherry ontop right?
Neville dies. He does in the book....but nowhere near how he does in the film. In the novel....Neville is kidnapped and held prisoner by the creatures and he gives up and kills himself. No big flash....no blaze of glory. He sits down and gives up. It was the only way the book could have ended really. And it worked. Its not a happy story.
Hollywoods version - Neville is trapped in his underground lab with 2 survivors.....he lets the 2 survivors out through a "back exit" and stays to hold the creatures off.....as the creatures spend 5 annoying minutes beating on the plexiglass and break through......Neville drops a grenade and takes him and the room full of creatures out. While the other 2 survivors return to their little city apparantly filled with more survivors.
Garbage. Thats the film in a single word. Garbage.
If you wanna know how I Am Legend is supposed to be....go read the novel. You can get it from Amazon.com for a good price.
Amazon.com
I'm gonna go read the book a few times to clean my brain out after that horrible horrible patch of film.
In other news:
Been working on some sigs. Here they be:
Gatsu OUT!
*WARNING....SPOILERS*
I Am Legend - starring Will Smith, was originally based off of an older vampire novel written by Richard Matheson. The title of the movie and the name of the main character is all the 2 have in common.
The film had more in common with the Charleton Heston film "Omega Man"....another film supposedly based off of the Matheson novel.
I am a huge believer in using CG to help tell the story...not overwhelm the film. The idea of special fx is that you aren't supposed to be able to tell. You can't help but notice how bad the fx are in this film. All of the creatures look identical and unrealistic and move in an unrealistic fashion. Yeah they are creatures....but they don't look like anything natural.
The beginning of the film was decent.....up until Nevilles first encounter with the creatures. It goes downhill from there. You really felt the sense that he was alone and that he had something to be worried about. And up until the creatures were revealed....I was convinced and worried right along with him.
But like i said....once the action picked up the movie failed in alot of ways. Unrealistic CG....and theres alot of it. The fact that there are other survivors that discovered Neville is ridiculous.
The original intent of the story...the whole reason behind the title of I Am Legend...was that the world turned into a society of vampires, except 1. Neville. Neville became the vampires boogeyman. He hunted them during the day while they slept. He was the legend....their creature that scared them.
After Hollywood had its way with the beginning and middle of the film....they had to put the cherry ontop right?
Neville dies. He does in the book....but nowhere near how he does in the film. In the novel....Neville is kidnapped and held prisoner by the creatures and he gives up and kills himself. No big flash....no blaze of glory. He sits down and gives up. It was the only way the book could have ended really. And it worked. Its not a happy story.
Hollywoods version - Neville is trapped in his underground lab with 2 survivors.....he lets the 2 survivors out through a "back exit" and stays to hold the creatures off.....as the creatures spend 5 annoying minutes beating on the plexiglass and break through......Neville drops a grenade and takes him and the room full of creatures out. While the other 2 survivors return to their little city apparantly filled with more survivors.
Garbage. Thats the film in a single word. Garbage.
If you wanna know how I Am Legend is supposed to be....go read the novel. You can get it from Amazon.com for a good price.
Amazon.com
I'm gonna go read the book a few times to clean my brain out after that horrible horrible patch of film.
In other news:
Been working on some sigs. Here they be:
Gatsu OUT!
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