I Am Legend

yea, it was a sad moment when the dog had to die

I guess I'm the only one who loved this movie, huh?

Oh well.

Wonderful performance by Will Smith, great (and depressing) story, loved the ending (hated the alternate ending though).

I will agree with the CGI infected, they did look a little cartoonish...but that didn't distract me or take away from the movie for me at all.

I'm reading the book right now, it's good...but this is a case where I like the movie better.

Stewart said:

I never called you stupid, just your statement and that was because the logic behind it doesn't amount to reasoning. How a film can be better because it has been awarded a rating is crazy - everything would be the same, apart from the audience. How can the presentation possibly differ depending on who is watching?

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ok, lets think enders game, the book has a children fighting and killing each other naked in a bathroom, genoside, etc....
would you rather the movie was produced with an G rating in mind, so they can make that extra buck with all those happy meals featuring ender in a mcdonalds near you?
or would you rather the movie being produced with whatever rating in mind that would give them the liberty to do justice to the source material?

the matter is not what rating was awarded, but how much the filmakers limited themselves (or were limited by the studio) in order to reach an specific rating.

oh, by the way, if i hadnt read (and loved) the book a while ago, i might actually have enjoyed this action flick, but i agree with most opions here, it was a good adaptation until the girl and the kid are introduced, and what shitty ending, oh yeah, he die so we all could live, he is the savior (i think the alternate ending actually has him captured by the vampires and crucifixied at dusk )

Just saw the movie and hated it, but I always hate the movies after reading the books.
What a piece of shit it was!

This movie was deffinatly total crap

I didn't like the movie at all. I liked the movie whenever Sam, the German Shepherd, was in it though. I also liked the movie BEFORE the Darkseekers were introduced. To me, they took away from the film...and took away a lot. I'm no geneticist but I usually find it incredulous when a virus infects an organism and that organism goes through genetic level changes or mutations IN THIS CURRENT GENERATION such that the organism exhibits significantly different attributes than normal, like jump hundreds of feat, exhibit superhuman strength, climb walls, eat flesh, etc. Mutations like this should not appear for generations and generations later. Usually, the organism should just DIE after being infected.

And why are the main characters in movies usually phenomenal talents and experts in their field? This is the kind of stuff that bothers me.

Mandi-chan said:

I guess I'm the only one who loved this movie, huh?

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Nah, I'll jump on that bandwagon with you I only saw the movie for the first time a few months ago, and at the time, I had no idea that it was based on a novel. Based purely on the movie itself and no preconceptions based on the book, I did love it. Like everyone said, Will Smith did a fantastic job in it, and I was really caught by the apocalyptic nature of NYC and how it was all explained by the "cure for cancer" virus. I think if I'd read the book prior to watching the movie, I would have been distracted by all the differences, but without that preconception, I enjoyed the movie.

I finally just read the book yesterday. Obviously there are a lot of differences between the two versions of the story, and I think it's a little pointless to try to decide which I like better. I like each of them for different reasons, but they're really not quite the same story. I did really like the book. I know it's considered quite a classic in the sci-fi genre, and I can definitely understand why. But I won't go as far as to say that the movie sucked because it deviated from the original story.

I have the book, never read it and saw the movie. Conclusion was I don't have to read the book some time soon. The movie was ok in my opinion but predictable through and through.
Maybe I do have to read it at some point. Just not before I've read the other 800 unread books waiting to be picked up.

Sleepy said:

I have the book, never read it and saw the movie. Conclusion was I don't have to read the book some time soon.

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Don't take this the wrong way, but since people are disliking the movie because it's so different from the book, your conclusion seems a bit odd. But hey, everyone can't read everything.

Yeah well, I came to that conclusion after I saw the movie not others. LOL
That was some months ago.