I Am Legend
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Has anyone else seen the stuff for this movie? My god I can't wait.
They just released another trailer today. Heres the links to the high def versions.
Comes out this December.
http://iamlegend.warnerbros.com/myspace/hidef/index.html
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i really like the basic concept of the story.
omg just watched the trailer and yea that's it :S and i hate it , it looks totally different than book and Will Smith?? argh no , i'll prob read it again soon , i just dont have any hope for movie..
Always meant to read the book...just never got around to it
Regardless, I'll watch anything post apoc. I think I'll pick up to book before it comes out... Sounds like a goodie.
Gee, you think the dog dies in the end for some injected drama?
Do writers usually give him comic relief lines that are way too cheesy? Of course they do, but if you question his acting abilities I'd say check out "Pursuit of Happiness".
Back on topic, I watched the trailer this morning and I gotta say, I think it looks great! I've never read the book so I'm coming to it with a blank slate. Oh, if the dog dies, I'll be pissed! I hate when they pull those heart strings on the innocent animals! Kill people off all day long, but stay away from the pets!
it's that he is given/takes roles that are all the same.. Wild Wild West, I Robot, Men In Black, Independence Day.. same character, different settings. pretty solid bet that if you go to see him in an action movie then it will be the same young cool angry smartass character with just enough background info that he wont be completely 1-dimenstional..
One of the first movies he did was Six Degrees of Seperation, where he played a gay con artist.
In 'Pursuit of Happyness" he played a dad down on his luck and living out of homeless shelters.
He hasn't gotten that Denzel feeling about him yet (IMO).
That being said... this movie looks damn good so far
Not read the book? Shame! I saw something a few months back that claimed that only 1 in 4 people read a book in the last year.
Oh, and my edit: Go and read Starship Troopers and try to forget the film version existed.
Isn't that wire on his leg that 2.23 suposed to be there really? like some trap or so...
ya could be, I just get all nerdy about picking out movie screwups, its like a hobby or something. haha
Does the book share the same title? Who wrote it? Looks like I'll have to check it out.
about your average family man, Robert Neville, whose life is turned upside down when a strange dust starts appearing in his suburban town. the dust seems to turn everyone into vampire like creatures. Robert soon becomes the only normal person left in his area. he struggles to survive and eventually starts to research how best to kill vampires.
the movie has Robert as a military research scientist in New York City looking for a cure and teaming with military soldiers to kill vampires. or in other words it's 28 Days Later with vampires instead of zombies.
I am Legend in name only.
the best part about the story, though, is that after he becomes a badass vampire killer he discovers that they're not mindless or anything, and that they've come to fear this monster that stalks them during the day. he himself has become the monster preying on them in their weakest hour, he's become a legend to them.
the movie, so far, looks like a typical survival horror action film. bah!
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Oh, and my edit: Go and read Starship Troopers and try to forget the film version existed.
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actually i loved starship troopers when i watched. it has its style , wierd , kinda funny but i liked it. also i was in love with dizzy (dina meyer) so my thoughts were biased :P
btw , is "i'm legend" popular&well known in usa or europe? just curiosity.
I really like Will Smith.
I haven't seen those other movies or read the books, so I'm sure I'll be in for surprises.
Either way I am looking forward to this flick.
Agreed about Starship Troopers too, the book is completely different. I actually like the movie, but it's just not a good adaptation of the book.
BTW, anyone see 30 Days of Night yet?
This site is really informative with all the trailers and movie posters, kinda spoiler-ish the overview.
btw , is "i'm legend" popular&well known in usa or europe? just curiosity.
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Probably not, it doesn't have "Harry" or "Potter" in the title.
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btw , is "i'm legend" popular&well known in usa or europe? just curiosity.
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Probably not, it doesn't have "Harry" or "Potter" in the title.
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srry for offtopic but
i cant even imagine ; by 50-60 year from now , ppls will forget dostoyevski , goethe etc and say harry potter is the best piece of world literature... prob i'll be old or maybe death till that time . and yea i'm a "hater"
I loved the book, but I'm not looking for this to be too much like it, if it's like it at all. I long ago gave up hoping that Hollywood would make faithful adaptions of... well, of anything really. The most you can hope for is that they get the feel, or the tone, of a property right. Quite often they fail to even do that. I'm usually happier if they make a great film that's nothing like the book, rather than a crap film that's almost the same. At least I get to see a good film.
As for Will Smith, I can take him or leave him pretty much, but I don't know where you guys are getting the idea that this is the sae old wise cracking action Will we've seen before. I didn't see any wise in the trailer, and I suspect if there was any they'd be hitting us over the head with it in an effort to get the Wise Crack Will fans into the theatre.
srry for offtopic but
i cant even imagine ; by 50-60 year from now , ppls will forget dostoyevski , goethe etc and say harry potter is the best piece of world literature...
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Probably not. Harry Potter will be remembered as a great story and a huge piece of popular culture, but the quality of the literature isn't anything worth noting, I doubt everyone will forget how to judge good writing just because HP was enjoyable and popular.
At one point in the movie Will Smith will be running.
Probably not. Harry Potter will be remembered as a great story and a huge piece of popular culture, but the quality of the literature isn't anything worth noting, I doubt everyone will forget how to judge good writing just because HP was enjoyable and popular.
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its not like , they'll read both , "crime&punishment" and "harry potter" then say harry is better. Reading such novells take time so peoples go lazy about it.
Ask any person around you , i can nearly guarantee you that they'll claim they know "dracula" , "The Three Musketeers" , "Don Quichotte" etc. not because they read it but only because they heard a little about it , they saw a cartoon on it bla bla bla. Peoples are still reading&respecting novels like "crime&punishment" but they'll day will come to become "well-known" and not readed... peoples dont know anything about the quality of those books ; dracula is just a vampire sucking people , three musketeers are angry guys with firearms , Don Quichotte is a kid story for them.
and in those days novels like harry potter will get far more respect than its quality , because its "recent" and "best-seller"
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At one point in the movie Will Smith will be running."
i had a giant lol at this
Asked the wife, she'd read all of them.
Harry Potter was great up until book 4, and then it was a snoose fest I trudged through just to see how it all turned out. Not particularly well as it happened.
Take that Karl Marx!
Asked my son too, he said "bahbahbah", so I guess not.
i don't see how you could make a good movie out of it without making a lot of changes, 95% of the book was one man alone with zero dialogue. so unless it was narated with what he was thinking (which is usualy cheasy) no one would have any idea what was going on.
Peoples are still reading&respecting novels like "crime&punishment" but they'll day will come to become "well-known" and not readed... peoples dont know anything about the quality of those books
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This is are hurteds mine eyes to readed...
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Peoples are still reading&respecting novels like "crime&punishment" but they'll day will come to become "well-known" and not readed... peoples dont know anything about the quality of those books
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This is are hurteds mine eyes to readed...
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hehe thats what happens when i post at 4-5am . it should be hilarious to see a guy talking about quality in literature and posting that eh? yea my english sux :S i'll prob use hieroglyph next time
harlequin - actually i was talking about high school&uni youth when i posted that , not artists posting here. hehe anyway , i'm already ashamed of my english so i better quit this literature talk :P hmm noww where's my grammer book ...
Fucking take that.
Have none of you seen the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
You haven't lived until you've seen every episode.
Grammar.
Fucking take that.
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HAHAHAHAHA!
I have nothing else to add to this discussion.
-caseyjones