I Saw "I Am Legend" Last Night

[Dan in Pasadena]

Okay, I saw it at 5pm and I really, really liked it.

First, for the younger, "all-movies-gotta-have-nonstop-action-like-a-video-game" people, you're going to be disappointed with parts of it. For the rest of us, this is a really good movie. I doubt he will win, but Will Smith will get an Oscar nomination out of it.

The story is only basically faithful to the book (I just -re-read it) in concept...but no matter...the book was very light on detail anyway. I'll only say that overall I found the movie to be positive and life affirming when I thought it was going to be exactly the opposite...like the Omega Man of my childhood. Go see it, I'd love to hear impressions.

[Moneyguy1]

Third remake.

First starred Vincent Price. Second starred Charlton Heston.

Are there no new stories out there?

[rrpjr]

I enjoyed it. It was close to what I expected -- haunting as much as exciting and with a bit of thoughtfulness. It got a little lazy in its examination of an intelligent man stuck in hopeless solitutude. But such are the limits of genre, I suppose. Talking to store mannequins and tossing plates of scrambled eggs as emotional release valves for a "brilliant scientist" don't do it for me. But man against the mutants always has appeal, and there was no keeping me away from the chance to see a german shepherd in a key role. Notice how the dog kept circling him after he was wounded and backing away toward his car? Trained dog.

I also question the hyper-steroidal special effects. While the early hints and glimpses of the mutants were effective, I found the growing assault of special effects taking me out of story.