I am Legend

Yeah turkey, Smith didn't make the comments until after he had trapped the female. My friend and I both commented on that after the movie, because it was obvious to us why the vampire came out, but not obvious to Smith - showing he was the one forgetting what it's like to be human, because all he can think about is staying alive.
 
Movie was just kind of "blah" Agree that it should have been longer, with better explanation. Bottomline, it think it suffers from comparisons to similar movies that were better done.
 
The movie gets a B. It's a step above mediocre and wasted potential as mentioned earlier. IMO, the reliance on CGI put the writer/director in 'mail it in mode'.....movie must have been cheap to make outside of the CGI and Smith's paycheck.

BL
 
I thought the movie was very intense and would go see it again. I think there is some symbolism that I missed (ie. the Time magazine on the fridge with his pic and "Savior.") I think there was another scene with a butterfly but I can't remember which it was - I want to say the little boy had found one or maybe it was the dog. I really liked it and would have liked it to be a little longer so there weren't so many skips. Reminded me of Signs a little.
 
One thing I will add is that the movie cut out for about 5 minutes, I think it was right after he buried the dog. We saw it at Regal Gateway, and the screen just suddenly turned black. No lights came on, no one made an announcement, nothing. About 5 minutes later it was back on. I suspected that it had skipped forward during this time, and that was confirmed when the movie let out and the 2nd theater with the same start time was just being released. Not sure if I missed anything important there or not.

For the record, this is the 3rd time this has happened to us at Regal Gateway. During Ocean's 12, the emergency lights came on 2x and we had to evacuate the building once. Then during American Gangster a few weeks back, the movie just turned off half-way through and it took them about 15 minutes to get it going again. I like the Regal theater for its size, location, and cleanliness, but that **** is annoying.
 
Gateway is not that clean. I prefer Alamo for the beer, food, and most of all the option to get a waitpersonthingstafftress to tell someone else to shut the **** up by writing on a piece of paper.
 
Unacceptable for a movie to skip 5 minutes in a theater. You guys should have gotten your money back.

Back on topic, I enjoyed the movie immensely. I would have enjoyed Chuck Heston from the Omega Man more than Will Smith, but like most of my generation, he's too old and unsat.

Interesting adaptation. A little closer to the book than the Omega Man. My take on the leading vampire / rabies whatever guy was that he was put in the role of Ben Cortman in the book, Neville's previous life next door neighbor who seemed to have it out for him after he was Infected. I didn't think of a girlfriend angle because when you run across a group of undead and they are all just standing as close as they can to the corner of the room with their backs away from the light, you don't think they have a whole lot of social interaction going on. But you may be right.

Worth the 7 bucks though, particularly given most of the mindlessness consisting of tits and explosions that comes out of Hollywood. Not that I have anything against tits, or explosions, I'd just like a little plot and maybe a hint of semi-good dialog to wrap around them.
 
Decent movie. Worth the fare. Not great.

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Deer swim, and the northern tip of Manhattan would be a relatively easy swim.

Also, there are deer in Central Park.

The lions would have come from the zoo I imagine.

I got the impression that the head zombie was after his lady as well, but the movie really didn't address it directly. Did I miss something more on that point?

Butterflies: His daughter makes a butterfly with her hands twice. By the time you see it a second time, it's an obvious plot point. You also see a real butterfly in the corn field. The dog sniffs after it. In the end, Will sees a butterfly in the pattern of the cracking plexi and then as a tattoo on her neck.

Anyone notice what he was spraying to cover his tracks?

My wife conjectures, with no proof in the movie, that the military may have left one tunnel open and guarded for future access. Or maybe the lady knew how to drive a ferry? They could have taken a boat to the island and picked up a vehicle on the island. I didn't notice if she was driving the same car on and off the island.

How did the zombies train the dogs. Both the zombies and the dogs must be smarter than we/Will thought for that dynamic to work out.
 
i enjoyed the movie standing on its own. its was intense and fun and well done.

but i did not enjoy the movie when compared to the book. the fact that they changed the single greatest concept in the book makes the movie really hard to watch. it's not like it was a minor plot point that they changed but it was the entire concept that the story was written around. very weird. if the movie is faithful to the book as NCFOM, then this would have been dynamic and clever and award-worthy. instead its 28 days later part tres.

like i said, i enjoyed the movie when thinking of it being called Zombies in the City....but not so much by its current title and in comparison with the movie.

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a couple of things I noticed with the movie...

I was wondering about the mannequin also, but it seems like everyone thinks the vampires moved it. I just dont really see them being capable of moving a mannequin and setting up a trap. I just dont think they would be able to jump that far in their planning skills to set a trap and move a mannequin...

As far as her getting there, her car was made to travel with zombies around (lights, gas tanks, bumpers, etc), I think she came to NYC in that car. I just assumed that she came through a tunnel to get there, but that would be a dark place so who knows....We can just say she arrived via the ship she was on and they had that car on it....

The one thing that did irritate me was the fact that he didnt get into the celler with her and the kid, as someone sad, throw the damn grenade and hide...you had time....

The last point, which I am surprised no one brought up is the fact that the vampires were able to scale the building really easily, yet the colony in the mountains only had a large wall protecting them. IF the zombies could climb so well, you would need something considerable better than a freakin wall to stop them.....

Overall, I enjoyed it, it should have gone into what happened during those 3 years more and just how he survived that long....B+
 
I dont think there were that many more footholes in the building compared to that wall, it seemed like a large stone wall to me...but i could be wrong. Either way the wall was freakin huge around the village, how the hell did they build that and there is no way they had that many weapons and guys to be able to shoot at them easily from every point....
 
Do grenades have that much explosive power? Seemed to me it was designed for two things. One, deflect attention away from the two people in the chimney hatch with a vial of blood. Two, make it a little less painful for Will Smith in his ultimate demise. I can't remember if there was a shot showing the house afterward, so I could be wrong.

Speaking of explosions I'm guessing that his house wasn't reinforced seeing as how he immediately blew the surrounding area with his C4 or whatever he was using. The front door obviously wouldn't hold them back and the roof would have been a vulnerable area. It just seemed that throughout the movie as you watched him seal up his house, it gave you the feeling that he was pretty much safe from a bunch of zombies running at the house. Yet, when the scenario of zombie home-wreckers arose, he immediately blew everything up which opened up a lot more holes in his house. Maybe it was panic.
 
A box like that would have a way to unlock it from inside as a safety precaution. I have installed two such units when I worked for a man who built safety rooms in houses. It was a short term part time gig but fascinating what some will do for safety or the perception of it.

The grenade blast would not penetrate that door. I think he wanted to wait for the perfect time to blast the grenade to take out all of them and not chance there being survivors that saw him put her in there. Otherwise, survivors could pick around it or wait them out. They were safe in that light of the lab and could just wait them out. There would be no way for others not in that lab to know there was anybody there and they would go back to their safe location to spend the day. Smart move by him.

I doubt he would keep his other vehicles in the blast area or parked in front of the house. They could have had locations of where each one was on the key chain to remind him which was which. A friend in NYC would write what lot and which spot he would park in sometimes depending on his lot. He also paid the attendant to do it when he was drunk, lol. That way when he needed his car next time he could go to it.
Supposition on what the Will did but maybe.

He did underestimate the power of the grenades but then again it may have been meant as a last ditch effort for him as well. He underestimated the vampires/night stalkers so he would not have figured some would lay back for the first effort of protection to be used like they did.

Awesome points about how his humanity faded while aspects of the V's got stronger. And the lead vamp for sure made it personal as his woman got taken. They watched him as he set the trap or how it was enacted when the blood was set.

They likely set up in other building during the day to track where he did the video getting and knew what mann. to get ahold of. Very clever.

I too wondered how she got into the city. I guess I will accept the tunnel explanation.

Animals: Very possible to have them around. What I liked is that they did not overdo the lions. They would reproduce but not rapidly, not over 3 years. Also, they would be kept in check some by the night stalkers. They could fend for themselves some but had to enact some form of survival too. So the deer and lions as well as other animals would be somewhat small as even the lions were not the top of the food chain.

I knew the dog had to go at some point (never seen Omega nor read the book) but it did not make it any easier. Thinking about it is rough.

I am glad he did not survive to ride into the sunset.

Still digesting parts of the movie. Enjoyed it but don't know if I could see it again just yet. Not because I think it was bad, I just want to see a happier movie now.

Oh, and if he said that Legend is Bob Marley's best album, he is crazy.

Do y'all think he also possibly had backup labs or safehouses somewhere else as well in case he had to blow the joint like he did but survived whatever onslaught went on? I would think so.

I loved how the kid grabbed a steak knife when the Doc tossed the food plate. "Ethan, put the knife down".
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While a tunnel is a convenient explanation, if the government took the drastic step of destroying the bridges you would think they would have demo'd the tunnels also. Maybe they just never got around to it given how quickly events spiraled out of control.

Maybe there were still small boats or even the Staten Island Ferry around. She would have to be pretty darn resourceful to be able to load her car on the ferry and cross though.
 
Didn't she manage to cruise around on a Red Cross boat for a while? It's not too much of a stretch that she made it across the harbor using a ferry or some other boat. After getting to the US from Brazil with just her and the kid on a boat, she probably had a little on-the-job training.
 
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