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That was a kickass movie if I've ever seen one. The suspense will just about drive a person insane.
will smith was great

but i hated the movie..

they RUINED the book, which was awesome..

the movie suffered from a few bad cheesy modernizations.. The Omega Man and The Last Man On Earth were both better movies..

If you remake a remake of a remake, and then add cheesyness to it, you're bound to fail.. hence I Am Legend..

like, oh, of course, the night that they all come to your house, you've finally realized that you FOUND THE CURE.. I mean come on, a 7th grader can write that shit..

Anyone who liked the movie i encourage you to read the book and then reevaluate your thoughts.. the book is completely different and superior.
C'mon, The Omega Man was the ultimate in Cheese. Being cool with black people must have been nouveau riche back in the 70s as evidenced by Heston's black girlfriend in the flick. And that ending... he died standing?

I can understand if you think "I am Legend" was a poor adaptation of the book, but it was just as good, if not better, than "The Omega Man". It was not a remake but a different adaptation just like with "The Thing". That was a second adaptation of the source material. They couldn't have remained faithful to the novella; nobody would be interested in that as a feature film. The ending was so anti-climactic. With a storyline that involves sci-fi and vampires you HAVE to inject some action, otherwise audiences will be bored.

Will Smith was excellent and at times his performance was almost on par with Tom Hank's in "Castaway". The CGI was godawful; I wish they had just used real actors. They crafted this movie to be right up the alley of a mainstream audience.
liquid if you read one of my other posts i elaborated on the Omega Man.. and i said that it was my least favorite of the 3 book adaptations.. I guess i was just remembering my anger after watching I Am Legend when i first posted..

I also said that Will Smith did a great job in the movie..

ANYWAY

Whether you meant to or not, you basically posted the general idea of WHAT IS WRONG with film today..

"With a storyline that involves sci-fi and vampires you HAVE to inject some action, otherwise audiences will be bored."

"They crafted this movie to be right up the alley of a mainstream audience."

So basically what you're saying is that intelligent people read books, and that if you're going to watch a movie it MUST have action in it so that you're not bored.. That's the BIGGEST JOKE i've heard in a while.. This is the problem with film today.. anything "crafted" to fit the main stream audience is horrible, hence those aspects in I Am Legend.. As i said in my original post, if you make a remake of a remake and then add the mainstream elements to it, then it's bound to be horrible.. Sure it will satisfy the "mainstream" audience, which you unintentionally explained as NEEDING action to not be "bored" with a movie.. but the real film lovers will laugh at this movie..

See the problem with society today is reflected in the types of entertainment we choose.. Listen to the radio.. nowadays it's all about "pimps" and "hoes" and "rims" and "ice".. Compare that to older decades where the music could actually be considered "ART".. You know, it actually had some meaning behind it.. Whether it was political or not, it had substance.. Today there are very few kids/teenagers growing up that will appreciate music as it truly should be.. You went from saying "hey mom, i want to learn how to play guitar like George Harrison" to "hey mom, check out how i can shake my ass like those girls in that video"..

The same goes for film.. I think it's funny how many people say "I've never even heard of that film" when all of the films nominated for best movie come out.. It's cause they were too busy watching Bring it on Again 10..
The other current movie thread about No Country For Old Men, which won best picture, is about a film that has substance to it.. YES there was action in it, but it was necessary action.. it wasn't put in the movie as a reason to go see the movie, it just happened to be NECESSARY to the story..

To say that you need to ADD action to a "sci-fi" movie because otherwise it would be "boring" is a joke..