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I Am Legend. It's the Omega Man sans Heston.
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Pretty neat
Will Smith is supposed to be the last human in existence (as far as Will knows), with everyone else being vampires.
<sigh>
Alright, I Am Legend in name only. I'll still try and look at it just as a popcorn movie, but that's disappointing as hell.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Just knowing who's involved doesn't mean jack shit.
Until we have a reliable word on the script or a review, it's a little early to assume it's going to be terrible.
I don't believe I've heard/seen anything about the creatures...hell, even the trailer only alluded to "something else" being alive, so who knows.
I also need to read the book. I saw the Vincent Price movie and thought it was pretty good. Never saw The Omega Man.
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Also, Constantine was pretty well-directed. Good action scenes, and a good sense of darkness. The executive producer just finds the people to make the movie and oversees the process, so he won't have much of an influence on the story itself unless he's an ass. The screenwriter who worked on I, Robot, as I have said before, modified a script that wasn't remotely based on the book to star Will Smith. The studio is the one to blame for tacking the name on, not the writer. And the movie was pretty good aside from the name. The fact that he worked on Batman & Robin can probably be negated, considering the fact that it had Batgirl, two bad guys, and way too much going was forced on him by the studio or producers, and he can't help that George Clooney was Batman. I'm not gonna defend him for the ultra-cheesy lines, though, unless the director or actors added those while shooting it.
Anyway, I'm trying to be optimistic. I think Hollywood has enough balls to have a depressing ending, especially considering that it's a December release, which is usually home to darker, more risky fare than summer stuff. As long as they leave the studio hope for a possible sequel.
edit: The screenwriter also wrote A Beautiful Mind and Cinderella Man. So there is hope.
edit2: And the cinematographer is from Lord of the Rings and King Kong. Even more hope.
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Wow...are you being serious there? The ending is what ties the book together and makes the story so great. Without it, there title makes no fucking sense.
yeah, I have to agree, if they change the ending it will ruin it.
It wouldn't be impossible to interpret the story to have a different ending, which still gave meaning to the words I Am Legend.
Impossible? No. Highly, HIGHLY unlikely? Yes. Whoever wrote the screenplay is no Richard Matheson, I guarantee it. Stick with what the man wrote.
Ummm...I saw The Omega Man when I was about that age. I thought it was ridiculous. Even at that age, I knew that vampire/zombies are scary, and albinos with bad Seventies sunglasses aren't.
I'd imagine the budget would be pretty small when most of the book takes place in one house.
Must be an awfully big house for it to be causing such traffic downtown and massive strikes across the Brooklyn Bridge.
"THERE IS NO PHONE RINGING DAMNIT!"
(See also: Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green)
I still doubt it's going to retain the same depth and ultimate irony that the book possessed though.
We are no longer allowed to state whether we think a movie is going to be good or bad after seeing a trailer. Such predictions offend SatanIsMyMotor's delicate sensibilities. Let's instead discuss whether or not "SatanIsMyMotor" is a really stupid name.
I dunno, I'm a sucker for scenes of post-apocalyptic, vacant landscapes. I feel like I'll hate vampire zombies though. Seriously, that shit sounds retarded.
It's not psychic powers, it's a hypothesis with previous data to support it.
An actor typecast as the quick tongued hero with a heard of gold being placed in the role of mentally unstable last man on earth is not a good sign.
Look at the last scifi film adapted and released to film. Next. Not exactly anything like the source material it came from, and wasn't a hit at all (I'll say I liked it but it critically failed). Again, a typecast actor for the lead role.
Actually after reading director's resumes, these movies seem comparable on quite a few levels.
I don't care for it. But I've only seen it once, so I don't think I can pass judgmet yet.
I have no problem with speculation. My point was that some people were calling the movie a "travesty" without even seeing it. It's the classic internet tactic of "X is the WORST Y evAr!!!" which I think is part of the reason internet culture can be the cesspool it is some times. Also, as someone pointed out, my name is a song. I apologize if you don't like it. "I think" statements are fine, it's the "I know" statements based off of conjecture that bother me.
However, carry on.
The dude that directed Constantine is directing this so I'm pretty confidant that it will deliver.
I mean, sure, we dont expect something powerful and moving, except he has shown he can do this with Ali and to a lesser extent that Happyness movie that was a little pretentious.
But goddam, 'Welcome ta' Earf', 'Oh you do not shoot that green shit at me!'
Pretty much every line of dialogue from MiB.
Will Smith is awesome.
I just can't take his one liners.
Aside from, like, one or two comments, this discussion has been three pages of cautious optimism and concern over the crew list. Overall, people are being overwhelmingly reasonable.
In other news, I actually really like Will Smith. He's pretty much the King of Cool, Flippant Good Guys. And while he has proven he can act damned well, it's all about the director. If the director tells him to ID4 it up, the movie is going to suck. If the director is a fan of the book, the film has a good chance. The fact that the director's experience is mostly in music videos, though, is sort of ominous.
Anyway. I thought if nothing else, The Pursuit of Happyness proved Will Smith can actually act when he wants to. Ultimately I didn't think the movie was that great, but it wasn't due to anything he did (at least onscreen).
The problem isn't Will Smith as an actor. The problem is whether or not the STUDIO wants this to be a "Will Smith action movie" or not.
(and even if it is, I'll go see it and probably enjoy it since I haven't read the book or seen The Omega Man)
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I was hopeful because I actually did enjoy I, Robot as a Sci-fi film of Hollywood fare. I'm thinking that if it didn't have Asimov's name attached to it and instead was just a piece of trivia that the movie was inspired by Asimov's works then the film would've been better received.
But this film is being directed by the same director of Constantine? ugh
edit: Also, I love Independence Day.
Me, too.
The opening scene to 28 Days Later is one of my favorite bits of film making ever.
And regarding Will Smith, Six Degrees of Separation was a great movie.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.