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Tezcatlipoca 06-10-2007 22:55
I Am Legend
 
After reading on another forum about the upcoming Will Smith movie "I Am Legend", I bought the original novel by Richard Matheson.


It's brilliant :tu:


Best book I've read in ages.



I can only hope that the new movie version does it justice.


Trailer:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/iamlegend/



Richard Matheson himself has apparently said it is "First Class!" according to "Total Film".

MovedGoalPosts 06-10-2007 22:57
Re: I Am Legend
 
Saw the thread title and thought your modesty had overtaken you :p:

Hugh 06-10-2007 23:01
Re: I Am Legend
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob (Post 34409495)
Saw the thread title and thought your modesty had overtaken you :p:
Nah - he used to suffer from false modesty, but not any more - he's perfect now...... ;)

Maggy 07-10-2007 01:02
Re: I Am Legend
 
I dunno..I reckon Charlton Heston already did this well..I really hate the way Hollywood keeps going back and remaking classics.:(

Tezcatlipoca 07-10-2007 19:22
Re: I Am Legend
 
I've not seen The Omega Man, but from reading a synopsis, it sounds like it is quite different in places to the original novel.

Maggy 07-10-2007 20:10
Re: I Am Legend
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt D (Post 34410004)
I've not seen The Omega Man, but from reading a synopsis, it sounds like it is quite different in places to the original novel.
The part with the golf club is eerily similar...;)

Pierre 08-10-2007 10:44
Re: I Am Legend
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Incognitas (Post 34409553)
I dunno..I reckon Charlton Heston already did this well..I really hate the way Hollywood keeps going back and remaking classics.:(
As long as they improve on the original, I see no reason on updating classics. Unfortunately they very rarely improve on the Original.

A quick poll from my memory;

Planet of the apes: Original Yes, remake no

King Kong: Original Yes, 70's remake no, latest remake yes

Italian Job: Original Yes, remake no

Get Carter: Original Yes, remake no

feel free to add.

Hugh 23-10-2007 21:54
Re: I Am Legend
 
Latest trailer

Light up the darkness!

Tezcatlipoca 25-10-2007 22:24
Re: I Am Legend
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 34410288)
As long as they improve on the original, I see no reason on updating classics. Unfortunately they very rarely improve on the Original.

A quick poll from my memory;

Planet of the apes: Original Yes, remake no

King Kong: Original Yes, 70's remake no, latest remake yes

Italian Job: Original Yes, remake no

Get Carter: Original Yes, remake no

feel free to add.

The Wicker Man: Original :tu:, remake :td:

The Hitcher: Original :tu:, remake :td:

Halloween: Original :tu:, remake :td:

Escape from New York: Original :tu:, upcoming remake most likely a :td:

Hellraiser: Original :tu:, upcoming remake most likely a :td:

etc.


Do get some good remakes though.

Thomas Crown Affair was good, & The Ring, IMO. Manchurian Candidate was OK, but not as good as the old Sinatra classic.


But the general pattern does tend to be remake = crap.

Quote:
Originally Posted by foreverwar (Post 34420388)
Latest trailer

Light up the darkness!

Looks good :)

TraxData 26-10-2007 02:15
Re: I Am Legend
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt D (Post 34422014)
The Wicker Man: Original :tu:, remake :td:

The Hitcher: Original :tu:, remake :td:

Halloween: Original :tu:, remake :td:

Escape from New York: Original :tu:, upcoming remake most likely a :td:

Hellraiser: Original :tu:, upcoming remake most likely a :td:

etc.


Do get some good remakes though.

Thomas Crown Affair was good, & The Ring, IMO. Manchurian Candidate was OK, but not as good as the old Sinatra classic.


But the general pattern does tend to be remake = crap.




Looks good :)
The ring was SO CRAP compared to the original jap version :(

The lake was also a terrible remake of "il mare"

Hugh 14-12-2007 12:26
Re: I Am Legend
 
First 3 minutes of I am Legend (and other clips) here

Tezcatlipoca 31-12-2007 20:05
Re: I Am Legend
 
I saw it this afternoon.

Loved it.


The
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sort of happy
ending was annoying, but at least Neville
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still dies at the end
. On the other hand, I think it simplified things, & it was handled well.


Very close to the book I thought, apart from some minor changes, plus the more major deviation near the end (& the odd other bits which aren't too important, although would have been nice to have). Still has the feel of it.

I thought it was very well done, Will Smith was very good, & the flashbacks were a nice touch too.

When the
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girl came into it
, I was expecting things to be like the book, so was a bit surprised later.

Still, before that, I had been wondering how exactly they would do the same end as the book, seeing as in the movie you don't see him properly going out
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hunting the vampires, so even if there had been any infected Others, which there weren't, they wouldn't really have had reason to be angry with him
.


If anything, I'd have like it to be longer, with a bit more of his daytime & night-time activities, & more of the "Dark Seekers".

downquark1 31-12-2007 21:24
Re: I Am Legend
 
Nothing special.

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They all looked like imhotep from the mummy.

They had no motive (or the intelligence) for the attack on his house

Bulky 31-12-2007 21:33
Re: I Am Legend
 
i really enjoyed it :) , just not long enough
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shed a tear or 2 when he had to strangle his dog though .... his only friend in the world and he has to kill him.. heartbreaking (am a dog lover though;))

popper 31-12-2007 21:58
Re: I Am Legend
 
your joking Matt, the film as in affect a load of tosh, and you could sum up the whole film in a 10 minute clip, infact you have already seen the best parts of it in the TV clips .

the zombie and his dogs could have been so much more to bring the viewer into the microscopic plotline, VERY POOR IMO....

---------- Post added at 21:58 ---------- Previous post was at 21:55 ----------

btw bulky it was a she not a he.... the poor zombies were far better i thought.

The Hitman 31-12-2007 21:58
Re: I Am Legend
 
The dog was the best actor in the film. It deserves to get an Oscar.:D

Charlie_Bubble 31-12-2007 22:53
Re: I Am Legend
 
The original book and the modern film are very different and neither is particularly impressive.

You think the film is very close to the book except a few minor changes?

Book:
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He's white; He's in his 40s; He lives in a small town; He listens to classical music; He drives a fairly simple car; He learns all his medical knowledge from library books; His family die from the disease; The dog is a stray; The woman is a vampire; His neighbour and workmate plagues him throughout; The ending isn't sugar-coated.


Film:
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He's black, in his 30s; He's a Doctor in the army; He lives in New York; He drives a Ford GT & a huge 4WD; He listens to Bob Marley; His family die in a helicopter crash; The dog is his daughters; There's a little kid and a non-vampire woman; There is a typical modern holywood everything must end nicely ending to it.


I can't think how much more different it could have been, except maybe to exclude vampires and everyone being dead!

Xaccers 01-01-2008 12:32
Re: I Am Legend
 
From what people have said about the book, I think I'll stick with the film's take on the story.
Vampires compared with people with a bad case of the measels?
Natural immunity compared with bitten by a vampire bat?
Still People? Oh come on.

Matthew 01-01-2008 12:35
Re: I Am Legend
 
I watched the movie the other night and thought it was pretty good, one of the best ones I've seen this year.

Tezcatlipoca 01-01-2008 13:12
Re: I Am Legend
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by downquark1 (Post 34462253)
Nothing special.

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They all looked like imhotep from the mummy.

They had no motive (or the intelligence) for the attack on his house
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The "Dark Seeker" leading the attack on the house was the same one in charge on the pier at night, the same one who set the trap with the dummy... and the same one who risked popping his head out in the sunlight when Neville took the female "Dark Seeker". I took it that it was after Neville as Neville took his mate.




Quote:
Originally Posted by popper (Post 34462261)
your joking Matt, the film as in affect a load of tosh, and you could sum up the whole film in a 10 minute clip, infact you have already seen the best parts of it in the TV clips .

the zombie and his dogs could have been so much more to bring the viewer into the microscopic plotline, VERY POOR IMO....

---------- Post added at 21:58 ---------- Previous post was at 21:55 ----------

btw bulky it was a she not a he.... the poor zombies were far better i thought.
Each to his own.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble (Post 34462281)
The original book and the modern film are very different and neither is particularly impressive.

You think the film is very close to the book except a few minor changes?

Book:
Spoiler: 
He's white; He's in his 40s; He lives in a small town; He listens to classical music; He drives a fairly simple car; He learns all his medical knowledge from library books; His family die from the disease; The dog is a stray; The woman is a vampire; His neighbour and workmate plagues him throughout; The ending isn't sugar-coated.


Film:
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He's black, in his 30s; He's a Doctor in the army; He lives in New York; He drives a Ford GT & a huge 4WD; He listens to Bob Marley; His family die in a helicopter crash; The dog is his daughters; There's a little kid and a non-vampire woman; There is a typical modern holywood everything must end nicely ending to it.


I can't think how much more different it could have been, except maybe to exclude vampires and everyone being dead!

Who cares what colour he is, what car he drives, & what kind of music he listens to? Minor, minor stuff. Irrelevant.

Making him USAMRIID Doctor is a change, but a good one. Makes more sense than him becoming an expert on virology & anatomy etc. simply by reading library books.

The only major change, as I said, was the ending.

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Movie: The Dark Seekers invade his house. He dies. Non-vamp girl & kid escape & take the cure to the "Survivors' Colony".

Book: The girl is one of the infected others, the group that have the infection, but aren't full-on undead vampires. The half-infected, or whatever you want to call them, capture Neville, & plan to execute him, as to them he is a monster, & a remnant of the now dead human civilisation. The girl gives Neville some pills so he can take his own life.



Big change, yes, & a bit too Hollywood with the very ending. But I think it still worked well.

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I think it would have confused & complicated things if there had also been half-infected people who weren't full-on "Dark Seekers", plus in the movie Neville didn't go out hunting the vampires / "Dark Seekers", so wouldn't have done anything to anger the half-infected & cause them to hate him & want to execute him.

The ending...OK, bit too happy, but at least Neville still died.




The overall feel though is the same, the main thrust of the film is the same, with Neville on his own, having to survive, trying not to go mad, trying to cope, investigating the disease.

Toto 01-01-2008 13:19
Re: I Am Legend
 
Film scared the heck out of my wife, it was good just to watch her jump out of the chair :)

downquark1 01-01-2008 13:42
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Well its quite possible the story aimed to mislead us on their mental abilities, but Neville made it clear they lost sociability, so even if there was an exceptionally intelligent one the others would have had no reason to obey.

Xaccers 01-01-2008 13:50
Re: I Am Legend
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by downquark1 (Post 34462490)
Spoiler: 
Well its quite possible the story aimed to mislead us on their mental abilities, but Neville made it clear they lost sociability, so even if there was an exceptionally intelligent one the others would have had no reason to obey.
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I think that's where the movie got let down, it was a great movie but could have been much better.
What I got from the Dark Seeker leader was that Neville captured his mate, and being leader managed to get the rest to attack, so Neville was being presumptious in believing they had no social structure, or the script writers ballsed up.
The thing about the trap that was laid for Neville was, how did they get hold of the equipment needed to fire a spike into the ground and set up the cable etc without a high level of intelligence.
Likewise, if the virus turned animals into savage beasts hell bent on just attacking anything in site, how come the infected dogs were tame with the Dark Seekers?

Charlie_Bubble 01-01-2008 14:01
Re: I Am Legend
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt D (Post 34462473)
Minor, minor stuff. Irrelevant.
Yes, if each is taken in isolation, but bundle all of the differences I gave together and the film is so unlike the book it's almost a different story. They should possibly have said the film was inspired by the book, because the film bears no semblence to the book.

tweetypie/8 03-01-2008 09:32
Re: I Am Legend
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt D (Post 34409493)
After reading on another forum about the upcoming Will Smith movie "I Am Legend", I bought the original novel by Richard Matheson.


It's brilliant :tu:


Best book I've read in ages.



I can only hope that the new movie version does it justice.


Trailer:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/iamlegend/



Richard Matheson himself has apparently said it is "First Class!" according to "Total Film".
cant agree with you matt,the book may be brill ok but the film was total rubbish.;)

die5el 03-01-2008 12:04
Re: I Am Legend
 
I watched the film the other night it was one of the worst films i had seen in 2007 and i have seen some rubbish

peanut 03-01-2008 12:05
Re: I Am Legend
 
I fell asleep through it :shrug:

handyman 03-01-2008 12:49
Re: I Am Legend
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt D (Post 34422014)
Do get some good remakes though.

Thomas Crown Affair was good, & The Ring, IMO. Manchurian Candidate was OK, but not as good as the old Sinatra classic.
You missed off Oceans 11.

Hugh 03-01-2008 19:59
Re: I Am Legend
 
I really enjoyed it - thought it was quite tense all the way through, and while the ending was a bit Hollywoodish, at least it wasn't to wishy-washy.

downquark1 05-03-2008 20:30
Re: I Am Legend
 
There is a leak alternative ending circling, I suggest you find one before warner brothers removes them all.

Shadow Demon UK 05-03-2008 20:56
Re: I Am Legend
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by downquark1 (Post 34500919)
There is a leak alternative ending circling, I suggest you find one before warner brothers removes them all.
The alternate ending is much better than the actual one and is what i was expecting to happen, why they didn't use it i don't know.

Tezcatlipoca 05-03-2008 21:27
Re: I Am Legend
 
The even more happy happy-ending?

It's gonna be on the DVD & BD release, AFAIK (alternate ending).

zing_deleted 05-03-2008 21:41
Re: I Am Legend
 
There is not one on the R1 single disc version you have to buy the 2 disc special that has the ending and a different version. Same is true with the R2 however there is no mention of the alternative ending although the different version is mentioned so Id gather its on the R2 2 disc special

dilli-theclaw 21-03-2008 19:54
Re: I Am Legend
 
Well I've just got the audio book (having not read it before - in print either I mean).

It's going to be a long time since I've seen the film before I've read the book.

Hopefully it won't spoil the film too much :)

alferret 21-03-2008 22:12
Re: I Am Legend
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jefferson T (Post 34511473)
Well I've just got the audio book (having not read it before - in print either I mean).
I just love audio books :tu:

Gonna have to "grab" this :)

dilli-theclaw 21-03-2008 22:29
Re: I Am Legend
 
What?

Hugh 21-03-2008 22:30
Re: I Am Legend
 
It's late, it's Friday, it's random post time....... ;)

Mal 21-03-2008 22:31
Re: I Am Legend
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jefferson T (Post 34511580)
What?
I think that he posted it in the wrong thread, as it has appeared in the "what music are you listening to" thread ;)

alferret 21-03-2008 22:31
Re: I Am Legend
 
Ahhhhhh IC :)

kingbuxton 21-03-2008 22:46
Re: I Am Legend
 
@Mal. Couldn't be more right, tried to delete it, and clearly it didn't.

superbiatch 21-03-2009 13:14
Re: I Am Legend
 
For some reason this film escaped me until today (which is freaky as the last post was exactly a year ago today in this thread). I think it was really good, if not a little scary for daytime viewing. The dog was cool, apart from when he had to kill it - proper made me cry :erm:


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