I Am Legend (Will Smith)
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Southern Presbyterian
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Correct on both points. It's a good flick. Much better than the movie it was re-made from. 
Davidius
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That's good to hear. I'm on Spring Break and it's playing at the local $2 theater, so I thought I might take Emily.
ChristopherPaul
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That's good to hear. I'm on Spring Break and it's playing at the local $2 theater, so I thought I might take Emily.
Oh yeah!? And where might this $2 theater be located my semi-local friend?
Davidius
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That's good to hear. I'm on Spring Break and it's playing at the local $2 theater, so I thought I might take Emily.
Oh yeah!? And where might this $2 theater be located my semi-local friend?
Well...it's local relative to my parents' house in Burlington.
Graham Cinema
There is, however, another cheap movie theater in Raleigh, with 14 theaters and tickets for $1.50, which may be closer to you, but I don't know for sure.
Carmike Cinemas - All Across America
Davidius
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Hey!!! How about a spoiler warning or something?!
I don't know who Sam is, but I guess I will now know that he's going to die once I get to the movie...
LadyFlynt
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Pretty much how I felt...like they either left us hanging or just didn't really give it all they could. For a Will Smith movie, I was disappointed. But definitely clean and something to watch.
Correct on both points. It's a good flick. Much better than the movie it was re-made from.
I've heard this is the 3rd time they made this movie. It was done in 1964 (The Last Man on Earth) and 1971 (The Omega Man).
I actually thought The Omega Man was really good when I saw it many years ago. It's sort of funny how popular this genre was in the late 60's with everybody convinced of an apocalyptic future from some biological or nuclear disaster. Charlton Heston seems to have served in all the big films of that genre.
Southern Presbyterian
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Cheshire Cat
Puritan Board Sophomore
I liked it. Its kind of like one of those new zombie genre movies, where the "zombies" are really fast and smart. Will Smith does a good job acting in it as well.
Gloria
Puritan Board Sophomore
Hey!!! How about a spoiler warning or something?!
I don't know who Sam is, but I guess I will now know that he's going to die once I get to the movie...
Awwwwww.....sorry. I think that's in the previews though! Didn't mean to spoil anything.
David,
It's not really a spoiler that a guy dies. That's in the original movie versions too.
It's not really a spoiler that a guy dies. That's in the original movie versions too.
Kevin
Puritan Board Doctor
I have not seen it yet. I am a big fan of "Last man..." & "Omega Man" is one of my favorites.
I have waited till DVD because I am underwhelmed with the choice of Will "Fresh Prince of Somthing" Smith as the lead.
C'mon, after the guy ruined "I-Robot" who ever wants to see him in a Sci-Fi movie again?
I have waited till DVD because I am underwhelmed with the choice of Will "Fresh Prince of Somthing" Smith as the lead.
C'mon, after the guy ruined "I-Robot" who ever wants to see him in a Sci-Fi movie again?
Sorry Kevin but I actually like Will Smith and I liked him in "I Robot". Haven't seen this one yet but now I think I do.
Davidius
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I haven't seen the original movies...had never really heard of any of it, to be honest. Definitely a spoiler! Oh well, at least it was just the dog and didn't really tell me anything about how the movie would turn out.
This is something about the movie that confused me. At one point, Neville records in his journal that the zombies seem to have lost all human (rational/intellectual?) faculty because the one zombie stuck his head out into the sun, thereby exhibiting an inhuman disregard for his own well-being. Later on, it turns out that the zombies somehow know he's been hanging out in the CD store and set his own trap against him using one of the manikins...so are they intelligent or not???
Sorry Bro. I take back the part about "a guy dying" and will just hint that there are really sick people. Sick and twisted.
No Longer A Libertine
Puritan Board Senior
It was lame, save your money.
Kevin
Puritan Board Doctor
Nerd test. Did you read "I Robot" BEFORE you heard of the movie?
If you like Will Smith, then I am betting you were not a fan of the original story.
Sorry Bro. I flunked your nerd test. I've never read any Asimov books. I'm not much of a fiction reader.
and no one needs to spend money...you can watch it online for free...Cheshire Cat
Puritan Board Sophomore
He could have thought that at the time he was writing in the journal. In fact, at the time I saw the movie, I thought the zombie did it because Will's trap caught the zombies girlfriend, or something to that effect. That would make the zombie more human for coming out and staring Will down, or whatever he did.
Davidius
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This is the conclusion at which I arrived, as well. He made the wrong inference from his experience (silly empiricism, always trying to deduce propositions from sensory experience
). The zombies must have been more sentient than he realized.
Southern Presbyterian
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Did anyone else think that the zombies in this film acted (i.e. walked, climbed, etc.) just like the robots in I Robot?
Rev. Todd Ruddell
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Save your money and go watch "Vantage Point". Aside from a bit of a letdown in the end, very intelligent thriller/Drama!
Davidius
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Is that a newer movie? I don't think I've heard of it.
Scott
Puritan Board Graduate
I read I am Legend a few weeks ago and watched the movie last night. The book was fine, but it became a bit dull after about halfway through. They are very different stories. Overall, the movie was great. It was very interesting. I like post-apocolytpic movies and this one delivers. And it has solid moral messages, including the reality and importance of God and the value of heroism and self-sacrifice. It is not dark like, say, Road Warrior, or similar movies. And the lead character is a hero, instead of the typical anti-hero that we often find in these kinds of movies (eg. Road Warrior again).
Here are some thoughts for those who have seen the movie and/or read the book.
SPOILER
Does the title "I am Legend" make sense for the movie? In the book, "I am Legend" referred to the lead character's (an untainted human) role reversal with the classic vampire of legend. The last remaining human becomes as unique and feared as vampires of stories. In the book, some infected people had retained normal thinking ability. The human Neville would go around every day finding them and driving stakes through their hearts. The vampires were terrorized by him. In a role reversal, Neville had achieved the status of a count dracula, with a reputation for killing everyone else not like him. There is nothing like this in the movie.
There is a strong pro-religious (even christian) message in the movie. In a time of desperation, Neville's wife offers what sounds like a evangelical prayer and it is portrayed positively. The woman who enters the picture later (Anna) receives messages from God about a colony. Although, Neville disbelieves her, her messages are proved true at the end. She providentially rescues a suicidal Robert Neville (Will Smith) and the movie uses this providential action (what puritabs would call a "special providence") as evidence of God. The end of the movie has a pure colony and as the camera pans out the central image of the colony is a traditional church. Overall, theistic religion is portrayed positively, and the presence of a church even subtly makes it Christian. Neville is atheistic until right before end, when he comes to believe in God and actually makes the supreme heroic sacrifice.
Scott
Here are some thoughts for those who have seen the movie and/or read the book.
SPOILER
Does the title "I am Legend" make sense for the movie? In the book, "I am Legend" referred to the lead character's (an untainted human) role reversal with the classic vampire of legend. The last remaining human becomes as unique and feared as vampires of stories. In the book, some infected people had retained normal thinking ability. The human Neville would go around every day finding them and driving stakes through their hearts. The vampires were terrorized by him. In a role reversal, Neville had achieved the status of a count dracula, with a reputation for killing everyone else not like him. There is nothing like this in the movie.
There is a strong pro-religious (even christian) message in the movie. In a time of desperation, Neville's wife offers what sounds like a evangelical prayer and it is portrayed positively. The woman who enters the picture later (Anna) receives messages from God about a colony. Although, Neville disbelieves her, her messages are proved true at the end. She providentially rescues a suicidal Robert Neville (Will Smith) and the movie uses this providential action (what puritabs would call a "special providence") as evidence of God. The end of the movie has a pure colony and as the camera pans out the central image of the colony is a traditional church. Overall, theistic religion is portrayed positively, and the presence of a church even subtly makes it Christian. Neville is atheistic until right before end, when he comes to believe in God and actually makes the supreme heroic sacrifice.
Scott
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