Film: I am legend
On New year's eve, I went to some local movie theatre, and watched the above movie.
Must say I'm impressed. Been a while since any movie managed to get me hooked like this. I just love the way in which the backstory is communicated to the audience through little clues and flashbacks that are given throughout the movie. This certainly makes for an interesting way of discovering what the hell is exactly going on here. Add to that a premise that is sure to raise some interest (New York abandoned? Quite some special effect), and you get a very entertaining night out.
But credit where credit is due: Will Smith's performance was outstanding. He's done a marvellous job in portraying a real human being: not a superhuman, but a person who's had the luck not to be affected by this horrible disease, and who's now slowly turning insane because of his lack of contact with other human beings.
Really nice movie.
I must say, the christian-messianic background of story (i.e. the messiah in form of will smith gives his life to save mankind leaving a woman and a boy behind to complete that job) is just religious propaganda.
The movie has nice effects, and a deserted NY city is certainly an interesting set, however, the christian theme makes the movie as bad as "chronicles of narnia" and other US-evangelical fantasy crap.
http://www.bigempire.com/filthy/iamlegend.html
"I Am Legend is how the grassfuckers in Hollywood make a big-budget zombie movie: badly, by completely forgetting what makes them cool and instead squirting out a shitty, self-important bore. God damn, fucking morons; tooth-humping dullbats; crap-slurping horsenuts. The lot of them. Except the ones who make good shit. Where they could use their deep pockets to make a masterpiece of pant-shitting scariness they instead choose to puff themselves up like syphilitic peacocks. Fucking retards don't even try to sell the movie as a zombie flick. Instead, they bill it as a Will-Smith-Acts-Serious movie.
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If you read the book you will see that the film is really, really softer than it. It's quite more "politically correct". To read it it's a nice time investment for a few hours, as it's not too big.