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I saw I AM LEGEND yesterday and really liked it. It wasn't the book, but it was very well done and definitely not a Will Smith quip-a-thon. He was really good a portraying a guy with about half a thread of his sanity left (if that), that gets more frayed as the movie goes on.
I also really liked the soundtrack (or lack thereof). It added to the emptiness of everything.
It's Myanmar, Kevin. As much as I like to see legitimate world political issues addressed in movies, I also can't quite stomach the idea of one of the worst American movie icons that I can think of being brought back in an expensive shoot-em-up. Rambo is a relic of the gun toting, lone wolf, violent, American and not one that I think brings a warm, fuzzy feeling into geopolitics.
I'm sure conservatives will love it.
Yeah, that's pretty much where my mind has gone Cashmere. It's possible they may use the movie to highlight, like, the extremely harsh situation in the country, or the lack of world response to the region... But I think it'll probably be about shit being blown up and nothing else.
Except First Blood was NOT like the others. I liked that one, and was disappointed with what little I saw of the others.
That was back in the original Rocky era when Stallone was a good actor instead of a walking cartoon.
Does the end of I am legend have anything in common with book? White fonting my question, and putting some scroll lines.
Does Will Smith die in the end, with the world being left to vampires (er I gather in this version Zombies)?
FWIW, First Blood the original book is excellently written and all in the voice of Rambo's inner thoughts. It's like the character has gone through a Xerox machine far too many times.
Typo, his character dies at the end, however they've added in other survivors and a bunch of other stuff. They basically changed the meaning of the legend into a Hollywood ending (he Saves Da World!), which is a shame. Although I suspect a mainstream audience would have hated the book ending.
Except First Blood was NOT like the others. I liked that one, and was disappointed with what little I saw of the others.
Oh, agreed! I should have stated that I did like First Blood. I think it's a good film. It's the caracature that the Rambo character became that bothers me most.
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Although the Omega Man, for all its cheesiness did end with the world going to the plague victim/mutants. I believe there was a Vincent Price version I never saw that also ended with the vampires taking over. Omega Man was commercially successful, as I remember. (And honestly, I enjoyed the Omega Man. Of course I was a teenager at the time. Don't know if I'd like it as well today.)