Just Saw I am Legand

[hooverjr10]

great movie made me jump some parts overall i would tell you to go see

[jlsem]

I believe this is the third iteration of that movie. The Vincent Price one was cheesy but really creepy. The Charlton Heston version shows a bit too much of the '70s idiom.

John

[scott wurcer]

Originally posted by jlsem
I believe this is the third iteration of that movie. The Vincent Price one was cheesy but really creepy.

John

I just watched it with my daughter so she would know the original. It cracked me up when he was tooling up his wooden stakes with that bemused attitude like in his half serious Corman movies.

[LousyTourist]

We just saw that movie, Will Smith can carry a movie and he does well in this one.

Not the usual 'competent everyman' character Will plays -- but the same character after three years of failure and isolation.

His face is haunted by his failings. It explains the ending to understand that.

Good movie, we'll be watching it again.

[sss]

just saw "the kingdom"
great movie

[Ron E]

Originally posted by hooverjr10
great movie made me jump some parts overall i would tell you to go see

Would have been better if they didn't have the superhuman creatures and the super cheesy cgi effects; some nice scenes, but it doesn't hold together well, IMO. In the book (they were undead vampires, they knew where he lived, and he would clean up bodies on his front lawn daily) he systematically went through town during the day and killed vampires. There was a subculture of partially resistant humans called the "still living" which sent a woman to talk to him and eventually they captured and killed him. He was a legend among the still living as one who killed both them and vampires during the day when they slept.

[speaker]

Originally posted by LousyTourist
We just saw that movie, Will Smith can carry a movie and he does well in this one.

Not the usual 'competent everyman' character Will plays -- but the same character after three years of failure and isolation.

His face is haunted by his failings. It explains the ending to understand that.

Good movie, we'll be watching it again.

Haven't seen it yet but am looking forward to it. I was always a fan of "Omega Man". O few years back I bought the book "I Am Legend" and then watched the Vincent Price adaptation, "Last Man On Earth". That comes very close to capturing the essence of the book which I thoroughly enjoyed. My understanding of "I Am Legend" is that it is closer to the book than "Omega Man" was.