I, Legend.
Dec. 15th, 2007 07:42 pmIf you are the kind of person who thought that Will Smith Versus The Robots was a good adaptation, you will probably enjoy Will Smith Versus The Vampire People.
If, however, you have ever read the book, or if the name "Richard Matheson" means *anything* to you, you should not see this movie. It is crap.
They were obviously *building* towards the book's ending. They foreshadowed it. They hinted at it. Events happened in the film that make absolutely no sense, except in the revealing light of the book's ending.
And then they cut the book's ending, entirely.
And so there's a good dozen WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT moments that simply don't make any sense at all, and a lame-assed, BORING ending in place of the classic.
Two thumbs way, way, way down. Minus five stars. Worse than Revenge Of The Sith.
(But if you go see it in Imax, you do get the first six minutes of The Dark Knight, on the giant screen)
If, however, you have ever read the book, or if the name "Richard Matheson" means *anything* to you, you should not see this movie. It is crap.
They were obviously *building* towards the book's ending. They foreshadowed it. They hinted at it. Events happened in the film that make absolutely no sense, except in the revealing light of the book's ending.
And then they cut the book's ending, entirely.
And so there's a good dozen WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT moments that simply don't make any sense at all, and a lame-assed, BORING ending in place of the classic.
Two thumbs way, way, way down. Minus five stars. Worse than Revenge Of The Sith.
(But if you go see it in Imax, you do get the first six minutes of The Dark Knight, on the giant screen)
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Date: 2007-12-16 01:37 am (UTC)*bouncing in*
Date: 2007-12-16 04:23 am (UTC)(Also, it was reviewed by a lot of people who apparently either weren't paying attention or weren't familiar with the source material. I swear, I hear *one* more complaint about Susan Calvin seeming oddly cold and restrained...)
This movie, by the way, would not have had any shrieking plot holes that I can spot if they hadn't gone with what felt like an incredibly tacked-on ending that had nothing to do with the movie up until that point.
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Date: 2007-12-16 04:24 am (UTC)It turned into a Perfectly Acceptable Action movie. It was simply a completely miserable *adaptation* of "I, Robot".
Will Smith Versus The Vampire People, however, was a *terrible* movie wrapped around a miserable adaptation of "I Am Legend". And the most terrible part was that it fools you for the first 85% of the movie into thinking that it won't be crap, and then it steps forward and spends 15 minutes shiting all over the rest of the movie AND the audience.
And this ending, which sucks so much and offends the audience so much and ruins the whole rest of the movie?
It doesn't fit.
It doesn't make ANY sense.
It leaves *dozens* of massive logical holes in the script. It wastes a good 25 minutes of screen time that was used, previously in the film, to set up a *completely different ending*.
And it's boring.
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Date: 2007-12-16 01:04 am (UTC)No, seriously.
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Date: 2007-12-16 04:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-12-16 04:17 am (UTC)And there's a secret to my movie rating system: Bad movies can be bad, but they'll never get the lowest possible ratings from me. The lowest ratings are reserved for movies that *could have been* great, and then fuck it up with sophomoric mistakes.
Like, say, *everything about the changed ending after foreshadowing the original one*.
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Date: 2007-12-16 04:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-16 02:02 am (UTC)But no, Hollywoodize it!
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Date: 2007-12-16 04:16 am (UTC)And then they chopped off the end and had a ragged bleeding stump of a senseless Hollywood ending smarmed onto it and I could've wept with sheer frustration.
(I hear rumours that the ending was taked on sometime in the last month, and that two other endings were filmed. I really want to see those, just on the strength of the movie until they screwed it up at the very end.)
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Date: 2007-12-16 06:18 am (UTC)But I liked Revenge of the Sith.
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Date: 2007-12-16 04:29 pm (UTC)I'm sorry, but you don't exist to me anymore.
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Date: 2007-12-16 01:16 pm (UTC)I Am Sequel
Date: 2007-12-16 04:28 pm (UTC)The screenwriter has already pitched a sequel
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Date: 2007-12-16 08:28 pm (UTC)Re: I Am Sequel
Date: 2007-12-17 03:35 pm (UTC)I will lose any respect I ever had for Messr. Smith should he sign on to said project.
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Date: 2007-12-18 05:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-19 04:08 am (UTC)Have you seen the graphic novel adaptation?