'I am legend' Issues

[gerry]

would agree with the experience, but if i waited to go to the cinema to see films, i would see nothing

[The Claw]

Any particular sites Gerry, i was happy I got I am Legend on Joox.net before Christmas in very good quality, films come and good on it though, not sure why, what ones do you use?

[Main Street]

I wouldn´t pay to see it but I think it was well done and wouldn't have puked up my popcorn.

Those headbanger Zombies moved a hell of a lot faster than your normal run of the mill Zombie.
On the trap, I thought for a while it was a zombie trap with the bait of the dummy which I presumed was from the DVD store. If he set the trap then wouldn't he have remembered?

Anyway isn´t it a well known fact that Zombie dogs are less susceptible to the light than Zombie humans on account of their fur.

On the water, he should have used holy water, more potent than napalm

Couldn't figure out how the woman could have been driving by and decided to get involved in a zombie fest.

[pintsofguinness]

Couldn't figure out how the woman could have been driving by and decided to get involved in a zombie fest.

The woman heard his radio message and was waiting on the bridge for him all day but he didn't turn up.
I thought it very refreshing that the woman saved the man rather than the normal run of the mill man saves woman, she follows him around the whole film asking stupid questions and getting herself into dangerous situations.

[Main Street]

BTW you can downl it straight to hard drive using browser speeds from

http://video.stage6.com/2024792/divx

right click only,  save to disk

[Tyrones own]

A rare good discussion on IMDB for anyone who cares enough
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/board/nest/93491002




Btw has anyone seen "We own the night"?
Any good? Worth going to?

I saw it a couple of months ago, pretty good, worth going to see especially
the scene with Eva Mendez the ending could have been a bit better though.
Anything that Robert Duvall is in is worth a look imo

[pintsofguinness]

A rare good discussion on IMDB for anyone who cares enough
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/board/nest/93491002




Btw has anyone seen "We own the night"?
Any good? Worth going to?

I saw it a couple of months ago, pretty good, worth going to see especially
the scene with Eva Mendez the ending could have been a bit better though.
Anything that Robert Duvall is in is worth a look imo

must head to it next week - what's this scene with Mendez?  Will it embarrass me 

[gerry]

what ones do you use?

http://www.ovguide.com/tvfilm.html

will try any of these sites, watched "i am legend"  on joox, qty great on this one. seen an earlier cam on another site qty very poor, do not know howp eople can watch poor cam videos.

[Tyrones own]

     

must head to it next week - what's this scene with Mendez?  Will it embarrass me 

     No not at all, lets just say it's pleasant viewing

[Puckoon]

     

must head to it next week - what's this scene with Mendez?  Will it embarrass me 

     No not at all, lets just say it's pleasant viewing

Then it might embarrass you Pints. My worst film moment was going to the movies to watch swordfish with my mum and sister. Good christ I was uncomfortable.

[imtommygunn]

Ah the good old gratuitous Halle Berry get the baps out scene not to mention Hugh Jackman hacking into a system "under pressure"...

I'd have thought with the trap scene he'd have remembered himself or it'd have been shown. I assume that was in the book?

I think I am legend was one of those ones were there were a few details left out which would have been in the book. I think the Brazilian girl plays a much bigger part in the book. In the film he seems to be a virologist within the army I assume? In the book , from what I read, apparently he was just an average Joe who seemed to work out how to set up labs, create vaccines etc etc in a very short space of time.

[Orior]

I remember seeing an Australian film of the same theme as 28 Days Later and I am a Legend. Anyone recall it?

[nifan]

I found it pretty dull.
It looked good visually, the sight of the animals running around in NY, hunting etc, but i just found it average.

[Tonto]

I remember seeing an Australian film of the same theme as 28 Days Later and I am a Legend. Anyone recall it?

The Omega Man?

Although I am not sure if it is Australian.  It was fond memories of that film from years that made me eager to see I Am Legend.

PS I think the trap that he got caught in was a trap set by the Zombie's, setting the trap with Fred there, just like Smith had caught them by putting blood on the ground. I think the point of that was to show that the Zombie's were able to learn by watching how he caught them.

[MW]

I enjoyed the film and thought it was good, but to be honest I thought they could have done more with what was a very good concept. Like many commenters here I thought there were a few odd questions posed.

The 'trap' scene being the main one. In all the other scenes, the 'zombies' are basically animals, crazed beings whose bloodlust in their one driving instinct. They attack like animals, don't appear to communicate by language, and are able to be caught be a fairly simple trap using blood - a trap which evidently Smith's character has set scores of times.

Yet one of the zombies sets a trap for Smith's character. And not only this, he appears to be keeping two 'rabid/zombie' dogs in a domesticated manner. So seemingly not only are the 'zombie' humans presumably able to keep 'pets', the zombie/rabid dogs are able to be kapt as 'pets' and follow orders rather than simple attacking all and sundry, including thier zombie 'master'. Then of course there's the fact the zombie man doesn't attack, just leaving it to his dogs, (even when the zombie dogs are clearly coming off second best). In all other scenes the zombie humans are carzed beings who just want to attack. It thought this scene fitted poorly with the resy of the film, and was just designed to show the dog's loyalty and Smith's dilemma once it was wounded.

Which brings me to the next odd scene - the dog's death. Why was Smith injecting it? Did he think he had something that might cure it? (the 'rate cure' perhaps?). Why, for someone who was so devoted to his dog, did he not keep a lethal injection or his gun on standby while nuring the dog - this would have prevented him from having to strangle the dog and given it a much more humane death. It would also have lessened the risk to him.

I thought the film ended abruptly and missed the chance to explore some interesting issues. They could have made much more use of the zombie woman who was in the process of being cured. Would she have reverted to being a normal person again? Would she have remembered her time as a 'zombie'? Would she have been grateful to Smith, or despised him for experimenting on her? This links to a big issue which was only very fleetingly examined - Smith was carrying out experiments on humans, and had killed scores of them in the process. Wasn't there an ethical issue to be explored here?