Dear Intarnets....

[tikistitch]

So, we finally caught I Am Legend last night. And we has a kwestion....



Did ANYBODY else get totally pissed of by that ending? I mean in the sense of, "Enjoying, enjoying, enjoying, enjoying, crying over that damn dog, enjoying, GAH!!!"

I mean, I'm not Ms. Super Will Smith Fan of the Universe, but I was liking the first 85 minutes or so I what I was seeing. Now, I must admit up front, I have read the short story, and believe it to be Best Thing EVAR. But, I was into the movie. Mr. Tiks and I were quietly speculating what was going to happen with the vamps, were they mutating to day dwellers? Were they gonna turn out to be all to human? (O, the tweeest!)

And then this chick with the funny accent shows up and is all, "God has spoken to me!" And I'm like, Gah, you're the last human on earth and you run into the funny accent chick version of George W. Fucking Bush? And then Will Smith is all, "I know, instead of hiding away with you and just tossing this hand grenade at the oncoming vampies (which is what, you know, hand grenades are designed for and stuff) I will turn myself into a SUICIDE BOMBER!! So I will go to heaven and be with the 48 or 24 or 856 virgins! 'Cause it's been like 1001 days, and I'm like, dude!" Mr. Tiki's suggestion for a retitle, "I Am Stupid."

Look, Hollywood, if there is a god, which there isn't, but if there was, she'd probably have better things to do than make Will Smith movies.

Comments

[sinderellah.livejournal.com]

You know what also bothered me? Ok, he's doing his little updates of "These creatures are very animalistic, no sign of human in them at all." The next freaking day they set a trap on him, which obviously implies they have some sort of thought process and he makes NO NOTE OF THIS whatsoever! U IZ NOT A SCIENTIST IF U MAKEZ NO NOTEZ

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

I noticed that too! He says something like they're "not social" when that one big dude is obviously their leader. DOC WILL SMITH, U IS RONG!

[animejump.livejournal.com]

There were a lot of little parts of the movie that I liked, but I really couldn't stand the fact that they totally ignored the whole thrust of Matheson's story. Given what we were left with, why call it "I am Legend" instead of "Last Man on Earth"? Or hell, The Omega Man? Because what we got had a lot more in common with the Charlton Heston movie than the Vincent Price movie.

Also, I totally love roots reggae, including Bob Marley, and I couldn't stand the constant use of the "Legend" (heeeeeey!) album, right up to the end credits. Just seemed like hackneyed product placement.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

I kinda threw all hope of Matheson aside when I saw the trailer. (I was whacking poor Mr. Tiki and going, "That's not I Am Legend! That's a Will Smith movie!") But I thought up to the point when he gave his little Marley-inspired babble about racism that he would wake up and discover the vamps were somehow still human or social or something. Naw, let's blow 'em up real good!

[typicalfemale.livejournal.com]

I also didn't understand why if the outbreak happened from 2009-2012 Times Square had tons of billboards and stuff which are obviously from right now. I know 3 years isn't that far into the future but why not just say it happened in 2007 if you're not ready to adjust anything?

When the woman said she came from Maryland her accent was so messed up that we thought she said "Ireland" and we were wondering how Europeans are coming to New York and Will Smith still can't get off the island.

And the butterfly thing, ugh. No.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

The butterfly really reminded me of an m night shyamalan "tweest" - and for that, one of his lousy ones.