So I went to see I Am Legend this evening...

[jrandom]

... and now I'm sitting up in bed with the lights on, all the doors and windows bolted, and my M14 propped against the bedside table.

:pinch:

[cowpoos]

... and now I'm sitting up in bed with the lights on, all the doors and windows bolted, and my M14 propped against the bedside table.

:pinch:
M14 bolt or MSSA style rifle?

[texmo]

Bolt.

Its a great movie huh?

[Disco Dan]

http://joox.net/cat/2/id/2047554

[FlangMasterJ]

Is Sam there to protect you?

Good movie. The ending wasn't the best IMHO.

[trump-lady]

Oh where was the invite....or was it a couples thing and if so you shouldnt have been worrying bout that when you got home!

U have made up my mind....Im going Friday cause I love being scared

[Kickaha]

... and now I'm sitting up in bed with the lights on, all the doors and windows bolted, and my M14 propped against the bedside table.

:pinch:

While I was watching it, I said to myself "this is a remake of The Omega Man" bit of online research later and it seems they are both based on the same book written in 1954 Richard Matheson called "I am Legend"


Good movie. The ending wasn't the best IMHO.

Exactly what I said, good movie right up until them

[Grahameeboy]

Oh where was the invite....or was it a couples thing and if so you shouldnt have been worrying bout that when you got home!

U have made up my mind....Im going Friday cause I love being scared

It was a couples thing............the windows were locked to stop the mossies getting in and I only have 1 robocan so the rifle was the only other defence..............

[Grahameeboy]

While I was watching it, I said to myself "this is a remake of The Omega Man" bit of online research later and it seems they are both based on the same book written in 1954 Richard Matheson called "I am Legend"



Exactly what I said, good movie right up until them

But no one likes endings though.

[Gubb]

Didn't do much for me. Then again, I saw Shawshank Redemption before I went to see it, so anything after that would look pretty poor in comparison.

[T.W.R]

While I was watching it, I said to myself "this is a remake of The Omega Man" bit of online research later and it seems they are both based on the same book written in 1954 Richard Matheson called "I am Legend"


Richard Matheson's "I am Legend" is the basis of all modern Vampire movies, even more so than Bram Stoker's Dracula :cool:

[Gubb]

Were they Vampires or Zombies? Couldn't figure that one out.

[saul]

Good movie. The ending wasn't the best IMHO.





Exactly what I said, good movie right up until them

Yep thats what I said tooooooooooooo:niceone:

[Bren]

Were they Vampires or Zombies? Couldn't figure that one out.
Whatever they were I would not like em in my street....

Good movie, I Liked it...till it got to the end...

[jrandom]

The ending in the book was much better.

Bloody Hollywood and its insistence on happy endings. Far too many good films have been fucked up due to studio executives insisting that they have to finish on a positive note.

[jrandom]

M14 bolt or MSSA style rifle?

Eh? Bolt what?

It's a Norinco M304, an exact clone of the original M14 rifle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M14_rifle), complete with receiver cutouts to allow installation of a full-auto selector.

:niceone:

[ital916]

What i don't get is after three years of not seeing anyone and hitting on mannequinns, this pretty alright lady turns up, in nevilles house, cooking him breakfast! And all he can do is sulk. I thought he would have been liike boom chikky wowow. You know after like beating off to shrek for three years and all lol. Jokes. Great movie, ending was suspect but supposedly there will be an alternate ending on the dvd. The legend bit was neville suposedly being a legendary vampire hunter not a legendary suicide bomber lol

[jrandom]

Yeah, it's worth reading up on the film on Wikipedia. The long history of the project (it was kicked off in 1996 and was originally supposed to star Arnold Schwarzenegger and be directed by Ridley Scott!) is interesting.

[Stickchick]

Oh where was the invite....or was it a couples thing and if so you shouldnt have been worrying bout that when you got home!

U have made up my mind....Im going Friday cause I love being scared

It was more of a last minute "shall we go to the movies" thing. Thoroughly enjoyed myself too. And would recommend it to anyone that hasn't been. :woohoo:

[Joni]

The ending in the book was much better.So what is the "real" ending?

because the movies one was a bit of an anti climax...

[vifferman]

While I was watching it, I said to myself "this is a remake of The Omega Man"
Huh.
I was reading the review in The Harold this morning (which basically said it wasn't very good), and thought exactly the same thing!
It's funny I read this just now - a gurrrl in our office was just this moment saying how she couldn't sleep last night coz she was so skeeeeerrd after going to see the movie.
I was too, after "The Omega Man", but then I was about 15 or summat at the time.

Were they Vampires or Zombies? Couldn't figure that one out.
That's sort of what The Harold said too - they thought it was very odd that the zombies had strange Spiderman-like powers.

I must make a point of not going to see this movie...

[jrandom]

So what is the "real" ending?

because the movies one was a bit of an anti climax...

Wikipedia describes the book (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_legend) in detail.

:)

[Trudes]

Yep, I enjoyed it, good movie, not too scary for the fella, had an ice cream and only dribbled half on my shirt.

[Joni]

Wikipedia describes the book (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_legend) in detail.

:)Pfft, I could of done that... but being the lazy sod I am, thought you would give me the condenced 2 sentence version of the ending.

BTW - I agree it was pretty scary, modern day techniques makes stuff a lot more "graphic" - shudder....

I walked in with one thought before I saw it "Jo, the dog is going to die... dont you dare cry...." :wacko:

[jrandom]

That's sort of what The Harold said too - they thought it was very odd that the zombies had strange Spiderman-like powers.

I must make a point of not going to see this movie...

Popular Mechanics (I think) did an article, apparently, on the plausibility of the various elements of the movie, such as Will Smith's character's approach to survival, the way the Brooklyn Bridge was demolished, the physiology of the 'Infected', etc.

It's really not such a bad film. As 'boo' movies with decent plots and ideas go, it'd be near the top of the list. As good as 'Signs', in my opinion.

And I'm not ashamed to say that I jumped in my chair and went 'eek' quite a few times while watching it. That's what I call 'value for money entertainment'.

:)

[El Dopa]

Yeah, when I'm in the sky - I'm too far away - Gotta kick
in to feel it - Terminate another no one is my brother
yeah! The sun burns on me Well, hell is home tomb - city -
stone - nail me to another cross
(yeah!) Pour the gasoline, yeah
burn the fucker clean - Tell me
who'd she coo I want her - Like a
suicide flex - hit the run and hide!
Tell me who'd she coo shine the
body! Yeah...Omega-man say, "It's
all gone away, I cannot believe it."
Well I am the one a god with a gun
I am Legend!! Planet - grave - hard -
kill the slave - nail me to another
cross (yeah!) Pour the gasoline,
yeah burn the fucker clean, Tell
me who'd she coo I want her - Like a
suicide flex - hit the run and hide
Tell me who'd she coo shine the body
- vampire sharpshooter "O" I said, "A messenger for the
damned" - I got a holy gun - come a loaded to kill
everything that I am. Well I am the only nitty-gritty
ride a rail and look at the crime - yeah! well I am the
only (god?) one they can - find. Pour the gasoline, yeah
burn the fucker clean - Tell me who'd she coo I want her
- Like a suicide flex - hit the run and hide! Tell me who'd she coo
shine the body - yeah!

White Zombie - I am legend

[Dave-]

nih...the ending was fine, it was an ending.

if it had been a mushy ending where he fell in love with the irish chick and escaped the vampire zombie you'd have moaned that it was a typical hollywood ending.

ol robert didn't have a need to live any more, the only reason he'd continued living was to find the cure to the virius that he saw as taking his family.

the movie is more psychological than most people pick up on, his own dementia, the psychology of the vampire zombies etc

personally I loved it, if only the vampire zombies had been scarier...like 28 days later scary...which is also based on II am legend.

[99TLS]

.Im going Friday cause I love being scared

didnt know they made scary movies anymore

[Kickaha]

...like 28 days later scary...which is also based on II am legend.

And at the top of my "Favourite Zombie Movies" list

[Dave-]

And at the top of my "Favourite Zombie Movies" list

same, I don't usually do horror for it's eternally damned cliches, camera angles and pathetic characters

the 28 films though have been very cool, focusing as much on other problems but still keeping you shit scared.

[Coyote]

And at the top of my "Favourite Zombie Movies" list
Shaun of the Dead is my favourite :p

Though I've yet to see 28 Days Later

[gijoe1313]

Heh I was talking to zeocen yesterday when I was about to see this movie at Sylvia park. He said it was crap and depressing, but I like post-apocalyptic movies ... hell, I'm a B-move psychotronic viewer (Attack of the killer tomatoes, Amazon women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, Plan Nine from Outer Space, W is War! etc etc)

I enjoyed it for what it is, take brain out and enjoy spectacle of zombie spider-man vampire with feckless "heroes".

George Romero lives again!

Hmmm ... I should pop down to my local video store and do the 10 for $10 thing again ... its been a while since I've had 24hrs of B-movie schlock, grindhouse, blaxploitation, junk food diving binge watching! :headbang:

[skelstar]

I enjoyed it. I'm drawn to end-world/apocalyptic style movies... probably why I love Res Evil (1). The start of the movie does make you think about how you would deal with Robert's situation I reckon... easy to empathise, question his motives for the things he does.

Few things that bug me though: how did the Irish(?) chick get to the island? He doesn't even wonder about how the infected alpha-male had the smarts to rig the trap like he did... and he was pretty crap at hunting with that Shelby GT500 :)

[vifferman]

Hmmm ... I should pop down to my local video store and do the 10 for $10 thing again ... its been a while since I've had 24hrs of B-movie schlock, grindhouse, blaxploitation, junk food diving binge watching! :headbang:
:confused:

I'm rather glad my kids are no longer of school age...

[Swoop]

Eh? Bolt what?

It's a Norinco M304, an exact clone of the original M14 rifle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M14_rifle), complete with receiver cutouts to allow installation of a full-auto selector.

:niceone:
Impressions on this toy?
Accuracy?

[jrandom]

Impressions on this toy?
Accuracy?

Um.

This is really embarrassing, but...

I haven't taken it out for a shoot yet.

:o

[Macstar]

I'm afraid I am legend left me and the lady pretty disappointed. Go there with average expectations and it won't be too bad. Another hyped up flick...

[Swoop]

Um.

This is really embarrassing, but...

I haven't taken it out for a shoot yet.

:o
How are you going to zap zombies if it isn't zeroed???

[jrandom]

How are you going to zap zombies if it isn't zeroed???

Based on data from the movie, most zombie shootings appear to transpire at a range of less than 10 metres and involve rapid pulling of the trigger from the standard Halfway To The Shoulder While Running movie firing position, so I'm not too concerned about the sights.

[buellbabe]

It was HIGHLY recommended to me by one person but another who I just talked to said the CGI was crap and Will Smith was weak.

Even so, I think it sounds like something I would enjoy...might check it out this wkend ;-)

[skelstar]

Another hyped up flick...
I thought as far as flicks go this one wasn't "hyped up" at all. I thought the scene where he was driving the golf balls off the SR-71 Blackbird was worth the price of the ticket (had I paid for it) alone.

[ali]

Thought I would love this movie but thought it wasn't as good as 28 days Later, Dawn of the Dead etc.

For those of you old enough, there used to be a programme on tv called " Survivor " ( or something like it ) about post - plague survival, have been looking in video stores for the last 20 years for it ( to no avail ).

Perhaps when i finally get to see it, i will be disappointed.

[BIGBOSSMAN]

I thought as far as flicks go this one wasn't "hyped up" at all. I thought the scene where he was driving the golf balls off the SR-71 Blackbird was worth the price of the ticket (had I paid for it) alone.


Yes indeed, an SR-71 Blackbird. On an aircraft carrier.
Hmmm...

[BIGBOSSMAN]

Still I empathise with Nevilles plight, living in NZ is just like being surrounded by brain-dead zombies - especially the ghastly pale walking dead lesbian politician types (see attached pic for proof)

[BIGBOSSMAN]

I like movies with lots of aliens, violence, spaceships and prepubescent girls with 360 degree rotating heads. God I'm bored..., where's me fucking bike?

[jrandom]

God I'm bored..., where's me fucking bike?

Come for a ride to Dargaville and back this evening then!

:2thumbsup

[BIGBOSSMAN]

Would love to, but alas my life is controlled by a higher power. One with super fine tits, and an ass that can crack walnuts. And so it's off to the ATNR for a few hours instead :banana:

Enjoy your ride, maybe see you on next weeks Coro Loop GP (Kornholio - inspired) eh??

[Dargor]

It's shit.

Just Will Smith trying to look cool for a few hours.

[Headbanger]

This review, Nails it.

http://www.kpbs.org/blogs/movies/2007/12/14/i-am-legend/

Better off reading a book.

[Nagash]

I thought the movie was rubbish.. nothing actually happened for the first 3/4's of the movie.

Just a mad man driving around and talking to dolls.


And how sweet.. the mutant vampire freaks had feelings.. didn't like it at all.

[Hoon]

Yeah about 15 mins into the movie I realised it was a remake of "The Omega Man" which I saw in the early 80's when I was about 10 yo. Charlton Heston makes for a more convincing Army Officer scientist than Will Smith does even without have to say "Get your filthy hands off me you damn dirty vampire!!". :)
Bit of a let down as I knew what was going to happen so kind of spoilt it for me.....a bit slow in places too. It was hyped as an action movie but was more a thriller so I turned up expecting "Independence Day" but got "The Pianist" instead.

It could've been done a lot better I thought....a little unbelievable at times even for my action, sci-fi, zombie loving tastes. Its like they thought "well since the vampires are CGI lets make them do all sorts of incredible stuff!" and don't get me started on that bunker-buster grenade!

Have to say I liked Resident Evil 3 and Grindhouse:Planet Terror better!

[Big Dave]

Cool - I've been wondering why nobody was saying 'Omega man remake'.
Wil's OK - but I'll wait till it's on Sky

Didn't Charlton's career take off after the NRA thing.

[James Deuce]

Didn't Charlton's career take off after the NRA thing.

The Alzheimer's thing was a great help too.

[Brett]

I thought it was really average to be honest. Storyline had potential, though far fetched. I wanted more guns. Maybe it was the ending that killed it for me...I dont know. Just didn't like it much.

[James Deuce]

Matheson's book "I am Legend" isn't about blowing up Mutants and shit, and the protaganist certainly isn't a hero and there is no happy ending. He gets sentenced to death for indiscriminately murdering members of a society to which he doesn't belong, either physically or culturally.

[Big Dave]

The Alzheimer's thing was a great help too.

He had a few good - 'dead and dying hands years'

[ital916]

OI! you guys can't diss will smiths performance. For a one man movie it was a pretty freaking good role and i reckon he pulled it off. :headbang:

[Trudes]

I kept wanting to yell "Wilson!!!!"

[Kickaha]

For those of you old enough, there used to be a programme on tv called " Survivor " ( or something like it ) about post - plague survival, have been looking in video stores for the last 20 years for it ( to no avail ).

Perhaps when i finally get to see it, i will be disappointed.

I vaguely remember it, it was set in the UK


Cool - I've been wondering why nobody was saying 'Omega man remake'.
.

Some of us did



While I was watching it, I said to myself "this is a remake of The Omega Man" bit of online research later and it seems they are both based on the same book written in 1954 Richard Matheson called "I am Legend"

[Big Dave]

Some of us did

I meant 'da meedia'

[gav]

I umm, downloaded it off the 'net and watched it BEFORE Xmas, wasn't as good as I thought it would be. One of these movies where you see the best bits in the trailer, rest of it pretty average. Anyone seen Hitman? Sad to say, I actually thought that was better. :confused:

[NZsarge]

I give it a 6 out of 10:yawn:

[kickingzebra]

I liked it. main thing I wanted to know was whether or not she grabbed the HDDs with all his research notes, just one of the six would have been fine. Mot a lot of good getting a vial of non preserved blood if you don't know how the hell to replicate the conditions to save the world. Also, who would want to try and reeducate people who had been living as savages for all that time. And where did the wildebeasts sleep? and why the hell didn't he just get out of the car and stand on a roof and shoot the damn things.

I liked it. Mindless entertainment (anything involving a screen) should be just that!

[NZsarge]

This review, Nails it.

http://www.kpbs.org/blogs/movies/2007/12/14/i-am-legend/

Better off reading a book.


I give it a 6 out of 10:yawn:

Nah.........My reveiw nailed it....:msn-wink:
went to see National treasure : book of secrets as well, more entertaining I thought,just for entertainments sake 7.5 out of 10:niceone:
If you liked the first one you'll more than likely enjoy this one. Just remember....AMERICAN ACTION FLICK...

[Fub@r]

I umm, downloaded it off the 'net and watched it BEFORE Xmas, wasn't as good as I thought it would be. One of these movies where you see the best bits in the trailer, rest of it pretty average. Anyone seen Hitman? Sad to say, I actually thought that was better. :confused:

I am Legend - 7/10 as someone else said he goes on about the infected being completely de-evolved and yet doesn't ask the question of how he got trapped

National Treasure 2 - 6/10 same bad story :)

Good movies to see..............my picks

Charlie Wilson's War - quite funny but based on a true story 8.5/10

American Gangster - quite long 8.5/10

Shoot 'em Up - average kill rate of about 5+ a minute as you would tell by the movie title. For mindless killing 9/10

No Country for Old Men -8.5/10

[ajturbo]

well i really liked it!....

i thought Will Smith was great...

the CGI was a "little" over the top, but i didn't let that get in the way of a great movie...

was it as good as 28days later?... no.. THAT was scary!

[El Dopa]

Yes indeed, an SR-71 Blackbird. On an aircraft carrier.
Hmmm...

The USS Intrepid is a floating museum in New York. Which includes an SR-71 as part of its display.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrepid_Sea-Air-Space_Museum

http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/intrepidmuseum/aircraft/

Liked the first 90% of the film. Thought the ending was shit.

New York: A violent, dangerous place full of degenerate sub-human beasts.

Small-town America: A homely place full of good, Christian, God-fearing folk who keep to the old ways and worship at the white wooden church before eating a helping of apple pie to give them enough strength to toddle off and pop caps in anyone who looks a bit different. Erm, I mean, zombie vampires.

Man the walls, men! Those Emo kids and queers from New York are coming back! Show no mercy!

[pete376403]

Charlie Wilson's War - quite funny but based on a true story 8.5/10
Another review of Charlie Wilsons War is found here. When you consider the outcome of what Wilson and the CIA did, hard to understand where comedy comes into it. Quote " One important part of that recognition, studiously avoided by the CIA and most subsequent American writers on the subject, is that Wilson's activities in Afghanistan led directly to a chain of blowback that culminated in the attacks of September 11, 2001 and led to the United States' current status as the most hated nation on Earth." Hilarious.
http://www.truthout.org:80/docs_2006/010708G.shtml

[dickytoo]

Charlie Wilson's War - quite funny but based on a true story 8.5/10
Another review of Charlie Wilsons War is found here. When you consider the outcome of what Wilson and the CIA did, hard to understand where comedy comes into it. Quote " One important part of that recognition, studiously avoided by the CIA and most subsequent American writers on the subject, is that Wilson's activities in Afghanistan led directly to a chain of blowback that culminated in the attacks of September 11, 2001 and led to the United States' current status as the most hated nation on Earth." Hilarious.
http://www.truthout.org:80/docs_2006/010708G.shtml

There's also a book called A Legacy Of Ashes. All about the CIA and some of their worst excesses. Amazing (bad) some of the stuff they got away with in South America. Great PR machine hid some of the biggest balls up they were involved in.

[kickingzebra]

Also saw 28 weeks later, thinking it would be groovy, but alas no, it was a directors acid trip. Storyline is fine, but the camera work, and always in the dark just weakened it... is 28 days any better??

[skelstar]

28 Days is tonnes better... Cillian Murphy is awesome in it.

[ajturbo]

28 days later is by FAR a better movie than 28weeks!...

[Grumpy Gnomb]

Thought the movie was crap but the wife enjoyed it