I Am Legend - Preview

wish i cud have got access to this blog a long tym ago, i mean i was going to be the 1st to comment... I LOVE the movie. It is JUST KILLER, the BOMB, saw it a couple of months ago but then i keep on watching it over and over and over again. WELL DONE WILL

very standing alone personality shows mr.smith good role he choose and act very good performance for this film have to nomination 100 times wins 100

Todd, I couldn't agree more.

While I love a good hollywood blockbuster as much as the next geek, there is something fantastically cynical about this movie.

First, I admit, there's absolutely no point in basing a movie on a novel. The thrust and plot ideas almost never make it to the screen intact. Exception could perhaps be made for a few Realist crime-thrillers that already feel like celluloid narrative - I see Silence of the Lambs as a notable example.

Altering huge chunks of a carefully balanced story is a little like kicking one of the legs out from under a table. If you're really lucky it'll somehow support itself, but you know you'll probably need to buy new china. This dog of a film was crippled from the start. The lent credibility of the title and the extremely tenuous link to the novel are all that stopped it disappearing completely.

At the novel's end, Robert Neville is 'legend' since it is he, rather than the 'vampires', who is the myth/minority/curiosity, as he waits for his execution at the hands of the new vampire world order. He is immune to the vampirus bacillus and cannot be assimilated into the new society. He has also killed many members of their race, their loved ones. The living infected (as opposed to those who are undead, whom they cull) view him with disgust and fear, arriving at his hidey-hole to take him away in black cars reminiscent of cold-war paranoia and totalitarian government.

It is hugely significant that this metaphor, one with which the movie completely dispenses, is a far more powerful statement on society and morality than the ham fisted replacement of Neville's Brahms and Rachmininoff with Bob Marley, and the trite explanation this is given in the script.

Oh Brian, what a mess...

Yet another waste of celluloid. Go Hollywood!

Will Smith... the last man on earth!! Right. He's so isolated and alone! He only has a dog, a big-screen TV, an iPod, an endless supply of movies, a laboratory, a three-story house in Manhattan, all the food he could ever want, a custom built anti-vampire/zombie SUV, and spends most of his time cracking stupid jokes to his dog, hunting for deer (that he apparently refuses to shoot at unless they're within 10 feet), and golfing off the back of an SR-71. Let's see if we can count the pop-culture cliches... he was supposedly in the military (support the troops!!!!), but apparently doesn't know how to hold or shoot a rifle. The movie is in New York city (never forget 9/11!!!!) because... why? Everything besides Will Smith is made out of bad looking CGI. Instead of being complex and/or deep, he's Mr. Action Hero, trying to save the world (of course), and still managing to inject his "wise-cracking" Independence Day schtick into the movie, even when he's the only person in it. Then, we get "treated" to the religious savior woman, who apparently flies her SUV over the collapsed bridges onto the island of Manhattan, so she can take the cure that Will Smith discovers at the last possible second, to the impenetrable sanctuary of... Vermont? Nice job Hollywood. I think you've squeezed about all the blood you can from this stone.

How many times does Hollywood have to kill an original idea before we stop flocking to theaters to watch it die? I saw a free downloaded copy of this terrible movie, and even then, I STILL wanted my money back! Why call something "I Am Legend" if you completely write that entire concept out of the film? IDIOTS! Who green-lights these terrible ideas?

the best movie ever!!!!!!!!
i give it *****

it was Amazing!!!!!!!! i give it *****

i don't know... that , this movie based on original plot or novel or book ..
or whatever . i saw this movie, it was great..!!!. i like the suspense,emotions,action,survival in the movie.and the character robert neville played by will smith was awesome.. he suits the role and brought justice to the character in the movie. and i never saw will smith in this type of role as per the plot, his entire body language was changed . Amazing .. & that motivation is required to play this type of character.. to bring justice in the movie. will smith done a GREAT job .yes.. The BEst Movie Ever Made !!

Brandon, you're such an idiot. First of all, do you actually have the time to sit there and type a page long comment about how crappy this movie is. Second of all, you need to go outside,and find yourself some friends. Thirdly, if they put every single detail from the book, this movie would be hours long, so stop complaining, I wanna see you create a box-office hit movie.

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BEST MOVIE EVER MADE IN HISTORY!!
i loved the mystery and action in it and its sad at parts so i say its a mix of catorgies and i loved it
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I agree with the last person to type anything on this...n00bs.

The movie wasn't as bad as I thought, but it certainly has faults. It would have been better without Will Smith and without NYC. For the idiot who thought it could ONLY be filmed in NYC, you should get out more often. NYC is not the only city in the U.S. that has buildings and places to hide, typical scared/sheltered northeasterner saying that. What about LA, or San Fran or Philadelphia, Atlanta, etc. Get off your ass and go see the rest of the country!

For those pissed about the movie not being like the book, you really need to get over it. Hollywood hardly ever sticks to the book, so this venture should have come as no surpirse to anyone! Damned shame this film wasn't made as an independent.

Quite a few animal lovers out there.. might i remind you that the dog was turning into a zombie who would have killed him.. So what is the problem.. He can kill all the people zombies he wants but when it comes to the animals he's suppose to..... grr dumb asses make me angry

Good movie but TOO much with the living/dead zombies. Also, as an animal lover, it upset me what happened with Sam. I know, I know, it's just a movie and of course the dog was not really harmed but it still upset me. And I wish Sam had survived so at the end, when Anna and Ethan make it to the survivor's camp, that they had Sam and they would have met up with Will Smith's movie wife and daughter and they could have reunited the daughter with Sam, who she hasn't seen since she (Sam) was a puppy. Better ending.

I LOVED IT ..THEY COULDNT OF PICKED A BETTER ACTOR FOR THE PART
FORGET ABOUT THE BOOK ..I WANNA BE ENTERTAINED AND THATS WHAT
WILL GAVE .HE DAMN RIGHT ENTERTAINED ME...HES A STRONG BLACK SUCCESSFUL MAN...DONT STOP WAT YOUR DOING WILL OTHERS JUST WISH THEY WERE IN YOUR PLACE.....NICE WORK

i think it was a very good film

Awesome movie!

"Thank goodness the screenwriter was colorblind, more people should be, since we are actually all the same"

"Don't be scared because someone/something is different"



Dont contradict yourself.




The statement was not contracting at all. It fit his arguement perfectly. He said don't be scared of someone who is different because that's how people are acting, not because he's scared of people who are different. It was a a statement about how other's feel, not himself.

I am legend!! I sat in the chair watching this thinking to myself. “All the statements and opinions I read were so far from anything worth keeping on the table.” The movie was very emotional and powerful. All the talk about the cockiness of Smith was a reflection of the blindness that viewers have let overpower them. Hollywood force feeds screen crap to us. Any individual that builds his/her public perception around “cocky” has at his/her base, a very complex foundation filled with cracks. Blow one of the cracks open and this performance is what you get. Don’t get me wrong, Smith’s cockiness is also what drives home the arrogance that created this catastrophe in the first place.

In short I was very entertained but the ending was very disappointing. For a moment I thought I was going to be spared the Hollywood ending I keep getting hit in the face with all the time. For once I would like to see a good movie end just as it should…as a god movie.

Now as far as script vs movie goes. I have to say that the script is so far from the book that it shouldn’t even be called “I am Legend”. This movie was inspired by the book but shouldn’t even be mentioned as a remake.

I saw the movie and Will was and is great, never read the book and I don't intend to. Will is a very talented actor, and so what if they change the script to fit him.....they obviously wanted him and only him to play that part or they wouldn't change it. Stop hatin because he got it like that!!! It just proves that he is that good of an actor. I am going to see it again!

I just saw I am Legend. I never heard much of the story beforehand, but I felt compelled to see the almost anual Will Smith Sci-Fi blockbuster. I was extremely impressed, and thought Will Smith did an amazing job portraying the mental anguish that a person would go through in this situation. I say that in response to the Josh Tyler Preview of the script above in which he states he doesn't believe Smith has this capability.The end wasn't the best part of the movie but it certainly did not ruin it for me. I would just like to state that The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (Jim Carrey) was the only movie i have ever seen where the entire story from the book is read in the movie. The book is about a half centimeter thick and mostly pictures. So for those of you who are dissapointed that it leaves out details from the book, all I have to say is be realistic. It's a 140 minutes movie. Oh and I always say.. The best thing about seeing the movie is....... There's no Reading!! I give the movie a strong A, and would love to see it again.

Good movie. Fabulous effects. Smith was good. Dog was great. Don't miss the obvious, Smith misinterpreting the Dark Seakers, not recognising their organization and the retention of one very human emotion...revenge. Smith kidnapped dozens if not hundreds of them and subjected them to horrible deaths due to his experiments, all because of his ego that he can fix this. In the end, it is close to the book in concept, just not in your face. Those who don't want to think and just want what is spoon fed will still find it extremely entertaining. New York City looked great.

I just saw I Am Legend tonight and it wasn't a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination. Will Smith did a great job. Some of the movie was definitely full of emotion. That being said, I think that they should've stuck with the original ending. The happy-go-lucky, yay there's a cure ending didn't sit well. It felt really tacked on, like they had made the ending that should have been but a producer forced them to change it somewhere along the line. Maybe I'm a snob, I don't know, but to replace such an original and compelling ending with the same old crap we always see seems stupid. It completely ruined the movie for me.

ithink this is a good movie.. i loved it i would go see it again again will smith was all that

I saw it tonight. Will Smith does a good job. I've not read the book nor seen the other movies. I had to leave an hour and 15 minutes into it because my wife hate scary movies and I did not read the reviews before I brought her..... I thought it was good up until the time I had to leave and he goes on a rampage. I'm also an animal lover so that part of the movie did not bode well for me. I lost interest enought to follow my wife into Golden Compass which was not interesting at all. I should have stayed in I Am Legend.