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I am legend
Topic: Movies
Yesterday I came across “I am legend” DVD. In general I found it an “ok” movie whatever it means.
Now Will Smith shows something more than his usual funny bad boys style character. Somebody mentioned that the plot concept was the same as in “I, Robot” with a lonely warrior (Will Smith) thinking he should correct the human race fatal mistakes.
The movie has a couple touching moments like Smith asphyxiating his dog or talking to a dummy. It also has a couple blunders like infected dogs not being able to jump over a narrow beam of sunlight and purely technical shortcomings like bad computer modeling of characters and car riding empty NY streets.
The original novel comes from 1954. That has its drawbacks but I appreciated no blatant totally-happy-end. I don’t seem to like how movies like this end at all. You can’t heal a cynic.
Yulka said Americans ask for it. Too many movies about cataclysms, fatal epidemic diseases, attacking aliens (or Russians), something threatening the whole world and their country, as the heart of it. Well, it’s a somewhat safe bet that Hollywood figured out. People watch it.