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Author Topic: I Am Legend (2007) Kyle Anderson Film Handler Posts: 86 From: Tyler, TX, USA Registered: Dec 2005 posted 12-15-2007 05:30 PM                     Perhaps.. but we also don't have film anything anymore ( except for CC prints and random independent films) - actually it would have been a problem since half our houses don't even have 35mm anymore.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 12-15-2007 07:14 PM                        Early showing today at Regal 15 in Eugene, #8. Looked and sounded very good. Nice looking 35mm print. I have to lump this in with Golden Compass: It's pretty good, definitely not horrible, but at the same time it didn't knock my socks off. Will Smith is very good with the material he has to work with. The 2nd half seems to start meandering and the payoff wasn't as satisfying as it should have been. Some of the CG is very good, some, not so much. 3.125 out of 5 stars after factoring in a 0.125 point deduction for the dumb title. Yes I know it's based on the book. It's still a dumb movie title.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 12-15-2007 07:47 PM                     Yea, you can interlock without hardware esp with Christie platters. Both operators hit the start button at the same time when one operater hollers 'go' after a countdown.  |  IP: Logged Peter David Bruce Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: East Anglia -England Registered: Aug 2007 posted 12-17-2007 01:16 PM                    we (in the UK) are showing this on boxing day for the first time. im running that showing, so..... ill be out of the booth for a bit while i watch it. what appeals to me in this film (from the trailers i can tell) is that it looks very well filmed and perhaps will turn out to be more of an arty piece for will smith to be in, and a more relaxed project for the director (for once!). i hope the fun they had making it comes across in the film. with the lighting and cg and acting in particular. High hopes for this film it seems! ... thoughts from a lonely projectionist! peter  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-18-2007 02:18 AM                     Well checked this out tonight...I wasn't overly impressed with it. I like Will Smith and can't wait for Hancock next year. Something with this movie just falls flat. ###SPOILERS AHEAD### It really is just missing something. I don't like the ending and the introduction of the girl and boy. You spend and hour and 15 min getting to know Will's character then bam, two more people who your supposed to care about. Worth seeing once in the theatre but not worth buying. 3/5 for this one and 10/5 for the Dark Knight trailer  |  IP: Logged Andy Muirhead Master Film Handler Posts: 323 From: Galashiels, Scotland Registered: Dec 2000 posted 12-21-2007 08:19 PM                     It's almost exactly as I imagined it to be from the trailer. I did like it, but my suspicions were confirmed that it's badly marketed. Well perhaps not badly, It's a bit of a strange one, It's more a character study, with a huge budget. I'm not sure how it's going to play to the usual crowd expecting a 'zombie' movie. Sure, it had a few thrills, but they are few and far between. I enjoyed it immensely though!  |  IP: Logged Tom Mundell Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: Silver Spring, MD, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 12-21-2007 09:11 PM                        Overall I really liked this; I agree there's room for improvement, I wasn't completely blown away but also wasn't bored and thought the story was pretty good and well paced. Special effects looked solid, especially the run down version of NYC, but doesn't it seem like New York was rather dilapidated for having been abandoned for only three years? I would have imagined more time passing before that much change happened... I saw this in cinema 15 at the Majestic 20 in Silver Spring; the picture looked rather soft and out of focus to me, I complained about it but no (visible) change was made. Still I'm guessing this was a problem at this theater (which has a track record of inconsistent presentation on my visits) and not a fault of the movie itself.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan M. Crist Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 531 From: Hershey, PA, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 12-28-2007 11:10 AM                     A fascinating (albeit implausible) first half hour then degenerates into yet another standard CGI gore fest. And mediocre CGI at that.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Pitt Master Film Handler Posts: 266 From: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: May 2007 posted 12-29-2007 01:41 AM                     I really enjoyed this movie; my only gripe is that the story was sometimes hard to follow - as if someone had edited out scenes between the main scenes. For example, when Will finds the mannequin on the bridge - how did Will get there? Also, the introduction of the girl and boy was too 'sudden', as if they'd always been there but lurking out of shot! Overall, I'd give the movie 4 out of 5. I won't say much more here because other people have already said a lot of what I would have said . I will say, however, the presentation I saw was rather poor - slight focus and framing error, with a sort of 'hissing' from the front 3 sound channels that was very noticeable during the quiet parts of the movie! While not bad enough to complain, it's one of the worst presentations I've ever seen in this cinema  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-29-2007 09:36 AM                     I finally caught up with this movie this last week, and the thing that I couldn’t get over about it was the incredibly obvious Ford product placement. The movie was shot last summer in Manhattan, and on the mornings that I had to be in early (around 3:00 am) I would occasionally run into the area where they were shooting. During the photography, the Will Smith character was zipping around in a bright orange Camero, I would see it on the back of an insert car going up and down Broadway. In the movie, though, I see it’s been replaced by a very obviously digitally generated Saleen Mustang. The things they go through to generate some extra income . . .  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-30-2007 03:47 AM                     Happy Holidays to all. SPOILERS -- BUT I HOPE YOU HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN TO SEE THIS MOVIE This will make me seem like a huge prick, but this movie was a HUGE disappointment. I'm not even exaggerating when I tell you it felt like I was watching a bad actor's demo reel: Here's my action scene. Here's my sad/serious scene. Here's a sampling of my madd comedy skills. ...and none of them particularly compelling... I'm sure Richard Matheson's original did NOT contain a 4-minute recital of a scene from SHREK. Yuck! And all those friggin' Bob Marley references! And the introduction of key characters so late in the film? And he offs himself??? I don't understand why he thought that was necessary. There was room for him in the chamber. As for the dog-killing scene, I think in the book it was his **wife** that he had to kill. MY CONDOLENCES TO WHOEVER HAS TO RUN THIS TRASH ON CHANGEOVERS COZ THAT MEANS YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO WATCH A LOT OF IT....OVER AND OVER!  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-30-2007 11:32 AM                     BOOK SPOLIERS: In the book: he kills his wife because she has come back as a vampire. The dog becomes infected and dies on his own. He is captured by the vampires (who have formed a rudimentary society), and is taken to a place where he can be publicly executed, but is given poison pills by the sympathetic woman vampire who was previously sent to spy on him. He takes 'em. He is legend, in the sense that he was the last pre-plague human, NOT because he cured the plague. NO village of survivors at the end, which is the kind of infuriating bullshit whack-off feel-good there-is-still-hope happy ending that the movies feel compelled to provide.  |  IP: Logged John Koutsoumis Master Film Handler Posts: 261 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: Aug 2003 posted 01-06-2008 08:21 PM                     2 out of 5 for me. I thought the Dog was a she not a he?? I found the running length a little short for this one. It needed a little more stretching out in my opinion. Saw this in 70mm at the IMAX Melbourne Theatre. I was not impressed with the image quality. It was quite dull and not all that sharp. Does anyone know if this was shot in anamorphic or Super 35? It did not have the brilliance to it that I thought it would.  |  IP: Logged Paul Burt Film Handler Posts: 46 From: San Francisco, CA, United States Registered: Apr 2006 posted 01-07-2008 12:01 PM                     I'd give it a 2.5/5, mostly for the nifty scenes of a deserted Manhattan and a few good CGI shots. The plot had a few gaping holes, especially near the end. SPOILER ALERT!! So after Manhattan is quarantined, and the bridges blown up, here comes this car with the obligatory surviving woman and child, and...wait a minute, how did they get to Manhattan? And how are they able to get to that Hollywood happy ending in Vermont with no bridges? The writers must have forgotten that Manhattan is an island.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-11-2008 08:44 PM                        I wonder why these movie directors keep picking on New York to have the shit blasted out of it? Why not L.A. or Chicago? I guess Cloverfield will be the next movie to destroy NYC.  |  IP: Logged

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