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[morwen]

Went to see I Am Legend last night with doseybat and timeplease. This is another playing-it-straight zombie movie, and apparently not bearing very much resemblance to the source material.

Not sure what to make of it. I liked the details (Neville's competence at surviving - lots of cool little details there - versus his increasingly deranged state; the deserted New York; the flashbacks to the evacuation), but not the film as a whole. In particular, it would have been a better film without the last scene, leaving it more ambiguous.

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[shimgray.livejournal.com]

The first half or so was the best surviving-in-a-desolate-post-crash-world film I've seen, bar none, modulo a couple of stupid errors. The last third... less said the better.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

We decided the lions were implausible in New York - although they might have been plausible in Los Angeles where an earlier version of the screenplay was set in. What else did we miss?

[shimgray.livejournal.com]

Twice (at least), we see him bolting up the windows, closing the shutters, etc etc - he's clearly alone in the house but for the dog. He ends up going to sleep curled in the bottom of the bath; dreams start.

Twice he wakes up, in bed, with light streaming in. He's somehow got from one to the other, and opened up the windows...

(As for the lions, eh, I'll give them that silliness on points :-) Burroughs used it for a deserted London, after all, so it has tradition behind it...)

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I don't think I noticed that. Editing can often result in that sort of continuity error - maybe there was a bit between those they took out.

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

pretty much sums up my impression. ruins of NY and explody bridges pretty!