Mr. Worf, this is my chief pet peeve - how the heck DID she drive to Manhattan when all the bridges had been blown up to protect the island of Manhattan from the raging contagion? Then, how did she and her son DRIVE to Vermont? I'm just sayin'....
~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@...> wrote: > > I thought that he was stuck on the island of Manhattan? (I haven't been to > NYC so I don't know if it is a true island) But what I didn't understand is > how the woman got to Manhattan with a car if all of the bridges were blown > up? (one of the effects that I enjoyed deeply) > > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...>wrote: > > > > > > > < slight spoilers for the movie "I Am Legend> > > > > > > I agree, it was problems like that which dampened my enjoyment. He seems to > > have spent all that time holed up in his townhome, hitting golf balls off > > the deck of ships. Yet when he meets the lady and her kid, they're on the > > way to a colony which is really not that far away. Why couldn't he have > > taken that armored up vehicle, left one morning at sunrise, and gone > > exploring? Why and how is it that he never found anyone on the radio all > > that time? > > > > As for the mutants, I think the leader was more intelligent than the rest, > > who I took it, were regressed to near-bestial state. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@...> > > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 2:14:17 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] topic: the last man on earth > > > > > > > > Another question I had was, why didn't he live on the aircraft carrier? > > > > Were we to assume that the mutants gained strength but not intelligence? > > How did the mutant set the trap? Why did he own dogs? > > > > Why didn't the survivors answer back on the radio? > > > > Too many holes... > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...>wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> I agree with that SUV thing. The movie had so much potential, but someone > >> seems to have decided they had to jazz it up with over-the-top FX. The > >> ending bothered me too, and I felt that the way they staged it actually > >> provided for Smith to have had an ending other than the one he had--has > >> fate > >> wasn't foregone. > >> There was also the matter of his isolation and lack of contact with > >> others: once the other humans show up near the end, he engages methods to > >> find out if he's alone or not, and I kept thinking "That's all it took? He > >> could have done that a long time ago!" > >> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@...> > >> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > >> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 6:29:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > >> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] topic: the last man on earth > >> > >> > >> > >> There's one scene that really bugged me in the Will Smith movie. That was > >> the one where they were on the pier and one of the creatures runs into the > >> side of the SUV and flips it over. Ten people could pick it up on the side > >> and turn it over, but it would take at least 20 to run into it with the > >> right timing to turn it over. > >> > >> I agree about the CGI. It was overused. They should have saved it for > >> later. > >> > >> Also the ending bugged me. (I will try not to give that away) The > >> mutants that were left didn't have to leave the room and what about fire? > >> > >> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Keith Johnson < > >> keithbjohn...@...> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> I haven't seen this version. I like the version with Heston, though it > >>> varies from the book (I hear). It's decent '70s scifi. The one aired last > >>> week on SyFy was horrible. It was like a Van Damme or Lundgren flick where > >>> they throw in the trappings of a scifi world, then execute what is > >>> basically > >>> a standard fighting/actioneer. the movie didn't even *feel* like it was > >>> another world: it looked and felt exactly as if it had been filmed in our > >>> current reality, and the fights and stuff were standard martial arts/gun > >>> battles from a hundred other movies, most of them non scifi. Horrible. > >>> > >>> I liked "I Am Legend" in many ways. Smith did a creditable job. The sense > >>> of loneliness and despair is palpable. there are a couple of genuinely > >>> scary > >>> moments. The major mistakes in the movie are the plotting and pacing, in > >>> that the arrival of other humans on the scene takes place very late in the > >>> film. Things are then resolved quickly and unsatisfactorily. It's as if > >>> they > >>> spent all the writing and time on Smith as one man alone, then had to rush > >>> things at the end. Could have used anothe twenty minutes to work on that, > >>> or > >>> cut a bit of the stuff that came before. The other thing that was a bigger > >>> problem for me was the use of CGI for the mutated humans. They were in > >>> every > >>> single scene, painfully, obviously CGI. They were nowhere nearly as > >>> convincing as Gollum in LOTR, and it was distracting. The scenes where > >>> they > >>> attack Smith's house, or menance him on a pier, aren't exciting because > >>> they're leaping about like Spider-Man, and the FX used to display those > >>> superhuman feats are every bit as false looking as the worse scenes in the > >>> Spider-Man movies. I simply couldn't suspend my awareness of the CGI > >>> characters enough to be engaged by them--except for one, terrifying moment > >>> in a building where the cinematography obscures the CGI nature of the > >>> characters. > >>> Other than that, good movie. > >>> > >>> > >>> ----- Original Message ----- > >>> From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@...> > >>> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > >>> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 3:14:51 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > >>> Subject: [scifinoir2] topic: the last man on earth > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> I'm watching the original movie starring Vincent Price on my local PBS > >>> station. I think that if they had made the Will Smith movie with vampires > >>> instead of zombies it would have been more interesting. What do you think? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! > >> Mahogany at: > >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! > > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >
