I Am Legend (2007)
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another catchup post - i think i saw this a month ago. like everyone else i really disliked how fake the seekers looked. and i really stopped paying attention once plot kicked in. that whole butterfly thing completely missed me and i was just waiting for it to be over.
i like the idea of the beginning a lot - alone in the city with little dialogue or anything, just doing shit - but they were so broad about things i thought they missed a lot of opportunities. the best example of this is when he’s going through the apartment and finds the baby room. you’ve got endless opportunity for some great bittersweetness but instead they go full throttle with the most obvious tragedy possible. and will smith too - he did a good job for sure but there’s just something too corny about him for me to buy into any deep notions. i was also annoyed by the broadness of the bob marley songs. the ironic ‘don’t worry about a thing’ and calling a compilation the best album ever recorded. i do think the video store scenes were incredible. especially the ’say hello to me’ bit as some sort of ‘alone in a sea of people’ metaphor.
the final two things that annoyed me - his dog in the front seat as he’s chasing the deer - that dog would be smacking his head on the dash every gear shift and turn. and that he passed up his chance at boning anna! damn, that’s why you are dumbass.
