New I Am Legend Trailer

senordingdong

So I finally saw this the other night when I went to see the Terminator (had to get that in there) and holy ****....it looks like an even bigger disaster then I first thought.
I could actually feel a lump in my throat, like you get when you recieve some really bad heartbreaking news.
Problems with the film for discussion...

Will Smith does not fit the bill of Neville. I imagined Neville would look something like Bruce Campbell. But now I fear it's going to be full sass and one-liners. I don't think Smith will pull off the isolation insanity very well either. And the most annoying thing, they have replaced vampires with goblins. Why the **** would they do that? Whatsmore they look really bad, like bad quality CGI. Now it's the Fresh Prince of Bel Air vs and army of Golums.
I feel this is the follow up catastrophe to 'I, Robot.'

Does anybody have any info that might put my brain at ease?

Tusky

senordingdong wrote: »

So I finally saw this the other night when I went to see the Terminator (had to get that in there) and holy ****....it looks like an even bigger disaster then I first thought.
I could actually feel a lump in my throat, like you get when you recieve some really bad heartbreaking news.
Problems with the film for discussion...

Will Smith does not fit the bill of Neville. I imagined Neville would look something like Bruce Campbell. But now I fear it's going to be full sass and one-liners. I don't think Smith will pull off the isolation insanity very well either. And the most annoying thing, they have replaced vampires with goblins. Why the **** would they do that? Whatsmore they look really bad, like bad quality CGI. Now it's the Fresh Prince of Bel Air vs and army of Golums.
I feel this is the follow up catastrophe to 'I, Robot.'

Does anybody have any info that might put my brain at ease?

When it was first announced I hoped someone like Chistopher Nolan would direct and it would stay true to the novel in being a dark, gritty, film. It looks like its going to be iRobot II which is a pity as a lot of people out there wont have read the book and will come away from the film never wanting to read it.

senordingdong

Ridley Scott was originally supposd to direct it...about ten years ago.
With Schwarzzeneger as Neville. I don't imagine Arnie would have made a good Neville either but I bet Ridley Scott could have saved it.
Not like the pleb who is directing it now.

Necronomicon

I think what's worse than Will Smith starring is the fact that it was co-written by Akiva Goldsman, the guy who wrote the screen-play for I, Robot.

Maybe Neville will loot some shops for some nice Converse :rolleyes:

I'm all for giving movies a chance, but I can't see anything other than disaster written all over this.

senordingdong wrote: »

Not like the pleb who is directing it now.

This I disagree with though. You can't really call him a pleb, this is only his second movie. Francis Lawrence is probably the one thing keeping me mildly interested in the movie, because I thought Constantine was a highly underrated gem. Still, I'm not holding my breath or anything.

senordingdong

Necromomicon wrote: »

I think what's worse than Will Smith starring is the fact that it was co-written by Akiva Goldsman, the guy who wrote the screen-play for I, Robot.

Maybe Neville will loot some shops for some nice Converse :rolleyes:

I'm all for giving movies a chance, but I can't see anything other than disaster written all over this.



This I disagree with though. You can't really call him a pleb, this is only his second movie. Francis Lawrence is probably the one thing keeping me mildly interested in the movie, because I thought Constantine was a highly underrated gem. Still, I'm not holding my breath or anything.

Ok I take back calling him a pleb but he only has one movie under his belt.
A story of this calibar demands a quality director like...Ridley Scott or James Cameron. But then again, they have probably altered the story enough so that a good director won't be needed.

MayoForSam

Yeah, saw the trailer earlier, looking like your standard run-of-the-mill monster movie crossed with 28 Days Later. I remember seeing "The Omega Man" version with Charlton Heston years ago and the mutants in that movie were very disturbing. This time round, looks like your bog standard CGI effects and a bit of Gollum make-up.

I keep expecting Will Smith to whip out his shades and his alien blaster mini-pistol and frazzle all those nasties, ho hum :rolleyes:.

Galvasean

MayoForSam wrote: »

Yeah, saw the trailer earlier, looking like your standard run-of-the-mill monster movie crossed with 28 Days Later. I remember seeing "The Omega Man" version with Charlton Heston years ago and the mutants in that movie were very disturbing.

The only thing disturbing about the Omega Man was how far removed from the subject material it was.

senordingdong

Galvasean wrote: »

The only thing disturbing about the Omega Man was how far removed from the subject material it was.

True enough, but atleast that didn't carry the 'I Am Legend' name.
They had the decency to change then ame of the film and that way they could do their own thing and the original still carried buckets of potential.

But now that some bull**** film has been made with the official name, the best we can hope for is a reboot in about twenty years time (or if it's as bad as Hulk hopefully in a few years).
Whatsmore, so many people a re going to see this movie and then associate it with the book if and when they hear people talking about it.

I urge everyone to persuade everyone they know to read the book at some point or another. Seriously....it's better then TLOTR trilogy.

Tusky

MayoForSam wrote: »

Yeah, saw the trailer earlier, looking like your standard run-of-the-mill monster movie crossed with 28 Days Later. I remember seeing "The Omega Man" version with Charlton Heston years ago and the mutants in that movie were very disturbing. This time round, looks like your bog standard CGI effects and a bit of Gollum make-up.

I keep expecting Will Smith to whip out his shades and his alien blaster mini-pistol and frazzle all those nasties, ho hum :rolleyes:.

I take it you havent seen The Omega Man since it was released in the 1970s then ? The mutants are far from disturbing. They are comical.

I take then that I'm the only one who has seen I Am Omega yet. A truly atrocious adaptation of I Am Legend. For it's low budget the film starts off quite well but then goes completely off the rails. Given The Asylum's track record it's no surprise, but after the promising start my expectations were slightly raised only to be dashed again.

senordingdong

Tusky wrote: »

I take it you havent seen The Omega Man since it was released in the 1970s then ? The mutants are far from disturbing. They are comical.

Wait untill you see the new mutants.

TerrorFirmer

Deleted User wrote: »

I take then that I'm the only one who has seen I Am Omega yet. A truly atrocious adaptation of I Am Legend. For it's low budget the film starts off quite well but then goes completely off the rails. Given The Asylum's track record it's no surprise, but after the promising start my expectations were slightly raised only to be dashed again.

Especially since they roped Mark Dacascos in. I expected a lot more, even from Asylum. They should just stick to making the low budget gore flicks, it's what they do best.