Mark Reviews I Am Legend

The Post-apocalyptic story of a man and his dog. Over all I was very impressed with this film. If you took Kyp's advice and started listening to Film Spotting, you would've heard their review last week coupled with their review of Juno. On one main topic I agree completely with them. The CGI vampire/zombie creatures were incredibly unimpressive. Give me a bad make-up job before you give me a crappy CGI creature that looks like Eric Bana's Hulk... yes... THAT bad. They looked more like cartoons. However, I can't disagree more with their critique of Will Smith; claiming he fails to create connection with audience. I think they continually were comparing it to Castaway, and I see where they are coming from; however, it's unfair to this film. I think Smith captures the audience in his own way, which while different than Hank's on the beach, is just as effective. I think the subtleties of this movie make it successful. One of my favorite things was the fact that you see pieces of priceless art hanging around his apartment. At first you would think nothing of it, considering the popularity of reprints of Van Gogh's Starry Night; however you realize something is off when you look at the clearly ornate frame... which left me believing it's meant to be the original.

On a side note: all the computer's he uses in the film are Apple.... which clearly means, if you could have any computer in the world... go with Apple.

mm out

Comments

[Paul]

Actually the Mac things meams that Mac just payed a whole bunch of money to have their comps in the movie. Oh ya, AWESOME movie!!!