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lastat06513
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I saw it yesterday in the director's hall in the local theater.......fantastic!......no other words to describe it........well worth the $5 ticket  |
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travel zen
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Finally !
Thank you Hugo for telling me what the hell its about !! If I saw you, I'd give you money and a hug. 
Nobody seems to know what the hell this movie is about. but they all want to see it. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:35 am Post subject: |
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Finally !
Thank you Hugo for telling me what the hell its about !! If I saw you, I'd give you money and a hug.
Nobody seems to know what the hell this movie is about. but they all want to see it. |
I didn't mind it. I was an ok flic.. |
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The Hammer
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Ullungdo 37.5 N, 130.9 E, altitude : 223 m
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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I'm sick of seeing Will Smith get all emotional and cry in movies. 
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mindmetoo
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Caught it tonight. Never read the book but loved Omega Man as a child. Scared the crap out of me.
This version.
1) I felt like they left about half of the movie out. The movie was about 90 minutes long.
2) Will Smith tooling around in the muscle car but then for the rest of the movie he uses the jeep. Other than maybe an homage to Omega Man, not sure what that was about.
3) Who set the trap? The chick wasn't out to get him. The vampire zombies displayed no ability to use tools. IMDB says it was zombies. But then maybe the should have shown us the zombies were capable of some tool use.
4) In Omega man Heston is white and the chick is black. In this version, the Smith is black and the chick is white. They don't pork in this movie.
5) The movie had a budget of $150 million. Where did they spend that money? The CGI was pretty standard. We had limited sets. A handful of actors.
6) In the Omega Man version, the zombies had a culture and a religion. It would have been nice to see something like that.
I dunno. The movie needed more. I liked how they delayed introducing the zombies. Played up the suspense. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| 3) Who set the trap? The chick wasn't out to get him. The vampire zombies displayed no ability to use tools. IMDB says it was zombies. But then maybe the should have shown us the zombies were capable of some tool use. |
That was one of the weaknesses of the movie. When the Blade II vampires were on screen, they were animalistic screaming things. Off screen they were able to organize an assault and train vampire dogs. |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| It seemed there was a clear "zombie leader" who was a bit smarter than the others. Kinda like in Day of the Dead. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:52 am Post subject: |
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Just watched it. Good enough, but flaws.
As per Mindmetoo, I thought it could have been a lot longer with more background on the zombies. Give them some depth.
Think of what you could get up to if you were The Only Living Boy in New York!!! They could have added a lot more fun scenes about what you could do with free reign of a deserted, kind of, city.
It could have been a great movie. Instead, it was just good. |
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The Hammer
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Ullungdo 37.5 N, 130.9 E, altitude : 223 m
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
Caught it tonight. Never read the book but loved Omega Man as a child. Scared the crap out of me.
2) Will Smith tooling around in the muscle car but then for the rest of the movie he uses the jeep. Other than maybe an homage to Omega Man, not sure what that was about.
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The was all about product placement. The Mustang at the beginning was just an ad for Ford. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| 5) The movie had a budget of $150 million. Where did they spend that money? The CGI was pretty standard. We had limited sets. A handful of actors |
Will would of taken about 20 million maybe the crew another 20million so they used about 110 to make it..
but yeah seems very steep..marketing and advertising would have been large.. the 1000 extras at the bridge scene just that scene alone would have costed millions... I guess CGI took the bulk of it.. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| The Hammer wrote: |
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Caught it tonight. Never read the book but loved Omega Man as a child. Scared the crap out of me.
2) Will Smith tooling around in the muscle car but then for the rest of the movie he uses the jeep. Other than maybe an homage to Omega Man, not sure what that was about.
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The was all about product placement. The Mustang at the beginning was just an ad for Ford. |
Sure but Omega Man also features Heston tooling around in a Stang in the opening scenes. |
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lowpo
Joined: 01 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| The Hammer wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
Caught it tonight. Never read the book but loved Omega Man as a child. Scared the crap out of me.
2) Will Smith tooling around in the muscle car but then for the rest of the movie he uses the jeep. Other than maybe an homage to Omega Man, not sure what that was about.
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The was all about product placement. The Mustang at the beginning was just an ad for Ford. |
Sure but Omega Man also features Heston tooling around in a Stang in the opening scenes. |
I saw the Omega Man when I was a young kid. I am Legend is a far better movie than the Omega Man.
We downloaded a good copy from torrents over the weekend. |
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genezorm
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
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i started laughing when will smiths character was horrified at someone not knowing who bob marley was - bet the koreans in the audience didn't catch onto that one.
i noticed no one in the theater really laughed at the funny parts. they just couldn't relate.
i'm a fan of the genre so i liked it, and having also seen omega man i'd have to say it's more along the lines of 28 days later. in fact, very similar..the existence of a "safe zone"...looking for a cure.
it also reminded me of "a boy and his dog" oddly enough. |
i think 28 days later is more betterer |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| lowpo wrote: |
I saw the Omega Man when I was a young kid. I am Legend is a far better movie than the Omega Man.
We downloaded a good copy from torrents over the weekend. |
Yeah I grabbed a torrent of it too. It's not exactly Silent Running or 2001, a sci fi movie that still stands up against modern FX. I could barely figure out what the black woman was saying. Her slang was too heavy. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:56 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| It could have been a great movie. Instead, it was just good. |
Just watched a screener DVD - the above matches my feelings. |
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