Forget Will Smith, Give the Dog the Best Actor Award
January 17th 2008 13:11
It's like some jerk saw Serenity and decided the Reaver scenes were so good you could blow them up into an entire movie, and what do you have? Well a movie starring Will Smith that is about only 1/8th as good as Serenity. Of course that isn't necessarily a bad thing as Serenity is an awesome movie. Unfortunately 'I am Legend' could have been more instead of what it is.
So it's the future and a miracle cure for cancer has mutated people into rabid creatures that can be best described as a Zombie/Vampire combination with a healthy dose of 'bullshit' thrown in. I'm sorry but they are about as bland and generic a sci-fi based super natural villian as you are ever likely going to get. Right from their inception to their back story to their cure of said disease which has an instantaneous effect to the disease which also is fast acting.
I have to admit this was the first movie ever to make me cry. Cry why? Because the dog dies. There, I said it. Don't be complaining about spoilers to me, right from the start it was obvious the dog was going to die protecting Will Smith. Wonderful. Just f'n wonderful. Throughout the movie the relationship between the dog and Smith is made clear, no doubt the sorry excuse of a director was trying to make the moment the dog dies protecting Smith be that much more gut wrenching. Well it was, but not for the reasons he intended, I couldn't give a shit about Will Smith. But the dog, the poor dog, why did she have to die?
There was talk of Will Smith getting a best actor acadamy award for this, I say SCRAP THAT, GIVE THE AWARD TO THE DOG. I swear, never in my life have I been so sad about a fictional character dying as that dog, I don't know why, but it got to me so badly. That dog was a wonderful creature, why did it have to die? She was loyal and couragesous and generelly cool, why did she have to die? Oh thats right, because of all the aforementioned descriptions of the dog. *sigh* I was about to walk out 10 minutes into the movie because I knew that dog was going to die and I didn't think I could stomach that.
Back to the premise, so Will Smith is obviously trying to live in this terrible future while looking for a fast acting drug to cure the diseased. Great, so why did the dog have to die? I was a happy man, ok? I was a happy man before seeing this movie. Now I'm just depressed. The dog, why did the dog die?
Ok, seriously now, the entire movie plays out like the reaver scenes from Serenity, which is to say they are emotionally exhausting. Not because they are necessarily scary but because you feel for the dog in his fear of these creatures and you feel sorry for the creatures. Which is great, no problems there, but the fact of the matter is the entire movie was built around this concept, how insanely stupid is that? The reaver scenes were great in Serenity, but making a movie just out of them? No thanks, ok? No thanks.
So on goes the story, turns out there are other survivors, Will Smith says how there is no god to one survivor, gets attacked by these creatures, now on the brink with the creatures right in front of his door discovers the cure gives it to the chick then in the name of defending it blows himself up with a grenade and takes out all the creatures. I guess throwing it was no good, he had to kill himself in the process? I have to say no tears were wasted on his death, it was cheasy and shit. Not like the dogs death.
I'm sorry for talking about nothing but the dogs death, despite the fact we all knew itw as going to happen the way in which it happened was just really sad. The plot is entirely generic, I promise you that you'll know how it's all going to pan out within 15 minutes. Even the dogs death, but still, the dogs death is the highlight of the movie and the only reason anyone should watch it. Otherwise Serenity is the better alternative.
TO SEE A DOG DIE AND CRY.
So it's the future and a miracle cure for cancer has mutated people into rabid creatures that can be best described as a Zombie/Vampire combination with a healthy dose of 'bullshit' thrown in. I'm sorry but they are about as bland and generic a sci-fi based super natural villian as you are ever likely going to get. Right from their inception to their back story to their cure of said disease which has an instantaneous effect to the disease which also is fast acting.
I have to admit this was the first movie ever to make me cry. Cry why? Because the dog dies. There, I said it. Don't be complaining about spoilers to me, right from the start it was obvious the dog was going to die protecting Will Smith. Wonderful. Just f'n wonderful. Throughout the movie the relationship between the dog and Smith is made clear, no doubt the sorry excuse of a director was trying to make the moment the dog dies protecting Smith be that much more gut wrenching. Well it was, but not for the reasons he intended, I couldn't give a shit about Will Smith. But the dog, the poor dog, why did she have to die?
There was talk of Will Smith getting a best actor acadamy award for this, I say SCRAP THAT, GIVE THE AWARD TO THE DOG. I swear, never in my life have I been so sad about a fictional character dying as that dog, I don't know why, but it got to me so badly. That dog was a wonderful creature, why did it have to die? She was loyal and couragesous and generelly cool, why did she have to die? Oh thats right, because of all the aforementioned descriptions of the dog. *sigh* I was about to walk out 10 minutes into the movie because I knew that dog was going to die and I didn't think I could stomach that.
Back to the premise, so Will Smith is obviously trying to live in this terrible future while looking for a fast acting drug to cure the diseased. Great, so why did the dog have to die? I was a happy man, ok? I was a happy man before seeing this movie. Now I'm just depressed. The dog, why did the dog die?
Ok, seriously now, the entire movie plays out like the reaver scenes from Serenity, which is to say they are emotionally exhausting. Not because they are necessarily scary but because you feel for the dog in his fear of these creatures and you feel sorry for the creatures. Which is great, no problems there, but the fact of the matter is the entire movie was built around this concept, how insanely stupid is that? The reaver scenes were great in Serenity, but making a movie just out of them? No thanks, ok? No thanks.
So on goes the story, turns out there are other survivors, Will Smith says how there is no god to one survivor, gets attacked by these creatures, now on the brink with the creatures right in front of his door discovers the cure gives it to the chick then in the name of defending it blows himself up with a grenade and takes out all the creatures. I guess throwing it was no good, he had to kill himself in the process? I have to say no tears were wasted on his death, it was cheasy and shit. Not like the dogs death.
I'm sorry for talking about nothing but the dogs death, despite the fact we all knew itw as going to happen the way in which it happened was just really sad. The plot is entirely generic, I promise you that you'll know how it's all going to pan out within 15 minutes. Even the dogs death, but still, the dogs death is the highlight of the movie and the only reason anyone should watch it. Otherwise Serenity is the better alternative.
TO SEE A DOG DIE AND CRY.
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Comment by Damo
For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics
Charlton Heston is better actor and he had a better script too.
This was an Omega Man remake with lame zombies instead of an intelligent enemy.
It sucks. It sucks, It sucks so bad..
There I said it.