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I Am Legend

Good enough flick.

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This is one of the best examples of CGI at its worst. Not the technical aspect, but that it was not at all necessary. The infected people were still people, they weren’t creatures or aliens, so why on earth did the filmmakers decide to CGI them? I understand the infected would obviously look different because of the symptoms, living in the dark and starving. But all that could’ve been accomplished with makeup on skinny people. And that way, the consequences of the infection would’ve been more relateable and more horrific. With CGI, a slightly inhuman look to them and inhuman movements, the infected instead seemed like typical creatures from a horror movie who could never be cured and again be human.

I almost laughed at the end when they climb the outside walls of Will Smith’s home like mutant Spider-Men. Aside from the CGI issues above, it was a matter of breaking the parameters of the story’s world for the sake of that thrilling moment. The same thing could’ve been accomplished with them climbing in a more natural manner, or boosting and climbing over each other in an ant-like fashion, or with ladders, or…

• Voice over

At the very end, the woman summed up the story and Will’s character as she finds safety in the survivors colony. It was unnecessary because it told us nothing new, it was out of place as the movie’s first and only bout of voice-over and it was shmaltzy, too serious.

• Little thing

I wonder why the virus that destroyed humanity was borne from a good thing, the cancer cure. Sure, it would’ve been a cliche had the virus originated with a secret operation by the government or military, but there were other options…like, a greedy pharmaceutical company.

Unofficial, behind the scenes rehearsal in NY.

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