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Gemini Cricket 01-06-2008 08:54 PM
I just loved Knocked Up. What a great flick. I will watch anything Apatow and Rogen do from now on.

The dialog was terrific. People talk like this. I hate it when movies have dialog that doesn't sound realistic.

I must say this though, this movie was one big giant trick to get straight men to see a chick-flick. Just like Jerry Maguire. Make it look like you're in to see a bunch of straight guys bonding and *wham* you're in a chick-flick, straight boy.

:D

BarTopDancer 01-08-2008 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Moonliner (Post 183380)
Cloverfield.
If this movie is about the damn smoke monster from LOST! I am going to be pissed! Unless it gives answers about said smoke monster. But then it'll open up a bunch of new questions.

JWBear 01-09-2008 10:47 AM
We watched a cool old movie last night. Romance on the High Seas with Doris Day in her first movie role! It also stars a very young Don DeFore. The plot is simple and enjoyable. The songs are just so-so. But the sets and costumes are absolutly STUNNING!

Bornieo: Fully Loaded 01-09-2008 01:51 PM
I saw I am Legend last night. It was ok. I didn't feel there was any substance to the whole thing other than special effects, which were good. I need to read the book to see what it's really about I think because there was something missing in the film.

5 bornieo's out of 10

innerSpaceman 01-09-2008 03:11 PM
^ something MAJOR missing, according to Chernabog at NYE (I haven't read the book myself)

Alex 01-09-2008 04:26 PM
Out of curiosity, since at this point it doesn't look like I'll be seeing it, what did he say was missing (I have read the book)?

innerSpaceman 01-09-2008 05:42 PM
Spoiler:
Alex, as I understand it, in the book Neville becomes the titular "Legend" because he is the boogeyman of the new civilzation of albino, sun-allergic creatures that inherit the earth as the dominant species after the demise of 20th century homosapians. Supposedly, it's a neat twist that our hero is revealed to be the bad guy from the only perspective that counts once he's dead. Is that right?

In the film, he's not the last man alive. He gives a blood sample of his resistent plasma to a woman and boy he has hide in a crawl space from albino attackers, and then he is killed. There is no explanation why Neville himself could not hide in the crawl space, too ... and thus live to provide far more than a blood sample to science. But in the film, it's his blood sample that provides the cure, and thus He Is Legend.

Chernabog says "BAH"

Alex 01-09-2008 06:15 PM
Jesus Christ on a Crutch! They neutered the entire point of the book and the thing that makes it brilliant.

Now I'll definitely have to see it on DVD to judge if they replaced with something that still plays well (and only sounds stupid in comparison to the source). I've always said I don't see how a good faithful adaptation can be made since so much of the book is purely internal to the protagonist, but still, if you aren't going to keep that part, why adapt the book?

innerSpaceman 01-09-2008 06:50 PM
Since this is the third film adaptation to leave that out, that seemingly logical question seems nevertheless to be moot.

Alex 01-09-2008 07:29 PM
I haven't seen the other two but I understand that they so mucked with the story that they were only barely faithful to the book. I'd been lead to expect that other than broadly cosmetic changes this one was much more faithful.

Guess I was wrong.


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