January 04, 2008

The Feel Good Movie Of The Holidays


While we were up in Alaska Timber, my brother, and I all went to watch I Am Legend. It is definitely NOT the feel good movie of the holidays. In fact it was really depressing. If you want to watch the movie and don't know the story stop reading right now... I think the draw for movies like this, at least for guys, is that we get to see what it would be like to be just about the last person on earth, with tons of guns, ammo, and grenades, with lots of vampire zombie things to kill. Sounds like a cool video game right? One of the things I think this film does well is that it shows just how lame and depressing it would be to be the last guy alive in Manhatten where you have to scrounge for food, do your research to try to find a cure for the zombie vampire disease, and you have to get home and lock everything down before the sun goes down. I think if most people were put into that kind of situation, along with losing their family, they would probably just put a bullet in their head and be done with it. So it was interesting to see the main character act slightly weird because he hadn't talked to another human in years and deal with being alone and depressed. He probably had a lot of inner demons to deal with in all that time he was alone. I would like to know how the film makers got all the shots of Manhatten overgrown with vegetation and the buildings being decayed and abandoned. That had to be a lot of computer graphics. So overall if you want to see what it would be like to be alone with zombie vampires roaming the streets at night you should check out this movie. On the positive side this movie showed me the merits of having loaded weapons in every nook and cranny in your house. :-) But be warned, it is pretty depressing and you can't just turn it off like you can do with a video game.

Posted by troutm8 at January 4, 2008 03:20 PM