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Frank Iero's tattoos.

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Today I went to the movies with Jamie and saw I Am Legend

I can't believe how infuriatingly common it is for interesting science fiction films to completely ignore any interesting subplots and end with some kind of obnoxious, preachy religious or spiritual message. I know that spirituality and sci-fi often go hand in hand, since serious sci-fi is usually about The Big Questions (42), but I hate when spirituality is tacked on to the end of a movie, especially a well thought-out movie that is measured and tense and moody, and starts to raise interesting ideas. I wanted to know how the vampire zombies (or vombies, as they will henceforth be known) were learning, and whether there was a message in that about how their 'civilisation' was no worse than our own. I wanted to see Neville struggle with the intense, painful loneliness for longer than a few hours after that enormously affecting sad scene, because Will Smith was acting his heart out quite effectively. I wanted to see it end of a note of uncertainty about the future, but instead there's this awful ending (action AND religion in one neat package!) that comes out of nowhere and is just boring and ineffective. It could've been a great movie, and instead is just winds up being OK, but ordinary.

And why was the CG so bad?

Side note: I noticed that the huge banners in Time Square were the same in Enchanted and this, with such different things going on around them. It made me laugh.

2.5 stars out of 5



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