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Drizzt · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK

Anyone else looking forward to this? Planning to avoid it?

Methinks it should be good, the trailers are doing the job of getting me curious and it's had a decent budget thrown at it so I'm... interested... more than excited.
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NicciM · Joined: 09 Oct 2007 Posts: 27 Location: Toronto, Canada

If it follows the book as closely as possibly it will be great
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DeathJunior · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 177 Location: Louth, England

Yeah, follow the book with a black man (No racism intended) as the main character ... I don't think it's gonna follow as closely as we'd like by the looks of the website.
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Drizzt · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK

Went to see this one tonight and it's not bad. It's quite different from the book but still manages to follow the same premise... not too sure all the changes worked.

But, as a film in its own right, it's canny. Will Smith acts the part of Robert Neville really, really well and makes Neville a very human guy rather than some Will Smith persona. Very good.

Anyone who's not familiar with the book, the film is about Robert Neville, a military scientist. When a miracle cure for cancer turns out to be the trigger for a plague which wipes out most of humanity, turning the survivors into rabid, flesh-eating beasties a la '28 Days Later', Neville is strangely immune and is forced to survive alon in New York along with Sam, his dog.

By day all is ok-ish; Neville and Sam wander the city hunting for food, eat, play, broadcast over the radio to anyone who may be listening, watch DVDs, listen to music, gather supplies.... but, once it's dark, they're back home in a fortified house as outside the beasties wander about killing owt that moves - sounds like a roaming gang of chavs, I know... Razz

Neville is also trying to find a cure... that's his mission and it's what keeps him going.

It's quite a bleak film but the relationship between Neville and Sam is well done and there's just enough humour to keep you from becoming as melancholy as lonely old Neville. The history of how the world was buggered is told through well done flashbacks.

I'd go 6/7 out of 10....
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DeathJunior · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 177 Location: Louth, England

Drizzt · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK

There are quite a few changes from the book, oh yes. Though I'm not sure the book, followed 100%, would make a good movie... Confused

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Selik · Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 1524 Location: South Shields

Can often be the case. Often what makes a good book, doesn't make a good movie. There has to be an element of action in every movie (and I don't mean necessarily guns, explosions kind of action). However if it's going to be made for action/ suspense audiences it has to move faster.
If you go to the movies expecting a fast-paced action movie and it follows the book word for word, you're going to be asleep by the end of the first half.
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Parmenion · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 584

i thought this was a brilliant movie, well shot, well scripted and well executed, and i dont think there are many actors who could have pulled that role off Will smith was amazing