I'm going to make you all WANT to see this movie.

[secondlina]

I like Will Smith, personally. He's cute, cool and is one of the rare actors of color to actually be the main character of several films. However, it is true that he's got bad points, such as the fact that he seems to be scientologist and that his role are very type casted. Smith is the main character, true, but often he is a very <black> main character (aka badass antihero who speaks on and off in ebonics). Though, i'm not sure if he does those roles because they make him take them, because they bring him money or because he likes them. He rather seems to like badassery. So it will forever remain a mystery.

And for those of you who don't know (and to whom I encourage to crack said books) I am Legend and I, Robot are both great literature works (see links for details) that I really love and that have shattered the world of the written world when they got published. Their movies (though they are still pretty okay to good movies) are much more focused on action then on the book's plots. And in both movies, the ending seems dissociated from the rest of the movie. Apparently, in the case of I Am Legend, that is because the movie had an original ending that was the same as the book. The movie ending got changed because test audiences did not react well to Will Smith and his character being shown as the villain.

In the original movie ending (and book ending) of I Am Legend, the main character realises he is actually a monster to the monsters since he is the last of the human kind in a world of vampires and hunts them. He then sacrifices himself, accepting that this is a necessary step in human evolution. In the current movie ending, immune humans appear out of the blue and the main character suddently finds a cure to the vampirism and sacrifices himself to save said cure. Both endings are okay, but the whole dying as a hero one contradicts several parts of the movie, such as the vampires being shown as intelligent and having a leader, like a society, rather then just being the infected killing machines the immunes need to cure.

Same with I, Robot. Granted, the main plot was always going to be robots taking over shit. But normally, humans would have lost. The supercomputer controlled everything. And yet, when they destroyed her, their world returned to normal, just like that, rather then having everything screw up on them after destroying the computer that, even evil, controlled EVERYTHING. When you destroy the main computer of something, stuff doesn't just go back to normal, usually.

In any case, I think i'm reading too much into action movies. But considering they are action movies based on jewels of literature, I would have expected more.

Oh well. At least Will Smith still has pecks of doom.

To me he will always be the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

p.s. Also - in the themes of Pride and Prejudice, did you know that a violent, action based version already exists? It's called Pride, Prejudice and Zombies. I kid you not. It's the same story. Just with Zombies. I plan to read it for the LOL.



- Isa

p.s. 2 God look at my awesome wall! This is a photo taken by earthstar_chan  of me and a wall in Toronto's Gay district. RAINBOW POWAH! I love rainbows.

Comments

[yukinoomoni.livejournal.com]

EW MILEY CYRUS NOOOOOOOOOO.

But - Will Smith? Omnomnom.

Think about it. He's come a LOOOOOOOONG way. From minute rapper in the projects to multi-million movie star, respected by millions of people? He's a real role model for black men. PUT DOWN YOUR GUNS AND WATCH I, ROBOT!

I'm going to pretend I did not read that "scientologist" part. Otherwise, i might cry and cut Will Smith's name into my arm, screaming "WHY ARE YOU STUPID?!"

It's always interesting to see how they interpret movies into books. In perhaps three cases, I've held preference over movies to books. But only three. The rest either disappointed me and were still good or SUCKED ASS.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Scientology is a big thing in California. My youngest sister's boyfriend is from California and also from a family of Scientologists (I try to be respectful, but the aliens thing...and people think we're weird for believing in angels and the like). I guess they need something down there as radical as some of the citizens. I personally don't get it. Maybe working in or living near Hollywood warps one's brain after a time. I can't really bash them too much though since the same sort of deal happens in and around Utah. There are some seriously warped LDS people there...

I've always liked Will Smith too, but I don't really enjoy action movies that much. I did see Independence Day, but that's been about it. Oh, ugh, and the beginning of Hancock unrated because a coworker at Disney didn't believe I could entertain myself while I was waiting for him to get ready to go to the parks, but it was really bad.. I have trouble listening to Will Smith rattle off a ton of bad words and act lustful toward women in movies because I know he has kids now. He supposedly toned down his music after he had kids because he wanted to be a better example, but I guess that doesn't apply to the big screen if he's paid enough. XO

That picture of the zombiefied women really grosses me out, but I keep looking at it anyway! It reminds me of a lot of morbid art I've seen that is really well done, but also deeply disturbing.

[rowenathewitch.livejournal.com]

WILL SMITH! *_____*
I really like him as an hot man actor (and his movies are one of the few with fanservice for girl :D)
He did a few "serious" movies too (The Pursuit of Happyness, Ali, the unwatchable Seven Pounds)
He has also a kickass wife and an uber-cute kid (if you didn't, you must see "The Pursuit of Happyness" where he acts with his son. Gabriele Muccino sure did his job.)

Anyway, you are right, his movies in general tend to be a bit silly and I Robot was slaughtered (I'm an Isaac Asimov fan ^^'). Ok, it was a collection of short stories (some of them old with revised plot) with the female scientist as the only glue keeping them together, but the magic of the three laws was lost -_-
A scientologist? *gasp* That recipe to make money religion is starting to worry me...

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

LOL! I can hear the P&P purists howling now.

And I have a copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I need to crack it open sometime...

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

You realize that people will be keeping an eye out for rainbow brite stuff now that you've admitted you love rainbows. ^_~

I like Will Smith, but I haven't seen too many of his action movies. The think the one I really enjoyed the most was Wild, Wild, West. So much steampunk in that movie! XD

[anna-nimmie-tee.livejournal.com]

Will Smith did Men in Black, too, did't he? The first one was fun. Yeah, to enjoy I, Robot, you had to forget there was a book.

I've read reviews of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies a while ago. It sounded like well written and amusing horror/alternate universe fanfiction. I want to get my hands on it oe of these days.

[digital-eraser.livejournal.com]

Dresses + jeans = awesome, btw.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

He has come a long way, especially for an actor of color. He still gets critized for playing roles that are type casted, but I like to think he likes playing them.

He might be playing Obama in a movie I heard.... Already,m obama the movie?

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I think I liked him the best as a sitcom character :)

Scientology is strange. But it's also a religion that makes and donates a ton of money...Weird.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

His movies are a bit silly, but if you take them as action films rather then serious ones it's not as bad. I was a huge fan of I am Legend, so I was a little weirded out by the movie but then I though it was obvious that hollywood was gonna change the movie this way. American movies have rules of design that do make them more predictable, but also insures them a better box office sell. *shrugs* I guess I just take these as versions of the stories. Versions with a half-naked man. :D

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

As do i. I bought it when I saw it because it made me go "NO WAY!"

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I actually like Rainbow brite. I still preciously keep a bag of her I had as a child.

Oh, wild wild west. The movie is really crappy when you compare it to the original tv series, but despite it's...lack of scenario, it still opened a lot of interest and visual windows for Steam and West fans.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

...Spoon doesn's exist at all. The books are totally focused on the female doctor. I was still happy to see her included, but I was sad she was given the role of "uptight hot white scientist who learns about difference thanks to badass love interest" rather then being the smart, confident and daring women she is in the books.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It's a look I wear all the time. :)

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

I read the synopsis and it sounds AWESOME!!!

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I still have my Rainbow Brite dolls, so I know how you feel. ^_~

Wait, it was a tv series? How could I have not have heard of this? I'll have to look into this now.