chipolata
Monday 7th September 2009 2:42pm [Edited]
31,376 posts
Quote: Curt @ September 7 2009, 5:09 AM BST
Will Smith is awesome but he's been in two movies that raped two of my favourite books.
I Robot completely missed the point of Isaac Asimov's series.
And I Am Legend...there was nothing there except they were both about vampires and he lived alone....oh wait in the movie he wasn't alone. I HAAAATED that movie so much. I Am Legend is in my top 3 favourite books ever read.
I agree that I Am Legend was a great book, and that the movie (like the The Omega Man) completely missed the point of it, not least with the embarrassing Bob Marley cod-philosophising. And even within the film their were problems, such as how the Nightcrawlers, who were supposed to be lacking any kind of intelligence, managed to rig up a trap to get him... That said, I still quite enjoyed it. It rattles along at a fair old pace, and has some quite exciting moments.
As for I, Robot. Again, they did spectacularly miss the point of Asimovs stories, but it's still a pretty entertaining romp. And nowhere near as bad as The Bicentineal Man starring Robin Williams.