But, I have yet to get approval from the rest of the scientific community.

What, is he making $50k a year for these films, and just squeakin' by?

If so, the man needs a better agent.

I just wondered if anyone knows anything about it. I really wouldn't put it past Warner Brothers to pull something like this to promote the Dark Knight DVD release on Tuesday.

It's like a friend you haven't seen comes over and you offer him a drink or something to eat...he instead asks if he can shave your dog, paint your house blue, and fuck your wife/girlfriend while dressed as a fireman slash umpa-loompa...or fuck your daughter if she's old enough (if she's not old enough then he'll politely suggest your mom as an alternative). All with a straight, friendly, "it's ok if I just take everything right? thanks!" oblivious face. I'm not attackin the guy tho, just his MO for film ideas! Dig it, I first noticed it when he said he was getting his wife to hit up the Wachowskis to put both him and his son (the kid from Happyness, etc) in the Matrix movies in some form (he seemed somewhat jokingly desperate actually). So the Matrix trilogy could be a great movie for the Will Smith family!! How to work the story? Who cares! It's a Will Smith and his family movie!!! Box-office gold dude!

Before I get the usual, I'm all for the guy doing movies...in fact, I used to be cynical about rap/music artists being good actors much less not totally shitty actors and Smith was the biggest reason for my change of opinion (I thought he did excellent work in 'I, Robot' even though it was a mediocre film for the most part...he did great work in IAL as well).

I don't know what it is...this glib sense of Smith being involved in this idea of "hey! what about what happened when the bridge blew up? we can make a movie right there! and then we can do another about the woman who created the cancer cure which turned out to make the vampires! oh and then we can make a movie about her youth and studying medicine in war-torn blah blah blah" and it never ends. And Will's the guy to do all of it. Someone mentioned building a movie around a villain being a bad idea for the next Bat flick...well...as talented a guy as Smith is...can we get a great story first...then hire the guy? and keep him away from mindless 'spur of the moment' story ideas unless he actually takes the time to write one? Or maybe I'm just a jackass and we should let Billy Crystal play for the Yankees just because he really really likes them.

Colonel: "The vampires are swimming across the Hudson."

General: "Shoot zem. Shoot zem all."

Lucas/ILM has the CGI rendering stuff done overseas in Singapore. Soon both Keyframe Animation and Modeling will make the shift and be done overseas as well for much less in countries like China, Taiwan, and Singapore.

I personally hate it. It means less jobs for Americans in this particular line of work.

The era of American Citizens doing special effects in American Made Films is coming to an end

Isn't Capitalism great...

Now, with that being said, I'm not rooting against this, or any movie, tt's just that recent history has not shown sequals, prequals, remakes, reimaging and what not aren't any good. Maybe this will be good but I'm thinking no not really. Here's to hoping!

Another character that Neville, broken as a result of seeing his family die, can rely on and trust and as a result grow back from tragedy and continue his work would do a world of good. Then you have that character succumb to vampirism, despite Neville's best efforts, and then everyone Neville cares about, other than the dog, has left him leaving him alone.

They could delve into Neville's brief descent into alcoholism (like in the book) and have this new character be the one to help bring him out of it. Or perhaps, his friend gets bit bc Neville was intoxicated and got sloppy.

Im interested because I see potential in adapting unused elements from the novel and exploring more of Smith's Neville in that way. He should start the movie at a very low point (dead family), grow and move up to having a purpose and will to live again, and then end the movie at another, though considerably more hopeful than in the start, low point in his life (all other characters, including friend Cortman, are vampires or dead).

Seeing the journey toward a goal/resolution we already know can be just as interesting as the original story in the right hands.

Although, I could deal with an ID4:2. There's always room for ID4:2.

I think that Avatar will literally be raping my eyeballs. Movies filmed only in 3D are usually abhorred by the mainstream audiences. They enjoy the hell out of the first five minutes, their eyes start aching after 15, and they are near ready to leave the theaters after 45 minutes. 3D movies belong in amusement parks, not movie theaters.

So what's today's reason as to why this story is simply unfilmable as written? A giant squid atttacks Manhattan in the end and that's gotta be dumb on film? Some Ayn Rand bullshit about plot? Matheson is a notorious "diva" and will throw a cell phone at your head, possibly knocking out your eyeball? What is it today? Too like all the other vampire movies? Too many zombies? Too many zombies getting diced by helicopter blades? CGI not sucking enough?

I'm finished, motherfuckers. Aw hell, naw.

Please do not let this movie suck. I like Will Smith but he is forcing me to hate him with all the crap movies he's making.

I was really looking forward to I am Legend and was very disappointed by the last half of the movie and the awful CGI. Please hire talented actors to be the vampires in this opportunistic prequel. Even though its being done for the wrong reasons it still has a chance to be good. Let it have interesting plot twists and development the way the first half of the original did.

Over and out.

P.S. please don't let them fret over getting a PG-13 rating, but focus instead on creating good action sequences that are original and filled with suspense.

Alternatively, one of those cities right up in the Arctic Circle which are probably in near perpetual sunlight for months at a time.

Either would work.

Good times.

But definitely after that scene, the movie just sucks. and the ending isn't even forgiveable. But I've read Matheson...believe me folks, if a big squid showed up at the end of I am Legend, it wouldn't make the movie any worse than the theatrical release. In fact, from now on, every movie must have a giant fucking slug-squid thing at the end or else! (read: fists will clench, asses will propel feces, pies will be thrown directly into faces, and shit will reign for all time!)

HEY, I've got a novel idea! How about adapting powerful source material faithfully so that it carries some of the artistic and emotional impact of the source?! Nah, that would never work. Got to cater to the IQ an "sensibilities" of the key demographic to make any 'real money'. Never mind.