Articles tagged with: I Am Legend
Good movie endings can do so much - they can make up for the film's other flaws like Be Kind Rewind or send you into a productivity-sapping four-hour Google hunt for the term "I'm finished" like There
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Imagine a world populated only by Will Smith, his dog and a host of blood-sucking Gillian McKeith lookalikes. Oh and it's all Emma Thompson's fault!
That is the nightmarish vision set out in I Am Legend, directed by Francis Lawrence (Constantine). Part sci-fi horror, part art-house stroll, the film is based on Richard Matheson's post-apocalyptic 1954 book about the last man alive on earth.
I Am Legend - the movie where slightly-too-loud to be completely sincere man of the people Will Smith plays the saviour of all mankind - is number one at the weekend box office.
That's not exactly a surprise, since Will Smith could film himself puking down his chest into his underwear and it'd still top the US weekend box office. But the weekend box office success of I Am Legend proves that Will Smith can carry a movie completely by himself now - something that will come as a relief to his next two movies, the provisionally-titled Will Smith Pukes Down His Chest Into His Underwear and Will Smith Stares Unblinking At A Cinema Audience In Close-Up For Three Hours While The Word 'Obey' Flashes Constantly Underneath.
Will Smith's new movie I Am Legend is a huge risk, since it mostly seems to be about Will Smith cowering fully-clothed in an empty bath for two hours.
So what Will Smith needs to do for I Am Legend - more than with any of his other films - is sell it. Sell sell sell. Promote the movie as a thrilling romp that the whole family will enjoy. Exclude nobody in its appeal. And that's why Will Smith has decided to promote I Am Legend by giving a lengthy television interview all about how much Tom Cruise has taught him about the benefits of being a fully paid-up member of the Scientologists.
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