Comments on: MOVIE: I Am Legend (2007)

By: Robot

Robot — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:44:51 +0000

I understand that they have some animal sounds mixed in and quadruple voices and such… but the inhuman voices you are talking about were the once lead vocalist of the band Faith No More. Mr Patton did a good job on the sounds and it was an exciting movie also.

By: megwood

megwood — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:06:11 +0000

“Maximum Overdrive” is actually the perfect example of my point — the further away King is kept from the making of the movie itself, the better the movie will end up being (King not only wrote the original source material for “Maximum Overdrive” — the short story “Trucks” — he also wrote the screenplay AND he DIRECTED it!).

Kubrick’s “The Shining” is one of the most effective horror movies I’ve ever seen — I found it way scarier than the book, though that’s primarily because I’m far more likely to be scared by something I see than something I just read about. (Which is why I watch lots of horror movies, but rarely bother with horror fiction.)

Nevertheless, “The Shining” is one of the few movies that gave me the willies both as a child AND as an adult. I love that film!

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:56:13 +0000

THANK YOU, TRIP! That’s what I meant. And BTW, I was so scared by the book of “The Shining” that I kept saying I wouldn’t finish it – but I kept going back to it. No way was the movie that scary to me!

By: Trip

Trip — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:08:08 +0000

And who among us could possibly forget the wonderful screen adaption of Maximum Overdrive?

NOT.

By: megwood

megwood — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:32:27 +0000

Wow, really? I can rattle off a LONG list of King stories that I thought were ten times better on film than on the page (Shawshank Redemption, Dolores Claiborne, The Shining, Misery, Stand By Me, etc.)! In my experience, as long as King himself isn’t personally involved in the films based on his books, the films end up being massive improvements over the texts they were based on. I think King’s a great storyteller, but an absolutely abominable writer!

But I’m glad to hear “The Mist” can be counted among those that were better on-screen — I’m hoping to finally see it this weekend! Now I’m even more excited to see it!

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:18:47 +0000

OH, NO! My husband actually wanted to see this one (you know I did too), but now I’m totally peeved, and more than a little anxious about it. The clips they showed on TV looked pretty okay to me – but then, so did the ones for “30 Days,” and we know how THAT turned out! On the brightER side, I thought the movie of “The Mist” was the first time I had ever seen a Stephen King story that was better as a MOVIE than as a book! See what you think.

By: megwood

megwood — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:01:42 +0000

Trip, you crack me up!

By: Trip

Trip — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:16:09 +0000

Worst CGI ever – no doubt. Easily the least scariest monsters this side of Young Frankenstein. The WORST ending-by-studio-committee in the history of the genre. I never wanted to roar and bang my own melon into Plexiglas harder myself.

Oh, and your local college theater production of Atlas Shrugged called, they want their scrappy self-sufficient walled town setting back.

Even the alternate ending recently leaked to the Internet, which incidentally, was precisely the ending I was expecting, was completely underwhelming.

Most unforgiving of all, there were NO CUTE PUPPIES.