The above irritates me on a daily basis. One day all of the iPod headphones will join together and enslave us. Anyway, sorry for the late post. I was going to post earlier today, but I wanted to wait to include my review of I Am Legend which I just saw.

Plain and simple, it was a horrible movie. I was rather excited to see it since a lot of the filming was done around were I lived last year. I even witnessed the filiming of the scene were they blow up several cars. However, the movie suffered from the some fate as War of the Worlds. The protagonist finds himself in a seemingly hopeless situation and they crap out with the ending.

Most of the audience actually said “What?” or in my case “What the fuck?” as the credits came on the screen and I was left furious and desiring a refund. I Am Legend is unsure of what kind of film it wants to be. It has a single suspense scene, but that alone is not enough to make it a scary or suspensful film. And the huge action scene were Will Smith becomes the completely badass hero never arrives.

There are also several plots points that make absolutely no sense and if you buckle down and decide to spend the money to see this film (I feel like I spent $13 to see the trailer for The Dark Knight), you and your friends will easily be able to point them out in the post-film walk home discussion.

The film that succeeded in closing down most of Manhattan at one point or another, succeeded in being is a huge disappointment and the largest reason is because it concludes at its climax. I like to think that a good movie’s tension graph looks something like this: /\. However, I Am Legend, in its entirety, looks like this: /. They build up all that tension, only to then go ahead and say “Thanks for stopping by.”

I can’t have anything but disdain for a film that leaves me feeling like a teenage boy who’s been stopped by his hot girlfriend who won’t go past second base.

-JF