tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17951989.post979820055285042319..comments2024-03-13T06:02:45.251-05:00Comments on Cinema Romantico: I Am LegendUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17951989.post-22786363779221602992007-12-17T15:05:00.000-06:002007-12-17T15:05:00.000-06:00While I agree that Will Smith does a good job of p...While I agree that Will Smith does a good job of playing the character he was given, I felt that as soon as the other humans enter the movie it loses whatever interest it had. <BR/><BR/>The problem is that the first half of the movie is mainly interesting for its imagining of a near post-apolocyptic New York City, but not because Will Smith is anything like a normal human being that might feel more than a smidgen of an existential crisis upon realizing he is the only human still alive (after all, He is Legend). <BR/><BR/>So, once humans enter the movie again, it becomes what it was all along, action hero ("look at my cool guns and gadgets, at my rock hard abs, plus, I'm a genius scientist in my spare time, but really, I'm just an ordinary family man") with no emotional range Saving The World.<BR/><BR/>I was waiting for just a bit of surprise or relief or anything to show there was something behind the tough guy shell, and never did.<BR/><BR/>Interestingly enough, that is one of the reasons why <I>Juno</I> was so good. For most of the movie, she puts up a clever, wise-cracking exterior derived from <I>Lethal Weapon</I> and its ilk. But the movie sells it--you can see why Juno has to build a protective shield around herself, and the movie is careful to show that as only part of her identity.Sabina's hathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13097361254453239363noreply@blogger.com