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  2. Hancock trailer is here!

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  3. He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper

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    I wanted to buy that one, but i spent all my money on the regular album. the CD, but the one with a bigger cover + christmas presents...

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    It was never opened so the CD and the case was in great quality. Ebay is the best place on earth! I buy almost all of my JJFP stuff over there...

  11. I Saw I am Legend

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    did he die?

    come on man dish! :willvspaparazzi:

    Now, i don't know if this is true, a guy over at imdb wrote this.

    He dies but saves the day by releasing a cure..........he becomes a legend to all the human survivors, the one people will talk about from thousands of years, the man who sacrifised him self to save them

    Still a good film, part from ending and Will Smith gives a powerhouse performance.

    But for those of us that want to know the ending, maby SEALK can tell us if this is a completely fake post or not...

  14. I Am Legend reviews

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    http://emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=7836

    In the apocalyptic sci-fi "I Am Legend," Will Smith gives a commanding performance as Robert Neville, a brilliant scientist who believes he's the sole survivor of a catastrophic plague that has killed most of humanity, while turning the few survivors into mutant vampires.

    Accompanied by his loving and loyal dog, Smith looks astounding, and he treats the material seriously as an actor, not as a schlocky actioner or effects-driven sci-fi. He's well-aware that the credibility of the whole saga depends entirely on him. In this and other respects, "I Am Legend" is engaging, representing the closest thing to a one-man show, not seen on the big screen since Tom Hanks in Robert Zemeckis' "Cast Away," in 2000.

    Problem is, Smith presides over two disparate movies that compete for our attention, a stark, existential L.A.-set apocalyptic tale that occupies the first half of the movie, and a more conventional B-level zombie flick, marked by all the visual and thematic clichés, that dominates the second part. I wish I could say "I Am Legend" is two movies for the price of one, but it's more the case of a film with schizoid identity, one that feels obligated to deliver all the goods expected from the two genres on which it is based.

    Even so, adapted from the 1954 novel by Richard Matheson, the sci-fi author of "Twilight Zone" and other works, "I Am Legend" is Hollywood's third and best rendition of the honorable source material, first made in 1964 as "The Last Man on Earth," a cheesy Italian flick with Vincent Price in the lead, and then in 1971 as a Charlton Heston vehicle, "The Omega Man," which was set in L.A. Interestingly, despite mixed reviews when it opened, over the years, "Omega Man" has achieved a minor cult status.

    The previous versions of Matheson's book, which was called "I Am Legend," took a more conventional horror approach, but, made in 2007, Francis Lawrence's "I Am Legend" aspires toward a more timely and relevant take in the wake of the post 9/11 zeitgeist--with existential plight, xenophobia, and dirty bombs, all in the news lately.

    In a brief prologue of a TV report, a scientist-doctor (Emma Thompson) describes how the long, torturous fight against cancer has been won, which makes the next scene all the more powerful. Three years later, Manhattan has become a desolate and empty island. In brief, impressive strokes, the cinematographer shows how a once-glamorous city has turned into a depressing place, with shattered skyscrapers, abandoned vehicles (some upside down), and neglected parks. We quickly identify the landmark Times Square, or what's left of it, with billboards announcing musicals like "Hairspray" and "Wicked."

    The first, eerie sounds are those of birds (tribute to Hitchcock's "The Birds"?), and lions chasing and killing a herd of deer that run for their lives in Manhattan's deserted avenues. Robert Neville is introduced driving a Shelby Mustang GT 500, with a big rifle in hand trying to hunt down a deer for dinner. Unsuccessful, he returns to his house, in the Village's Washington Square, which is disorganized and full of supplies.

    Neville's family life is conveyed through flashbacks, interspersed throughout the story, depicting Neville as a military scientist, who had lost his wife and daughter, when the Island was quarantined, with him as the only immune person of a threatening virus.

    Depressed, scared, and alone, Neville spends the rest of the saga just trying to survive, but he also looks for a possible cure, which eventually is found—at a price. While scavenging for supplies wherever he can find them, Neville continues to send out radio messages, desperate to find other survivors out there.

    Neville, of course, is not really alone. He's surrounded by "the Infected," victims of the plague who have mutated into nocturnal carnivorous and devouring creatures. All along, the "Infected" lurk in the shadows, watching Neville's moves, waiting for him to make a fatal mistake, while Neville is motivated by one obsessive goal, finding a way to reverse the viral effects, using his own immune blood, which is hot, scarce commodity, considering that he's outnumbered by his enemies and running out of time.

    Screenwriter-producer Akiva Goldsman (who won an Oscar for "Beautiful Mind" in 2001) has conceived the film as an "intimate epic," large-scale in scope and style, but intensely dramatic in terms of the central figure and his predicament.

    During the film's first reels, Smith doesn't speak much--except when he communicates with his dog. He's mostly seen with his reliable companion, a German shepherd named Abby that has already achieved famed and notoriety on its own. (The interaction between Neville and his dog recalls that between Tom Hanks and his volleyball in "Cast Away"). The dog plays such a crucial character that, toward the end, when Neville realizes that Abby is also infected and he needs to take an immediate action, the tragic scene that follows is the most emotionally touching in the picture.

    Like most sci-fi, the saga is nocturnal, and this one benefits from being set in Manhattan rather than in Los Angeles, the locale of most apocalyptic tales of the past three decades, including "Omega Man" and "Blade Runner" (which, by the way, is in current theatrical release).

    Ultimately, Goldsman and director Francis Lawrence, rejoining forces after "Constantine," are only semi-successful in making a fresh movie that deviates from "28 Days Later" and "28 Weeks Later," one that's less monster-horror-zombie and more allegorical and character-driven.

    "I Am Legend" has been in development hell (to use Hollywood parlor) for a long time. Over the past decade, stars Tom Cruise and Michael Douglas and directors James Cameron and Guillermo del Toro have been attached to the project. Then, in 1997, Ridley Scott and Arnold Schwarzenegger were about to start shooting the picture, when the studio pulled the plug under due to its then inflated budget. Warner tried again in 2002, with Michael Bay directing a script by Mark Protosevich ("The Cell") starring Smith. But the following year, Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later," a British flick about a zombie virus that ravages London, that became a cult hit and thus made the producers nervous.

    Will Smith, who continues to develop as an actor, is at the right age and career phase for this role—and he may be one of the few bankable stars right now. Over the past decade, with the exception of Michael Mann's "Ali," and "Wild Wild West," no movie starring Will Smith has lost money, and many, including his latest "The Pursuit of Happyness," brought prestige, money, and even Oscar nomination.

    Much in the vein of "Enemy of the State," "I, Robot," and "Pursuit of Happyness," "I Am Legend" represents Smith's new, favored type of entertainment: A big-budget, special-effects, mass-oriented fare that's also socially-conscious (or at least not mindless popcorn).

  15. Will to star in I am legend

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    Dont know if this has been posted before...

    http://www.toxicshock.tv/news/2007/12/04/i...now-be-changed/

    Director Francis Lawrence told Sci Fi Wire last week in a press conference, “I don’t want to actually discuss the ending, just because I don’t want, I want people to make up their own minds, but maybe there’ll be an alternate version at some point.”

    I really hope that the first ending they had is better than the new and that it will be on the DVD as a alternate ending...

  16. I Am Legend reviews

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    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/r...?&rid=10309

    Bottom Line: A fascinating take on old sci-fi tale but too CG-dependent and an unconvincing religious ending damages its credibility.

    SPOILER ALERT!!!

    The third act either ups the ante of action and suspense or falls apart, depending on one's taste in science fiction. A young woman and child (Brazilian actress Alice Braga and Charlie Tahan) suddenly appear out of nowhere. A Judeo-Christian theme gets introduced, the creatures lay siege to the townhouse, and Robert discovers the antidote for the plague. All of which leads to an upbeat ending few are going to swallow.

  17. I Am Legend reviews

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    http://www.wildaboutmovies.com/movies/I-Am-Legend-Movie.php

    " Perhaps the greatest compliment to Smith came from the man who first created the character of Robert Neville. "I think Will Smith is the perfect person to portray Robert Neville," author Richard Matheson states. "I've seen almost every film he has made, and he is always totally convincing in whatever role he is playing. In this story, his character is key and, therefore, he is key." "

  18. I Am Legend reviews

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    http://aintitcool.com/node/34999

    "well, I saw "I am legend" yesterday. I am a miserable old coot with no life, a deep rooted hatred of Hollywood schlockbusters, and a sincere conviction that a) Akiva Goldsman should burn in hell, and that b) the Fresh Prince just isn't an action star, not matter how much he pumps up (to Dolph Lundgren-esque proportions by now).

    I have followed the development of this movie since the time it was supposed to star Schwarzenegger (a story perfectly retold in "The greatest sci-fi movies never made" - buy it!). I know the original story, I have the Vincent Price version (odd, but strangely satisfying), I love the Charlton Heston version (I'm a kid of the 70's - sue me), and I recently listened to the superior BBC radio adaptation. All of which should strongly indicate that I went into this screening with a desire to hate whatever the director of numerous J-Lo videos, the writer of "Batman & Robin", and the lead actor from "Wild Wild West" were going to throw at me.

    And yeah - it started tacky enough: Loads of attention grabbing shots of a digitally depopulated New York coupled with a "chase scene" that combines Fast & Furious-style driving with distractingly obvious CGI animals.

    But then the movie proper started - and man, it's a BLAST! I don't care what everybody else says, but this bitch ROCKS. Not just because they actually manage to build a plausible backstory (even for the "vampires"), and give the scenario an atmosphere of dread and isolation. No, "I am legend" works because despite all the action sequences and FX fireworks, it's still very much the story of a lonely man incapable of accepting fate. The finer details of the script are too numerous to list here, but if you look for it, everything in the movie has a subtext, a mirror opposite, or some deeper connection. Mankind brings the plague upon itself, and every time things take a turn for the worse, someone has caused it. Even Robert Neville is responsible for everything karma throws at him, and when his carefully balanced world starts to unravel, it's strictly because he made mistakes, ignored facts, slipped up.

    I can not praise Wil Smith enough in this one - his Robert Neville is a man clearly trying to hold on to his sanity, but man, it is slipping. You can see that his strict daily fitness and security schedule is the only thing that keeps him from going totally bonkers. And when things go from bad to worse (well, in this case from worse to worst), he rapidly unravels. He is no hero. He is frightened, mad, alone, desperate, hateful.

    That's another thing: Despite the big budget, big property, and big star, "I am legend" is not a heroic blockbuster. It's almost - intimate. There, I said it. Robert Neville might be a trained scientist and soldier, and he is trying to save mankind, but he is also a lost soul. Again, it's all in the

    details: His daily radio call to find other survivors ends with "Please...

    you are not alone". And in the "please" we feel his pain, because: HE is alone.

    I was stunned how well Goldsman and Protosevich have not only updated the original script, but filled out all the blanks, eliminated a ton of inconsistencies, and elevated it from a "survivor movie" to a deeply affecting human drama. Only after seeing this film did I realize how unsatisfying the previous adaptations were.

    Apart from the core drama, the action scenes are really well done, with enough pizzazz to satisfy die hard movie fans, bit also enough restraint to make them plausible and real (no Michael Bay style editing here). There is also actual suspense built into the action scenes - the "dog attack" is nothing short of stunning. I also liked the way they told the backstory fast, and integrated it into the movie. Zero fat, folks.

    You may not want to hear this, but "I am legend" is a blockbuster remake that actually stands head and shoulders above the original.

    Is it a perfect movie? No. The decision to depict the "vampires" as agile CGI creatures was a big mistake. They sap a lot of the reality out of the movie. And they are not very well done, with unconvincing movements and distracting facial tics.

    And while Neville is never painted as a messiah (see the ending of the Heston version), some unnecessary references to religion and faith could've been eliminated. But that's a matter of personal taste. The story also requires Neville to be immune to the virus, a bigshot soldier, AND a proficient scientist. That's a bit much.

    I was going to list numerous references to "Ground zero" as a drawback, but thinking about it, "I am legend" actually uses the analogy to its advantage:

    Seeing Robert Neville in a depopulated city, saying "This is Ground Zero!

    This is my site! I can still fix this!" works on numerous levels...

    Final verdict? I am STUNNED. This is better than it has any right to be.

    While it is not (and was never supposed to be) a true adaptation of the Matheson story, it delivers on the potential and dramatic power of the source material. For anyone who claims that big movies can be big entertainment, but not quality entertainment - this one should shut them up."

  19. I Am Legend reviews

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    Buzznet Movie Review:

    http://www.buzznet.com/tags/iamlegend/jour...buzznet-movie-r eview-i-am-legend/

    You’d think with the hefty marketing package that I Am Legend is being pushed with that this was the summertime. The previews, the star power, and the ambitious concept all seem to suggest that. Superstar Will Smith portrays Dr. Robert Neville, the lone survivor of a man-made viral outbreak that has destroyed the entire world population. Creepy images of CGI monsters (rumored to be “zombies” or “vampires”) are hinted in the trailers.

    Because of this, I went into this film expecting standard horror fare. (Not that that’s a bad thing.) However, I was treated to a haunting and disturbing character study that later devolves into what I expected.

    I should explain. (And I will!) Richard Matheson first wrote I Am Legend in 1954 and it has been made for the screen 3 times. (Four if you count the straight-to-video An Omega this year.) Every adaptation has, so far, been fairly complex and relied fairly heavily on the vampires that Matheson’s novel introduced. (They’ve also appeared as zombies as well.)

    What Francis Lawrence’s I Am Legend does is eliminate the entire idea of a “supernatural” monster: A project Dr. Neville worked on to create a cure for cancer backfired and mutated to give birth to a virus that essentially renders it’s victims into a bizarre state of light sensitivity and cannibalism. In this sense, the creatures in this movie are not anything we’ve seen before.

    While fans of the novel are probably already crying foul, as the movie departs very drastically from the novel in the second half, I found that this movies enduring strength is it’s first hour, which is quite faithful to the novel. We’re shown a completely abandoned and desolate New York City, in a cinematical feat that is sure to become it’s own legend in years to come. The asphalt streets are cracked and decayed. Vines and weeds poke out of the ground and string from building to building. While cars, vehicles, trucks, and busses are left abandoned when they were evacuated three years prior, deer and wildlife, left unchecked by the lack of all humankind, have set in to roam down 5th street.

    This is a post-apocalyptic world that is shocking and mesmerizing. The difference between this movie and the inevitable comparison to 28 Days Later is that in I Am Legend, a great deal of the movie takes place in the warm, sunny day time. 28 Days Later, with it’s gritty filming style, only presented us with a dark, grim world. The magic of I Am Legend’s first hour is the realism of the enviroment.

    And then we see Dr. Robert Neville for the first time. Will Smith’s hair is cut short; he’s gaunt, yet physical. Gray hairs peek through his beard and head. His trusty German Shepard is at his side. In one of the more surreal moments of the film, we see a lone man hunting for wildlife in downtown Manhattan.

    The movie moves on from this introduction to continue telling us how this man lives. Previously a Lieutenant with the Army and a world-renowned virologist, we’re told through flashbacks how a possible cure for cancer mutated and killed off nearly 98% of the entire population. Surviving alone for over three years, Neville barricades himself off from the mutated monsters at night in an apartment stocked with weaponry, canned foods, music, and movies.

    What we’re presented with, and what makes this movie so incredible, is a man who has developed an infallible routine to help him survive and keep him sane. Since there are no other humans around, he openly talks to his dog as if it’s a real person. The dialogue isn’t forced in order to further the plot. It appears as if the camera is simply there, capturing a moment in time.

    Neville makes his rounds about the city, collecting food, medicine, and any other supplies he may need. And every day, he waits at a particular pier for anyone who hears the radio signal he sends out, every day. For three years, no one has showed up.

    Will Smith is absolutely engrossing and I can’t believe I so highly enjoyed a performance of his. When Neville’s “system” is disrupted (I won’t spoil it for you), he pulls out no emotional stops. There is a particular scene in a record store, just past the halfway mark, that had me gaping in horror and in tears. It’s perhaps Smith’s most glorious performance of his career and worthy of some sort of recognition. Throughout the film, the subtle twitches of his face and the desperation in his eyes contribute to realizing a character bent on trying to right the wrong he arbitrarily helped commit.

    The latter half of the movie is more action-based. It’s entertaining, creepy, and full of “jump-out-of-your-seat moments, exactly as I had expected from such a movie. It’s not bad at all and the resolution is bittersweet, if not a bit too heavy on the visual metaphors. (When you see the church, you’ll understand.)

    This film’s first 60+ minutes is nearly perfect. Taut, suspenseful, and incredibly smart, if just a bit slow. (I wouldn’t want it to be a faster pace, though.) It may be being billed as an action-adventure-horror flick, but it’s too complex and nuanced for that. If you’re a fan of the book, I don’t know how you’ll feel about this movie. There are no vampires and the “Family” element is completely gone. However, Akiva Goldsman has written an adaptation that, in my opinion, is incredibly faithful to the idea behind Matheson’s novel: How would man act if there were no other people around?

  20. I Am Legend reviews

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    Heres a review from: http://www.latinoreview.com/news/reader-s-...-am-legend-3435

    "The entire population of the planet has been wiped out by a man-made virus that was designed to cure cancer. When man plays God, the Devil comes out to play and a small percentage of survivors have turned into blood-thirsty creatures with skin that burns in sunlight. Will Smith is a military scientist who was working on a cure when the crap hit the fan and Manhattan was cut off by blowing up the river crossings. Didn't help 'cause he's all that's left. He lives where no black man has ever lived before, a townhouse in Washington Square with a German shepherd and conduct experiments in the basement to find a cure.

    Though the New York he lives in is a few years from now, it must be in some kind of Warner Bros./D.C. Comics alternate universe, because in Times Square on 47th St. and Broadway is a giant billboard with the Batman/Superman comic book logo from a movie we know will never get made. Times Square as well as the rest of the city is barren, save for foliage and the occasional herd of deer. In one sequence Smith chases a herd in a suped up red Mustang only to run into Simba and his pride who show him who's really king of this concrete jungle. Guess someone left the gates to the Bronx zoo open.

    Smith like to workout, play golf on the Intrepid aircraft carrier and converse with his plastic friends. No he's not into kinky stuff, but he's set up a couple of mannequins at that abandoned Tower Video location in the Village. He even asks the “clerk” who’s the pretty girl in one section of the store – the porno section if you look closely. Though his German shepherd is a loyal dog, she sometimes gets him into trouble. In one of those "don't go in there" scenes, the dog chases a deer into a dark building. Those creatures like to hide in the dark so if I were Smith I'd tell the dog she was on her own, but of course he doesn't. Can't say I blame him since this German shepherd is the last “man's best friend” for the last man on Earth.

    A good hour of this movie is Will Smith and the dog and though that sounds pretty boring I was surprised to find myself on the edge of my seat. There's one spry sequence with the dog going into that dark building but basically no action. I didn't mind, but I wished those CGI creatures didn't all look the same. They seem to really hate Smith too and are always screaming or trying to bite into him. One in particular, the leader, looks like an angry hairless Bruce Willis. As if Bruce Willis wasn't already angry and hairless.

    Before I read the graphic novel, I was interested in what the rumored Ridley Scott and Arnold Schwarzenegger "I Am Legend" was gonna be like. Whatever city it was to take place in, you know that Arnold was probably gonna blow up half of it before the movie was over. As a Ridley Scott film it probably would have been filled with smoke and taken place entirely at night. They would have changed the ending as well, like they did here, but at least this one has the same nobility as the book. There's a point when it looks like Smith might get a little action between the sheets when Alice Braga and a little boy show up as uninfected survivors. They actual hook up in the graphic novel, but I was surprised to find I'm glad they didn't get it on here. He still tries to turn her on with a little Bob Marley though. Still after catching her in "Lower City" I wouldn't have mind seeing Braga naked.

    "I Am Legend" is a drama and Will Smith hits this one out of the park. It's not easy for a former rapper from Philly to play a guy living alone with a dog and have the audience sympathize with him, but it works. Sure he sheds a few tears, but they seem genuine and not like someone off camera held an onion under his eye. You feel for the guy because he feels helpless, feels he can't save mankind and has lost his wife and child. If Salli Richardson were my wife I'd cry too.

    I don't know what they did, but they really represented New York well. This is the Manhattan that I know, not a studio back lot with grass and weeds growing through the concrete. When Smith turns his mustang off of Sixth Avenue he hits Fifth, then the flatiron building and Park Avenue or whatever familiar landmarks and locations there are throughout this familiar city. It must have cost them a fortune and when Smith fans discover this 'aint an action movie, they'll never make that money back.

    "I Am Legend" was made by the same guy who directed "Constantine" and they are obviously two different movies. For once we don't get an Mtv video style pic that's made by a former music video director. The fact that you really feel like you're in an abandoned New York makes it feel more real and helps you connect to Smith more. I just wish the creatures were more realistic or even Vampires like in the book. If you like Will Smith, come check out a way you haven't seen him act or may not again. It's not his all-time academy performance, but its miles ahead of seeing the Governator blow up most of New York.

    Overall I give this film Two and a Half Stars"

  23. Will to direct Karate Kid remake

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    "Actor WILL SMITH will be donning his director's cap for his next project - a remake of 1984's KARATE KID. The Pursuit of Happyness star, 39, is reportedly working on a modern-day version of the martial arts movie, with his nine-year-old son Jaden taking on the lead role of Daniel, originally made famous by Ralph MACchio. Smith Jr. will star alongside Rush Hour's Jackie Chan, who will play the boy's mentor, Mr Miyagi, according to reports."

    http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/artic...0remake_1045217

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