Overall impression: movie with zombies + dog = sleepless night + hugging my own dogs.
I saw I Am Legend tonight. My friend, whom I hadn't spoken to in a while due to her losing my number and my dislike of calling people (I don't want to bother them. I just figure that if they don't call me, they don't want to talk to me. Irrational, I know), decided to pay me a surprise visit about exactly the same time I came home from my advisor meeting and errands.
I thought it was a really good movie. I hear some general dislike of Will Smith sometimes, but I find him to be a pretty great actor. Granted, just about all of his movies take place in some alternate version of New York, but it works. I liked I, Robot (Was that NY? Let's just say it was, for the sake of argument); I liked Men In Black; and I liked I Am Legend. So there.
I still need to see Independence Day. No, of course I didn't just say that.
...the zombies. They weren't quite zombies in the classic sense of being a reanimated corpse, but more of an ultra-mutated 28 Days Later sort of thing... mixed with the vampires' shtick with sunlight.
I just read the wikipedia entry on the book, and it seems that they were supposed to be completely vampire, just with a scientific explanation. Go figure. I still think they were more zombie-like, although I wouldn't be able to explain why. Hmm. The explanation for the signs of zompirism weren't included in the movie.
Either way, 'tis a great story; the kind of which we need far more. As I continue reading the synopsis of the book, the book sounds far better. Remind me to buy it sometime (Blast! And my friend told me that the movie apparently followed the book pretty closely. Should have known...). But again, the movie was still good. X didn't need to die, but it made for more emotion and moved the plot along. Y didn't really need to die, but it made for an unorthodox ending (though becoming far more common these days). Z and A didn't even need to come into the story to begin with, but then what would happen after Y was gone? Other than, you know, the zompires being the only beings left on the earth. But movies just have to end with hope, don't they? Oh well. It was fun, though. Scary, emotional (though in neither the emo nor chick flick sense), explosionlicious, gun magazines with an actual capacity (far more than a mag that size would actually hold, however), explosiontastic etc.
I am totally going to bring the word "zompire" into common use.
In other news, I've now signed up for all but one of my classes today (Give me a break, I only just got my PIN. Besides, most of y'all had a whole summer for this scheiß.). More on that tomorrow, as I need to chillax from the zompire movie before sleepytimes.
I try to say "Chillaxin'" sometimes, but it just never works. I swear, it sounds like the name of one of those drugs that they advertize on TV all the time. It cures some minor ailment (examples: anxiety, hair loss, sadness at a loved one's death, other signs of being human, or erectile dysfunction...I bet it's ED. It's always ED.), and side effects may include dizziness, sweating, constipation, fatigue, heart attack, stroke, death, and/or zompirism. But by golly, you'll be cured of your ED!
