I am not understanding this. I AM LEGEND was produced because a DC movie wasn’t produced?

OR that no one pointed out that I AM LEGEND was a poster product whore for WISHFUL THINKING unproduced DC movies such as the Wolfgang Petersen aborted SUPERMAN/BATMAN film - the Teen Titans, or Green Lantern?

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I didn’t ask if the film was like the book, I’ve read the book several times. What I was trying to say was if they had made the film like the book, that it’s ending would have never gotten past the test audiences. You know Hollywood, gotta make those endings as happy as possible.

Now me: I watched and loved the original cartoon series when I was the age of my daughter who was dying to see the film since we saw the trailers. So I took her. She loved it. She laughed at the Chipmunks and was dancing to the songs. That is, frankly, all I could have asked from the admission price. Plus I appreciated the little touches, such as that Dave’s house number was 1958, the year of the release of the first Chipmunks record.

Personally, I was fascinated by the closing credits which showed the album covers throughout the years.

And if the sequels come, I’ll be there with my munchkin.

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The answer is that you were paying to see crap like Alvin and the Chipmunks, ya moron!

Good alternatives to I Am Legend and Apocalypse and the Cataclysms: Juno, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, and I’m Not There.

I saw Compass and it was really annoying. The pacing was just frantic. You never got to relax and relate to the characters. The violence was over the top and if you went to see Daniel Craig well he’s barely in the thing. Hey there’s Derek Jacobi and Christopher Lee and… now they’re gone. But we’ve got a creepy romantic relationship between a girl and a polar bear.
It felt like a comic book where by the end you go, “I’ll just wait for the trade”.

Meanwhile… the poor Golden Compass may not see a sequel with such a poor showing.

To make matters worse, they decided to chop off the ending and hold it until the beginning of the next movie. Instead of an intense finale, we got a bland “Oh, yeah, we’ve got to go find so-and-so now.” scene. The ending is critical to a movie, because that’s the impression that sticks with viewers when they finish. The last think you want is to bore people to death in the last 2 minutes.

I suspect if they’d gone through all the way to the end, even though it would have been a cliffhanger, audiences (and reviewers) would have had more of a sense that yes, this is going somewhere.

Maybe if they never get The Subtle Knife to the screen, they’ll edit the scenes into an extended DVD version?

There’s no ‘Legend’ here… but it’s still a fun movie in other ways.

Movie studios prefer it that way, actually. During the first few weeks of a movie’s run in theaters, the majority percentage of the profits goes to the movie studios. After that, the majority percentage of the profits goes to the actual theaters themselves. Thus, movie studios would prefer to make a movie that makes less money, but makes it more quickly, because otherwise, the studios are actually losing money, even if the movie itself is making more money.

BTW, Pip the Chipmunk in Enchanted was great.

Come on, you know they’re greenlighting that one.

“Street Buzz tells me that Legend will have a sharp downturn next week. The book has been selling well all year long, but I haven’t checked his other books.”

If the movie was actually like the book (though I loved the book) next week’s audiences would be nil.

I agree that a there aren’t a lot of movies for young kids these days since even all the YA fantasy stuff tends to skew scary. And yeah horror movies on christmas seems to be the new trend. So I won’t be surprised if the new Veggie Tales movie does really well.

Meanwhile… the poor Golden Compass may not see a sequel with such a poor showing. It’s on Eragon level at this point (which was also set up as a ‘trilogy’). But if they’re following the book so closely they should’ve expected as much since nothing really gets going until the end of the second book. I was seriously hoping this time that a film version would actually HELP tighten up a book story. Didn’t happen.

I think he was longing for a Peter Jackson treatment.

I am not surprised at its success — the advertising campaign has been tremendously effective. My wife works at a school and says she heard kids quoting lines from the commercials all week long before the movie opened. Given a choice between this and the turgid, unsatisfying Golden Compass it doesn’t surprise me that kids went for the singing chipmunks.