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    The evil Nanobyte virus is out, gaming is over... It’s time to hook up your power gloves and save...

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David McK (3425 KP) rated I Am Legend in Books

Jul 7, 2019 (Updated Mar 19, 2023)  
I Am Legend
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson | 2017 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
7
8.5 (20 Ratings)
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Richard Matheson's classic 1954 horror story, that (according to Wikipedia) has been converted four times into movies: The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man(1971),I Am Legend(2007) and I Am Omega(2007)

Of those, I was aware of only Charlton Heston's The Omega Man and Will Smith's I Am Legend, only having seen the latter. I'm also aware that that film also deviates from the source material (when do they not!), with the book describing the pandemic as (more-or-less) turning people into vampires rather than the zombies of the film. In both cases, Robert Neville seems to be immune to the virus, and is trying to work out how to cure it, while seemingly the last human being on the planet. The two versions, however, also end rather differently, with the novell(a) suiting the title 'I am legend' (and explaining why) more than the movie does!
  
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David McK (3425 KP) rated Independence Day (1996) in Movies

Nov 23, 2019 (Updated Feb 5, 2023)  
Independence Day (1996)
Independence Day (1996)
1996 | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
9
8.0 (62 Ratings)
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Essentially a modern retelling of HG Wells perennial 'War of the Worlds' classic, this - I believe - was also the film that launched Will Smith (then more well known as a rapper and as the French Prince of Bel Air) to mega-stardom, alongside established favourites such as Bill Pullman (as the president of the USA) and Jeff Goldlum being, well, Jeff Goldlum.

Essentially like having USA! USA! USA! shouted in your face for 2+ hours, I remember seeing it in the cinema - the effects, for the time, were mind-blowing (although I do have to wonder how much they would have changed in showing the destruction of the White House and large swathes of the American cities following 9/11), and, yes, Bill Pullman must give the most Jingoistic speech I've ever heard in a movie, but I have to say: leave your brain at the door (the aliens brought down by a computer virus. Really??) and go enjoy!