Barry Lee Dejasu Wrote:Holy crap...
I loved the movie, and I expected it to do a fair $26 million or so...but $76.5 MILLION IN THREE DAYS?! Holy crap! Couple that with the snowstorms wrecking the northeast with the fact that if said snowstorms weren't there, it would have made even MORE...and you have the biggest December opening EVER, the biggest grosser for Will Smith, and hopefully there will be more than just that one TV spot blurbing "Oscar-Worthy" for the movie - because in all seriousness, I think that at LEAST Will Smith deserves the Oscar for Best Actor. He's always been great, but damn, he was AMAZING in this.
I agree completely with you Barry. Will Smith is awesome in this and I too think he at the very least deserves oscar mention.
Spoilers abound below............
I loved this movie and to tell you the truth I really disliked the hollywood happy/hopeful ending.
The movie to me seemed to be much more about the break down of the Robert Neville character and less an action packed monster movie (although that part was very good too).
At the start of the movie the scenes with the mannaquins seems quirky and humorous but as the movie progresses you see that its not humorous at all. And you see the depths of Nevilles depression and disconnect from reality. Particularly the scene with the trap that was set and the scene in the video store after he loses Sam....heartwrenching seems too mild a word.
This movie really stuck with me too, I saw it Friday night and couldn't get it out of my head all weekend. Smith is really really really good in it. And to think when I heard they were remaking it with Will Smith playing Neville I thought it was a bad idea.
I will echo Kenji, F***ing brilliant!
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