{"id":11057,"date":"2008-02-12T01:45:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T22:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/12\/i-am-legend\/"},"modified":"2011-01-07T12:00:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T10:00:55","slug":"i-am-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/12\/i-am-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0480249\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14222\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/12\/i-am-legend\/i_am_legend\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/i_am_legend.jpg?fit=338%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"338,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"I Am Legend\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/i_am_legend.jpg?fit=338%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14222\" title=\"I Am Legend\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/i_am_legend.jpg?resize=338%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I went to see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0480249\/\">I Am Legend<\/a>&#8221; with a few friends of mine. \u00a0Some of them saw the film before a few times, but decided that it was worth another view anyway. \u00a0That pushed my expectations up a bit. \u00a0But. \u00a0The film was indeed worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the things that I liked, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Will Smith<\/strong>. \u00a0He is a good actor. \u00a0It just that most of the times he has to do those rather simplistic roles. \u00a0But in this one, you can see the talent. \u00a0He does really good.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Visuals<\/strong>. \u00a0There are some really cool images in the film. \u00a0In fact, it&#8217;s the visuals that create the bigger part of this movie. \u00a0There is some excellent photography, which could have been easily transformed into still images and paintings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drama<\/strong>. \u00a0There seems to be no shortage of movies about viruses, zombies, and the end of the world. \u00a0However, so many of them fail to create the drama around the events. \u00a0Broken families, numerous victims, and blood rivers seem to be present everywhere. \u00a0But rarely they are used to create the horrific sense of sadness and pity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, there were a few things that sucked in this movie. \u00a0I&#8217;m not going to go through the details on these, since they aren&#8217;t worth it. \u00a0However I&#8217;d like to mention the zombies. \u00a0I think that the choice of rather cartoon-ish characters was wrong. \u00a0More &#8220;realism&#8221; in this area could have made the movie almost perfect.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d give it a strong <strong>7.5 out of 10<\/strong>, and a recommendation to watch it, even if you are not a fan of the sci-fi end of the world horror. \u00a0It&#8217;s pretty good.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I went to see &#8220;I Am Legend&#8221; with a few friends of mine. \u00a0Some of them saw the film before a few times, but decided that it was worth another view anyway. \u00a0That pushed my expectations up a bit. \u00a0But. \u00a0The film was indeed worth it. Here are the things that I liked, in no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/12\/i-am-legend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Am Legend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1707,1,24,2478],"tags":[1714,2627,2623,2626,2622,2628,2624,2444,2625],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-stars","category-general","category-movies","category-movie-reviews","tag-alice-braga","tag-april-grace","tag-charlie-tahan","tag-darrell-foster","tag-francis-lawrence","tag-james-michael-mccauley","tag-salli-richardson-whitfield","tag-will-smith","tag-willow-smith"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8799,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/11\/where-all-the-free-images-are-hiding-at\/","url_meta":{"origin":11057,"position":0},"title":"Where all the free images are hiding at?","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 11, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I came across a really nice article titled \"Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles\". 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