I Am Legend

I love Richard Matheson's novel. And fortunately, it has already been cinematically ripped off and butchered so many times that I am no longer hit with that initial wave of heartbreak and disgust when I see that Will Smith will be starring in a 100 Trillion Dollar blockbuster version of what should (if faithful to the novel) never cost more than 10 million. The novel takes place almost entirely inside a man's house. In the Will Smith trailer, he was only shown in a house for about 2 seconds, and those 2 seconds appeared to be taken from a workout montage. He wandered all over an abandoned New York, carrying an automatic weapon and doing fun things like hitting golf balls off the wing of a parked Stealth bomber. And despite my love of the book and my exasperation at Hollywood for never being able to take a good idea and not inflate it to 400%, I actually didn't find anything immediately appalling about the trailer. The sets looked good, Will Smith didn't make any Will Smith-eque jokes, and the director appears to know how atmosphere is created. As a teaser trailer, it did not show any of the vampires. Well, I guess they technically aren't vampires, just infected people. Kinda like the "zombies" in the "28 _ Later" series. But they act vampire-ish. Regardless, they don't show up in the trailer.

I've completely forgotten what I'm supposed to be writing about or what point I was trying to make. I guess that's probably a good summery of the impression the trailer leaves. It's been 10 minutes and I've forgotten most of it.