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Daylight's End, finally an good adaptation of I Am Legend!!!!

posted 9 years ago by thefredsfamily-1
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Saw the film Saturday night at DIFF 2016 with my buddies and we had a blast! The gun play, the action, and the lead characters kept me in the story the whole time. Its a combination of Assault on Precinct 13 and I Am Legend. Also this film finally did a honest take on the Richard Matheson's vampire/zombies from the his book I Am Legend. Non of the films every did it right. What blew me away being from Dallas is how they made the city look deserted. Dallas is a constant moving city, so to see it empty made the film more real! This is not a scifi movie by any way, Sharknado, the end of the world films they do have poor productions and cheap effects. This film's productions are Hollywood like standards! The jump scars weren't corny as well and I didn't see them coming at all! Can't wait to get this on bluray. Hope they put a lot of special features and a commentary track on the disk!

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[–] MarwoodWalks 9 years ago

I am legend was not a remake of Omega Man, what are you talking about?

They were both films based on the book I am legend. So was 'The last man on earth' made before Omega man.

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[–] independent-tek 9 years ago

I agree with you.
From Wikipedia:
I Am Legend is a 1954 horror fiction novel by American writer Richard Matheson. It was influential in the development of the zombie genre of fiction, and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease. The novel was a success and was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth in 1964, as The Omega Man in 1971, and as I Am Legend in 2007, along with a direct-to-video 2007 production capitalizing on that film, I Am Omega. The novel was also the inspiration behind the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead.
It's funny that Matheson was classed as a Sci-FI writer and this book was lumped into that genre. A prolific author whose novels and short stories inspired many films and TV shows.

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[–] jason_leo 9 years ago

its fakes like you that ruin it for everyone but thats ok because you just annoy the real voters and make us dislike it more and rate it even lower

[–] MagroxVulimere 9 years ago

You've been a member since '06 and this post is the only one you've made? Did someone sell their account to you?

And of course your post happens to be a glowing review of an indie film...

[–] CichlidAsh 9 years ago

Being a big fan of the book I am legend I can tell you this is absolutely not a good version of that story at all. It did feel a bit like a poor mans version of Precinct 13 if you stripped away the story and any character development. The film is distinctly average and while watchable there is so many better films out there you could enjoy one hell of a lot more

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script -Alfred Hitchcock

[–] taraangel-40960 8 years ago

I just watched this movie and I have no idea how anyone could possibly even think to compare this somewhat disappointing movie to Vincent Price's Last Man on Earth, or even to Will Smith's I Am Legend. And since when can zombies run? That part of the movie was truly ridiculous. All in all entertaining, but kinda stupid. When will movie-makers realize that there is a great difference between zombies and infecteds? Almost all movies calling themselves zombie movies are not. These movies are about the infected. Zombie movie = The Serpent and The Rainbow (1988). Infected movies = most new movies that claim to be zombie movies.

[–] madwand6 8 years ago

They've been running since 28 Days Later... (2002), where have you been?