Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
January 2008 activity
Total Log Entries: 53
- Adam (8)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- Cullen (0)
- David (12)
- Eva (2)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (4)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (2)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (12)
- Teddy (1)
- Thomas (2)
- Victoria (3)
Total Comments: 41
- Land of the Minotaur (0)
- Don’t Go in the Woods (0)
- Road House (0)
- There Will Be Blood (18)
- Vixen! (0)
- Cloverfield (0)
- Prisoners of the Lost Universe (0)
- Firing Line (0)
- Blue Skies (1)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (0)
- Wild at Heart (1)
- Gone Baby Gone (1)
- The Shop Around The Corner (0)
- La Vie En Rose (0)
- No Country For Old Men (0)
- Die Hard With A Vengeance (5)
- Coal Miner’s Daughter (0)
- Charlie Wilson’s War (0)
- Tenebre (0)
- Voodoo Black Exorcist (0)
- Death By Dialogue (0)
- WR: Mysteries of the Organism (0)
- Saved! (0)
- Thank You For Smoking (2)
- Wall Street (0)
- Dreamcatcher (1)
- Halloween (2)
- Fearless (0)
- Atonement (1)
- Youth Without Youth (0)
- Dans la Ville de Sylvia (0)
- Offside (3)
- Scoop (0)
- The Man From London (0)
- The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (0)
- RoboCop 3 (0)
- The Devil Wears Prada (0)
- For Your Consideration (0)
- Eraserhead (0)
- Prime Time (0)
- The Manipulator (0)
- Silent Night, Deadly Night (0)
- No Country For Old Men (0)
- Flash Gordon (0)
- I Am Legend (3)
- Week End (0)
- Southland Tales (0)
- No Country For Old Men (0)
- Wild Hogs (0)
- Futurama: Bender’s Big Score (0)
- Charlie Wilson’s War (3)
- Epic Movie (0)
- The Elephant Man (0)
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I Am Legend / USA / 2007
An analogy: Have you ever found a few hundred dollars and decided to spruce up your car with rims and lights and fins, only to realize afterwards that you have four flat tires? Francis Lawrence’s car looks very good—majestic, digitally-rendered shots of a barren, weed-overrun New York City—until we get inside and find a roving band of CGI zombie-vampires. As a vehicle for Will Smith, I Am Legend is perfect: He’s allowed to be alone, to wrestle with inner demons, and make that final, heroic sacrifice. As an opportunity to use computer graphics in lieu of real people, I Am Legend is terrible. It’s pure entertainment wanting to be something more serious—a ridiculously nice car with that can’t go anywhere.
by Adam Balz | Source: 35MM Theatrical Print
02 Jan 2008 4:45 PM | Comments (3)
Frank N. Stein / 3 January 2008 / 9:06 AM / URL
I hated the ending of this movie. The book’s ending was far better with Dr. Neville becoming a legend to the Night Seekers. I think if they would have stuck to the book a bit more, this movie would really be something. Oh, and the CGI was disgusting for it’s time.
Adam B. / 3 January 2008 / 10:51 AM / URL
I forgot to mention this above, but I’m a very big fan of Sidney Salkow’s 1964 version with Vincent Price, as reviewed here by Thomas.
Elizabeth Ann Seton / 9 January 2008 / 5:50 AM
I knew this movie was going to be good but I am still puzzled by the New England move. Where did they get the idea to locate the solution in VT? I am so lost.