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"I Am Legend" is Beautiful Instead of Scary

The best parts of I Am Legend, the virus apocalypse flick hitting theaters tomorrow, may be largely unintentional. As the movie opens, we're treated to a rich soundscape of New York City taken over by non-human creatures. Wind keens between the buildings, birds sing, deer clatter down roads in the East Village, and grass grows thickly everywhere. It feels like a Utopia, not a scifi horror movie where the survivors of a global plague have become dehumanized cannibals who shun the light. This off-kilter tone, where something supposedly scary is hard to see as anything but lovely, is one of the biggest problems with I Am Legend. The movie feels cobbled together, especially as it enters its action-packed second half. More »

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9:00 AM on Thu Dec 13 2007
By Annalee Newitz
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Latest by n/a: You needn't compare the monsters in this one with the soldiers in 300, the latter of which blew me away~ more »

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Stephen King's The Mist Remains Hazy

By now you've probably seen the trailer a hundred times where a bleeding man comes stumbling into a grocery store screaming, "There's something in the mist!" The same guy could have stumbled onto a boat in Jaws and said, "There's something in the water!" So yes, The Mist isn't exactly breaking into new territory plot-wise: it's a monster movie at heart, although unlike classic monster fare like Jaws or The Thing, The Mist shows us a lot more of the monster(s). More »

9:00 AM on Wed Nov 21 2007
By Kevin Kelly
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