Rotten Tomatoes has a new trailer up for I Am Legend. The main problem I have with this is it looks to rely too heavily on cgi. The "vampires" appear to all be digitally created, and not very convincingly. Also, the action appears to be amped up from the original story as well as the involvement of the dog. I guess he sort of plays the same role as Wilson the Volleyball did in Cast Away, a device so that the main character isn't silent for the running time of the fim.
My favorite part about the Richard Matheson novel was that it was a straight up survival story. Robert Neville alone in his house trying to make it to the next day. He went out and tried to find answers and rid the world of these mutants but there was very little action, and very little dialogue. It was mostly internal thoughts, the character alone. I guess it would be tough to transfer this to the screen but I was hoping they would at least try. I'm not giving up hope yet but my anticipation has diminished a little.
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