Podcast Repost

Just in time for this week’s podcast…

Here is last weeks.

Show Notes are here.

Sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays.

You ever have one of those days where you wake up late, and everything falls to shit from there.

I’m totally having that day today.

I normally wake up some time between 5:45 and 6:00 in the morning.  Today I literally slept in until 7.  Got up skipped my shower ran back to the house, and started to get the kids ready.  My mother-in-law calls and tells me that she needs a ride to work.  I look at the clock and realize that I need to be at her house five minuets ago to get her to work, the kids to daycare, then me to work on time. 

I get her to work, the kids to day care, then realize that I needed to go back to my room and get my badge to get into work.  That put me behind an hour.  Since then, the day has just been an irritation.  I wish to God it were over already.  Ugh.

Just for you Steve, I need to watch: 

My Take on I Am Legend.

So I Am Legend is one of my favorite books of all time, so pretty much anything that is going to be put on the screen is going to be a bit of a disapointment.   For the most part I really liked the new adaptation of I Am Legend with Will Smith, especially the first 2/3s of the film.  That aspect of the film really captures the tone and feel of the book.  That isolation and near madness is played really well by Smith, a lot better than Charelton Heston did in Omega Man.

The mistake that the new film makes is the same mistake that Omega Man does.  It introduces people that are healthy.  If you haven’t read the book, then be aware I’m about to divulge the ending.

The second half of the novel by Richard Matheson involved Robert Neville finding a woman who he saves.  The twist being that she isn’t imune like he is.  She is a spy for the new society that is looking to get rid of their boogie man.  They are trying to dispatch of Neville because he is a killing machine that comes and destroys them while they sleep.  He is the monster.

It would have been a much better movie, the build of of the humanity that is Neville, to the brutal realization that the “monsters” are just trying to make a new society.  And Neville is the real monster, killing indiscriminately.  It is a twist worthy of Twilight Zone (which Matheson wrote for), and it would have been a far superior film. 

That is my take on I Am Legend.

I am Legend… WOW

Well i just watched the movie and i need to read the book again tonight before i post more. My review straight off the hip is that it was a great movie. Not true to the book but still a very good movie. I will post again tomorrow with more. Bye bye for now, i’ve got reading to do.

-AwesomeKong out.