Our Lady of Perpetual Hell

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1. So I guess you didn’t like it, eh? You know - that is prolly the reason why they didn’t go out of their way to point to the book as a reference for people. Pretty much marketed here like an end of the world thing with scary things running around.

   Comment by ZombieKillah — January 2, 2008 @ 4:13 pm

2. 1. It had hardly much more connection to the source material than the ludicrous Omega Man did. It took little more than the title and the basic circumstances.

   2. The CGI was awful. Just awful. I read a bunch of reviews that said that the NYC shots looked great but they looked absolutely artificial to me. And the animals (from the deer & lions to the humanoid whateverthehelltheywere) were worse.

   3. Will Smith was fine. His usual charming self. And, honestly, how hard could it be to summon empathy from the audience when you’re playing the last man on earth? But this Neville (superhuman) had little (aside from name & profession) in common with Matheson’s Neville (all too human). And while I did accept the relationship he had with Sam, I’m afraid I just didn’t buy the whole mannequin thang. [insert eyeball roll here]

   4. And the filmmakers obviously didn’t understand Matheson’s story at all. The ending of Matheson’s story is a jaw-dropper. It’s a real kick in the pants. The film’s ending is predictable (utterly unlike Matheson’s!) and lame.

   If I were a filmmaker, I would love to tackle Matheson’s story and try to do it justice, for once. It would not require a large budget. It would not require even a single frame of CGI. It would not require changing the setting from Los Angeles. It would require a clever shooting schedule, however, to find the streets as still and quiet as they’d hafta be for this story.

   I had not been looking forward to this adaptation until some reviews starting coming in and a bunch of ‘em were actually pretty positive. So I started to get my hopes up. My mistake.

   Comment by Kolchak — January 2, 2008 @ 4:44 pm

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