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I had very low expectations going in (bf's choice of movie). That said, I was very surprised by how much I liked it. Will Smith was so good in it that I totally forgot he was the only character (unlike boring Tom Hanks in that island movie). There were so many emotional moments and I wanted to cry most of the movie.

cc - to answer you question about the CG, I didn't notice it being bad or good. I'm not a huge CG fan or anything but usually I bitch and moan when it sucks (and sometimes when it's good if it's not necessary). Either it was decent or the movie was so compelling that I didn't notice it.

I don't want to oversell the movie or anything but I definitely enjoyed it. It's worth a see - maybe a matinee if you're not sure about it.

i haven't seen this yet but dh said the cgi was over-the-top.

SO and I saw it on Friday night at the IMAX downtown. I thought it was super depressing and somewhat predictable once you figured out what was going on (about 2 minutes into the movie). But, as everyone else said, Will Smith was really, really good and that alone made it worth seeing.

The CGI was okay. I've definitely seen worse, but I've also seen better.

This is the NEXT movie on my movie list. I haven't seen it yet, and would still like to. I like to wait till a movie dies down, then go see it a week later. Never mind the fact that I'm a huge Will Smith fan...... :)

ttara123 wrote:

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I cannot wait to see this. I Will Smith! Hopefully I'm going in the next couple days.

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If you love Will Smith, then you will really love the scene where he does about a dozen pull-ups while shirtless!

I also really loved the dog he has.

I just saw it last night. I feel like I am still digesting it. I'm glad I saw it, but I'm still deciding what I thought about it. I didn't notice the CGI being good or bad either way, I didn't really think about it.

It definitely scared the bejezus out of me more than once. I was gripping my date's arm the ENTIRE time after the first big scare.

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I wanted to absolutely break down and cry after his dog died and he went back to the movie store and kept saying to the mannequin "just say hi....just say hi back..." that was SO hard to watch!

The thing I did NOT like was how it ended. It was a bit too much of a deus ex machina for me - I mean, it seemed like the writers didn't really know how to get this woman to find him, or didn't really know how to get her to know about a colony, so she just said "God told me." I really hate when movies just use the "God told me this" thing, because that's just lazy IMO. They didn't know how else to wrap it up.

But I do have a question: did his wife and kid die? I thought that they got away safely in a helicopter. And I remember them showing another helicopter across the river with the infected people hanging off and the helicopter like spiraled out of control, but the guy I went with said the two helicopters crashed so his wife and kid died. I didn't see the helicopters crashing? Does anyone else remember this? I was thinking the whole time that his family got away safe.

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ttara123 wrote:

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But I do have a question: did his wife and kid die? I thought that they got away safely in a helicopter. And I remember them showing another helicopter across the river with the infected people hanging off and the helicopter like spiraled out of control, but the guy I went with said the two helicopters crashed so his wife and kid died. I didn't see the helicopters crashing? Does anyone else remember this? I was thinking the whole time that his family got away safe.

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ttara, I thought that scene when he was talking to the mannequin was so sad. I cried when his dog died, especially since he had to kill her. So sad.

I think it was implied that the planes crashed. They didn't actually show it, but from what they did show, the crash would have occured in the next frame or so.

MissMabel- CGI stands for Computer Generated Imagery.

-- Edited by kenzie at 18:19, 2007-12-23

I thought that was, without a doubt, the crappiest CGI I have ever seen.

Not sure how I feel about the movie. I really love the book and it is always so hard to see a movie made out of a book you enjoy. The story deviated so much from the book that it took away everything that was interesting about the ending and what the book says about humanity and human nature.