Saturday, April 5, 2008

Paul Is not Legend

Mr. Paul Jacobsen we're done with you. Your movie suggestions are not good. We will from hence forth regard them as opposite suggestions. Thank you for filling our dreams tonight with visions of rabid zombies.

p.s. Perhaps this has something to do with why your baby seems to be afraid to come out.

8 comments:

junioraudio said...

oh, SNAP!

Darin said...

Don't bother to see Leatherheads either. That movie was boring. Totally not as good as the preview.

Rachel F. said...

I agree, Leatherheads was a little slow and predictable.

What movie recommendation from Paul broke the camel's back?

Rachel F. said...

By the way, I felt the same way about Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. The preview was WAY WAY better than the movie itself. So slow and dull!

Annalee said...

I love the cement truck story.

paul said...

wow. this is what i get for NOT posting a sarcastic comment about someone's gullibility regarding elder snoop d. dogg?

it must also be a reward for not totally raking somebody over the coals about Martian Child.

AND a dig at the unborn child? wow.

ps: for the record, i believe i only said that the zombie movie was entertaining. i have recommended some good ones.

sarah said...

OK paul perhaps we were a little harsh. I hope your baby comes soon.

Grandma Z said...

Maybe Paul is right and "I Am Legend" is a classic... Will Smith gets credit for carrying much of the film without dialogue and pulling off the emotiveness of his solitary character to perfection

Do you think maybe the book was better than the movie? ........

Published in 1954, I Am Legend is often called one of the most influential vampire novels of the twentieth century. Matheson's innovation is plucking the vampire from its Gothic trappings and transplanting the creature into modern suburbia. The vampires that Robert Neville fights are clumsy, shambling husks that used to be his neighbors.

Stephen King has said, "The author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson."

I Am Legend has been "officially" adapted to the screen twice - first in 1964 as "The Last Man on Earth" starring Vincent Price, then in 1971 as "The Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston. But more important is its "unofficial" adaptation, in George Romero's 1968 film, "The Night of the Living Dead," which has in turn inspired countless flesh-eating zombie movies.

I liked it when I saw it with Rachel. (Where were we Rachel? Oh yeah, Paris.)