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Summary: Some Nice Touches in a Modern Update
Comment: I went into this movie with mixed feelings. I am a big fan of the original Charlton Heston version The Omega Man [Blu-ray] And I am an even bigger fan of the book I Am Legend
If you just take it as a movie it is an average movie and most of the stuff was acceptable hollywood fun. But there are two things about this movie that make it just a little bit special:
Peppered through Will Smith's Mansion are some actual Van Gogh Paintings. I mean the real thing. I read that they actually got to use the real ones in the movie. The camera, director, actors, don't focus on the paintings. They are just there - and they are absolutely magnificent. You can't help but be drawn to them.
And they are there in the movie for a reason. The movie is all about the potential end of humanity and the pictures say (without uttering a word) that humanity, is sometimes capable of a beauty that goes beyond words. Breathtaking.
Also, Will Smith launches into a little soliloquy about Bob Marley that comes very close to the same effect. It will choke you up even if you never heard a single Bob Marley song.
Because they are so different it is almost a contradiction to use Bob Marley and Vincent Van Gogh in the same movie as examples but that is the beauty of humanity.