12/16/2007: "MOVIE REVIEW: I AM LEGEND"

music: Did You See The Words - Animal Collective
mood: Everyday is Not Like Sunday

First - sorry for the lack of blog posts these last few days. Things are just a bit crazy now with the holidays, work and my totally crazy social life. Yeah, no more nights staying in by myself listening to Dashboard Confessional - I'm steppin out into the world!!!!

So, yesterday me and a few friends saw I AM LEGEND. This movie is really good and all that BS I've been reading about how the first 2/3 is awesome and the rest sucks is kinda whack. The pacing is great and the action is well spaced throughout and Will Smith gives the best tour-de-force performance as a loner stuck on an island since, well, Tom Hanks in Castaway? Whatever. This movie has vampires in it and guns and fast cars. And it has this whole Atheist angle in it that is interesting (I'm a firm believer in God, BTW) if not preachy (for lack of a better word). Go see it.

Speaking of legends, at the theater we got seated next to another African-American TV comedy legend last nite. Three guesses . . Nope, it's not Bill Cosby. Not Martin Lawrence, either. Not Dave Chappelle and not Chris Rock . . . I'm talkin about Keenan Ivory Wayans, motherfuckers! Yeah, remember him? Um, he was in The Glimmer Man with Steven Segal and he was in that movie A Low Down Dirty Shame. C'mon guys! In Living Color? Uh, he directed White Chicks? You all saw that masterpiece, right? The one where they make fun of the Vanessa Carlton song? It's kinda the opposite of Soul Man.

And speaking of white girls, he was with a superfine blonde in leather pants. She even brought him a dinner of salmon and lotus roots in a thermal lunch bag. I kid you not. I need to start making movies, stat. Not for the fact that I would be able to date beautiful women outside of my race, but for the fact that the whole "No Outside Food" rules would not apply to me. Tho, I also saw Larry King outside the theater buying a hot dog. Talk about a slouch. Larry King is a shining example of why we should ALL be doing Yoga, kids.

While I'm thinking about it, NEVER EVER go to the Grove to see a movie on the weekend in the month of December. Think on it and it makes a ton of sense.

Lastly, they played The Dark Knight trailer before the film. Yeah, did somebody say Best Film of 2008? Unless Atonement 2 comes out next year, The Dark Knight may very well be my favorite film of next year based on it's kick-ass trailer alone.