Finally got round to watching the dvd of I Am Legend that I bought last Sunday. Having highly anticipated watching the film, I ended up being bored on this Saturday afternoon throughout most of this film. You see, this is the problem with knowing the story and watching numerous clips on tv & through the net.
Don’t get me wrong, there are some really fantastic reasons to watch this film but for me it became a dud in the end. I’d watch it just for Will Smith & the dog though.
So Robert Neville, the last uninfected human left in New York city just happens to be a virologist, i order to explain as to why he captures & experiments on infected mutants of a man-made disease. Said mutants are not scary by the way – they look like something from a Doom game. The mutants lose all their hair (hey can I get an infection that will remove all my body hair from the neck down) and their marbles and go into a primal aggressive stage and bite any non-infected. So Robert survives for 3 years, all alone except for his dog Sam. He stocks food, watches dvds, stocks supplies and drives around all day waiting for something to do.
Kind of like us normal humans on an average day!
Oh and they can’t stand sunlight.
Kind of like us after binge drinking!
So Neville does these experiments on infected rats & humans (cause we are the same) and broods over the death of his wife & kid. No, they didn’t get infected or devoured by the mutants – they had an accidental death in an helicopter. Sam later gets bitten by mutant dogs and hence while showing signs of infection, Robert is forced to kill the poor animal. While trying to get revenge, he is outnumbered but rescued by Anna and her son, fellow survivors from Maryland, and bring him back to his house where they tell him of a survivors colony in Vermont. Anna insists that they head out there but the infected storm the house and in order to save the others, Neville blasts himself and the infected with a hand grenade. His work on the infected has proven fruitful and before he goes all commando, he hands over a vial of blood to Anna, that will form the cure for the disease.
And human kind survives to live on!
On May 12th RIM announced the release of the sleek & sexy looking Blackberry Bold or the 9000, its a 3G Smartphone that has me frothing at the mouth.
With deep regrets the Vancouver Canucks announced the death of defenceman Luc Bourdon. He was just 21. an impressive junior defenseman who was taken by the Vancouver Canucks with the 10th overall pick in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.
It’s 8:30 in the AM and I am starving for some good food. But not breakfast food. I woke up at 6 am and after visiting the throne room (toilet) I came back to bed and watched a couple of episodes of Angel : Season 3 on my pc. It’s getting really interesting and although I have watched the show before, I am so hooked on it that I can’t stop. I started watching Season 3 last night. But all this staying up late at night and watching it from the moment I wake up, has left me feeling famished and I don’t want toast. I feel like having a big, juicy burger with some french fries. Yummy! Maybe I’ll stop by later after I go for my errand and then get a burger at the fast food place 10 minutes from here.
Now without a base of operations, Angel Investigations still try to help the helpless. Angel mistakenly kills a demon who was protecting a pregnant lady and must then replace the demon as the lady’s champions and fight for the her & her baby’s protection. The trio also find the Hyperion Hotel which will become their new office. The hotel was also the place where Angel stayed in the 1950s and now tracks down a demon who killed the residents there. Angel also helps a telekinetic young girl, who was being used by Lilah & others at Wolfram & Hart for ulterior motives. Wesley discovers that the girl’s powers stem from her being sexually abused by her father when she was younger. A human Darla meanwhile, having been resurrected, is playing mind games with Angel which also has him clash with his police friend Kate. In order to get over his obsession with Darla, Angel tries to find guidance from a new age swami and Wesley has to pretend to be Angel when a powerful businessman wants his daughter to be under protection. Wesley also has an affair with the daughter. Darla slowly remembers her past but is dying. She has a change of heart when Angels undergoes a series of demonic challenges in order to save her but in the end, Wolfram & Hart have Drusilla sire Darla back as a vampire.
Today was my friend & colleague Vidya’s last working day at the office where I work. She had spoken a few weeks ago about her need to move to Bangalore to our team lead as she was facing pressure from her family – her husband was working in Banglore and his job was way too good for him to give it up and come and work in Cochin. He used to come down to Cochin every few weeks but that was not enough for them. So after almost 2 years, they are once again going to be living full time together.