I thought the movie was total crap.
If the movie was rated R, I would have thoroughly enjoyed it.
That is one of the stupidest statements I've read in a while You are calling the movie crap based on the rating it has been given and not upon the content. It's like saying
Bambi was crap because it was for all ages but you'd love it to bits were it rated for adults alone. Absolute nonsense.
I didn't think there was anything wrong with the rating at all.
roddglenn, in the UK the rating is 15, meaning that nobody under the age of fifteen should see it. PG-13, in the States, allows children under thirteen to see it provided they are accompanied by an adult. As such, the ratings are different and, since you are both approaching it from different countries and different ratings, there can't really be an argument or disagreement here.
But there were other kids in the theater that were in that 10 year old range. Totally inappropriate.
Since it's a PG-13 that's not for you, but for their own parents to decide.
If viewers and movie theaters were dilligent about the ages of folks they allowed into their showings based on the ratings, then I'd be less adamant about my assessment of this film.
So, with the same script, the same actor, the same scenes, the same schmalzy ending, etc. the film would be better if it wasn't for the rating? You're mad.
That said, I saw the film last night and it
was awful. To be named after the Matheson novel I would expect some parity and the only real similarity between the two was that Neville was the last man on Earth. The horrid reworking of the title into that ending was a disgrace and defeats the whole purpose of the book and the title. Will Smith, surprisingly, was the second best thing about it; the dog was the real star. But the film, by inventing its own storyline, couldn't match the book and was full of holes. If anything it should have retained the name
The Omega Man, as its essentially a remake of that rather than an adaptation of
I Am Legend.