Minor spoilers of the latest movie version of 'I am legend'.
The Will Smith version of 'I Am Legend' was pretty good, but I disliked the change from vampires to zombies and the point of the title and the ending. I might be over-analyzing, but I think the script-writers sneaked in a fundamentalist Christian message of "don't play God/don't play with nature". The virus which is supposed to be a cure against cancer, seems to be a nod to stem cell research and similar. There is also the belief of the woman who helped Neville and the village church in the end.
Most disturbing part was the credits line: Producer - Akiva Goldsman.
That man can transmute gold into lead.
(This review will also be posted in the Media thread about the movie.)
End of spoilers.
Finished: Frederick Pohl's and C. M. Kornbluth's 'Wolfbane'. A story about an Earth hi-jacked by mysterious aliens, travelling into the cold, deep, space.
'The Universe Maker' by A.E. van Vogt. An original take on time travel and time paradoxes, as well as the typical van Vogt superman story.
'Empire of the Atom' and 'Wizard of Linn' by van Vogt. A combination of Robert Graves 'I, Claudius' and super-science space opera. Not so confusing as some of van Vogt's novels can be.
'The Bourne Identity' by R. Ludlum. Much different from the movie, don't think there is much similarity between the book and novel version apart from the Bourne character and the beginning with Bourne being rescued by sailors. Would like to see the TV-series from the 1980's.
Still reading: 'Final Blackout' by L. Ron Hubbard.
'Red Harvest' by Dashiell Hammett.
Will or recently started to read: 'The Bourne Supremacy' by Ludlum.
'The Beast' by van Vogt.
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
"Conan, what's the meaning of life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!" -Conan the Barbarian
"Well, yeah." -Jason E. Perkins
"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents." -Ultimate Jaburg53
"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise." -Prometheus
