If you haven’t seen I am Legend, and wish to maintain the mystery, stop reading now.
Went to see it with Liz the other day, at IMAX San Francisco. I guess it’s true that the bigger and louder it is, the more fucking scary it’ll be. We’ll sell you the whole seat…but you’ll only need the edge!
Anyway, if you’re gonna watch a movie about worldwide plague, armageddon viruses, etc…be careful what conversation you spark up when you’re accompanied by a scientist who works for a medical school and gets her funding from NIH. You’ll scare the bejesus out of yourself. Apparently, all that shit you see in Outbreak and I am Legend? Yeah, it ain’t so unbelievably far-fetched. I mean, the crazy-rabid superhuman monsters thing is pretty much fantasy, but the concept of a virus mutating and making the leap to airborne transmission? Apparently that’s not only not-unheard-of, it’s kinda not-unexpected, considering any human that’s infected with a virus is just a giant petri dish with millions (if not billions) of instances of a virus each taking different paths and often mutating. So, yeah, talk of SARS, multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, HIV, etc, ensued. And we both had bad dreams.
I gotta rent Suberbad for me and Liz, stat!