For you, is plausibility important in a movie? Like, where's the fresh water!
Question: Yes, I'm going to continue to drill this movie. In my opinion, it is bad, bad, bad...
I will give them some credit. There was a faint pump sound in Will Smith's scenes, but what are the thousands of mutants and wild animals drinking? The East River?
And, for those of you will say it's racial, I drilled Robin Williams for 'August Rush', too. Good music saved that toad.
Answers: Yes, I'm going to continue to drill this movie. In my opinion, it is bad, bad, bad...
I will give them some credit. There was a faint pump sound in Will Smith's scenes, but what are the thousands of mutants and wild animals drinking? The East River?
And, for those of you will say it's racial, I drilled Robin Williams for 'August Rush', too. Good music saved that toad.
You're OK with the last man on earth being surrounded by killer mutant zombies, but you have an issue with the fresh water???
My Brother in law has an issue with the Matrix move where they show the shell casings hitting the ground from a gun a character is shooting, he has guns himself. He says "Those shell casings aren't the right size for that gun!!" But the whole "rod in your brain, computers run the world, flying around in electric hover cars" is OK.
He also has an issue with the sprinkler systems in the hi-rise at the end of the movie.
Go figure.
You want plausability, stay home and do your taxes.
You want an escape, go to the movies.
My guess is the fact that it is a virus means it isn't in the water supply. If there isn't a host a virus wont multiply, also it probably attaches to proteins or specific markers in the hosts bodily fluids since you can contact it through a bite. Also the only people to drink it would be the infected or the immune so for the first group they dont necessarily need fresh water and Will Smith's character is immune to the virus so he wouldn't get infected.
In the immortal words of Alfred Hitchcock: "It's only a movie...it's only a movie...it's only a movie..." If you start looking for reality in Hollywood, you're going to get really, really lost.
Who said anything about racial. That would have been a stretch to say...but I guess anything is possible.
I do care about hte plausibility of movies. But you have to take it with a grain of salt. Movies don't always have time to spell out every detail. Most things are assumed or ignored by the viewer.
I mean I never saw the movie but you did say mutants right? So how is that realistic?
I loved the Lord of the Rings but I mean when was the last time you saw a fairy (actually I just saw two at starbucks so that doesn't count). When did you see some peace pipe smoking elfs? Wait damn I think I saw that too. I think you get the idea though.
In 'I Am Legend', I didn't think that it was implausable that there would be enough sources of fresh water in New York City. The city gets plenty of rain to provide for the deer and other animals we saw. Not to mention the ponds and streams in Central Park and other parks in the city.
As for the mutants, we don't even know if they need to drink, or need to drink fresh water. Before you would wonder about what they drink though, I think the bigger question would be what are they eating? They are obviously quick, strong, and very active at night - what food do they have to support their metabolism? Sure, there would be plenty of people to eat at first, but I don't think the occasional deer or other wildlife would be enough to keep a city full of mutants fed after they killed off the rest of the population. Are the different 'hives' cannibals and eating each other? Also, how are herds of deer (and lions) surviving at night out in the open?
My guess is that we are to assume there was enough fresh water in the reservoirs to sustain him and him only or that he had taken all necessary actions (like installing filtering pumps along with the massive security measures) at some point within the 3-year period. As far as the mutants and wild animals, maybe they are drinking from rain puddles, urine or toilet water---we'll never know.
Plausibility is important to me in some movies. I think the premise is very real, very plausible. But, I came away from the theater with what I believe is the feeling that English professors have after reading a term paper that is "too broad." I thought Will Smith's acting was decent. His eyes truly did successfully convey a deep and unmeasurable sadness with a glimmer of mad-scientist-determination. I thought the dark seekers were over-the-top in some ways, but at the same time felt that their representation could be metaphorical--isn't human nature vicious and unrelenting as a result of "viruses" rampant in our world today? Don't they hide themselves in the darkness until provoked? At any rate, I would give this term paper a "B+".
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Edit: Stephen k--The cancer drug was given to patients all over the world, so we could assume that the "mutation" happened all over. The other guess could be that, since our technology is infallible, perhaps some of the eye scans on the boat riders were false negatives.
here's another one: If all the bridges and tunnels were blocked, how did they get off the island?
TD, read the book. It covers the tiniest detail.
Yes, plausibility matters. Sometimes the error is so blatant, it destroys the movie.