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I don't get

posted 8 years ago by damian-ray1
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.......back the time wasted watching this pointless sequel.
Why did they take 20 years to make this movie if it wad just going to suck?

Half of the original actors and characters in this movie were either replaced by different actors or weren't even in this movie at all.
They could've rehired the original actors to come back for this movie and have greater roles in this movie if they had wanted to.

Having Will Smith reappear in this movie would've made this movie so much better.
His character made this movie!
He makes any movie he's in so much better (with the exception of sucky movies like "I Am Legend, I Robot and "the pelican brief", of course....)

[–] Dark_Sithlord 8 years ago

Denzel Washington was in The Pelican Brief.

[–] spooie-1 8 years ago

Will Smith wanted $50, which would have been well more than 1/4 of the entire budget. Will Smith probably also read the script.

[–] KeenanDX 8 years ago

Besides Will Smith most of the popular original characters are in Resurgence. I'd pick I robot over I Am Legend. That movie was trash.

[–] tinkerbells_sweetheart 8 years ago

Connie, Major Mitchell, Jasmine, Steve, original Patricia, original Dylan, the Case kids, all popular characters from the first film who were either absent (with no explanation as to where they are), recast with worse actors (casting Mae Whitman and Ross Bagley would have provided continuity to the sequel), or severely under-used (why bring Jasmine back just to kill her off after 2 scenes?). Bringing Connie back would not only have been a popular original character back but would have eliminated not one but two pointless new characters. The only original actors who should have been left out of this movie were the ones who declined to come back (i.e. Will Smith) or the ones no longer with us or to ill to return (i.e. James Rebhorn and Robert Loggia) the others should have been included. Casting was just the first of many things wrong with this movie and it's poor performance at the box office is proof of that.

[–] damian-ray1 8 years ago

Wrong, Denzel was in Philadelphia not "the pelican brief". Will Smith played a small, barely there part in it.

[–] damian-ray1 8 years ago

I thought "I Robot" was too far fetched. A movie about a self-aware robot that could think for itself. Highly unlikely. Last time I remembered, only living "born creatures" had souls. At least the concept of neurologically damaged "zombies" is in the possibility of reality. Remember "The Bath Salts" epidemic?

[–] damian-ray1 8 years ago

My mistake. He wasn't in it. I must've mistaken it for another movie.