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...movie has turned Neville into a soldier-scientist (and former TIME cover boy), seeking a cure for the virus in the basement of the lavish Washington Square townhouse he has turned into a fortress (and where, don't ask me why, he sleeps in the bathtub, with his dog). So now he's Jonas Salk, and Jesus too, ready to give his life so that others may live again. It's in the last half-hour that I Am Legend imports new elements that both propel the story to its explosive climax and just aren't as compelling...
...scenes too. The lions aren't the big problem here; it's the mutants, whom exposure to the virus has made gaunt, pretrenaturally athletic (they can climb tall buildings at several bounds) and as ravenous as any killer carnivore for human flesh. One sequence, in which Neville follows the dog into a dark building and is confronted by the creatures, worked on my nerves with a superior technical and artistic skill set - a mixture of computer beasties and old-fashioned suspense...
...yellow Labrador Retriever leads Sally J. Kiebdaj ’09 around the Adams House dining hall. The dog sits silently below the table as Kiebdaj eats lunch...
...Billy the Kid (Richard Gere), dog Henry, Mr. and Mrs. Henry, and all the other Basement Tapes and other characters in the town of Riddle...
...with these classic—but alas, now obscure and underappreciated—childrens’ illustrated series. 1. Hergé, “The Adventures of Tintin”: This classic, early twentieth-century cartoon series tells the stories of globetrotting Belgian investigative reporter Tintin and his loyal dog Snowy. The beauty of the books lies in their genuinely thrilling plots. I’d bet that more things happened during one installment of “The Adventures of Tintin” than in the past two years of contemporary American fiction. 2. Rosemary Wells...