I Am Legend

Awesome_LocksAwesome_Locks Join Date: 2007-10-22 Member: 62705Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">The Will Smith Movie.</div>Just got back from seeing it. It was much better than I expected, although, any movie with one character and a dog does get kind of boring I suppose... Anyone else seen it yet?
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    It's out? How'd I miss that. I haven't read the book nor do I care to, so this movie can't let me down too much.
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  • enf0rcerenf0rcer intrigued... Join Date: 2003-03-16 Member: 14584Members
    edited December 2007
    going to see it in about an hour (hopefully - my buddy hasn't returned my call, so we'll see)

    e/


    I don't understand what the bad reviews are about - I was tense in my seat even when the film was in one of it's lighter scenes. I found rotten tomatoes had reviews mostly slagging the CG, which I didn't feel detracted from the movie, unless you really fixated on it. I got over it pretty quicky and just enjoyed the story. IMDBs rating of 7.9 is far more towards my opinion of the movie. Excellent pacing that makes you interested throughout the movie, especially because they don't introduce the infected too early into the film. Nicely acted by will smith, and definately worth seeing in theatres.
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  • Awesome_LocksAwesome_Locks Join Date: 2007-10-22 Member: 62705Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1664032:date=Dec 14 2007, 07:58 PM:name=Liku)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Liku @ Dec 14 2007, 07:58 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1664032"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It's out? How'd I miss that. I haven't read the book nor do I care to, so this movie can't let me down too much.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Came out today, so you're not that far behind <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>They Kill the dog.</span>

    So, the spoiler shows up in the bloody trailer, and makes me not want to see it.

    so meh.
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  • torquetorque Join Date: 2003-08-20 Member: 20035Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    I think I liked it better before they released the newer trailer that tells you it's the main character trying to find a cure, and all that... I was hoping it would just be one man's fight to survive in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world. Oh, well.

    I just got the book, but I think I'll watch the movie first.
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  • PerfectionsFlawPerfectionsFlaw Join Date: 2003-02-14 Member: 13555Members
    I loved how they displayed his character. One man all alone with just his dog. I love how they depict him later in the movie store, I can't say anything without spoiling it, but it was by far one of the best scenes in the movie. Anyways I was totally turned off by the cg monsters. I was hoping they would use live actors and mix in cg for their super moves. They didn't. The infected looked too cartooney and the entire first scene of the movie with him chasing the deer was just bleh, too much cg. If they just had him chasing one deer instead of an entire ######ing lot of them then it might have been stomachable. Also the infected were way too strong.

    <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>They break through the shutters in his house, after climbing the building which seems to be like three or four stories high. Then at the end at the colony that Anna goes to they have this one or two story wall that is like WTF? What's to stop these guys from climbing that tiny wall and killing the entire colony? It was just retarded.

    Not to mention when Neville blows himself up with the incenidary grenade it takes out an entire ######ing room in a napalm like display. That grenade, at best, can take out maybe a 20x20 radious. Not the entire lab that he was in. Ill-impressed am I.</span>
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  • Awesome_LocksAwesome_Locks Join Date: 2007-10-22 Member: 62705Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1664067:date=Dec 15 2007, 02:51 AM:name=PerfectionsFlaw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(PerfectionsFlaw @ Dec 15 2007, 02:51 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1664067"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>

    Not to mention when Neville blows himself up with the incenidary grenade it takes out an entire ######ing room in a napalm like display. That grenade, at best, can take out maybe a 20x20 radious. Not the entire lab that he was in. Ill-impressed am I.</span><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    You've gotta admit though, that's probably the most badass way to go out.
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  • dRaGGin_loWdRaGGin_loW Join Date: 2007-11-01 Member: 62790Members, Constellation
    saw it last night.

    Movie was pretty good. Ending was kinda.. yea.. But was still pretty awesome in my eyes.
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    edited December 2007
    Saw it last night with the girlfriend.

    We agreed on the things that detracted from this movie:

    - cheesy CG. The posture and facial expressions of the <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>main vampire</span> were a little hard to stomach.
    - cheesy ending. <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>an M67 fragmentation grenade explodes instantaneously with little visible fanfare other than a loud bang and a cloud of dust and dirt. I don't work with them on a daily basis (who does?) but I've thrown my share and they just don't work that way. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHHEP0IBAaI" target="_blank">To illustrate this point.</a></span>


    But it was good, and I would likely rate it an 75-85% rather than the 60% or lower it's currently rated at RT.
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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1664067:date=Dec 15 2007, 03:51 AM:name=PerfectionsFlaw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(PerfectionsFlaw @ Dec 15 2007, 03:51 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1664067"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>They break through the shutters in his house, after climbing the building which seems to be like three or four stories high. Then at the end at the colony that Anna goes to they have this one or two story wall that is like WTF? What's to stop these guys from climbing that tiny wall and killing the entire colony? It was just retarded.

    Not to mention when Neville blows himself up with the incenidary grenade it takes out an entire ######ing room in a napalm like display. That grenade, at best, can take out maybe a 20x20 radious. Not the entire lab that he was in. Ill-impressed am I.</span><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>One of the shutters on the upper floor was already open, they didn't break through it. One of them jumped OUT of a shutter, but it could have unlocked it. Also: It's easier to climb the side of a building that has windows and ledges and such then a pure smooth concrete wall with barbed wire at the top. Not to mention they said there were no infected up in vermont anyway.

    Finally: shut up about the grenade oh my god. The second I saw it happen in the movie Im like "Oh wow I know people are going to ###### about this". Maybe there were explosives else-where in the basement? There was propane and gasoline on most floors for the generators it seemed. People are turning into super-strong zombies but you complain about the explosion of a grenade?

    Those aside: I thought the movie was pretty good. His interaction in the movie store and when frank "moved" were really well done, being completely solitary does stuff to people, and it gave you a good feeling of what it was like for him.</span>
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    edited December 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1664275:date=Dec 16 2007, 01:32 PM:name=Xyth)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Xyth @ Dec 16 2007, 01:32 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1664275"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>One of the shutters on the upper floor was already open, they didn't break through it. One of them jumped OUT of a shutter, but it could have unlocked it. Also: It's easier to climb the side of a building that has windows and ledges and such then a pure smooth concrete wall with barbed wire at the top. Not to mention they said there were no infected up in vermont anyway.

    Finally: shut up about the grenade oh my god. The second I saw it happen in the movie Im like "Oh wow I know people are going to ###### about this". Maybe there were explosives else-where in the basement? There was propane and gasoline on most floors for the generators it seemed. People are turning into super-strong zombies but you complain about the explosion of a grenade?

    Those aside: I thought the movie was pretty good. His interaction in the movie store and when frank "moved" were really well done, being completely solitary does stuff to people, and it gave you a good feeling of what it was like for him.</span><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Do you deny that the age-old cliche of the single <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>antipersonnel frag grenade going up like a tanker of gasoline</span> is just tired, obvious, and stupid? You admitted to noticing it yourself when you saw it in the theater - obviously it was out of place enough to warrant that. So don't you tell us to shut up about it. It's scientifically wrong and backwards, and people are getting smart enough to realize it. So why do directors keep pandering to the 90s action movie audience, when we're already nearing the end of the 00s? It's time for special effects to grow up, and get away from the pyro-crazy bs, if they want their movies to come across as realistic.

    In a movie that goes to great lengths to make everything realistic except the science fiction part, it was just disappointing to see.
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  • RadixRadix Join Date: 2005-01-10 Member: 34654Members, Constellation
    Really good movie I thought.
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1664318:date=Dec 16 2007, 06:38 PM:name=Zig)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Zig @ Dec 16 2007, 06:38 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1664318"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Do you deny that the age-old cliche of the single <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>antipersonnel frag grenade going up like a tanker of gasoline</span> is just tired, obvious, and stupid? You admitted to noticing it yourself when you saw it in the theater - obviously it was out of place enough to warrant that. So don't you tell us to shut up about it. It's scientifically wrong and backwards, and people are getting smart enough to realize it. So why do directors keep pandering to the 90s action movie audience, when we're already nearing the end of the 00s? It's time for special effects to grow up, and get away from the pyro-crazy bs, if they want their movies to come across as realistic.

    In a movie that goes to great lengths to make everything realistic except the science fiction part, it was just disappointing to see.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


    That was a super grenade, made in 2009. Think about it.
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    edited December 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1664347:date=Dec 16 2007, 10:00 PM:name=[WHO]Them)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE([WHO]Them @ Dec 16 2007, 10:00 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1664347"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    That was a super grenade, made in 2009. Think about it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Maybe they're in the works right now. Grenades that make lots of fire, and more visually pleasing explosions.

    <img src="http://webtools.gieskes.nl/pages/images/explosion.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />
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  • UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
    Hey, one of the few movies I've seen in a theatre in a long time.

    I thought it was pretty good. I hadn't heard about these spoilers being given away in trailers and such; I just saw a short 30 second spot that made it sound like Omega Man or something (a movie I haven't seen, but whatever).


    I'm not going to go into a point-by-point analysis, but if you enjoy apocalypse/partial survivor stories, you're probably best off not watching trailers and just seeing the movie (if you're fearing for your money, just rent it instead at some point). Just don't go in expecting perfect realism and awaiting some cinematic effects. The ending is a little bland, but the rest of the movie flows along well.
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    <a href="http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/12/reviewi-am-lege.html" target="_blank">Wired's review</a> is quite accurate.
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1664318:date=Dec 16 2007, 08:38 PM:name=Zig)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Zig @ Dec 16 2007, 08:38 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1664318"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Do you deny that the age-old cliche of the single <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>antipersonnel frag grenade going up like a tanker of gasoline</span> is just tired, obvious, and stupid? You admitted to noticing it yourself when you saw it in the theater - obviously it was out of place enough to warrant that. So don't you tell us to shut up about it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    To the average movie goer an actual grenade is lackluster, and no one wants to see that. Getting killed by shrapnel is a yawn fest.
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1664683:date=Dec 20 2007, 01:21 AM:name=Liku)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Liku @ Dec 20 2007, 01:21 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1664683"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->To the average movie goer an actual grenade is lackluster, and no one wants to see that. Getting killed by shrapnel is a yawn fest.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Maybe you just have to be a good director to convey that sense of deadliness.

    Like, you know, Ridley Scott. Black Hawk Down.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1664798:date=Dec 21 2007, 10:24 AM:name=Zig)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Zig @ Dec 21 2007, 10:24 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1664798"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Maybe you just have to be a good director to convey that sense of deadliness.

    Like, you know, Ridley Scott. Black Hawk Down.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    It's been a while since I've seen it, but I recall at least one grenade in Black Hawk Down exploding with a giant fireball.
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1664823:date=Dec 21 2007, 12:02 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Dec 21 2007, 12:02 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1664823"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It's been a while since I've seen it, but I recall at least one grenade in Black Hawk Down exploding with a giant fireball.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Been a while for me too, and I CBA to verify that :\ I pretty much remember most of the explosions being boom, dirt, and dust. Maybe I'm mistaken.

    2500lb payload napalm hand grenades... *sigh*
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  • TyrainTyrain Join Date: 2003-01-03 Member: 11746Members
    The movie was pretty good but the ending was very weak. They should've thought of something better, really.
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  • MerkabaMerkaba Digital Harmony Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 22Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester
    edited December 2007
    I enjoyed the movie, thought it was very good. The somewhat obvious CGI was highly excusable in the face of Smith's acting and the heart of the movie.

    Has anyone seen this?
    <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/red-122407-willsmith,0,3987507.story" target="_blank">http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainmen...0,3987507.story</a>

    The JDL makes me sad.
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  • enf0rcerenf0rcer intrigued... Join Date: 2003-03-16 Member: 14584Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1665395:date=Dec 27 2007, 10:03 PM:name=Merkaba)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Merkaba @ Dec 27 2007, 10:03 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1665395"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The JDL makes me sad.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


    Talk about the *Overly* defensive Jewish league. What a bunch of uptight crackpots. They miss his point by a mile and end up taking personal offence by the indirect consequence that hitler was involved in the killing of jews. Now if I were to say something like "the point would have still been valid if hitler had been responsible for the genocide of rodents" I bet they'd take that as an insinuation that all jews are like rats. I hate this profound self-absorbing nature that cultural/religious fixations inflict on anyone making some offhanded comment even remotely opposed to their dogma.

    oh the irony- who's calling who naive?

    /rant
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  • ArmageddonArmageddon Join Date: 2005-01-07 Member: 33055Members
    U can stream it for free on www.quicksilverscreen.com. High Quality but the audio is not synced with the video.

    Also, ZOMBIES AHHHHHHhhhhhhhhh!! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/nerd-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::nerdy::" border="0" alt="nerd-fix.gif" />
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  • spinviperspinviper Join Date: 2003-05-08 Member: 16151Members
    edited December 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1665408:date=Dec 28 2007, 02:34 PM:name=Armageddon)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Armageddon @ Dec 28 2007, 02:34 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1665408"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->U can stream it for free on www.quicksilverscreen.com. High Quality but the audio is not synced with the video.

    Also, ZOMBIES AHHHHHHhhhhhhhhh!! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/nerd-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::nerdy::" border="0" alt="nerd-fix.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I highly doubt that is legal, lad. Nonetheless.. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />


    I enjoyed the movie very much. Will Smith provided an astonishingly good performance. The CGI was unfortunately sub-par and detracted a little from the overall immersion. I wish they'd expanded a little more on the Dark Seekers' pack like societal structure and used the actual ending from the book.
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  • TykjenTykjen Join Date: 2003-01-21 Member: 12552Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Good movie, when the dog had to be put to sleep it hit me good.
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  • EpidemicEpidemic Dark Force Gorge Join Date: 2003-06-29 Member: 17781Members
    Why did Will smith have to die? Why couldn't he unplug the grenade and join that woman and her child?

    The film unfortunately didnt do it for me regardless, I must be getting abit jaded.
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  • ArmageddonArmageddon Join Date: 2005-01-07 Member: 33055Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1665477:date=Dec 28 2007, 01:35 PM:name=Epidemic)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Epidemic @ Dec 28 2007, 01:35 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1665477"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Why did Will smith have to die? Why couldn't he unplug the grenade and join that woman and her child?

    The film unfortunately didnt do it for me regardless, I must be getting abit jaded.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    -.-

    I think 28 days later was better, tbh. Well, in a scarier sense <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/nerd-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::nerdy::" border="0" alt="nerd-fix.gif" />
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  • schkorpioschkorpio I can mspaint Join Date: 2003-05-23 Member: 16635Members
    <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'> can someone please explain what was with the frank statue moving? was it a trap set up the infected because they saw his trap? or was it one he setup and forgot about because he was going bonkers?</span>

    must agree it was good, but not great and <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'> the ending was lame, it also ended too quickley, they must have wanted to squeeze it in </span>
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  • PerfectionsFlawPerfectionsFlaw Join Date: 2003-02-14 Member: 13555Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1665507:date=Dec 28 2007, 06:00 PM:name=schkorpio)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(schkorpio @ Dec 28 2007, 06:00 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1665507"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'> can someone please explain what was with the frank statue moving? was it a trap set up the infected because they saw his trap? or was it one he setup and forgot about because he was going bonkers?</span>

    must agree it was good, but not great and <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'> the ending was lame, it also ended too quickley, they must have wanted to squeeze it in </span><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>It was a trap set by the infected. You see they were smarter than he thought they were and learned from his traps how to set one. Or rather the main infected guy learned. That's why Nevel was so ######ed up when he saw 'Frank' standing no where near the video store.</span>
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