"I Am #4," co-written by Noxon "derivative, f

Ben Varkentine · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 5:26 pm

Or that's what the consensus at Rotten Tomatoes sez anyway.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_am_number_four/

Not that I'm suggesting any of us would get any schadenfreude from this in any way. :kdevil

Of course, the thing'll probably still make 34 million.... :sigh

werewolf123 · **Joined:** Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:19 am **Posts:** 135

looks like it will make $21 million for the 4 day weekend.

Finey_McFine · **Posted:** Thu Jun 16, 2011 9:27 pm

So, I'm a few months late in posting on this thread, but I felt compelled. When I saw this movie, I had no idea that she wrote it. About an hour in, I leaned over to my 11yr old and said, "This movie is a total Buffy rip off." She cocked her head and said, "You're right Mom, I knew it seemed familiar." Then I saw that she wrote it in the ending credits and knew my thoughts on the plot were completely validated. I mean seriously Marty, can't you come up with an original idea?

BTW...she just got named as a 'consulting producer' on Glee. Boo!

BeMyDeputy · **Posted:** Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:36 pm

Um, the script was basically already written when she joined the project. She did a lot of end-type stuff.

Wait, the point of this thread is to be angry and bask in schadenfreude.

Never mind!

Finey_McFine · **Posted:** Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:44 pm

Well, whatever she did...the movie was still "Buffy like." Just sayin'...

Dub · **Posted:** Fri Jan 07, 2022 9:50 am

She is part of that Utter dumpster fire!

I liked the books, up till the last line which was so cringe it kind of ruined everything for me. The whole of the last chapter really. Although I still bought and have the sequel series to read.

Its like they took the book and thought, yeah we can make this a film but lets not include the good bits or let the characters have super shallow relationships. A moody teenager is enough to portray a child who has grown up knowing they are the last of their civilisation and fears every day that they will gain a new scar on their ankle and a shifty neighbour turns out to be a predator hunting them down, meaning they have to run for their lives and pack up, gaining new identities losing any connections made, truly isolating them from everyone and everything except their guarde. Or the fact they cant meet up with any of their kind because it would break the chain and make them all vulnerable. Ok I hear that, so you're saying moody with stubble?

The book aren't brilliant but I enjoy the sci fi premise. But whatever that film was, was not I am Number four. It was media presumed sexy (actors in their 30s probably) teens trying to do spacey things while fighting tattooed skin heads.

That film is a one watch and rant for life film. Never re-watching it.

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