Over the weekend I watched the movie “I Am Legend”. I thought it was long, slow and boring. However, I noticed a couple of interesting things in the movie that directly relate to the housing market and the economy:
The first scene of the movie shows a local news station interviewing this woman who claims she has the cure for cancer. On the bottom of the screen, there is one of those news ticker things that constantly scroll the news highlights. The news story that caught my eye was the one that said “2009 home sales lowest they’ve been in the past decade”. I thought that was interesting because this movie came out in 2007. So, some producer or screenwriter in Hollywood knew what was going to happen with housing back when they made this movie. Another highlight said that Shaquille O’Neal is going to announce his retirement in 2010.
Finally, there was a scene where Will Smith is filling up a gas can at a deserted gas station. Gas prices were about $6.60 a gallon.
