I Am Legend

Originally posted by SelinaAndBruce
I think it was actually one of his best. He pretty much carried the whole movie by himself. Most people think the movie lost steam once the other characters were injected.

I didn't think it held much steam at all, I liked it, but only slightly.

Originally posted by cloudysky
I think the ending was too abrupt , the moive is not so good as I thought.

I hate the ending. It was horrible.

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Thats probably because you haven't read the book, and you don't have the set idea of what Neville is supposed to be like.

True that I haven't read the book, but I had a fairly good idea going into it that the movie wasn't going to mirror the book exactly anyway. It doesn't take away from Smith's performance as a standalone character, also, which was excellent.

I liked the movie but wasnt so happy with the ending. It made me think about the movie poster, the one that said"The last man on earth is not alone". Was the poster referring to the zombies or to the

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ending

The ending could have been better. I think they shot an ending similar to the book but then slapped the other ending on at the last minute because there was a lot of stuff in the trailer that wasn't in the movie that suggested to me it might end differently. I think they really reshot the ending and that's why it seemed so tacked on.

Yeah, I was very disappointed to see that the scene where Will Smith is completely surrounded by the Dark Seekers was in the trailer but not in the actual movie.

I was waiting for it the whole time, lol.

Originally posted by SnakeEyes
Yeah, I was very disappointed to see that the scene where Will Smith is completely surrounded by the Dark Seekers was in the trailer but not in the actual movie.

I was waiting for it the whole time, lol.

I just saw the movie, and I was disappointed at the end.

This movie was fun, it was entertaining, and I suppose it has done its job, but it was not supposed to have been called 'I am Legend'.

Robert Neville was a legend, because he was what every infected (vampire) person in the world feared.

As he used to go out, killing them every day in their sleep (as they had aversion to sunlight, and other things vampires traditionally had an aversion of, mirrors, garlick, stake through the heart). They feared him more, because he could walk in daylight, when they couldn't and murder them one by one.

He became to vampires, what the vampires were to humans.
Hence Neville was a Legend.

In the movie, I did not really know why Neville was a Legend. He was more a survivor, convinced that he can save Everyone.

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Neville's death in the book was what made him a legend - Neville's death in the movie was just too mindless - he died for the sake of dying

You;re basically right with the wrenching change from the book there Lil, yes. I believe the movie implies he is a legend because of

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his contribution to a cure

Though I seem to remember in the book he is kinda inadvertedly killing people not fully infected, there being a group of such people who have kinda cured themselves but the hero doesn't know this because they still have to sleep by day and cannot be distinguished from the real thing.

So how does he die in the book?

He's executed for murder.

By whom, if he's the last person on Earth?

No, that was the point, see. he THINKS he is because he only sees Vampires around which he kills by day. He's not noticed there is a new society forming of people who have regained their Humanity but still have to sleep by day, because he hides at night and they look the same as vampires by day.

In the book, he has inverted the legend- Vampires were a legend of people that came and killed you by night in your bed. But to this new society, he has become the legend that comes and kills them by day in their beds.

Due to a series of events (the book is essentially a tragedy/philsophical work) it all goes out of control to the point where they eventually catch and execute him. He'd been going increasingly mad up to that point but at the end realises that he has become the monster.

Yea I know there's a colony in the movie but it would seem far more interesting if he indeed was the last person on earth. So the vampires executed him?

Not really vampires. I cannot remember what they called themselves, but they were basically humnns except they couldn't build a proper society as they could not operate during the day.

I think, in book or film, the problem with him actually being the last man on Earth (as opposed to that just being a concept explored during the story) is that it would leave nothing to do in the second half of the story. Some kind of turn of the concept is dramatically necessary.

Originally posted by Darth Martin
Yea I know there's a colony in the movie but it would seem far more interesting if he indeed was the last person on earth. So the vampires executed him?

Agree.I found it a little dissapointing when he found out he wasn't alone.

I really liked it.Thought it was a little short,but very good and kept me on the edge of my seat.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
You;re basically right with the wrenching change from the book there Lil, yes. I believe the movie implies he is a legend because of

Spoiler:
his contribution to a cure

, which really isn't as clever a point as was in the book.

Though I seem to remember in the book he is kinda inadvertedly killing people not fully infected, there being a group of such people who have kinda cured themselves but the hero doesn't know this because they still have to sleep by day and cannot be distinguished from the real thing.

Yeah, I see. And I agree.

It was an alright movie - but I expected it to be elevated above 28 days later and others.
I don't feel it has.

Originally posted by mr.smiley
Agree.I found it a little dissapointing when he found out he wasn't alone.

I really liked it.Thought it was a little short,but very good and kept me on the edge of my seat.

I agree. I thought that

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existence of the colony

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had we continued to believe that he was the only man alive

I suppose Hollywood tends to give 'hope' in most apocalyptic type movies. Makes it less cynical, I suppose.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
He's executed for murder.

I <3 spoilers.

wow, what a let down. I always knew it wouldn't live up to it's hype. Although I did enjoy the movie.

Weird parts of the movie to say the least, the mutated creatures were mental... I suppose its a good change compared to zombie like features.

Will Smith gave a good performance, although it is hard to comment on watching a single star in a movie for most of it. Was there really need to show us his workout scene? no need for it, I thought it would have may been needed to show us he is in good shape to outrun something, but he did get his ass kicked alot.

Discos - overall 6/10

i just wish they werent all cgi 🙁

Originally posted by H. S. 6
I <3 spoilers.

Thats in the book, not in the movie. In fact, the movie is nothing like the book - apart from the title and the main character's name.