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finally saw I am Legend

Posted on 10/4/08 at 10:01 am
Posted by Weaver
Madisonville, LA
Member since Nov 2005
28006 posts
Posted on 10/4/08 at 10:01 am
Great movie, although I wasn't crazy about the ending.
Posted by Papa Steve
New York, NY
Member since Jul 2007
9962 posts
Posted on 10/4/08 at 10:27 am to
Did you see the alternate ending?
Posted by nino2469
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Sep 2004
5530 posts
Posted on 10/4/08 at 11:02 am to
what was the alternate and which ending was the book ending? I never read the book but hear its really good
Posted by TigerMyth36
River Ridge
Member since Nov 2005
40924 posts
Posted on 10/4/08 at 12:37 pm to
The movie plays the zombies off as stupid monsters. In the book, they clearly had some form of intelligence and social structure.

In the alternate ending Will Smith realizes that they are more intelligent than he thought. He realizes they aren't after him, but they are trying to free the woman that he captured so he opens the door and releases the female.

I can't remember what they did to him after that.
Posted by caseaw1704
New Orleans, LA
Member since Jul 2005
1536 posts
Posted on 10/4/08 at 12:41 pm to
quote:

I can't remember what they did to him after that.


He goes with the woman and the boy to find the colony. The alternate ending is way better.
Posted by TigerMyth36
River Ridge
Member since Nov 2005
40924 posts
Posted on 10/4/08 at 12:45 pm to
I thought so. Yeah I liked that ending better.
Posted by Papa Steve
New York, NY
Member since Jul 2007
9962 posts
Posted on 10/4/08 at 2:10 pm to
Yea, me too....but you never know if they make it
Posted by Enigma
Member since Jan 2008
6713 posts
Posted on 10/4/08 at 2:57 pm to
Posted by Murtagh
Metairie, La
Member since Feb 2008
2044 posts
Posted on 10/5/08 at 1:46 pm to
I was flipping through the directv guide and saw that they are now playing this movie. I stopped to read the description and saw this:

"Vampires created by a man-made plague surround a lone survivor as he searches for a cure."

I thought these things were zombies?
Posted by PBeard
DC
Member since Oct 2007
5920 posts
Posted on 10/5/08 at 2:07 pm to
quote:

man-made plague


The interviews in the beginning talk about how they made a new drug that cured cancer, but it obviously turns them into that.

Will Smith is immune, and before all shite breaks loose, he's working on a cure.
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 10/5/08 at 3:29 pm to
its supposed to be a society where the role of the vampire is switched and the only normal human is the outcast much like a vampire would be in normal society.
Posted by DanglingFury
Living the dream
Member since Dec 2007
20465 posts
Posted on 10/5/08 at 4:21 pm to
I thought the first three quarters of the movie was great. I hated the ending. I also thought it was a horrible decision to CGI the zombies. If they had done it like 28 Days Later, and had real actors, it would have been so much better.
Posted by MikeKnottTiger
Member since Sep 2008
289 posts
Posted on 10/5/08 at 4:33 pm to
It was ok, good even but not great.
Posted by seawolf06
NH
Member since Oct 2007
8159 posts
Posted on 10/5/08 at 6:23 pm to
quote:

I also thought it was a horrible decision to CGI the zombies.


They weren't zombies, they were "vampires". Zombies can go out in the daytime.

Anyway, I wish it would have told it more from the infected's perspective like I think the book did. Will Smith is a Legend to them, not to the other people who weren't infected. I also liked the alternate ending more, but I think the original one followed through with the fact that he had lost his mind.
Posted by LSUTygerFan
Homerun Village
Member since Jun 2008
33232 posts
Posted on 10/7/08 at 11:13 am to
I agree. I didn't know there was an alternate ending. But, after watching it, I think it would have been a better way to end the movie.
Posted by Towelie
America's Wang
Member since Aug 2007
19211 posts
Posted on 10/7/08 at 11:23 am to
I was fricking pissed with the ending, such a letdown.
Posted by Kracka
Lafayette, Louisiana
Member since Aug 2004
42041 posts
Posted on 10/7/08 at 11:23 am to
I think in the Vincent Price movie, the creatures were more vampiric in nature. And it wasn't just the fact they were "allergic" to UV light. I am just speculating though, i've only seen like 5 minuts of that movie. But I do know from reading articles that they definitely had a social structure and were facinated by the Will Smith Character.
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