I AM LEGEND

[jandrews]

I read the book, wow it was short, so depressing in the end too *sigh* i havent seen the movie yet.

 

[Journer]

i liked it

 

[everman]

It was a fun movie.

 

[ChaoZ]

Best part = Batman and Superman billboard. Can someone pm me how the book ended?

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Best part = Batman and Superman billboard. Can someone pm me how the book ended?

Wasn't it already posted in this thread?

Here it is.

















*****Spoilers********


In the book he goes around during the day time and kills all the vampires he can along with studying them (though he wasn't a doctor in the book), there ends up being a group of vampires that are somewhat normal by human standards and they're started a new civilization.

To them, he is the monster because he is the one that kills them while they sleep. Takes their loved ones to experiment on, etc...

They end up capturing him and before he takes a pill that will kill him, he looks out his cell window and sees them all gathered outside waiting for the "monster" to be brought out and killed and realizes that he is the "Legend" to them of the evil creature, he then takes a pill that was given to him by a sympathetic vampire and the book ends.


FWIW there wasn't a single scene in the movie that was in the book.

The only thing that was the same was the name and that it had vampires.


******End Spoilers***********

 

[Reckoner]

Saw it at IMAX today. It was meh. Will Smith did a fine job acting, but I thought the overall premise of the movie was forgettable. 28 Weeks Later >>>>>>> than this.

 

[xanis]

Originally posted by: lokiju
FWIW there wasn't a single scene in the movie that was in the book.

The only thing that was the same was the name and that it had vampires.

Exactly. That was the very thing that I didn't like about the movie. Granted, it was entertaining, but the book was MUCH better IMO.

 

[ktehmok]

Originally posted by: aceO07

Originally posted by: lokiju
Not that this post will add much to this thread being this far in but...


For starters, WTF call it "I Am Legend" after the book when it had not one single part from the book in the movie?

Book vs Movie complaints/gripes aside.

The movie felt lacking, like it had all the elements there to be an awesome movie, but it wasn't pulled off.

And whats up with the happy ending? The books ending was better IMO.

Who reads anymore?

I totally agree. The title of the movie should have been changed. The idea from the book, 'I am Legend' was that he was like the vampire.. killing while they were sleeping, almost unstoppable.. a terror. When he is captured and dies, he realizes that 'I am legend'. A legend like the vampire and other monsters..

Amazing, simply "head-bang your skull against a fucking rusty nail" amazing. You do realize you are reading at this very moment, don't you?

Will's character set the trap that he got caught in. He was completely out of his mind at that time (Firing a complete magazine at nothing) and forgot, and he got caught in his own trap. The way the zombies were portrayed, and their intelligence level totally precludes their ability to set up a trap of that nature.

The dog's name was Samantha. That sucked when I heard that. But is also screams BS because a female dog would not be that aggressive & run into a dark building where there is known death. Even for deer meat.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I thought the movie was alright. I definitely enjoyed the book much more, and would have liked the movie more if it wasn't a complete (worse) rewrite.

 

[aceO07]

Originally posted by: ktehmok

Originally posted by: aceO07

Originally posted by: lokiju
Not that this post will add much to this thread being this far in but...


For starters, WTF call it "I Am Legend" after the book when it had not one single part from the book in the movie?

Book vs Movie complaints/gripes aside.

The movie felt lacking, like it had all the elements there to be an awesome movie, but it wasn't pulled off.

And whats up with the happy ending? The books ending was better IMO.

Who reads anymore?

I totally agree. The title of the movie should have been changed. The idea from the book, 'I am Legend' was that he was like the vampire.. killing while they were sleeping, almost unstoppable.. a terror. When he is captured and dies, he realizes that 'I am legend'. A legend like the vampire and other monsters..

Amazing, simply "head-bang your skull against a fucking rusty nail" amazing. You do realize you are reading at this very moment, don't you?

I was referring to reading books and not in general, since the previous person was talking about the book and I was talking about the book.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
I thought the movie was alright. I definitely enjoyed the book much more, and would have liked the movie more if it wasn't a complete (worse) rewrite.

i read the book over the weekend, since i figured i wouldnt get to see the movie for a while.

great read. after talking to a few guys who saw the movie, im in no hurry to see it.

 

[randay]

The only really useful thing I took away from this movie is that Ford SUVs are top heavy and easily tip over.

Will Smith was stellar and the atmosphere was great, the story was completely lacking though.

 

[TheChort]

Originally posted by: randay
The only really useful thing I took away from this movie is that Ford SUVs are top heavy and easily tip over.

Will Smith was stellar and the atmosphere was great, the story was completely lacking though.

To properly test out this hypothesis, I'm gonna see if I can get my friends drunk enough to make them head butt an explorer and tip it over.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: BradT
How did you like it? I just got back from it and I am very undecided. I loved some elements but hated others. Will Smith's acting was superior though. Either way, it was still a good popcorn flick if nothing else.

Saw it yesterday and I must say it sucked pretty bad.
Nothing really happened during the movie and then we found the hollywood ending.

1/5

 

[oddyager]

Saw the movie this past weekend and it was okay for a Will Smith fare. The overall script was ridiculous though.

 

[umbrella39]

I agree with those who didn't really care for it. It could have been a great movie. It just wasn't.

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: OOBradm
I really thought they were going to humanize the vampires more. When Will Smith trapped the female vampire and the male came out in the sunlight and screamed at Will, I felt this was done intentionally to make the viewers realize that these vampires are still people. And then, in the next scene, Will is talking into his webcam or something and says something along the lines of "Today, an infected individual deliberately walked out into direct sunlight. Clearly, the infected are losing all human behavior-like qualities and are truly deteriorating to animals" I thought this was the director foreshadowing that at the end of the movie we would find out that Will was wrong and that they were, in fact, just as human-like as we are, and not deteriorating like Will said. But they never did anything with this and the infected remained soul-less monsters. Kinda sad.

I don't know how the film progressed, but a main part of the novel was to flip the whole scenario of who the monster is. There is a subset of those surviving that have managed to temporarily postpone the effects of the disease, but still have some of it's side-effects, like not being able to go out in the sunlight for anything but a short period of time and sleeping during the day. These people especially retain their humanity, and Smith's character becomes the monster, like vampires to us. Instead of vampires prowling on us at night, Neville (Smith's character) prowls on these people while they sleep killing indiscriminantly (because of sleeping during the day, he can't distinguish between those that are truly infected and those that are keeping the disease at bay) and becoming a source of terror for them. Neville is finally killed, and he became a "legend" among those infected with the disease.

i accidently read all of that. god damn you, i haven't read the book yet.

 

[Azndude2190]

***Spoliers***

Ok what was the liquid he spills all over the front porch at the beginning of the movie?And why???

Was it to scare away the zombies?...

Oh and I just loved how he had guns situated in the most random places in the house...

And any guesses as to what happened to Dr. Alice Krippin???lol

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Originally posted by: Azndude2190
***Spoliers***

Ok what was the liquid he spills all over the front porch at the beginning of the movie?And why???

Was it to scare away the zombies?...

Oh and I just loved how he had guns situated in the most random places in the house...

And any guesses as to what happened to Dr. Alice Krippin???lol

It was vinegar, my guess it took away the scent or it was bad like garlic is to vampires?

Those guns saved his life, he knew he would have to defend his house one day...

She probably was one of the first to go considering how close she would be to those with the cure.

Neville could have done a couple things to defend his house better:
1. Place the UV lights on the roof and pointing downwards so that there would be an actual barrier instead of it being placed somewhere easily accessed.
2. Bring the explosives farther away, if they were farther away your house would have been more stable after they exploded.

Also, I think the alpha male was mad because he stole his "girlfriend". If they have the ability to have those feelings. I think that's why he was so committed. If Neville showed him that she was doing better it probably would be ok. Like Neville said, the girl was 18 to 20 years of age, so that would mean that they were bf/gf, so lots of testosterone. LOL.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

And how the hell was the grenade that powerful?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
And how the hell was the grenade that powerful?

Its Hollywood.

How the hell did that gas tank explode when Will Smith shot it?

 

[hdeck]

i haven't read the book, but i enjoyed the movie for the most part. of course, the internet spoiled the end for me, but that's to be expected these days. maybe i'll give the book a read, sounds really interesting

 

[Akhen]

Originally posted by: RedBeard
Also, in the end I think Will stuffed the woman and her child into an incinerator that he used to destroy his test subjects.
It would have been sufficient enough to shield them from the super-duper napalm mega grenade he used.
** My guess.

* Also do you think he was mad about the bacon because he was saving it for his dog?
* I assume the female test subject was in some way emotionally attached to the "zerg" leader?
Has anyone here read the book? Is it worth reading even after seeing the movie?

Probably already answered but the female he captured was the Queen therefore the leader did want her back.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

LOL Zerg...Starcraft. Maybe they were bf/gf before the whole thing started.

 

[rh71]

I think people need to chill with calling out the recognized product placements. It was bad in a few recent [years] blockbusters but this wasn't nearly as bad. Just because you see a Mustang and a Mac doesn't mean it was meant to detract attention from the scenes like in other movies that were more deliberate (3-sec still-shot of the Panasonic SD card in Transformers). To that, I say so what... ? Enjoy the movie.