I Am Legend (Spoilers)

[chitoryu12]

And the novel vampires were pussies. Neville held off the crowd by shooting with a handgun (which did practically nothing) and then kicking a few of them back so they knocked over the rest of the crowd like bowling pins. At least the zompires in the movie could put up a fight.

put up a fight? hell they were waaaaaay overwanked. They were ramming his landrover and each one almost made it rollover. and the jumps they were doing would make Spiderman and Michael Jordan jealous.

I'd rather watch them provide some kind of danger to Neville compard to seeing them just get tossed around like ragdolls by his truck. How exciting would it have been if he casually rammed through the crowd and went back home? Moreover, they would have never gotten into his home because they couldn't climb the walls to go in through his roof, so he and Anna would have been in pretty much no danger at night, leading to a rather anti-climactic ending where they both die of either old age or disease.

[Death from the Sea]

And the novel vampires were pussies. Neville held off the crowd by shooting with a handgun (which did practically nothing) and then kicking a few of them back so they knocked over the rest of the crowd like bowling pins. At least the zompires in the movie could put up a fight.

put up a fight? hell they were waaaaaay overwanked. They were ramming his landrover and each one almost made it rollover. and the jumps they were doing would make Spiderman and Michael Jordan jealous.

I'd rather watch them provide some kind of danger to Neville compard to seeing them just get tossed around like ragdolls by his truck. How exciting would it have been if he casually rammed through the crowd and went back home? Moreover, they would have never gotten into his home because they couldn't climb the walls to go in through his roof, so he and Anna would have been in pretty much no danger at night, leading to a rather anti-climactic ending where they both die of either old age or disease.

the one that got in didn't come in through the roof but through the armored window that was pushed/busted open. The one infected zampire was tearing a hole in the roof to make it easier for the others to get in and it was holding onto the roof how? with it's spiderman powers? the monsters were way wanked. Their danger came from their great numbers and their viciousness, not the fact that they were rabid spiderman clones. Dawd of the Dead (2004 version) and even 28 Days Later didn't make the monster/zombies overwanked powerhouses capable of feats that people are not and were able to create a very credible threat. It was just unnecessary wank, I still like the film, it just could have been better with a few minor refinements.

[Kamakazie Sith]

put up a fight? hell they were waaaaaay overwanked. They were ramming his landrover and each one almost made it rollover. and the jumps they were doing would make Spiderman and Michael Jordan jealous.

I'd rather watch them provide some kind of danger to Neville compard to seeing them just get tossed around like ragdolls by his truck. How exciting would it have been if he casually rammed through the crowd and went back home? Moreover, they would have never gotten into his home because they couldn't climb the walls to go in through his roof, so he and Anna would have been in pretty much no danger at night, leading to a rather anti-climactic ending where they both die of either old age or disease.

the one that got in didn't come in through the roof but through the armored window that was pushed/busted open. The one infected zampire was tearing a hole in the roof to make it easier for the others to get in and it was holding onto the roof how? with it's spiderman powers? the monsters were way wanked. Their danger came from their great numbers and their viciousness, not the fact that they were rabid spiderman clones. Dawd of the Dead (2004 version) and even 28 Days Later didn't make the monster/zombies overwanked powerhouses capable of feats that people are not and were able to create a very credible threat. It was just unnecessary wank, I still like the film, it just could have been better with a few minor refinements.

The super zombies ruined the movie for me.

Don't forget that when one of these wanked zombies actually managed to bite Neville it suddenly lost its powers.

[MKSheppard]

He was alone in a city formally home to millions (most of whom died before the majority of the survivors went apeshit) for several years and had military aid before the collapse. It is not too much of a strech.

Yes yes, most of it can be assumed; but the movie needed a flashback to explain the lab.

[Fire Fly]

He was alone in a city formally home to millions (most of whom died before the majority of the survivors went apeshit) for several years and had military aid before the collapse. It is not too much of a strech.

Yes yes, most of it can be assumed; but the movie needed a flashback to explain the lab.

I also really wished that the movie had put some focus on how Neville went from pre-chaos to survival mode a la Cast Away with Tom Hanks. This would have also been a great opportunity to explore the transition of humans into vampire zombies and put emphasis on how human society completely degenerated. It could have also been a nice contrast to the dehumanization of the survivors and the beginning of the humanization of the vampire zombies.

One of my biggest complains about zombie-esque movies is that they never really focus on the survival aspect too much. A 28 Days Later type of movie that focuses on short stories (like Sin City) exploring how people survived would be great.

[Oni Koneko Damien]

Just watched the movie myself. I have to say it was sort of like sex. Pretty damn good sex, maybe with a few shortcomings, but overall quite exciting and well worth the time. Building up and building up to a fantastic climax, and right before you have that massive orgasm, she tells you how incredibly great this friendship is working out and how happy it's made her, gets out of bed, and leaves.

I haven't read the book or seen the other versions, but taking this movie by itself... wow, what an incredible let-down after such excellent build-up during the entire movie. Everyone else has pointed out the negative, so the only extras I'll point out is something that I haven't seen posted in the thread yet:

When the uber-vampire-zombies of doom break into his lab... what the hell happened there? Did anyone else notice him closing a 2-4 inch thick STEEL door in the underground lab, and then sealing it in place with several rather large deadbolts? And a few seconds later, the uber-zombies of doom send the entire door flying into the lab as if they had ringed the entire thing with plastic explosives!

Right after this, they start charging the glass/super-plastic wall and CAN'T GET THROUGH! I was literally sitting there in the living room begging the people next to me to explain this inconsistency. They can run jump and climb like xenos... but they can't break through a steel window shutter. They can survive multiple collisions with an SUV, and nearly tip it over with their own impacts... but can't headbutt through the windshield. They can blow an at least 2 inch thick steel door right off its hinges, ripping through the heavy gauge deadbolts, with no warning... but can't break through a glass partition without five minutes of hard work.

Another gripe is the one that tumbled out of the hive with Will Smith headbutted its brains out on the concrete as it was exposed to sunlight. Meanwhile the 'leader' headbutted the glass wall at full speed at least ten or twelve times, yet it didn't leave the slightest trace of blood on the glass, and had *no* damage to its face. Apparently the sickness turns these things' skin into stainless steel.

One final gripe, which could possibly be dismissed because of Smith's insanity at the end. When he makes that big, noble sacrifice with the grenade. The woman said there was plenty of room for them all in there. Why didn't, y'know, Will Smith duck in there with them, wait for the zombies to break through the glass, chuck the grenade and slam the door behind him?

Other than that, and what other people pointed out, it was a fucking awesome movie. I think one of the best parts was when Will found the manikin in the middle of the street and got caught in the trap. We spent the next half hour debating whether he got caught in his own trap, or the zombie had mimicked his trap. It was beautifully done because it also illustrated Will's madness, we couldn't figure out if he had put the manikin there and simply forgotten it in his growing insanity, or the zombie had moved it there.

And the dog's death was simply beautifully done as well. The looking over at the empty seat was great, but I thought him approaching the manikin later and begging her to talk to him hammered it home even better.

[Havok]

I hope this isn't too bad of a necro, but I just watched this tonight with my fiance. I'll try to keep the "me tooing" short.

Up until that girl and kid showed up I was sold. Great movie. The whole "god told me to go to Virgina" thing just started the slide for me. Don't get me wrong, it was extremely realistic to have a survivor that believed in god, as I have no doubt that that would be the case.

Did they have to beat us over the head with "God saves" quite so hard? Not just the girl and her "message", but actually manifesting the voice of his child, when dream sequences and showing him wake, was the established way he remembered. The final straw, and it's something that I didn't see mentioned by anyone, was when jesus girl gets to the survivor camp, what do we hear? Church bells. What do we see? A big white church right in the center of the camp. Not to make puns, but jesus christ, I get it.

My fiance had some very interesting observations as well, but I can't remember them very well and she is afraid of you guys so she won't join and share them. She however shared my same dislike of the religion angle and felt very let down by the movies ending.

We both plan on reading the book ASAP.

[Loner]

The alternate version is better than the theatrical version.

[The Vortex Empire]

The alternate version is better than the theatrical version.

Much better. It shows that the Darkseekers are more than just monsters.

[The Wench]

My fiance had some very interesting observations as well, but I can't remember them very well and she is afraid of you guys so she won't join and share them. She however shared my same dislike of the religion angle and felt very let down by the movies ending.
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My thought was that the ending had these people in this new little civilization that seemed similar to the Protestants leaving England and discovering Plymouth Rock. Thus they will breed, create more of their church-going lot and put us right back at square one. So -- in the end -- nothing has really changed or evolved. We just started all over again without learning anything. So more assholes are doomed to repeat this past in the future. I think that's what Smith's character's point was about God not being the reason for this. People are the reason for this... and their blind inability to see their faults. In that way, the end is sort of bittersweet.