I am Legend

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  1. RabidLonghorn

    RabidLonghorn 1,000+ Posts

    I have never been more disapointed in a movie as I was after seeing I am Legend for the first last night, a movie that could have been great was such a downer and what terrible CGI.
    I have some questions about the movie:
    If Will smith has keys to the video store and it is locked when he goes back to it who took the mannequin out of the store and put it on the street?
    Who set the snare that trapped him?
    What was the other ending to the movie we kept hearing about?
     
  2. BattleshipTexas

    BattleshipTexas 1,000+ Posts

    The main problem is this is such a "legendary" book. Many other books and movies have been inspired by it. Personally, I like Charlton Heston's "Omega Man" better than Will Smith's.
     
  3. UT Spring Branch

    UT Spring Branch 500+ Posts

    Omega Man was awesome when I saw it as a kid around 1970
     
  4. HistoryHorn

    HistoryHorn 25+ Posts

    The movie was ****, especially compared to the book (the ending in the movie is nothing like the book). At the end why doesn't Will Smith just roll the grenade out towards the monsters and duck into the coal chute? What a dumbass.
     
  5. RabidLonghorn

    RabidLonghorn 1,000+ Posts

    What was the ending of the book?
     
  6. TenDeadF1ngerz

    TenDeadF1ngerz 100+ Posts


     
  7. RabidLonghorn

    RabidLonghorn 1,000+ Posts

    Yea I watched the whole movie, so??
     
  8. l00p

    l00p 10,000+ Posts

    He did not go back to the video store after the mannequin would have been taken. He had gone a day or two before he got snared.

    The main vampire, whose woman Will Smiff took, set the snare. They saw him do it to nab her. They obv. had him staked out after that. He grossly underestimated the humanity or cunning still left in them.
     
  9. HistoryHorn

    HistoryHorn 25+ Posts


     
  10. RabidLonghorn

    RabidLonghorn 1,000+ Posts

    Wow, I just read an outline on wikipedia, how did they take that great story and crap it up???? what a waste.
     
  11. scottsins

    scottsins 1,000+ Posts

    the alternate ending can be seen on the special edition dvd or blu-ray, i believe.
     
  12. ElJefe

    ElJefe 100+ Posts

    the alternate ending doesn't make this movie suck less
     
  13. kevwun

    kevwun 1,000+ Posts

    I haven't read the book, but have read a summary of it. The movie and the book appear to have very little in common.
     
  14. The Madcap

    The Madcap 25+ Posts

    I want to know how that woman drove onto the island when it clearly shows the bridges being destroyed at the beginning of the movie.
     
  15. MTF

    MTF 1,000+ Posts

    I saw it on one of the cable movie channels last night, and I thought it was pretty good. I knew nothing about the story or the book coming into it, though.

    My impression on how the woman got there is that they didn't blow every bridge; just the ones that led to clean zones. The virus wasn't limited to Manhattan, but rather was all over the place. Thus they were probably trying to contain the virus to locations north, south, or west of Manhattan, not trying to isolate Manhattan altogether.

    Alternatively, Anna mentioned that she was on a Red Cross boat. Is it possible that she took the boat to the island, which is how she got to the dock where she saved Neville?
     
  16. MTF

    MTF 1,000+ Posts

    After a little searching, looks like my first impression was partially right. They did quarantine the entire island, but left one bridge (the George Washington bridge) intact. I'm guessing that by the time of the events of the movie, the military post guarding access to the island at that point was long deserted:

     

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