Comments on: I Am Legend Changes Ending

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:28:13 +0000

Reply to Dan:

Movies missing basic details like the electric power and other similar items just drives me crazy too.

Not everyone in society has a technical background, but not everyone is stupid either.

Most movies seem to generally assume the viewer is stupid.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:04:01 +0000

I went and saw the movie last night and I thought it was pretty good. Not great, but pretty good. I was impressed with Will Smith’s acting. It’s not easy to carry off a role where, for the most part, you’re THE only guy on screen. I thought he did a very good job of getting me to feel the acute lonliness that someone in his situation would feel. Having several pets myself, I almost shed a tear when he had to kill his dog because it had become infected and was about to turn into a zombie too. And the visual special effects were outstanding, even if the faces and jaws of the zombies themselves were a bit too maleable.

But there were quite a few gaps in logic that diminished my enjoyment of the movie a bit. For one, I guess there must have been some survivors down at Con Edison too, because the electrical power to his apartment sure seems reliable. Also, since all of the bridges to Manhattan Island were destroyed by the government to try and contain the spread of the infection, how did the woman and her son get their vehicle, a sparkling new range rover, onto the island? I guess Smith’s character must’ve worked in a steel mill earlier in life, owing to the precision of the heavy metal shutters that he’s constructed and hung throughout his home to protect himself from the zombies at night. There’s more, but you get the idea. Maybe I’m just a bit too anal, but I notice those kinds of things.

But overall, this movie is fun and will scare the crap out of you a couple of times. The director, whoever he is, does a very good job of building suspense, making you think that something is about to happen but it doesn’t. Then when you’ve let your guard down a bit, BAM! It was definitely worth the $8 I paid to see it and I’ll probably get the DVD when it comes out.

By: Legend Fan

Legend Fan — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:49:44 +0000

He said “The cure is in the blood” The end still was not very good. I never read the book maybe the movie followed the book ending? And if it did they ruined the movie! The film had some awesome parts and could have been great. They just needed to tie the ending up with more vitual clearity( We wanted to see NY cleaned up and everything getting back to normal)maybe a 10 year flash forward or something. But as it ended up I left wanting there to be more to it. I felt like i got ripped off.

By: Legend Fan

Legend Fan — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:38:26 +0000

The movie was ok. I left feeling empty as if there should have been more. The ending of the movie was to short and they did’t tie everything up nice and neat. They just kinda left a mess!

By: A-line

A-line — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:58:04 +0000

What was the whole thing with the vial of blood and he said his blood wasn’t the cure? Didn’t understand.

By: big member

big member — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:37:27 +0000

I liked the movie. But I think the ending was fucked up

By: david

david — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:22:48 +0000

Keith Battista – You saw some of the location shoot? That’s pretty cool. I wonder how the ‘cg zombies’ are gonna look in the film?

I guess we’ll find out in a few weeks.

By: Mr. James

Mr. James — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:31:47 +0000

I’ve been a big fan of this film from day 1 but the more I see bad CG zombies running around after Will Smith the more I’m losing faith in this film and now that they’re changing the ending — AGAIN! I’ve almost lost all my hope that this will be the version to get it right. I’m almost wishing they would have gone with the grey headed 70’s fros like the last version with Charleston Heston.

By: Whatever-ishere

Whatever-ishere — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:16:43 +0000

thanks for the GREAT post! Very useful…

By: Keith Battista

Keith Battista — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:55:51 +0000

That’s funny they’re reshooting the ending. See, my dad’s a teamster and worked on this movie. My three friends and I even went in one day to Manhattan to visit the set. (First of all, the crew was rude – especially the AD who kicked my friends and me out complaining that we were there “all day.” Luckily, my dad and the producer became friends during the shoot and threatened the AD that he would tell the producer of this. The AD quickly became nice and set up a monitor for my friend and I to watch as they were shooting some scenes. the scenes we saw shot are actually in the trailer, where it’s very dark and it’s just a close up of will smith with his gun and flashlight close up to his face). ANYWAYS…

Yeah it’s funny that they have to reshoot the ending because, at the end of the day of my visit on the set, my dad had to drive the script girl back to her apartment (my dad’s a driver) and she was talking about how they had to change the ending of the original script at the last minute during principal photography because they didn’t like the original ending.

So technically, this is the THIRD time they’re trying to get the ending right… To be honest, from my experience on the set it seemed like no one had any clue what they were doing, or at least were winging it. Winging it is cool and fine and can be good, but it also can be very bad.

Get this! (one last thing) Originally the “infected” were simply going to be real people, not computer animated. They did a big scene where the infected were running. The extras had to shave their heads for this, and there were like 1000 of them for this shot. Watching the dailys the filmmakers were like “uh, this doesn’t look good” and so they change it from real people to computer animated. imaging shaving your head for no reason? including if you were a girl?