Official I Am Legend Thread

[matthooper]

I didn't read the book, does it differ significantly? Especially the ending?

It's night and day. As far as story goes, there are no similarities other than vampires and the last man angle. But the similarities are all general. The entire premise for the title makes no sense in the film as it does in the book.

As for the ending, there is nothing, and I mean nothing similar.

 

[Eternalzero]

It's night and day. As far as story goes, there are no similarities other than vampires and the last man angle. But the similarities are all general. The entire premise for the title makes no sense in the film as it does in the book.

As for the ending, there is nothing, and I mean nothing similar.

oh but I want to know what happens!

 

[matthooper]

oh but I want to know what happens!

The ending is set up from events during the book.

Spoiler

Neville has been killing vamps for years, while they sleep. Sometimes 40 a day. What he doesn't know is there are two types of vamps, the dead and the living. The living can control their urges and are setting up a civilization of their own. They send a girl, to spy on Neville. She ends up liking and respecting him. She leaves a note urging him to leave because the living vamps will come for him. He doesn't leave. They capture him and bring him back to their people to execute him. She gives him a pill that will kill him without pain. He became a legend to the living vamps, a boogie man. Someone who hunts them in their sleep.

That's the very short of it.

 

[chaseter]

Is the Omega Man movie similiar to the book?

 

[Timstuff]

I haven't posted in this thread before, but I wanna know... Did anyone else cry [blackout]when the dog died[/blackout]?

 

[batgirl2119]

i believe omega man may follow the book a bit more. i don't know why these movies esp the last one have to change it so drastically. the book was great for a reason.

 

[Eternalzero]

I haven't posted in this thread before, but I wanna know... Did anyone else cry [blackout]when the dog died[/blackout]?

unfortunatly, my 4 yr old cousin had asked me:

Spoiler

"have you seen that will smith movie with zombies and...his dog gets infected and he chokes him?"

you can guess what my response was....

soo sadly no. lol

 

[Eternalzero]

The ending is set up from events during the book.

Spoiler

Neville has been killing vamps for years, while they sleep. Sometimes 40 a day. What he doesn't know is there are two types of vamps, the dead and the living. The living can control their urges and are setting up a civilization of their own. They send a girl, to spy on Neville. She ends up liking and respecting him. She leaves a note urging him to leave because the living vamps will come for him. He doesn't leave. They capture him and bring him back to their people to execute him. She gives him a pill that will kill him without pain. He became a legend to the living vamps, a boogie man. Someone who hunts them in their sleep.

That's the very short of it.

ah that's pretty interesting. Would have definetly put it into its own category. It however would have been an odd translation into a movie though.

But agreed, the title doesn't really match the movie at all. Except that he is legend-ish.

Maybe had the story been told from a future standpoint, then he could've been legendary.

The last couple of dialog lines are awful. At "x" time he did this, at "x" time he took at poop. At "x" time he died saving that poop....

 

[Timstuff]

unfortunatly, my 4 yr old cousin had asked me:

Spoiler

"have you seen that will smith movie with zombies and...his dog gets infected and he chokes him?"

you can guess what my response was....

soo sadly no. lol

I feel sorry for you to have such an important moment in the movie ruined for you, but I gotta wonder... Why the heck was your 4 year old cousin watching I Am Legend?

 

[batgirl2119]

ah that's pretty interesting. Would have definetly put it into its own category. It however would have been an odd translation into a movie though.

But agreed, the title doesn't really match the movie at all. Except that he is legend-ish.

Maybe had the story been told from a future standpoint, then he could've been legendary.

The last couple of dialog lines are awful. At "x" time he did this, at "x" time he took at poop. At "x" time he died saving that poop....

its a direct quote from the book, that's where the title comes from. he says it about himself. i hate that they gave the new movie a typical hollywood ending.

 

[Eternalzero]

I feel sorry for you to have such an important moment in the movie ruined for you, but I gotta wonder... Why the heck was your 4 year old cousin watching I Am Legend?

his older brother's saw it and told him about it, who then told me about it, lol.

 

[matthooper]

Is the Omega Man movie similiar to the book?

I didn't see it, but I doubt it's any closer to the book than the Will Smith version.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Okay let's break it down. Nothing is fact, and if anything movies leave things subjective on purpose.




Again, if they were so smart and knew he went into that store often, why didn't they just hide out there in the ceiling, or in the backroom (there is a backroom there) or why didn't they turn that place into a trap because he visits it so often. Or if they were THAT smart, why didn't they know where he lived?

Etc.....open to interpretation. And because it is (even though you claim it isn't) goes to show this movie has it flaws. I am not saying you are wrong, I am just saying that a lot of us interpreted it differently.


The first time you see the infected they are eerily in a circle jer*. They didn't seem that intelligent to me.

They are clearly asleep/resting the first time we see them, and it is was just plain obvious to me that the vamps set the trap. For one, if Robert Neville did, how the hell did he get the taxi in the right place without the super-human strength the vamps had?

Plus, why would Robert Neville set the trap so that the vampire would be lying there in broad daylight for however long it took him to get back there. Not to mention why would Neville set the trap so a vampire smacked its head on the floor? The vampires clearly wanted to knock Neville out so they could get him after dark, but, luckily for Neville, he woke up in time.

 

[danoyse]

I haven't posted in this thread before, but I wanna know... Did anyone else cry [blackout]when the dog died[/blackout]?

My mom and my sister (who is 9 mos. pregnant and an emotional disaster right now) were both crying at that scene.

 

[matthooper]

They are clearly asleep/resting the first time we see them, and it is was just plain obvious to me that the vamps set the trap. For one, if Robert Neville did, how the hell did he get the taxi in the right place without the super-human strength the vamps had?

That's right. I didn't even think about the physics of the trap. It would have made it impossible for Neville to set it himself. Also, the head knock out thing. They needed him to be knocked out until sunset. I forgot that too.

I understand that there were lots of problems with the film. Many questions left unanswered or just plain forgotten. But the trap thing is simply not open for discussion.

Even if we assume that all the other vampires were stupid, it's quite obvious the main one evolved both in intelligence and emotion. He was saddened by the loss of the female. Also, if you can use cognitive reason to use a leash for dogs, is it that far off to assume it could mimic a trap that it saw Neville use?

 

[terry78]

The main one was the only one that seemed to be evolving. But his anger at what Neville had done was overshadowing any attempts Neville made to reach him as you saw. It would have been much better if he was able to speak to be honest, as it would have made the audience empathize with them both even more, so you weren't sure who to root for in that case.

 

[matthooper]

It would have been much better if he was able to speak to be honest, as it would have made the audience empathize with them both even more, so you weren't sure who to root for in that case.

The living vampires and some of the dead vampires spoke in the book making it much more interesting. I agree that they should have gone that route in the film. So many missed opportunities in the film.

 

[batgirl2119]

The living vampires and some of the dead vampires spoke in the book making it much more interesting. I agree that they should have gone that route in the film. So many missed opportunities in the film.

yeah, i thought for sure they would have gone that way. i mean it helps things make sense. but hey that'd hollywood.

 

[omid17]

directors these days are just ****ed up, but like batgirl said, it's just ****ing Hollywood

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Sorry, double post

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

That's right. I didn't even think about the physics of the trap. It would have made it impossible for Neville to set it himself. Also, the head knock out thing. They needed him to be knocked out until sunset. I forgot that too.

I understand that there were lots of problems with the film. Many questions left unanswered or just plain forgotten. But the trap thing is simply not open for discussion.

Even if we assume that all the other vampires were stupid, it's quite obvious the main one evolved both in intelligence and emotion. He was saddened by the loss of the female. Also, if you can use cognitive reason to use a leash for dogs, is it that far off to assume it could mimic a trap that it saw Neville use?

Exactly, its obvious the lead vampire had more intellegence than the rest, and it was obvious he was the leader, when Robert was trying to get revenge at the pier for Sam, we see the lead vampire nod to some of the others to go and attack Neville.

And really the lead vampire appearing at the hole in the building with 2 dogs on a leash was a dead give away that he set the trap. And when you take into consideration what you and i have pointed out about the scene MattHooper, there is really no debate left, the vampires DID set the trap.

 

[Bastila]

Well I did like it.

But I read the book last year, and would rather read that any day as I hated this films ending, I sat there and said that sucks, I mean the books one was better and the whole part with the girl coming into it at the end of the book, that plot was good and interesting, nope they didn't do that in the film idoits.

So was ok, but book is better.

 

[dark_b]

i knew that i saw this in the trailers


this must be the the alternate ending with effects finished

 

[Bastila]

I was waiting for that part too, looks cool.

 

[Dark Donnie]

i knew that i saw this in the trailers


this must be the the alternate ending with effects finished

I believe it was in the films original ending.....thats what I read at least. Also there is set pics of the Mustang breaking through glass that wasn't in the film.