Finally saw "I Am Legend"

[Taverner]

Once again, they miss the point of the book. What a POS.

In the book, it turns out Neville is the real monster - as the infected that he captures and tries vaccines on end up dying - and they see him as the biological mutant.

No movie has gotten that. Not the Last Man on Earth, not The Omega Man (in fact in that one Charlton Heston turns it into a Jesus flick) and not the Will Smith movie.

[charlie and algernon]

1. you gotta find the DVD with the real ending

where the head mutant sees Neville's wall of death and screams in agony for them. Neville collapses in shame as all the mutants leave and he gives up and leaves NY with the woman and kid.

[Taverner]

2. Seems much closer to the book

Of course in the book the mutants capture Neville and plan to execute him, but he commits suicide before they can

[Taverner]

3. Why is it Hollywood can't deal with inhumanity as part of our character?

I mean, sure, its there from the lizard days. Even if we could have never acted that way when we were lizards.

But that thought process is there - that inhuman rationality. It is inspired by our lizard brain, but taken further by our monkey brains.

And even in the nicest 'guys' this lurks.

[applegrove]

4. I turned it off about 20 minutes into it. I'm just not that much of a sci fi fan.

[Midwestern Democrat]

5. The Will Smith version erred badly - IMO - by reducing the mutants to

nothing more than CGI special effect monsters - they have no more intelligence than grizzly bears - they are not capable of plotting, of cunning, of taking planned, deliberate action - and as a result, there's no real plot and no real suspense - it's essentially nothing more than a man trying to hide from and avoid being killed by wild animals. A really botched adaptation, IMO.

[Superdesi]

6. Not a bad flick

I thought it was okay. There not too many movies out there that you can rent and watch with school graders. That's one good feature about movies starring Will Smith.

[bif]

7. I enjoyed it. I heard the director's cut had 2 endings

One where he commits suicide and one where he survives.