I Am Legend

[juiced 0]

The part where he was trying to talk to the manequin was good acting, i liked it. I also liked the part when the "dark seekers" (i still don't like that name, i think its lame) set the trap using the Frank manequin and Neville went crazy. "What the hell Frank?! Why are yo5u out here Frank?!!"

[mack 44]

yeah but there was never any explanation as to why they didn't instantly attack him then, i'm guessing they must have been 'sleeping' or something like that...at the time it was a pretty cool scene though.

I guess I should watch it again, we had a downloaded copy and half way through the sounds got all F'd up, you know how the sound gets slightly behind the video sometimes? Friggin' pissed me off and probably clouded my judgement of the movie.

My guess is they were eating and too busy to notice anything but it was definitely a tense scene.

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[Patrick67 1]

mack Posted Yesterday, 11:50 PM

What do you mean about catching them off guard? If you're wondering why he didn't attack them in their little hive it's because he would have been dead basically instantly. He was just trying to GTFO as soon as possible, even if it meant losing Sam.

I'm not saying he should attack them or anything, but as soon as he turns off the light and starts stumbling backwards they should have been all over him.

No matter what they were doing, a freaggin flashlight in their hive, should alarm even the most retarded darkseeker asap causing them to turn around as soon as the light went out.

[mack 44]

Yeah, but other than the flashlight (even with his silly covering it up move) I don't think he made much noise. It seems to be a contradiction with the feeling that the vampires were smart, but maybe if they were asleep then they really wouldn't have noticed him. I'm going to use the "Lost Boys cave scene" as an excuse for vampires being heavy-ass sleepers.

[DamnLocust 0]

Was anyone else hoping that the alpha male would just break through the glass, devour the three of them, and it would be over?

I almost thought Neville would get through to him, or use the female darkseeker as a hostage. I'm thinking that if the alpha male was king, the one he captured was their queen and that's why he went berzerk on his ass and made it all personal.

I hadn't planned on seeing it, wound up going b/c we missed the start of National Treasure. Going in I didn't know what to expect, but it was entertaining. Still, it's a vampire/zombie movie with Will Smith. Never thought I'd see the day.

[mack 44]

I half-expected/hoped the alpha male to suddenly become communicative and realise what Neville had done, but glad they didn't go that way. I still say the Mist is an infinitely better movie but has pretty much been pulled from theatres here. Makes sense with it being Christmas and all.

[hockeyplaya97 0]

I didn't get to fully enjoy "I am Legend" because I had to listen to these five-year-old bitches fartin and laughing and talking on their cell phones right behind me.

[mack 44]

Welcome to Amurrica. That's pretty much what's in all theatres, but oddly enough the most mature audience I've seen in some time was at a Walk Hard showing ironically. Well, maybe not mature per se but they didn't MST3K the whole movie.

[kovalchuk71 212]

Can someone explain the significance of the Butterfly? I know the little girl said it at the beginning, and that the woman ad it on her neck, but what did it mean? Did it just remind him of his daughter or did it represent something significant?

[mack 44]

My guess is that it was the movie's way of showing that there was a God and They work in mysterious ways. The butterfly was something his daughter liked and one of the last memories he had of her (something she was doing on the way to the helicopter) and therefore was in his mind. Seeing the tattoo on Anna's neck brought back his lost faith.

[juiced 0]

Welcome to Amurrica. That's pretty much what's in all theatres, but oddly enough the most mature audience I've seen in some time was at a Walk Hard showing ironically. Well, maybe not mature per se but they didn't MST3K the whole movie.

i went to see superbad on a double and i didnt see anyone under 25 besides us. Threw out the whole movie NO ONE LAUGHED at all. It was the most awkward movie going experience of my life. Me and my friends were trying to hold in our laughter because everyone would turn around when we started laughing.

[mack 44]

Oh these guys laughed, but I was probably the youngest person in the crowd. I mean there was this unreal blonde who saw it with her parents and grandmother and even they laughed. I feel bad for thinking Walk Hard wouldn't make me laugh at all. They even made Pam from the Office sexy as shit.

[Jason Harris 31]

Can someone explain the significance of the Butterfly? I know the little girl said it at the beginning, and that the woman ad it on her neck, but what did it mean? Did it just remind him of his daughter or did it represent something significant?

My guess is that it was the movie's way of showing that there was a God and They work in mysterious ways. The butterfly was something his daughter liked and one of the last memories he had of her (something she was doing on the way to the helicopter) and therefore was in his mind. Seeing the tattoo on Anna's neck brought back his lost faith.

Yes, because after three years of 90% of humanity being wiped out, while 9% became hyper-testosterone "vampires" who ate the remaining 1%, Neville finally realized that maybe God had been on a sabbatical and was finally intervening.

[Ultimus 0]

I just got done seeing this.

It was not to bad.

I honestly thought Nevil fell for his own trap and the Darkseeker didn't set it up. It seem to me he was starting to lose his sanity... and perhaps he forgot that he moved Frank or whatever his name was over there.

I thought he might have survived by throwing the granade through the crack in the glass, it'll probably be an alternate ending or something on the DVD. I don't hink their will be a sequel and if their is it won't be based off that.

He could have hid in there with them she said their was room, the darkseekers could have ate the cured girl.

Also, he should have used the UV lights or equiped the whole room to burn them all.

[Jason Harris 31]

I read elsewhere the theory about the mannequin being his own trap, but I don't see how it could work. During the daytime, the darkseekers won't come into the sunlight, while during the night, Neville can't risk being out of his house. Even if a darkseeker sprung the trap and Neville returned in the morning, the darkseeker would burn up in the first light.

Interesting idea about the darkseekers eating the cured girl. It kind of illustrates an obstacle they would have with a sequel. It seemed to take two days for the cure to work, so how would they be able to monitor the people they've shot with the cure and pull them off the streets before the darkseekers sautee them?

[mack 44]

I don't have a link handy but the director had said that the darkseekers had set the trap and yes, Fred's head moves. To the viewers at least, it just represents Neville losing it.

As for alternate endings I thought I read the one they initially shot (the one in the movie was shot in November and clips of it made into the trailer) sounded crappy. The alpha male let them live and Neville, Anna and the boy drove off.

[Jason Harris 31]

That does sound terrible. It's one thing to escape, it's another to have the darkseekers let them go.

[hockeydoc 0]

Can someone explain the significance of the Butterfly? I know the little girl said it at the beginning, and that the woman ad it on her neck, but what did it mean? Did it just remind him of his daughter or did it represent something significant?

I thought the butterfly represented new beginnings. Like a step in the evolutionary process. As well as impying some faith based purpose. Like that this was something man did, but that God had a preordained plan to work in out in the big scope of things. Like he predestined Anna to be on the pier just at that time. She then was Mary like figure bringing the hope (savior) of a future to the compound.

It was a cool movie with a lot of interesting concepts. Very thought provoking. Lots of implied things left to the imagination. I agree the ending was not as I would have hoped, but in a sence true to his character.

[krisrt4tin 0]

I finally saw it yesterday and IMO it was pretty good. However I’m not much for suspenseful movies with “jumping out” scenes. As with most movies of this genre I found myself watching most of it with my eyes closed, ears plugged, and hoodie over my face. But the parts I did see were good and I was still able to understand the plot and significance of everything. I would have normally been teary eyed after he had to kill his dog, but I was too scared to cry! Ugh I’m such a sissy :lol:

[LegoDoom 0]

I thought it was quite well made, but I found myself unsatisfied at the ending. However, as I thought about it, I realized the ending made sense with how it evolved, but it's tough to invest nearly 90 minutes with one character and not have his struggles be rewarded. Of course, maybe the ending is true to the book, and it did keep in character with his attempts to save humanity. Still, let's just say the ending hurt.

To say that Neville's struggles go unrewarded seem a little shortsighted.

On to other matters. There were a couple of lapses of reason. The trap at the museum made no sense. The Dark Seekers had been presented as mindless, so being smart enough to rig the cabling, as well as knowing that Freddie was the particular mannequin to use, was silly. Hell, if they were that smart, Big Willy Style's home should have been overrun a couple of year's earlier.

I thought Neville said that he didn't notice any more human characteristics in the dark seekers anymore. Obviously, a human characteristic is thought, but I didn't take it to mean that the dark seekers were mindless.

The rescue at the pier made little sense also, since it appeared there were too many DS and they had too much strength to be overrun by Anna.

I thought you could see Anna use a bright light (I'm guessing a flare) to deter the dark seekers.

What heavy weapons could he have had? That was their last shot and he took it. As for killing himself, the rumour I heard about a sequel would be that there was a hole in the glass he could have shoved the grenade thru and then ducked and survived the blast. I already forgot, but I thought the alpha male made it thru the glass and that's when the grenade went off. Either way, a sequel seems very unnecessary.

Ducking behind glass cracked enough that there's a hole in it seems unlikely to me. Also, I find it hard to believe Anna and the kid would walk out in the morning, step over Neville, and drive up to Vermont without him. But... whatever.

To everyone saying that he didn't have to kill himself, I'm not sure what other choice he had. He mentioned they never would have stopped, which I took to mean that they would have either forced their way in or waited until they all had to come out. He couldn't have thrown a grenade and then ducked into the hole because he would be throwing it into a room that he is sealed in.

[mack 44]

Well that was the theory to the possibility of a sequel, which the more and more I think about it hope never gets made. The more I look back on this the more I realise how bad it is. Besides, they'd be stepping over rubble and not really looking for survivors at that point.

[LegoDoom 0]

Couldn't he have hopped in with Anna and Ethan, cracked the door, and thrown out the 'nade when they broke through? He would have had time to shut the door before it went off.

I also don't quite get the cure part. First they go downstairs and that darkseeker is starting to look human again. Fine, but how does that lead to the cure being in his blood, is that what he injected her with? I must have missed something.

Also, when he says "The cure is in OUR blood" why did he draw his own blood to give to Anna. What is different about his blood compared to hers and Ethan's?

I don't think he would have fit in there with the boy and lady. It seemed to me just an old fireplace or something of the sort.

The cure was in his blood because he (and I forget what percentage of people) were immune to the k-virus. He also said "the cure is in her blood" referring to the darkseeker that had started to revert back to something human. Being immune is one thing, but getting that to work in an antidote is another. What gets me is that fine, the cure's in the blood but he did other things like have her in ice to keep her cool that obviously wouldn't have been passed on thru the message.

Didn't Anna say that there was a camp in Vermont because the virus couldn't survive in the cold? Also, seeing the woman lying over top of ice on a table is kind of a unique way to treat someone.

Well that was the theory to the possibility of a sequel, which the more and more I think about it hope never gets made. The more I look back on this the more I realise how bad it is. Besides, they'd be stepping over rubble and not really looking for survivors at that point.

A sequel just seems like it would be hunting down the rest of the dark seekers. A prequel of what happened after the bridges were destroyed seems like it would be a story worth telling.

[mack 44]

I'm thinking now that it wouldn't be a sequel as much as it'd be a prequel. A sequel now would seem silly and end up being a story about hunting down the seekers to administer the cure. A prequel would be infinitely better than a sequel since there's a lot of story they could have in it.

As for the reason the camp was in Vermont, I don't recall any reason so you may be right. I thought it was just because of the mountainous area in general, but maybe it's both.

[BK 0]

I doubt there will be a sequel. The movie was based on the book by Richard Matheson. He didn't write a sequel.

I just saw it tonight. I was kind of let down but not really. I went into the movie with 3 people saying they loved it and 3 people saying they hated it. I just ignored all of it and watched it like I would any zombie movie.

I think it could have been so much better if they had more time to develop the main character and secure a main plot. The movie suffered from the same issues that you come across in any zombie/armageddon movie..

- Too much time developing the state of life. We watched Will Smith for 45 minutes introducing the state of life and how he is surviving. It also blended in the introduction of the zombies and 95% of the subplot of him trying to save humanity.

- Just like any zombie movie there was the "no hope" part. This actually happened twice. Once when he went bonkers and try to run down the zombies, and 2nd was when they found his home.

- "Here's the ending" mentality. There is hardly any build up to it and it comes very quickly. There hasn't been a single zombie flick I have seen that can pull of a 180 degree ending where all is good and everything is back to normal.

I think this film tried to be too much. It had action, but wasn't an action film. It had drama, but wont file under that catagory. It had lots of scary/jumpy moments, but I don't know if they would put this under horror. It had a deep plot that it tried to cram into the little time that it had. If this movie had another hour and focused a little more on one subject. I think it would have been a lot better. It just spent too much time trying to give the entire plot in too short of scenes.

All of that aside, I was entertained for the movie. I didn't have high expectations, so it was well worth my $8.50.

[Jason Harris 31]

To say that Neville's struggles go unrewarded seem a little shortsighted.

I understand what you mean, in that his struggles were likely rewarded with finding the cure. But I was referring more from the viewer's perspective, that it was hard to follow only one character for 70 minutes and not have that character survive. In retrospect, I realize it made the story more compelling and less Hollywoodish, but it was hard to accept immediately.