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I Am Legend
15 years ago
The first half is quite good. It's New York City, slowly being reclaimed by nature, and it appears that our protagonist, Will Smith, and his dog are the only two things still alive as a result of a cancer vaccine with an accidental and nasty side effect of turning humans into zombies. Smith is a virologist, although I never understood what his role was in the virus' creation, and he seeks to find a cure while looking for survivors in the bleak wasteland. For their part, the zombies suffer from a debilitating weakness for UV radiation and cannot go out in the daylight.
The second half throws all of that aside and veers sharply into a dull, typical direction. We meet up with a couple other survivors from out of nowhere, we learn that there are far more survivors than we first believed, and that the kid survivor really likes Shrek. I hate movies-in-movies, and Shrek in a post-apocalyptic zombie wasteland feels painfully out-of-place. The survivors are on a road trip to a camp up north, but they accidentally lure the zombies to Smith's house and a final fight ensues.
The alternate ending is, strangely, exactly how I thought the movie was going to end. Pithy, with a "you are the monster you are fighting" moral. Instead, the real ending is pretty "meh."
It's too bad the movie has such a goofy second half, because the first half is actually well done, especially considering that it's just Smith and a dog propping up the whole movie. It never veers into the realm of being a bad movie, but it's a shame it doesn't end as strongly as it begins.
The second half throws all of that aside and veers sharply into a dull, typical direction. We meet up with a couple other survivors from out of nowhere, we learn that there are far more survivors than we first believed, and that the kid survivor really likes Shrek. I hate movies-in-movies, and Shrek in a post-apocalyptic zombie wasteland feels painfully out-of-place. The survivors are on a road trip to a camp up north, but they accidentally lure the zombies to Smith's house and a final fight ensues.
The alternate ending is, strangely, exactly how I thought the movie was going to end. Pithy, with a "you are the monster you are fighting" moral. Instead, the real ending is pretty "meh."
It's too bad the movie has such a goofy second half, because the first half is actually well done, especially considering that it's just Smith and a dog propping up the whole movie. It never veers into the realm of being a bad movie, but it's a shame it doesn't end as strongly as it begins.
yay pharmaceutical genius!
onoes! not so genius! everyone dies!
bad pharmaceuticals! bad!!
but wait
it's will smith!
save the day with pharmaceutical genius!
yay survivors!
yay chosen land!
as you can see I totally loved this movie
totally
cough
"Side effects may include dry mouth, dizziness, vomiting, constipation, and turning into a zombie. Most of these symptoms were mild, but talk to your doctor before starting a regimen!"
What Im still curious about was...what happend to the REST of the world? or the Rest of the US for that matter. If it was contianed in Manhatten then where are the others, or the other cities?
What about the personal away from the mainland on the ships.
in 28 days later the UK was secure, as in it was the ONLY contriy to have the infection, the Isle of white, Man and Irland would of been safe too.
The virus couldnt of spread that fast over the US could it?
TBH, I don't think it's surprising that an airborne virus could infect most of the world very quickly, thanks to airplanes. And since this was supposedly a cure for cancer, it's possible that it was tested on people all over the world. Just as likely is that the virus would fail to reach certain climates, like cold climates as mentioned in the movie... even though the village at the end didn't seem all that frosty.
Either way, it's one of those things where I feel they didn't need to explain it. If you want to say that this man and dog are the only two things alive, I'll just shut off my brain and go with it. The more you try to the explain it, the sillier it sounds.