Dog better live and michael b jordan dies in this one

More like the lady, Neville was doing great til she came, led the infected back to his house, ate his bacon and caused him to "die"

Hedge said:

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More like the lady, Neville was doing great til she came, led the infected back to his house, ate his bacon and caused him to "die"

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To be fair ("to be Faaaaaaiiiiiiirrrr"), she was invited.

Ol_Ag_02 said:

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Can someone plead explain to me how will smith is in this movie?

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perhaps they made the alternative ending canon?

Okay am I the only one that had no idea they filmed an alternate ending to this movie? How does this work, will the first five minutes of the new movie be the alternate ending of the first movie so al the rest of the idiots like me aren't super confused.

Would be really cool if they flipped the script and made the new one from the perspective of the vampire people. That's the perspective that gave us the "legend" aspect and was the most interesting part of the original book.

I've talked about this on here before, but I'm almost positive that a friend and I are at least partially responsible for the ending they ultimately chose. We were at one of the earliest test screenings, with tons of incomplete effects, as part of a small audience on the Warner Bros lot, where they also showed us both endings, back-to-back. The one where he lives was part of the original cut, and then they showed the one where he dies.

After filling out the post-screening questionnaire, my friend and I were then picked to be part of a 10-person focus group after the movie, at the front of the theater. The woman leading it asked the group as a whole a bunch of different questions about the movie, how we responded to this or that, etc, and I guess my friend and I had insightful answers, since we both worked in the business, because it got to the point where she would ask the group a question, and then would ask my friend and I the same question, seeing what we thought about any particular answer. It was pretty funny.

But then she finally got to the ending, and my friend and I were both pretty passionate about the one where he died. What you don't see in the clip above is that, after that, Will Smith's character and the female lead go to an empty church and he basically, like, nods to his approval to God or something, as if finally accepting his role, and then I think they get in a boat and they basically go off into the sunset. Something like that. Whatever it was, it was REALLY cheesy and on-the-nose, and we basically pleaded our case as to why it should be the ending where he sacrifices himself, which we felt was much more powerful. There were a ton of WB execs sitting a few rows behind us, seemingly hanging on the group's every world, and all I know is that after that they ultimately switched out the original ending with the one where he died.

It still bothers me to no end that Hollywood has never made an adaptation that gets to the heart of the novella. It's such a great story and a fantastic metaphor and yet they insist on completely changing it into a typical monster movie. Like why even bother if you're just going to throw out the entire point of the whole thing?

Oh boy more terrible cgi monsters.



I am legend was a poor rendition of a great book. The scary part was the solitude. The second half of the movie, being the zombie battles and the discovery of the girl, was so terrible.

Talk about a completely unwanted sequel. Might as well just call this "I am Michael B Jordan and the movie studio wants to sell tickets."

I would love to see a rendition where they focus solely on the outbreak itself and the mass chaos and dissolution of government and society. That and the idol lation definitely creeps me out more than the creatures

I think this movie and World War Z are two instances where the movie and the source material were good and enjoyable… just not when considered equivalent or closely related if that makes sense.

aggierogue said:

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Easy, Rod said:

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Oh boy more terrible cgi monsters.



I am legend was a poor rendition of a great book. The scary part was the solitude. The second half of the movie, being the zombie battles and the discovery of the girl, was so terrible.

Talk about a completely unwanted sequel. Might as well just call this "I am Michael B Jordan and the movie studio wants to sell tickets."

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I thought the movie was great. But I've never read the book. Holding a movie to the book standard is a little unfair as most movies will never live up to the hype.

It's also one of the few sci-fi/horror movies that I can watch with a young kid. A Quiet Place is another example.

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Yeah, but in this case the movie missed the theme of the book entirely which is alluded to in the title. Robert Neville is the legend that the vampires fear and tell stories about. He is the boogeyman that comes to kill you in your sleep.

I am legend is levels above Z. Let's not get carried away

If anyone's interested, here's the original script from 1996, back in the day considered one of the best unproduced screenplays for over a decade. I've never read the book, but this version is apparently a lot closer to it. It's set in San Francisco as opposed to New York, and the zombies/vampires have actual personalities and dialogue, or at least the smartest ones do. It's been forever since I've read it, I just remember loving it when I did, in the early '00s. But here's the coolest part... it was set to star Arnold Schwarzenegger and be directed by Ridley Scott. Apparently it got super close to production, but then fell apart for some reason, but man, with that duo, this could have been an absolute '90s action classic...

https://file.io/IFXXwVBd5eCM

jeffk said:

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I think this movie and World War Z are two instances where the movie and the source material were good and enjoyable… just not when considered equivalent or closely related if that makes sense.

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I read world war Z and thought it was amazing!

When I saw the trailer for the movie….it was so incredibly disappointing I never wasted my time to watch it

Yeah, the movie was fun but it wasn't really WWZ. The book begs a miniseries.

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jokershady said:

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jeffk said:

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I think this movie and World War Z are two instances where the movie and the source material were good and enjoyable… just not when considered equivalent or closely related if that makes sense.

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I read world war Z and thought it was amazing!

When I saw the trailer for the movie….it was so incredibly disappointing I never wasted my time to watch it

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I still wish it was possible to get the actual World War Z story made, either in a movie or a mini-series.

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mini-series for the win! A movie would be really difficult given the way the book is structured