I am Legend

Good, but not great, movie.

When I watched the movie, I assumed that Neville put the mannequin out on the road, and went a little crazy and freaked out when he saw it. But now I'm thinking maybe the vampires actually set it up.
 
Isn't it pretty obvious the night stalkers put the mannequin there and set the trap? I mean, do you think Smith also set that trap in the water with the cab falling to trap him by his foot? Went crazy and forgot about it and trapped himself in the air? Then the stalkers just happen to be in the building with the hole in the wall waiting for sunset with the dogs. Use some logic here people!
 
But they had shown emotion. They survived that long and he knew they could follow him too. Remember him asking Anna if it was dark when they got to his house? He obviously knew they could remember at the very least.

He underestimated them and paid a price for it.

His biggest meltdown was when the dog had to go and got hurt. He cracked. Like Anna asked him, "Were you trying to kill yourself?". I think he was but wanted to vent as much anger as he possibly could. Sort of like people in immature rants after a game knowing they are going to get permabanned.
 
Actually, they showed intelligence when the one male tried to rescue the female that Will Smith captured. The rest of the gang pulled him back into the darkness knowing that there was no way for them to save her without being killed by the sunlight. Smith's character was mistaken. Hell, they even copied his trap to capture his ***.
 
I thought about that. I thought about how they made their trap just like his. Yet they knew it was a trap and still the girl went for it. Shows you how powerful the lust for blood is in them. He had the audacity to do the trap when they were watching.

I totally think they had gotten some type of information system to know that he would go into that store for movies. They may have even just picked up the scent outside of it or on the dummy. Somehow they knew that this would get his attention and was familiar to him. They were right.

The setup of it was brilliant. I don't think they expected him to wake up or be able to get himself down in the nick of time as the sun set. They just wanted his ***. Had he not fallen for that trap there would have been others or a more concerted effort to follow him home. It would take some time but night by night they could position themselves or a contact one block further. Eventually they would be able to spy during the daytime from the dark.
 
Good points McClovin. But that goes to my whole problem with the movie. They should have started it with more on how the virus went down and devoloped the night stalkers more to the audience. Instead of him flashing back from time to time, it would have meant more sense and made a better movie if they showed more of the survivors of the virus and how they became night stalkers and fed on the remaining humans. But, it is what it is. Smith seemed so intelligent on his planning of the sunlight day after day and his testing of the rats and night stalkers, but his biggest downfall is he should have studied their behavior live more from day to day instead of just capturing some and experimenting on them.

As far as McClovins analysis of losing his dog and his anger vs. a team or athlete meltdown, that is quite ludacris. If you were the last month on earth, or you thought you were for how many ever years it was between the outbreak and the time the dog died, I think you'd take losing your only life companion pretty hard don't you?
 
Yeah anyone who owns a dog had to get a little teary eyed during that part, especially considering how much more this dog meant to him in the world he was in. Very sad to witness.
 
I did the same as MIA. I tell her, "Don't get the cancers from those night people". She tilts her head and goes back to sleep.
 
Apparently I needed to do better research before seeing that movie because I don't like scary movies & that scared the poo out of me!
 
Well, just saw it.

From what I read on wikipedia before going, I was pretty dissapointed.

Lots of weird things here...like, when the dogs are able to run out and kill Sam, why couldn't the zombies themselves go? And didn't they follow Smith home that night?

And..after 3 years some random zombie would've seen where he lived....just not possible he hid that long.
 
Damn, some of yall think WAY too much. There are even holes in any real life scenario that one could read into.
 
The Zombies were probably not organized or unionized, heh. He just pissed off that one batch of them to where they followed the lady when she drove. He had them all sorts of riled up and they were hot on his trail. It may have been more complicated for them to follow him little by little but not so much that one night. He could have been partially right about their intelligence. But he was not correct enough. Also, she did not take precautions to not be followed. She may not have covered up the scent with that solution, whatever it was. A lot of possibilities for the imagination to run with.
 
just got back from it. i liked it a lot, and like others, did not expect it to be so intense.

the only comment i have to add to this discussion is when will got trapped, i immediately assumed that the vampires had set the trap in the same way that will earlier did.

oh, and i also figured the animals were from a zoo.

good movie. i'd see it again.
 
The zombie, or whatever they are, set the trap for Smith. After Smith shots at the mannequin he then starts to shot wildly at the buildings around him. He just realized he was being watched and that the zombies probably watched him go to the video store.
 
For a warmer fuzzier ending, and in the vein of the zombies having some humanity left, what if the zombie leader sees his woman in a healed state there at the end, realizes what's happened, calls off the attack, and all the zombies are healed - oh, and zombies hate paragraphs (and sentences) btw.

And I 2nd the contention that Legend is not Bob's greatest album.
 
Correct me if I completely missed something here, but it was my contention that the good doc was not trying "to commit suicide" as one poster said, in his crazy, stupid, wreckless attack of the night seekers in the SUV, but that it was a calculated attack timed to an ecllipse or the reverse of that if it exists in science. I remember a flash of light on the horizon at a random time, I immediately thought of his reading the farmers almanac and crossing days off, but I think now I'm way off and it was the ladies lights? Then how did she end up rescuing him if that was the case?
 
He sent out that message to be at that pier, South, every day at noon. But he was not there that day, she was though. So she possibly stayed in that area as it was really all she knew. Also, maybe in hopes he would come back by or be there the next day. Then she saw the commotion. That is my thought on it.
 
i thought it was really good, but not great. My main problem with it was how a human displaying symptoms similar to rabies all of the sudden has superhuman strength and ability.

Will Smith was awesome
 
I don't read the books before the movie. I typically don't over analyze a movie. I loved the movie. According to this thread - I'm a dumbass.
 
Liked it alot....even with the plot holes.

BTW, did anyone notice how clean her get-away car was when she arrived at the survivor's colony...? There must have been an abandoned Bubbles Car Wash close by.
 
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