I am Legend

Neville had been catching and lab testing zombies for the last 3 years (pictures on the wall) and ONLY when he catches the boss zombie's ***** do they decide to get proactive? I can't get past that one. I mean.....one human and one dog in the whole city.....with a regular routine.....for 3 friggin years, THEN bossvamp decides to get smart when titty vamp is caught?
I did enjoy the hive he ran into with the rapid breathing all huddled together. That was tense.
 
Regarding the trap....I dunno about the vamps setting it.

Nevell probably had traps set all over the city. Maybe he forgot about this one. Or maybe he set this one up and put the mannequin there....and since he was going mad he forgot about it. Hard to know.

I dunno...pretty big plot hole. Plus, if the trap was so sensitive, then when Smith shot up the mannequin, the trap would've probably gone off.

If the vamps were that smart, they would've found Smith's hideout after 3 years easily.
 
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I'm not sure how official these Q&As are, but the IMDb FAQ on I Am Legend answers a few of our questions. Feels about as official as Wiki.

It's vinegar he sprays.

Neville's family died in the helicopter despite that not being shown.

The vampires set the trap and moved the dummy. They learned by watching him do it.

The vampire dogs could come out at dusk while bipedal vampires couldn't come out until dark. Screen grab proof of this one.

And a couple of theories as to how she got on and off the island.

This is not listed, but it occurred to me recently that the tunnel might be open as that's where all the deer headed. That might have been their out and in. Or maybe just a dead end trap in dark vampireville.

IMDb LINK
 
I laugh at the stories of those of you who went home and talked to/hugged your dogs after the movie. I actually had a heart to heart with both of mine, explaining
"Remember, I'm immune to the bites, you guys aren't. Just go get in the ******* car and stay out of it. I can handle 2 dogs (Remember, he killed one with a gun)"

Unbeknownst to me, my wife was in the hall and heard me, thus confirming that I have at least somewhat lost my mind. She hadn't seen the movie, so I had to explain it to her.
 
i haven't read all 6 pages of comments so apologies if the below has been stated.

the book and movie name i am legend refers to smith. i haven't read the book but have read numerous reviews. someone correct me if i'm wrong but the legend referred to in the title refers to neville.

he is a legend in that the human race has evolved or devolved to the point that old humans like neville are the legends. the new vampire humans are the norm. neville is the oddity in the new world, a relic of an age long gone. hence, he is the legend. in the book there is dialogue between neville and the vampires that support this idea. in the heston movie, there is also dialogue. strange that in this movie there is not.

so with the movie, i do not like that there is no dialogue between neville and the vampires/rabid humans. the same arrogance is displayed by neville in both, but without the dialogue, the i am legend part is lost in translation.
 
Like a poor unknowing girl on a first date with a frat boy, there is to be no talking with these vampires. Their dialog was non-verbal.
 
Just saw it. Disappointing. The movie is very derivative of movies that were more interesting. The flashback family sequences were trite and cloying, it might have been more poignant had the child's room been revealed late in the movie (as it is) as the only allusion to his past.

Also, I really dislike blatantly obvious and overused CGI. The noise and speed of the zombies/vampires/nightseekers startled me when they appeared, but were just too fake to be very interesting. Even the lions in the early scenes look like cheap, phony effects.

I'd rather see Dawn of the Dead again. The movie leans very much on Omega Man and the zombie movies without doing much that is new.
 
My biggest gripe about the movie is the fact that Anna didn't know who Bob Marley is...how can you know about Damien Marley but not know about Bob Marley?? absolutely ludicrous!
 
Everything in the movie was believable except his house. Any idea how much a house like that costs???? I guess if he was making some serious bank in the army he could afford it, but that's a pricey pad right in the park.

Now I know what you're thinking..he moved in after the **** storm. But oh no my friends...that would only be true if he then decorated his little girl's room again.

Just sayin...that house was a few milion. easy.
 
Coulda been furnished by the government and outfitted for the purpose it served before the **** hit the fan. So the taxpayers paid it.
 
Anyone notice the artwork in his place? Van Gogh's Starry Night, Monet's Japanese Bridge, etc. I suspect they were the actual originals, taken from the museums.
 
finally saw it on DVD.

others have posted most of my biggest concerns with the movie as well, with some explanations given


#1 there was no way in hell the woman drove into NYC through the tunnels- even one that was "protected and left clear by the miltary", the tunnels would have flooded due to all the rain water over a 3 year period. Read somewhere that if the pumps in the NYC subway stopped pumping water out of the subways, the entire system would be underwater in less than 3 days (and yes i realize its the tunnel we are talking about but the principle is the same).

#2, the trap. I have to assume it was the night stalkers, but what I dont understand is how the hell he was knocked out for hours by a simple sling.

#3 never even considered the fact that the female was the mate of the big male, so that may very well be the answer.

#4 for a house that looked to be super protected from a concerted zombie attack, it failed miserably.

#5 as pointed out somewhere else on this thread, those zombies scaled the 4 stories of the house in about 3 seconds flat, yet the survivors colony had maybe 20 foot walls around it- they arent going to stop those guys.

#6, how the **** did the woman know where Neville lived? From my rewatching of the scene where he goes nuts and is running down the vampires, he goes in and out of consciousnes no way in hell he was able to explain how to get to his house- he may have been able to say the address, but considering only a few streets were usable, she couldnt have figured out where he was, and he was in no condition to give directions.

#7 also pointed out above, the super-jump of the 3 year period with a total of about 1 minute of explanations was a serious mistake by the director. 10 more minutes could have helped explain exactly what the issue was and the fact that 99% of all the people on the planet had died due to the virus and exactly how Neville came to use his own house in NYC as the base of operations for research.

And finally, since when did a small half pound hand grenade have enough firepwer to destroy a basement and all 10-15 zombies inside???
 
He got whipped up by the sling and hit his head.

I think that he and whoever else designed that house severely underestimated the ability or the abillity that would be developed by them. He continued to underestimate their ability to adapt and learn.

He could have told her where to go and then passed in and out. He may have just barely gotten it out. Remember, she was there since noon so she would have a basic idea of what streets to travel down and which ones were not.

No idea how she got on the island. That bugs me too.
 
what are the alternate endings on the DVD?

Oh, and I think the only thing this movie had in common with the book was the main character's name.
 
The alternate ending answers some of the questions.

She drove on and off the island by way of one of the bridges.

In the alternate, no one dies in the final scene. The head zombie conveys to the doctor, by drawing a butterfly in blood on the plexiglass he'd been headbutting, that the girl is his mate (she has a butterfly tattoo).

Neville carries the girl out into the room of zombies and the leader has to hold back his brood.

The vampires leave the house with the vampire girl, then all three normals drive off the island, presumably that day, but it's not clear.

I liked the alternate ending better.

As far as his house, he protected the windows and had lights and explosions set up. Once those were exhausted, he didn't have any other major defenses.

And I think the vampires tearing through the roof was another example of the vampires being smarter than Neville gave them credit for. He probably didn't anticipate that move.

I thought the same thing about the colony walls. Didn't the movie explain that the zombies didn't like the cold? That's a possible, albeit faulty, explanation.
 
I talked to the producer about this.

Jis take was this. The "vampires" were able to scale his house because they had footing...meaning that the house wall was not smooth. You could see this from some of them falling off.

Imagine a being with opposable thumbs having no fear of falling off. You could haul *** up a structure that had the architecture of the house.

The wall was smooth.

These are not supermen. They were stll limited to what the human body cuold do SUPERHYPED up on adrenaline.
 
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These are not supermen. They were stll limited to what the human body cuold do SUPERHYPED up on adrenaline.
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i could drink a million red bulls and still not tear through sheet rock and a roof. unless your the virus affected bone density and toughened your skin akin to alligator skin, i don't see the punching holes through walls, having super human strength, etc. happening.

i thought i liked this movie but the more i think about it, the more i get pissed. hollywood must think people are stupid.
 
Also, they had no patch of darkness for cover to get to that fortress to begin with. They don't even know they are there. Where would they stay at night and how would they know there was a safe, dark place for them to be overnight? A forest would not provide enough dark cover for them esp. if the leaves fall off for winter.

But I don't buy the cold thing. NYC is not exactly tropical.
 
I haven't read through all of the posts... I'll just offer my opinion. Terrible movie.

There are too many inconsistencies and unexplained transitions. Several of them have been discussed already - I'll pass on those.

Why does the butterfly tattoo lead Neville to his resolution that the cure is "in the blood?"

Why did he not previously think the cure was in the blood? Isn't that the first place you'd look?

What exactly is the cure? Whatever it is, it seems unrelated to the hemocyte he had been experimenting on. Actually, it seems unrelated to all the experiments he had been performing.

Why was Neville hunting deer? Why did he never shoot at one? Why were there two lengthy deer chase sequences, neither with any connection to the plot?

Why does Neville commit suicide? Seems like he could hide out until day time, then find a new base camp somewhere else.
 
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