I Am Legend Alternate Ending

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I Am Legend Alternate Ending

Postby Ryan-Roshen » Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:20 pm

Not sure if people have seen this yet. It just got posted this week.

Warner Bros. is trying to pull all the links for this, so not sure how long this link will stay active.

http://www.movieweb.com/video/V08CbwdvMrBaZ3

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Postby Braindrop » Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:48 pm

The most interesting part to me is WB pulling it everywhere. It just boggles my mind that they don't see the free advertising aspect of it.

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Postby Kommisar » Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:59 pm

Braindrop wrote:The most interesting part to me is WB pulling it everywhere. It just boggles my mind that they don't see the free advertising aspect of it.


No shit. I hadn't seen the movie yet, but now I want to...
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Postby Prybutok » Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:22 pm

Holy Crap that was actually a good ending and much better than the piece of crap I sat through in the movie.

Personally I think the actual ending was the alternate version. All throughout, the movie hints at a higher level of intelligence and sentience in the "creatures" but by the end they had just dropped that whole storyline.
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Postby Veratu » Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:23 pm

Both endings sucked, but then again I thought the whole movie sucked.

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Postby Kaydog » Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:07 pm

Prybutok wrote:Holy Crap that was actually a good ending and much better than the piece of crap I sat through in the movie.

Personally I think the actual ending was the alternate version. All throughout, the movie hints at a higher level of intelligence and sentience in the "creatures" but by the end they had just dropped that whole storyline.


This is exactly what I was thinking, this ending was much better for me
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Postby Stromm » Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:10 pm

I kind of agree with Veratu that both endings sucked. I thought the Movie was good, although I'm a big fan of most movies.
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Postby Prybutok » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:03 pm

yes V but they weren't zombies, which was the whole point of the deleted ending.
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Postby Noteworthy » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:45 pm

Veratu wrote:Both endings sucked, but then again I thought the whole movie sucked.

Zombies, disease, oh noes, 28 days in extreme Hollywood mode.

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Postby remagi » Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:33 pm

This ending is much better than the original and much closer to the actual Matheson story.

What most people don't realize is that everything they consider this movie derivative us was pretty much ripped off from the Matheson original (I Am Legend was written in the 50s I believe, but in any case it's several decades old). The various George Romero movies, 28 Days, hell even Blade and a few other things that are very common themes in movies now were derived from that book.

The original book is fairly complex and deals with systems of belief and perspective. In short, the doctor (played here by Will Smith) is in fact the last normal person that he knows of, and has been surrounded by people infected by a disease that makes them basically vampires (complete with the garlic fends them off etc). He is desperate to return to a normal life and of course afraid of the vampires; he rigs his house to be nearly impervious to them, and regularly goes around finding them asleep during the day and kills them.

What he doesn't realize is that vampire-infected people are capable of communication and belief systems of their own; to them, HE is the "dracula", the daywalker, the person who goes around when others are helpless and robs them of life without remorse. There is an undercurrent of religion versus science as well.

The book is about how we define ourselves and the monsters in our society; and the belief systems that reinforce those. The Will Smith movie was a cheap shot at making it into a fast action flick, so this ending doesn't really make it good, but it's much better than the original "it will all be ok" one.

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P.S. I imagine they are removing it everywhere to build value into the DVD version where this probably exists as a continuous viewing version.
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Postby urish » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:34 pm

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Postby Grihm » Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:13 pm

Wasn't Omega Man one of, if not the first attempt to put this book from the 50's on screen? I read a little about the book when they were promoting the movie, but I normally wait till I see the movie before I read the book or i'm almost always disappointed.

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Postby remagi » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:56 pm

Yes, Omega man was basically I Am Legend (and based on the Matheson novel) but not titled the same.

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