I’m so unbelievably pissed that Warner Brothers fucked this up. Those familiar with the Richard Matheson original story will know what I’m talking about. I did enjoy the movie up until the climax, where everything that made the original story so great was shat upon. The title “I Am Legend” refers to Neville being the only human alive and thus, the “legend” that vampires tell each other. He kills their kind and as seen as a monster to them. In the movie, this was set up rather nicely - I was under the impression that the head vampire had set up the spy (the woman) so he can find his lover. Brainless Hollywood decided this was too creative and cool, so they went for the hand grenade ending - making the woman (and boy with an obvious wig) actual humans who *STUPID SPOILER ALERT* at the end bring the vampire cure to a enclosed town - NEGATING the whole “legend” thing. I implore you to read the original story (here at Amazon.com) and be dumbfounded on how the WB could fuck this up.

That said, I did like Will Smith’s performance and the movie’s post-apocalypse special effects (an empty New York). I didn’t like the vampires CGI work, it was a humanoid character - old fashion make-up would have worked for what they did. Maybe just using CGI for the jumping around. I could do better shit on my laptop. I’m glad I rented it on iTunes and not bought the DVD.

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