Comments on: Alternate ‘I Am Legend’ Ending Is Far Superior

By: Mandy

Mandy — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:11:39 +0000

They are vampires created by a paricite in the air as described by the book.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:10:26 +0000

Thats exatly what the book gets at and this ending follows his idea much better than the actual ending did. The idea of the vampires seeing us as the enemy. He is not a legend because of his discovery of the cure but because he is a legend or myth similar as to what we think of vampires as, unreal but still an fear. He is a legend because when he kills himself he is the end of the vampires fear.

By: Mjtl1

Mjtl1 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:47:02 +0000

Well i kinda expected an ending like before the grenade exploded he was thrown to the back of the room cause of the leader and survived but half burnt well thats my guess haha still i find it kinda weird he stayed 3 years in that city and he found a way out… o.o anyway pretty good hope they make a good movie not like all the other sequels

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:40:02 +0000

I don’t think I get what you’re getting at apart from the fact that practical effects are better than CGI. But my point still stands: The fact that Will Smith’s character became the “Legend” by becoming the monster is more interesting than exploding the vampires with a grenade.

By: The Ghost

The Ghost — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:34:23 +0000

THEY. ARE. NOT. ZOMBIES!

By: Ken J

Ken J — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:56:31 +0000

@Gary

I don’t mean it’s jarring in an “Oh wow” twist kind of way, it’s jarring in the, “this is hard to take serious” kind of way… The CGI monsters are already kind of bad, for them to do such long steady cuts with them “hissing” at Will Smith it was more than cheesy for me…

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:41:02 +0000

It’s supposed to be jarring. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a twist. I do agree that it came off kind of cheesier than it could have though. But I think the idea behind it is much better than the theatrical ending.

By: Frank Mondana

Frank Mondana — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:01:11 +0000

It still messes up the ending. In the book, Neville realizes that he is the last human and that the “vampires” are now the new normal. This all happens as he awaits execution. He declares, “I am legend” knowing that humans will fade into myth as the new society takes over.

This ending still leaves open the war, as it were, and that humans have not passed on.

By: Zephyr

Zephyr — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:14:48 +0000

The reason for this was Will blurted out the ending during a talk show. The studio was angry that Will outed the ending and ordered another ending to be shot which ended up in the cinema released.

By: JOCA

JOCA — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:01:19 +0000

….ow, ow…and I absolutly loved the alternate version instead!!just go with the ending that he manages to escape tro the back door, I think the fans would aproveit it, above all!

By: JOCA

JOCA — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:58:31 +0000

I think they should think better befoere killing him in the first movie, if they were thinking in doing another.

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:22:27 +0000

come on people read Garys post.. think of the monsters as us and as Will smith as the monster .. if there was a monster killing us it would become a legend.. think were wolfs, Frankenstein .

By: Leonie Cairn

Leonie Cairn — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:12:49 +0000

I agree. So much better! The flick was decidedly average, this could have made it halfway decent!

By: Ken J

Ken J — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:45:43 +0000

I have to disagree. I saw this ending on the DVD, and think it is pretty cheesy. It also drags on quite a bit and kills the pacing. One of the main reasons why I think this ending is bad is the fact that on one hand, they are supposed to be intelligent enough to be able to communicate, yet they don’t really communicate, they just roar at each other. How do they know he was roaring to tell them to not eat him or roaring to tell them to eat him faster?? lol

Anyway, I just think it’s just too jarring compared to how they are portrayed in the rest of the movie. I personally like the theatrical version better. But I guess this ending would have made it better for a sequel…

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:32:45 +0000

The tittle wasn’t “I Am Legend” because he died. It was because of what he became while he was alive. He became a mythical, legendary monster. He became to the vampire like creatures what vampires are to us. To us, a vampire is a mythical, legendary monster hunts people and kidnaps women and takes them back to his lair and turns them into one of him. In “I Am Legend,” Will Smith hunts Darkseekers and kidnaps a woman and takes her back to his lair and turns her into one of him. He became a monster to the new civilization of people. A myth. A legend. That’s what the tittle originally referred to in the movie and that was the way the book intended it.

By: Xochitl

Xochitl — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:02:53 +0000

maybe he starts the legend because he claims that the vampires still have human emotions and intelligence capabilities and so because he survived this close encounter with the vampires he is a legend!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:25:47 +0000

I much preferred the ending they put on mainstream release. It doesn’t conform to the standard Hollywood happy ending, and also if they chose the alternative ending, the name of the film wouldn’t have much significance in my eyes. He was the one who found a cure, he died after passing that cure on. As said in the film it is his legacy which caries on.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:54:57 +0000

Correction:

I totally agree. The alternative ending is better, less abrupt and finishes the story better (although the cinema ending is not terrible, just lacking).

You can see the theatrical ending on the extras on the special edition DVD and Blu-Ray.

(Please ignore/delete my previous comment. That’s what happens when you are distracted! lol)

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:48:47 +0000

The theatrical ending is better and less abrupt (although the other ending is not terrible, just lacking).

You can see the theatrical ending on the extras on the special edition DVD and Blu-Ray.

By: bsodmike

bsodmike — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:12:13 +0000

It’s been pulled…uh oh…another useless post

Drat, I would have liked to have seen that!