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I am Legend is coming out on DVD April 28, and it is one of the movies I am getting for my Easter sock. Here what I think: Richard Matheson's novel was unique, a survival epic which is hard to dissociate from, but I am Legend dissociates from it in a way that is at least entertaining. In this version of the cinematographic adaptation of I am Legend (previous adaptations: The Last Man on Earth and Omega Man, both of which I liked), Robert Neville is a scientist searching for a cure for the virus that decimated the world's population. Immuned to the plague, Neville is the sole survivor of a new world, strangled by man's own science and the beasts that it created. During the day, Neville plays golf, shops and hunts deer in the middle of Time Square, but at night he barricades himself, hides from a vampire race created by the Virus. When he meets two other survivors, his house is overrun by the vampires, and he must choose between following the other survivors to a colony in Vermont or sacrifice himself for the cure that he just found. Of course, he chooses the sacrifice. And that's when the movie makes a wrong turn. IMO, I am Legend was a pretty good movie... you could feel the emptiness and the loneliness... you could imagine what New York would look like without man's trangressions, nature taking back the human spaces (so kudoz to director Francis Lawrence)... but that ending... Reminded me of the ending to Pulse. I hated that ending as much as I loved the ending to Kairo...
But I am digressing.
I am Legend was a good watch. People I know all found it at the very least entertaining... but hated the ending. So here's the good news: there is going to be an alternate ending. That's right. Reading on different blogs and such, there is reason to believe there will be an I am Legend alternate ending, which is believed to be less "happy Hollywood".
So there you go, thats the reason I am getting this one for my Easter sock.
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