Also, as others have said, the movie does lead you to this ending – it is foreshadowed by Neville sparing the Lioness’s kill (something he wanted, some fresh steak, giving way to another creatures needs). Now recall that all throughout the movie he is talking about his “need” to “Make this right”….”I can fix this”. It always rang as sort of self-serving, despite the fact that you sympathize with his agonizing plight. His personal need to fix the problem blinded him to even the possibility that the vampires could feel love, loss, or mourning. The shot of Neville looking over at his wall of photos, after the Alpha male / female depart the lab, is the “Money shot” of the whole picture. In the end he “gave way to another creature’s need”, and it seems, gave up the quest to save mankind (which was already saved via the Compound he learns about, and which he resists, again to protect his selfish “need” to fix everything).

I know this is a long rehash, but I think the alternative ending ties everything together better then most people are even saying.

Human beings can’t survive without oxygen. Science fiction loses its appeal when it disregards something so, well, scientific.

Human beings can’t survive without oxygen. Science fiction loses its appeal with it disregards something so, well, scientific.

Now I think the movie was fantastic, except for the original ending, because it showed just how fragile Robert’s mind was during this time. The only thing keeping him sane was his “work”, companion, and routine When he lost his companion you can see that he lost his sanity, which I felt was portrayed very well.

You also see how he strives to hold onto the normality of life before the event when he constantly visits the video store and makes “friends” with the mannequins.

However, I thought the original ending of the movie was complete crap and the writers simply needed to end the movie. What better way to simply end a movie than by killing all the main characters? (Robert and the alpha-male).

This ending shows how Robert’s perception of the infected changed, as though he finally saw the light. He finally understood that HE was the villain and that the zombies were simply trying to live their lives. It was him that was invading their space, and not them invading his space. The alternate ending to this movie shows a much better view of how Robert’s attempts at a cure were to him an attempt to save humanity while in the infected’s point of view they were attempts at murder and destruction of their society.

It looks like the gametrailer link is gone, but I just watched it here:

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/03/05/must-watch-i-am-legends-original-ending-this-is-amazing/

Any standard DVDs you get that are absolutely perfect and pristine…well, odds are they came off my press, back when I was running a DVD press in January before I became a floating Data Analyst.

So…be kind, don’t pirate. Pay retail for these things and keep DVD and BD manufacturing jobs in America!

One thing corrected (sort of), now all I want is an explanation for the water…

J/P=?

In the *original* story, the dr. came to realise that, in fact, HE was THEIR bogeyman. To him, they were the monsters who came in the night. To them…he was the monster who came when they slept. He was the one to threaten their children with. He controlled areas they couldn’t penetrate, and used these as a base to set traps for them. He was the monster who destroyed them while they were helpless. This was what came with his realisation that they weren’t just animals, that they had retained AN intelligence, if not their original personalities, and had rebuilt a culture.

Even though this ending isn’t perfect, it is one heck of a lot more true to the original.

You can check it out on IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277605/

You can also check it out at the HKMDB:
http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=8362&display_set=eng

There are more reviews of the movie in the left column.

Not only will I buy the book, I’ll more then likely buy the DVD. My wife and I have an extensive library, (mostly for my part it contains work by English authors) I also have over 500 DVD’s (that’s Authentic DVD’s not ‘pirated’) I pay for work that is worthy of payment.

“It’s all well and good to spout off about undermining other people’s livelihoods. When someone tries to do the same to yours, how will you feel?” I’ve lived through that, I am a software engineer, my career is likely to be limited by social prejudices I have been aware for some time now that I will be, unduly, viewed as redundant by the age of 35. I also lived through Australia’s wholesale export of IT jobs to India in the early 2000′s. My industry went from booming, to bust over night. I was fine but, as I said previously, there is no desire for the industry to die, only the waste, the sad, scared giants that are confused about the future of entertainment in the digital age that post copy right claims on you tube for a 5 min clip that can only result in further sales of the DVD. I hope that corporations that are run by irrational people with eyes on the past will give way to new corporations that will take full advantage of emerging technologies.

This ending is not flawless (In fact, it’s quite hard to understand), and, in my personal opinion, is a little better than “brb, gonna sacrifice for salvation of mankind lol”.