I Am Legend Original Ending
Film 03/06/2008 |Last weekend, Prairie and I went out to see I Am Legend at the local second-run theater, and we both came out with the same opinion — not a bad flick, until the end. For some reason, the last ten minutes or so of the film completely diverge from everything that had been set up until that point, taking what had been an interesting apocalyptic zombie film and ruining it for us with an ending that didn’t make any sense.
When we got home, I did a little poking around, and read on the film’s Wikipedia entry that the theatrical ending was actually (and unsurprisingly) a studio-mandated reshoot, and differed drastically from the ending as originally shot. Prairie and I were planning on renting the DVD release to see the original ending, but now, it’s been leaked to the web…and it is so, so much better than the crap that was released to the theaters. Obviously, you shouldn’t watch this if you haven’t seen the film and/or are worried about spoilers, but if you weren’t happy with the film as released, you really should check this out.
[See also: The Mist | Marilyn Monroe | ‘I drank what???’ | Apt Ringers? Dead Pupil? | Frahnk-en-steeeen! ]
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Tim Who?
Michael Hanscom
jer@nyquil.org
March 6th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I quite enjoyed I Am Legend, except for the ending (and some other minor plot quibbles). I’m glad to see that the original ending was so much better.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:39 am
I saw it opening night, and was also disappointed with the ending. I do feel that the ending did make sense, though, in a really stupid way. See, they took all of the ‘I am legend’ stuff out completely, replacing it with a really stupi gimmick in order to make the tite work. The gimmik is the Bob Marley stuff peppered througout the movie. The album that Will was saying was Bob’s ‘light in the darkness’ was entitled ‘Legend,’ and he equated the work he was doing to counter the virus as his ‘Legend.’
Apologies for typos, I’m propped up in bed with my olpc
May 27th, 2008 at 7:19 am
[…] …when a tank comes rumbling out of the mist, followed by soldiers wielding flamethrowers burning the mist and the monsters away, escorting a caravan of survivors. What? Oh, you’re kidding. Not just one disappointing cop-out, but two? Neither Prairie nor I have been this annoyed at a film in ages — not even the botched I Am Legend theatrical ending annoyed us this much. […]