'I am Legend' movie discussion thread (Spoilers inside)

[BaronVH]

Big time spoilers

A lot has been made about how bad the digital effects were and how the ending was terrible, but improved by the new ending. I have to disagree. I did not find the special effects to be so bad as to detract from my enjoyment. Sure, I thought it was silly that the monsters had jaws that could open up like a villian on Scooby Doo, but it really did not detract from the movie at all for me.

As for all these people that said the alternate version was better: they are smoking crack. The original ending completely followed the main character's struggle to solve the crisis (albiet irrationally) whatever the risk. His dog was the last connection with his family and life. When that ended he had nothing left to lose but his research. His sacrifice at the end shows that all that was left of his life was his research, which was actually somewhat consistent with how he interected with the new characters introduced at the end. And the upbeat Disney ending in the alternate version was awful. So we are to believe that the "leader" of the monsters could care less about the hundreds killed just so long as he could keep what we are to presume to be his wife as a monster? Also, why is this leader any different from the others?

Certainly this was not an A movie, but it was a solid B with very good acting by Will Smith. There were certain things I did not like, like how it dated itself as to when the events happened; they could have kept it vague to make his isolation more difficult, and, yes, they could have used real actors to play the monsters, but I liked the theatrical version, and I thoroughly hated the alternative ending.