<p>Yeah, I know this movie came out in 2007. But, I completely forgot all about it until I watched it a second time after my brother got it for Christmas. Has anyone else seen this movie? I thought the first 2/3 of the movie was absolutely superb with a great performance from Will Smith and some great thrills (refers to the scene inside the dark building). The ending was a load of crap, though. The newly introduced characters were neither interesting nor emotional. The ending was rather cheese ballish and lame. One other minor complaint I have is the infected people don't look all that scary; I think the movie overdid it with the special effects when it came to the infected. What I loved about the movie was Will Smith's performance, Sam, the first 2/3, and the whole mood of the desolated NYC. What did you guys think of the movie?</p>
<p>Also, how is it that they are going to make a sequel with Will Smith involved? While I love the idea of a sequel, I don't see how they can make a plausible reasoning for one after the ending of I Am Legend. I guess we will have to find out in 2011!</p>
<p>I thought that movie was AMAZING until they introduced the woman and her son. Then it sucked, and the filmmakers completely threw away everything they had been building up to with the infected being sentient beings with their own rituals, feelings, emotions, etc. Terrible. Absolutely terrible.</p>
<p>I'm going to copy a review I made on another site a long time ago.</p>
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I watched it on Thursday. I thought it was a good action/suspense thriller until the second part.</p>
<p>After Anna appears, the movie starts trying to be something larger than itself, with a half-assed "listening to God" theme that feels unnatural and completely tacked on. Plus, the creatures stop being scary after they come out.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I liked the flashback thing; it builds a nice atmosphere of what happened, with the quarantine and all.</p>
<p>One interesting discussion we had in class when we watched it though, just what are the creatures? I say they fall under the vampire archetype (they like blood and are afraid of sunlight) while many of my classmates argued they were zombie type monsters (they are bald, created by a virus that spreads through bites, etc...). Thoughts?
<p>I agree with all of your sentiments. However, I think they are Zombies, simple because, when bitten, (assuming you don't carry the immune trait) you get infected. Maybe the filmmakers tried to make a "zompire", a combination of vampires and zombies? What do you think of the sequel?</p>
<p>Actually, I don't think the immune people can survive getting bitten. I think they are just immune to the airbone virus. Look at Sam; he got infected when bitten, even though he must have carried the immune trait not to die or become a creature.</p>
The immune people don't get infected (obviously), but can survive getting bitten because they are immune to both airborne and contact infections. They can get killed if they're bitten enough, however. Sam is only immune to the airborne infection, as are all other canines.
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As for a sequel... according to Wikipedia, it seems it might be some kind of prequel. In which case, I think it might be pretty good, since it was the earlier part of the movie that I liked, and I would enjoy seeing more of the outbreak and quarantine.
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That was the original idea. If you keep reading the article you'll see they scrapped it because they didn't like it and decided they're making a sequel. Will Smith will still be in it, somehow.</p>
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The immune people don't get infected (obviously), but can survive getting bitten because they are immune to both airborne and contact infections. They can get killed if they're bitten enough, however. Sam is only immune to the airborne infection, as are all other canines.
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How do you know? We don't see anybody in the movie getting bit and surviving infection. So maybe I am right, or maybe you are right. We have also seen infected dogs (apart from Sam) and other infected (rats) and uninfected animals (lions, deers, etc...). Either they are all immune to the airbone virus, and only become infected upon being bitten, or they react like humans; that is, most die, some become creatures, and a tiny minority are immune.</p>
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That was the original idea. If you keep reading the article you'll see they scrapped it because they didn't like it and decided they're making a sequel. Will Smith will still be in it, somehow.
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How do you know? We don't see anybody in the movie getting bit and surviving infection.
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Remember right after the scene where they are in the dark building? Will says, "I want you to stay here on this one, because you can still get infected, and I can't". With this quote you can make the assumption that getting bit doesn't kill, otherwise it wouldn't really matter if he could get infected or not, right? That may be a little unclear, I'm trying to explain it as best as I can.
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Either they are all immune to the airbone virus, and only become infected upon being bitten, or they react like humans; that is, most die, some become creatures, and a tiny minority are immune.
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In the movie, Will Smith says "canines still remain immune to the airborne virus, they can however be infected by contact with the strain". When he says "canines", I assume he means all dogs. Deers can't get infected, they just die.</p>