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Doug – Girlfriend?! I didn’t even think about that.  Haha, that’s hilarious.  Yeah, I’d give it four stars too, but I don’t buy that they couldn’t have used mostly human actors (with some CGI ones for clambering around) in those scenes.  I mean, between 28 Days/Weeks Later and the remake of Dawn of the Dead, I have to believe we can pull off human-esque infected.

BTW, and I don’t know this from the book, but what are they actually called? In this movie, they’re Darkseekers, in Omega Man, they’re hemasites (or am I making that up?).  Whats the dealio?

1. I’ve read that crowds of actors in prosthetics just couldn’t give the rabid performance needed for the infected, hence the switch to CGI.  I can understand that, but transforming NYC into a wasteland was so amazing that the infected looked really crappy by coincidence.  I kept thinking Will Smith was fighting a bunch of Resident Evil baddies come to life.

2. I wish they did the original ending to A) keep the original meaning of the title intact, and B) make the infected just so much more interesting.  It seemed to me that the “leader” of the baddies was after Will Smith because he kidnapped his girlfriend.  He was clearly intelligent and Smith ignored that.  I expected him to start talking at the end and was disappointed when he didn’t. 

3. At first I thought Smith trying to find a cure for 3 years was great.  He was a man alone trying to make up for a failure that doomed the world.  A hint of insanity here and there.  Loved it.  But then the cure that he developed got to the survivors and… then what?  They really saved the world with it?  They injected the millions of infected one by one?  If I were the leader of the survivors and someone told me there was a cure I’d have been like “thanks but we’ll wait until they all die off.”

4. While these are complaints, I still gave the movie four stars on Netflix.

5.  How did that woman drive onto and out of an island that had all its bridges blown?

In the paper today there was the story of a little Staten island boy who escaped his burning house, only to run back in to try to rescue his pet dog and lizard still trapped inside.  They all died. Tell his parents everything happens for a reason.

I loved I am Legend, but I agree the whole God told me lady was a lazy way to go the Signs route of wrapping things up neatly.  If God was telling her about the colony he could’ve mentioned in the same sentence what the vaccine for the dark seekers was. And told Will to leave for Vermont because come nightfall he’d have to kill himself or get chewed alive.  Normally I don’t nitpick like that, especially since He has the get out of jail free card of working in mysterious ways, but I think Will had it right when he told her there was no God.  The Meet the Spartans trailer is proof of that.

Basically, and I knew it was inevitable, but I didn’t like the new people we met.  She kinda sucked, the boy was lame, and it just opened so many questions.  You and little Skippy drove into Manhattan, an infested warzone, and are able to rescue a military expert with a flare?  The same guy that’s been hiding out in an armored apartment that he’s afraid to reveal to the baddies? Really? I just don’t buy it, and I don’t like the Joan of Arc “God told me so” bit either.

It just takes what is a really good tale of survival, how to survive, how it plays with the mind, how one man must deal with an enormous problem every day, and the struggles of one man versus the world and eliminates it all.  I loved Signs, thought the “message” worked well for that movie because that’s what the movie was about.  This movie is not about faith.  It was never about faith, so I didn’t care for it.  That alternate ending Matthor shares is good, and if that’s what happened, I’d be more okay with it (with more foreshadowing of the evolution) but as it stands, all it does is lead to Will’s downfall, so there’s nothing to like about it.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed this movie and really dug a lot of it; it’s just this little turn that I didn’t care for much.  And the ending itself (I can’t say I’d have preferred the Berg ending, as it would be too Children of Men-ish, and also make me nuts that there was no real closure). 

And I don’t really like the way the creatures turned out.  I wish they were just Raged people, instead of bouncing, watery folk.  I also wish that more of their evolving humanity played a part; more than just the emerging leader.  I mean, wouldn’t you be freaked out if after 3 years these mindless animals set a trap for you!?  Will seemed to take it in stride.

Also, I don’t like how they changed the story and theme of the original story. Even if it did fit with the title, it didn’t work for me.

***Spoilers below***

The woman and boy show up, and everything proceedes as it does in the released version.  When the mutants attack his brownstone, she helps him escape out into the streets.  They’re on the run.  Huge aliens like scene of fighting through the city at NIGHT for the first time.  They end up back at Grand Central (remember the huge hole in the wall where he was dangling?) she says “in here is safety, trust me.” He does.  But then… it ends up they’re in a hive.  Huge.  Surrounded.  Reveal that SHE and the boy are one of the mutants.  The mutants have evolved, and now some (a select few) can go into the light.  She was sent w the boy to lure Smith into the hive.  They say that “God loves us more, be one of us.” He says fuck you and pulls the pin on a granade.  The End.

I still wish that this was made when it was supposed to be made back in the 80’s when i kept readin it was Arnie’s next project (with ridley directing).  At one point I imagined, while i watched this, him saying, “His bark was worse than his bite.”