Alternative ending to 'I Am Legend'

[Rostum]

Personally, I much prefer this alternative ending to the original ending (haven't read the book so I can't comment on that ending).

Gametrailers.com - I Am Legend - Alternate Ending by DrowningHER0

[Araciel]

The original was kind of a let down. This one, I don't think is better, but it seems to fit better.

[Peegee]

So that's where the trailer scene came from.

I stopped watching at 50% because I got the gist of what the ending was trying to express. I'm not sure it fits, since I'm emotionally invested in the original ending xD but I 'get it'

[escobert]

Yeah I liked the final ending better but that was interesting.

[Balzac]

I heard that this was supposedly the original ending. When I watched the dvd I was quite surprised to see the ending I did. I also thought it was a very good ending too.

This alternate ending was pretty good, but I prefere the one that was used.

[scrumpleberry]

Yeah I liked the final ending better but that was interesting.

This one was certainly cheesier. I don't think it kept that much in canon with the rest of the film.

[Araciel]

Yeah I liked the final ending better but that was interesting.

This one was certainly cheesier. I don't think it kept that much in canon with the rest of the film.

Well....There could be arguments to that.

[scrumpleberry]

Yeah I liked the final ending better but that was interesting.

This one was certainly cheesier. I don't think it kept that much in canon with the rest of the film.

Well....There could be arguments to that.

Ooh, lets.

1. I think the entire point of the virus was the fact that it was so terrifying because it left you being entirely inhuman. The dude showing signs of care and appreciation of negotiation and exchange took away from that for me.

2. Dr. Neville dying at the end in the final version was, again, cheesy, but I think his death fit his role right from the beggining as a man who was sacrificing his own welfare to find this cure.

That's all I got atm...

[Araciel]

1. the fact that the 'leader' may have some human traits was already shown prior to the new ending, when he both stood in the sunlight, burning himself, and when he made the trap, all in an attempt to save his (presumably) mate. I even discussed this with my girlfriend after we watched the movie and said I was surprised how they didn't play it up afterwards.

2. Neville dying fits the original story, and this one, though for very different reasons. The fact that he basically fails to cure the infection seems to wound him more than dying to see it actually works (in the new ending as opposed to the theatrical version) He isn't really a legend in the alternate, which doesn't fit, so you're right there.

Like I said, they both could work...I loved this movie up until the woman saved him, but whaddyagonnado.

[El Bandito]

God did this movie disappoint me. I have no idea why they changed the story completely from the novel. I honestly think a movie completely true to the novel would've been much more interesting (though I guess it wouldn't have appealed to the masses as much).

Instead, the movie ended up a watered down version of 28 Days Later.

I guess this alternate ending was a little better in the fact that they conveyed the "vampires" as having their own society and still keeping feelings, but the whole concept of there still being a stronghold of humanity is bull and just ends up pissing me off (they even changed the entire reason Robert Neville is a "legend" ARGH!).

[Miriel]

That ending was ridiculous. Obviously they were trying to show that the "vampires" were capable of thinking rather than just being crazed rabid humans, but did they have to do it in such a stinky way?

Ugh. Why couldn't they have just kept the whole movie closer to the book?

[Madame Adequate]

That ending was ridiculous. Obviously they were trying to show that the "vampires" were capable of thinking rather than just being crazed rabid humans, but did they have to do it in such a stinky way?

Ugh. Why couldn't they have just kept the whole movie closer to the book?

Because you can just read the book if you want the story the book tells.

[XxSephirothxX]

That ending was ridiculous. Obviously they were trying to show that the "vampires" were capable of thinking rather than just being crazed rabid humans, but did they have to do it in such a stinky way?

Ugh. Why couldn't they have just kept the whole movie closer to the book?

Because you can just read the book if you want the story the book tells.

Wait, what? The entire point of book-to-movie adaptations is a visual representation of a preexisting story.

[LunarWeaver]

I've never read the book, but my brother told me about it. The general plot of the book excited me Then the movie didn't have that concept at all.

I didn't like either ending myself. I've seen worse, I guess. :/

[Big D]

A neat idea, but I felt that the alternative ending humanised the plague victims way too much - it gave them familiar emotions and relationship structures, whereas the rest of the film made them swarming, hive-oriented and utterly unrestrained in their aggression. When you take a human and make it act inhuman, the result is something I find really unsettling and frightening. This version of the movie took away from that, by suggesting "they're not so different from us after all".
Still, I like how this version forces Neville to consider the many 'zombies' he's killed during his research. Also, the end explains how the group were able to leave Manhatten - I don't know how many dim-witted reviewers have been critical of the film because "zomg they said there no bridges, how did dat gurl n kid get into teh NY? Did dey swimmz?"