Quote Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF View Post
Really? I've never heard that before. Except from people who take offense that their fave book wasn't faithfully adapted. I have always understood it to be a reinterpretation of the story - because you cannot film a book. It just doesn't work. It can't be done. You change things, that's just how it works. That's why you don't get faithful adaptations. Because they're impossible.
Oh puh-lease! As if the people commenting on the lameness of I am Legend as compared to the book are fanatic fan-people who wanted an exact replica of a book to be played out on screen.

The book told a good story. The movie, not so much. A good majority of the film was decent, some parts of it was awesome, but the ending pretty much sucked. The ending of the book did not suck. The film is an adaptation of the book. Do ya see why people would complain? There is no reason to have changed so DRASTICALLY from the book except for purposes of dumbing it down. There was no reason to dumb it down.

So much was changed that it's really not much of an adaptation. More of an "Inspired by..."