Just got back from watching it, definitely pretty cool movie. I also agree with JB on the ending. As for how it compares to the book, the only similarity it has is the premise, hes the last guy alive and hes trying to survive but as for everything else, its completely different.
Oh and the whole bit with the dog fucking depressed the hell out of me.
The dog bit. First off let me say this. I absolutely love dogs. My parents have a 14 y/o Brittany Spaniel and I adore him. I miss him really badly since I moved. Anyway, I totally had tears streaming down my face at the dog part.
I have trouble with animal deaths. It just doesn't work well for me.
That could potentially keep me from seeing the movie. I have trouble with animal deaths. It just doesn't work well for me.
Yea... if you have weak spot for animals that might be a good thing to consider. I felt the same way as scott cause my mother has a dog, sheperd mixed, love her to death and that scene was almost too much for me to handle.
I remember one interview or comment by some director somewhere that went something like, "You can kill a million people, but the audience will never forgive you if you kill a dog."
I can't remember the last time I cried watching a movie, but I lost it when the dog died.
I watched it this weekend. I enjoyed everything, though I agree the end seemed rushed, although I think it was on purpose
I can't remember the last time I cried watching a movie, but I lost it when the dog died.
Yeah, that was a really sad moment! I think that was my high point in the movie.
Edit: And what the fuck was with the mannequins? That was stupid as hell.
Which part, the zombies moving them around or the fact that will smith was talking to them?
I think I understood it. By the point in the movie we were watching, wasn't he basically alone for two years? I mean I talk to my dog like a person too, but I have other people to talk to most of the time so I don't have to worry about him talking back. He didn't have anyone at all to talk to. The truth is people get fucked up when they don't have anyone else to have a conversation with over time. I mean think about solitary confinement in prisons. It's not exactly the same since Will Smith has a much larger and more interactive environment than prison solitary, but I'm sure over time it would have a negative mental effect regardless.
Yeah Ant, the talking to them.
I got the reasoning behind it and everything Scott, I just thought that it was kind of dumb. If he's sane enough to be doing all of the other amazing stuff that he is doing, including finding a cure for the virus, I doubt that he would be talking to mannequins.
When Will Smith's character fell into the trap which mimicked his own trap for the female, it became clear that he had fucked with the wrong mutant, stole his girl. The scene earlier when the mutant leader allowed his skin to get burnt just to growl at Smith was an early, if unclear indication. The alternate ending deals with the extra passion behind the charge into death by the hordes. A little bit extra meat would not have motivated that.
The greatest difference in the theatrical ending exposes the current bloodlust in Hollywood. You can't have a serious story where the protagonist survives. That is, for whatever reason, no longer allowed.
In the book, the main character believes he's fighting for humanity's survival and whatnot. By the end, however, he realizes that as the mutated become the norm, he's the one who's the monster now. He's their Dracula and hence the title, he is legend to them. Something like that.
A black guy and a somewhat ethnic foreigner save America from all the dumb pasty-white honkies.
;D
We'll let that one go. We probably owe you one. But the next one will cost you. :)