Watched "I Am Legend" last night. Very cool. There were a lot of little things to appreciate in that film. How the watch alarm became so vital in my brain, or Sam barking to let you know everything is okay.

Some people have banged on about how bad the CGI was. Perhaps it was technically bad .. but seriously, why couldn't the zombies have looked like that and crawled walls and held zombie dogs with leases (how awesome was that little scene, him appearing in the doorway holding the dogs)?

Was well worth my time and the 1 cm of popcorn i skimmed off the top of the huge bucket i had to buy. Had to. Because you have to buy the large deal of popcorn and diet coke, and let's not forget the new banana choc-tops they've got over here in the land of the wombat.

banana choc-tops? sounds suspiciously like the evil Reese's Peanutbutter Cups they've been putting out as "Elvis" Reese's... eeeew.

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"The Alliance ain't the good guys. They're the opposing faction." ---Sam Shepherd or Stephen Howie

Mmmmm. Peanutbutter Cups sound pretty cool. Stupid Australia .. why can't we be more like you guys.

Heh heh.

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Death smiled as she withdrew. Kill an army for me, Raif Sevrance. Any less and I just might call you back.

I didn't like it I'm afraid... too many silly problems with the plot and the ending was very deus ex machina.

Where did the deer and lions come from when they blew the bridges?

How did the woman arrive just in time to save him on the jetty, and how exactly did she save him?

Why did he just happen to have a blast proof cubbyhole in his lab?

The first half wasn't too bad - one man and his dog against the world... but the more I watched the less I liked it

Yeah, it's hard to understand some of the decisions writers/directors/film folk make.

Still, I liked the film. There was enough attention to detail, specially in the first half of the film, that made it a worthwhile watch. Obviously, not attention to the things you mentioned. There were leaps of logic.

Would have been better if he'd turned into a zombie at the end. Or she had died. Or been a zombie queen. Or something.

Was hoping that the lead zombie would be someone important. But that become less likely as time went by, heh heh.

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Death smiled as she withdrew. Kill an army for me, Raif Sevrance. Any less and I just might call you back.

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"The Alliance ain't the good guys. They're the opposing faction." ---Sam Shepherd or Stephen Howie

Where did the deer and lions come from when they blew the bridges?

I don't know anything about NYC, but where was the zoo in relation to the movie?

There are tunnel's too right? And evetently there must've been some route that was open, because the girl and the boy made it through in an SUV right?

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I guess there must've been some open route, 'cause the woman and the boy made it through in an SUV. Maybe a tunnel wasn't blocked as well as they thought. Heck, maybe the zombies opened up a blocked tunnel.
And there was plenty of vegetation growing; I imagine deer will go about anywhere. I know I've seen one dead in a highway median of major highway in parts of a city where there was no woods insight, nothing but but buildings for blocks. I always wondered where it came from.

However I have heard that the movie doesn’t do the book justice, but that’s almost always the case, right?

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Where did the deer and lions come from when they blew the bridges?
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I guess there must've been some open route, 'cause the woman and the boy made it through in an SUV. Maybe a tunnel wasn't blocked as well as they thought. Heck, maybe the zombie opened up a blocked tunnel.
And there was plenty of vegetation growing; I imagine deer will go about anywhere. I know I've seen one dead in a highway median of major highway in parts of a city where there was no woods insight. I always wondered where it came from.

However I have heard that the movie doesn’t do the book justice, but that’s almost always the case, right?

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I thought the first half of the movie was good - i love post apocalyptic movies. But I thought the ending was predictable and too trite. I would have liked it if they explored the zombies things change from mindless rage to more "human" like behaviour. It went downhill after sam's death.

Did anyone read the original book, I am Legend? it was really good I thought, and had a way better ending, i don't know why they didn't stick with a similar ending instead of the whole "God lead me to find [will smith and the antidote] and then save the world" ending. The original ending (from my memory and I read it a while ago) had the main guy realising that everyone else in the world was infected and that he was going to die but he was going to die proudly because, he is the last man on earth, and he is legend to those zombies that remain.

For those of you who don't already know, I Am Legend wasn't the first movie based on Richard Matheson's novel. It was also the inspiration for 70's sci-fi drama, The Omega Man (starring Charlton Heston).

-Paul