I am Legend

OMG I went to see the movie on boxing day and that has got to be Will Smith's worst film. It was boring and actionless. The trailer is a whole different story from the film. I expected loaRAB of action and more of a thrill but there was absolutely hardly any.

Its a very dissapointing movie infact i would say it was completely crap. Waste of time and money...
 
Not really a plot hole. He was using vinegar to cover and mask his scent. She didn't and they sniffed them out.



Again, no real plot hole. I believe it had something to do with the lights she was using. We saw how UV was able to burn the afflicted humans (so not zombies by the way!). IIRC they ran off when they were hit by the light she was shinning at them. She was out at night with her son because as she explained she had heard Smith's character's message and had been waiting for him to show up, desperate to meet another survivor. .
 
I agree with one of the poster's above, once the woman and boy arrived it seemed to lose it's way a bit. As a mainstream zombie film though it was pretty entertaining. Not as good as 28 days or 28 weeks later but pretty good. The dog was great too!
 
Contracting a serious bout of potentially fatal food poisoning after 3 years of serious research for the cure, is not ideal, particularly as the film leaRAB us to believe he is the only person capable of finding it.
 
yeah i didnt think it was the best film ever but better than independence day! id give it 6/10 overall.

The cgi monsters completly ruined it. Just coz its expensive does not mean its good.
 
Good - opening first 30- 40 minutes, when they were setting up how utterly alone he is and how it was affecting his mental state. Um, the dog. Good actor that.
Bad - pretty much everything else. The zombies in Resident Evil (the PS2 game) were better than those in the film. I can only assume 90% of the budget went to Will Smith. Seeing as we're talking about plot holes, can I add mine?
- I too wondered why more significance wasn't made of the dummy being moved. If Neville moved it as part of a game to keep him sane, how did he avoid the trap the first time? If the zombies moved it, this suggests intelligent thinking on their part, as someone pointed out, which would have required Neville to come up with something more to survive than simply stay indoors when it's dark.
- I can just about accept that Neville was a high-ranking millitary officer and an apparently world class virologist/ geneticist (:rolleyes:) with the means to build a huge lab in his house (:rolleyes::rolleyes:), but why did he take personal responsibility for finding a cure for the virus? He kept saying something about 'his area'. What, New York, viruses, order?
- Considering the lengths Neville - a hard-ass army officer - had to go to to survive, is it likely that a skinny woman with a small child could have survived that long?
- Why, exactly, was Neville stalking those animals? At first I thought it was for food, but it became apparent that wasn't a problem. For sport?
- And where did they come from? Zoos? The plains of the Serengetti?
- Why was every street gridlocked? Fair enough, everyone initially tried getting off the island, but when the bridges were blown up, did no-one try to get home, or to other places of apparent safety?
- How did the virus get off the island? Neville's wife initially tested positive, but she died almost immediately after being evacuated. If there was reason to believe it had already flown on one of the 10,009 trialists, what was the point of quarantining the island?

Yes - I do analyse things too much :D
 
In British use, it is only used in "ill-gotten gains," in Britain it is archaic. Same as we no longer have 16 fl.oz in a pint we have 20 and other such like instances.

I never said it was an Americanism, just that America still uses that word, whereas in the UK we use got instead of gotten.
 
Up until he gave his address he was conscious, he could have regained consciousness in the scene we did not see, doesnt mean he will remember it. I mentioned the boyu wasnt her son as you said you have an attention to detail :P She didnt really have responsibility over him although when put in a dangerous situation its hard to imagine what someone is capable of.

I dont recall it saying they physically followed them home all the way, just no precautions were took to mask their scent leading to his home. If they had physically followed them that night they would all be dead that night, it was close to dawn I recall her saying.

Anyway if were questioning how believable this film is, Ive heard no mention of the Legally Blonde movie poster in new york city during the film, as if they would make another one of those!
 
Ok....so these dumb creatures decided to 'sleep on it' then follow the scent home the day after rather than simply follow it there and then that night ? (Which it still was night). Just a minor point but still one of many which made the film lack credibility. In fact I'm now so bored of it I won't choose to post here again!
 
I didn't understand the point of quarantining Manhattan either, considering they said that the virus had become airborne when Will was in the car with his wife. The river up at the top end of Manhattan Island is not very wide at all, just 14 feet at the locks, so it could easily have jumped across there if the river at the Southern end was too wide. Besides as you say there were all those "cured" cancer patients all over the world anyway.

In the previous film (The Omega Man) the "virus" is the result of chemical warfare between the Soviets and the Chinese, and I think in the book it's not explained what it is at all, so I think when making this film they just invented the cancer cure story and really didn't think it through at all.

I imagine Neville was stalking deer for food because he fancied something different, something fresh. After all he later whinged about the bint using up the bacon he'd been saving (not sure what for - pretty sure it'd be fairly manky after at least three years in the freezer).

Didn't Neville's wife die almost immediately? Her helicopter took off and then you saw the out-of-control chopper spiralling towarRAB it, I assumed she'd bitten the dust right then, and that's why Neville was so upset about the chaos.

I think it's widely believed that the film was great until the rubbish CGI first appeared, and the nails in the coffin were when the annoying woman and brat turned up.

As for finding plot holes, how exactly did the annoying bint and her brat get across to Manhattan Island with all the bridges and tunnels blown up? Did they find a handy boat? That river is pretty fast-moving, I'm not sure a weakling like her could row across it or suddenly develop the skills to pilot an abandoned Staten Island Ferry across the harbour!

If dogs can catch the disease, then I'm puzzled as to why all the deer/lions/other animals hadn't. I know Neville said that dogs had to be bitten to get it. But lions must bite other animals all the time.

I thought most of the streets looked daft with all the cars and buses so neatly parked down the sides. I think Neville must have been steadily valet parking everything in the afternoon to keep himself busy.

And why didn't the moron just put the bright UV lights inside his house instead of in the park outside? In three years surely he would have had time to break into the nearest B&Q and pick up a hell of a lot more lights and generators for them. Just put a ton of big lights or torches in every room and he'd have been fine. Idiot.
 
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