I Am Legend - Trailer 2

nofuture · 22 January, 2008, 04:27:45 PM

bought the audio book on itunes - it's brilliant. the voice of the guy who reads is gravelrific, a tad remeniscent of lord vader: Robertson Dean

the shutdown man · 06 March, 2008, 09:56:39 AM

Just thought I'd resurrect this thread for a moment, since I found this link on Aintitcool which has the original ending to I am Legend. They call it "vastly superior", I'm not so sure I'd go that far, but having watched it, I do think I prefer it to the actual ending.

Link: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35857" target="_blank">See for yourself....

WoD · 06 March, 2008, 10:42:08 AM

That was miles better as an ending.

the shutdown man · 06 March, 2008, 10:59:43 AM

Yeah, I liked it. I'm not so sure about the "driving off into the sunset" part, but the extremely tense scene in the basement is better (and oddly moving) than charging into the bad guys with a grenade methinks.

Buddy · 06 March, 2008, 11:41:30 AM

Yeah, better ending there... some of it was in the original traier.

dweezil2 · 06 March, 2008, 11:49:40 AM

This is the alternate ending included on the forthcoming 2-Disc DVD. It's an interesting take, but I think they went with the right ending in the theatrical cut. Also it kind of reminded me of the naff ending they used in the original theatrical cut of Blade Runner for some reason.

Peter Wolf · 06 March, 2008, 12:04:57 PM

That was a much more satisfactory ending than the hand grenade version.

A much more positive ending and also an interesting interaction between Will Smith and the infected.

WoD · 06 March, 2008, 12:09:50 PM

It actually made more sense in the context of the build-up towards the ending. The fact that the big bad appeared to have a motive for persuing Will's character so vigourously was not really explored, or the fact that they had 'intelligence' and were not mindless - they did set a trap after all. This ending makes it all a bit more rounded for me, and also left it open-ended which I felt was something that was needed on a movie of this scale - it was 'end of the world as we know it stuff' after all, and that's hard to wrap up in just one movie.

the shutdown man · 06 March, 2008, 12:13:30 PM

It makes me want to watch the whole thing again now.

Dweezil, do you know if this ending is just an extra on the DVD, or is it a director's cut kind of affair?

dweezil2 · 06 March, 2008, 12:28:07 PM

I think the reason it was so positive was why I disliked it, seemed trite-but I'm a cynical fucker, so that probably explains that.
I'm guessing on the DVD it will be one of those seamless branching affairs(or not so seamless if you own the Alien Quadrilogy) but I've not read conformation of this yet.

the shutdown man · 06 March, 2008, 12:36:00 PM

Yeah, I just checked cd-wow (cos for some reason I can never find a DVD's special features on Amazon) and it says the second disc in the 2-disc set contains the alternate version of the film.

Eric Plumrose · 06 March, 2008, 04:49:01 PM

It might explain why the writing credits at the end said it was 'based on the screenplay by'.