I am Legend

Werewolf said:
at a quick guess from what i've been able to work out

1: The Alpha male
2: It's not explicitly said but it looks like there are two levels of the illness for the infected, drones/workers who are less than animals, and the alpha's which are smarter but much rarer (in the animal world you get something similar, the smarter/stronger animals often become pack leaders).
3: When? if you mean on the ship she could have got him onto a lifeboat, or the bit she hid in during the film had a second exit etc.
4: Because it was known that other dogs were that way earlier, and Sam didn't show signs of infection when she had been close to the infected.
5: It probably disturbed them and was killed then left till later (I believe various animals will do that, kill a potential threat/food source then leave it for later).
6: It looks like she was behind a fairly solid steel door, inside a well built chimney - the explosion wasn't that great and had easier exit points for the pressure to escape through (the doorway into the lab).
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All of those make sense at first glance, but each is just stupid. For instance, the first one about who moved Fred (it's fact that it was the infected) is totally unbelievable. Robert specifically states to the camera that they're becoming less sentient and clever by the day, which raises various questions:

1. If they have the intelligence to set a complicated trap powered by a pulley system (which I don't think even most uninfected humans would be able to do) then why don't hey show this intelligence in other areas?
2. How did they know Robert would react to Fred being moved?
3. How did they even have the basic neurological ability to set up a sprung trap?
4. If with the intelligence, neurological ability and effort took to set up this trap, why not alter it slightly so that it actually drags him into the dark ala the opposite of Robert's trap?
5. Why wait all this time (1001 days or whatever) to do this? He's clearly been trapping them all this time with his past experiments so they have plenty to learn from.
6. If the "leader" is more intelligent (intelligent enough to setup afore mentioned trap), then why at the end is he using his face and chest to break the plexiglass instead of picking up an object?

There just seems to be massive contradictions between what the infected can and can't do. If they're intelligent, then show and say they are - everything bar the trap says they're not.
 
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The film was great, but there was a few things like where like "eh?", some are listed above such as how, if they are basical animals instead of humans, did they manage to make a complex trap.

Others were:

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1. Why did the dogs wait for the sun to move from the strip in front of them before they attacked Neville? They waited for the sun to be completely gone, instead they could have just jumped through it when it was like < 1 foot but they didn't, seemed silly.

2. Why didn't Neville inject himself with the cure, maybe stab himself, then let the things bite him, wouldn't that have cured a lot of them instead of just blowing the whole lab up?

3. Surely they would have known where he lived long before they found out cause his house would be the only house in the whole area with massive metal shutters on the windows and doors

4. If the "cure" that he found that worked on animals (ie. the rat) but he thought it didn't work on humans - why didn't he inject Sam then lock it up or keep it in a relaxed state with drugs like the human female was. Instead of just strangling Sam to death.
 
The alpha male only went ape **** mode because Robert stole his Mrs.

Thats what i think :D
 
flibby said:
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1. Why did the dogs wait for the sun to move from the strip in front of them before they attacked Neville? They waited for the sun to be completely gone, instead they could have just jumped through it when it was like < 1 foot but they didn't, seemed silly.

2. Why didn't Neville inject himself with the cure, maybe stab himself, then let the things bite him, wouldn't that have cured a lot of them instead of just blowing the whole lab up?

3. Surely they would have known where he lived long before they found out cause his house would be the only house in the whole area with massive metal shutters on the windows and doors

4. If the "cure" that he found that worked on animals (ie. the rat) but he thought it didn't work on humans - why didn't he inject Sam then lock it up or keep it in a relaxed state with drugs like the human female was. Instead of just strangling Sam to death.
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1. I have no idea, as before when the "alpha male" shows his face in the sun, when Robert traps the vamp, he gets burnt, but doesn't die. The same goes for when he put UV light on the vamp woman in his lab.
2. He would have to be bitten by vampires, and they may not have killed him. Might as well destroy them in case the woman doesn't survive.
3. In the book they do know where his house is, but he has garlic etc so they don't like getting near it (although do surround and shout at him (in English!)).
4. Because then it wouldn't follow the book ;)
 
Enjoyed the film, I thought Will Smith was good, and his spiral into madness was interesting.

As previously said, I think the ending was rushed. It felt like a lot more could have happened after the girl got the cure, or after they found will smith and before they mass attacked the house.

Overall I did enjoy it and would say to people to go and watch it.
 
I watched it tonight, thought it was ace. I hadnt really paid attention to the trailers and havent read anything about it so I had no idea what to expect.

Really enjoyed it and cant wait to watch it with the Mrs when it comes out to see how scared she is lol.
 
fantastic film.

As usual Will Smith was superb, gutted about the ending even though it was obviously coming. Definitley going to read the book now

I just dont get how fred was moved if they were so "dumb" after all this time. That alpha male seemed to have some intelligence though, still as mentioned why not just set the trap to drag him into the darkness.

Still, top film, 9/10 from me
 
I'm liking the fact that just after reading through the book, about half the stuff in this thread never happened :( Seeing it on the second with a couple of friends and I'm quite concerned about the ending in particular. From what I gather it completely ruins the original meaning of the title, I Am Legend...
 
well i liked it.. it aint usually a good idea to take a film too seriously cause you'll always find faults. The ending did indeed seem rushed though

Did anyone else notice the batman/superman symbol on the billboard at the start? But 2012 is soooooo far away!!!
 
lemonkettaz said:
wasnt the trap setup by him (robert)

and because of his mindset he just totally forgot?
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If that was the case, why did the main baddie of the film just happen to be in the right place at the right time?

I thought there were loads of plot holes, and even now, a full day after seeing it, I still don't know whether I liked it or not. It had some truly excellent scenes, I thought the initial chases were excellent and the tension really ramped up in the dark. On the other hand, it was far too short, the film just ended when the story did not feel completed, and there were so many things that could have been better. I was expecting something approaching intelligent sci-fi, sadly all I got was an action flick.
 
Went to see it this afternoon, and cant say i was too impressed. It was totally sold out so we opted to go to an earlier, subtitled showing. The film was very weak, and had a lot of plot holes within it.

Film was OK, and had its tense moments, but al in all I though the majority of it was just daft.
 
6/10 at best. Really disappointed after seeing the trailer a week before the film. At only 91 minutes long it could have done with another 30 minutes filling in the blanks. Especially with the initial 'outbreak'. There was plenty of room to explore this area but it was rushed buy with some dodgy flash backs.

Its such a shame as I had high hopes for this :(
 
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