I Am alternate ending | Movie News

All I hear about is how much the ending sucked...what did you expect? Judging by posts below, the majority of you morons want Will Ferrel to pop up with a cure and a song. And Snowboy, justinpdrew is right: Why are you even reading this? Go watch Semi-Pro again!

Snowboy:



If you haven't seen the movie and haven't read the book, why are you even viewing this page? I mean, duhhh, there are going to be some spoilers revealed on the talk page for an alternate ending for a movie that's been out for four months and seen by millions of people. I shouldn't have to post a Spoiler Alert because the spoilers should be understood.



And spikeshinizle:



You're right, the woman and the dog have extremely different roles between the book and the film, but they're both there. Maybe not used in the exact same way, but they were elements of the book that made it into the film.

lennyd43:



Yeah, the only thing they have in common is the title. And the fact that it's about a lone survivor in a world of infected humans who have turned vicious and evil. And that he hunts by day, hides by night. And that the epidemic was spread by a virus of the government's creation. And that he's obsessed with finding a cure. And that there's a dog in it. And that his name is Robert Neville. And that his wife and child die in flashbacks. And that he meets a mysterious woman near the end. And that he dies at the end.



Other than that, yeah, they're TOTALLY different.

Why even bother comparing a movie ending to a book ending when the only similarity these two have is the title??

I liked the original ending better. I agree with Spoon: Neville dying is what made him a legend. So in fact, the whole sunshiny "We're learning to coexist!" alternate ending is the worse of the two, and is more of a cheesy Hollywood thing. Oh wait, so all of a sudden they're not mindless, evil zombies now? Almost immediately their personalities change? Lazy writing. The original's ending was better than the alternate, and in my opinion, better than the book's.

Spoiler (kinda):

I thought the whole I offed myself thing is what made him a legend. That and he told the lady and the Neverland Ranch reject to pass along the cure. In the new ending he doesn't pass along the cure or sacrifice himself. So unless they rename the movie "I Am Still Kickin'", I like the original better.

I can't decide which ending I liked better. The alternate had the whole Neville misconstruing the vamps as being monsters without any human emotions left within them and well the theatrical had the whole sacrifice thing. I think I'm leaning more towards the alternate just b/c the sacrifice thing is a little too much of a cheesy Hollywood ending to me. In the end "I Am Legend", in my opinion, was just a little bit more than an ok film. If it just had better CGI it would have been a really bad ass film and also it would have been cool for once for a film to be almost completly faithful to the book. That's my two cents on that.

This is a better ending but if it was the original ending, it still couldn't make the whole movie good

FUCK BOOKS! i watch movies so i don't have to read books.

First off, override, watch the original ending then this one, and it is closer to the book, by leaps and bounds, at least in the climax.



As for the climax itself, boring compared to the other. This ending wasn't set up enough. Both endings are fail. An otherwise good movie made mediocre, at best, by stupid ending.



Should have stuck closer to the book with Johnny Depp as Neville, like was planned years ago.

alright its gone but can i still get a cookie

After the wang slap that was the "We are his legend" ending this is welcome addition. However, it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Now after reading all the posts, you can see who read the book and who didnt.

Someone said on the first page that this is much closer to the book...ha





The story takes place between January 1976 and January 1979 in Los Angeles. The novel opens with the monotony and horror of the daily life of the protagonist, Robert Neville. Neville is apparently the only survivor of an apocalypse caused by a pandemic of bacteria, the symptoms of which are similar to vampirism. He spends every day repairing his house, boarding up windows, stringing and hanging garlic, disposing of vampire corpses on his lawn and going out to gather any additional supplies needed for hunting and killing more vampires.



Much of the story is devoted to Neville's struggles to understand the plague that has divided those around him into the walking dead - vampires - and the still-living infected. The novel details his research into the nature of vampirism, as the symptoms explain their legendary aversion to garlic, sunlight, and so on.



One day a dog appears in the neighborhood. Neville spends weeks trying to win its trust and domesticate it. He eventually traps the terrified dog and wins it over, but it dies from the infection a week later.



Neville encounters an apparently uninfected woman named Ruth; startled, she runs away. Neville chases her and after a struggle drags her back to his house. Suspicious that she is infected, Neville questions her. He reveals that as well as vampires, he kills the infected, believing that sooner or later they will die and come after him. Despite their mistrust, Neville and Ruth fall for each other.



However, when Neville performs a blood test on her, her infection is revealed. Ruth knocks him out and escapes, but leaves a note, explaining that she was a spy from a primitive new society; her people are infected but have discovered a means to hold the disease at bay. She warns him to leave before they come to destroy him. Neville decides to stay.



Months later, hunters from the new society capture Neville, and take him for public execution. Before he can be executed, Ruth provides him with pills so that he will feel no pain. Neville takes the pills; as he dies he reflects on how the new society regards him as a monster. Just as vampires were regarded as legendary monsters that preyed on the vulnerable humans in their beds, Neville has become a mythical figure that kills both vampires and the still-living while they are sleeping. He becomes a legend as the vampires once were, hence the title.

I think despite the fact that this ending is much better, the film still doesnt hold up very well in the third act.

I can't really tell which was better I really don't like either to tell the truth. I didn't like the CG creatures so with this focusing on them more I don't like it. I would of liked for the two different endings to be worked together. Smith gets in with the lady and kid and blows them all away still but then uses the ending of them driving from the second.