I am Legend 2 for 2010 - WTF?

Angel Tarragon · Mar 11, 2008

I Am Legend 2 :uhoh:

Okay, enlighten me. How is a sequel plausible?

RangerWickett · Mar 11, 2008

Well, the first movie's ending sucked.

Hence, a) we shouldn't waste our time caring, and b) see A.

Angel Tarragon · Mar 11, 2008

RangerWickett said:
Well, the first movie's ending sucked.

Hence, a) we shouldn't waste our time caring, and b) see A.

He was a legend because he was a martyr for the cause; at least thats the way I look at it. I happened to like it.

RangerWickett · Mar 11, 2008

Fair enough.

I dislike it because it used the name of a book which had a much more creative and compelling ending, so comparably the one they released in theaters was pretty terrible.

As I said elsewhere, it's like changing the ending of 300 so Zeus comes down from the heavens and destroys the Persians with lightning bolts, saving the Spartans. Sure, it might be a cool scene (if done well), but it wouldn't be as good of an ending. And, almost as importantly, it wouldn't fit the first 3/4 of the movie.

The Grumpy Celt · Mar 11, 2008

To the Op...

Someone else steps forward to fight the evil, wicked, mean and nasty vampires. It's probably gonna be a straight the DVD flick, set in LA of Chicago.

Darkwolf71 · Mar 11, 2008

Reveille said:
He was a legend because he was a martyr for the cause; at least thats the way I look at it. I happened to like it.

No, he was a legend because he became to the non-bloodlusting survivors(which weren't even in the movie) the same as Vampires are to us. A legendary monster who may kill you in your sleep.

Changing the way he died AND introducing an encampment of uninfected humans at he end was a travesty.

Now, it was a good, enjoyable movie, but by taking the name of the book it implied some token of faithfulness to the story that previous films did not have. Ironically, even Omega Man was more true to the story than I am Legend was.

Sequal? Meh, his kid grows up and continues his fathers work. I'll rent it.

Edit: Had my film names mixed up.

Angel Tarragon · Mar 11, 2008

Darkwolf71 said:
No, he was a legend because he became to the non-bloodlusting survivors(which weren't even in the movie) the same as Vampires are to us. A legendary monster who may kill you in your sleep.

spoiler:

Since he blew himself up along with several other nasties, I don't see how that is possible.

Richards · Mar 12, 2008

I believe Darkwolf71 was referring to the main character from the book, not the recent movie.

Johnathan

Fallen Seraph · Mar 12, 2008

Yeah the movie and book are quite different in that regard.

BadMojo · Mar 12, 2008

Darkwolf71 said:
No, he was a legend because he became to the non-bloodlusting survivors(which weren't even in the movie) the same as Vampires are to us. A legendary monster who may kill you in your sleep.

I'm sure the writer(s) of the movie realized this. They just decided to take the book and poop all over it.

It's a shame, but it seems like Matheson is never going to see a faithful adaptation of his book in his lifetime. If he wasn't bitter about it before (and he sure seemed to be), I'm sure he is now.

As for the spoiler-y thing Reveille mentioned, it didn't happen in the book and doesn't change the way the infected society saw Neville. Isn't the monster supposed to die at the end?

Anyway, it's a really good book. Well worth a read.