I Am Legend (directed by Francis Lawrence, 2007) Neville falls for a trap and has to race the sunset to make his getaway

He took himself way too seriously tho. But yeah, Scientology kills more careers than it helps. Aside from Cruise I can't think of anyone who benefited from it in Hollywood.

I mean bad boys 4 was a success. That’s kind of the only theatrical release he’s done since “the slap”.

Have you been in a coma since the 2022 Oscars?

7 pounds And concussion were pretty good.

They last 2 bad boys movies were great to me

Keep his work outta yo damn mouff!

Will Smith was recently interviewed and confirmed that the original ending didn't sit well with test audiences, but I think the reason it didn't sit well with test audiences is precisely because the movie spent no time characterizing the vampires, so you feel cheated when all of a sudden *they're* the good guys and the guy you've been rooting for is the bad guy.

The whole mom and kid storyline was sooo boring too.

In the book they aren't portrayed as visually "monsterfied" as they are in the movie. In fact, in the book, they are capable of human speech and visit his home at night to torment him. In the book they retain many more human characteristics than in the film and in fact, one of the big reveals is that he found another human woman who he didn't realize was a vampire the entire time. Basically, society had evolved and started again in this new form. Neville was the only remnant of a species that no longer existed. He thought he was killing the evil to protect humanity when he was actually *their* boogeyman - the reason their families were afraid to go to sleep. It really was a great story. The movie incorporated elements of this, but by turning the vampires into actual monsters they basically eliminated any chance of the audience getting this message as its hard to look at a nightmare monster and think "what about their kids?" It's why the ending just could not work.

Yeah, that moment that you're describing is the alternative ending.

There are no clues to that in the movie in its current form. I'm the movie he's not portrayed as a monster but as a martyr.

Yeah the movie did a terrible job at setting up their intelligence. And apparently did a terrible job explaining what the monsters were also because you’ve mistaken them as zombies. I did too for a long time.

I thought it was because he was going crazy and forgot he set up the trap with Fred

I mean, yeah? The movie never setup the creatures as being hyper intelligent I always assumed that Neville was going cuckoo and forgot some of his own traps and/or forgot some changes that he'd made

Bro, in the same breath you ask how he could lose his mind so much that he forgets something, while also admitting that bro is chatting up and catching feelings for mannequins on the regular. Half the movie is spent making you think he's losing his mind.

When I first saw the scene, I thought it was him kinda committing suicide. He sets up the whole trap with Fred, then forces himself to forget he did it because he’s going insane from loneliness. Then he drives by later, hallucinates Fred’s head turning forcing himself to confront that Fred is not alive and that he is all alone, wherein the trap would go off and leave him to die to the vampires. It was only when the vampires come out and had clearly been waiting for him did I piece together that the vamps had set the whole thing up.

It’s implied he’s a little nutty from being alone for so long

I personally don't mind that and will enjoy this sequel. But, it's a completely different world and story to that original book. Would also love a true version of that story. Especially for that ending, I was shook by it for days.

Yeah, he thinks about that a fair bit. He also doesnt really acknowledge that that is his desire and instead blames the female vampires for, ya know, having female bodies. He is a very flawed man, mind you who knows what any of us would be like in that type of situation. As the story goes along we learn that there are more functional vampires for whom he is the 'bad' guy.

It's definitely a fair point. But having had my legs similarly useless multiple times; you figure out that army crawling is way easier pretty quickly, since you can't really feel or power your legs, even if you're kinda moving them. (Before anyone asks: no, it wasn't because I was hung upside down for a few hours lol) That's slightly unrealistic, but I guess maybe possible though. The real question is once he gets into the car, and even picks up the dog. I get why it needed to happen since it's a movie, but your nervous system doesn't just pop back on like a light switch. It usually takes at least 20-30 minutes before you can walk again without looking like a skeleton statue being dragged on an ice rink.

I saw it in theaters and you're right that it looked like shit at the time. I remember reading years ago they shot a bunch of the scenes with real people but the director didn't like the way it looked. The rest of the movie is pretty great, but the creature effects are so goofy it brought my enjoyment down.

Kidnapping and killing \*