I am Legend

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It depends on how many reviewers the film has and who they are...

For instance, the Catholic Weekly reviewer obviously doesn't give horror films good reviews. Also some films with 5 reviews might have 80% while another film may have 141 reviews and be at 70%. In that case, the latter is likely to be the better film.

exactly. also some films critics will automatically hate for stupid reasons, this is why apocalypto and 300 got such mixed reviews, people hate mel gibson and some disliked how violent and 'dumb' 300 was even thought everything else about the film was so good that it made up for its faults IMO.

It ended too abruptly.

To answer the person who asked why if it sucked that it made $75 million in it's first week opening? Great marketing. Simple answer. It also opened in a typically dead time (movie-wise) of the year. No pun intended. It had no competition for similar movies and other movies that were in theatres were chick flicks or kid's movies. A better gauge will be how well it fairs during it's first month. I predict a major drop off after the 2nd week. And yes, the book was WAY better. More psychological and introspective. Hard to translate that to screen which is why it was sort of empty and more of a scary thriller. Though I was neither scared nor thrilled.

I want to see it at some point, looking forward to just a silly action sci-fi movie. Hey, I liked "I, Robot."

That said, it's irritating that this book has been turned into a film 3 times, and nobody's ever kept the original ending in: "Dude, you're going around killing all us vampires. You're the monster, not us."

It's like a remake of "King Kong" where the humans don't kill him at the end....

I like I am Legend, even if it did suffer from mass-appeal-syndrome. I actually thought Will Smith was brilliant in this, and the scene just after he lost his dog nearly had me in tears.

I guess different people expected different things from this movie, I know my mate hated it. Just a warning - if you found this version boring then The Last Man on Earth will bore you to tears - not that I didn't enjoy that version, just that is it much slower than I am Legend.

I'm also iffy about the differences from the book. Richard Matheson's ending was excellent, and I wished they had stuck to it for this film, but I am glad to see a different approach to the story (although the endings were by far the weakest parts of all three movie remakes).

I agree about the ending

Saw this on the 27th of December I think Will Smith is doing well being a more serious actor however I get the feeling that the first 2/3 of the film took years to write, then the ending took 20 minutes :/

Actually I Am Legend absolutely freaked the hell out of me. I like scary movies and it freaked the hell out of me. I actually had to get up and leave at one point. I came back, but still . . .

If one goes to Simply Scripts, you can find the first draft by Mark Protesevitch.

Akiva Goldsman's version sucked.

I saw it today and agree that it sucked. They managed to leech "The Omega Man" of all the fun and left in all the gloomy and morbid aspects; and to add insult to injury, they topped it off with a dose of Shyamalan-like superstitious nonsense. What struck me most though (slight SPOILER warning) is how pointless the ending was. So a cure for zombieism is found, well so what? We've already learned that only a handful of immune humans have escaped being eaten by the zombies - is this handful of survivors supposed to capture and cure every zombie in the world? Obviously, the only way for mankind to survive is for the immune humans to procreate like crazy and kill every zombie in sight. Since the zombies don't farm, they will run out of food anyway and probably start eating one another, so the cure is utterly irrelevant. So much for God's Plan.

Ironically, "The Omega Man" was an indictment of medieval superstition, but the Will Smith version tries to teach us that it is the answer to all our problems. O tempora, o mores!

Movie came completely undone IMO once the girl showed up. I've really never seen something come apart that badly.
Still, the first part was good enough to justify it as far as I'm concerned.

And the vampires were cheesy and lame.

I liked it.

The ending reveals why they called it "I am Legend" (as with the book) rather than "the last man on earth" - which would have been wrong.

I enjoyed the movie. It made me cry. I like any movie that can make me cry. I was disappointed with the ending though.

I have a completely different opinion to the majority here. I actually couldn't watch the whole movie...when those "infected" people screamed, it was disturbing. I also hate "suspense" movies where things "jump out" at you...I spilled my drink twice because of that lol

I liked it.
It actually moved me to tears in several places.