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[morwen]

Went to see I Am Legend last night with doseybat and timeplease. This is another playing-it-straight zombie movie, and apparently not bearing very much resemblance to the source material.

Not sure what to make of it. I liked the details (Neville's competence at surviving - lots of cool little details there - versus his increasingly deranged state; the deserted New York; the flashbacks to the evacuation), but not the film as a whole. In particular, it would have been a better film without the last scene, leaving it more ambiguous.

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[abigailb.livejournal.com]

One significant variance is it omitting the "still living" entirely (it hints toward a slightly smarter leader zombie, mind), found in the book and both the other movies. I would not have been surprised to find this was just a generic zombie virus script given trappings of a book (as Smith's earlier film I, Robot, was), but apparently this is not so.