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[theweaselking]

The original ending to Will Smith Versus The Vampire People is up on the net.

It's still crap, and still not the one from the book that they built to for the first hour of the film, but at least it's not *as* bad as the one in the theatre release.

Comments

[pyroofone.livejournal.com]

Blarg. Still crap.

[takhisis.livejournal.com]

The sad part is, they could have even worked that ending at least a tidge towards the book ending, with the whole "I realize I am now the ancient monster to this new race, I am legend" bit. ARGH!

[fengi.livejournal.com]

Still pretty bad, but at least they had Will Smith LOOK at the wall of diseased humans he had killed, which one could stretch into a tiny hint of the original "I am Legend" meaning. Still, I suspect there's another unfilmed ending which involved that woman turning out to be the half-infected.

[dj-jonny-flash.livejournal.com]

I like that it is closer to the book, but I'm guessing they cut it after the first screening and someone asked "What the hell does the title mean? Shouldn't the movie make some reference to it at some point?"

D'oh.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

What is your suggestion to a person who hasn't seen this film, has bought the book (mostly because of your (and others) posts about the book/movie) but hasn't read it yet, and would like to see the movie? Are you still saying I should forget the original ending? If so, where should I skip over to this revised ending?

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

Your best bet is actually to pick up the graphic novel. It was a very good treatment of the story.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I think you should still ignore the movie's ending in favour of the book's ending, from about the same time

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Skim the first three-quarters of the book. ("Skim" may be a little dissmissive, actually. It's worth reading, and it's decently written and plotted, but Neville is really not a very likeable man and I've always found it rather hard to get involved with the character.) Read the last quarter of the book, which is where it really shines.

Watch the movie.

Leave when everything is blowing up, five or ten minutes before the end of the movie. (You can actually watch until everything seems to be *done* blowing up; you just need to presume a little more organization on the part of the organized outside force presented in the book.)

It won't graft perfectly onto the book's end, but it will work.

[rattyfleef.livejournal.com]

*coughing fit* Decently written!? What? Maybe for back in 1945, yeah. The writing was flabby, occassionally trite, and at some point the manuscript got attacked by a rabid swarm of adverbs and never managed to shake the infection.

I'll agree it's all worth it for the ending, though. :D

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I found it dry, not flabby--saved from being an infodump by the fact that it was utterly reasonable for the character to not know and to try to find out, and his actions and reaction seemed utterly reasonable.

(Going to disagree on the adjectives. I was rereading it today, and I'd swear there's less than ten in all of chapter twelve. Unless you meant that after a particular point the adverbs cropped up? I haven't read it in a while.)

[rattyfleef.livejournal.com]

I haven't read it in a while either, I'm going by memories several months old ^^; I'm usually particular enough to go quote stuff but my copy is sitting on Thomas's living-room table. His actions and such were perfectly reasonable; the writing itself was flabby, not the story.