Mar 5 2008'I Am Legend' Alternate Ending Online

Well thats a good ending...ooh wait no its not.

wow, fucking dumber than the orig. Mindless zombies all of a sudden break character and become not-so-mindless. Glad they didn't use this, it would've pissed me off more.

I like this better than the original!

I was hoping for the Charton Heston version, where he is the cause of all the trouble. But since we can't have that, the other ending is better than this.

This alternate ending is crap. All of the animus between the beasties and Will Smith was just a big misunderstanding. Terrible.

That still isn't the freaking ending that I wanted. I cannot believe that they made three movies for I Am Legend, and none of them have kept true to the book. I loved Will Smith's portrayal and modern update up until the ending. When I finished the novel, I needed an hour just to work out my thoughts because I was so blown away. This movie did not affect me the same way. It was forgettable as soon as I complained to my friend I was with, and we were out the door.

And since I've had time since I tried to post this comment, I cannot for the life of me decide which ending I despise more.

The original ending was too text book imo(not sure how the actual book ends so someone can enlighten me).

Who said they were mindless or even zombies? They obviously made some intricate traps in the film and saw Smith as a threat to them because he would periodically kidnap them for research. They seemed more like a wild pack of wolves with an alpha male so this made at least some sense to me. Oh well, cant please everyone.

The original movie ending was terrible..... just terrible. At least this alternate ending is somewhat closer to the original book's ending. I don't understand why they just didn't use the book's ending. It was extremely creative and original! The book is great, perfect for a modern movie. Idiots, they really screwed up what could have been a great movie based upon a great book.

Yeah, I think so too.. better than the original.. which SUCKED..

i might as well clue some people about the true ending cause at this point i doubt you're gonna read it anyway

main character finds out there are innocent non-violent vampire people, who have started a new civilization, and he's been killing them during daylight in addition to the violent undead people, the new race of people are scared of him and want him dead (thus becoming the legend as someone who comes and gets you in your sleep), chooses suicide

you guys liked me better in Ali, right?

That was tard-smacking stupid!

Wow, this was much closer in spirit to the ending in the book. This ending would have fit beautifully if it had been foreshadowed just a little more in the course of the movie.

It isn't really a break of character as one commenter suggested. The moral of the book, and presumably the movie with the alternate ending, is that it isn't automatically better to be human than to be something else. Though they were forcibly transformed into something alien, they didn't yearn to be transformed back. They simply were what they were, and Neville's violent and callous insistence on "fixing" them was an affront to their existence.

It's the ending that they chose to keep that makes us conclude that they're mindless, really.

The strengths of Matheson's novel are open to debate, as they have been since S. King's comments and endorsement lifted later prints out of obscurity. Two of these groundbreaking deviations from convention are widely considered to be:

The fact that an empty and ruined suburban America is the setting for apocalyptic vampirism, breaking the 50's streak of optimism and nationalism.

And secondly, that natural and wholly Darwinian forces will influence even the most unlikely of events, namely the victims of the vampiric plague, turning them into the new dominant species. In the story, they use a female infected as a spy to undermine Neville, intelligently ending his grip on the area he inhabits.

I would put forward that it is an important story for the mere fact that at the end of the story there is an inversion of the moral center, a la Rod Serling, where we then see Neville as serial murderer not the answer to humanities prayers. One vampire pointing out the fact that he hunts and kills them while they sleep defenselessly without mercy. In the story, humanity, or sentience for that matter, has 'moved on' and made Neville's petty efforts meaningless.

This is the complexity that made Matheson's work so important at the time and the movie expresses none of this. It is merely high digital masturbation (albeit very pretty, especially as a fan of apocalypse) Hollywood oversimplification, grammar school level moralizing, and stupid Christian messianic subtext.

Read the book and ignore the movie in all its forms, flavors, and attempts to reap equal profits in the retail DVD market. Download the torrent or from a newsgroup after release if you are curious and most assuredly you will forget it the next day and every day thereafter.

I still prefer the Vincent Price one, and as far as the mannequin-play in this version, I really prefer the private screenings of Woodstock Charlton Heston watched in Omega Man. That had emotional resonance that Will Smith's "Will Smith-isms" could not come near.

And the IAL zombies look like shit. I hate CGI monsters for the most part. These ones were terrible.

Recently saw "30 Days of Night", and the digital sweetening on the vampire actors was waaay creepier and more effective that it would have been had they gone all CG.

why was this video put on youtube? its already been taken off.

any other links?

All in all the movie sucked and both endings sucked. I hope Smiths new movie where he plays a superhero doesn't end with him talking it out with the bad guy and realizing that they are friends now.

An alternate ending to Transformers could not produce a thread like this.

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The YouTube links are down. Here are some active links (at the moment):

http://daveandthomas.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-am-legend-alternate-ending-online.html

I've found here the “I Am Legend” alternate ending which is available and working. This video is no longer available on youtube due to a copyright claim by Warner Bros, BayTSP

the brain eating zombi/vampire said, "you took my bitch but I forgive you. Dont do it again and we will be cool."

#13 GC, very well said. Thanks for the info.

I want to know, is the book worth reading having seen this movie. Is there a lot more to it besides just a different ending and minor changes? No one tell me the ending of the novel, I have purposely read over it. So is the book worth my time, I liked the character throughout the movie so I think the book could be interesting.

@ Fallen,

The book is really more of a novella and it's really good if you like something that almost completely different from this recent movie. Better character study by far.

Also, don't be surprised, it's bound with a handful of other short stories by Matheson which may seem familiar as many have been made into clips from Twilight Zone, Outer Limits and the like over the years.

I recommend reading the original, but don't expect it to be like this movie when you jump in.

"Video no longer available"

fail.

Thanks buttercup, I think I will pick this one up.

I saw this on a website named "blanket_millionaire_date_spam2000.org, and it got very high marks there.

That was better than the retarded butterfly connection that they went with before. that was the laziest way they could've connected it.
And what are you talking about #2 (josh) 'the mindless zombies suddenly have feelings' or whatever. that was the whole point of the fact that the trap was made using will's manican friend, the zombie knew he was close to him and used him as bait. And what about it being the first time he'd ever seen one of them go into the daylight, he went into the daylight because that was his girl that he loved.
I would've accepted this much more over the 5 second "oh hey were safe in a new city and we've saved the world" ending that they went with.

alternative link: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1140912/i_am_legends_original_ending/

Thanks for link Zondron ! Tricky,lol.

Loved the alternate ending. This means they can do a number 2. Makes more sense also, I was wondering why the Chief Seeker was so mad that Neville got that specific zombie...now I know.