All of the above. Plus, he had all his gear and equipment there. I think he really believed he coulc find a cure, and that was the only way he'd actually be able to.
I was really underwhelmed by the story. Making the zombie things totally brainless (or as much as they were) just seemed to make it into another man versus animal story. And given that it was billed as an action flick and nothing really happens for the first half of the film, I just found myself missing Chuck and the pure 70sliciousness of The Omega Man, esepcially the albino vampire with the huge fucking afro.
Coop, Matthias and the Family weren't vampires, they were just people whose immune systems altered how the germ warfare bacteria affected them. Instead of dying almost instantly, like some 99+% of the world's population, they became extremely light-sensitive insane albinos, who were still slowly dying of the plague. As we saw with Lisa later in the film, that same fate awaited Dutch and all the kids too. Neville was the only one who was immune, due to the test vaccine.
Saw it last night, enjoyable piece of cinema. A few points though, 1- I understand that if new york was deserted you may get wild deer coming in and roaming, but lions? I take it they must have escaped from the zoo? 2- People in this thread have said the zombies got smart half way through. Did they? Was there any indication they were not smart before? My take was the only reason that one bad ass controlling zombie started stalking will smith was because he had been witness to Neville setting up the ambush for the female test subject, and this had somehow pissed him off. 3- Im with whoever metioned that Neville could have set off the grenade then hid in the safe and saved himself. 4- If the zombies can scale a three storey building, then would they really be kept out of the safe zone by a fence which doesn't look much bigger? 5- Finally, if the army blows up the bridges to section off New York, presumably they have done the same with the tunnel and any other road route off. How does the bird seem to drive so easily to Vermont??
They were smart. Also, here's some stuff that bothered me: That said, they should make a sequel - there's plenty of material.
Most of my thoughts on the movie have been covered elsewhere. The first hour/hour and a half are excellent, but then the movie goes downhill near the end. The city looked good, though the city looks like it's been abandoned a lot longer than three years based on the animal populations that have probably started with zoo animals, the growth of plant life in the streets and what not. The vampires generally looked too fake, and weren't the least bit scary. Make up would have been far more effective than the overly reflective and rubbery looking CGI monsters we got. The anticipation of Neville seeing them in the darkened building was far more eerie than actually seeing the vampires on screen. I also thought they might have more intelligent than they appeared to be with the trap and the way the leader seemed to be wanting to retrieve his girlfriend. The ending:
You rowboat over to the continent and then take a new Ford explorer off of a dealer's lot. She did not drive Neville's old explorer to Vermont, it was shiny and new.
Im sorry,didnt she say there were only 3 survivors on that boat from Brazil out of 500? I don't believe she and some other guy were abe to drive a boat that big all the way to NY. Also, another gripe i have now, how did Will Smiths house have electricity?? And its not like he was running a small generator and keeping outputs low. He had all his lights on, watched shrek a million times, kept all his fancy medical equipment up and running. I take it Mr Burns was alive and well in the nuclear power plant just to service Smiths house??
I just got done watching The Omega Man with Charlton Heston. Call me crazy, but I actually prefer it to I Am Legend.
One moderately sized generator will run your house just fine. Trust me, I had to do it for five weeks once. Neville had about three of them, from what I saw.
No, it's a (straight to DVD?) movie released in November this year. Link It stars the dude from the American Iron Chef. I've never actually seen it, but stumbled across the trailer while looking up other movies based on the I Am Legend novel. It looked so hilariously bad I added it to my Netflix queue.
Bah! They are all pale by comparison to the sheer awsomeness that is The Mutants of 2051 A.D.! Don't believe me? Just click on the link in my sig!
