Never mind about driving out, what about driving in?!?!

the chick and the kid got there by boat how they drove off I don't know
and I liked the theatrical ending better

*sigh* yes, that would have been a far superior ending and with all the foreshadowing in the film I thought this is where they were originally headed. Damn, lowbrow test groups.

It is still not the book ending, but it is better than the original ending for the film. The ending gave the vampires a more human appeal to them, and in the book they are still human.

I cant watch this film with or without this ending with it without feeling unhappy with the ending and just proves that Hollywood cant make a good book into a good film.

I should read the book just to find out the origional ending. In any case I can't say I would have been satisfied with either ending. Whichever way they went the ending would have been the films weakest part by far as I quite liked the rest of the movie.

I am legend was the the only average film I saw this year that could have been great. If only they fixed the special effects and the ending, sigh.

I definitely prefer THIS alternative version over the theatrical. I don't get why they took it out!? It seems to me the audience would have preferred Will Smith NOT dying.

One of my criticisms of I Am Legend was that the whole thing was just one big bummer. Whole world dies out, Family gets blown up in front of him, he has to kill his own freakin' dog! GEEZ! So I like this ending a lot better. It gives it a satisfying resolution. Plus it ties together why the infected are really hell-bent on getting Neville at the end, which is actually a little tiny bit closer to the book.

I'm glad we finally get to see the alternative ending, but I do think they made a mistake switching it out in the first place.

This ending was much better and was cleary the ending that the movie was moving towards. All the hints and the vampire intelligence and society that *seem* to be one of the most important parts of the story are completely dropped in the theatrical version in favour of an explosion. I would have liked to see the original book's interpretation of Neville's status as a legend in the end voice over and that would have wrapped it up nicely for me.

This was the ending I was expecting, and would have made the film that much better in my opinion.

the only problem is that everyone wants a happy ending. One with a cure s to speak, so thats why this one didn't make it. But it did give the night stalkers the human feeling. In the book they can even talk, so i guess this was as close as it was gonna get.

I liked both endings.

EXACTLY what Dexton said.

Both endings were good. This one ties that event in the movie showing their intelligence.The event of how the lead nightstalker used the mannequin "Frank" to trap Will. This ending gave it a humane feel.
The "theatrical"ending is the one I preferred due to the circumstances that he had to endure for three years.Through that time span ,he never strayed from his mission of trying to "cure" their sickness. He felt responsible.He made the ultimate sacrifice because there was no feasible way to make them understand.
The "theatrical"ending should have taken into account things that happened earlier in the film.
Though I preferred , the "theatrical" ending, it should have been the alternate ending and earlier scenes should have been reshot to link to that ending.

I actually like this ending better..
not because of WILL SMITH dying or not... but in this ending it seemed like there was no hope for a cure.... which is abit more realistic...

or its just the way i like these type of movies to end...
eg. i hated 'the day after tomorrow' because the movie was suppose to be about end of the world and watnot.. but no, 70% live in that movie

bak to IAL, yeh... there was no cure, this virus is inevitable*
i wonder how long till this vid gets removed

i think that both endings were equal in their context. What I don't understand is how the theatrical ending was concidered to be the "happy" ending by the studio execs. Are the execs getting a bit morbid? I wont ruin it for the 2 or so people that havent seen this film yet, but come on! I guess they like their hero's going out in a blaze of glory instead of having a heart and being falable.

I like this ending better, BUT, it's still not the book ending, which is the best of them all. The book is one of my favorites, and they really ruined it. The movie was still good though, up until the ending, even though it wasn't really anything like the novel. Still, this ending is MUCH better.

This ending is exactly what the theatrical release was missing.

I cannot fathom the decision making process used that allowed the other trainwreck of an ending into the final cut. It was pure sh*t.

An ending without Robert Neville dying would have been horrible. While the original ending could have been better, it is far better then the alternate ending linked above.

This ending was better and there is more hope for a sequel with Will Smith.

In the book there is a guy who taunts Neville by constantly calling out his name. While that wouldn't have fit here, something like that where that one deseased guy should have taunted Neville more. Maybe in a different way by constantly tryng to get to Neville.

If Neville didn't die in the end then he wouldn't be a Legend.
JedK

usually the ending with the hero dying is the better ending (like the butterfly effect) but this one is far superior to the theatrical.

Neville was a legend because he was a monster to the vampires. He was a vampire slayer. He was a spook story that the vampires told the "children" to scare them at night. Not because he died.

this ending may be a little better, but its still pretty horrible.

This is to much better ending.
Thanks for sharing.

This ending was much better. I really liked the last part with the driving away and the voice-over. It was nice that they kept it open instead of showing a whole city of survivors and stuff.

Wow...I haven't seen this movie yet but after watching that clip I'm even less excited about seeing this. I'm glad I waited to rent this.

Those special effects are awful.

With the newws that hit about possibly a second film I would have much preferred to have this ending as I would rather have Will Smith as the main character again. With him dying it made a second film seem rather annoying.

Nice Thanks for sharing!

Ehhhh the movie was terrible no matter what both endings didn't do justice at all. What killed the movie was the terrible CGI of the creatures... The NYC CGI was the best CGI in the movie. I like the Omega man much better, the creature's felt more real. there wasn't any crappy CGI and overall it had a better plot and everything felt more smoothly. As for this piece of crap it was over hyped and over edited, and overly used CGI. It could of been a lot better. If they kept the NYC CGI and just used real shots of the city make it look like it was real dropped the whole CGI of the creatures and used real make up. And had a tad bit more action.

It depends on what you hoped for, a remake of Omega Man or an Adaption of I Am Legend.

On one hand - I liked this ending, sure. It gave the vampires a human side, showing that they weren't just infected people, but their own society. But on the other hand, wouldn't someone want to live in human society, and not the infected society? I think I prefer the theatrical ending. I don't think the development and discovery of a cure was too far fetched. If you look at it in a different way, the theatrical ending was more of a happy one, there was a cure, a hope for humanity. They could capture and cure the vampires, and rebuild. In this one, sure Will doesn't die but there's little hope for humanity in the larger picture.

this ending is way better makes u see the humanity still in them i like it alot more..

plus willie still alive so yeah

the only thing good about this ending is that it finally gave the movie a chance to show some human emotions in the zombies. aside from that its the most cliche bogus hollywood ending they could have made. this is the ending any idiot would have expected from seeing the movie, and the fact that they didnt use it is probably a good thing actually. i mean, the real ending sucks too, but theres nothing really interesting at all about this. zombies and will smith finally connect and understand eachother? lol no thanx.

i like how the creatures in this movie have so many names no one really knows vampires zombies and i just call them mutants not the fun lovin x men variety but just mutant a mutation

just like how really so many people see them diferentley is all

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Are you kidding me? The took it off the net!!! I PAID TO SEE THE MOVIE IN THEATERS!! I hope the RIAA gets all their tapes burnt when society collapses. They are making this fight very hard.

-Bo

Ah man...
anyone got an alt source?

this movie could have been better if they would have followed the book more.

I like the idea of this ending, that the infected still retain some social aspects. And it too is plausible that the big bad guy couldn't fathom that she was being cured, but that all he wanted was to have her back. The very basic emotional response. Like a pack of dogs, really.

I could have accepted this ending without the driving away. Simply do the voice-over on black. I don't need to see the smiling as they leave. In fact, I don't need to see them smiling like that at all, like they know everything is going to be all right. They don't. Just leave it at the discovery of emotion in the infected.

I'm torn, though. Both endings just don't feel complete.

oh my gosh this movie was so good until the woman showed up. ugh. and with her kid to boot. always with a kid.

I am Legend also would have been better if the zombies would have been extras in makeup and not CGI. OBVS it's possible cuz they did it in 28 Days Later. Scooby Doo special effects need to be stopped. Seriously...surely SOMEONE working on this movie was like, "Guys, this looks pretty bad."

Thats horrible! Robert Neville has to die (as like in the book), otherwise its too watered down.

Both the theatrical and alternate endings have good and bad points. In the alt version, I liked how they humanized the zombies, but hated that Neville lived and drove off Hollywood-style. In the theatrical version, I liked how he died (a lot more movie friendly than pills), but hated how the lady and kid drove off and "saved the world".

the first ending made absolutely no sense at all. what is the point of him dying? he already lost everything else, why does he lose his life too? let him start over with the new family at least and another dog. That first ending meant he went through all of that suffering and he can't at least live to see it or at least get laid one more time. the second ending was perfect.

The book is better. I wanted to hear the vampire say,"Nevilllllllle! Come out Nevillllle!" They also missed the different levels of progression from the book (that led me to believe when I first saw the movie that the woman was a vampire). And yes, having him die in the end of the movie was "justice" for him being the creator of it, but the ending in the book was CLASSIC - the irony of him being a legend was captivating.

This book has been made 3 times now. They have never been true to the book, yet.

Both endings sucked lol. Hollywood sucks...

This ending is 100% better than the one in theaters. I really enjoyed I Am Legend and the only disappointment was the shitty ending. I think it would have done a lot better with this ending,

A much better reply - I would've actually left the movie satisfied if they'd kept this ending, even though it's weaker than the novel.

This ending shows that the Vampires have intelligence and society, which ties up all the stuff where they trap Will earlier in the movie. It's still a tense, climatic scene, and most of all - it makes the "butterfly" line make sense!

I also like that it doesn't show the camp of survivors, which was far too cheesy and Hollywood. At this ending it's just the 3 of them vs. the world at the end. Much better.

this is much brighter, but as much as i wanted dr. neville to live, the original ending is much truer to the story. not everything can be happy endings. sadly, it's called i am legend, not i am living legend.

by the way, the ONLY way to see this was on IMAX - un-fucking-believable!

I might buy the two disc version because of this. The ending here IS A MAJOR IMPROVEMENT over that crap (random grenade explosion) ending.

Who thought of the ending to the theatrical release? Morons. This is more complex and I liked it.
~Scott

I don't really like this ending that much. I felt like he needed die and get some revenge instead of just being like "ok truce" and everyone goes there separate ways.

I was half expecting to see them high five and go watch shrek together when I was watching this ending. Not good. Although the original wasn't great either this was not any better.

I think those idiots should have done this ending. It is much better and thats the way the ending was heading!

I liked the original endings where Vincent Price and Charlton Heston die. In 'Omega Man,' Chuck Heston had conversations with the Mutants.

I just have to add that I never saw Omega Man, nor have I read the book. From that perspective this new ending tries to add a dimension that wasn't even eluded to in movie - that the infected are still human. My impression from the movie was that the infected have only enough society left to find comfort in numbers.

This alternate ending was not hinted at for the entire movie and to have it show up at the end at first seems like a neat revelation, but in the end leaves me thinking that the concept should have been developed more during the movie. The theatrical ending is more in line with the single minded nature of the infected that the movie portrays the entire time.

However it does open up that Neville's injury during the movie is not him going mad and forgetting where he put traps, but in fact the infected trying his own game on him. However having watched the movie twice I never came to that 2nd conclusion - I always thought that his being alone for so long was finally getting to him.