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Post by ant-mac on Dec 18, 2023 0:06:33 GMT
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH with Vincent Price is more accurate to the original novel. The alternate ending of the Will Smith movie went more in that direction. I AM LEGEND just lacks the feel of the novel. THE LAST MAN ON EARTH absolutely nails it.
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Post by cryptoflovecraft on Dec 18, 2023 0:27:24 GMT
Actually, THE OMEGA MAN is a legend, and way fucking cooler than the Will Smith picture. I agree, both The Last Man on Earth and The Omega Man are great adaptations of Matheson's novel. Anthony Zerbe's performance as the albino cult leader in The Omega Man is chilling. The scene where he and the other "Family" members take off their sunglasses to reveal their hideous eyes is classic. The Will Smith version was ruined by lousy CGI.
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Post by Dracula on Dec 18, 2023 0:34:22 GMT
The alternate ending of the Will Smith movie went more in that direction. I AM LEGEND just lacks the feel of the novel. THE LAST MAN ON EARTH absolutely nails it. I mean it went more in that direction than the theatrical ending of the same movie, not more in that direction than The Last Man on Earth. The alternate ending touched on the point about him being a "monster" himself all along, which the theatrical didn't.
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Post by mikemonger on Dec 18, 2023 2:05:44 GMT
It was meh. Should have been truer to the book. The whole point of the story is that the main character was the "monster" the whole time. That was something I was intrigued by, but imo the movie didn't do a good job of conveying that, I don't think it even tried (I haven't seen this movie in about 15 years) not many people seemed to appreciate this aspect of the story either in my discussions on the old IMDb boards. The movie kind of tried because they attacked his house in the end to rescue the one he was experimenting on. But it didn't convey it well because they were savages that attacked and killed people anyway. The point of the book was that the infected were still just regular people adapting to their new condition. I thought that was the best part of the story. "I Am Legend" because forever going forward parents would scare children with stories about him stalking them as they slept. All out of a misunderstanding.
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Post by mikemonger on Dec 18, 2023 2:13:01 GMT
It was meh. Should have been truer to the book. The whole point of the story is that the main character was the "monster" the whole time. How was he the "monster" again? Haven't read the book in a while. The gist is that the infected were still totally human in mind, spirit, and intelligence. When he gets attacked, they were doing it in self defense since he was going around while they were sleeping and helpless and murdering them. The ultimate point is that they were the new normal and he was the monster lurking in the daytime, since the new normal was that the day was as terrifying to them as the night has traditionally been for human beings, and that going forward he would be a new folktale to terrify children with. Thus the title..."I Am Legend".
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Post by Lux on Dec 18, 2023 8:16:10 GMT
How was he the "monster" again? Haven't read the book in a while. The gist is that the infected were still totally human in mind, spirit, and intelligence. When he gets attacked, they were doing it in self defense since he was going around while they were sleeping and helpless and murdering them. The ultimate point is that they were the new normal and he was the monster lurking in the daytime, since the new normal was that the day was as terrifying to them as the night has traditionally been for human beings, and that going forward he would be a new folktale to terrify children with. Thus the title..."I Am Legend". Ah okay but that doesn't make him that much of a monster since the mutants would have died from the virus effects eventually.
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Post by abbey1227 on Dec 18, 2023 8:22:43 GMT
The gist is that the infected were still totally human in mind, spirit, and intelligence. When he gets attacked, they were doing it in self defense since he was going around while they were sleeping and helpless and murdering them. The ultimate point is that they were the new normal and he was the monster lurking in the daytime, since the new normal was that the day was as terrifying to them as the night has traditionally been for human beings, and that going forward he would be a new folktale to terrify children with. Thus the title..."I Am Legend". Ah okay but that doesn't make him that much of a monster since the mutants would have died from the virus effects eventually.
Of course
The worst thing any so called human can do is to go against the masses.
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Post by mikemonger on Dec 18, 2023 8:44:30 GMT
The gist is that the infected were still totally human in mind, spirit, and intelligence. When he gets attacked, they were doing it in self defense since he was going around while they were sleeping and helpless and murdering them. The ultimate point is that they were the new normal and he was the monster lurking in the daytime, since the new normal was that the day was as terrifying to them as the night has traditionally been for human beings, and that going forward he would be a new folktale to terrify children with. Thus the title..."I Am Legend". Ah okay but that doesn't make him that much of a monster since the mutants would have died from the virus effects eventually. It's been a while, but if I remember right by the end of the book the future was looking pretty rosy for the new humanity. They were rebuilding the cities and overcoming the more detrimental effects of the virus (actually...bacteria. It was written in, like, the early 50's and everyone was terrified of bacteria at the time). So no. The point of the end was that mankind had overcome the initial terror and was marching forward.
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Post by abbey1227 on Dec 18, 2023 8:48:27 GMT
Ah okay but that doesn't make him that much of a monster since the mutants would have died from the virus effects eventually. It's been a while, but if I remember right by the end of the book the future was looking pretty rosy for the new humanity. They were rebuilding the cities and overcoming the more detrimental effects of the virus (actually...bacteria. It was written in, like, the early 50's and everyone was terrified of bacteria at the time). So no. The point of the end was that mankind had overcome the initial terror and was marching forward.
Sounds similar to the argument in the X-Men with mutants being the next step in evolution........and regular humans resisting
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Post by ofunknownorigins on Dec 18, 2023 15:10:34 GMT
Have you seen the versions of it with Charlton Heston and the great Vincent Price? They’re dated and a bit cheesy (especially the Heston one), but fun nevertheless. My problem with the Will Smith one is the effects weren’t that great.
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Post by ofunknownorigins on Dec 18, 2023 15:11:31 GMT
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH with Vincent Price is more accurate to the original novel. The alternate ending of the Will Smith movie went more in that direction. How do you see that cut of the film?
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