I AM LEGEND

WARNING SPOILER BELOW!!!!!!!!

Yes, I know it's kind of late for that, but I copied and pasted from my Myspace blog.

I recently got I am Legend on DVD. It had the new version with the new ending, so I watched it.
In the new version, it also includes different camera angles in some scenes. For example, in the scene where Neville is scouting and he comes into the house where he finds spam, they chose a shot which emphasized the article about infected dogs. I don’t like this however. In the scene where Neville comes across a hive of dark seekers and gets chased out of a window, they use a shot which is more smooth. It doesn’t convey his emotions and fear like the theatrical version.
But now to the ending. Things get different when Anna asks what happened to his leg. He shows her and Ethan how he got caught in a trap that wasn’t his. One thing I wanted to see in this was a scene where they are walking through the city. It would have made it seem more realistic, like they were looking at what has happened. Then there is a scene in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and it goes back to theatrical where Anna sees the female dark seeker in the lab.
It gets extremely different Neville, Anna, and Ethan are behind the plexiglass wall in the lab. The leader of the dark seekers is smashing into the wall like before, but he stops when he sees the female. He makes a butterfly on the glass with is hands for refrence to the tatoo of a butterfly on the subject’s arm. Neville realizes he should have just listened gave them back their ’friend’. He goes out into the lab, and and after a lot of hissing, he gives the leader the female dark seeker. They leave and Neville lives while Anna and Ethan watch behind the glass.
It had very good special effects for the dark seekers, but they relied on it a little too much. All they could do was hiss, scream, and walk. It also had some weird cuts. In one, Anna is opening the sliding glass door for Neville to go into the lab, and she waves for Ethan to come to her. But in the next shot he is already in her arms...It was a very ’Hollywood’ ending, where everyone lives happily ever after.

After seeing the new ending, I would say that the one where he dies is better.

Thanks for reading,
Michael James