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Danzdol
Member
04-21-2001
| Monday, December 17, 2007 - 4:52 pm
No thread about this yet? did I miss it? If not, here are my thoughts; DO NOT READ IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED! Overall I liked it. I am a Will Smith fan so I might be biased. Even though there was a lot of Will in the movie, it was greatly filmed to where you were not bored of him. I will nitpick a bit.... The "infected" were a little similar to other evil characters in movies like Hellraiser. I also thought the movie was very similar to Night of the Comet. Does anyone remember that? from the early 80's? Also, how come they also not only got infected but got flying and spiderman powers to climb up walls and leap yards at a time? LOL I wish there would have been more to the ending as well. It left you wanting more. I completely thought the ending was going somewhere else when the infected were rushing the glass. I thought they would back off once they saw the medicine working. But, nope, he had to die. Sigh. It did not feel long. It felt just right as far as time went. And the dog....sniff sniff...I am not even a dog person and I was so sad. I wish after all he went through he deserved to be dragged to Vermont though to be honest, I also thought she was full of it and it did not exist! A lot of the scenes in the beginning were fascinating. I liked how he organized his life around what he had. The video store with the mannequins was genius too. Anyone else?}
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Monday, December 17, 2007 - 5:10 pm
I haven't seen it yet. I am a Will Smith fan, too, and really wanted to see it. So I was quite disappointed to hear from my son that he thought it was terrible. Terrible. I am not sure whether or not I will go see this now.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, December 17, 2007 - 5:32 pm
I enjoyed it, but it wasn't really good, just good. Next bit is spoilers...... ... ... The "zombies" bothered me too. I guess to the writer de-evolved means they became more like animals and got some more animal-like abilities. Seemed far-fetched. But taking that on board the movie was good. And yes, I liked how Will's character arranged his life to be as normal as possible. Being at the same place at the same time every day was genius too. I thought the real psycho zombie was the partner of the female zombie Will Smith (blanking out on the character's name) caught, so I thought at the end he would see that Will was making her better and they'd... all live happily ever after.
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Danzdol
Member
04-21-2001
| Monday, December 17, 2007 - 5:43 pm
Hey Kitt we thought the same..well almost. I thought it was her dad! lol Thanks for the clarification of the flying skills..lol
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Moondance
Member
07-30-2000
| Monday, December 17, 2007 - 6:23 pm
Ok here is a question... does the dog die??.... I know this sounds fumy but I need to know... thanks!!
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, December 17, 2007 - 6:31 pm
Danz, my dh thought that too, I wonder if they kind of wrote it into the script then decided not to go that way. Spoiler for Moondance: Spoiler Click below to view spoiler | Yes, it gets bitten by the baddies and infected. |
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Moondance
Member
07-30-2000
| Monday, December 17, 2007 - 7:55 pm
Thanks Kitt!!
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-21-2006
| Monday, December 17, 2007 - 10:22 pm
I know Charlton Heston did the movie, "The Omega Man" which was loosely based on the, "I am Legand" book. They said that this was trying to stick to the book unlike the other two movies that were made before. The other two movies didn't follow the book as much. I never read the book myself. I remember the Omega Man. I don't know if anyone else remembers it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omega_Man I haven't seen this movie yet, but my daughters dad did and he said it was really good.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, December 17, 2007 - 10:53 pm
DC I saw the one with Heston and it was pretty creepy, if you like that sort of thing. Not my cup of cinematic tea.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 7:08 am
See Will Smith's next film "I Am Ketchup" You'll eat him up gradually.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 10:44 am
ROFLMAO KL!
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 11:29 am
I saw this movie on friday. I agree with most people here. The first half of the movie is terrific. Because it is so terrific, it actually hurts the movie, because the second half does not deliver at the same level. I also questioned what happened to all the bodies of the dead. Especially if WS is breaking into some apartments looking for supplies, wouldn't there be bodies around?
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Danzdol
Member
04-21-2001
| Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 11:55 am
interesting Darrell..I did not even think about that. There was only the one scene of the house with the twin baby room that has some kind of bedroom covered with that white protective sheet and toxic stickers on it but no other mention of it. In ,Night of the Comet, they would turn into red dust.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, December 24, 2007 - 6:53 pm
the other thing that really bugged me -- if the "island" was completely blocked off, the bridges blown up, etc. -- how'd the woman and boy get on and off? And that red mustang? was that just merely product placement?
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Monday, December 24, 2007 - 7:02 pm
Seems we are all of the same page, loved the movie with one or two nitpicks. Mine is that they clearly showed an ultraviolet light in a holder beside the creatures head. They also made a point of showing that the light almost instantaneously burned the infected horribly. Why doesn't Smith just hold the light up which would repel the creatures from the glass? On our way out of the theatre there was a couple in front of us and the woman was crying BIG. The man asked her why, she said she was scared. He asked if it was that last big scene and she said no, it was pretty much the whole movie. LOL I felt bad for her but who is scared to tears and then stays in their seat for two hours? And nice job hubby or boyfriend, your date is sobbing and you don't notice until the lights go up? LOL
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, December 24, 2007 - 7:10 pm
I was totally disappointed.
Spoiler Click below to view spoiler | I wanted one of the happily riding off "alive" into the sunset movies..didn't get it I guess the effects were decent, but I hated the story. | OH! I have seen Omega Man at least 10 times over the years. Gosh it's hard to talk about anything about this movie without spoiling.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 12:09 pm
I thought the movie was good, not great, but good. I thought Will was awesome! The dog too! Will is really talented. I didn't really like the movie though. It seemed like a combo of The Stand and The Descent. I really wanted to like the movie. It sounded interesting and I love Will Smith. I do like most movies too, even movies that aren't really very good. But I just didn't like this one so well.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 2:31 pm
I liked it but the three people I went with all hated it. we all agreed that Will Smith was great in it.
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Lycanthrope
Member
09-19-2002
| Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 1:16 pm
It came out on DVD today. There is an alternate ending in which all three of the normal humans survive. Kitt staed that the female infected was the partner of the alpha male infected, and the alternate ending pretty much confirms that. Evidently, one bridge wasn't blown up, and that's how they got off the island.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 3:08 pm
That's interesting, thanks for sharing.
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Ahnicka
Member
08-08-2007
| Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 11:18 am
I thought the ending was pretty anti-climactic. Ly that helps to bring some things into perspective, thanks.
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Lycanthrope
Member
09-19-2002
| Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 8:17 pm
I think the "alternate ending" was the original ending, but for reasons unknown they had to film another one for the theater.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 8:34 pm
Was the alternate ending on a second DVD? We rented it and I did not see any way to view an alternate ending. Not sure how much to post openly, so I'll use a spoiler box.
Spoiler Click below to view spoiler | The ending I saw had the mom and son making it to the survivor colony, while Will Smith blew himself up with the zombies to help their escape. Is this the same ending as in the theater? |
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 9:06 pm
Yes, that's the theatre ending. I think the alternative ending is on the Bonus disk.
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Lycanthrope
Member
09-19-2002
| Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 9:24 pm
Yes, you need to get the bonus disk to view the alternate ending. There's also a few extra scenes in the middle of the movie, I understand, but I haven't viewed them, so cannot comment on them.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 1:55 pm
Mom and I were considering getting this through On Demand. But I came here first to ask about the dog before we did. Thankfully Moonie asked the question I was going to ask for me. And Moonie, that's not a funny question. It's one I need to know too before I watch a movie. Based on Kitt's answer, and a few other comments about the disappointing ending, I think we'll be passing on this one.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 5:10 pm
Here is the alt ending on youtube. I would watch it right away if you want to see it because this kind of thing gets deleted fast from youtube. http://youtube.com/watch?v=sJHVDsLFTb8
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 7:15 pm
Thanks for finding that! I definitely prefer that ending.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 3:52 pm
I just watched the DVD a couple of days ago. I wish it had had this ending. I like 'happy' endings.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 11:05 am
We bought this movie last night and watched it and I really liked it. I'm a Will Smith fan, anyway, but let me just say O.M.G. the man is ripped!! He had to really workout hard to get in that good a shape! I wish I wasn't so late to this thread because I'd love to know what the alternate ending was. I hope it was him being saved also because that was the only thing I didn't like about the movie.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 1:59 pm
Another person's put it up on youtube, Twinkie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm7CxqJE2ZQ
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