[Coolhand]

It’s funny because I remember walking out of I am Legend, and agreeing with my friends who’d seen the movie with me that the ending didn’t seem to fit somehow. We’d all picked up on subtle clues scattered throughout the film that the Darkseekers (or whatever they were called) were not just dumb animals, and that the leader had some kind of relationship going on with the captured female. So when the monsters all break into the lab at the end, we’d all independently arrived at the conclusion that the leader had come for the girl, that the Dark Seekers were intelligent, and that Robert Neville was going to REALISE this and comment on it somehow, and this would be big revelation about the nature of what the whole movie had been about.

So when this didn’t happen, we were all quite perplexed.

Knowing what I now know, I can say that a carefully nuanced and surprisingly cleaver blockbuster movie was utterly ruined in the last ten minutes by what I can only describe as “some studio muppet.”

Thanks for posting this Delvo. It certainly illuminated things.