I Am Not Legend

I have now seen I Am Legend.

What a fucking waste of time.

Don't read any further if you don't want to know about the movie or the book. Yeah, there was a book.

I was actually fooled for the first part of the movie. It was looking good, then we rolled over that Hollywood cliff of having to balls everything up and ruin a perfectly good story. Yeah, I know the whole cliff thing is a little random but this is my blog.

I didn't mind the change of scene from the suburbs of L.A. to New York. Nor the insistence in making Robert Neville a virologist and Lt. Colonel rather than an average everyday guy in a really bizarre situation. Okay, the latter I minded just a little but I'm kind of use to it, he was Dr. Robert Morgan in The Last Man On Earth, and Colonel Robert Neville in The Omega Man. What was wrong with him just being the average man ? And I didn't mind too much that the dog was there from the beginning . . . . well I don't think I do, let me think about it for awhile.

Anyway, they changed the whole point of the name of the book/movie. I am legend. There's a point people, a point to the name of the book. And the movie misses it totally 'cause they go for a sickly sweet, a what a hero, ain't it grand, it all worked out for the best, pukey Hollywood ending. Sorry folks Robert Neville was the last man on earth. There was no survior coloney. I am legend is the last line of the book and it makes you rethink the whole book.

Robert Neville has become the creature of terror, stalking the population, killing them in their sleep. His name will be the name used to scare small children, he is the bogyman for the new society. He is legend.