>live in comfort of own home with electricity
>free to do as you wish in NYC during daylight
>expects for survivors to come to him
>even has a dog to keep him company
>goes mental because they killed his wooferino
what a pussy. Tom Hanks in Castaway has far less and a volleyball for company, yet still goes out to find others
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He went mental because he was totally alone... using the dog as a social object to ground him to reality, since it was connected to his dead daughter. When the dog died he lost the last part of his family he was clinging to desperately and couldn't cope any longer which is why he's pretty much suicidal from that point forward and doesn't hesitate to sacrifice himself at the end. You can walk tall and act hard all you like but it's pretty well established that anybody that goes without human contact for extreme periods of time become unstable and psychotic. We're social animals. No, you sitting at your computer and not going outside doesn't count because you're still getting external social stimuli off your phone/computer/etc. At most you'll feel derealization compared to actually going fricking nuts like he did
Based and true anon
/thread OP btfo
I literally reference Castaway who has social interactions with a volleyball and STILL ventures out to find others.
meanwhile I am Legend Will Smith demands any alive must find him. I will not back down.
Do you not think he spent a little bit of time looking for people you fricking moronic mongoloid?
Going for couple city blocks isnt looking for people
Atleast drive to a different city etc
He couldn’t really do this as zombie apocalypse when the lights go out.
I agree. Would be just like my current life except I have to sometimes leave the house. Neighbours are basically undead zombies as it is.
>drive to another city which takes hours
when the sun goes down the mutants come out in the thousands and it is free game
Yes, excellent logic, professor.
fit out an RV and take that.
Also he shouldda made a house boat and chilled out in the Hudson every night
An RV with thousands of those frickers trying to get in? lol Also what if they can swim? They might even climb on top of each other vertically to form a bridge as they drop down.
just be very quiet I guess dont have a party after dark. He only survived in his home because they didnt know where he lived (in the film)
>real life radios can bounce off the stratosphere and let you communicate with fricking russians from mainland USA if the weather/cloud cover is right
>neville was alone in manhattan for years and could never reach anybody despite virginia having a thriving settlement
Okay CinemaSins
i heard ham radio nerds say often that if there are buildings you're basically fricked, you have to be on a peak of a mountain with no walls for best range, and also use repeaters
why not take it to the top of one of the (many) skyscrapers in NYC then?
>Be Will Smith
>Looking for survivors
>Realize best chance to contact someone is to climb a skyscraper
>Go into Empire State Building
>Elevators not working, have to take stairs
>Since there is no electricity and the backup generators have been down for years, it's pitch black in the stair well
>Since it's pitch black, vampires are lurking around every corner
>Get killed by vampires before you make it to the third floor
Geez I wonder why he didn't just go up the many stairs cases
it's not like he has to ask for permission to install an antenna wherever he goddamn please
mite be within the skip distance of an HF radio transmitter
>posts with an ACTUAL fedora to demonstrate his opinions
I've never seen someone blow HIMSELF out this badly before.
>one was on an island with nowhere else to go
>other was in a post apocalyptic country with gods know what out there
>gods
oof
There was literally some guy who lived in the forest alone for decades and didn't go insane.
Solitary confinement is what has been demonstrated to have horrible effects, but a big piece of that is being deprived of freedom. In nature I think a man could handle being alone although it obviously isn't ideal.
Unibomber Ted's shack was comically close to civilization, like a ten minute walk to a road into town, and he constantly wrote to his parents to beg for money.
Money part was myth made by doc in rl he only received money on birthday other than that he regularly go to job every 2-3 month when it was needed
All true but only because of the industrial revolution and its consequences
>he believes the propaganga globhomosexual spews out
He wasn't insane. His writings are some of the most reasonable things you can ever read
LMAO he literally lived next door to some guys who pissed him off because their motorbikes were so loud
>He went mental because he was totally alone... using the dog as a social object to ground him to reality, since it was connected to his dead daughter. When the dog died he lost the last part of his family he was clinging to desperately and couldn't cope any longer which is why he's pretty much suicidal from that point forward and doesn't hesitate to sacrifice himself at the end
/fpbp
Nope, only if you're a coping NPC. As long as you have books which he did and an inquisitive mind he would have been fine. The film just exposes him as a midwit because it's Will Smith we're talking about. Vincent Price doesn't go insane. You're identifying with a real world cuckold, what a surprise.
You should test that theory by reading books without any internet etc for a decade. You won't because you are wrong.
midwits
>he posts on a social media site
>doesn´t know what is an INFJ
>doesn't know meyers-briggs is complete bullshit
Which is the one most Cinemaphileners think they are? You know, the one that's all "no I'm just an INFABCDQ, that explains why I'm a self-aggrandizing shutin who's been afraid to interact with other adults for the past 10 years".
Horoscopes for people with receding hairlines, and apparently a poor grasp of English.
Also, dogs are good friends and when in isolation they will stick with you to the very end.
Book mogs anyways, movie had such a shit ending
>social animals
Lol no. This is mid century pop psychology that has never been true. We are problem solving animals
and even cavemen understood that having a lot of other people solving the same problem as you is beneficial for everyone,
so getting along with other problem solvers becomes the most fundamental problem to solve
It's heartwarming to see that there are still some based anons left who can put dipshit zoomer ops in their place around here.
OP totally BTFO
cant really blame op they grew up in technology and think sitting at home with games etc is the same as being isolated
being isolated like Castaway is worse yep, Will Smith is a pussy in this film
>You can walk tall and act hard all you like but it's pretty well established that anybody that goes without human contact for extreme periods of time become unstable and psychotic.
This gives me so much peace of mind. People think they're such tough shit but literally all it takes it making them alone for awhile and they go nuts. Humans are such stupid little monkeys. We are honestly pathetic. Letting anyone intimidate you is silly.
>and doesn't hesitate to sacrifice himself at the end
Good post but you catched the shitty ending
My dog died last year 🙁
Mine died about 20 years ago and I still dream about her sometimes.
How come everytime I complain about the cgi in this movie I run into a brick wall. It ruined the movie for me.
Hey! Are you me? It was great until the mutants showed up. Every time I saw them all I could think about was how bad they looked. They should redo this movie with better cgi because the rest of the movie is fantastic.
We think alike.
>It ruined the movie for me.
Yes, I feel the same way -- yet his relationship with Sam saves it, the scene with the female mannequin aftpnt00er Sam dies seals the deal. I don't know why people hate Will Smith, he's an A+ actor for a reason.
I would just frick that female monster 24/7
probably could be trained and just have it squat on your penis and gyrate every day.
Or feeding her protein and letting her do barbell squats to grow her lower body
Reminder that the alternate ending is 10000000000000000x better.
Reminder that the movie is dogshit and the book is 100000000000x better.
>israeli vampire neighbour comes out every night shouting his name
>he's utterly alone and gets violently drunk in his protected house
>female vampires try to tempt him to come out by stripteasing every night
>during the day he uses wooden stakes and tries to find their bodies, killing them in their sleep
>captures one or two to tun tests. Finds out they're afraid of crucifix. But not his neighbour, who is instead afraid of torah
>spends time autistically researching what he can in the library
>figures that there is some kind of disease that he got immunity to because he got bitten by a bat once during his military service
>finds a stray doggo that is barely surviving.
>feeds it every day. It starts to look healthier
>become kinda friendly
>takes it home in a bag, lets it rest in an alternate room
>next week the dog is dead
>sees a woman walking during the day
>runs after her, she shrieks and tries to get away
>he drags her to his house
>he is annoyed by her feminine gestures like straightening her clothes
>he is unsure if she is some kind of vampire. Wants her to eat garlic, she gets sick and refuses, deepening suspicion
>storm outside at night, they find comfort in each other's hug
>next day she is gone, leaving behind letter
>she wrote she was sent to spy on him and that she lied that he had more weapons than he really did
>but he should leave his house because they'll come eventually
>6 months later he is still there
>a group of semi-vampires break in
>a group that managed to find a semi cure, that lets them kinda survive during the day and retain more mental facultiea
>they crucify him
>he sees himself through their eyes for the first time
>some guy that went around while they slept, killing them while they're helpless.
>realizes he'll be their vampire in children's stories to come
>I am legend.
>Hey guise I read wikipedia!
Frick off.
you can read the book in an afternoon, buddy. like 100 pages.
Most people here don't read or even watch the movies that they complain about. Are you new?
your post has no relevancy to mine.
I've read the story anon. Thought it was pretty good. Really like the stuff about Neville being in a war in Panama or something and getting bit by a bat so he's immune
I do though view it as an allegory for the passing of the torch from the greatest generation (a generation that fought a war, was meticulous in being sure things were done right, etc) to the baby boomers (well known as being a party generation, staying up late, not respecting their elders, etc)
Nah, it's my favorite book. You think the wikipedia article is even going to mention his israeli neighbour?
The fact that he is such a quintessential german autist is part of the story and part of how it's ruined by the movie. In making him black, they also had to polish away his bad sides and it makes for a much less engrossing story.
why do they taunt him if they're scared of him
They're scared of him during the day, when they are in a kind of comatose sleep.
The new skin they have heals almost instantly and the only way he can manage to kill them is to pierce it with an object and leaving it in, so the wound has difficulty closing and the oxygen that enters the body that way ends up destroying it from within.
This is why bullets don't really work as it pierces the skin, but then it heals too fast to cast lasting damage.
There's also the difference between his neighbour, the random vampires who's minds have slipped and they are a kind of aggressive zombie, and the new society of semi-vampires who are organised and have their faculties to plan and think on par with humans.
What's so bad about the vampires then if all they want to do is party and not be killed?
fantastic. you just got the point of the story.
What was that?
theyre not the bad guys.
they kinda sound like hedonistic douches to me
whole thing sounds like a parable for modernists rejecting tradition and becoming unable to create anything
its a simple story about one man against vampires and turns out hes the bad guy. dont need your social politics thrown in to it, chud.
>its a simple story
If you have a simple mind.
>Lastly, he deduces now that there are in fact two differently-reacting types of vampires: conscious ones who are living with a worsening infection and undead ones who have died but been partly reanimated by the bacteria.
Yeah, that doesn't describe post-enlightenment society at ALL.
you miss the part about her falling in love with him and she gives him suicide tablets before they show him off
Good point, but he doesn't take them because he's a chad.
>and the book is 100000000000x better.
And the book is basically a long short story. One can read it faster than watching the film. The twist at the end is better as well.
which one theres 2
Reminder that The Omega Man was 10000000000000000x better than both of these.
reminder that the last man on earth with Vincent price was 1000000000000000000000x better than any of these
>you're all FREAKS
>free to do as you wish in NYC during daylight
you know how big NYC is? I would be scared shit less. The idea that I am assuredly the sole survivor of this epidemic in such a huge city would never cross my mind. every single day the possibility arises that you could run into a friend or a foe also trying to just survive.
This is absolute kino while Will is alone. Once the brazilian lesbian and the moronic kid show up the movie goes to shit
>>free to do as you wish in NYC during daylight
its really fricking scary to be by yourself in such a desolate and huge place
Not if you are black
I cried when the doggo died
Reminds me of my own dog
the real dog is still alive, apparently.
maybe real dog was friend we all made along
Honestly if you train a dog right they can be quite smart
The cool thing about dogs is how they can be incredibly intelligent but also incredibly moronic at the same time.
They're like women
Except for the loyalty part.
They're better than women in every way except the being able to have sex with them part
What are some actual "wake up alone in the world" kinos?
Moon (starring Sam Rockwell)
The Book
>It is called "I Am Legend" because Robert Neville has become a legend of such to the now civilised night people. The story of the man who comes in to their house while they sleep during the day and kills them/drags them to the sunlight
The Film
>It is called "I Am Legend" because the book was. Any resemblance of the people being even the slightest bit civilised is cut from the movie
I am legend is the weakest of the 3 adaptations of the novel
Last man on earth is the most hook accurate
The Omega Man is the best way to adapt it without sticking strictly to the material
The will Smith film fails at both
Also reminder that this was originally supposed to be directed by Ridley Scott and star Arnold schwarzenegger
makes sense since theres a time gap where Neville now got a heavy tan and huge muscles
>makes sense since theres a time gap where Neville now got a heavy tan and huge muscles
Most accurate representation of the book character appearance wise is unironically Charlton Heston
Schwarzenegger would've worked and I'd have been interested in seeing what came of the film as the script for it was one of the most popular in Hollywood at the time from what I read
But studios got cold feet after Arnold's open heart surgery. Same thing happened with minority report and some others. I do think had Arnold chosen to keep doing movies rather than governor he'd still be a pretty big star
>even has a dog to keep him company
this is when you found out the movie was gonna shit all over the book
>Movie goes so far off the rails from the book that the title no longer makes sense
In the book the vampires including his wife would go to his door and taunt him all night long until he decided to start killing them
>spends every day finding cure to the disease
>doesnt give up
>last contact to dead family catches disease
>WELP TIME FOR YOU TO DIE, DOGGO
why not put it in a cage and cure it?
Cause the movie sucks and is depressing
There's a reason I'll watch the other 2 but not it
I cried like a b***h when that happened
not as hard as that dog did
>WHY THE FRICK ARE YOU KILLING ME?! YOURE KEEPING PEOPLE HERE TO TEST CURES ON THEM
Even dogs understand the desire to die as a human.
you guys really are autistic hes been doing that for how long and at that point prob doubts hell find one so he rather let the dog die as a dog then turn into a monster
gonna give you a clue my friend. the dog dies as one of them. tries to bite his head off
>was only alone 3 years
>somehow found active gasoline
the last of which is a huge plot-hole in many, many post-apocalyptic movies
https://www.bobvila.com/articles/how-long-does-gasoline-last/
how long until gasoline goes bad? and is there a way to reactivate it?
>the petrol was old
so... the car just ran poorly?
>woman turns up
>everything goes to shit
Lesson to be learned here
>woman turns up
>immediately cured of debilitating mental illness
a lesson indeed, chud-anons.
True like a lot of trannies he too killed himself
touche, incel
touche indeed.