I Am Legend was good up until the last ten minutes. Seriously. I walked out of the theater pissed off because the last 10 minutes of the movie completely sucked. It felt like the writers had the whole thing written except for the end and were like:
Writer 1: “hey… dude - look what time it is.”
Writer 2: “shit, I didn’t realize it was so late.”
Writer 1: “Yeah man - we need to get all the way across town and this time a day - you know traffic is gonna be a real bitch.”
Writer 2: “Totally, we should get outta here in like… 20 minutes so we can get to the restaurant on time.”
Writer 1: “Yep - plus we start that other project tomorrow. Let’s just finish this donkey up and end this thing - I mean, we already killed the fucking dog - which I told you I didn’t want to do.”
Writer 2: “Stop whining about the dog already. Let’s just bang this piece out and the hell outta here.”

Apparently - the original ending didn’t “test” well with the test audiences - which were apparently made up of idiots.

I Am Legend’s Original Ending - video powered by Metacafe

Also.. here’s a link to the Wired post on the original ending.

Last week, when I Am Legend opened, some dude filmed the full trailer for the upcoming Batman sequel The Dark Knight on his cellphone camera. I didn’t bother checking it out, because it was a movie trailer captured on a cellphone camera. But I saw I Am Legend on Monday, and that shit was good. Almost as good as the trailer for The Dark Knight. If you’re one of the four people who haven’t seen I Am Legend yet, a much better (though not great) quality version of the The Dark Knight trailer is embedded above. The film will open Summer 2008 and stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Heath Ledger as the Joker (looking pretty damn creepy I might add). 2008 = year of the fanboy.