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   Sentinel to Gnomus   
   Re: I Am Legend   
   27 Mar 08 20:04:35   
   
   From: darth.vader@empire.gov   
      
   "Gnomus"  schreef in bericht   
   news:270320081142252535%gnomus@yukonhotel.net...   
   > In article   
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   > Sentinel  wrote:   
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   >> On 27 mrt, 04:37, Gnomus  wrote:   
   >> > In article <6504suF2e8m6...@mid.individual.net>, Sentinel   
   >> >   
   >> >  wrote:   
   >> > > Finally got around to seeing I Am Legend.   
   >> >   
   >> > > Here's my RSR (Really Short Review[tm])   
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   >> > > Well, I really liked it. I liked the Omega Man film with Charlton   
   >> > > Heston   
   >> > > too, BTW, and it was interesting to compare with this new version.   
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   >> > > I think Will Smith did OK in this one. No silly wisecracks &   
   >> > > one-liners,   
   >> > > but   
   >> > > dead-serious performance, as it should be in a movie like this.   
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   >> > Which ending did you see? I've been reading a lot that the alternate   
   >> > ending is much better than the theatrical one.   
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   >> The ending I saw is where he blows himself up killing himself (duh)   
   >> and a bunch of mutants, but not before having given the woman the cure   
   >> for the disease.   
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   >> The woman and kid end up in a colony with the cure, so we can assume   
   >> things will turn out OK.   
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   > Apparently in the alt ending, Smith gives the mutant girl back to the   
   > mutant leader.  He looks at his photographs of the mutants he'd been   
   > experimenting on and realizes that he's become the monster (somewhat in   
   > line with the book).  From what I've read, it sounds like the mutants   
   > let him live.   
      
   Right! I didn't know about that alternate ending but I checked the entries   
   on Wikipedia. I'm not sure I would have preferred that ending, though.   
      
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