Born2LoveYou

Hey all.
I just wanna share my view on this film, "I AM LEGEND".

The story is based on a deadly virus coming into the world, 99% of people died, 1% of people were later taken over by this deadly virus, and only a couple of people were immune to it.
99% of the people were evacuated but died, and all access to the city was destroyed.

On the Island, Will Smith, Playing the Dr. was the only survivor including his dog.
He was testing out different drugs to try and kill off the virus.
He lost his dog by another contaminated dog.

The DR everyday put out messages over the radio for any survivors, and waited at the docks for anyone to come.
He set up a trap to capture one of these "demons", he caught one and took it back to his home, into his lab to try and find a cure for the virus.

The "demons" were "allergic" to the Light, if they came out in the light, they would burn.
One night, the Dr went to the docks and set up a decoy for the "demons" and was in his car, instead. Hundreds of these "demons" ran towards the decoy and the Dr ran them over in his car, after a minute his car is on the roof with these "demons" all over him, and one climbs in the car with him and is about to bite his neck when a really bright light comes on and they all burned.

A women and her child came to his rescue. She drove him back to his home. She wanted to try and take Dr with her to a safe house in the mountains for the survivors. The Dr said it didn't exist, no one survived, but you get that impression from watching the movie.

The Dr asked how the woman knew there was a safe house, and she said that God had told her, but he didn't believe her and told her God didn't exist. And the women said that God had told her to turn the radio on to hear his radio broadcast. And that is why she was there.

Then milllions of these "demons" were charging at his house, they all took refuge in the underground lab, and he saw one of his cures for the virus was working.
They were trapped in a glass room, with the sedated "demon".
All the "demons" tried to break through the glass into the room, the glass started to crack.
The Dr took a blood sample from the "demon" who was starting to recover, and gave it to the women to run away with. The cure for the virus was in the blood.

The Dr hid the women and child in a secret hideout he had in the room and told them to wait until dawn and then take the blood to the safe house. Now the "demons" were breaking through the glass and all the Dr could do was sacrifice his life to save everyone else, he had a grenade in his draw that he used to blow himself and the "demons" as they broke through the glass.

Then the women and child traveled to the safe house that God had told her was there.


This movie reminded me of all the evil in the world and that Jesus died for us to set us free, Jesus' life was a sacrifice for us so that we may have eternal life and be set free. Just like The Dr, He sacrificed his life so that other people could be cured againsted the deadly virus.

And the other thing is reminds me of is when the "demons" burn in the light, Theres a verse in the Bible which I can't remember exactly, but its something about man loving his evil ways or something, its doing my head in trying to find the verse. But anyway, its like the evil are allergic to the light.

I think it was a good movie, I think it puts out a good message.

Alot more happened though that I haven't said about, but I just gave a sort of outline on the story.

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Rumely

Sounds an awful lot like "The Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston made, I think, in the seventies. Along with many other similarities, the movie ends with a dying Charlton Heston collecting the blood flowing from his mortal wound (spear to chest). His blood contains antibodies against a disease afflicting nearly all of surviving humanity. Wonder if it was intended as a remake?

Boanerges

This is a 3rd gen remake the original starring Vincent Price as " The Last Man on Earth" was probaly a little better. What he did not have in special effects he made up for with acting.

Rumely

Now that you mention it, I have heard of "The Last Man on Earth" though I've never seen it. I may have to check it out.

Whirlwind

I heard about this from a fellow-Christian co-worker a while back and was immediately curious...it was right up my alley.

I watched the old Vincent Price movie. It was okay. I read the book by Richard Matheson, and I got a little more understanding of what was going on in the old black-and-white movie.

Then the movie came out. I was let down...

They changed so much of the original story, they should have re-named it.

I still enjoyed the movie, though...it was quiet at times. The scene where Will Smith takes care of his dog is waaaaaay overdrawn, though. Did anybody else notice that? I mean, the camera hangs on him so long, I thought something was wrong with the projector!

I don't think the movie really explained the title as much as the book. "I Am Legend"...hmmm, what does that mean? That's what I thought when I first started reading the book. At the end, I was like: Aaaaah! I get it now!

That feeling just didn't come to me from the movie.

Born2LoveYou

I don't think it would be appropriate to show Will Smith stangling his dog to death because it became "demonised".

Remember, a dog is a mans best freind.

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KitsapGirl

What disturbes me most is this...who's blood is the cure for the virus? A DEMONS blood!!!!!!

Yes, Will is apparantly a messianic figure, giving his life to save others. and The woman is directed by God, but the demons blood is the cure for the deadly virus(sin).

I won't be watching (financially supporting) this one.

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Born2LoveYou

Noooooo, Will has been trying lots of different experiments to try and cure the virus. The blood in the demon he takes has the cure in, the "demon" is almost turned back to human.

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Beloved

Loved the movie, "I AM Legend", and taking my girlfriends to see it ... They are always taking me to crying chick flicks...

I loved the action, special effects, the story, the acting,

and especially the ending... If I understood the movie correctly since he was immune he used his blood first injected into the female demon like creature... And when she responded by turning human like he withdrew her blood, to save the others...

I understood he had been repeatedly experimenting, with rats and demonic creatures, and finally found the one who would respond to treatment with this last patient...

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Shalom

( SHALOM says: Completeness, wholeness, health, peace, welfare, safety soundness, tranquility, prosperity, perfectness, fullness, rest, harmony, the absence of agitation or discord. )

Beloved
1 Corinthians 14:1 Let Love be your highest goal.

SweetSurrender

I have to agree with KitsapGirl on this one. My husband watches way too many of these demon type movies and Hollywood has trapped his mind into thinking they know what they are talking about. When all they are doing is getting us used to demonic language. After becoming a student of the Bible, I can see through it. But I would not have before I was into the Word.

Case in point is the blood coming from the demon. Hollywood has always made us think that if you hold a cross up to a demon, witch, whatever, he will leave. Now I don't know if that's true or not, but we believe most anything they put up there on the screen, whether we know it or not.

But, I just read something in the Bible that says that even after the fall, Adam still bore the image of God. We are different from angels or demonic beings (Psm. 8:5 and Heb. 2:7), so they are trying to say the demon didn't stay demon anymore after his blood was taken? Just another Hollywood lie?

I don't know, but I don't want to become so familiar with these movies that they lead me down a wrong path. I'd rather sit down with my Holywood Bible. Thank you very much!