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** [[JET 73 L]] applauds you. Thank you for un-ruining this movie for me. ("They Are Legend" is now a decent, even likeable ''counterpart'' to the book, rather than a bad ''remake''.)
** If you read the original novel, then you find out that the title refers to {{spoiler|the fact that the vampiric creatures had become a sentient race of their own and told stories of this lone human who killed them and wandered the day light, thus Will Smith's character had become a legend to them.}}
*** At first, I was angry about the fact that the original, book-based, ending was the controversial one, but then I realized, they wiped out humanity. They didn't deserve to live, and making peace with them would be like making peace with cancer, [[
**** I think I'm gonna have to disagree with you on a fundamental level there on the "they shouldn't be forgiven" front. However, to [[Brickman|me]], ''both'' endings, the original ending and the movie ending, are made much more meaningful by the fact that both are equally possible--at the end of the movie Will Smith is placed at a crossroads. He ''could'' try to make peace, or he ''could'' continue to fail to realize that his enemies are human and blow himself and a room full of them to hell. Sadly, the answer to which is more likely probably isn't the former. (Note that I haven't read the book so I don't know if the minute or two of falling action after he blew himself up was possible within the book's universe, but I'm willing to chalk that up to the end being what he was hoping would happen since he didn't live to see it).
***** I think you missed something. The whole "convergence of butterflies" sequence is a restoration of the man's faith. He's been living in a state of complete despair, not believing there's any reason for him to be doing his work anymore. Then not only do these two healthy human beings show up, but the coincidences start stacking. And he sees in a moment that mankind was MEANT to survive in the good old-fashioned form; the old "There Is a God After All" recognition. It makes so much sense when you're looking at it from that angle. And because I'm narrow-minded, I like it better.
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