I Am Legend

I Am Legend (2007)

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Corrected entry: Will Smith's character tells his wife the virus has become airborne, however when Manhattan is being evacuated, the military personnel are NOT wearing masks or HAZMAT suits when scanning for infected people at the ferry dock.

Correction: Neville JUST recieved word that the virus became airborne. The military couldn't possibly change into HAZMAT suits or gas masks because of such short notice of the news, in fact, they probably never even got word of the news until all hell broke loose.

Corrected entry: In the initial hunting scene, when Neville and the dog are walking through some very tall grass, you can see that the dog is walking on a prepared path where the grass has been flatenned.

Correction: They might have walked through there already and flattened the grass.

Corrected entry: In the first scene with the GT500 in the inside shot you could see the sticker (price) but in any other shot it's not there in the window.

Correction: This is incorrect. In the shot immediately after you see the sticker, Neville opens the passenger's side window, and while it opens you CAN still see the sticker (faintly because it's on the inside) after that the window is always open so of course you can't see the sticker.

Corrected entry: The grenade explosion and ensuing fire in the basement should suck out all oxygen in the basement - the girl and the little boy ought to have died by asphyxiation.

Correction: It is likely that the compartment that they hid in has an exhaust that leads to the outside, thereby providing oxygen.

wizard_of_gore

Corrected entry: Col. Neville's home has heavy metal shutters over all the windows. Except for the kid's room? And that's just where Ethan and Anna are when it is really needed.

Correction: There are shutters all over the house, but the mutants have broken through the one in the kids room. They used the other mutants running through that arch to distract Robert while they broke the shutter down.

SexyIrishLeprechaun

Corrected entry: The first time Will Smith puts shutters over all the windows in the house before nightfall, in the morning, he awakes to sunlight beaming into the room.

Correction: He goes to sleep in the bathtub. Obviously he got up (presumably at dawn) and went to bed. He most likely opened the shutters before getting into bed.

Corrected entry: In a scene in Robert Nevell's house he is washing his dog in the bath tub using running tap water. Where is this fresh water coming from over 3 years after the last water treatment facility was abandoned?

Correction: He could have a water purification tank set up somewhere, we never see the source of the water, so we can make that assumption.

pross79

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film in the newscast, sports news is flashing across at the bottom of the screen. One headline reads that the Giants lost for the 2nd time in the season to the Patriots. This is impossible as the teams are in separate conferences and could never play more than once per year.

Correction: It is quite possible the Giants could have played the Patriots in the pre-season or in a non-conference regular season game. In fact, the Patriots and the Giants just faced off in the Superbowl. Unfortunately, I Am Legend did not predict the future, as the Giants beat the Pats to take the NFL Championship. Scores and stats are routinely shortened for the ticker.

SexyIrishLeprechaun

Corrected entry: In a city where millions were trapped, infected and even consumed by zombies, there isn't so much as a pinky toe bone, shredded clothing or any other evidence of inhabitants. There should have been body remnants everywhere.

Correction: The zombies live in what could be called dens, so they would have taken their food into the dens. Also, in most places affected by plagues, people tend to hold up in their homes, or places of worship, they usually do not die on the street. It's also been 3 years with wild animals scavenging the area.

pross79

Corrected entry: To contain the virus in Manhattan they blow up the bridges (and I assume the tunnels too, otherwise that would be a ridiculous oversight and a plot hole in itself). How then did that woman drive from Maryland to Manhattan and then to Vermont? There should have been no roads in or out.

Correction: Cars were readily available on the island. She could have driven from Maryland to the shore, taken a boat to Manhattan, and then hotwired an entirely different car when she got there.

JC Fernandez

Corrected entry: Will Smith falls asleep in the bathtub with his dog. In the next scene, it's supposed to be the following morning, but he wakes up in his bed.

Correction: When he finally wakes up it is day time. When we see him in the bathtub, we never see him sleep. He might have changed positions as dawn approached because it was safer so he can catch a few hours sleep.

James Storck

Corrected entry: Hand grenades do not create a massive fireball - even in a lab full of combustible chemicals, the heat from a grenade wouldn't be high enough to ignite them.

Jacob La Cour

Correction: The flash point of acetone is -4 F and the flash point of diethyl ether is -42 F. Both of these could definitely be present. Either of these chemicals could generate a "fireball" above these temperatures. Ether is particularly nasty in this regard. I have personally seen an ether flame appear to "jump" twelve feet. Any flame or spark is all that is necessary.

Noman

Corrected entry: During the evacuation scene when Robert's family is being scanned for virus by the soldiers, nobody cares about the dog. This was before the total extermination and they came to know that it's airborne just then. They didn't have any reason to believe that dogs would be immune to the virus. The dog must have been scanned/tested like anybody else. (Neville finds that dogs are immune to airborne infection only later).

Earthling

Correction: But this wasn't day 1 of infection. There would have been evidence of canine infection prior to this day. So I would say YES, there was reason to believe that dogs were immune.

XIII

Corrected entry: In the ending scene after driving from New York to Virginia, Anna and the kid get out of a shiny SUV that looks like it just came out of a car wash.

john897

Correction: Not a lot of traffic throwing up road debris on account of 99% of the world's drivers being dead. It's also very unlikely they took any unpaved roads to get there too. So, why would the car be dirty?

Phixius

Corrected entry: Will Smiths Character is immune to the virus. As are those who have been refugee in the camp at the end of the movie. Will Smiths character has used approx. three years trying to find a cure/vaccine. But all that the woman is taking from N.Y to the refugee camp is the vial of blood, which contains the same immune blood that everyone else who survived has. Since the grenade exploded in the basement, she couldn't collect any usable data to provide the refugees with. Now, we can only assume that the refugees also have done some research with their own blood, and that the provided blood from Will Smiths Character wouldn't contribute in any way to their research. (00:10:30 - 01:10:30)

Correction: First of all, he is not giving them a vial of his own blood. He is giving them a vial of blood from the infected woman - who had been injected with a (seemingly) successful cure. The vial therefore does contain antibodies, that can be extracted. Secondly, to say that they camp refugees would have done some research on their own is an assumption. There is no guarantee any of them is even a scientist, and if they were, there's no guarantee they were on Neville's level. He WAS one of the leading authorities on the virus, after all.

Twotall

Corrected entry: Robert tells Anna that when the plague first began there were 6 billion people on earth. There were in fact an estimated 6.7 billion. While one could argue he was simply rounding down - this is unlikely because he has a very precise breakdown - 6 billion to start, 5.4 billion infected, 588 million killed, and 12 million healthy. Besides the missing 700 million people, how does he know that of the 12 million healthy the 3 of them are the only ones left alive? And how does he get these precise numbers? (01:19:10)

Correction: He is upset, and yes he's estimating. The precise numbers about the infection come from the fact that he was directly involved in trying to stop it.

Corrected entry: Robert Neville is standing atop an airplane hitting golf balls. Sam sees a deer in the streets below. Neville picks up his gun and looks through the scope. When he does this the flashlight is on the right side of the gun. Later in the scene Neville and Sam follow the deer into the dark old bank, Neville enters with his gun raised, but the flashlight is now on the left side of the gun.

Correction: He might have two different guns. The gun probably is not one of a kind so it is possible that there are two of the same kind of guns with two different scope locations.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Robert is looking for his dog when she runs off into the building, as he looks round the corner at the mirror, you can briefly see the camera light.

Correction: No, it's just the flashlight on the end of Neville's gun, and you can see that it startles him.

Corrected entry: During Robert's first flashback, while arguing with his wife in the car, he hits a sick person, who leaves a blood smear on the passenger side window. During the second flashback of the same scene, when his wife gets out of the car, there is no blood on the window.

Correction: Flashbacks are things as he remembers them. Based on his current situation it is reasonable to say that he may not remember things the same way all of the time.

papajim

Corrected entry: When Will Smith is trying to hunt the deer and they go down the bridge, on the right side of the screen you can see someone's shadow running - a film crew member, probably. (He's the last man in Manhattan and the zombies aren't out yet, so who else could the shadow belong to?)

Correction: I watched this scene frame by frame and there is no shadow whatsoever.

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Neville: God didn't do this. We did!

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Question: Did just New York get contaminated or did the rest of the world get infected?

Answer: The whole world is infected.

Tailkinker

Answer: During the evacuation, it seems that only Manhattan is infected, or if there are infections elsewhere, it is not known by the government yet. Sometime in January 2010, things get worse if you follow the posters in the movie.

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