I Am Legend

I Am Legend (2007)

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Corrected entry: Neville makes a comment that the mutants have lost all human traits, but the ones who later attack him outside Grand Central Station have stolen and transported something Neville set up in another part of town, devised a snare trap and been able to "domesticate" mutant dogs for hunting purposes.

Correction: I don't think this is a plot hole. Neville made a wrong assessment of the mutants - this is a pivotal point in the whole story.

Correction: They go down the bridge.

Corrected entry: After three years, the gasoline/fuel supply used by Will Smith would have been degraded to the point of being completely unusable in a combustion engine or generator. Depending on the storage method, gas typically begins to break down after only several weeks. Even with a fuel stabilizer additive, after three years of storage the gas would quickly ruin the fuel injectors of any engine.

Correction: There are methods you can use to make gasoline last for several years.

Corrected entry: The first evening, Robert seals all windows with huge, thick shutters. But when he wakes up, daylight is shining on him.

Jacob La Cour

Correction: He barricades all the windows and lays down in he tub with his dog and rifle, but he doesn't go to sleep. You can see that he's awake and listening to the zombies noises. He's afraid and has his hand on his rifle just in case they break in. Once the sun comes up, it's safe for him to open a window, take a look outside, and finally go to sleep in his bed. That's why you see him waking up in sunlight, it's just sometime later in the day. You can also see that he dreads the night when he's washing his dog and his alarm goes off. It's not a safe time for him so he has to spend each night in constant fear of attack.

Corrected entry: When Dr. Neville is walking up to "Fred" the mannequin, its head moves from side to side between shots.

Correction: As with the shot of "Fred" while Neville is driving, this is done intentionally to show Neville's state of mind. He's imagining "Fred" is moving.

Corrected entry: When Robert Neville sees Anna at his house after he wakes up, Anna was seen going to the cooker wearing a pink dressing gown with Ethan in a striped T-shirt. This changes with the next shot of Anna and Ethan who are wearing a grey top and a dark grey/black T-shirt respectively.

Correction: He does not really 'see' Anna and Ethan when he first gets to the kitchen, he is actually envisioning his wife and daughter. A moment later, reality sets in and then he truly sees Anna and Ethan, hence the change of clothing.

Super Grover

Correction: The change in clothing is because at the first moment in the scene his mind hallucinates his late wife and child in the kitchen, for reasons that should be self-evident. In the succeeding moment his mind corrects this hallucination with Anna and Ethan.

Corrected entry: In the first 'hunting' scene, Will Smith is obviously hunting a deer but the sound that is heard is an elk call.

Correction: There could well be an elk nearby. As we see, there are a number of different animals in the area.

Corrected entry: In the movie, the medicine to cure the virus is called a vaccine. But vaccines can not cure someone who already has a virus: they can only cure someone if administered before the symptoms occur.

luke skyjogger

Correction: This is representative of Neville's state of mind. He failed to make a working vaccine back when a vaccine would've done some good (before the virus had dominated the planet and there were still people who could be administered with it). His mind is stuck on this failure and he can't rest until he makes up for it, so he repeatedly refers to it as a vaccine due to being stuck in the past.

Gary O'Reilly

Corrected entry: When in Times Square hunting the deer, we see a poster for the Broadway play "Rent" in the background. If the virus didn't hit until 2009 - the play "Rent" went (is going) off Broadway in June 2008 - the poster would not still be up.

Correction: At the time of shooting, this would not have been known. The announcement of "Rent" going off Broadway was made a month after the movie came out. Unless you seriously think that filmmakers should go back redo films to reflect new trends, and resubmit them to theaters, this cannot, at all, logically be considered a mistake.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: How can Neville refuel his car, if gasoline and diesel lose their properties after a while? Gasoline loses its properties after 3 months of manufacture.

Correction: The properties you speak of are the octane rating, this lowers over time, but it's still perfectly capable of being used as fuel. I've extracted fuel from a car that has been stood up for 3 years, and that was still able to run the car.

Corrected entry: The way mutants are portrayed in this film is not consistent at all. They go from normal mindless killers to special forces super mutants. At the beginning, Will is able to outrun them, knock them out, kill them with a few rounds, capture them with a black bag, sedate, restrain and experiment on them without even breaking a sweat. Near the end, the mutants are nearly indestructible. They're able to jump 20 feet high in the air, they can destroy concrete walls and ceilings, they can easily blast through a solid steel security door. And the main mutant breaks an impact-resistant Plexiglas door by banging his head on it. If they had this kind of strength all along, Will would not have lasted five seconds.

Correction: I think the insinuation is, until the Alpha Male shows up, the mutants that Neville has captured have largely been without the Alphas leadership and haven't acted individually. Once the Alpha Male is featured, the behaviour of the mutants changes and they follow his instruction. They are simply learning.

Corrected entry: When Will wakes up to see a woman cooking she as a dressing gown on and when the camera returns to her she is still cooking but now wearing a tee shirt. (01:04:30)

Correction: Apparently you were not paying close enough attention, Neville is clearly hallucinating a vision of his wife and child. Not only does the wife's clothing change but she also changes race from Latina to African-American. The child also experiences changes in clothing, skin color and gender!

Correction: The movie did not turn off. When Will moved into the kitchen, the TV noise just faded away. The last shot of the TV in the background showed it was still on, but virtually silent at this point. Roughly 1:06:25.

Corrected entry: When Robert and Sam are eating and Sam is being picky about her food, there is a glass right next to Robert, each time he talks you can see a small reflection of the boom mike moving.

Correction: Actually what you see is Robert's hand reflecting off the glass. It only moves when he moves.

Corrected entry: Just after the title appears and Will Smith's Character is in the kitchen, he opens the door to the fridge and we can see Will Smith's face on the cover of Time Magazine.

Correction: Not only is this a plot point of the movie, but anything that can be plainly seen by simply watching the film is not valid trivia.

wizard_of_gore

Corrected entry: The jet that Neville was golfing off of, the SR-71 Blackbird, was never an aircraft-carrier compatible aircraft. Furthermore, the SR-71 was retired in 1998, and of all remaining models, only two were kept by NASA, and the rest were not airworthy, and moved to museums. The SR-71 would certainly not have been physically able to be on an aircraft carrier.

Correction: He is on the USS Intrepid, which was converted to a museum in 1982. She sits off the shore of Manhattan and has a Lockheed A-12, a similar-looking precursor to the SR-71 Blackbird, on deck as one of her exhibits.

Grumpy Scot

Corrected entry: Robert walks into the living room where Ethan is watching Shrek. The scene on the TV shows Shrek and Donkey having a dispute about where the fence should be built, this part of the Shrek is after Princess Fiona is rescued. When the camera angle changes, Robert starts reciting in synchronisation with the film. However the part Robert recites is from the start of the movie before he is given the quest from Lord Farquaad to rescue Princess Fiona.

Correction: When we first see that scene, its towards the end of the movie. He then moves into the kitchen and sees the boy eating breakfast, before going back upstairs and coming back down once he's calmed down. Therefore it could be possible that he was up there a while and that the DVD restarted as mine does or the boy restarted it as he missed the end whilst eating breakfast.

Corrected entry: When the woman and child drive up to the entrance of the community in Vermont which is inhabited by those not infected, the vehicle she is in is so shiny and clean it looks like it was driven directly off the showroom floor! Given she had been on a long drive, there should be road grime, dirt and bug splatter.

Correction: For all we know it WAS off the showroom floor. She probably changed vehicles several times on the trip, and would choose the best ones she could find.

Corrected entry: We see the nightseekers easily scale the walls during the siege of of the building where Neville lives. The walls of the Colony, even though large and secured by retinal scans, would offer little protection from the nightseekers looking to climb in.

Correction: The infected aren't scaling walls, they're scaling the side of a building, which offers many hand- and footholds. The walls of the compound do not. They are also guarded by sentries with guns.

Corrected entry: Anna says she and Ethan had waited for Neville at the pier the entire day, but they didn't see him setting up for a suicide attack on the mutants that included driving his car onto the pier and setting up a mannequin.

Correction: Perhaps they waited most of the day, then left just before he arrived, and returned for one final check before leaving New York. There are many possibilities.

Corrected entry: Couldn't mutants not go outside because of any kind of light or direct light only? That leader mutant (and its dogs as well) stayed inside its dark shelter while Robert captured a female mutant. But later, in a different scene, dogs were waiting only for no direct sunlight before attacking but it was still daylight. Anyway, during the first scene there was no direct light too.

Correction: There WAS direct sunlight in the scene when the leader is burned. They are sensitive to UV rays, so they would be able to be out during the day (although with discomfort) but would be burned by direct sunlight. Think of it like standing next to a fire vs. actually TOUCHING the fire.

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

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Trivia: Smith tries to explain to the woman who Bob Marley is by singing a part of the song "I Shot the Sheriff." He also sang this part of the song (with a similar voice imitation) in his role as Will in one of the episodes from the series "Fresh Prince of Bel Air".

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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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