@celestialseed: funny you say that, Stephen King movies are notorious for copping out at the end when he provides genius original endings in his novels. The Mist I didn't mind so much as it was gutting (and yet again, Walking Dead's Carol survives another pre-planned death hahaha).
Dreamcatcher not only had a godawful ending that seemed to have forgotten that the rest of the film existed (and the novel), it went for awful CGI that didnt fit into the rest of the film when all they had to do was use the actual dream sequence where Duddits helped Henry to kill the alien in Jonesy... and then the music was shite. Epic films need epic music!
Other than that, I Am Legend's ending was a complete and utter cop-out also, both for what it could have been as a standalone and also for what it refused to take from the novel. I went into that film so hopeful that Will Smith would at least be the ill-fated bitter and twisted Dr Neville that would fall foul of being called a genocidal racist just like in the book.
But to be honest, everything about that film - the mutants and Alice Braga's weird religious woman and the child especially - was a joke. Hokey CGI from apparent top animators and graphic artists. They weren't even "Vambies" that could talk and torment Neville like in 'The Last Man on Earth'. They didn't even capitalise on flashbacks of the early days of the end of the human race. They just showed everybody having a virus and focused selfishly on the stupid death of his wife and kids who died in a helicopter crash and weren't killed by Neville after they turned?).
It was a Disney Pixar version of 28 Days Later FFS and it had no balls... NO BALLS!!! Call yourself a horror film? Sorry, rant over. Thanks for the offer to express myself.
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