Saw it this weekend, was fucking awesome. Though I think now I may have to actually read the book behind it.

Great movie!

Eh. Was pretty good, but I couldn't help leaving the theater thinking it could have been better. But probably the best movie of the year.

The ending was somewhat abrupt, however I do not see how they could have made it better.

Well, more development of the "bad guy" instead of the "I've seen this actor play a bad guy before but can't place him and damn I wish he would stop running into unmoving objects seemingly oblivious to physics and not bleeding" guy. But that's just one way...

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I was wondering one thing though... Was the trap that Will Smith got caught in, his own trap? or was that a sign of intelligence from the infected?

Too coincidental that the infected was waiting just as the sun went out to release the dogs on Will, but his blood did drip into the puddle so they would have known he was there...

I am having a hard time figuring out if it was him just being delusional and falling for his own trap or if it was set by the Infected that saw him use the trap and started burning to give him that evil stare.

That being a delusion would have been a damned good twist to the plot. Afterall, Will was showing some serious mental breakdowns from lack of human contact.

But alas, I think it was the only glimpse of intelligence demonstracted by the bad guy.

Like I said above, I think there should have been more of this character growth ... which would have allowed some hope at the end of it concluding a different way...

Really, the movie was screaming for more of something. A plot twist or something.

That being a delusion would have been a damned good twist to the plot. Afterall, Will was showing some serious mental breakdowns from lack of human contact.

But alas, I think it was the only glimpse of intelligence demonstracted by the bad guy.

Like I said above, I think there should have been more of this character growth ... which would have allowed some hope at the end of it concluding a different way...

Really, the movie was screaming for more of something. A plot twist or something.

Was it just me or did you also see the Head of the Manequin move?

I can swear that when will smith looked to his side and we saw the Manequin that its head turned and looked at him.

That kind of led me to believe that it might have been a delusion.

Oh and did the audience gasp in your theater when we found out that Sam the dog was actually really Samantha and a female?

The whole theater gasped, I was surprised and wondered why it made me feel worse about it as well. :(

:( No, but I was too busy reminiscing. A man should never have to suffer having to put down his best friend.

Loved the movie until Anna showed up... then, blah.

Was what I expected. Entertaining, but not too deep. I loved the main bad guy who kept running into the plexiglass. The ending was /wrists though.

Definately lacked something... The bad guy seemed to be mimicking what he saw Will Smith doing... and he mimicked the trap and dogs also.

Oh and I saw the manican move also. At first I thought it was a bad guy who had figured out how to cover his skin and move into the day light.

Now think about this from the bad guys point of view...

There's this fantastically intelligent superbeing (he's got better than 5 year old intelligence) with godlike powers of death (sniper rifle) and endurance (can walk around freely in the sun) who's been snatching your mates, taking them off to his secret lair, never to be seen again. And then he snatches your wife.

What do you do? Copy his tactics, use your native tough animal friends to take him out, track him down to his lair, where you find....OMG you find he's been conducting experiments on your people and has almost turned your wife into one of his own kind! No wonder he's smashing his head against the glass!

Unfortunately for him, the superbeing pulls a Predator and nukes the site, leaving his buddies to go to yet a new lair from which they'll hunt down your kind and assimilate them back into their own.....

That is what I remember people talking about when they read the book...that the whole world was full of vampires, and our remaining human was the legendary monster that parents scared their kids with.

Oh and did the audience gasp in your theater when we found out that Sam the dog was actually really Samantha and a female?Fooled me. It was a nice way to play with the audience, without interfering with the plot. My students told me the dog lives, my wife was very unhappy with me for taking her to a movie where she cheers for the dog the whole time, and then it dies.

We obviously saw this a little late. It was an okay movie, a decent ride but that's about it. I wish they'd kept away from the silly crowd pleasing semi-horror movie and taken the opportunity to make us think - could really play with ideas of what makes someone human, or what culture evolved with the mutants, or anything along those lines. I thought that was where the movie was going when Smith's character was trapped.

The one cliche they blissfully avoided was creating a hokey love story with the girl.

I just got around to seeing it. I want my $9.50 back.

What?

Thought it was brilliant. Far more scary than I thought.

It was definitely suspenseful.