A punch into Richard's face

Rating: 2/10 (30 May 2008)

Hello IMDb, after having seen "I am legend" just a few minutes ago, I feel an irresistible urge to comment on the movie.
First, let me state that the movie got everything a Will Smith movie needs: The usual call for humanity and the American hero bs we're all so used to and we all (well not all but obviously some) love so much. My buddy said "well I preferred resident evil" and at that exact moment I should have known, okay, here we go again, don't watch it. Well I did.
This is not by far the crappiest movie I've ever seen, but I'd like to tell you why I am so angry about it right now and why I have given it that rating - the reason is, I loved the book so much. Read the book, go, read the book, and then correct your vote on this movie.
The problem with this film is that it's actually pretty well done. As others pointed out, Will Smith (while making me so mad he said yes to play this role) delivers a solid performance, and rescues this movie from my 1/10 vote.
---- Spoiler -- do not read on if you care to read the book without knowing the end --
BUT How dare the filmmakers leave out the entire story? The book presented the vampires as an increasingly intelligent species that form their own society. And as the protagonist is the only human left on earth, myths and rumors start around him, the vampires are afraid of him - and kill him; he is the monster, the unlike. The legend.
The legend of this is film is that he saves humanity, that he restores the human race and heroically gives up his life in the end, fighting stupid, numb, aggressive beasts. Whereas the whole book was about the vanity of his quest, and the exchangability of the definition of "normal".
I'm ... I don't know what to say. If you want to see a classic post-apocalyptic movie with some creative ideas and therefore lacking the nowadays must-have action sequences, watch silent earth.