1. Why is Will Smith the guy who feels he's to blame, when the english actress in the flashback tv interview is the one that "created" the virus?

2. I enjoyed the interspersed flashbacks versus 20 minutes of past then a 3 years later fade to the rest of the movie ... however ... give me 5 minutes of the panic in NYC with the armed forces losing a war of atrition ... 5 minutes of Will Smith deciding he needs to create and stock a safehouse.

3. You have countless automatic firearms presumably scored from the military supplies ... you emptied a clip into a mannikin, next time try the same tactic on the herd of 30 deer you're chasing in your cobra. Deer taste better.

4. Traps the infected chick, capt badass watches him, bellows in rage while sizzling in sunlight and Will notes that all human behavior is gone (pack mentality is certainly not restricted to canines after all) ... the very next fucking day, Will is trapped in a similar fashion. Drags his bleeding self home and all is well.

5. Suicidal rage episode on the docks ... saved by the chick and again is brought home bleeding by someone from maryland to a specific address in the middle of NYC ... a NYC with a decent amount of roads blocked by barricades and/or spent cars.

6. Day of rest and Shrek ... night comes and OMFG THEY FOUND MEZ ... again all of NYC to try and find ONE townhouse ... but it gets better.

7. Colonel in the Army ... creates lighting and explosive traps based on defending the safehouse ... but can't figure out that aiming the blast away from the fucking house makes more sense?

8. Back to the trap ... three virus-ridden dogs are chomping at the bit waiting for the slash of sunlight through shadow to fade so they can attack ... what happened to the rage-filled uber-zombies ... even if they wouldn't jump the line to attack, the scene would have had that much more intensity with 30-100 crazies waiting with the dogs

1. I believe his character is part of USAMRID, but they never get into it because that would be rather lengthy to explain, but it's the only thing that makes sense for his character. That area was his zone. However the disease caused hemmoragic fever (as described briefly in the movie).

There is only one real solution to any hemmoragic fever with an Ebola Zaire death rate, which this had (90% mortality). Immediate, severe, 100% quarantine. That's what kept the disease in check in Africa before clinics. And that's what causes Ebola to burn out now, once everyone at the bush hospitals have died or fled, the disease 'burns out'. It kills people too quickly.

That's why the bridge is blown out. Obviously didn't work, as people were fleeing anyway, and enough got out.

For more interesting reading in this area check out: Hot Zone, and The Coming Plague.

2. Agreed, but that's all predictable. The book focuses heavily on the psychology of Robert Neville, who in the book is not a solider nor a doctor, merely a random surviver. The book also goes WAAAY out of it's way describing vampirism as a disease, and gives you tons of flashbacks on the break down of society and what the 'plague' was like. It's pretty much a direct rip off of accounts of the worst Black Plague in europe as written by survivors (accounts I've read so I recognize them being redone, including an account of a man who lost his entire family in a day, brought them to the death pits and felt himself going mad...wondering if this was the end of the world, what was the point, where was god, etc.). Utter horror so stark and terrible that it beggers the imagination frankly.

Still, I loves me some Will Smith kicking ass, ala Independance Day.

3. Especially since he's a solider and I would presume have training. My husband has never been hunting, but given all his training I'm pretty fucking sure he could take out a deer. Then again given the LAPD shooting 200 rounds at people and hitting them only 1x or 2xs...maybe not? Let's assume he just sucks at that, what about herding them into a trap?

I felt it was designed to show that he didn't want to kill them, not really. He had enough food, and the thought of taking life was repugnant to him. He had to try, but his heart wasn't really in it.

4. There was an alternative ending where he realizes he was wrong, and they have retained intelligence and humanity. Some of them.

READ THE BOOK, this is a direct reference to the book, which is worse in a lot of ways (was written in '72 I think) but the ending is MUCH better.

5. Yes, I thought that was complete bullshit. You see one street blocked off, did he take three years personally clearing roads? C'mon, no way.

6. They saw where he went (why didn't they attack that night then?!) but also remember he dumps shit on the stairs whenever he comes home? He's clearing their scent. If you have no other humans to fuck up the scent, a dog could track 'em. And they're hungry! I didn't find that TOO implausible, just that they should have attacked the night before unless they got home JUST before dawn, in which case why the fuck is she wandering NYC at night, that's just retarded.

7. Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a demonlistionist!

8. No shit. I was like, okay that guy releases his dogs on Smith...and that's it?! What the fuck. Oh but he returns home after dark and they don't find him then? What in the hell.

9. The original ending sucked. A lot. THERE'S ENOUGH ROOM. Nah, it's cool. I'm gonna stay out here.

I didn't think it was pack mentality that lead him to attack, it seemed the leader was mad that his daughter was taken and wanted her body back, retaining some bit of humanity.

Why in the fuck didn't the Mayans just shoot them at the start? They were obviously willing to kill to prevent the plant from spreading, they shot the greek and their own kid. So why not just shoot them all and be done with it rather than sit at the foot of the temple for days and RISK it getting out the way it did? It makes no sense and was a glaring "because then we wouldn't have a movie" issue. They should have attempted to make it more "it must be contained AND fed" and that would have addressed the issue more.