12 Most Insulting Changes To Movie Remakes

Despite some incredibly ropy CGI, I Am Legend is a great adaption of the 1954 novel with a fantastic tone kept throughout, and some of the changes it makes really helping to elevate the emotional weight of the story.

It follows Dr. Robert Neville as seemingly the last man on Earth who lives in a world where humans have either died out or turned into cannibalistic vampire creatures named Darkseekers. Robert spends his days killing time, hunting vampires and capturing some to experiment on.

The previous adaptations – 1964's The Last Man on Earth and 1971's The Omega Man - this film remakes both understood what the original book was going for, and contain the terrifying realization that the Vampire creatures were actually intelligent and held emotional attachments to one another.

Coming in the night to kill them, and experimenting on innocent creatures for his own gains, the sudden revelation shocks both the character and the audience to the core at all the damage and cruel things he has done. To the Darkseekers, he is a legend.

In this version, he has a big action movie showdown with the vampires, and sacrifices himself to save 2 characters immune to the virus. Robert ends up as your basic movie hero without any shock twist or realization to give him any depth.

It's an insultingly weak way to shake things up, and a superior directors cut ending is better, but still nothing on the other versions bombshell reveal.