This post contains spoilers. You’ve been warned - if you haven’t seen I Am Legend you probably don’t want to read this!

When I reviewed I Am Legend here on BifSniff I said of the ending:

what we get instead is a flimsy and ridiculous plot device which one would expect from a lesser horror movie. This device is presumably meant to distract us from the original expectations such that we won’t notice the utterly crap ending to what began as a very promising horror drama.

I didn’t want to go into details because I prefer not to give any details of films away to people who might read the reviews before going. However, in conversation with my sister, we discussed how it seemed obvious that the head zombie had feelings for the girl-zombie… and that Neville was an idiot for stating that they had proven themselves devoid of feeling when they were clearly and visibly upset at Neville taking the girl.

My sister and I both felt sure that in the final scene Neville was going to realise that the head zombie was so worked up because he had his girl… we were sure that Nevilles saving was going to be that he had the girl.

We were so wrong, and Neville sacrificed himself completely uselessly with a grenade blowing up everything in sight.

Except that wasn’t the original ending it seems.

Now, FirstShowing.net have the original ending, go and watch it!

Ok, it’s still not perfect, and it woulnd’t have saved the film completely, but for god’s sake, at least it ties in with previous scenes in the film… at least it finishes out certain themes they had been building in the film instead of just randomly blowing everything up. The theatrical ending was ludicrous because why would you not get in the bomb proof cupboard with the girl and the kid and toss the grenade out?

I would have liked a better ending than either of these, but if I had to choose, I choose the one that has come to light now. If only because it’s clearly the ending they had in mind when they wrote the film.

There are so many other films that clearly were working to an ending that the studios decided against, I wonder how many of them have the original endings knocking around somewhere. I’d love to see the real ending to Man On Fire rather than the crap that ended up tacked onto that.

Anyway, go and watch the original ending and comment on the site to say which you prefer. There are currently 382 comments and counting… and from what I can see most people prefer the ending that has now come to light.

Irish Left Review went live a while back and I didn’t have a chance to blog about it… I still haven’t had a chance to read most of the content, anyone out there read it? Care to comment?

Anyway the Irish Left Review states

The magazine was brought about by a number of Irish Left wing bloggers, who felt a long-running frustration that Ireland lacks the kind of social democratic politics that is well represented in other European countries… It is geared towards a broad left - those who want to make Left politics work and to increase the over all vote for the left, so that political alliances can be formed and significant policies implemented.

So if you’re anyway Left leaning, go check it out.

There’s so much I haven’t had a chance to blog about lately. Cuba Obscura, prints of Cuba taken with pinhole photography by our good friend (Sir) Brian Barry.

With Castro handing over power to his brother the timing of these prints seems kind of nice. Brian took them while on a visit to Cuba last year as far as I know, so if your a Cuba nut they might mark the occasion nicely for you.

The prints are Photo Intaglio Etchings (ask brian, not me) and are available from Cork Printmakers, or contact Brian about them.

Go check out the site.

You’ve also got to be of a certain age to appreciate it. My slide viewer was a Hanimex and I thought it was the coolest thing ever when I got it. Anyway go check your attics or wherever else your old junk is stored..