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I Am Legend

August 4th, 2008, by winstoninabox

Alternate thoughts on the ending.

State of body	A super-powered corpse that won’t trouble you with too many deeper questions.
Detail of Inspection	Inspected twice.
Forensic Investigator	winstoninabox
Comments	Family friendly fun.

State of Body	Not so much decapitated as cut off at the knees.
Detail of Inspection	Inspected twice, with the body parts in distinctly different arrangements.
Forensic Investigator	Jon Blum
Comments	How hard is it to make a sequel when nobody watched the last one?

State of Body	Worked over pretty bad and then neutered.
Detail of Inspection	Inspected 3 or 4 times. Probably this time was watching it for the last time I ever will in this lifetime.
Forensic Investigator	winstoninabox
Comments	How hard is it to make a sequel? You just have to copy the first one, don’t you? Hey, didn’t I already say that somewhere else?

State of Body	Like so many other sequels this much maligned corpse can’t escape negative comparisons to its far superior progenitor.
Detail of Inspection	Inspected 4 or 5 times. Difficult to remember after such a long hiatus.
Forensic Investigator	winstoninabox
Comments	How hard is it to make a sequel? You just have to copy the first one, don’t you?

State of Body	Certainly not stale, but as this corpse was always going to be a success it could have taken a few more risks.
Detail of Inspection	Inspected once.
Forensic Investigator	winstoninabox
Comments	Fun, but can’t make it to the next level. What more could one expect with “4″ in the title? That’s what the writers, producers and director hoped you’d be thinking.

State of Body	Watchable. Enjoyable. Unmemorable.
Detail of Inspection	Inspected once.
Forensic Investigator	winstoninabox
Comments	Great action. ’nuff said.

State of body	Oooooooh, where to start. Um, dead? Yeah. Very dead. Strange puncture wounds. Mysterious.
Detail of inspection	Inspected once.
Forensic Investigator	shellshear
Comments	So much potential! Well, I thought so anyway. A classic example of a movie playing it far too safe; of failing to properly explore the premise.

State of Body	Viable, but has signs of future instability.
Detail of Inspection	Inspected a few times.
Forensic Investigator	winstoninabox
Comments	This body is in pretty good nick. If only it had kept to the cast established in the first one. I think I’m mixing my metaphors. Oh well.

State of Body	Not dead, but not truly alive.
Detail of Inspection	Inspected once.
Forensic Investigator	winstoninabox
Comments	This body’s DNA matches that of an earlier victim. Similar wounds are apparent.

State of body	No, we’re not going to do the obvious joke, okay? It hasn’t had its head cut off. Just its brain.
Detail of inspection	Inspected twice.
Forensic Investigator	Jon
Comments	There’s been serious reconstructive work to put its body parts back where they belong, but they still don’t quite fit.

State of body	Um, well. Where to begin? Elaborately tortured, of course, but oddly, cause of death was old age.
Detail of inspection	Inspected once.
Forensic Investigator	shellshear
Comments	People aren’t exactly looking for watertight plots in a horror film, but in this case, more attention to the scenario might have made a more interesting film.

State of body	Utterly pristine.
Detail of inspection	Inspected six times.
Forensic Investigator	shellshear
Comments	The body appears to have been desecrated by person or persons unknown. Well, OK, maybe not unknown. It was me. The autopsy was presumptuous & pointless. But fun.

State of Body	Congealed sangreal.
Detail of Inspection	Inspected once.
Forensic Investigator	winstoninabox
Comments	A bloated corpse.

State of Body	Hauntingly perfect.
Detail of Inspection	Inspected once.
Forensic Investigator	winstoninabox
Comments	There is no corpse to speak of, for the subject is not dead in so much as it is alive and very healthy.

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