Over the past couple of years Hollywood has come out with some decent movies, but there’s one thing that really “grinds my gears,” Virus movies.  I was a huge fan of 28 days later and even 28 weeks later, even though it had a different director, but recently it seems as if everyone has got the virus.  I went to see Doomsday on its opening night, anticipating it’d end up being a knock off of the Mad Max series, but somewhere along the say it got taken over by the virus.  Movies such as I am Legend and Doomsday would have been so much better without a man killing virus infecting the bloodstream of thousands of people.  Hollywood has got a virus, and it’s called lack of creativity. 

I am Legend, in my opinion, was a movie that had great intentions, but the director just did not put any effort into it.  From the lack of quality animated “infected”, to a pitiful ending, I really think I am Legend could have turned out way better then it had. My ending to I am Legend would have been: Will Smith goes into a breakdown and it shows that everything he had been envisioning was an illusion, and to find out Will Smith was really a homeless guy living on the streets. 

Doomsday, on the other hand, I feel had a really cool idea of touching base with an uncivilized colony, but of course they had to ruin it with the same cliche virus scheme.  If Doomsday had been based around ANYTHING besides a virus, it would have been awesome. 

My plans are to see 28 months later, if it ever comes out, and never see a virus movie again.  Come on Hollywood….can’t we be a little bit more original?