I am Legend...

[Deer Hunter]

No, No, and No.

1. This guy is a LTC in the Army (salary around $100,000), yet lives in a multi-million dollar home in NYC BEFORE the plague? Can someone explain his financial means?

Wife might have had money. He was also a very prominant viralogist, which is alluded to in the movie.

2. This Soldier is an LTC in the Army, yet demonstrated very little tactical and weaponry ability considering he has some 15 years in the military and three years surviving the monsters! Here's his HUGE tactical mistakes. A) The city is littered with military vehicles, police vehicles, and armored cars (as seen in many scenes). Yet his best choice is a Ford Mustang and an SUV?????? Why not a Bradley, Humvee, etc. Why not weld some steel plate over vulnerable spots of a supercharged SUV or Humvee?

Why not the Mustang or SUV? What would the Humvee have that the SUV doesn't in that situation? He rigged an SUV with lights, big start. He doesn't really need a fortress to ride around in, since he only uses it in the daytime. The main goal is surviving, not killing.

3. Similarly, why not cruise around in the Bradley using the weaponry of the Bradley to wipe out hordes of the zombies. They wouldn't be able to penetrate the armor and you could just shoot them all night with what I'm sure is limitless ammo in the city.

They weren't Zombies, for one. Also, that would be wasteful and stupid. He wasn't trying to kill them. He was trying to save them. Big difference. Again, he's there to survive.

4. Most of the members of this forum have more guns than this guy, and he's an LTC in the Army!!! He didn't carry spare mags or even a backup gun most of the time. Based on the fact that we only saw 1 rifle and a few handguns, he was BADLY underarmed for his situation.

He had two SHTF weapons. How many threads have you seen that mention "Which is THE best (ala, one) SHTF rifle/pistol/shotgun?" etc. He's 100% ahead of the curve already. He doesn't need an arsenal. Food, supplies, and things to keep his mind working are much, MUCH more important than ammo or rifles.

5. Can someone explain how the woman got onto the island and why she hung around at night and, even more importantly, why and how she defeated 100 zombies to rescue him at the last second on the pier?

It's been three years, I'm sure there are some kind of bridge access (albeit originally temporary) by this time. If not, they could have grabbed an SUV while in manhattan. There were a few unoccupied vehicles lieing around, if you didn't notice. Also I believe the lights may have scared them away. In any case, that whole "savior" part ran on the idea of regaining one's faith that the end of the movie attempted to portray.

6. Why not move onto the Navy ship and move it out to the middle of the River? Seems that it would be easy to defend. Or why not move into a more fortified building like a military base or something. Who cares about "ground zero?" I know he wants to cure the disease, but why not load up his equipment into a semi or something and drive out during the day?

He watched his wife and child die. The home is the last bit of comfort he has to hold onto (and the dog). The home has a symbolic meaning for him. Also, his entire lab was already set up in his house prior to this entire incident. It would be a real pain to find another place and move to it. Not to mention the commute from a ship to the mainland for his vegetable garden.

7. Why not have military hardware protecting his home, like all the stuff likely abandoned throughout the city? I can't imagine how many guns and piles of ammo would be laying around?

Which would bring unneeded attention to his home. They don't know he's there, and he intended to keep it that way. He can't kill them all.

8. Where were the carcases of all of the dead? Several million people died in NYC. Where was all the trash? There were a lot of cars around, but that was about it. And who moved all the cars off most of the streets and neatly parked them on the sides of the roads? Okay, there were a few scenes of jammed roads and road blocks, but it seems that there were plenty of cleared streets.

Carcasses? Eaten or decomposed or simply dead in the millions or different rooms in the city. How much trash would there be if the entire city was to be evacuated? And even those who got left behind, how long before they succumbed and didn't have the heartrate required to make trash? Plus stuff deteriorates. Also, most New Yorkers don't own cars. There is no need. I know I wouldn't own one if I lived there, since parking costs just as much as your apartment most of the time.

9. Seems that at the end he painted himself in a corner because he didn't set up enough booby traps, they were too close and damaged his house, and he didn't have enough guns stashed in his house. So, with limitless resources of guns (a conservative estimate is one in every square block) and ammo, why didn't he have several loaded and stored in every room of his house. He clearly anticipated an invasion based on his precautions.

He had all the guns he needed, and the explosives were a true last ditch effort. He did have numerous handguns planted around his house. Maybe a rifle would have been better, but I honestly don't think it would have mattered. Where there's one darkseeker, there is probably 100. He would be screwed either way. Staying hidden was the best thing he could do. The handguns were mainly for the original looting that I'm sure happened at the start of the panic.

10. After he gets caught in the booby trap, why didn't he immediately pick up his rifle? And when did he go back and get it? And why didn't the horde of zombies come out when the dogs did? And why didn't he just burn the zombies out? Maybe because a fire could, in theory, burn the city to the ground... But still, why not explore some revenge that is likely to succeed?

He was stunned. I give him that. You try having your eardrums completely destroyed and then thinking straight. The zombie didn't want to risk it. It knew that this guy was capable of, and thus wanted to use the dogs to his advantage so he could be rid of him. Also he didn't want revenge, he wanted a cure.

11. That brings me to the next point! The dumbest part of the movie is when he tries to run down countless zombies on a narrow river pier! That was a plan doomed from the start with no practical backup. And when the zombies had his SUV stopped, why not open fire? Instead he just starts flying around the pier, completely out of control. And he almost died several times on this stupid stunt.

He was committing suicide via darkseeker.

[QUOTE12. I can suspend reality and buy into the 'zombie' idea, but how are these 'zombies' able to run, jump, climb, spring, sprint, and otherwise act superhuman when they are all skin and bones and there's not much of a food source in the city after 3 years. I mean, come on! Hordes of zombies were just scaling walls of buildings! The one zombie was moving so fast that Smith couldn't hit him with full auto on the M4 as it was bouncing around the walls, floors, and ceiling and up the stair well faster than Smith could aim and shoot. It moved faster and with more agility than a Cheetah, not to mention the worlds most elite trained athletes with perfect diets! That's not suspending reality, that's just absurd knowing what we know about the capabilities of the human body.[/QUOTE]

Originally, they were Vampires. This version of "Darkseekers" are a bit more realistic (as odd as that sounds) as the mythological creatures of the original I Am Legend novel. Their meals didn't just come from humans. They consumed animals as well (as shown by the deer). They were not zombies by any stretch of the word (or at least Max Brooks's version)

13. I rolled my eyes when the first scene showed him zipping around in a freshly washed and waxed red Mustang in perfect condition! Not a very tactical car or even a tactical way of stalking game. Why not just get a rifle and scope and sit on a building overlooking the park. Take a shot and walk/drive down to get your kill? With no medical help available, I doubt you would be flying down the road aiming a weapon at a running deer.

Perhaps that got old? I didn't like the scene either, but he could have washed the car. May have kept his mind going, gave him something to do instead of simply brooding on the fact that he was the last man on earth. I agree though, he wouldn't do that. But it made for a fun opening. Bad movie-making, but still fun.

14. Why would he keep a grenade in the basement? That was one heck of a grenade, too. Killed everything in the room but didn't hurt the woman or kid! And left no zombies to get the woman/kid but didn't start a fire to burn them down! Why didn't he carry the grenade with him for situations where he finds a hive and wants to toss it in there?

Perhaps it was there as his last-ditch effort. I'm sure that lab had some very flammable chemicals anyway. Anna and the kid were already on their merry way inside the crawlspace when the pin was pulled. Also, he wasn't in the city to destroy hives. He was there to save them, not kill them.

 

[Wes Janson]

Leadcounsel, you're not "getting" much of it. In order:

1. He's also apparently involved in medical research..he may be independently wealthy, who knows. Maybe he had one hell of a big mortgage (hey, guess the apocalypse isn't so bad after all?).

2. You answered your own question. He's not some high-speed low-drag DeltaSpecOpsSOCOM ubercommando, he's a medical doctor in uniform.

3. It's incredibly unlikely that he was ever trained in how to operate or repair a Bradley. Armored vehicles also need quite a bit of maintenance in order to run, and it's not like there isn't a ton of other stuff for him to do in order to survive. A humvee would be more practical, but maybe he just didn't want one?

4. Being in the military does not make you a gun guy, nor does it make you particularly knowledgeable about post-apocalyptic survival skills (at least, not for Army doctors).

5. The how: she had a boat. She sailed there. She waited around for him and he didn't show up (and then she probably decided to go to ground and hide out for the night). The why: because he's another survivor! What, you're just going to go let die someone who may be the last other person left on the planet?

6. For one, it'd be a fair amount of work for him to move everything onto a ship, get his supplies, and keep everything afloat. More importantly, he stayed in his house because it was his house. The dude was a tad bit unbalanced by the end of humanity, and house=psychological anchor point. Notice how he twice repeated the line about making everything right, and how he could fix things...the guy was obsessed.

7. How many weapons can one fire at once? A rifle and a sidearm is about all one can reasonably carry and use at one time. And he obviously wasn't out to annihilate all vampires, because he specifically wanted to reverse the virus and bring humanity back.

8. Vampires. Who drink blood (and maybe eat people too, who knows). You do the math. The vehicles were all clustered around the exit points of the island..y'know, cause everyone was trying to get the hell out of there.

9. Again, not a gunner. He had a fairly decent number of weapons stashed around (by appearances, at least one in every room). He's a scientist, not Burt Gummer.

10. He didn't get the rifle because he needed to haul butt out of there before it became totally dark. If you noticed the clippings on the wall, the infected dogs could apparently come out at dusk, sooner than the infected humans (fur/skin blocking UV?). Hence why the head vampire didn't immediately attack. Revenge was out of the question because he was trying to save them.

11. Dude. Was. Committing. Suicide. Enough said.

12. Vampires are suspending reality. We're asked to believe they're reanimated dead people. Obviously a certain amount of suspension of disbelief has to come into play (although they WERE a bit too overdone, IMO).

13. Because he was joyriding. He wasn't hunting for food (notice all the canned food), he was hunting for the heck of it. Obviously it was pretty stupid, but if you think you're the last person on earth, then what becomes your motivation for survival? Going insane is a much greater threat than anything else.

14. You asked why he didn't have more weapons lying around, and then ask why he does? The grenade was overdone Hollywood CGI; in reality it appeared to be an M67 frag grenade, capable of making a fair mess but not causing massive fireballs of doom. He wasn't interested in killing hives, but instead studying the virus.

 

[WinchesterAA]

I got the feeling he wanted to suffer alongside of the people he got sick (IRC at the beginning of the movie there was something linking the news to willie boy.)


Makes sense to me.. After something like that "I'm sorry" doesn't really cut it...

You might not get hung immediately after everyone was cured if you stuck it out with them and did as much good or whatever as possible.

Prolly the next day you'd get hung while being praised.. Thanks for curing cancer, to hell with you for making me go through that, and thank you for making it right.

either that, or I was watching the movie with the wrong idea from the get go cuz I was a little distracted by my SO's affection.

 

[meef]

Face it y'all, it's a freaking comic book done movie-style. Forget logic, forget would have, should have. Forget the "why did he/didn't he" questions and all of the other how-comes being asked here.

Like sooooo very many of the action movies nowadays - it's a freaking cinematic comic book.

I made the mistake this week of renting (and for some reason watching in its entirety) Live Free or Die Hard.

Talk about your basic motion picture comic book....

Made I Am Legend look almost realistic and believable.

 

[BOONER]

Does anybody have a picture of Fred .

 

[Deer Hunter]

WinchesterAA,

He didn't cause the virus. A white female oncologist did.

 

[TwitchALot]

I don't understand why people suggest things like, "drive the Humvee/Bradley/Tank."

First of all, anyone here know how to fix one if it breaks down? Second of all, anyone have a guess for its fuel efficiency? Not much, given that there's no more gas being refined. Meaning, once you drain a station of gas, that's it. I don't know about you guys, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to walk across the city every day (speaking of which, how did the gas stay fresh that long? ).

Still, I'll give them that. Gasoline staying fresh that long, fine. But ONE mag, no sidearm when you're walking around in the city?! COME ON!

And one last thing:

They wouldn't be able to penetrate the armor and you could just shoot them all night with what I'm sure is limitless ammo in the city.

Any gun stores or storage areas you know of that have bulk 25mm ammunition?

 

[Davo]

I give it a solid 7.5/10

 

[Chris B]

Third, when the 3 dogs came to attack him and Sam (the dog) on the street, why didn't the zombie's come get them? It was dark enough, obviously, b/c the zombie dogs were out.

There was a newspaper front page posted somewhere he went (the house where he got the pills I think) that read IIRC "Canines Can Come Out At Dusk" with a big pic of an infected dog.

I liked it, I thought it was super intense.

 

[Thin Black Line]

1. This guy is a LTC in the Army (salary around $100,000), yet lives in a multi-million dollar home in NYC BEFORE the plague? Can someone explain his financial means?

2. This Soldier is an LTC in the Army, yet demonstrated very little tactical and weaponry ability considering he has some 15 years in the military and three years surviving the monsters! Here's his HUGE tactical mistakes. A) The city is littered with military vehicles, police vehicles, and armored cars (as seen in many scenes). Yet his best choice is a Ford Mustang and an SUV?????? Why not a Bradley, Humvee, etc. Why not weld some steel plate over vulnerable spots of a supercharged SUV or Humvee?

Um, yeah, like I said he's a medical officer --special pay bonues, multiple
tax free deployments, and spent a lot of time inside the wire before the virus
hit

....and the wife had money....the problem of cognitive dissonance is solved.

That'll be $150 --cash, check, or credit card? Oh, wait, this is NYC --$250.

 

[halfacop]

I don't understand why people suggest things like, "drive the Humvee/Bradley/Tank." ...................anyone have a guess for its fuel efficiency?

Agreed - however, if its all about fuel efficency - then he would not have been driving the Mustang either.

Good flick other than a few issues with details and story line.

 

[lotus]

I liked the movie a lot.

Reading the original Protosevich script you'll find they actually TONED DOWN the vampire/zombies considerably for this film.

My main issue with the movie had to do with his house. In Last Man on Earth and Omega Man Neville's home is literally his castle. Given his understanding of the darkseeker's morphology and the very stark realization that his home could be discovered at any time ("Hmmm, why this house always smell like vinegar and car/generator exhaust?") you'd think he'd have a better 'safe room' to retreat to followed by a series of alternate hides established in the city.

 

[Joe Demko]

If you read the book, his staying in his old home makes sense in a way. His family, in fact his whole world, is dead and gone. He stays in his home because he is clinging to his memories and things that are familiar, not because it is defensible or strategically located. They punched up the action-factor several orders of magnitude to make the movie. Neville isn't a gun-guy in the book because there is no real call for it. Killing the vampires during the day is just searching them out where they sleep and then driving a stake through them. At night, he doesn't deal with them directly. He just barricades himself in his house and tries to ignore their moans and taunts.

 

[REOIV]

Movie was just God awful.

It had almost nothing to do with the book.

I wish that someone would actually make an I am Legend movie and just stick with the freaking book.

It wasn't as if the science in I am Legend was any less plausible than super genetic measles in the movie.

That and the were clearly almost mindless vampires in the book, not super fast screamy things.

 

[George Hill]

Think of it this way, it's the American version of the British RAGE virus.
I'd suggest calling in MHI to handle this.
Are you guys telling me that if you had the run of the city, you wouldn't snag the keys to a shiny red Stang once in awhile? I sure as heck would have! Next day I'd try a Jag. A Porsche. A Merc... so many cars... so few hours of sunlight.
Oh, and I would have lit the place on fire and burned it all down once I had my fill of it. Then crossed to the mainland, found a nice Toyota 4Runner, and headed west. Actually, I probably would have done that the same day I saw the statue with the hoody had been moved.

 

[leadcounsel]

In response, as follows:

1. The Army doesn’t generally let people have jobs on the side, particularly when it involves a doctor publishing and making a ton of money on outside research. These tend to conflict. He’s either IN the Army or NOT. Sure, maybe there is some explanation, but to just throw him in what is probably a $5 million home and lab without explanation is a stretch.
2. Sure, different vehicles would fill different needs. It’s just that he was NEVER in a tactical or armored vehicle, which seems odd. It would be valuable just in case he finds himself, oh, I don’t know, stuck out after dark. He could get hurt, have a breakdown, accident, whatever. Maybe he comes under attack from other survivors. If he’s in an armored car then he could hold out until dawn. All I know is that I would be driving the most heavily armored vehicle I could and have, at all times, an assault weapon and long range rifle in my reach and a pistol on my person, with no less than several full mags for each. And if I had a grenade I would be carrying it.
3. He has years and endless books and spare parts to learn to operate and repair any vehicle in town. With no less than probably 50 Bradleys and Humvees in the city, there are probably several working ones that would last years with minimal maintenance. And if you break down in a Bradley, just wait until dawn. The night stalkers can’t harm you in an armored Bradley. I can’t help but wonder why not just sit in the Bradley with thousands of rounds of ammo and just mow the zombies down???
4. Again, he carried a gun because he realized that it’s an important survival tool. He seemed fairly good with it and would have years to practice and accumulate knowledge, skills, and more guns and ammo. Weak plot point here to have him underarmed. Clearly he’s of the survival mentality due to his harvesting, gathering, fitness, and survival skills. He clearly DID need an arsenal. He could have used a gun, which he didn’t have, at least 4 times in the movie. Once when he was caught in the snare, once when he went up stairs and was attacked, once when he went upstairs again to get the woman, and in the final scene where they are in the basement. A full auto SAW would have come in really handy and would have cut down the zombies faster than they could have attacked him.
5. No explanation on how a girl with a pistol gets through countless zombies to save him, or how he killed the one that was in Smith’s face in the SUV????? Car lights weren’t enough to scare them when Smith was driving, why was it different with her?
6. Why bring unneeded attention to his home? Well, because there were thousands of monsters abound, that’s why. How about a few SAWS set up in strategic locations in his house in case they get in, sort of a safe room where he can retreat with only one entrance and exit, like a long hallway where he can just mow them down? And where was his sidearm when he was caught in the snare. That could have been handy! That mistake cost him his dog and nearly his life. When he got out of the snare, my thought (and it should have been his too) was to immediately get the rifle. Instead he left it behind, with no explanation as to how he got another identical one later. Did he go back and get it or did he have another? Still I stand firm by the fact that he clearly was underarmed during critical times in the movie.
7. I’m guessing that there would still be amble evidence of carcasses and garbage in the streets (eg bones of bodies, shopping carts, abandoned property, luggage, etc.) in the streets, but most of them just had neatly parked cars with some luggage strapped to the top. Think of the anarchy and violence of 5 million people trapped on Manhatten until the end!!! Really no evidence of that at all.
8. Again, he clearly didn’t have all the guns or ammo he needed as evidenced by the fact that he was without one at 4 critical times in the movie, ultimately leading to his death.
9. He has compassion for the zombies and doesn’t want to kill them until… until….until… they killed his dog. That’s the last straw. That is what set him over the edge to commit suicide and kill a hundred zombies. Just dumb and unbelievable. I love my dog, but you’d think that losing his wife, kid, or 5.5 billion humans would have sparked that emotion a little earlier. So, let me get this straight: sometimes he’s compassionate and won’t kill them but other times he just mows them down. Not believable.
10. not very compassionate in trying to run down dozens of zombies in his suicide attempt. And why commit suicide now? What’s the point? And why kill zombies in your attempt? Makes zero sense. If your goal is to die, put a bullet in your head. If you goal is to kill zombies, burn them out during the day. Hunt them and kill them. But death by zombie would be about the worst way to die that I could imagine – it involves being terrified, being beaten to death and eaten alive. Just unbelievably dumb.
11. If he wasn’t interested in killing them, then why not just put a bullet in his head at the end instead of detonating an unrealistic grenade of doom that caused massive fireballs and killed every zombie in the scene. His dual purpose makes no sense. I suppose you could argue that it was meant to kill them so the woman could survive… okay, but I would say that the grenade of that magnitude with fireballs stands a good chance of burning the house and killing her.

Other points. You could cut use or cut small slats in the Bradley for any rifle. Each car in that city would have an average of a ½ tank of gas. There’s plenty of gas (probably millions of gallons) to siphon from every gas station and car to keep you going for your whole life in any vehicle using any generator you want.

Agreed that his house, even with the armored windows, was a poor choice. Why not some super secured style vault like impenetrable fortress like a bank, stock exchange fortress, police or military fortress, etc.? He could easily move his equipment in a couple weeks of working during the day.

And there were a lot of unexplored plot points. These creatures clearly could learn, follow leadership, set snares, and communicate.

A more likely and realistic scenario is just finding the zombies and burning them out or mass killing them with fire, UV lights, and whatnot so that the virus dies completely and humans can recover. He should be smart enough to know that anything that once had the virus could mutate and revive it, or pass it from generation to generation. The better solution is to just burn them all and then repopulate with unaffected survivors.

 

[macadore]

Mistaken post.

 

[Joe Demko]

Once again, if you read the book, losing it over the dog makes sense. Dogs were also wiped out by the infection. Neville has been alone a long time. Then one day he sees this apparently uninfected dog. A long stretch of the book is about his efforts to lure the dog close and gain its trust. When he finally does so, it is the very first good thing that has happened to him in years. He now has some kind of companionship. This a dog like from before the world died. It's heartbreaking both for Neville and the reader when it turns out the dog isn't uninfected.

 

[XDKingslayer]

Here is a little insight on taking military vehicles. I spent 8 years driving Amphibious Assault Vehicles for the Marines. For general information, it's a 40 ton aluminum armored vehicle that has waterborne capabilities and has a coax mounted M2 .50 cal and Mk19 grenade launcher. It's not that far off from a Bradley, in fact the Bradley suspension was grafted to this vehicle for a suspension upgrade.

First, lets address fuel. The vehicle has a 903 cubic inch, multi fuel, Cummins turbo diesel tuned to either 400 or 525 HP depending on what model you get. It can run several different fuels including JP5 and JP8. This vehicle has about a 300 mile range, or 8 hour time in water. It has a 270 gallon fuel tank. 1 MPG. That's it. What are your chances of finding a fuel source 300 miles away from your last refueling? What are your chances of finding enough to fill it up and having enough time to fill a 270 gallon tank before dusk?

Now on to the weapons. Sure you can blast as many zombies as you wish, but where exactly are you going to find .50 cal ammo and 40mm linked grenades in bulk? Chances are, you're not. Not years worth.

Now, and most importantly, maintenance. A vehicle of this type, and I'm sure the Bradley isn't any different, requires 7 to 8 hours of maintenance for each hour of use. Who is going to fix it? Can you rebuilt a hydrostatic steer transmission? Can you replace a PTO? Can you replace a track block by yourself? Can you replace a final drive unit alone? Do you know how to fix hydraulic systems? Where are you going to find spare parts? Where are you going to find the oil? Between engine, transmission, final drives, longitudinal drives, and suspension, this vehicle uses about 55 gallons of 15w40. It has a 30 gallon cooling system and then you have the hydraulics.

And let's not forget that you can't drive and shoot at the same time. You either do one or the other. That's if you CAN drive it. I'm willing to bet that you couldn't even start it, let alone drive it. How many will you wreck or damage before you learn the nuances of driving tracked vehicles, especially ones with hydrostatic steering. You can't let off the gas and turn the steering wheel like a car, it will go straight. Your transmission oil pressure has to be up in order for it to steer so you actually have to gas it and turn.

On to the turret...Any clue as to how to boresight this turret properly? The .50 and Mk19 have vastly different trajectories, how do you compensate for that? You don't know.

Let's face it, unless your trained in these vehicles, you aren't driving one, you aren't shooting one, and you aren't maintaining one. Period. You'll get away from your home, something will happen, and you'll be stuck there or worse, stuck in the vehicle. Even though I have 8 years experience driving, maintaining and shooting from this vehicle, it's the LAST vehicle I would chose to run about New York City. Give me something easy to drive, easy to maintain or replace, 4x4 and fast.

That Mustang is starting to sound better and better isn't it?

 

[JohnL2]

Speaking as a former mech. infrantryman with many many hours in a Bradley, I wanted nothing more than to get off that bloody thing in the middle of a fight. My mind was screaming "drop the ramp, drop the [expletive] ramp". Only time I was glad to ride it was getting to the fight or leaving it.
Do you have ANY idea how choking the spent ammo gases would be in a Bradley?? It has ventilation systems for this specific purpose. But it is a crewed served vehicle for a reason.
I think we are over-analyzing here.

 

[CoRoMo]

Initially, the trailer got me extremely interested, but then I saw the zombies or whatever they will end up being. After I saw that, well, I'm too afraid that it will spiral out of reality like 'From Dusk til Dawn' did.

 

[XDKingslayer]

Speaking as a former mech. infrantryman with many many hours in a Bradley, I wanted nothing more than to get off that bloody thing in the middle of a fight. My mind was screaming "drop the ramp, drop the [expletive] ramp". Only time I was glad to ride it was getting to the fight or leaving it.
Do you have ANY idea how choking the spent ammo gases would be in a Bradley?? It has ventilation systems for this specific purpose. But it is a crewed served vehicle for a reason.
I think we are over-analyzing here.

I can think of plenty of reasons not to grab the military vehicle on top of what we just mentioned.

Weather extremes.
If you haven't had the pleasure of riding in an armored vehicle in summer months or winter months you have no idea just how wonderful climate control systems in civilian vehicles are. You can rest assured that the internal temperature of a vehicle on a summer day is going to be about 50 degrees hotter than the outside. And sitting in a big aluminum refridgerator isn't a party either.

And have you ever driven a tracked vehicle in the snow? Let me tell you just how not fun it is to try and drive a vehicle that, without notice, can turn itself into a 40 ton runner sled. Tracked vehicles suck in the snow. Especially if they have rubber track pads like the Bradley and Marine AAV do.

The gases from the guns aren't that bad, but one leaking exhaust seal will ruin your day. You wonder why we would drop the ramp and all the grunts would be asleep...That's why.

They're ungodly slow. The printed top speed of the Marine AAV is 45 mph, although I have personally gotten a speeding ticket on Camp Pendleton at 61 MPH. They are slow enough for even a zombie to jump on, and now how are you going to get him and his buddies off?

They're heavy! Most small city bridges can't support their weight. You seriously put a dent in your travel flexability if you can't cross a bridge.

They get stuck very easily if you're not careful. In mud where a lighter SUV would hardly leave tire tracks in, a tracked vehicle can sink in pretty deep.

They're loud. You can hear them coming a mile away, especially in a city that is empty and quiet. I'll take a nice quiet car, especially if I'm trying to not draw attention to myself from things that want to eat me.

 

[jeff-10]

I love how people nitpick little things about a movie and say that they make it unrealistic when the entire movie is about every human being in the world turning into a zombie/vampire hybrid. Yah an O-5 living in NYC is unrealistic but a monster setting a trap using a mannequin, car and vampire dogs is totally plausible.

Anyways I really liked the movie, especially the ending.

 

[alan]

Saw the film yesterday. Probably a good thing the hero didn't fire on the lioness or the lion with an AR-15/M-16 type rifle. Otherwise, an interesting film. The book, written some years back, might or might not be better.

 

[Wes Janson]

Thank you Kingslayer for explaining far better than I can.

Leadcounsel, you just aren't "getting" the motivations of the characters. Sorry, but if you've been living for years by yourself, your dog is the only tie you have left to your family and the entire world...and then it dies and your research is showing no hope..there's not much psychological motivation to continue. His motivation all along was to try to save humanity by curing the virus..and then he lost hope. He wanted to kill vampires because they pissed them off and killed his dog!

In all reality, the character developement was one of the strong points of the film. I hesitate to call Will Smith a great actor, but that definitely was the most nuanced and skilled performance of his I've seen yet.