How to Beat the DARKSEEKERS in "I AM LEGEND"
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If a scientist created a virus that killed and mutated everyone into Darkseekers except you, the last surviving virologist, what would you do?
In this How to Beat video, we’ll follow Dr. Neville, see if we can make better decisions, and ultimately attempt to beat the Darkseekers in, I Am Legend. If you think you have a better way, let me know in the comments! If you like these how to beat videos, consider subscribing.
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It's really good 👍
haha you wrote this cause that one comment
Love it
@@TheGamer14300 Lol yep, hopefully it's not confusing and people don't think it's a repost. I changed up the thumbnails too.
Love this format 😍🙏 Maybe change the thumbnails to be the same, but have a "v.s" with highlights on the "side" you are covering. I think it would prevent repost confusion.
As you can see, Doggo's are needed in life. He survived 3 years with a doggo and when the dog died, he didnt last a day.
Thats cause he found a woman
@@Robi-wd5zx dog was repelling the woman you fool
Dog good
Wamen bad
11 out of 10 would agree 😊
They're called dogs, not doggos or puppers or any of that other shit
If the Darkseekers were a bit smarter, they would be suspicious about the only house entrance in Manhattan with a strong vinegar smell.
Vinegar evaporates soon after...but I'm not sure that's vinegar anyway. Could be any sort of acidic substance...
@@Albanez39 but i think vinegar evaporates and gets rid of smells with it, or at least that's what all moms say anyway lol
He used ammonia in the movie
@Angelo Bronte Water doesn't clean off anything. On the contrary, it tends to amplify odours. Have you ever worn a gym t-shirt that wasn't washed well enough...even if you use deodorant, as soon as you start sweating a bit, the clean sweat activates the old and dried sweat molecules and the shirt starts smelling bad instantly.
I thought it was alcohol, and it could be...but unless you cover everything with alcohol, it won't be able to neutralize all odours and it will evaporate soon afterwards. Vinegar on the other hand, even if it doesn't touch and neutralize all the odours...it continues emitting its own smell for a long time, effectively covering less powerful odours.
In response to OP, I guess the Darkseekers don't really think a lot about specific odours. Just like dogs and cats, if they smell food or their loved ones, they are attracted to it. But if you cover some meat with vinegar, they probably won't even go near it...they won't think: Oh, this strange smell makes me suspicious :P
The virus did dull their mind
If I remember correctly, the reason he doesn’t set his watch alarm to a nice time like 5:25 is because he references the farmers almanac to determine the exact time that the sun is supposed to set, which is different every single day. So he most likely sets the alarm 30 minutes to an hour prior to the actual sunset time.
Then why not earlier like 5:20?
@@alan62036 good point lol. Maybe he just wants to use as much time possible for collecting test subjects and sending out his broadcasts.
Usually deers are vigilant towards the end of the hunting season after they learn to fear humans, but they forget quickly. Since he's the only human in NYC I think he could realistically get that close
Definitely
Deer never forget, they relax. I had a smart ass doe find me in a tree twice in the first 2 weeks of early season.
I buy this. I've definitely gotten within 10 yards of deer with my dog on private land a few times, even with my dog making a scene. -_- Public land, not so much.
“ I don’t know how much Willpower he has at this point” I see what you did there
Lmao
I'm going to hell for chuckling
Didn't realize I did that haha.
Sure...
Is this a reference of some kind pls tell me😶
"He's using a 4x sight called an ACOG, which isn't a ideal for urban environments where you're room clearing most of the time."
Yeah try to tell this to R6S players
acog make head big
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yeah, the four people who play siege nowadays :(
@@mcs01 tbh shadow legacy fixed a lot of problems that Siege had
@@rfgnmf-nmesofuehsdjfnrmeowfsdz did it fix the hackers?
This will forever be one of my favourite apocalypse films, almost solely for Will Smiths performance, he sells every ounce of fear, anger and sadness and it’s actually impressive
Too bad he can't or won't use some of the common sense and tactical know-how from the movie to deal with Jada, "the dark seeker"
I think he burned himself out fighting monster years ago, I mean we saw how useless he was in after earth 😂
Sam carried this movie on her back. What an awesome dog.
This guy is a professional biologist, survivalist, story teller and everything else
He is *the professional*
He is a *legend*
**I AM LEGEND**
This guy can read stuff on the internet and read stories*
@@BiggusBenjamin same thing
"100 terabyte storage device"
"might be able to fit Call of Duty: Modern Warfare"
lmao
Cod modern warfare is about 500 terabytes
@@adrianraulskrobek5868 no, you might have terabytes and gigabytes mixed up
Trent Nabbefeld he was probably joking
made me laugh too
@@trentnabbefeld1407 r/woosh
Something that really adds to the movie is that in the scene where we see how Nevilles family died right as the helicopter takes off his daughter hands puppy sam to Neville saying "sam protect daddy" which just makes sams death hit harder because not only was sam the only thing keeping him sane but also that sam died doing exactly what Nevilles daughter asked sam to do
God this movie is so underrated
The book is pretty different.
They know where his house is and taunt him regularly to come out, which he sometimes does to blast them and retreat back inside. He uparmored his home and burned down the next door houses
Fun fact: "I was saving that bacon." was supposed to be a reference to the fact that Neville always saves some human food for Sam, but of course he forgot that Sam was gone, so by then his saving food for Sam had just became a habit.
That’s actually pretty sad-
Dude come on i just got over the trauma Sam's death brought up now I need to do another 5 12 years of trauma represhion.
yea i caught that and explained it to the people i was watching it with because it felt like a punch to the gut
more like a sad fact
I don't think "forgot" is the right term. It's more of he still couldn't accept that she's gone.
I have a better way to survive
Just be the cameraman
Legend
Yea?? how did that go for the clover field guy??
@@santi_super_stunts2573 lol
@@santi_super_stunts2573 literally the first thing i thought of! haha
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I was always surprised his madness didn't lead him to develop a virus to end the dark seekers. Instead of trying to "cure" them.
Any virus that could end the dark seekers likely would kill him as well because he isn't immune. On the other end, dark seeker biology might be too different to experiment easily on (as well as the lack of access to viruses/bacteria from level 4 biolabs, whereas he at least has the potential for a cure because of his own immunity.
There were no humans left (at least he thought that) and he didnt want to end humanity
3 years with a dog: flourishing
1 day with a woman: death
We truly do live in a society
Many such cases, SAD!
I've never be so disgusted with an opinion that i 100% agree.
Seems sussy
your whole life being a virgin: this comment
"His alarm is set to 5 : 23 why not a nicer number like 5 : 25? He's clearly losing it mentally."
That's a telltale sign that someone is going crazy.
Only a monster would set an alarm at 5:23....maybe he actually is infected!
😳
@@aexter8234 th 😳😳😳😳😳
Whoever sets their alarm to a odd number other than 5 is clearly infected with some sort of infectous mental disease, or a sociopath.
May 5=2+3, a pattern he thought
Imagine your panicking and trying to save you and your family and you see someone flying in a para motor in the air
😂😂
me after watch the video : wait a second
Shoot him?
I mean if i dont survive no one does.
@@MrMaKeMeDiNnEr ahahaha lmao
@@MrMaKeMeDiNnEr
That'd be such a asshole move lmao
Still bums me out that they made him a “legend” because he successfully created a cure. In the book he was legend because he had become the monster. Vampires inherited the world and he was just this evil force murdering them and their children for no reason. And he finally comes to understand this as they publicly execute him. It’s a very dark, non-hollywood ending so I guess I get it, but the original text is sompowerful
I don’t really get behind the book’s ending since the vampires would be smart enough to know why he was afraid and was killing them as a misunderstanding. They had a female one go and talk with him, why couldn’t she have explained what was going on to him beforehand?
i disagree, i thought the ending where the vampire sees the female one is just so weird and him being a legend because he made a cure was way better
@@yurikagarinstan674 the movie completely inverted the entire point of the book. Neville spent his days going from place to place, killing any of these creatures he found sleeping in beds and other dark places. He experimented on them so he could find the most efficient methods of killing them. He became a literal Bogeyman to them, even though he thought he was doing good and helping to bring the world back to normal. He was so preoccupied with getting rid of the “monsters” that he didn’t realize (until the end of the story) that he was the monster in a new world that had moved on without him. He’d assured by the end that the new “normal” people would always remember him and the fear he instilled in them, hence the title of the book. It was a lot more impactful and interesting than just some virologist who found a way to bring the old ways (which caused the apocalypse to begin with) back. It was a metaphor on conservatism, and how those who refuse to change see everyone else as enemies that needed to be destroyed. In the book, the vampires had intelligence, enhanced abilities, and some memories of their old lives. They weren’t just mindless monsters. There was no chance for a cure, and the vampires themselves led meaningful lives, and it was Neville who was the true threat to a new “humanity.”
I'll never forget reading that book. Very good
I'm very glad the movie distanced itself from the book's ending. The old ending was inconsistent with how the Darkseekers acted throughout the story and overly didactic with the tired cliche of 'but the hero was the "real monster" all along!!1!'.
It felt like the author was preaching to the reader and relying too heavily on a moralistic message rather than a satisfying resolution.
Easy answer: get to Alaska asap, you get months of daylight at a time to prepare for your long night, plus it's got an incredibly low population density..... Which means less darkseekers in the area making it significantly safer than an area like New York city
Very cold
Doesn’t Alaska experience like 6 months of darkness
@@liztaylor7663 move back to NYC lmao
@@liztaylor7663 right
But Vampires go hunting in Alaska during the winter. So....
Idc about what anyone says about the alternate endings, someone make an alternate ending where the Dog lives then I'll be happy.
im pretty sure i cried when that happened
Honestly dude. I’d pay movie theater price just to see that alternate ending
Facts
Safe to say you're not straight
Anna (the other survivor) turns up a day earlier before Neville and Sam get into that fight with the alpha and the other canines, they return to his house, collect the blood from the cured darkseeker and go to the colony further north... Keeping the dog safe the whole time...
Me: **Sees a dog in a zombie apocalypse**
"Oh no"
What??
@@raccus2719 have you watched i am legend before?
Basically every time the protagonist has a dog in an apocalypse-based movie it pretty much always dies.
@@nynx. sad
Mystic Phoenix so true. : ’(
I really do wish that the film made reflected the book, the dark seekers are incredibly smart and they talk. Communicates with Robert every night, yelling his name at night to prevent him from sleeping. The dog is definitely a crucial part of the story but not like the film. The ending absolutely abysmal, the book ending is extraordinary. Please read it. Will Smith did play Robert very well and his character qualities in trying to determine to study them and his slow decent into madness.
Then maybe you should see the original with Charlton Heston called The Omega Man. It follows the story you are talking about.
@@jamessullivan4391 That's not the original movie. It's The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price.
I enjoy this adaptation a bit more than the book but the ending in the book was one of the greatest endings I've ever read. It's incredible.
I don’t really get behind the book’s ending since the vampires would be smart enough to know why he was afraid and was killing them as a misunderstanding. They had a female one go and talk with him, why couldn’t she have explained what was going on to him?
@@KW-de9sc You see the vampires seen Robert as the monster and they were both afraid of each other, however the vampires would talk around fires about Robert in how he would hunt them so this is why Robert is a legend. She did explain what was going to happen to him and get ripped apart by them but something happened between them during her undercover entry of his home, she fell in love with him or felt sympathy for him, perhaps both. She wasn't a normal vampire as she could feel and thus give him a tablet to take his own life before they ripped him apart, so he wouldn't be alive during his torturous death. Brilliant ending in my opinion.
this was a good movie.
- Good main character. Really showed us how he survived so long. Erasing his scent, setting up multiple alarms based on a morning book, fortified base, locks the dvd store so he knows whether someone has broken in or not. He is also a genius, not just someone who has a ton of weapons.
- Showed us what isolation can do to a person. He was desperate. Talking to manequins. Made me even think that it was he who put Fred there and not the darkseekers. Even after he met people he was still super awkward because he hadn't been talking to people for 3 years.
- scary monsters with intelligence. Made the traps and set dogs to chase him. Also liked the restriction that they couldn't go out at sunlight. Made it more suspensefull.
The end cut didn’t actually show the reason it was named “I am legend”.
Nevil wasn’t “legend” because he cured the virus.
He was supposed to be the boogeyman of the darkseekers. Their “legend”. The original cut of this film showed it.
He originally thinks they’re just crazy vampire zombies, but it turns out they fear and resent him.
I mean think about it, this thing is hunting you all.
Setting up traps. Killing you with what looks like loud explosive powers.
All during the day, the time when going outside will literally blind and burn you to death.
Then at night, when you can actually see and defend yourselves it just *disappears*.
No scent. No tracks. No sounds. Nothing.
Pretty fuckin’ scary from their perspective.
@Weeaboo Annihilator But isn't the doom guy immortal? That sounds way fucking scarier then Someone you can easily kill if you get close enough.
@@Urek968 No, Doomguy is very much killable. He's just _that_ strong and _that_ fucking pissed off no one and no thing even comes close. Age-wise it's a bit debatable if he's biologically immortal, but between the dimensions and imprisonments and super space-hell armour it's totally possible he's got a finite lifespan too.
@@melhupby Depends on which one you're talking about. The first few are just really pissed off guys likely in severe psychosis from being in the end times. Lol
The newest one you see in the 2016 game and Eternal is actually immortal; and gives zero care about his own wellbeing. The demons have tried killing him, just only wounding him, and keeping him under control. Then he gets released again, becoming their actual walking boogieman. Who happens to be in a perpetual rage, clearly not against very unethical means, and relentless due to their deaths revitalizing him as he basically eats their souls (which is a permadeath for creatures who were once immortal).
@@Rafael_Fuchs Nah it's the same guy. Check out his wikia page. Doom Marine is the guy from the OG game, he returns to earth after bopping Hell and finds they killed his bunny, and becomes Mad.A.F and goes straight back into hell for Doom2/3/64 at the end of which he opts to remain.
We find out in Eternal that DoomMarine somehow wound up in Argent D'nur after taking a legit pounding and his Pissed-Off™ seems to be pretty permanent. Seraphim gives him #UltimatePowa after he demonstrates in the gladiator pit he can go with the best of the Sentinels. That doesn't make him immortal, just a heckin _lot_ stronk and sanic-fast (hence the double jump/dashing/wallpawnch stuff). He dives straight back into hell, bops the Argent Titan and is banished to hell by the Khan Maykr where at _some point_ Hell gets its act together and locks him in their own version of Pandora's box. Some unknown eternity later, Samuel I-eat-gravel-for-breakfast Hayden awakens him and Doom 2016 begins.
Same guy. Same mortal human, just with a dose of extra-dimensional #UltimatePowa and a sole proprietary use of Pissed-Off™.
Damn
The reason Dr. Neville is so determined to find a cure is it gives him a sense of purpose.
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The dog gives me a sense of purpose 🐕♥️
Getting that close to a dear is very possible, to effectively bow hunt you need to, and with a small game rifle like the ar-15 you need to be precise to get a clean kill. Also deer traps are rare if you can even find one, and are rarely effective.
For me, a strange part about this movie is that there weren't any stray dogs or cats for Robert to adopt. Maybe the reason why there weren't any is because the darkseekers either ate them or turned them into darkseeker dogs, but there were plenty of deer and even the lions (You actually see the lion family in the alternate ending, fun fact)
Or maybe lots of the pet dogs like Sam couldn't survive on their own, without their owner.
i know this is a year, but this is probably because domesticated animals can’t really live on their own. wild animals have always been in the wild and have a slightly better survival instinct . as for stray cats , they probably got ate 💀 i mean personally i dont think stray cats would be able to live on their own in an apocalypse.
@@mxfene very interesting point. Thank you for the response.
@@mxfene stray cats are still in touch with their instincts so they might be able to survive
@@mxfeneI believe domesticated cats would have a better chance at survival concerning their natural and exceptional talent of hunting even at a complete indoor lifestyle from birth are still capable of solitary survival. Their general size and cautious/stealthy demeanor makes them extremely likely to escape predators concerning their legendary dash speeds and intelligent tricking ability especially against hostile mutants that aren't trying to coerce them .A dog too is absolutely close in capability and better in sheer protection personally which no s*** a cat ain't gonna do f*** all against a threat like here to protect you. But overall wild survivability, a cat absolutely outclasses dogs. You should realize why stray cats survive on their own for years while a stray dog won't go on for a month
Did you just say “stop by the zoo and see what animals escaped?” Nah fam that’s how you get ambushed by another lion
Better yet, that's the only time you can justify an illegal safari hunt
At most if he didn’t go to the zoo immediately after and shoot all the animals dead then he should stay away
Bet I could kill a lion with my .22
That would make a different thriller movie dude😆
@@mysteryman4013 🤨
fun fact: they actually created 3 different endings to the movie. One where Neville throws the grenade through the broken glass, this one, and one where we find out the darkseeker in Neville's lab is the alpha's daughter, and give her back so they leave him alone. This is the only ending where Neville dies.
When I was riding on a ship once like 5 years ago, I swear Will Smith survived and when I saw this video, I was confused as to why he died I thought it was some weird Mandela effect but this cleared it up.
they should have made an ending where the dog survives, that scene ruined my day
@Vault-Man 101 wow you read the book so cool
I originally saw the grenade version and like 6 years later I saw him give the daughter back and i thought I misremembered it thx for making me not feel insane
I thought she was his sweetheart lol
Little known facts but the zombie he took was actually one of the first dark seekers, along with the one who burned his face in the sun. He had multiple subjects but this time he took "the queen" instead of a random grunt which caused the backlash. I had the dvd since it came out and love the easter eggs. With that context, the part with the darkseeker desperately breaking glass makes more sense.
I wish this could’ve been turned into a series. I love this “last man on Earth” concept. It would be fascinating to see how an intelligent person survives, just going about doing every day things. Maybe he has some close run-ins with Darkseekers, maybe he takes in some survivors, starts a relationship, leaves Manhattan, etc.
dude the scene where he has to kill his dog is enough to make a grown man cry
Watch jojo dog death compilation
It even makes Alpha boys cry...let alone common men.
Yeah he did
Some of the best acting I have ever seen from Will Smith during that scene
I cried the first few times I watched this movie
one thing i noticed:
what was nevils plan at the begining?
why would the military work on a cure inside nyc?
Plot
They thought they could contain it is my guess
@@sleepy_moJo_ yeah i guess thats the only reason mabye to collect samples but if that was true why was there already a horde THAT HAD REACHED the edge of manhattan already where everybody was escaping in large enough numbers to down a helicopter
That was ground zero. That was his site. So in that area, he can study the darkseekers in their first level easily as that was the first ever virus hit city.
GOF6666 i mean this is the same military that is still holding mass evacuations at night rather than placing the city on lockdown even tho im sure they knew the darkseekers only come out at night. They also evacuated a VERY high ranking officials family via the same route as the general public so safe to say they are either very poorly prepared in the movie or were way too confident in their ability to contain it
Millitary Families being evacuated has always been an interesting concept to me. It's very likely that a lot of those Soldiers in the Flashback had family in New York City. Imagine being activated in an Emergency like this and being told to abandon your family. It's one thing if your family is safe on a base or stuck across the Country where you can't reach them anyway, but the idea that National Guard and Reserve Forces would just up and leave their families at home during something like a Zombie Outbreak is insane to me.
I truly appreciate the homework you always do on firearms and accessories.
“If the threat is that severe you wouldn’t be using a low accuracy testing tool” I’m in the navy and we use a Walmart thermometer to check if people have a fever before the board the boat. Those things suck. You’re giving the military too much credit lmao
Gotta love those covid watches
@Wet Tent
The only difference in America is that the military have more better weapons than civilians. America citizens all have the same Health Insurance. No exceptions.
"Military Grade" = "Mass Produced Trash Serviceable Through Duct Tape"
@@PoseidonsWar244 I swear it's the funniest shit when ppl think "military grade" is a staple of good quality.
Should have brought it at Harbor Freight.
Sam’s death had me in tears so Neville probably decided to blow himself up and not get in the thing just to end it all. Like you said his will to survive must’ve been all gone and the only thing pushing him was getting the other two and the cure out of danger.
There's a really cool alt ending in some versions where instead of him killing himself he shows the alpha male that his mate is ok,he then gives her back and they leave him alive after giving him a roar of thanks. They make it to the camp and whatever happened happened.
Jay Jay thats a really cool ending but it removes the shock at the end, but makes you realize he was the villain after all, just as the original
@@apollogonzalez9881 that's the ending I saw when watching the movie in full. I had seen this video's ending when I was a kid and so I was so confused and thought I had somehow imagined an ending even though I hadn't watched the full movie
Wait ICarly? Im only 3 minutes into the video
LaNise BLM nah the dog’s name is Sam hopefully you finished the video already and this isn’t the first your hearing of the dog’s death
3:57 Too be fair, most corpses/bones would be in mass graves of the early stages of the pandemic, clustered in battlefields of the middles stages and inside buildings (darkseekers) from the later stages where Will Smith and other -rappers- survivors fought and killed them.
Also continuously calling out the lack of a dedicated safe room is quite hilarious.
Building a safe room of steel and concrete by yourself with no heavy machinery or experience in construction is the epitome of "easier said than done".
Did Eminem survive
Course he did
As a hunter I’ve seen deer pick out my group from over 300 meters away visually.
Perhaps they don’t recognize him as a predator, but his body language would totally reveal he was a threat and put them on edge.
It is possible to get this close to a deer, it’s just really hard. Practically impossible when there are any more than a handful.
"Where are the 8 million skeletons? The PG13 Gods must've lifted them up."
12 yr old me watching this video just assumed that the Darkseekers ate bones.
Me too bro
In books which is far different to this (main one being that they’re vampires not zombies), before the outbreak the government was enforcing that people should burn any deceased to limit the spread at set locations they set up. A lot of people however didn’t do this and tried to bury their loved ones which often led to them being shot on sight. Those that did get buried or left dead are the infected that now roam at night.
They just inhale them like Kirby
@@Clone_Zero omg, that image is now burned into my head.
Mmm chimken wimgs
"I'm gonna go hug my dog now."
I feel you, man. That scene got to me too.
Same-
I literally just hugged my dog and just looked at me confused-
Don't hug him too hard. We saw what happens when you hug too hard
Breaks me down every time
Apocalypse:
All of us and Nerd Explains flying in our para-motors: Epic pro gamer strats.
I like the alternate ending where the female 'zombie' is the leader's girlfriend and when he gives the leader the girlfriend back they all were able to travel to the survivor camp.
"If the virus was that severe they wouldn't use such a faulty testing method" but its just like in real life....
@Content Corrector yup they jus tryna inflate the numbers
He is actually mistaken. Super accurate tests are't usually available, and when they are they aren't quick. They take hours to days. For a test to be good, it just needs to sort out positives. You cannot have false negatives, but false positives are more acceptable. Especially for quarantine. You quarantine a false positive, and nothing happens. Its just a little inconvenient. And as shown, you can test multiple times for better results. If you suffer from false positives, but no false negatives any negatives will tell you they are safe.
Im too dumb to understand this debate, but ill guess one of you guys is right
TheCamperChamp im not sure what they debating..... I only stated its like in real life since no test will be 100% accurate ._.
Content Corrector they had nowhere else to go. They either die in their homes, or die in the streets. That’s the sad reality. They couldn’t ship patients upstate quick enough and had no containment space left in hospitals. It sucked, but it’s not always going to roses.
That scene where he's looking for his dog in the dark building is such an intense scene, so well done.
Tbh I always really liked this movie. Kind of wished it was longer. Has a great build up then it rushes a towards the end
Yeah I really like the alternate ending, where Neville realizes that he's been the monster all along
@@garydorsey4243 wait, there's an alternate ending ?
Well said Henry
@@unumwetwetwe Yeah, the alternate ending is much smarter and more in-line with the book, but the infamous "test audiences" didn't like it, so they dumbed it down before widespread release.
@@garydorsey4243 Should read the book.
Grown men cry when Sam died 😭, I skipped the hell out of that scene in this video, I ain’t trying to catch those feelings 😂
I much prefer the alternative ending where the seekers communicate and decide to let Neville live it really adds depth and suspense
its too weird the one where neville dies is better
@@yurikagarinstan674 yh the alternative ending doesn't really make sense because it doesn't fit in with the movie.
The darkseekers bother me because they’re not just zombies, or animal like. They can actually rig up traps, train animals, and just generally solve problems. I like my threats to be numerous, slow, shambling, and stupid. Kinda like Detroit Lions fans.
They are actually easily dealt with though and just as easily avoided. They cannot tolerate light, and even when you're under a forest canopy, 20% or more of the normal UV amount is still reaching you. They are literally confined to cities and unable to leave under pain of death.
lmao, I was not expecting such a great roast
The darkseekers are not zombies.
They are vampires.
All of your replies still apply to Lions fans 😂
@@Tarumarugan Hey now...don't make fun of Lions fans...it's not their fault, they were born "special".
If we ever get into an apocalypse, I'm running to this guy
But what if he gets turned into a 'hot zone'. Imagine dozens of people looking for him like a reverse zombie situation hehe
What if he decides you're not useful to him anymore?
You are going to run to Will smith or dr neville
hE IsNt rEaL
@@reaprgamez he’s talking about nerd explains
This is one of my favorite movies and to how Neville could have been smarter and possibly survived is entertaining and I like the bases of this channel and it’s content
Opps see
I really admire the analysis on this channel. Well done.
Short answer: if the government actually felt you were that important, you'd have been evacuated before anyone even knew anything was wrong.
Very good point, you would also be put in an impenetrable base or launched off into the ISS so you cant be infected.
The coronavirus cases kind of contradict this one
@@muhammadhafizhhawari1613 Coronavirus doesn't transform its victims to zombies. . .
@@onatyungul872 it still kills and semi airborne regardless
@@muhammadhafizhhawari1613 you're comparing 99.7% ish survival rate to 0%. I like that
He lost the “will” to smith
I’ll be seeing myself out
Entanglement
No, come back! 😂
Get yer ass back in here u absolute *legend* that was genius
Plz return sir😂
will smith smith will smith?
will smith no longer has will to smith will smith
"I'm gonna go hug my dog now..." man you are a cool guy. Totally felt that.
I just learned more biology than school from 1 “how to beat” ggwp
Because this Is fun to watch. Also roanoke but he is very scientific.
Dog: *exist*
Zombie movies: *sniff* *sniff* u know the rules and so do i
Say goodbye 🤣
Stg😭😭
😭 they know the rules and they hate this rule 😭
Goodbye sanity
The best zombie movies are the one where the zombies doesn’t eat dogs.
I have the DVD of this movie and it came with a second ending where he takes the blood, undoes the healing process on the darkseeker and opens the door to give her back to the alpha. When the darkseekers see that he is returning her, they dont attack. Then the 3 survivors go to the camp.
In the book he actually kills himself after being imprison by the dark seekers . The book is way better than the movie and made me cry for days.
@@KillerQueen-gx4vb Made you cry? The book was awesome, it was actually very scary and intense. But I remember the ending different *Spoiler* he got caught and publicly executed in front of the new civilization.
Fito it’s been a few years since I read the book but didn’t someone felt pity for him and gave him a pill to kill himself? Maybe he didn’t take it I really can’t remember but it’s been one of my favorite books of all time.
@@ForkLift_Certified424 noice
@@ForkLift_Certified424 how. No one out pizza's the hut
I believe the Darkseekers trapping Neville with Fred, proves the darkseekers always knew Neville was around. Because this proves there was some sort of previous surveillance of his routine.
Who’s Fred
@@shalomneeraja manekin that gets same bitten after nevville gets trapped
My thoughts on the "Neville should have moved his lab to a Navy ship." -- Neville was confident that he could find a cure within two weeks, and up until the end of the flashbacks the fall of society hadn't began. Before the airstrikes, the evacuating crowds weren't hostile. Hindsight is 20/20, but with zero warning, there was no hindsight. By the time of the airstrikes, it was already too late to relocate his lab (and himself) off of Manhattan. --
The other issues are the statistics Neville pointed out. 5.4 billion people (out of 6 billion) died immediately. "Crashed and bled out." 588 million turned into Darkseekers. 12 million immune. Its unknown what percentage of these three categories were military, law enforcement, pilots, government leadership, and what percentage were non-essential personnel or civilians. Going by the appearance of post-apocalypse Manhattan, the only damage from bombs and missiles appear to be the bridges. No collapsed buildings, burnt out windows, bullet holes, no bomb craters, napalm, no bodies even. -- I can only that the immune military forces in and around Manhattan didn't last very long. We see that the Darkseekers can organize, plan, set traps, which makes them far more of a threat than the fast zombies. If there were any surviving Navy battlegroups that got the warning to stay away from any population centers or anywhere the airborne virus was present...they wouldn't come anywhere close to Manhattan. As they would lose 99% of their crews. -- Anna said she was on a cruise ship for a while, with Neville agreeing that they would eventually need to resupply (and become exposed).
Just my thoughts. Not meaning to argue, I liked this movie for what it was and enjoy questions that make me think about what happened and why.
They aren't zombies. They're mutants. And technically they're closer to vampires than zombies. Plus in the 1954 original I am legend they literally were vampires
It was an amazing book wasn’t it?
The books title “I am legend” makes much more sense in the book. The vampires looked like people. The ones who were infected while living are capable of thought and form a new society. The main character killed a ton of them and the vampires looked at him like he looked at them, a scary legend.
@@lanietalk Why did they form a new society? I haven't read it and this part doesn't make sense to me.
@@eradict
I believe it was due to something that caused them to cognitively be unable to recognize people (humans) and remember their old life. So essentially they all just woke up as a new species with a hyper aggressive other species attacking them (humans).
In modern stuff it kind of blends in modern stuff. Generally people call zombies everything that eat flesh (including rabies vampire*) and can spread infection by bite and vampire - everything feeding on blood.
*kind of don't worry, rabies kills human in a week so no rabies invasion possible
At least he was able to be with his dog again. I cried when the dog died
@Robin The God - Fake ASMR Is Being Stupid dog shouldn’t be capitalized lmao
Am I the only one who saw the alternate ending of this movie where the dark seeker leader realized that Neville was trying to cure them and then wasn’t hostile to them
Yes I cried to
@Robin The God - Fake ASMR Is Being Stupid "kid" isn't an insult and it doesn't make you the mature one either
Same
Watched several of your videos by now and feel like I shouldn't watch another one till I've subscribed :D Keep up the good work! Also, when you do research for these videos I'm assuming that you learn a lot fx about viruses in this videos case, pretty cool :)
Such a good video! First one I’ve seen but not the last for this channel.
And by transmitting his SOS at night, he’s more likely to reach other survivors. Broadcasting at night, when everyone is in their shelters is better than doing it when everyone is out during the day.
yeah but hes in New york theres other people in different states, which means different time zones
@@vksu8453 I didn't say transmit at sun down, which would vary by time zone. I said transmit at night. 11pm in NY is 10pm Central, 9pm Mountain, 8pm Pacific. (The same goes for Canada's time zones which he would also be broadcasting over). All those times are after sundown so almost all survivors would be indoors by that time, all over the US/Canada. AND radio frequencies travel much much further at night than during the day due to skywave propagation. Even a powerful AM transmitter can only cover 100-200 miles during the day. At night, triple that. And if he knows what he's doing he can transmit thousands of miles based on frequency and MHz he uses/has available. And given that he's transmitting in a city, with massive Line-of-sight/obstacle/magnetic interference, he needs every advantage he can get to get his signal out.
@@bmjake ah ok
Or it could get people killed with the sound attracting darkseekers or other predators
>sets alarm to 5:23
"He's clearly losing it."
Isnt there a scene of him re adjusting his alarm to the day of the year?
@@stagger9660 yes
I think an good idea would be to deploy cameras across the city so at night you can witness and study Darkseeker behaviours.
Another idea would be to renovate Warehouses that have UV lights across the walls and ceiling with a speaker system at the center. You could also place explosives all around the location. At night remotely turn on the sound, drawings dozens of Darkseekers there. Once enough are inside, turn on the lights, killing dozens in the process. The hundreds outside will also die when you activate the explosives outside.
Keep creating more and more traps across the city to cull down their numbers.
I like the alternate ending more, it gives a whole new perspective of things!
How to Survive: *Just don’t exist.*
Oh I’ve been ready for this moment my whole life
I attest
your user scared me there for a sec--
Profile pic checks out
You cant die if you arent alive
*describing a 100 terabyte drive*
“You could store enough movies on it to last a lifetime...
Or maybe you could download call of duty modern warfare...”
😂😂😂
*half* of MW
Pirated and re-encoded movies, yes. Original BluRay rips, not a chance...
or Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War
"An additional 100 gigabytes is required to update"
Storing a COD game would be one of the worst ways to use the storage. No online, so you’re stuck with either the campaign, local, or zombies.
18:27 making you the most bad ass person
I wish school was like this. Real knowledge and facts all within the universe of our favorite films. Great vid bro!
He didn’t need the grenade blast to be big he’s in a lab with chemicals which is most likely what caused that huge explosion
“You could download a whole lifetime’s worth of movies, or you could download modern warfare” Not both🤣
Yeah I laughed to hard at that
Maybe he ment the remastered version haha
@@isaiahpinkerton3445 no. No he did not.
Definitely not both. I’m still downloading Modern Warfare and I bought a 10 TB HDD
Whats the point of modern warfare when there's no multi player? I guess infinite rounds of zombies lol
20:56 i remember when I watched this movie back then
this is literally the only scene i still remember from it and we stopped watching the movie after the scene :C
poor doggo being choked off screen was too terrible
Awesome video man, keep it up
I didn’t listen, I watched free movie in just 28 minutes
lmaoo
Same😂😂😂
Three
You didnt see this movie haha your life os nonsense
🤣
Why does this guy sound like chills but he isnt on every single drug and drunk
This nigga do sound like Chills
But not high
I had a stroke reading this
dude, he could've just slapped the darkseekers to submission.
21:11 willpower....or WILLpower?
srry just wanted to lighten the mood.....that scene was so heart breaking to me and i dint want it wo happen to anyone else
Sam's death was the only zombie movie to ever make me actually cry
You're not crying, it's ninjas chopping onions! They sneak in when you least expect it!
@@elteescat damnit the first thing I hear when I wake up is a gunshot and i jumped up 5 ft
@@zarris2389 lol
@@elteescat dad and his civilian m-4
@@zarris2389 they’re called darkseekers they would outsmart and destroy zombies they’re not ZOMBIES BRAINSSSSS and by the way they can’t go near UV sunlight becuase their skin is thin that’s why they can’t go out and stuff they have white teeth but their breath would be horrible and if you watched the full movie you would know that will smith got trapped and when there’s as shadow the alpha darkseeker he set that trap they knew he would go to that shop everyday and talk to the mannequins becuase he hadn’t talked to real people in 3 years and stop making dumb jokes about 3 years with dog 1 day with women he survived 1 day with women becuase right after he lost his dog she found him so get yo facts straight
Come for the How to Beat, stay for the TED talk on interesting cancer treatment trials.
Great video as always!
Yah I dove into the deep end on that stuff..
@@NerdExplains It's appreciated! It's stuff like this that brings your content above other similar videos. Anybody could just say, "I have an idea what could have happened" but your stuff always has tons of context and interesting info!
@@NerdExplains Can you please do a vid on how to beat the town Silent Hill in Silent Hill the movie?
@@SerweeFitness self bye bye pill
@@maj.romuloortiz7832 thanks I'll remember that when I'm somehow stranded in a town like that 😅🤦♂️.
Hey nerd explains! Im a new subscriber and really like your content and I have a request for an video if you want, the maze runner scorch trials. Thank you
Cannot believe that in those years, Neville never tried to install any UV light system around his house or in any room
He did it just wasn’t well placed.
If I where him I would make a bigg ball with uv light saraoundimg it
I'm not english
@@DatuIskandar215 Whats your language
Then they would know exactly where he is and i would be paranoid they would find a way to bypass it or break it.
Human: dies
Average Joes: eh not very sad
Dog: dies
Average Joes: cries 1L amount of tears
Pfft amateurs I cried 2l an used 1 box of tissues.
@@alexandervasquez1235 I have cried 15L for a dog
@@c.latham2874 are ya trying to challenge me?
Are you implying that you wouldn't cry if a dog dies, or are you implying that people who do that are average?
@@Clone_Zero wat I'm kinda brain ded
The 5:23 thing, is him adjusting his alarm with the time of dusk. I imagine it is exactly 3 hours before technical sundown. He changes it daily. A lot of work, but if you alone and bored and nighttime is life or death......
Think it’s a little too convenient that the top military virologist also happens to be immune.
the most heartbreaking moment in movie history. Sam's death
"There's no greater danger than underestimating your opponent"
*Well said.*
More like "Will said"... I'm sorry
@@nok2686🤣
I like how he telling him what he should did when you don’t know how much material and supplies was really left.
I really like how much lore this movie has with the alternative ending and the creatures having there own lore and part of there inner human instincts still
6:07 - Okay, the watch beeping at 5;23pm could make perfect sense. I'll explain:
First, some facts:
- He's in NYC
- The movie is set in 2012
- The grass is tall and brown, a hint that it's late summer or early autumn
- He's wearing a leather jacket and not heavily sweating. I.e., it's not hot, and it's not super cold.
- Lions typically give birth to young in May/June. The cubs shown are quite small, but walking well... they appear to be roughly 3 months old.
- When he turns to look at the sun, it's about 15° above the horizon, more or less (seen at 6:12 in the video), consistent with about an hour before sunset.
- His watch actually says 5;22 when we see it, not 5;23 as the narrator says (I'm using semicolons so TH-cam won't convert to video timestamps)
Now, some reasonable speculations:
- Dr. Neville is a smart guy. He understands that the time the sun actually sets varies widely throughout the year, especially in the more northern latitudes.
- It makes sense that he would have located a sunrise/sunset calendar, or has simply noted the times the sun sets from surviving for 3 years. (EDIT: Indeed, as @elteescat notes below, "At the beginning of the movie we see him consult a Farmer's Almanac then set his watch. I always thought he was checking the sunset time. Then, when his alarm beeps and he turns to look at the sun, it reaffirms the idea.")
- He knows the Darkseekers come out at night (mostly), but they seem to tolerate SOME light okay.
Finally, some less reasonable (but still logical) speculation:
- His drop-dead "cutoff" for being outside is probably the moment the sun disappears below the horizon. This is the end of official daylight and the beginning of civil twilight. Even though it's still pretty easy to see during civil twilight, there is no direct sunlight, so he'd probably consider it unacceptably risky.
- He'd want to maximize his useful time outside, so giving himself a 1 hour warning before official sunset to get home would make sense.
- He's probably not bothered with Daylight Saving Time (DST) since civilization is gone and using it serves no purpose otherwise.
Given the above, I posit that his alarm went off exactly one hour before official sunset on *September 4th, 2012* (which occurred in NYC at 7;22pm, or critically, 6;22pm if we ignore DST). Further, the historical average high/low temperature in NYC on September 4th is 80°F/66°F, respectively, so his attire would also make sense for the season.
Notes:
- There is an alternative scenario where it could be October 10th if he was in fact on DST - the sun did set at 6;22pm (DST) on that date. Also, the weather is still reasonable at 67°/53° historically on that date, so it all fits. Actually, I liked this date first because I remembered his radio broadcasts referring to "noon", making DST calculations mandatory. However, I when I re-listened, I realized he doesn't refer to noon at all. Instead he says "I will be at the South Street Seaport at mid-day, when the sun is highest in the sky". This changed my mind about him using DST.
- This whole exercise almost came crashing down on me because there was NO date (at least in 2012) that the sun set at exactly 6;23pm as the narrator says. It was either 6;22 or 6;24. I abandoned it until I went back to re-watch and noticed his watch actually said 6;22! :)
- Yes, it's entirely possible he set is watch to beep forty-five minutes before sunset, or an hour and fifteen minutes before sunset, but an hour seems an obvious and rational choice. I really don't think it would be 2 hours, because the sun doesn't appear high enough to me. However...
- My theory could be proven/disproven by someone smarter than me, or by a NYC local by figuring out his exact location and using the buildings, landmarks, and other contextual clues to calculate the exact azimuth and elevation of the sun to determine the precise date, time, and how long before sunset it actually was. Of course, for this to work, we'd have to assume that either the movie was shot exactly on the date and time in question, or the CGI folks are gods and paid extraordinary attention to detail.
- This video was uploaded on September 4th, 2020, exactly 8 years after my theorized date. The coincidence is too cool NOT to be true!
Yes, I know this comment is super long. Sorry if you died of old age from reading it. It was a fun exercise for me, though :)
I assumed it was an hour until sunset personally, it doesn't need to be completely dark for them to start coming out as long as they aren't exposed to the sun
The attention to detail is amazing, and you spotting them as well!
Props to ya!
This movie came out in 2007!
@@sicuramentecredodisi Yes but it was set in 2012
What doing writing a f*cking story why just why it's 28 minutes and I bet it took you 28 hours to write this I mean just why
I like the alternate ending better. Were the Alpha Draws a butterfly on the glass and the woman he was curing had a butterfly tattoo on her neck and after he turns her over they all leave showing that they arnt mindless
I'd be more inline with the original story
I like that too.
@@cgmason7568 the original story is so good. I wish someone would make a movie just like it. The vampires looked like people and flashed him to try to get him to come out. Don’t people love sexualization? Make it. Only some are mindlessly violent. The ones who died and were then revived by the disease. The ones that lived with it were like people and could think
This should have been a series honestly
It hurts me every time when I see Sam get bite and die
“Just be the camera man to survive” is the new generic way to get a ton of likes now I guess
Yes
Imagine caring about fake youtube thumb numbers
@@Bennieboy918 im almost about to agree with you, and then i see ur profile name and profile pic. no offense at all, really, but you seem like an edgy 14 year old. again, no offense, you might not be. just found it funny
@@aarontheperson6867 ngl I'm too lazy to go all the way to g mail to change the profile pic but what is wrong with the name my man?
@@Bennieboy918 nothings wrong with it, just the whole sense of "i dont care about anything" coupled with the profile pic brought me back a few years. again, i really dont care and ur opinions still valid and all that shit, just thought it was funny
him: " a virus that killed and mutated everyone into darkseekers "
also him: " where are the 8,000,000 skeletons "
The killing rate is 90% only 9% mutate and 1% are immune. So there should be millions of skeletons in there.
i hate anime chill 😃
@i hate anime who took a dump in you'r cereal?
i hate anime Cringe
@i hate anime lol
Man this reminds me that people tend to leave out the early 2000s when it comes to good media. The music and movies from the 90s and before are talked about alot but I think the early 2000s had some great entertainment
24:16 bro i can’t be the only one who noticed that he just closed it right when they came and never locked it.