The Omega Man

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Summary: omega man
Review: with out a doubt the best post-nuclear war movie ever made! I've seen this movie probably between 20 & 30 times.this movie has probably aged the best more than any other movie I'd seen when I was a kid. I can't wait to watch it after I buy it tuesday august fifth! this movie is mandatory for any sci-fi fan! I recomend this movie for everyone!.........pablo luis gomez aka bullitt23

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Summary: Cheesy sci-fi fun
Review: It's so over the top I'd be surprised if it was ever taken seriously. The Omega Man established a whole new level of cheesy Z-Movie as A-Movie incompetance. The film is based on Richard Matheson's fine novel I Am Legend. The second trashing of Matheson's novel is a fine example of what Hollywood's view is of science fiction. There's lots of guns, Manson like Vampire creatures. All have been afflicted with a biological virus released during a conflict between the United States and China. The population of Los Angeles have been turned into the living dead (hardly something). Heston has become humanity's last hope because he managed to innoculate himself with an anti-serum.

Director Boris Sagal hopes to have it both ways here--he apes Night of the Living Dead mixes in a dash of black explotation films of the era and throws in a heavy handed metaphor. When its served up with as many corny action sequences as this film has, The Omega Man almost becomes pleasant viewing.

It's a pity that Mystery Theater 3000 didn't have this film to kick around. It would have been an interesting two hours. Why three stars for such an awful film? Well it is cheesy and it's entertaining in the same way that watching an amazingly bad performance can be entertaining. You wonder 1)Didn't they realize how bad this was 2) How long can they continue and not be embarrassed 3)When does the film become serious? Monty Python couldn't have made anything funnier than this even on their good days. Maybe that's why they never tried; they knew that someone had already created the ultimate cheese ball sci fi film of all time.

This could only have been written by the same duo (Joyce and John Corrington)who wrote one of the worst sci fi movies of all time--Battle for the Planet of the Apes. To be fair, it isn't all up to the writers. The director, producer or even the actor could have had a hand in improving this mess.

I can't wait for Damnation Alley. What a double bill these two would make!

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Summary: The Last Man On Earth
Review: The movie "The Omega Man" is a enlighting movie without being overwhelminmg with shameless CGI and no plot. From its opening shots of the sun peering thru the desert downtown LA skyline(that scene was filmed according to the director on a early sunday morning) Unfortunately, the soundtrack is a rarity to find and its out there somewhere. I saw the original movie The last man on Earth(1964) with Vincent Price which is available on DVD and it follows closely to the remake accept that the 64 version takes Rome and has some creepy scenes thanks to the black and white photography. The ending of both movies is the same accept for the location of the death scene. In the book for those wh have not read it.. concerns a Dr Neville who lives in the hills above LA there arer many actual street names if i am correct in the book to streets in around LA
Entertaining movie..

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Summary: Feel the love
Review: The Omega Man. A film that want's to say alot of things. But doesn't know how to say them. In the shadow of a biological conflict, Charlton Heston is convinced he is the last man on Earth. He tools around an abandoned Los Angeles, stealing cars and taking whatever he needs to survive. Heston was a government scientist who injected himself with a vaccine and is immune to the plague that was unleashed. However, he soon discovers that he is not alone. The Family has survived. Who is The Family? B-movie Mutants. Or Something. It's not really clear. Perhaps they're related to the Manson Family (just love the robes and shades). But after watching Heston go to an abandoned cinema to watch "Woodstock," they might very well be. Indeed, instead of the post-apocalypse nihilism of The Road Warrior, we get Hippie propaganda: the joys of communalism and altered states headspace. And if that wasn't bad enough, the film vomits up a clumsy allegory between Heston and Jesus Christ. Oh boy. And, if THAT wasn't bad enough, we then get our Blaxploitation fix with Rosalind Cash as lilly White Heston's Brown Sugar. Ahh, love the Afro, Foxy Lady. But hey, at least the soundtrack sounds like 70's porno funk; just gotta boogy. Oh yeah, The Omega Man is based on Richard Matheson's classic, I Am Legend. ...

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Summary: One of my favorite guilty pleasures
Review: This is a very good movie, one I've enjoyed ever since seeing it at the theater when I was a kid. The poster told me all I needed to know and I couldn't wait for the movie to premiere. Watching it now I sometimes cringe at some of the dialogue and clothing, but the story and the cinematography is great. Not at all like Richard Matheson's book but they're both entertaining in their own way.

There aren't as many stunts and special effects as movies have now and they unfortunately made it 'hip' with slang and clothes of the era, but it still remains one of my favorites. The symbolism at the end is slightly overdone but I guess they wanted to make sure even the dimmest viewer would get the anology of what Heston's character was doing. It's still amusing to watch Mathias' spout his Luddite views and I love the phrase 'honky paradise', so not all of the slang is a bad thing.

If you've read online reviews of this movie, you'll be prepared for it's few shortcomings and ready to enjoy it's many good points. You can't compare this film to others based on Matheson's book because this one only shares a few details. It's superior to most of them, though, in my opinion even though I'd like to have seen Chuck fighting real vampires at least once.

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Summary: Chuck is a bad mutha - shut your mouth!
Review: Boris Sagal's 1971 horror/sci-fi thriller "The Omega Man" is such a cool film, most viewers will look past it's unintentionally humorous faults. Ironically, it's these very faults that make it such a great midnight flick. These would include a cheesy score, an out-of-place Charlton Heston decked out in clothes that would make Studio 54 bouncers proud, and a very hammy Anthony Zerbe as the main villain Mathias.

Based on Richard Matheson's terrific novel "I Am Legend," humans are destroyed by a virus leaving our nation's cities desolate and abandoned. Ol' Chuck is immune, and this film begins with a memorable sequence as he drives through the streets of Los Angeles alone. At night, he must protect himself from a tribe of zombie/vampires whose only purpose in life seems to be trying to kill Chuck. These determined vampires go about their nightly rituals decked out in black robes, carrying torches and stumbling around in the best George Romero fashion. Yes, these virus vampire victims are led by the preachy sermons of Mathias, a sort of nightmare Oral Roberts if you will.

Chuck discovers a commune tribe of other immune survivors, including the lovely Rosalind Cash - a sexy independent babe adorned in bell bottoms that would put Pam Grier to shame. Hunky Heston has an affair with Rosalind in his fortified penthouse, and suddenly you have one of the earliest examples of a bi-racial romance ever seen on film. The beauty of "The Omega Man" is that this surprising development is never mentioned - it just is baby.

In many ways the grandfather of all Goth films, "The Omega Man's" groovy style is a definite precursor to "Escape From New York," "The Crow" and "Blade." You have a Messiah-like figure surviving in a futuristic nightmare world while battling vampire-like creatures with machine guns. Let's not forget the great scene where Chuck and Rosalind escape on a motorcycle with what must be the theme from "Superfly" playing in the background.

Perhaps I jest just a bit, but "The Omega Man" in my book is indeed a funky cult classic. Probably the least known of Heston's sci-fi films from this era ("Soylent Green," "Planet of the Apes"), "The Omega Man" is a hip discovery for audiences thristing for the bizarre.

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Summary: Inferior Version of Matheson's Novel,
Review: Repeats even with great production values are not always better (just think of Tristar's Godzilla). This movie is loosely based on Richard Matheson's classic 1954 novel "I Am Legend", but sadly it is not the best version to date. Heston is of course as wooden as ever and the insinuation that since Rosalind is the LAST woman on earth, it doesn't matter if she's black is really pitiful. Anthony Zerbe's character is at best down right campy and the Christlike Heston crucified freeze frame at the end is really sort of unnecessary, we got it already. NOW, If you really want to see the real Robert Neville a very sad and lonely man and in a desparate situation rent if you can find it, or better still buy the DVD version of THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964 B&W) starring Vincent Price, a far superior film despite its foreign cast and relatively low budget production values. But what else do you need, but a few wooden stakes. I found The Last Man On Earth along with the original House On Haunted Hill both in widescreen on an inexpensive VINCENT PRICE DOUBLE FEATURE DVD by Diamond Entertainment. The films appeared to be remastered as well, but not much else on the DVD.

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Summary: Last Man on Earth...almost
Review: Based on Richard Matheson's novel, _I am Legend,_ about the last man on Earth surrounded by vampires, this '70s take on it holds together really quite well. Charleton Heston, for all his alleged conservatism, spent the '70s appearing in quasi-liberal films about overpopulation and starvation (_Soylent Green_) or in movies like this, about the End of the World Through Biowarfare. Here, he ends up the Last Man on Earth, courtesy of an injection that saves him from a man-made plague. He spents a fair amount of the film machine-gunning all the plague-created zombies that are trying to kill him. Enter a few people saved from the plague by their youth, and the Earth gets a chance to start again. Amusingly, Heston, who once played Moses, now gets a chance to play Jesus. Good film, and very much worth seeing.

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Summary: Classic 70's Sci-Fi
Review: The Omega Man is classic 70's doomsday biowarfare sci-fi.

Neville (Charleton Heston) is an Army doctor on his way to deliver a vaccine for a biowarfare agent which is infecting the world. However, his pilot develops the rapidly progressing disease in route and his helicopter crashes. He is unable to deliver the vaccine in time to prevent everyone from being infected. He believed he was the only one able to use the vaccine and survive normally, until he meets a group of young people spared from the disease by their age. This group of young people save him from the zombielike mutants who are on a religious crusade to destroy the technology he represents. He then embarks on a new mission to save the world with his vaccine.

The Omega Man is pure entertainment once you get past the 70ishness of the movie. If you like the original Planet of the Apes, you'll like The Omega Man.

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Summary: The Omega Man
Review: This has to be one of the best end of the world movies ever made. In these current times I wonder why nobody has decided to remake this fantastic movie with a current twist. Although I would never say it was the best acted as movie of all times, I will say that the underlaying story of what this movie is really about, will keep on coming back again and again. What would you do if it was you?