SCIENCE! Movie: "The Omega Man" (and an apology)
First, said apologizin'. Sorry we haven't been keeping up with SCIENCE! movie threads. When Stef and I moved out to Davis, we found we didn't have the free time required to watch a movie each week and keep up with our Netflix queue, so we fell behind. But now that we've got most of that "life" stuff stabilized, we can get back to the stuff we love: watching 70's sci-fi movies starring Charlton Heston as The Most Important Human In The World! On that note...
The Omega Man is a 70's sci-fi movie starring Charlton Heston as The Most Important Human In The World. I'd never even heard of this film before I saw it on the list, but you all may have seen the Simpsons Halloween parody "The Homega Man". I had some trouble figuring out how the mutations from the disease affected people in the tertiary stage. Did it make them leery of technology, or just put them in a heightened state of paranoia, thus making them easy picking to Methias?
For the most part, this flick was fine 70's fun, with a groovy soundtrack and some excellent Heston over-acting (though part of that was probably just me; I have a bad habit of shouting out Planet of the Apes dialogue whenever I see Charlton Heston on-screen, in any film. You know, "A planet where apes evolved from men?!?", or, "It's a mad house! A MAAAAAAAD HOUSE!!!"). Anyone else catch this one?
The Omega Man is a 70's sci-fi movie starring Charlton Heston as The Most Important Human In The World. I'd never even heard of this film before I saw it on the list, but you all may have seen the Simpsons Halloween parody "The Homega Man". I had some trouble figuring out how the mutations from the disease affected people in the tertiary stage. Did it make them leery of technology, or just put them in a heightened state of paranoia, thus making them easy picking to Methias?
For the most part, this flick was fine 70's fun, with a groovy soundtrack and some excellent Heston over-acting (though part of that was probably just me; I have a bad habit of shouting out Planet of the Apes dialogue whenever I see Charlton Heston on-screen, in any film. You know, "A planet where apes evolved from men?!?", or, "It's a mad house! A MAAAAAAAD HOUSE!!!"). Anyone else catch this one?
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PS: Any chance of adding highlander to the list? It is probably one of the best films evar (I spelt ever wrong, so you know I'm serious). But not the rest of them...As they say "There SHOULD of been only one
EDIT TO BE ON-TOPIC: But yeah, I thought the explanation of the tertiary stage of the illness was kind-of half-assed-- heck, the illness itself. Like, they went to the trouble to label it a bacillus-based plague (that would make it related to anthrax, a plague delivered by spores) but they didn't really explain that not everyone DIES of it until we see Mathias. And it just seemed to be a big jump from getting the tertiary stage to thinking Mathias knew what was best. The tertiary-staged humans all seemed to be at least kind-of reasonable, not zombies. If the plague induced paranoia, weren't there a few tertiary cases who were paranoid of Mathias and didn't join his totally cheaty luddite gang?
In other news! I'm glad this is starting up again. But what about the movies that have been skipped? I've actually seen most of those. I suggest they be added on to the end of the current list.
Or are you saying we should put them back into the circulation? Does that mean you're gonna watch them with us? 'Cause that would rock hard!
And, as Stef mentioned, the apocalypse can never be successful with out some giant afros.
Although if it ends up as a shoe advertisement like I, Robot did, somebody is getting stabbed.