The Omega Man 1971 Charlton Heston

[Wicked Batgirl]

The Omega Man was one of our 'After the pub films' when we were younger. Along with 'The Thing', 'Where Eagles Dare' and, of course, 'Barbarella' )

 

[bluue(=]

That's pretty cool; I wonder why they didn't go with it for Chuck Heston? I did like his ending though lying in the fountain.

 

[alex_piano1994]

Is that the film that has the line:-
"Let's go back, and look at it on 440" ?

Clipped for a 90s (?) song ... "Ain't talkin' 'bout dub" ????

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On googling it was "The Andromeda Strain".
An easy mistake to make

 

[SuperDude C]

Absolutely. Matheson has been poorly served by Hollwood (other than the Twilight Zone episodes that he scripted).

 

[Rocker_5150]

Omega Man is a brilliant movie whilst Charlon Heston is the only character you see on screen. But then, as others appear, it desenRAB into a pile of hippy crap.

 

[Compz f.]

I watched this in 76 as a 8 year old on the big screen and loved it.
Thing is it was shown before Jaws - did it get a cinema release here in 71?

 

[onebrwn]

It got good reviews when it first came out in the UK. I actually remember reading a review in the Daily Express at the time.
I think I was still too young to go and see it.

 

[belal50_53]

Still not had a chance to watch it again may be this weekend.

 

[shorti]

The point of the book is that by the end the vampires are becoming the norm, and he has become their legendary boggy man who comes to kill them in their sleep.

The Will Smith movie has Neville inventing a cure and thus becoming a legendary hero (in both versions). Completely opposite to the book's ending.