Posted: 11/1/2008 3:08:11 AM EDT
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OH my goodness. I picked this up on Blu Ray the other week to watch on Halloween. I was going to have a double feature of it and "I Am Legend" but ran out of time so we just watched "OM".
I enjoyed most of it but there were vast stretches that were ham fisted, ridiculously simplistic morality plays. Boobies in a PG movie? WHAAAAAT? 
It was alright, though Charlton Heston's insistence on holding the subgun wrong bugged me. The dated nature of much of the movie, as well as the musical score, took me right out of the movie in parts. 4/10 |
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It was alright, though Charlton Heston's insistence on holding the subgun wrong bugged me. 4/10 ESAD ROFL HEY he's holding it right in your avatar! FWIW I couldn't have seen it in 71 unless my pregnant mom went to the theater! 
FWIW2 I will watch it again some day... I bought it on Blu Ray. |
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Rented it from Blockbuster not too long ago. I liked his bunker. 
The zombies were basically democrats/leftists, cursing technology, the wheel, etc. The zombie with the pistol was symbolic of their hypocricy, too. Which goes in line with the book... Did you read it? |
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Quoted: Thank you both.Quoted: You needed to see it in '71.  Exactly - think of what they were working with 37 years ago - great flick IMO. I think the ability to watch a movie contextually, is a skill that has been lost. And, for the record, as a little kid... I thought mounting a flashlight on a gun was absolutely the coolest thing EVER! (And frankly, I still do! ) |
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Contexually is fine. But the Family came off like beatnik Star Trek aliens for the most part.
Only a little work on the makeup and music and some script tweaks, and the movie could have been as timeless as Star Wars. Don't take this as a slam on a decent movie; it's simply my honest opinion. I still enjoyed the movie enough. (I told my mom and dad we saw OM - they think that they did go see it at the theater while my mom was pregnant with me! HA) |
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Quoted: Star Trek aliens? Well, okay...Contexually is fine. But the Family came off like beatnik Star Trek aliens for the most part. Only a little work on the makeup and music and some script tweaks, and the movie could have been as timeless as Star Wars. Don't take this as a slam on a decent movie; it's simply my honest opinion. I still enjoyed the movie enough. (I told my mom and dad we saw OM - they think that they did go see it at the theater while my mom was pregnant with me! HA) I always kinda looked at them as albino 60's hippy "radicals"... and the fact that that they wanted to destroy everything that made our civilization great made me hate them as much as... well, non-albino 60's hippy radicals. Heck, it's not often that a throw-away B-movie action/horror film is a perfect metaphor for the greatest culture war of our time. |
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A lot of PG movies in the 70's showed boobies! Quick shots to be sure, but they were there. You had to know where to look and appreciate it/them if you were lucky. The rating system was relatively new. And the audiences were still gasping away when any stray nipple was shown. I remember well when Woody Allen said “son-of-a-bitch” in a movie and the audience gasped when he said it. Then came The Wild Bunch a year or two later. |
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A lot of PG movies in the 70's showed boobies! Quick shots to be sure, but they were there. You had to know where to look and appreciate it/them if you were lucky. The rating system was relatively new. And the audiences were still gasping away when any stray nipple was shown. I remember well when Woody Allen said “son-of-a-bitch” in a movie and the audience gasped when he said it. Then came The Wild Bunch a year or two later. Another great flick
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it was weird as hell and nothing like I expected, but it still kinda creeped me out.
Ever since someone here (Prolly I am legend) suggested that I go pick up the book, even though I finished it in like 3 hours, the whole plot behind the storyline really struck me as one of the most unique, original and just plain cool ideas of any piece of literature that I've read in quite a while. Shame they still can't manage to deliever it properly on the big screen. |
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Dated as hell, but arguably my "Favorite" show of all time. I can't tell you how many times I've read the novella either...and I agree, I too am still waiting for the definative adaptation of the book. All they have to do is update some of the really dated 50's stuff ("He pushed the starter button and drove the wagon down Cimmaron street") and it would STILL be the coolest Vampire/end of the world movie EVER.
I liked LAST MAN ON EARTH, which, despite it's budget, is the truest adaptation to the book. I have always enjoyed Omega Man, despite its ever increasing campiness. I did enjoy I AM LEGEND, but only as it's own story, it's also too far removed from the base to really be a sequel to any of them. Change the title, and his name from Robert Neville to Floyd Hilligoss or something, and you wouldn't even recognize it as being Matheson. I don't know why I dig Omega Man so much, probably has something to do with growing up in the Cold War, and suspecting armageddon was next Thursday, being a pre-adolescent male, and yearning to drive a Mustang through deserted city streets stitching mutant zombie hordes with automatic weapons... |
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BAR with an IR scope and that fucking dinner jacket FTW! |