Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: THE OMEGA MAN 

When is the next Godzilla movie review bro 😭😭

@@MetalGearRisingRevengence yeah same I was waiting for a Godzilla review but not today 😕😕😕.

There's no best. They all miss the mark despite having some memorable moments.

The Omega Man!! Because Heston!!

You mean a movie that people might have actually heard of...that's not godzilla

That’s actually a hilarious answer.

That’s actually really cool. I wish I was that lucky. I wonder what he thought of Prince of Egypt.

@@markbranham6365 I can see him being that clueless to not even think about researching his movies.

@@danielseelye6005 Jada wouldn't let him see the other movies, her boyfriend said it was past Will's bedtime.

Met Chuck also, once in the early 80's where he screened his 3 favorite films ( Omega was not one of them ) They were...Naked Jungle ( the killer ant film ) Will Penny..Solent Green. Met him again in the early 2000s. ..Both times he was grumpy , but I will always love his films, the man..not so much.

Spot on. I couldn't agree more. It's the best of the three, and one of my favourite films.

There are actually 4, there is the low-budget movie I Am Omega, which is the worst of the 4.

I don't know, I think I prefer Last Man on Earth. It was creepier, like a dry run of Night of the Living Dead.

I saw the Vincent Price movie first and enjoyed since it followed the book, then Charlton Heston which was very entertaining, then Will Smith which I thought was very badly made, now Will Smith is very good actor but even he couldn't help the bad writing for this version.

@@55Quirll That's a diplomatic and very charitable description of the Will Smith version. I agree with every word! My favourite is The Omega Man, which I saw first. Then the book, which was written by a master of his craft. I enjoyed The Last Man on Earth, but as Chuck Heston was quotes somewhere in these comments, "they didn't have a lot of money on that picture." I love price, but the movie is a bit slow. These days, I'm lazy so the audiobook is my preferred platform, but Matheson's genius still shines through. Cheers

Boy I know an SCP-001 entry that you'll freaking love then.

/Yeah, it's a terrifying twist on the zombie thing. They're NOT undead... just possessed... and it's nearly universal. I do have to wonder... do the infected have the ability to reproduce?

Ron Grainer was big on brass in his soundtracks. "The Prisoner" theme also had lots of wonderful brass arrangements.

Bruh how old are you?

Damn good point!

I get the impression Matthias wanted him alive to try him for his crimes. They could've killed him in the wine cellar. After his rescue, Matthias just wanted Neville dead.

I didn't see your comment but just made the same point. I also agree they probably wanted to burn him at tge stake to make a point.

Affect and effect are different words with different meanings.

I guess they just wanted to be able to use the Warner Bros. backlot. The park in front of his house is the same one from the _Friends_ intro

I have to agree. LOL

That cracked me up, too!

Very interesting statement makes sense...

Back when movies had underlying themes. Unlike today when movies are as deep as the paper it's printed on.

Big fan huh? So got a favorite Heston movie?

@@harrihaffi2713 Hard to choose just one, my top picks off the top of my head are: Soylent Green, The Omega Man, Gray Lady Down, Planet of the Apes, and Earthquake.

@@XenoJehuty84 Okay! Seems to be mostly his movies from the 70’s though. Except Planet of the apes that came two year before the decade. Unless your referring to the 2001 version. Which he plays a uncredited part in.

I’m an Epics guy, so number one has to be _The Ten Commandments._ He was also in the most underrated _Treasure Island_ adaptation. He was Silver and Christian Bale was Hawkins

@@SomeHarbourBastard cool

I read a collection of short stories of Richard Matheson tribute stories. One was by his son and it was the omega man but from the vampire/zombie's side.

WHO SAID YOU WEREN'T? Perhaps we'll get one someday.

@@thatlittlevoice6354 see also Peter Watts's "The Things," which tells the 1982 movie from the monster's POV.

No thank you. Just imagining what they would do with the scene of the trapped dog is too sad.

@@jaydugger3291 i have. Liked that, as well

That was part of the subtext of the film, that the counterculture was evil.

I remember seeing a newspaper movie ad for “Network”. It had a drawing of a giant anthropomorphic television snarling and towering over a frightened man. At that age, I figured it was a horror movie.

I saw phase 4 and Race with the Devil at the movies

I would love to see Brandon's take on Phase IV and the other movies you mentioned! 🖖

Race with the Devil was a cool movie. Another one I liked back then was Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.

Great selection 🖖🏼

Hi Ape dood! XD. 🦍🦧

Nostalgia.

Nostalgia & 97% of all new “entertainment” is a remake of something but worse.

Since it's LA you'd think there would be other theaters with other films already set up for someone unfamiliar with projectors... Maybe there are and he has those memorized too.

​@@deadalready7467Like Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes...or worse, Dark Shadows

No matter where you go, there you are.

If there was ever a movie that you just love it or hate it it's Buckaroo Banzai. You either get it or you don't. And it's totally something that Brandon ought to do.

I lost it at " John Smallberries "One of my favorites !

"END-- OF-- DISCUSSION!!!!" "What?? WHAT discussion?" She also played "Mrs. Ford", the Vice President in "WRONG IS RIGHT". One of my favorite lines is when the President says, "Remember Watergate? I don't want a BLACK FORD in my future!"

YES. It's unfortunate that someone so talented is remembered for such unremarkable roles, but better that than obscurity, which is what happens to the overwhelming majority of movie actors.

Yes, but she explains that that was before Matthias started going full psycho.

I had forgotten about that. It explains a lot about her character. Thanks for pointing it out. Roz Cash rocked this picture.

that one of the reason a movie star wars was a big hit. a lot of the film done in the 70s had a dark ending.. where in star wars the ending was an upbeat. it not the only reason but it was different from the norm

He made a promise to meet a girl on Gordon Street all those years ago, so he stopped doing movies like this.

It's incredible how he did 3 films covering the three extinction events that folks were worried about during that time period...Nuclear War (POTA), Overpopulation (Soylent Green), and Biological Warfare (Omega Man).

"Yeah, life is pretty good here in 2035, we got clean homes, good jobs, and these government issue soylent cowpatties." "SOYLENT COWPATTIES ARE MADE OUT OF PEOPLE!!!! IT'S PEOPLE!!! THEY SAID THEY WOULD CHANGE THE RECIPE, BUT THEY DIDN'T, UGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!"

Probably also because Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind came around and gave a more peppy and upbeat feel to sci-fi that audiences started gravitating more towards because it was different from what they were getting the last couple of years...of course in the late 70s aside from Star Wars and Close Encounters, Alien also came out along with The Empire Strikes Back a year later in 1980 so the dark stuff was still there in the sci-fi genre.

Really nothing bad ever said about him as a human. Some didn’t like his NRA work. But he was well liked and respected. He was married to the same women his whole life. He raised his kids to be fine upstanding humans. He marched with civil rights, supported human rights and was a good human being. People hated him because he practiced what he preached. He wasn’t a fake or a phony

And how that movie foretold overpopulation and the scene when Heston smokes a cigarette and says how good they are, "I'd smoke three or four of these a day, if I could afford them."

@@salvagemonster3612 He was one of the very few people to be on the right side of most major moral issues of the 20th century

@@KRhetor This.

@@KRhetor Agreed.

>>cut scene of a mutant woman in a crypt with a dead baby

There were two.

70s movies were thick on social commentary.

Albino luddites have a pretty low combat capability it seems.

Zerbe played a station journalist , not succumbing to the virus, rallied survivors and control by the burning of the dead, till seeing Chuck not accepting his view of the fate of humanity. Zerbe’s continue control over the infected survivors which was better than sitting around and watching each other get skinny.

The last living human thing is interesting but honestly it would just be lonely not really boring since you would have access to everything you want to do and see as long as you can find the instruction booklet and secure a few things early on. The worst part for me of the book and adaptations alike is that if you have a cure and the new order is objectively worse both for humanity and the planet itself (supposedly we are at the point where if our civilization has to start over again we are just doomed as is the planet) then fuck the whole you are the monster/outside of the new world order and revive humanity. Once you have done so it is either a chain reaction to total reversal of the transformed or exterminating a cult becomes progressively easier.

@@liamnehren1054 The question for me was what the point of being able to do anything is when nothing you do matters. When you have no legacy. It helped me understand how human action needs a context to have meaning. When there are no other people, and never will be, there is no context.

@@ian_b but that is what makes the story weaker then it could be, he literally has a cure... there will be more people and that is his legacy, there is major and important value to his actions and so it doesn't really fit the last man on earth idea. It's more a lonely wanderer tale which is fixed by finding meaning and he just cops out at the end.

Ive seen the soundtrack called mediocre but I love the soundtrack

Oh yeah........then Will Smith made a movie......meh.

Used to watch it on network tv all the time, now I wonder how they got around Dutch's middle finger coat ?

I saw this on ABC several times, growing up in Houston. It was my favorite movie for years but I agree, lots of cuts that I never saw until I picked up the dvd. I’m pretty sure I don’t remember the hospital scene either when Neville and Lisa are looking for supplies to make the serum.

The Quiet Earth is great for atmosphere, but found the story heavy going.

Loved the quiet earth, its atmosphere is a "how It's done"

The absurdity of it was the joke, it is literally the opposite of what you would see in most shows where the wife withholds sex from the husband.

@Antionitonio Bianchinitio Amen. All it would take is Peggy doing that little walk she always did and I'd be like "ok Peg, head up to the bedroom, daddy's feeling frisky". That little walk of hers always turned me on.

I agree. Not a great adaptation, but still a great movie.

I'd say that about Alien 3 and a few other films, but League is just bad in general.

As a fan of all three films (while also acknowledging their defects and inventions) I second your opinion!

I mean, i think its the most accurate to the book, in the sense that it actually makes sense of the title. Nevel doesnt figures out how to cure the virus, nor has an unnecesary and stupid heroic sacrifice, he simply realizes that the vampires are not what he thought. That they have evolved beyond what he knew and they actually see him as the monster. They cut the tragic aspect by making Nevel have this realization in the nick of time. And leave it in a somewhat hopeful note by leaving his final fate open ended. Which was kinda inevitably after adding the lady and the kid to the story. Even though he not longer belongs in this world, theres still people like him out there. So not really book accurate at all, but it sure feels more book accurate that the cut ending where he effectively sacrifices to save the world. A generic action hero ending if there ever was one. Seriouly, the movie was already not that great, did they have to go out of their way to make its end as bland as possible?

Clearly Heston should have fought Matthias with Venusian aikido

There is some legitimately great acting in that film. That got overshadowed by the memes.

Let's go Brandon

Check here on youtube for the make up tests for the Scott film. Really amazing..

yep, they're magic windows.....

I never thought about it, but "Night of the Comet" is the (closest thing to an) 80's I AM LEGEND.

"We will show them who laughs like the frog, now! Hahahaha."

I can't imagine a modern adaptation being any more faithful, unfortunately. For one, I would think/hope that, nowadays, most people in the audience would get it that the protagonist was the villain and the vampires the victims veeeeery fast, nullifying the twist, not to mention modern audiences are super into supernatural protagonists, so they would complain no end if they didn't portray at least half the story from the vampire's side, meaning a totally different story.