Good zombie movies to see? - Page 2

wacki · #11 12-05-2005, 08:39 PM

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The Omega Man is a ton of fun. They aren't quite zombies --- I dunno what they are really.

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Odd, I didn't care for the movie. I thought the whole "we revolt against the technology users" thing was pretty effing gay. Especially when they used a catapult but refuesed to use guns on principle. Make them stupid, make them savage, but don't make them antitechnology Nazi's.

Other than that it was alright. The movie had a TON of potential but they didn't deliver IMO.

Blarg · #12 12-05-2005, 08:53 PM

Horror films are at least half atmosphere and good moments. That's what Omega Man had. When he's wandering through the deserted city, everyone loves it and remembers those moments, and talks about how they would feel in the same situations. When he's locked up in his house and if he isn't going mad he might as well be, or probably will be soon, the last guy alive, precariously, in a planet that wants to kill him, it's pretty evocative.

This is often as good as horror movies get and what lots of us love them for. Taken as a whole they fall apart way more often than not, and so does this one. But the movie does have some set-ups that are pretty cool and make parts of it very fun. With this kind of thing it's largely a matter of taste whether you figure the good outweighs the bad, or think it matters much. If I couldn't be endlessly forgiving with horror movies, I'd have had to give up on them a long time ago.

Blarg · #13 12-05-2005, 08:55 PM

By the way, you really should give that Vincent Price version a try. It's a lot better than Omega Man, and the story is much better when all the zombie types are really the vampires they were in the book(which is also very good).

wacki · #14 12-05-2005, 09:13 PM

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By the way, you really should give that Vincent Price version a try. It's a lot better than Omega Man, and the story is much better when all the zombie types are really the vampires they were in the book(which is also very good).

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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001637/

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which one?

Blarg · #15 12-05-2005, 09:51 PM

The book was called I am Legend, by Richard Matheson. The Vincent Price version was called The Last Man on Earth. Very good. I checked it on IMDB and the comment about Romero's film seeming in many ways an awful lot like this one is dead on. But this one came first. Price plays it straight in this one, not like some of his other over the top stuff. Very bleak.