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The Omega Man
1971 · Film · 98 min
Directed by Boris Sagal
Science FictionActionDramaThriller
Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain; sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.
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> and that other Charleton Heston movie with zombies that I can’t remember
The Omega Man probably. The first adaptation of Mathesons "I am Legend". Though some people might disagree about the "Zombie" part.
I was thinking The Omega Man https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067525/
I Am Legend has been made into a film at least 3 different times. It’s influenced a lot of people even if they never read the book.
EDIT: The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man (1971), and I Am Legend (2007), 28 Days Later (2002)…
My favorite is 28 Days Later
We watched that last night. Another good movie for these times is "The Omega Man"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUkU18MrBzU
> things you can binge watch for a month?
this should get you through March :) ...
The Seventh Seal (1957) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/
The Last Man on Earth (1964) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058700/
The Omega Man (1971) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067525/
The Andromeda Strain (1971) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/
Dawn of the Dead (1978) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077402/
Outbreak (1995) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114069/
12 Monkeys (1995) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/
Cabin Fever (2002) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303816/
Resident Evil (2002) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120804/
28 Days Later (2003) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289043/
Children of Men (2006) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/
28 Weeks Later (2007) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463854/
I Am Legend (2007) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/
Blindness (2008) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861689/
Carriers (2009) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0806203/
Daybreakers (2009) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433362/
Black Death (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1181791/
Contagion (2011) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2011) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4500922/
World War Z (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816711/
Maggie (2015) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1881002/
Train to Busan (2016) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5700672/
The Girl With All The Gifts (2016) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4547056/
93 Days (2016) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5305246/
Cargo (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3860916/
It Comes At Night (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4695012/
Rabid (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5628902/
The Hot Zone (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4131818/
edit: There is actually a Wikipedia page for the genre (duh!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_about_viral_outbreaks
The book is superior in every way.
The Omega Man is also a much better film adaptation than the Will Smith effort. Killer soundtrack too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omega_Man
That investment will yield a lot in loyalty. You'll have 100 people looking out for your interests, which are now their interests. "Winning hearts and minds." That seems a lot more valuable than trying to play Omega Man. In fact, start shooting people and you are going to generate nothing but vendettas, and eventually you'll have 100 people out to get you. Spoiler alert: The Omega Man dies at the end of the movie.
All of this is just blowing my mind today. Who knew the "apocalypse" was just another 1-percenter meme, and that the self-styled "free-thinkers" walking around believing it -- including me -- were actually engaging in the most craven, compliant subservience against their own interests!
SPOILER ALERT
There is no Theranos. It's a marketing campaign for a sci-fi movie being released in 2016. (Look at Elizabeth Holmes' (an actress, btw) dress code. Look at their website. Try to find a reference to the company before 2015. It simply doesn't exist!).
After the surprising success of Soylent, MGM decided to cash in with an updated version of Soylent Green. In the future, instead of eating food, people just insert their finger into a machine which analyzes their blood chemistry and makes a delicious beverage optimized for your individual needs. Of course, it also scans your calendar (final exams? Add some ritalin. Important business presentation? Add some xanax. Hot date? Add some viagra).
I don't want to give away any more of the plot, but it stars Elizabeth Holmes and Will Smith (note this is the second remake where he replaces Charleston Heston, the first being Omega Man/I am Legend).
I haven't read the novel or seen the comparatively recent film yet, but I saw both of the other film adaptations of the novel (The Last Man On Earth starring Vincent Price and The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston) and there may indeed be some parallels with how the eponymous man in either of those films views the strange, apparently subhuman creatures who roam the streets in the night. As other comments in this thread have noted, many indigenous people didn't recognize outsiders as quite human upon initial contact.
This is all very speculative, though.