regarding fear

Brave men fear all, and conquer all fear; for one cannot conquer that which he does not fear, and cannot fear that which he cannot conquer.
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Inspired by the ponderings of a friend.

The Omega Man, movie review

Short version: It sucked!
In the long version I'm going to emphasize why it sucked, tough after watching it, you don't really feel like it. I'm just bored and I like post-apocalyptic movies, so I guess I had high hopes for it.
Here we go.
************** Spoilers!
The movie starts out quite promising, with our main character driving in a convertible in a supposedly abandoned town. Though this impression isn't very well shown, we do need to keep in mind that it's a 1971 movie.
But, that nice calm picture is suddenly f****d up when the actor gets up and fires his tiny SMG at a shadowy figure which quickly disappears.
Ok, so that's a minor thing you would say, but the whole movie, as you watch it, starts to bear resemblance with The Last Man on Earth. When the weird "family" members first appear, all vampiric in their ways, and also not very bright, the coin really drops down the shaft, with that oh-so familiar ca-ching sound.
The story is also told very badly, using flashbacks. Very badly done flashbacks. There was one scene, a helicopter scene, in which the damn thing was supposed to be crashing, and you can clearly see the reflection of immobile trees in the window. It was quite funny actually, as the actor was trying to be as dramatic as he could about it.
Then the movie goes about the characters' daily routines, as he would change clothes in abandoned shops, as he would swap cars like old newspapers, etc.. Now this part of the movie if quite nice, but it ends too quickly with a pew-pew scene in which 3 of the "family" vampiric guys get shot trying to kill our hero. Of course, they fail by a few wooden-bat swings, because they did not believe in technology. At one point they resume to a flaming-ball throwing catapult, and again fail and get scarred off by a few sniper rifle shots.
Then, in a true non-liniar fashion, a vampire dude tries to kill the character, interupting him just before he could kiss the woman of the movie, and thus having him rush down to deal with the problem, and leaving her with the tiny SMG. Of course, the vampire dude cheats and has a pistol, but misses after firing about 3 shots. The falling scene and pale red fake blood was pretty nice though.
Nothing really bad until this point. Sure, the movie is more like a remake after the above mentioned 1964 motion picture, sure, it has lots only cliche moments in it, and a few inexplicable situations regarding how and why did that virus spread worldwide, but it didn't affect a group of kids [they said it didn't affect younger people, and I doubt there were only under 20 kids in the whole city].

And now, about the ending. Also, by this point you should know that the hero dies in one way or another, because that's what happened in the old 1964 movie. And, surprise! He does die, after dodging dozens of angry vampiric guys and their oh-so middle-aged weapons. He dies after a "Heads up!" warning from the main bad guy, impaled by a thrown spear from about 3 stories high.
We again see the fake pale blood, and one of the worst dying scenes in Hollywood history. He manages to pull the spear just after getting hit. Amazingly it got only an inch or so in, but it stood in there like it pierced to the other side. "Ah well, he might be okay afterall." - you think, and he is. The bad vampiric-guys leave him there, as if they knew he would eventually die.
Then, the next morning (because all of the impaling took place just before dawn), the band of kids find him, and manage to get the oh-so famous final words from him before he bit the dust. They also got a chunky vial of serum. Now at this point I'm thinking that those kids will grow up and f**k like crazy to repopulate the Earth, but that's just me. Most of you were just impressed by how translucent the red serum was, and how translucent the red water was. [the hero died in a water fountain, waist deep in pale-red bloody water]
Then the movie ends.
Did I say that it sucked? Oh wait, I did. :)
Oh, and what's up with the big round thingy on top of the sniper rifle? [we're supposed to think it's for night vision, but c'mon, you could eat soup from that thing]

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I've been postponing this for a while now. Finally today I got the time, and courage, to create and upload my first video to YouTube. Yay!

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