I was a kid, yes, saw Omega Man. Very good, but typical 70s “bad ending”. Think about it, all the movies back then, the good guy died at the end. I hated that...
But the hero dying at the end, and so passing into Legend, was the point of Matheson’s story. I think the earlier version, “The Last Man On Earth,” starring Vincent Price, made that point more clearly than “Omega Man”.
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Interesting “Omega Man” fun fact - it was the first movie that advertised itself through television commercials. (Funny what a person remembers)
Omega Man was a favorite of mine and some others when we were kids. Really liked the music.
>>I was a kid, yes, saw Omega Man. Very good, but typical 70s “bad ending”. Think about it, all the movies back then, the good guy died at the end. I hated that...<<
Did you notice that, after they used his blood to “save the world” and he died, he was in a position that looked like Jesus on the cross?