It was my 1st scary movie too. I loved it since I was 7 and I'll keep loving it until the day I die. I know it's flawed and dated, but for me that's part of it's charm. For awhile in the 70's when things were kind of bleak in the world, this movie look like a prophesy as much as poetic. So do any of you have movies like these? Movies you loved as a child and still love to this day?
BOO-YEAH!
I saw this when it first aired on tv, but right after the garage attack sequence, my parents said it was too violent and made us go to bed. I believeI was 6 at the time. I was 12 the next time I was watching monster movie week in the Buffalo N.Y. area, which ran movies at 4pm, which was right about when I got home from school. There it was, this movie I always wanted to see again. I loved it. The music, machineguns, fast cars, motorcycles, the any truck, and the funky place with an elevator and a huge gun rack.
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms was another favorite, and anything that was on the Creature Double Feature on Saturday afternoons on channel 56 in Boston MA.
I use to love channel 56, it was like channel 9 from NYC. They would always show those great old movies. We had it on our cable sysyem for like a year and then one day it was suddenly gone. What a bummer.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.
It was one of the early films I can recall seeing in the theater, and I was 9.
As a child, some parents took a bunch of us cousins to see the movie and the mom driving us said the name of the film was [her pronunciation] "The Amiga Man" .. to me it sounded like "Amigo", so I thought it was some kind of Mexican or Western film.
I recall walking into the theater a little late, just in time to see Charlton Heston entering his garage and firing a round at the "mutants" and killing them. It was a powerful impression and I was hooked for the rest of the movie. I was a horror movie fan as a child too, so I never forgot THE OMEGA MAN and it remains one of my all-time cherished movies to this day.
That is almost what occurred with me, except on tv. The first time I saw it, I didn't remember much at all. So when I finally saw it again, I got home from a friend's house late. The movie started at 4, because the news back then used to come on at 6, so the movie had to end before that.
Anyways, I missed the first 10 or so minutes, and I came in where he left the theater, heard the phone ringing, then took off to his house. That opening scene with the garage was so intense it's been one of my most memorable movie scenes ever.
When I saw the film again after that, I was even more surprised how quickly the action started when he slammed the brakes on in the car and started firing his mg at the silhouette in the building windows.
When I was a kid there were 3 films that I had to be home to see, and I'd get mighty upset if I wasn't able to coerce my parents into getting me home on time: The Planet of the Apes, The Wizard of Oz, and The Omega Man. It was kind of nice back in the day when you couldn't just pop on any movie you like whenever you felt like it. It made the appearance on tv a special event.
shareccr, you and I must be around the same age, cause I'd have to say that those were my favs too.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
I first saw it when it came to tv & it scared the crap out of me. So much so that when I ran across it the next time, in 1997, I recognized it almost immediately from the scene in the beginning with trash blowing around in the street. I felt my sanity was vindicated because occasionally I would mention it to friends and none were familiar with it. I was beginning to think I had dreamed it
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