Hey Big Brother, How's Your Ass?

So about 4 years ago I was on the way to Bahrain to be in Paul and Ferlie's wedding. I had a layover in London and spent some time wandering around in the shopping mall that doubles as an airport at Heathrow. I picked up a book named I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. It's a great book about a man who is the last human, and is besieged in his home each night by vampires. He spends his days hunting them down. It inspired George Romero for his zombie movies, and countless other spinoffs as well.

I found out the Charleton Heston movie The Omega Man from 1971 was based on this book, and I put it on the Netflix queue many, many moons ago. My beautiful wife regularly bumps my movies down so she can get more chick flicks, but occasionally she forgets and I'm able to get a movie. This rare event happened this past week and "The Omega Man" was waiting for me when I got home one day from work.

I watched it last night, being in the mood for a scary, suspenseful movie, which I assumed it would be after reading the book. Man, I was wrong. It was a cheesy 70's movie. Almost none of the story from the book was left intact. The music was horrible, the acting was hammy, and nothing made any sense. I still enjoyed it, since it was late at night and the general goofiness of it made me laugh. Unless you're a big fan of Charleton Heston, skip the movie and grab the book. Hopefully someone will eventually made a faithful adaptation of it some day.