![]() The truth is, I mostly create the synopses for people who want to write about the films but can’t remember some detail. So I hide the plot from those of you who don’t want to see it. It’s weird because no one ever says, “Don’t tell me how Romeo and Juliet ends!” Shakespeare himself tells you in the sixth line of the play, “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.” But I am nothing if not accommodating. My point is simply that of the four films supposedly based on the book, only the first was true to the sense of the book. Just the same, you can see in it why the novel was titled as it was with Vincent Price’s last line, “They were afraid of me.” Not as good as the book, but we don’t judge films against books. In particular, the film ends with an action scene and the book ends reflectively. This is not to say The Last Man on Earth is slavishly committed to the book. Yet the Will Smith monstrosity has the gall to call itself by the original novel’s title, even though it makes absolutely no sense given the narrative - even if it had ended with the much better director’s version. The Omega Man seems to be more the basis of the two 2007 films than anything that Matheson had in mind. ![]() The interesting thing about these three is that they stray far from the novel. Which would you rather watch? True to the Novel ![]() But so is Mark Dacascos.īut it didn’t have a redneck who keeps his dead friend around for company. There was nothing special about it, except that it had a star. ![]() It’s a perfectly acceptable Hollywood action/suspense film. But how could it not be? I mean, JR Bookwalter could have done that in an afternoon with pocket change. I thought the scene when he was looking for his dog (a minor shout out to the novel) was quite suspenseful. ![]()
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