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Video artist Anthony Discenza has made a Heston megamix "Charlton Heston: The Future has Already Been Written," a movie-length video collage of the actor's most depressingly futuristic films all spliced over each other. Says Discenza of the above footage: More »
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Science fiction has rocked cinemas for a century, and the genre has produced many undisputed classics during that time. But which movies are essential viewing for anyone interested in the genre? We broke down the 25 must-watch science fiction films. More »
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If you hadn't heard the news by now, Charlton Heston passed away Saturday night at the grand old age of 84. His broad-shouldered, square-jawed, teeth-gritting acting style launched historical characters from Moses to Judah Ben-Hur, but we were more fixated on his body of science fiction work, which was considerable as you can see from our breakdown. Hopefully people around the world will be shouting "Get your stinking paws off me!" or "Soylent Green is people!" as a sign of mourning. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=376894&view=rss&microfeed=true Plague-ridden mutants try to talk Charlton Heston to death in The Omega Man, the template for I Am Legend, which opens today. In Omega, if the disease doesn't kill you, it turns you into a luddite religious nut who enjoys call-and-response crap. But as this crucifixion scene illustrates, the choice in Omega isn't between religion and science, because Charlton Heston is Jesus. This scene, by itself, is enough to give you a flavor of Omega and make you glad the mutants in Legend keep their yaps shut. [SciFi review] More »
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Long before Charlton Heston was strutting his stuff as the gun-toting president of the National Rifle Association, he was lending his iron-jawed profile to films The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur. However, he is cemented in the minds of millions of movie fans as the face of the human race in 1968's The Planet of the Apes. The success of this film led Heston into other, equally cheesy, scifi movies. Take a tour of his late 1960s/early 70s flirtation with scifi after the jump, including his own take on I Am Legend. More »
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You probably have some vague notion that the new Will Smith viral apocalypse flick I Am Legend is based on another movie from 1971 called Omega Man. But actually both of those movies were based on a dark, angry book called I Am Legend, published in 1954 by Richard Matheson. And before Charlton Heston gunned down white-faced cultists with his blaxploitation honey on a motorcycle, there was another long-forgotten movie version of Mathesons' book whose grim quietness may have influenced I Am Legend more than Omega. There are some strange twists in I Am Legend's half-century of history after the jump. More »
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Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. More »
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