Talk:The Omega Code

Needs Major Revision
I haven't seen this movie myself, however even a non-viewer can tell that the everything from the grammar to the POV writing in several place. Places such as the movie being "considered one of the worst movies ever" w/o providing so much as one citation to back this claim--and considering the wealth of bad movies available it seems ludicrous to assume that this one is the worst hands down--are obvious violations of the NPOV. I erased that part, however there are many other places in this article that require editing just to even become a trustworthy stub.Rocdahut 08:01, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

i don't get even the synopsis - can someone summarize this better? --84.129.129.14 (talk) 16:33, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

I must admit the synopsis isn't well written. Example: "The movie's plot begins in Jerusalem, where a Jewish rabbi is typing a code from the Bible onto his laptop computer." How many types of rabbis are there??

Very briefly, Stone Alexander (Michael York) is the supreme commander of the European Union, becomes world dictator, becomes possessed by Satan and turns into the Antichrist, demolishing the mosques on the Temple Mount to build a shrine to himself. He also uses a computer to somehow predict the future for him using "the Torah Code", supposedly finding messages deftly hidden in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. Oxenberg and Van Dien find out the truth about him and try to rally the remaining Christians (meaning Protestants) against York. At the very end, Satan abandons York's body, leaving York to die in defeat.

Two years later, possibly as a result of the lawsuit mentioned elsewhere, the sequel, Megiddo, was filmed, with Michael York again playing "Stone Alexander" -- and telling a story of the character's entire life - which somehow is a bit different from the first movie, but still has him as the Antichrist.

I committed reviews of both films in Epinions.com - the review of this film was titled "Doomsday Made Dull" and of the so-called sequel "It Can't Get Much WOrse" -- and you are invited to read them. Sussmanbern (talk) 06:41, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Lawsuit
I have found an article from Christianity Today (2000) that speaks of a $40 million lawsuit over the movie, yet there is no mention of this in the article. Prome theus -X303-  08:28, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Sylvia Fleener had written a novel, The Omega Syndrome, which was published a few years before work was begun on this movie. Although the characters' names and some other details were different, it was fairly obvious that the producers had essentially pirated her work for their storyline and without giving any credit (or royalties). She was even able to find members of the movie company who testified that the producers provided copies of her book to cast members to help them understand the script. The movie company finally settled the suit by paying her an undisclosed (but presumably substantial) sum. Considering that both her book and the movie were duds, she may have been the only person to have made much money from the whole thing. I suspect that the "sequel", Megiddo: Omega Code 2, was done - it's not really a sequel but a retelling, with considerable changes, of the same story - out of some fear that the lawsuit might result in having all prints of the first movie, The Omega Code, confiscated. Sussmanbern (talk) 06:51, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Too Long ? Excessively Detailed ?
Ummm. . ..

Though I'm not a fan of this movie (to put it mildly), I have to wonder how anyone could consider a blurb of about 850 - 900 words "too long"? The movies The Robe (1953) and The Ten Commandments (1956) each have over 2000 words devoted to plot summary. (Then again, the entry for The Greatest Story Ever Told has none at all!) Is there a hint of either cinematic elitism or anti-monotheism here? Not necessarily, but I think this film, its subject and its supporters ought to be given an even-handed treatment....

173.219.118.86 (talk) 04:53, 29 December 2011 (UTC)