OHMS (1980 TV Movie) User Reviews

Not a piece of "resistance", but an OK movie.

[wombat_1 · 7/10 · 14 June 2001]

A good representative of an "environment" movie of the 1980s, and of "the little people" against the "big bad corporations". Moves along very well, tells its moral, leaves quietly. Not a "signifcant" movie, nor a total waste of time: pleasantly entertaining. How the farmers made such a beautiful model of the cable tower in such a short time is a little difficult to believe; but hey, that's a minor point. The pun in the name of the movie is rather clever. You'll have to see the movie youself if you can't work it out from here.

This is the first time I ever saw Leslie Nielsen in a serious role; he was OK.

My brush with OHMS

[bronx_shadow27 · 13 November 2006]

I was part of this movie! I got to school and they called the band members to the band room. We got on a bus and ended up at the location where one of the scenes were being shot. We got to be part of the crowd along the street during a parade or something. It was really cool to be a part of a movie. Several scenes were shot around that area. That day, I got to meet.... Ralph Waite, Dixie Carter, Meridith Baxter-Birney, David Birney, Cameron Mitchell

Good memories. I wish I could see this movie again. It was on television, but I have never heard of it being on again since then. The movie was really good, and I'm not sure why it hasn't been released on DVD or video.

Oh my!, just how do those tree hugging weirdos from CA

[cmv32261 · 4/10 · 14 December 2013]

Oh my! just how do those tree hugging weirdos from CA protect themselves from all the electromagnetic energy there has to be emitted from the high voltage power lines crisscrossing across the state. More motor vehicles per capita in nation than any other state, hence the heavy, thick smog, as is the case with water the vast majority is piped in from some place else. In CA at least 98% of their electricity is piped in from AZ, or the Baja peninsula of Mexico, 14 yrs. ago there was part of the city of San Diego that was a Mobile phone dead zone, because the majority of the people residing in that part did not want to deface the pristine beauty of their neighborhood. I remember an article a few yrs. back where the spoiled, pompous elite of the Cape Cod/Nantucket Island/ Martha's Vineyard region of MA strongly protested against a power company erecting some electricity generating windmills to provide electricity less expensive than whatever means electricity was being provided at the time. As for the problem those who protest electricity generating windmills I have only heard complaints about the excessive noise, which in reality is most likely no worse than those disease carrying flying manure spreading Morning Doves, wake a person 2 hrs. before dawn, shame they do not have a way to lure them to a device like a bug zapper, accept these devices would produce enough of an electrical charge to vaporize all members of the pigeon family. Way more money than common sense, especially in CA, and communities like Greenwich Village, CT, Cape Cod/Nantucket Island/Martha's Vineyard, MA, Long Island, NY, etc.. Wralthy ranting about not being eco-friendly, always easier the larger King's Ransom you happen to be sitting on. Had this past Thursday's episode of Parenthood recorded to my DVR, had to scoff at this elderly couple in the apt. bldg. Sarah manages whining about how cold it was without any heat, what?, a frigid 55 degrees, then again the actress playing Sarah had arms wrapped around herself tightly Hello Hollywood Screen Writers, instead of trying to convince people across the nation of that which is no true come and visit the Frozen Tundra, that is northeastern WI, to be more precise 12 blocks south of Lambeau field.

Ohms means resistance.

[lightninboy · 8/10 · 6 May 2005]

Once upon a time, there was a Midwestern farming community named Freedom Plains. Everybody was happy there living off the fat of the land. Then one day a power company announced it was going to string a million-volt powerline over the top of it. The people didn't like the idea. But this is a modern industrialized society and powerlines are considered necessary, and the power company and the government wouldn't stop the powerline construction. The people sabotaged the construction. Somebody came up with a brilliant idea: they could construct a powerline tower over the Governor's house! Surely he would see things from their point of view then! Oh, will they construct it without getting caught? Oh, would the Governor indeed stop the powerline construction? Watch and find out, if you can ever find this movie. This movie captures the spirit of the 1970s Midwest at the county level. It was filmed in Ohio, but at about the same time, there was a similar situation near Lowry, Minnesota.