Remaking The Omen — a good idea?

This seems like such a terrible, redundant idea that it goes beyond terrible and right the way back round to AWESOME. Do you agree?

The boy playing Damien is called Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick. Someone on IMDB has posted a comment saying that this is "The most Irish name in the world".

i half-expected Sir Simon Milligan and manservant Hecubus to pop up in the corner of the screen ever few minutes to point when something EVIL! EVIL! was happening

Could have done without the cheap flash-frame/loud-squeal scares.

the Omen III monologue by Sam Neill is the best thing ever:

"Nazarene, charlatan, what can you offer humanity? Since the hour you vomited forth from the gaping wound of a woman, you have done nothing but drown man's soaring desires in a deluge of sanctimonious morality. You've inflamed the pubertal mind of youth with your repellent dogma of original sin. And now you absolve in denying them the ultimate joy beyond death by destroying me?

But you will fail, Nazarene, as you have always failed. We were both created in man's image, but while you were born of an impotent god, I was conceived of a jackal. Born of Satan, the desolate one. Your pain on the cross was but a splinter compared to the agony of my father.

Cast out of heaven, the fallen angel, banished, reviled. I will drive deeper the thorns into your rancid carcass, you profaner of vices. Cursed Nazarene. Satan, I will avenge thy torment, by destroying the Christ forever."

should be Profaner of Isis, not vices

also thought: OMen 2 is underrated

CURSED NAZARENE! SATAN, I WILL AVENGE THEY TORMENT

rewatched Omen 3. still have the same problems I always did with it. it has good, fun, scary moments. but then it just abruptly ends.

Damien is a Machiavellian demon who manages to anticipate things before they happen, uses his dog to possess people from miles away, dies because he doesn't bother to check his six.

also i'm not one of those plot Nazis but come on, in the first movie you said all seven daggers of Megiddo had to be used to kill Damien - one to extinguish his physical life, the other six to extinguish his spiritual life, and it had to form a cross and be done in a church etc etc....

and in the end....one stab with one dagger in the back is all it takes.

I found a box set of the Omen movies on the curb the other day, so of course I am working my way through them.

I had that same reaction to the daggers, of which it is clearly explained in both the first and second one that you have to use them all, in a certain order, in a church, etc. I would have been all, "wait, lemme write this down, OK so does it matter if I stab him in the chest or the back? Um, which one was the first one again? Do you have a Sharpie I could tag this with then?"

"it has to be done in a church"

Damien: DISCIPLES OF THE WATCH, please burn down all churches and cathedrals

I do stan for the first two though, and the current prequel is good even if I have some issues w/ it.

really thought the revive would be about this, which opened this week

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Omen

we talked a bit about it in the "shit pants horror" thread.

Overall I thought it was a solid B-plus. Nell Tiger Free gives an incredible performance, the atmosphere is legitimately unsettling, the cinematography is great, esp the distant shots of Italy, and generally a good time. has one bit of maddening fan-service, but only the one.

my main gripe is that it's sometimes too indebted to neatly fitting like a puzzle piece over the first movie. also...calling it The First Omen from here on out is going to make people think you're talking about 1976's The Omen. that's why I was so confused when my friend first told me about it.

"do you wanna go see The First OMen with me?"

"oh, Gregory Peck one?"

"no....the movie is called The First Omen"

Re: the first one and the remake, I've always thought that the image of the lightning rod-impaled priest would have been far too graphic for a reputable newspaper (the kind diplomats read) to print on their front page.