Saw it last night, not even being really stoned helped. The movie derives all its "scares" from shock moments, like "Holy crap, a dog just jumped on his back in an otherwise silent graveyard!" Every single scary moment was that style and it got to where you could see them coming. None of the acting is noteworthy and I haven't seen the original (for shame, I'm sure) but the plot could use some work. So...the priests in that hospital, men of god, supposed to be protecting man from evil, willingly and knowingly give Whathisname and Julia Stiles a demon baby born from a jackal then bash their actual kid's skull in? Huh? And Damien ends up as the president's surrogate son because Whathisname was the president's godson? Whaut?
I imagine they are hoping to do two sequels just like the original Omen had. The Omen story arch ends with Damien becoming President.
For the record, the original Omen movie is great, but its sequels are kinda iffy, especially Omen III.
Wait, really? I haven't seen the Omen sequels, but el president sounds most excellent in an awesomely bad way. Is it like when Lex Luthor was president? Or Martin Sheen (Dead Zone, not West Wing).
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Dr. Jeebus
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Posted:
Jun 25 2006 12:40 am
Just wanted to say that if you hadn't mentioned Luthor, Tebor, I would have, so props to you for beating me to the punch.
