Fucking nothing is sacred. Hollywood needs to be stopped.

3/18/2006 10:36:27 PM

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/theomen/

3/19/2006 11:38:34 AM

DAMIEN THORNE

3/19/2006 11:55:54 AM

So each time I tried to watch that trailer, my norton anitvirus lit up to stop a worm virus

3/19/2006 12:20:53 PM

jesus christ they are ruining everything classic

3/19/2006 12:36:05 PM

Interesting.

I loved the old omen's. Better than the Exorcist series in my opinion.

3/19/2006 12:48:21 PM

i thought the trailer looked decent

http://www.theomenmovie.com/

4/24/2006 3:02:01 PM

GOOD CAST

4/24/2006 3:39:45 PM

see, I would say that the trailer makes the movie look like it will be good

but I've said that about a number of remakes over the past couple of years

and they all have sucked

thus, I believe this movie will be terribly made as well

4/24/2006 3:41:07 PM

HAHA IT COMES OUT ON 6/6/6

I SEE WHAT THEY DID THERE

4/24/2006 3:43:43 PM

DAYUM the trailer looks fucking true to the original like whoa.


looks good actually imo

4/24/2006 3:44:51 PM

They're just running out of ideas for movies, I think. So hey, let's do a remake of a movie people liked!

4/24/2006 4:15:51 PM

i liked the omen movies, except the last one. at the end you were like "what the fuck?"

4/24/2006 10:58:29 PM

i dont care how good it is...its retarded.

4/24/2006 11:04:29 PM

so i wonder how many christian groups will pick this or something

for the release date if nothing else

5/16/2006 11:49:01 AM

5/16/2006 12:29:47 PM

hank III is evil?

5/16/2006 12:35:11 PM

I suppose I should watch the orignals...

I can't figure the trailer out...towards the end I get the feeling this could become a "there's no plot, we're just trying to scare people" type movie.

5/16/2006 1:19:03 PM

Hank III is a satanist, and is a member of metal band Superjoint Ritual with singer Phil Anselmo.

5/16/2006 1:37:04 PM

I thought it was 666

Not 662006

5/16/2006 1:43:18 PM

I just think its funny that Julia Stiles has officially gone from teenage chick flick to playing a momma .

I didnt really like the original that much, but I couldnt help but roll my eyes when I saw the trailer (hadnt heard of it before) and realized it was another remake.

5/16/2006 3:47:16 PM

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""there's no plot, we're just trying to scare people" "

[NO]

5/16/2006 4:07:18 PM

^ Your post doesn't compute.

I'm saying Hollywood has a track record of doing this, and the trailer gives me that feeling.

[YES]

5/16/2006 4:23:01 PM

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"I thought it was 666 Not 662006"

yeah, but they're not gonna start actually showing it until 7:06

which is, you know, like 6:66!!!!

5/19/2006 3:11:03 AM

I think this looks pretty good. I hope they don't cut out a bunch of the classic gore scenes, like where you see the Nanny hanging off of the roof, and where the dog goes crazy and shit and where the priest gets impaled by the church steeple.

However, in the trailer, the digital-looking gorillas were disappointing. I thought it'd be cooler. I love it how Mia Farrow is in this - Rosemary's Baby is one of my favorite films and I can't wait to see how she does in this.

Now let's just hope they don't remake The Exorcist (the original one).

6/4/2006 4:11:56 PM

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"^ Your post doesn't compute. I'm saying Hollywood has a track record of doing this, and the trailer gives me that feeling. [YES] "

how can you say there is no plot, it is a remake, and there is no question that the original had a plot and this looks pretty damn similar to the original.

^nah they aren't cutting out the hanging nanny, that's in the trailer...

3 fresh, 4 rotten so far on RT. no cream of the crop reviews yet.

[Edited on June 4, 2006 at 5:01 PM. Reason : fhds]

6/4/2006 4:54:27 PM

i hate julia fucking styles.

6/4/2006 5:30:06 PM

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"nah they aren't cutting out the hanging nanny, that's in the trailer..."

oh yeah i mean i saw her jump and all, i just didn't know if they'd show her hanging from the roof like in the original.

6/4/2006 11:41:12 PM

that's my birthday...

6/5/2006 4:25:54 PM

saw it tonight

one of the worst movies that i have ever seen

at several points the entire theater was laughing at the horribly cheesy death scenes

damn women and their inate ability to make guys see bad movies

6/7/2006 3:17:29 AM

have you seen the original?

[Edited on June 7, 2006 at 3:31 AM. Reason : my guess is no]

6/7/2006 3:26:58 AM

yep

6/7/2006 3:36:24 AM

wow, ebert and roeper said it was incredibly faithful to the original, or however you say that

[Edited on June 7, 2006 at 3:38 AM. Reason : fdjs]

[Edited on June 7, 2006 at 3:39 AM. Reason : or did you not like the original either]

6/7/2006 3:38:40 AM

I may wait for the $1.50 for that one.

6/7/2006 7:59:05 AM

It wasn't THAT bad. Of course i didn't pay for it. I got in free at mission valley for a G105 thing.

The plot was good, the acting was pretty shitty. They should have chosen different actors. Neither actor could express emotion well.

Now honestly the movie was bad? Please. The air bubble, the crazy bitch with the sledge hammer at the end?... and the graveyard attack by dogs? Cmon... that scene alone scared the shit out of everyone in the theater.

6/7/2006 10:26:56 AM

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"Review: Why mess with 'The Omen'? Tuesday, June 6, 2006; Posted: 11:33 p.m. EDT (03:33 GMT) (AP) -- All remakes are needless, but this update of "The Omen" is especially so. Not only was there nothing wrong with the 1976 horror classic, in which the Antichrist wreaks havoc on Earth as an innocent-looking 5-year-old boy, but the original stands as one of the most frightening movies. Ever. It's so ingrained in our pop culture, all you have to do is say the name Damien and everyone instantly knows you're talking about a demonic child. So why mess with it? Thirty years later, the makers of "The Omen" barely have. They're exceedingly faithful to the original -- too much, actually -- including having "Omen" screenwriter David Seltzer return to tweak his own script. It's not a shot-for-shot remake like Gus Van Sant's pointless "Psycho" from 1998, but it's close. The structure, characters, setting, events, giant chunks of dialogue -- all the same. One can only assume the intention was to appease the purists, but in doing so, director John Moore ("Behind Enemy Lines") has breathed no new life into the material. Tiny changes here and there inevitably contemporize the film. It takes place in the modern day, so the characters have cell phones. When Julia Stiles -- filling in for Lee Remick as Damien's unsuspecting mother -- begins to think there's something wrong with her child, she immediately goes into therapy. And Liev Schreiber -- standing in for Gregory Peck as the father who surreptitiously brings the demon spawn into their lives -- cries way more than Peck ever would have dreamed. Peck's Robert Thorn choked up a little when he learned his wife had died, but mostly he held it together; here, as troubles mount, Schreiber is wiping away tears half the time. It's the sensitive-man remake of "The Omen." But in the most feeble effort at modernizing the material, this "Omen" vaguely attempts to be politically relevant. A montage of photographs at the start suggests that the devil is everywhere, all the time -- on September 11, at Abu Ghraib, etc. -- and we just don't know it. The visit to an ancient biblical city toward the end of the film features flashes of flags, both Israeli and Palestinian. Such references feel tossed in. More importantly, though, it isn't even scary. It's so similar to the original that we already know what's coming. And because it adheres so closely, it only serves as a reminder of the superiority of Richard Donner's original. Robert, an ambassador in Rome, agrees to take a newborn whose mother has died during childbirth because his own newborn is dead, unbeknownst to wife Kate. The ends justify the means, he tells himself, and besides, Kate has taken to the boy instantly. Flash forward five years as Robert moves his family to London. Soon, the nanny hangs herself in front of dozens of shocked guests at Damien's birthday party (and even says the same thing beforehand as the nanny in the original). A creepy priest (Pete Postlethwaite) stalks Robert with warnings that the boy is the devil's son and talk of Armageddon. A photographer (David Thewlis) notices eerie shadows in a series of pictures that end up being prescient. And from there you know the rest of the story: death, destruction, mayhem, all of which Damien delivers with a gleam in his eye and a smile on his face. (No offense to young Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick in his first film role, but the original Damien, Harvey Stephens, accomplished more with less to say.) Having said all that, there are some solid performances here. Schreiber is as versatile and esteemed an actor as you could wish for, and he certainly carries himself with enough gravitas for the role. Stiles, meanwhile, always exudes a maturity beyond her years but looks too young here; the 13-year age difference between her and Schreiber feels more like a chasm. Thank heaven for Mia Farrow -- the "Rosemary's Baby" star returning to supernatural territory -- as the satanic disciple sent to protect Damien by posing as a replacement nanny. This is a rare instance of the new "Omen" improving on the old one. Instead of oozing menace and doom from the second she appears on screen, as her predecessor did, Farrow is all fair-haired sweetness and light, with that girlish voice and angelic presence. It's the scariest part of the whole movie. "The Omen," a 20th Century Fox release, is rated R for disturbing violent content, graphic images and some language. Running time: 110 minutes. Two stars out of four."

6/7/2006 10:50:42 AM

I didn't think the original was that scary.
I like it a lot, but it's not too scary.
Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist are good, but not scary.

What are some REALLY scary movies?
I don't want any of that Japanese hair monster ghost shit either...

6/7/2006 10:52:40 AM

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"The plot was good, the acting was pretty shitty."

The acting pissed me off the most because I really like all of the actors that were in it. But then afterwards I realized for the first time that I have never seen a good Julia Stiles movie.

Quote :

"Now honestly the movie was bad?"

The impaling and the decapitation scenes had the entire theater LOLing.

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"crazy bitch with the sledge hammer at the end?"

Laughed my ass off.

Of course I now have the urge to hang out in the maternity ward at Rex dressed as a priest and screaming at parents "Its not your son! It was born of a jackal! You must kill it to save your wife!"

6/7/2006 3:40:14 PM

it was very entertaining to say the least.

6/10/2006 8:26:30 PM

holy shit this movie sucked massive balls

6/11/2006 12:37:37 AM

^^you have got to be shitting me



this was one of the worst movies i've ever seen.

6/11/2006 2:41:44 AM

i didn't say it was entertaining because it was good, now did I?


after the wife hit the floor from the fall, when everything was silent, this guy in the back yells out "OHH MAH GAWD!!!!!!"


among other things.

this one lame guy went out and got the theater people because of all the laughter and chatter.



it was incredibly entertaining, mostly unintentionally

[Edited on June 11, 2006 at 3:08 AM. Reason : fhds]

6/11/2006 2:59:45 AM

^oh, gotcha. my theater was equally entertaining. one person was like "OH LAWD I SHIT MY PANTS!" when one of those scenes happened that was supposed to startle us.

6/11/2006 11:46:08 AM

I saw this shit today, and having never heard much about the movie, nor seeing the original, I thought this movie sucked on massive balls.

It was fucking horrible.

6/22/2006 10:15:15 PM

random SWAT team at the end? lame.

6/23/2006 2:42:35 PM

yeah it was just a few cops in the original iirc, which was more reasonable

[Edited on June 24, 2006 at 3:50 PM. Reason : hu]

6/24/2006 3:50:20 PM

just got back from this moive. couldn't help but laugh through most of it. one thing it does well is startle you with a couple of cuts, but nothing i would call suspensfull by any means. we especially couldn't stop laughing at the drawing of the nanny hanging herself on the wall in damien's room.

6/25/2006 1:01:53 AM

hahaha yeah i saw that, then it wasn't in the next scene one time....

6/25/2006 1:09:02 AM

ok bad movie but what happend at the beggining with the real baby? why did they kill her baby and save damion? were the priests and nuns int he hospital crooked/trying to help damian or did they mistake the other baby for the antichrist? why did the one priest have the 666 brand on his leg?

also the all white bathroom scenes were fuckign sweet. the white gives a more startling effect to teh scene. gg on that as being the only good part. julia stiles though? are you kidding me? she is impossible to take serious as a mother after the billion teen movies shes been in.

damien didnt do shit teh whole movie the nanny did all the dirty work and that dog made the other one hang. the lamest part of the whole movie was the final destination pictures show how youre gonna die ripoff. it was lame in final dest and was lame in here, had nothing to do with damien. random shit falling killing people is only acceptable in final destination and it is still semi lame in there.

the old omen movie with the girl was the best.

8/10/2006 11:13:37 PM

set em up

8/10/2006 11:15:09 PM