Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 20:23:19 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-05 (Friday) References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 13:31:38 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 38 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-ZWoVH4IF4SRYBbFFNs7hVN1KsYWoTFtJQSkcdlc9f6YeQvbwcizf2NgbB+EkKiSrfG/oJ+Z+pEuIOSq!eN1qUkMTqX0UmTHEve5tk3sbaxF5nIiUOXOfT/QcJ7O/kRuixMEOhY9w4du6WTo16AT21ENzk2jz!Yn/hD/q4xve1bcWenzjdgUE= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2494 In article , Arthur Lipscomb wrote: > > On 4/6/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote: > > > >> What did you watch? > The First Omen (theatrical) I'll probably see this sometime next week. The girlfriend refuses to go anywhere near this kind of horror movie, so it'll be a solo viewing for me. > New horror movie that is a direct prequel to the 1976 "The Omen." It is > set in Rome in 1971 and tells the backstory behind where "Damien" came > from. I thought the first movie made it clear that the antiChrist was born of a jackal and substituted for the Thorn's real child, which was then killed and buried. I still remember the pome: When the Jews return to Zion and a comet fills the sky, And the Holy Roman Empire rises, then you and I must die. From the eternal sea he rises, creating armies on either shore, Turning man against his brother, until man exists no more. > While it seems a bit of a retcon I guess it can be said the movie is > clarifying details that were only guessed or assumed before. But it does > at least make it clear why/how priests and nuns had Damien in the first > place at the start of the 1976 movie and they knew *exactly* what they > had and what they were doing. "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, and disciples of the Beast, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ." --2 Corinthians 11:13