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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-05 (Friday)
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 10:25:47 -0700
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On 4/11/2024 12:08 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <uus8jp$2914c$1@dont-email.me>,
>   Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> 
>> The First Omen (theatrical) 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. 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.
> 
> I didn't like the explanation.
> 
> SPOILERS:
> 
> In the original OMEN, the turncoat clergy were portrayed as true
> believers, actual Satanists who worshipped Lucifer and were rejoicing at
> the birth of their 'savior'.
> 
> Here we find out they were just corrupt clergy, upset that young people
> were turning away from the church and thereby costing the church its
> power in society, so they 'created' the anti-Christ in some sort of
> weird quasi science experiment so he would wreak havoc on the earth and
> drive people back to the church again.
> 
> No, sir. I don't think I like it.
> 

Since it's a prequel I watched it first then the originals.  I had 
forgotten the church had anything to do with it.

> I did think the movie was well done and did a great job of creating an
> atmosphere of foreboding and evil lurking just around the next corner.
> 
> The lead actress was appealing and did a good job and I had the nagging
> impression I'd seen her somewhere before but her IMDb doesn't show her
> in anything I've ever seen. (And her name-- Nell Tiger Free-- just
> screams "Thanks mom and dad for being hippies when you had me. Wonderful
> name you picked there.")
> 
> I knew the roommate was a baddie from the moment she walked on screen

She wasn't really trying to hide it was she?  LOL

> and it didn't take much longer than that before I'd guessed that the
> troubled girl in the orphanage was just a red herring. (I did
> momentarily doubt myself when the 666 was revealed in her mouth, but it
> turns out I was right anyway.)
> 
> Loved how the moment it was revealed that the baby was a boy-- and
> therefore the anti-Christ they'd been waiting for-- Goldsmith's "Ave
> Satani" boldly took over the score.
> 
> All in all, it was a good movie except for the retcon about the church
> and, I suppose, the way it contradicted Damien's origins from the
> original movie, which clearly indicated his mother was a jackal, not a
> pretty novitiate.


Yeah, the jackal retcon became much more obvious when I watched the 
originals.