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From: Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-05 (Friday)
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:29:46 -0400
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BTR1701 wrote:

> In article <uvbube$2ggcq$1@dont-email.me>,
>  Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The girlfriend actually went with me to see it, even
> though she absolutely hates any horror movie about
> possession or the devil.
> 
> I was getting ready to leave and she was like, hang on, I
> want to go. I was dubious. I said she would hate it and
> that this sort of thing freaks her out and she said she'd
> deal with it, she just didn't feel like staying in alone
> all night. So she went. And of course she was as freaked
> out as I knew she'd be, Digging her nails into my arm
> every five minutes, and just generally being miserable.
> 
> After it was over and we were back in the car, I found out
> that her misery and any subsequent nightmare she would
> have were was all my fault. Apparently I should have more
> forcefully insisted she stay at home and since I didn't,
> I'm to blame for everything.
> 
> <sigh>

Sounds fair to me.

Nyssa, who doesn't like extreme horror movies either