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Remake Rematch: The Omen

It's devil vs devil, as Rorie commentates yet another bout of the old RR!

Video posted by JoeyF on Aug. 18, 2011

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Red12bon Aug. 18, 2011 at 5:04 a.m.
...put the dog down Damien  
 
What's with the random ending? 
Seedofpoweron Aug. 18, 2011 at 5:19 a.m.

@Red12b: It's Joey, dude. Every ending is random.

Red12bon Aug. 18, 2011 at 5:45 a.m.
@Seedofpower said:

@Red12b: It's Joey, dude. Every ending is random.

No I mean I always like the endings, but they usually have some sort of connection to the bit, but this one i mean.....what?
ObsideonDarmanon Aug. 18, 2011 at 6 a.m.
Yeah... this was Amazing. Great Work Joey. This proves without doubt that they shouldn't have made a new Film.  
 
It's not getting a great reception anyway. I hate how people don't mention the amazing score by Basil Poledouris, proud to own it on CD. 
Sharpshooteron Aug. 18, 2011 at 6:10 a.m.

I sense a theme going on here and not just with the Omen. Can't quite put my finger on it.

Great video either way guys. I do agree with decapitation choice. My favorite decapitation in cinema. There have been better looking ones and creepier one but this is still my favorite.

Trexotonon Aug. 18, 2011 at 6:21 a.m.

@Red12b: The ending is just Rorie doing his vocal exercises :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro_LMuIs3Ek As always, awesome job by both Joey and Rorie. Love these!

CyleMooreon Aug. 18, 2011 at 6:23 a.m.
You guys really are the best movie site out there.
TwoLineson Aug. 18, 2011 at 7:02 a.m.
Awesome job guys!
JayCeeon Aug. 18, 2011 at 7:03 a.m.
You know, if the priest just moved a foot to the right, he would have avoided that whole "getting impaled" thing...
Colonel_Furyon Aug. 18, 2011 at 7:04 a.m.

The original Omen was one of the most intense movies I've ever seen (around 12-13 years old at the time). That decapitation ... oh man.

Duck44on Aug. 18, 2011 at 7:55 a.m.

Original all the way...so many memorable scenes.

Mentoon Aug. 18, 2011 at 9:10 a.m.
Some really creative deaths (or deatjs... I guess) for an old movie. It works because it suggests that the Devil has to move in the same mysterious "was that divine intervention or just coincidence?" ways as the big G.
 
Making Death a sore loser in the FD movies makes slightly less sense. Unless Death's the one sending those kids the premonitions and then just killing them anyway because he's bored and has an odd sense of humor. He is supposed to be pretty grim after all.
Tuffgongon Aug. 18, 2011 at 9:26 a.m.

You know for the first time I have to disagree with a lot of the remake rematch choices here. The original nanny death wins for me because of its simplicity and specificity. The original decapitation looks so fake that I have a hard time even caring which makes the competently done remake version a default winner. Also how is forcing someone to receive an air embolism before their own eyes while muffled inferior to a boring hollywood fall off a building? Seriously the fall into the ambulance was so flaccid it looked like every other fall from every other action movie since then.

What makes the remake useless is the actor who plays the father. God I hate his face and everything about the way he looks and acts. Beyond that the Omen is such a 70s classic that Rorie's right, the remake is just a remake made for that 666 theater date. Nothing special or inventive about it.

coakroachon Aug. 18, 2011 at 9:53 a.m.
The 'J' and the 'H' key are just so close together 
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ZombiePieon Aug. 18, 2011 at 10 a.m.

@Tuffgong: For me at least it's just so disorienting how sockingly similar shot to shot the remake is to the original. So in my mind other than a few scenes like the hospital scene and Mia Farrow's performance it feels like lazy filmmaking. I think Mark Kermode of the BBC put it best in saying "John Moore's remake – while arguably better than its source – can't help but feel a bit stale."

Liondornokon Aug. 18, 2011 at 10:17 a.m.
Best Deatj of a Photographer.
csl316on Aug. 18, 2011 at 10:26 a.m.

Poor Human Torch can never catch a break.

Rorie staff on Aug. 18, 2011 at 10:53 a.m.

@ZombiePie: That might best describe my thoughts on it, too. It's a surprisingly watchable movie compared to the reviews it got; it just doesn't feel like it does anything new or interesting.

Nicholason Aug. 18, 2011 at 10:59 a.m.

@ObsideonDarman said:

Yeah... this was Amazing. Great Work Joey. This proves without doubt that they shouldn't have made a new Film. It's not getting a great reception anyway. I hate how people don't mention the amazing score by Basil Poledouris, proud to own it on CD.

You mean the late Jerry Goldsmith. He won an Academy Award for his score in The Omen.

ObsideonDarmanon Aug. 18, 2011 at 11:01 a.m.
@Nicholas: Sorry! I posted this in the wrong Video. I forgot to turn off the autoplay and it changed when I wasn't looking. I was watching the Conan Video at the time and then I watched this.
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