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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:36 pm
by Lino
Fox UK are promoting their own
Omen Collection in a very
ridiculous way.
Pentagram Collection would have been more fitting. Apart from that, there is definitely a confirmation that the rest of the films are also getting the Remastering treatment, which bodes well for its R1 counterparts.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:30 pm
by Mr Sausage
DVD Times wrote:Each of the above films is also included in the The Omen Pentology
Pentology? Seriously? Not only is this not a word, and not only is it twice as silly as that neologism "quadrilogy" they used instead of tetralogy on the Alien pack, but "pent" means "five," and given there are only four Omen films, why the hell haven't Fox fired their marketing department?
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:50 pm
by Lino
OMG! Just look at the
artwork for the UK set! They are really forcing people to go for the R1 -- first, a stupid name and
then an embarrasingly looking box! This one looks like a joke!
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:50 pm
by Lino
Has anyone bought the new R1 set, The Omen Collection, and could perhaps confirm if there are new transfers for Omen II and III (and IV, for that matter)?
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:38 pm
by Fletch F. Fletch
I recently suffered through the gahd-awful remake. Avoid at your own peril. What a waste of time and money. Let's see what went wrong...
Big surprise, the new film deviates little from the original and so we have the nanny who hangs herself at Damien's birthday party except that she doesn't go smashing through a window, she just thuds against a wall.
On the positive side, David Thewlis plays the David Warner role as the omnipresent photographer. Another inspired bit of casting that is completed wasted in the movie is Mia Farrow as the evil nanny who schools Damien in the dark arts. Of course, she is meant to evoke Rosemary's Baby but instead you start thinking about how much better that movie is than this one.
There is no chemistry between Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles. It feels like they're just phoning it in with listless line readings. Stiles, in particular, doesn't even sound like she's involved in the role (too busy cashing the paycheck I guess). Instead of bothering to care about their disintegrating relationship, I found myself admiring the pillows on the Thorn's living room sofa. Hell, there is more chemistry between Schreiber and Thewlis when they go back to Italy and trace Damien's inception than between Schreiber and Stiles.
Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick is terribly miscast as a strictly blandy McPlain wrap Damien. There is no menace behind his eyes, like with the original child (played so well by Harvey Stephens) – he's too cute and cuddly. And his “menacingâ€