While watching them, I literally laughed out loud at a scene between Ambassador Robert Thorne (Liev Schreiber) and Father Brennan (Pete Postlethwaite). It sounds like Schreiber is trying to imitate the late great Gregory Peck (who played the same role in the 1976 version), and if that's the case, the movie will be pretty scary indeed. But not in any intentional sense, or the way the filmmakers are hoping, I'm sure.
While the screenwriter David Seltzer, also penned the original film, I doubt even his talents can save us from bad acting er um... imitating.
The Omen 2006 opens, of course, on Tuesday June 6th. Remakes are a frightening proposition indeed.
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Over a year ago, Biblical scholars discovered that 666 is NOT the "mark of the beast" See below:
Satanists will have to adjust their demonic numerology after a recently deciphered ancient biblical text revealed that 666 isn't the Number of the Beast. A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist.
Hey why pay attention to authentic religious info when you're marketing a movie - i.e. The DaVinci Code - but of course 616 just doesn't have the same evil 'ring' as 666. And I'll pass on the new one - it looks awful.
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