Okay, so we FINALLY got around to seeing The Omen.

Let's just say that The Omen is more fun with a Rottie in tow. The doubletakes are priceless.

Now, let us get on to the movie.

First, it felt like a weird time warp, with current events that will date the movie terribly in 5 years, mixed up with bizaare cultural references from 30 years ago. An uneasy, trippy sort of thing to sit and watch. On the up side, the movie had great visuals, a few boos, and some amusing 'in jokes'. Downside, well. It's the Omen. There's not much you can do to make that a decent story, other than have better special effects.

So let's just list, in no particular reason, things I noticed in the movie. Welcome to my world of adult ADD!

• Sign decapitations.
  
• Screaming monkeys.
  
• Bad poetry.
  
• Dying popes
  
• The World Trade Center.
  
• Burned nuns.
  
• The Prague Observatory.
  
• Graverobbing.
  
• Eutruscan cemetaries.
  
• Maternity wards.
  
• Rottweilers falling into holes.
  
• Every conceivable cliche about the son of the devil.
  
• The Indonesian tsunami.
  
• Jabs at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  
• Weirdly coincidental birthmarks.
  
• Suicidal nannies
  
• The Columbia accident.
  
• Big noses.
  
• Clergy impalements.
  
• Little brains.
  
• Comet 2001Q4 NEAT.
  
• Lethal pulmonary embolisms.
  
• Infants switched at birth.
  
• Sons of bitches.
  
• Cancer ridden, morphine shooting priests.
  
• Catholic astrologers.
  
• Jackal carcasses.
  
• Sexy monks.
  
• Where did all these American accents come from in London, anyway?
  
• Dead babies.
  
• Mangling of scripture.
  
• Drunken scholars.
  
• High speed motor vehicle vs pedestrian accidents.
  
• Unfortunate psychic children (see other movie reviews by myself here on the subject).
  
• Freaky looking members of the Vatican.
  
• Politician BBQs.
  
• Sledgehammer wielding governesses.
  
• Gratutitous use of the color red at every possible moment.
  

And so much more! Actually, the one thing that really bugged me the most was the guy that played Robert, Damien's dad. He just seemed out of synch with the rest of the movie, and man has he got a schnozz. It actually detracted from the movie every time he touched it, rubbed it, or snuffled against it...not pretty, that nose. Mia Farrow as the evil governess was hysterically funny, IMHO. So, definately worth the money to go see, if anything in the above list amuses you to no end. The only thing it's missing is a self flagellating albino!

CJ