Regardless of the fact that it's significantly worse than the original in so many ways, what was the point of remaking it? It's been awhile since I saw the old one but it seems to be, scene-for-scene, the exact same movie.
shareThis could be a reason. A few years before this I attempted to show the original to a house full of teen girls. There attention wandered and they blamed the dusty oldness as the cause. This 2000s version with cell phones and today's actors and actresses does the trick at making this pretty good story palatable for a modern audience.
shareyouth ahhhh, is wasted on the young :P
this remake sux eggs
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A very good point. Isn't the target audience for contemporary movies the 17-22 age range? Probably most in that group would not be familiar with the original, and as you say would not have "related" to it even if they were.
shareI had 1hr 45min to waste, so I decided to watch The Omen (2006).
It was terrible. I would have preferred to watch paint dry.
I heard a story about this on a screenwriting podcast. The writer of the original film had nothing to do with this. The producers hired screenwriters to write a new script, but in the end the WGA arbitration board decided the script didn't add anything significant to the original film, and so the original writer gets sole credit. So, really, what is the point?
shareliterally the same film with different actors.
but somehow far far far crappier production.
A crappy remake of a crappy film.
shareIf the original Omen was Thriller than this is Golimar where it's just a shameless copy and paste so it can make Thriller dollars.
A scene for scene remake is like doing a modern dress production of Hamlet.
It's terrible. But the #1 reason I would never watch it again is that it has a performance from the batshit crazy Mia Farrow .
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