That's 665 more sequels than we needed
Jul. 20th, 2005 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiJust what the world needed: The Omen 666. It's apparently a remake of the original Omen (still a classic, even if it set Harlan Ellison off on a series of his most ludicrous rants ever in the LA Weekly), although presumably without Gregory Peck or Lee Remick (although wouldn't that be cool? I mean, even dead, they're both better than most of the folks who walk their way through today's lame horror flicks).
I can only hope this lives up to the high standards set by Children of the Corn 666.
I can only hope this lives up to the high standards set by Children of the Corn 666.
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Date: 2005-07-20 01:38 pm (UTC)I ask you...can Xtro 4 be far behind?...I think not...
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Date: 2005-07-20 01:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-07-20 04:47 pm (UTC)*snork* Yeah, and it's reprinted in all its splendor in An Edge in My Voice. He got all 'OMGWTF' because everyone in the theater laughed at David Warner's death scene. Hello? David Warner's death scene is funny. As are all the other elaborate celebrity deaths in the Omen flicks (and basically? That's pretty much all those movies are about). Ellison also didn't take into account that with a movie as pompously grim as The Omen, if you don't give 'em some laugh valve somewhere, they're gonna laugh where they can.
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Date: 2005-07-20 05:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-20 05:06 pm (UTC)Ellison's always fun to read, but I haven't taken him seriously since his infamous 'It Ain't Toontown' essay in Playboy, which justifably got slammed eight ways to Sunday by Gary Groth.
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Date: 2005-07-20 05:13 pm (UTC)Ah, Gary Groth. The only man on the planet who could actually hate Maggie Thompson.
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Date: 2005-07-20 05:25 pm (UTC)Stinking Pile of Crap That Ripped Off The First Movie Point For Point and Still ReekedThe Awakening"? They even made the antichrist, like, a girl in that movie. I think. I could only stand to pay attention so much...(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-20 05:27 pm (UTC)But it did star one of my childhood TV crushes, Faye Grant. Not enough to make it suck any less, I'm afraid.
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Date: 2005-07-20 05:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-07-20 06:10 pm (UTC)IMHO, Groth can be an elitist prick about comics, but at least he's backed it up for over 20 years now by losing money publishing the sort of comics he does believe in, rather than just sitting on the sidelines saying that everything blows. For that reason, when he talks, I listen — Fantagraphics has survived long past when anyone thought they would, publishing many of the most important talents in the field, so Groth has earned his prickdom, so to speak. (It still takes forever and a day to get anything shipped from them directly, though.)
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Date: 2005-07-21 02:00 pm (UTC)And yeah, I do give him full props for putting his money where his mouth is, and bringing out some amazing books. Doesn't make him any less of a prick, but at least he's a prick who's helped accomplish something good.
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Date: 2005-07-21 02:09 pm (UTC)The thing about Groth is that he isn't unilaterally opposed to superhero comics — he just prefers the ones he grew up on (which were admittedly peak work in the field — Kirby, Ditko, Jack Cole, C.C. Beck, etc.) I get the impression he would have a warmer view of superhero comics if (A) more of them were any good and (B) they weren't so corporatized now. I'm with him as far as the nostalgia thing — I'd rather read a stack of comics from the '70s than look through most of what's out there now.
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Date: 2005-07-21 09:29 pm (UTC)