YMMV / The Omen (2006)

• Critical Dissonance: Mia Farrow acknowledges the iconic performance of Billie Whitelaw as the evil Mrs. Blaylock in the original. However, she does rightly point out that the original depiction was of an obviously sinister person from the very beginning and that it would be insane to hire this type of person as a nanny.
• Diagnosed by the Audience: In the original, Damien mostly comes across as a normal kid. However, in the remake, he's significantly creepier; in a different genre, viewers would assume he had some kind of developmental disorder. Oddly, his mother makes the leap there's something inherently evil about him rather than assuming he might have one of the disorders and getting him tested.
• Improved Second Attempt: Father Brennan's death came off as much better this time. He clearly didn't know the spike was coming as he didn't see it until half a second before it hit him.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Critics were quick to point out the 2006 remake, whilst far from terrible, was basically a scene for scene remake and didn't really do anything the original hadn't (the only significant changes story-wise being the time period, a few weird nightmare sequences, and the murder of Katherine). This came to the extent that, hilariously or not, the film's writer was denied a credit by the Writers Guild of America because they thought the script was too similar to the original.
• Moral Event Horizon: In this film, Damien's more overtly evil from the outset, but helping to kill off his mother is the definite point of no return.
• Narm:
  • The scene in Robert's nightmare in which the Orlok-esque priest drops an obvious doll of a dead baby.
  • At little Damien's birthday party, there's a puppet show being performed. Just before the nanny hangs herself, there's a brief shot of the two puppets turning to look at her.
• So Okay, It's Average: The general consensus from horror fans is that it's a decent flick with some good elements and a few of it's own strengths but does little to add to the original film and mostly just retreads the original.
• Special Effects Failure: Some of the death scenes are heavy in CGI, and not a particularly good example of such.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The film's soundtrack doesn't use the original (not to mention iconic) Jerry Goldsmith score. The new score by Marco Beltrami is very understated in comparison and for some critics fails to leave any noticeable impact at all.

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