I forgot completely to write about this.  Since we had more spare time this weekend than we had planned on, we sat down together and watched it.  This was the original movie, with Gregory Peck and Lee Remick.  It has actually stood the test of time pretty well, and was still a somewhat scary movie (the kids thought it was scarier than Alien.  Go figure.) 

Funny, though, to see the bonus features and realize that many of the people responsible for the movie honestly viewed it as a religious story, a cautionary tale, and took it quite seriously.  Hmmm.  I’m finding it more and more difficult these days to take anything Biblical very seriously, so this was even more bizarre to me.  I had no desire, really, to see the remake after my initial enthusiasm, since I couldn’t go with my friend Trey, who’d accompanied me to all three of the original Omen flicks.  Now I’m thinking about it, if nothing else, to see if the motives behind its contributors are in any way similar, or whether they come right out and say “It’s cheap to make sequels and remakes and we wanted a lot of money.”