Im sure you all wonder what the score by Beltrami is like, though you all don't like him very much
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Well, all I can say is that Jerry would be very happy with this. It's a fantastic score. And it is very different to the original score. So, it seems like Marco knows everybody will say it is not as good as the first one, no matter what he wrote, so at least he made it different, so you can't really compare the score, if you are fair. However the choir sings the same lyrics, but the orchestral stuff is totally different, very rhythmically. But it also has a beautiful theme for the family, which reminds you of Jerry's Piper theme as the instrumenation is pretty similar, but the theme itself is different. There is however one little cue which ends with 3 notes from Jerry's theme, which only we soundtrack geeks will catch I guess.
Then Marco did a suite of Jerry's music form the original OMEN for the end credits and boy, hearing that live was worth the trip alone. Not just putting a couple cues together from Jerry's score he rearranged the whole thing and made very modern little 5 minute symphony out of it which blows you away! Such a wild and modern approach to the omen-themes does Jerry truly justice. Im sure he would have liked that!
A lot of press-people were here over the days and even Dario Marianelli showed up yesterday.
The mood is a bit tense as they constantly change some stuff, be it the movie or the score. So I already saw a couple of different takes on the death scenes.
The movie itself looks great. Very stylish and Andy can be assured that you wouldn't think it is by the director of BEHIND ENEMY LINES. It doesn't have the usual music-video-director-flash-editing. It's done very oldschool. The acting is fine, the sets impressive. However, and I really don't know how to review when it comes out, they almost made a sshot for shot remake. There is almost not one single new idea. Only one more kill, some weird dream sequences, Mrs. Baylock's demise (Mia Farrow is cool!!!!) and the famous glas plate shot... the kills are mostly the same and as they were trying to get a pg-13-rating toned down, but then the mpaa said that no matter how tame, a movie about an evil child will get an r-rating (how silly is that?!), so they went all nuts with the spike and the glasplate. They both are spectacular. And the glas plate is something different now.. though it happens at the exact moment... I would have changed that... especially after 3 Final Destination movies you need some more surprise here. But Jenning's death now is really cool. I already saw it about 20 times and it gets better and better the more often you see it and can pay attention to the effects... let me just say how he falls down the stairs looks amazing...
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but how do you review a movie like this? I guess, I'd compare it to KING KONG: Very well done, worth watching, but ultimately absolutely not necessary as it didn't bring anything new to it. Just better effects or bigger budget doesn't justify a remake for me. Either you change a lot or you have an old movie which is for budgetary reasons or changes in time not watchable anymore and improve on it with effects and a modenr twist on it.
So, if you haven't seen the original omen Im sure you will like this remake, if you have you may like the actors and the style, but I can't really give you a reason why you should watch it. But well, we watch stage plays over the years again and again... maybe that's what remakes become now???
At least I can say the remake doesn't suck, it's one of the best remakes out there and at least they are trying to make it as good as possible and I'd say it is a good movie and has a great score!