The First Omen (2024)
Day 14 of Sobriety. When I heard that a new Omen movie was coming out, my first reaction was just to sigh and mentally relegate it to the ever-growing garbage heap of unnecessary and unwanted remakes and reboots, where it could fester together with the recent Halloween and Exorcist debacles. No way was I going to see it—ignoring is always the best option with these things. But then, gods forgive me, I started paying attention to the reviews, which were almost all positive. So, I paid my money, bought my popcorn, and sat in the theater with about ten other mugs—mostly very young people—on a rainy Monday night. I went in optimistic, and it had me at first. The opening scene was of a dialogue between two priests, played by The Witch star Ralph Ineson and his Game of Thrones co-star Charles Dance—two actors that I like. It was an effectively shot opening punch that was also a homage to the original 1976 film. Then the action shifted to beautifully shot 1971 Rome, accompan...