Comments on: ‘Look at me, Damien! It’s all for you!’ http://filmjournal.net/mike/2008/03/27/look-at-me-damien-its-all-for-you/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:13:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: The Big Whatsit » ‘I’ve always belonged to him!’ http://filmjournal.net/mike/2008/03/27/look-at-me-damien-its-all-for-you/#comment-17198 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:58:52 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/mike/2008/03/27/look-at-me-damien-its-all-for-you/#comment-17198 [...] How it stands up to grown-up viewings is an altogether different matter, of course. What stands out now is the total weakness of the story, which seems to exist only to bump people off in various imaginative ways. The psychological complexities of The Omen are non-existent in this instalment. For a start, Damo is now clearly Satan. Any ambiguity over his identity from the first episode is forgotten, as he learns how to get all Beelzebub on peoples’ ass, an early example of this being his ability to reduce the class bully to a gibbering wreck just be looking at him. Later, he demonstrates an encyclopaedic knowledge of history, proof of a diabolical presence if ever I’ve heard of one. [...] […] How it stands up to grown-up viewings is an altogether different matter, of course. What stands out now is the total weakness of the story, which seems to exist only to bump people off in various imaginative ways. The psychological complexities of The Omen are non-existent in this instalment. For a start, Damo is now clearly Satan. Any ambiguity over his identity from the first episode is forgotten, as he learns how to get all Beelzebub on peoples’ ass, an early example of this being his ability to reduce the class bully to a gibbering wreck just be looking at him. Later, he demonstrates an encyclopaedic knowledge of history, proof of a diabolical presence if ever I’ve heard of one. […]

]]> by: ‘I’ve always belonged to him!’ - The Big Whatsit - Films that make you go ‘Mmmm’ http://filmjournal.net/mike/2008/03/27/look-at-me-damien-its-all-for-you/#comment-16323 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:36:17 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/mike/2008/03/27/look-at-me-damien-its-all-for-you/#comment-16323 [...] ‘Look at me, Damien! It’s all for you!’ [...] […] ‘Look at me, Damien! It’s all for you!’ […]

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