The Omen Trilogy Boxset (Blu-ray)-uk

[LemonadeMan]

So I just bought this at bargain price from Amazon and popped in the discs to watch tonight via the PS4 and literally can't get past the main menu!

It's like there's no 'cursor' for want to better word to select the available options, including 'Play'!

[LemonadeMan]

Anybody?

[Bumblefeet]

I recently bought the trilogy set but I don't own a PS4. I did use to own a PS3 but I sold it. My advice would be to check and see if your Playstation is updated to the latest firmware and try to use the player menu from the playstation to see if you can activate the movie or skip forward to it. If it's happening on all 3 discs it's definitely a firmware problem.

[LemonadeMan]

Omen 1 plays absolutely fine so it's only an issue with 2 and 3. And sadly there's no way to get it to activate the movies without that menu functioning.

[Bumblefeet]

Originally Posted by LemonadeMan

Omen 1 plays absolutely fine so it's only an issue with 2 and 3. And sadly there's no way to get it to activate the movies without that menu functioning.

That's odd. Is there any way to install a different blu-ray player app onto the PS4 via their store? It could be that the software the PS4 uses doesn't recognise the commands on those blu-rays properly.

[bigeviljimmy]

Hi mate i figured it out on the ps4 pad go into the control panel and select top menu and it brings up 666 around the play button

[justwannaboogie]

What are the chances of a UK label releasing the new Scream Factory remasters in their own set?

[Ill_Be_Back]

Originally Posted by justwannaboogie

What are the chances of a UK label releasing the new Scream Factory remasters in their own set?

Probably zero. It was a Fox title now owned by Disney...

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by justwannaboogie

What are the chances of a UK label releasing the new Scream Factory remasters in their own set?

I believe Scream only remastered the first film. The others are still the old masters, probably re-encoded.

[gerry d]

I bought the Scream Factory boxset recently.I’ve always liked the first 2 films.Omen III i’ve only seen once & i wasn’t that keen on it but i’ll give it another try.I’ve never seen Omen IV which i believe was a tv movie & i’ve never seen the Omen reboot.

[Dickieduvet]

There is a complete collection available from Italy, it has the new remaster of the original and most of if not all of the new extras.

https://www.amazon.it/The-Omen-Film-...A11IL2PNWYJU7H

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[Aclea]

Originally Posted by gerry d

I’ve never seen Omen IV which i believe was a tv movie & i’ve never seen the Omen reboot.

If only I could say the same...

[gerry d]

Originally Posted by Aclea

If only I could say the same...

I take it both are pretty bad?

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by gerry d

I take it both are pretty bad?

Skipping the short-lived in-name-only The Omen TV series in the presumed hope that people will forget it ever existed, Omen IV: The Awakening is a strikingly inept TV movie that’s particularly bad but sadly not laughably so (though the spinning inverted crosses and some incompetently staged carnage at a psychic fair do provide a couple of smirks). This time round it’s a little girl who’s adopted by a politician and his wife, but despite one psychic claiming “This is the aura of a Borgia, not a little girl!” she’s more bratty than demonic - Damien wouldn’t have had to whack a bully with a lunchpail. Cue some half-hearted killings, absurd plot twists and new age crystal guff replacing the Apocalyptic scriptures of the original trilogy, all rendered even worse by an almost uniformly dreadful cast. Michael Learned adds some much needed competence as a private eye, elevating the film at least to the level of mediocrity whenever he’s on screen by the simple expedient of being the only cast member who can actually act.

As with Mike Hodges and Damien: Omen II, once again the original director (Dominique Othenin-Girard) got fired for being too tardy and – bizarrely - for wanting to make the film more horrific (it was finished by Jorge Montesi, whose priority seems to be keeping it on budget and on schedule no matter how tedious the results). Certainly the film’s most effective scene is Othenin-Girard’s work, a striking moment where decaying Christmas carollers appear singing the lyrics to Goldsmith’s Ave Satani before one character meets their spectacular end. Perhaps the most horrific thing about the resulting TV movie is how atrociously overscored it all is by Jonathan Scheffer, channelling late Bernard Herrmann more than Jerry Goldsmith’s original themes and throwing in some bizarre circus music cues as if he was holding a fire sale of old comedy scores. Bad in the worst way.



For the first reel or so the 2006 remake of The Omen looks like a fairly promising reworking of the original, throwing in a few new spins and a better exit for the incumbent ambassador to Great Britain than Damien’s last big screen outing managed. But while it initially appears better than serial remaker John Moore’s dire Flight of the Phoenix, things start to go wrong with the first nanny’s exit, which seems purely arbitrary here: where the original briefly established a moment of maternal jealousy that could be interpreted as a threat, here the poor girl doesn’t even get a proper establishing shot. Unfortunately it’s all too symptomatic of the way he doesn’t take the time to establish atmosphere or construct a decent setpiece. Where Richard Donner went all-out to elevate the material in the original with a strong visual sense and a dedication to verisimilitude, Moore directs without flair or panache, something the grotty cinematography merely underlines. By the half hour point it feels like you’re watching a film made by slave labor in one of Stalin’s work camps, soullessly meeting a quota of footage to meet the 6/6/6 release date and earn their meagre portion of cold cabbage soup.

The casting veers between the dismal and the catastrophic. Both Damien and the dog are horribly miscast - neither has an iota of menace, which means the supporting cast need to work overtime to make up for lost ground. They don’t.

Liv Schreiber seems to visibly lose the will to live as the film progresses, starting off well enough but gradually giving the impression of someone who’s been sentenced to six months of community service remaking 70s horror movies, while Julia Stiles, a woman tragically born without a profile, looks like someone waiting forlornly for a phone call from their lawyer telling them they’ve got her out of her contract and she doesn’t have to come in for work tomorrow. The supporting cast fares no better. Mia Farrow proves disastrous gimmick casting, completely lacking in authority or menace in the Billie Whitelaw Scary Poppins role, Pete Posthlethwaite looks more like a man reminding Schreiber to pick up the laundry on the way home than a guilt-wracked lost soul as the priest, Michael Gambon just clumsily takes the piss playing Bugenhagen as the drunken Father Jack from Father Ted (you almost expect him to cry out “Drink! Feck!! Arse!!! Gurrrls!!!! AntiChroist!!!!!”) while David Thewlis’ paparazzi comes across as an extremely bored man who hasn’t had enough sleep repeating his alibi to the police for the 50th time. When going through the ominous photos, he might just as well be going through the holiday snaps he took that didn’t really come out properly for all the enthusiasm he can muster.

Nor are the bad decisions limited to the casting. The location work is extraordinarily poor, with Czechoslovakia a particularly poor stand-in for England, not least when CGI relocates the American embassy in London from its then-location in Grosvenor Square to the South Bank in sight of Big Ben and the strikingly fake London Eye. Even worse is just how absurdly large so many of the locations are. The ambassador’s residence is a giant East European castle with a pantry the size of a mini-mart, the embassy a massive conference centre that could fit the real embassy in its lobby twice over. Even the psychiatrist’s office looks so like a 60s Bond villain’s lair that you expect it to be located in a hollowed out volcano.

Heavy going and not much fun with it, it does at least throw in one nice but overly elaborate CGI spin on the original film’s decapitation, but it’s not really worth sticking with just for that. This is just diabolical in all the wrong ways.

[indisposed]

Originally Posted by Aclea

Skipping the short-lived in-name-only The Omen TV series in the presumed hope that people will forget it ever existed, Omen IV: The Awakening is a strikingly inept TV movie that’s particularly bad but sadly not laughably so (though the spinning inverted crosses and some incompetently staged carnage at a psychic fair do provide a couple of smirks). This time round it’s a little girl who’s adopted by a politician and his wife, but despite one psychic claiming “This is the aura of a Borgia, not a little girl!” she’s more bratty than demonic - Damien wouldn’t have had to whack a bully with a lunchpail. Cue some half-hearted killings, absurd plot twists and new age crystal guff replacing the Apocalyptic scriptures of the original trilogy, all rendered even worse by an almost uniformly dreadful cast. Michael Learned adds some much needed competence as a private eye, elevating the film at least to the level of mediocrity whenever he’s on screen by the simple expedient of being the only cast member who can actually act.

As with Mike Hodges and Damien: Omen II, once again the original director (Dominique Othenin-Girard) got fired for being too tardy and – bizarrely - for wanting to make the film more horrific (it was finished by Jorge Montesi, whose priority seems to be keeping it on budget and on schedule no matter how tedious the results). Certainly the film’s most effective scene is Othenin-Girard’s work, a striking moment where decaying Christmas carollers appear singing the lyrics to Goldsmith’s Ave Satani before one character meets their spectacular end. Perhaps the most horrific thing about the resulting TV movie is how atrociously overscored it all is by Jonathan Scheffer, channelling late Bernard Herrmann more than Jerry Goldsmith’s original themes and throwing in some bizarre circus music cues as if he was holding a fire sale of old comedy scores. Bad in the worst way.



For the first reel or so the 2006 remake of The Omen looks like a fairly promising reworking of the original, throwing in a few new spins and a better exit for the incumbent ambassador to Great Britain than Damien’s last big screen outing managed. But while it initially appears better than serial remaker John Moore’s dire Flight of the Phoenix, things start to go wrong with the first nanny’s exit, which seems purely arbitrary here: where the original briefly established a moment of maternal jealousy that could be interpreted as a threat, here the poor girl doesn’t even get a proper establishing shot. Unfortunately it’s all too symptomatic of the way he doesn’t take the time to establish atmosphere or construct a decent setpiece. Where Richard Donner went all-out to elevate the material in the original with a strong visual sense and a dedication to verisimilitude, Moore directs without flair or panache, something the grotty cinematography merely underlines. By the half hour point it feels like you’re watching a film made by slave labor in one of Stalin’s work camps, soullessly meeting a quota of footage to meet the 6/6/6 release date and earn their meagre portion of cold cabbage soup.

The casting veers between the dismal and the catastrophic. Both Damien and the dog are horribly miscast - neither has an iota of menace, which means the supporting cast need to work overtime to make up for lost ground. They don’t.

Liv Schreiber seems to visibly lose the will to live as the film progresses, starting off well enough but gradually giving the impression of someone who’s been sentenced to six months of community service remaking 70s horror movies, while Julia Stiles, a woman tragically born without a profile, looks like someone waiting forlornly for a phone call from their lawyer telling them they’ve got her out of her contract and she doesn’t have to come in for work tomorrow. The supporting cast fares no better. Mia Farrow proves disastrous gimmick casting, completely lacking in authority or menace in the Billie Whitelaw Scary Poppins role, Pete Posthlethwaite looks more like a man reminding Schreiber to pick up the laundry on the way home than a guilt-wracked lost soul as the priest, Michael Gambon just clumsily takes the piss playing Bugenhagen as the drunken Father Jack from Father Ted (you almost expect him to cry out “Drink! Feck!! Arse!!! Gurrrls!!!! AntiChroist!!!!!”) while David Thewlis’ paparazzi comes across as an extremely bored man who hasn’t had enough sleep repeating his alibi to the police for the 50th time. When going through the ominous photos, he might just as well be going through the holiday snaps he took that didn’t really come out properly for all the enthusiasm he can muster.

Nor are the bad decisions limited to the casting. The location work is extraordinarily poor, with Czechoslovakia a particularly poor stand-in for England, not least when CGI relocates the American embassy in London from its then-location in Grosvenor Square to the South Bank in sight of Big Ben and the strikingly fake London Eye. Even worse is just how absurdly large so many of the locations are. The ambassador’s residence is a giant East European castle with a pantry the size of a mini-mart, the embassy a massive conference centre that could fit the real embassy in its lobby twice over. Even the psychiatrist’s office looks so like a 60s Bond villain’s lair that you expect it to be located in a hollowed out volcano.

Heavy going and not much fun with it, it does at least throw in one nice but overly elaborate CGI spin on the original film’s decapitation, but it’s not really worth sticking with just for that. This is just diabolical in all the wrong ways.

To paraphrase a Father Ted quote "it's been such a long time since I saw the remake, I had forgotten Michael Gambon was in it."

I gotta disagree about the kid in the remake... I thought he was genuinely creepy! I remember him turning up at award shows at the time and he was still in creep mode! He was a better actor than the original Damien, who I always thought was way too cute and cuddly. Then again, I always preferred Damien: Omen II to the original.

[Aclea]

I think in the creepiness stakes growing up to become a futures trader with anger management issues and a conviction for road rage handed out on a Friday the 13th shows a lifetime commitment to the role that the imposter just didn't have. The new kid just didn't want it enough, though perhaps "You want some do you?" isn't quite up to the horned one's offspring's usual standards of banter:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ad-rage-attack

[indisposed]

Originally Posted by Aclea

I think in the creepiness stakes growing up to become a futures trader with anger management issues and a conviction for road rage handed out on a Friday the 13th shows a lifetime commitment to the role that the imposter just didn't have. The new kid just didn't want it enough, though perhaps "You want some do you?" isn't quite up to the horned one's offspring's usual standards of banter:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ad-rage-attack

Jesus Christ! Seems like the appropriate thing to say under these circumstances. He's not so cuddly looking, now, either!

[88mph]

Originally Posted by Dickieduvet

There is a complete collection available from Italy, it has the new remaster of the original and most of if not all of the new extras.

https://www.amazon.it/The-Omen-Film-...A11IL2PNWYJU7H

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Nice slimmer packaging despite being cardboard sleeves (I’ve never really had problems with those). Is there a full list of extras anywhere? Would also like to know the audio options. The UK trilogy pack only contains 5.1 remixes.

[pferreira]

Originally Posted by indisposed

To paraphrase a Father Ted quote "it's been such a long time since I saw the remake, I had forgotten Michael Gambon was in it."

I guess he didn't like those two movies.

[88mph]

The Shout US boxset has dropped in price and currently available from Amazon UK global store for around £40. Annoyingly I picked this up last week from a marketplace seller for a few pounds more.

Still works out cheaper than the Italian set and from the looks of it has the most amount of extras. Shout has the original mixes too (not sure about the Italian).

I've only seen the first movie and looking forward to II and III. Not sure I'll bother with IV and the remake lol.