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The Omen

What’s Aged the Worst?

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Gregory Peck’s original impact casting is harder to appreciate today; Tom Hanks is offered as an analogy.

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  • Gregory Peck’s original impact casting is harder to appreciate today; Tom Hanks is offered as an analogy.
  • Peck’s Happy Birthday singing sounds unnatural.
  • Physical reference letters are easy to fake.
  • Lack of child seatbelts and the mother’s fall effects look dated; Remick reportedly refused the railing stunt after Ellen Burstyn’s injury.
  • The mark of the beast reportedly confused original audiences.
  • The novelization explains Brennan and Spiletto’s involvement with Satanists; the film leaves the 666 thigh mark insufficiently explained.
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

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A parent might negotiate with the Antichrist child for benefits rather than kill him.

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  • A parent might negotiate with the Antichrist child for benefits rather than kill him.
  • The property is called underused; a five-season story could follow Damien from childhood through boarding school and politics to a reckoning.
  • An objection prefers films to fifty hours of television.
  • The proposal allows side plots such as House of Cards; the response emphasizes how dark the original films were willing to be.
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The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

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The first nanny is one choice; Baylock is considered too present, and the actor transcribed as Leo McCurran playing Boogan Hogan is the other choice.

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  • The first nanny is one choice; Baylock is considered too present, and the actor transcribed as Leo McCurran playing Boogan Hogan is the other choice.
  • David Warner is praised but considered too prominent in the second half to qualify.
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The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award

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David Warner is selected, with a discussion of becoming recognizable by name and later as the man from Titanic.

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  • David Warner is selected, with a discussion of becoming recognizable by name and later as the man from Titanic.
  • Don Fellows, the office colleague, is an alternative, identified with a government role in Raiders.
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Half-Assed Internet Research

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An advertising executive’s reaction to The Late Great Planet Earth reportedly led to David Seltzer’s screenplay.

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  • An advertising executive’s reaction to The Late Great Planet Earth reportedly led to David Seltzer’s screenplay.
  • Billy Whitelaw’s work with Samuel Beckett is discussed; Donner reportedly worried her obvious menace undermined ambiguity.
  • The hosts recount a supposedly cursed production: a hotel bombing, a canceled flight that crashed, lightning striking a plane, and a special-effects worker’s car accident.
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Gregory Peck is rejected; Lee Remick remains uncertain despite the film’s success.

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  • Gregory Peck is rejected; Lee Remick remains uncertain despite the film’s success.
  • Rosemary’s Baby is preferred for the Antichrist, and The Shining for creepy tricycle-riding children.
  • Rottweilers and jackals are considered; the film transcribed as Hand That Rocks the Crater is preferred for evil nannies.
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