What’s Aged the Worst?
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.