"The Omen" and the IMDB Message Board
Category: Faith... Movies...
Posted Monday, June 05, 2006 at 05:32 PM [GMT-6]

The remake of The Omen is set to open in general release tomorrow, and we've all been regaled with the reminders that the date will be 06/06/06. What savvy marketing. Anyway, I saw an interview with Mia Farrow today (she's in the movie) and she says this version is "ten times better" than the 1968 version (and she should know, since she was Rosemary's Baby's mom [that makes her Rosemary, doesn't it?] and thus the expert on all things movie-ish occult-ish). I won't disagree with her math, although ten times zero is still a pretty small number, but that's just me.

Anyway, what the movie has already done is stimulate an interesting discussion over at the IMDB message board, where someone posted a question ("so what will exactly happen when the anti christ comes?") and the resulting replies, numbering in the hundreds so far, range from humorous to sad to weird to shocking, and back again. If you scroll far enough down (or you could just click here), you'll find someone describing Islam's perspective on the anti-christ, something that was new to me.

I'm not sure how to feel about this discussion. I'm glad that people are asking such questions, but the signal/noise ratio in the responses is so low that the question may as well have been rhetorical. And it's a scary thing to contemplate that there are indeed people who get most of their theology from Hollywood.

I suspect that there's an End Times prophecy about that very thing.