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I prefered Renny Harlin's version. Both have their ups and down.
“Dominion” is by far the worst. The Nazi intro of the movie is superb. I was trully amazed with the idea. After that the movie went down hill fast and complety derived from Friedkin and Blatty original story. It had absolutely no connection whatsoever. Many questions were left unanswered, the biggest one being… how did Cheche get possessed in the first place?
“Dominion” was the perfect moment to show the audience how Father Merrin first encountered Pazuzu. Paul Schrader for a reason I will never understand, eliminated Pazuzu from the equation and replaced him with the “Prince Of Darkness” himself…Satan. Schrader also eliminated the Pazuzu statue and replaced it with another different representation of the Pazuzu statue. Thus making the movie void. Even though I hated it, I wacth it till the end.
“The Beginning” was much better. But still not perfect…
Renny Harlin corrected many errors that Paul Schrader made. The original foul language is restored. Pazuzu is back, as Merrin finds a big version of the statue deep inside the burried church.The movie is more creepy and violent. Including a very shocking scene where hyenas are devouring a young boy. Much better impacting music score by Trevor Rabin. Harlin even showed us how Merrin lost the Pazuzu statue which eventually he would find again in the opening of the original “Excorcist”. Not only that but Renny Harlin also gave us the reason why Merrin ends up with a bad heart in the first place…he is a heavy alcohol drinker!
The only big mistake that Harlin did was with the ending. He should have emphasized on the boy Joseph being possessed, not Sarah. And the boy should have beeng Kokumo (not Cheche) for a complete harmony of all the franchise.
My biggest deception of both prequels however, is the choice of Stellan Skarsgård as Father Merrin. He looks nothing like Max Von Sydow.
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My biggest deception of both prequels however, is the choice of Stellan Skarsgård as Father Merrin. He looks nothing like Max Von Sydow.
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under the right lighting and angles, Skarsgard bares a creepy resemblance to Max.
I was always worried about who would be cast, I liked the Idea of Liam Neeson playing Merrin, but he looks even less like Max, his voice would have been great though.
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Skarsgards Voice was the only thing that bothered me as far as his casting goes,  But in my mind I jsut wrote that off as to a voice getting much deeper with the characters age.
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Skarsgard dosen't look exactly like Max, But he does look like a Younger version of the Character, or atleast he did, I think his hair could have been blonder.
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but all my pre-concieved notions of what a Prequel would be came From Exorcist II,  The Kokuma Demon Makeup was great.
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I was disapointed when I found out it was going to be differn't,   It was mind blowing when The Prequel was refilmed,  not being a differn't version of the movie, but a differn't movie alltogether.
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Remarkably, despite the fact the Skarsgard and a few other actors are in both, much of the same costumes and set pieces in both, basic story in both,   it's actually very hard to merge the 2 movies into 1 to make a better film.
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 I do wish the tone of Dominion could have been more like this
No I never cared Enough for the Beginning to go through the Effort, made me sick enough looking through that movie for footage to use with Dominion.
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The Beginning might have delivered the goods on levels that Dominion didn't,   but the movie is to desperete to connect dots that the story turns to moosh.
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The Beginning does not exist to me.
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but thats just me, if someone else enjoys it, then thats good to, nice too know someone could like it.
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Both movies Got things right that the other got wrong, and both of them failed to deliver totally satisfying movie
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