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Boredom – a whimsical excuse? If you’re happy to be bored senseless during a movie, then I guess we look for different things to entertain us…
And from a directors perspective (and yes, I am a director) Gabriel Mann’s performance is so ridiculously forced and un-natural, it beggars belief! But I guess some of the blame should be portioned out to Paul Schrader too…
The ‘Satan is real’ line was the real highlight for me… I hope you’re not taking acting tips from him!
I have a couple of ideas which I will splash about on the main page soon. Get this idea noticed, we will!
Yes she looked her absolute best in Exorcist II – THAT is when I fell in love with her. Yeah OK LUSTED for her.
I believe what may have happened is WB fell victim to telling us what we want to hear. There are so many ‘Director’s Cuts’ being released that they probably assumed they had better ‘go with the flow’ and use that as the title for the re-cut of The Exorcist.
Eventually they figured out that The Version You’ve Never Seen was a pretty catchy sub-title, too.
I think the plain and simple answer is, every other re-release is called a Director’s Cut, so initially they just called TVYNS that as well.
I believe we should use CaptainHowdy.com as our front to push for a deluxe box set with all the features you could imagine.
I couldn’t believe how dull Dominion was. I mean, I really, really wanted to like it – but the harder I tried, the more I hated it…
Where do I start? Gabriel Mann’s performance is so terrible, it’s hard to put into words. The script, the boring, plodding, lingering, turgid turd of a script… It was so drenched in religious angst to make it almost unfathomable… Clara Bellar is horrid. Billy Crawford not much better… I didn’t like Schrader’s direction one bit. I shan’t mention the special effects because I appreciate they weren’t finished… The flashback sequence is one-hundred times more effective in E:TB.
I can’t help but feel that an awful lot of Exorcist fans feel obliged to like Dominion as some sort of unified protest against E:TB… For what it’s worth, and in my humble opinion, you’re all directing your bile towards the wrong film…
E:TB is not perfect – for many of the reasons mentioned above. But it IS entertaining. And when I watch a movie, I demand to be vaguely entertained at the very least… With that in mind, all copies of Dominion should be destroyed so the excruciating boredom isn’t inflicted on anyone else. It really is THAT bad.
Following the M.I.K.E’s opinion, I think one has to be careful when one
compare Merrin with Jesus. Actually
this topic should be stressed and analized deeply in detail since Blatty
forget some lines concerning to Jesus in his book.
In effect, looking from the perspective
of a fight of high-level powers: The demon ought fight with Jesus, no ordinary human beings as Merrin.
If it is the case, well, then is missing
a passage in the Blatty’s book!!!
How Merrin became a strong spirit to be able to fight with the demon?
Of course, all best-sellers are subject to plausible modifications and very logical extensions, as it is clearly the case of Blatty’s book.
Naturally, and again, the point which link Merrin to Jesus is interesting.
Turning now to the The Dominion, and in despite of the fact of his argument, Merrin is forced to leave their faith,
we saw the Holland’s scene, during the second war, He is in the boundary of the good and the evil.
On the other hand, things are actually
complex to elaborate ideas based on Blatty’s book and a possible link with the The Dominion.
I would propose several extra scenes in the Dominion, also.
I suggest a scene where Merrin has a dream: there he finds an angel fighting with a secondary demon, and He feel missing. Suddently, He finds a way, it is obscure with dark water, he fears a lot. After of walking, He finds a people, that in principle should have to be Jesus. This people (I assume that He is Jesus) is in the floor. Merring help him to stand, and he recognize that He is in fact Jesus. On the other hand, appears too many people, with the face more or less of Regan trying to reach to Merrin and Jesus. Merrin is bringing to Jesus in their arms. Jesus looks like tired. But we cannot distinguish so well because it is obscure. Merrin put a Jesus on a rock, and He continue walking. Then, around him appears the subliminal imagen.
Merrin wake up, He is astonish because he wake up in a Church. He just wake up with the Medal.Well, it is my modest contribution in order to patch some missing fundamental scenes which only can explain why Merrin have the power to reject away the demon IN SITU.
Let us to speculate and opinions as always are welcome.TVYNS is the best of the original exorcist. It scared the shit out of me when I saw it in the theater. I actually screamed when she did the spider walk down the stairs and got right in the camera and spit up blood and made that growling noise. My favorites of all the exorcist films are the first one, of course, and Legion, which was not given enough credit. I read the novel twice but the movie is so much better. I would also love to meet Linda Blair. She seems like she is very sweet and someone I would be friends with. I would also like to shake hands with the man that had me so scared with the awesome makeup job he did on her, Dick Smith. He is the shit.
