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Jagged. thanks for the advice. I followed your instructions and the forum button is showing up now superimposed on the still of Blatty for the Anniversary edition stuff. Thanks for fixing it for me. Sorry to hear of your other Mac/menu related problems.
Reading horror by H.P. Lovecraft, Alfred Hitchcock short story collections, watching horror movies like Something Wicked This Way Comes, the Halloween movies, etc. Want to eat a ton of candy corn, but not good for me 🙁
TVYNS is understandably controversial, but for the record, I am grateful that it contains
Regan's first medical exam
Karras' one and only encounter with the real Regan via listening to audiotapes of her voice in the language lab
The “Why” discussion between Merrin and Karras on Chris's stairway
The “heartwarming Merrin” scenes with Merrin and Chris in front of the fireplace, Merrin asking for Regan's middle name
The incredibly enhanced sound effects
I am not grateful for
The new “suspense” music explicitly written for TVYNS
Regan's morphing monster face in the hypnosis scene
The multiple Dietz Faces, the Pazuzu image on Regan's wall
The pointless, inexplicable appearance of Mary Karras' face in the window just before Karras jumps
That's about it, I guess.
When Dyer “tucks in” Karras and moves Karras' shoes, Karras says, “Ya gonna steal my shoes now?”
Dyer replies, “No. I tell fortunes by reading the creases.”As Dyer goes out the door, Karras says, “… stealing is a sin …”
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Captain, thanks so very much for posting these wonderful, teasing clips of what's in store for us on the Anniversary Blu-ray 🙂
gobolts said:
Sorry if I posted this already. But which film prequel do you prefer?
I actually liked The Beginning better. Dominion bored me terribly. I totally understand why the studio remade it.
I do wish Harlin had not made some of Sarah's dialog somewhat silly & he could have made the exorcism scene much scarier, but still it was an ok movie.
I prefer Dominion because it's more cerebral than The Beginning, i.e., it is truly about the specifics of Merrin regaining his faith, and the cover art shows it: a silhouette of Merrin kissing his Rosary, in contrast to Beginning's “scary demon face”. Fr. Francis eloquently confronts Merrin for denying to others a hope he himself once cherished. It's a slow film and should be watched when the viewer is fully allert. Coffee might help. But the overall effect is rewarding – IF the viewer can stick with it and pay attention.Good. The Pandora's Box is open, but it is far too early to close it. Please continue. The road to healing is often a long one. Be patient.
Ratboy, I insulted your parents because they raised you. All wrong.
Keep on confessing, though. Is your head comfortable on the cushion? We can bring in a fluffy pillow if you like.
Sadly, your fascistic parents ruined your capacity for critical thinking. Not my fault. However, you are welcome to blame me for your character deficits, first because it makes you feel better; second because it allows you to act as the perpetual Good Boy who carries his iron-bound parental mind-slavery across time and into the world; third, because it provides a public document illustrating the workings of a paranoid, angry, anti-democratic mind; fourth, because it expresses the parochial, punitive mindset of conservatives who proudly but misguidedly mislabel themselves “patriots”; and a handful of other items that project the “My Country, Right or Wrong” idiocy onto a public billboard at which persons of taste, education, and good will can jeer and sneer. A public service indeed.
their country that was founded on Judeo-Christian principles
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Not really. The nasty Calvinists at Plymouth Rock and elsewhere were not lovers of democracy, and in fact, they were not any part of the Founding Fathers. They got kicked out of England for their bad behavior and lusted after the New World, a place they imagined they could found a fascist theocracy. Fortunately, America is not founded on Judeo-Christian prinicples, but rather Enlightenment principles. Most founders who were religious at all were not Christians, but Deists. Hence, Thomas Jefferson said that he looked forward to the day when America would be Unitarian-Universalist, while he took a scissors to his New Testament, and regarded that mutilation as a “rational” rendering of a largely superstitious text.
https://sites.google.com/site/thechristiandelusion/modern-democracy
Point taken. It was an act of madness for Blatty to have considered Fonda when filming time came along – she had already made her public reputation by that time. Perhaps Blatty's social awareness was not at that point very sophisticated?
Since you're posting this stuff simultaneously both here and at imdb, it would be simpler if I first just copied your latest in imdb:
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“Sparky” wrote in imdb:
That's like saying I should critique Polanski on his directing rather than the fact that he's a sicko that drugs and rapes children.
Or perhaps I should critique Hitler as a painter rather than the fact that he was an evil tyrant.
To which I replied in imdb:
Exactly. This is a film forum, not a political forum. If you think Fonda should not have taken the Burstyn part based on Fonda's acting skills or lack thereof, fine. But you used this board to air your political rage. Moreover, you did not reply to my criticism of the accuracy of your judgments against Fonda, even though I provided you a chance to do so. Apparently you're more at home with all the lying, bloody deeds of the Vietnam Era U.S. government than you are with the patriots who sought to circumvent that government's many evils. Be that as it may, Fonda's personal political views have no relevance to her potential acting in The Exorcist. Case in point, I despise John Wayne's ultra-conservative, anti-liberal, pro-torture (The Green Berets) views, but I don't permit Wayne's personal foibles to interfere with my enjoyment of his films. Your inability to make the separation between an artist's professional and private life is a perfect way to ruin film appreciation.
You're just as mistaken re: Polanski inasmuch as Polanski “is” not “a sicko that drugs and rapes children” (you misuse the Present Tense). Afaik, he is accused of only one drug/molestation incident. He is not a serial molester, as is implied in your phraseology. Most important, as with Fonda's case, Polanski's outside-profession behavior does not affect one iota the high quality of his films, past and present.
Your attempted mixing/matching of political behavior with professional accomplishment is an emotion-based logical error.
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I think that about covers it. Now back here at Howdy.com:
RatBoy: “Jane Fonda is a self admitted communist”
Communism is perfectly okay in America unless it advocates violent overthrow of the government. Your point?
“went to Vietnam to aid and comfort the enemy during a war”
Good for her. The “enemy” needed comforting, since it was being immorally and illegally attacked by a vicious imperialist superpower whose idea of combat was napalming civilians and dispensing Agent Orange. Secondly, Fonda went to Vietnam to save the lives of American soldiers by trying to document the real war and hopefully stop it by disclosure.
“She was also responsible for the deaths of American POWs”
Documentation please. If you can prove that any American soldier died from or by Fonda's direct involvement, I may retract some of my opinions. But not without proof. And don't forget that it was not war protesters like Fonda who were mass-killing Americans. It was the Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon administrations.
“I'm glad my parents banned Jane Fonda from my household”
Doubtless Fonda was hurt and suprised by their hospitality fail. What other things and people did your parents forbid you to know and think about, thereby destroying your critical thinking potential and keeping you happily ignorant?
“I too can't wait til she dies so I too can pee on her grave.”
You go ahead and do that, and the rest of us will laugh at you when the cops haul you away for indecent exposure.
