[Justin]

Yeah that's all over the Blu-ray forums. Thankfully I got an email from Amazon this morning saying mine has been shipped and should arrive by the 12th.

This will be a long, long, week though.

By the way, Father B, you might want to check out this interview with Linda Blair. There's a snipper of behind the scenes footage from the spiderwalk scene… you can see one of the crew wiping blood from Hager's mouth.

[Justin]

Was just about to post something about this in the other thread.

I’ve also noticed that since the upgrade all images are resized to a tiny thumbnail, rather than just the pics too large for the forum.

[Justin]

Working now!

Just need the file size for avatars increased though, it’s gone down to 10kb.

[Justin]

Has anyone’s actually shipped yet?

[Justin]

I don’t think I’ve watched it since early this year/late last year. I’ve been holding out as long as I can, waiting for the Blu-ray.

[Justin]

I enjoyed the first one, but can’t say I loved it. Haven’t seen the sequels yet, but will check them out. Are you interested in the remake at all? It looks pretty cheesy.

[Justin]

[Justin]

What about the text after an image?

Like this?

[Justin]

I’ve read a lot of people had similar experiences (and some worse) and I was worried when/if I ever get the chance to see it on the big screen a bunch of obnoxious turds will ruin it for me too. Apparently it’s not just teens, which is really sad for those “adults” who think the film is hilarious.

But now I know if I’m ever in that position, to arm myself with a Twix bar 😉

[Justin]

I may be reading too much into it, but Friedkin says he’s all about stark opposites in The Exorcist film.

I agree, and that’s always how I’ve seen Regan’s character in the movie, especially keeping in mind the other deleted bits that would have followed the bitter-sweet scenes (like a very disturbed Regan coming down to the study complaining of noises).

Although I can see what Jagged is saying. I do think Linda was lacking ability in certain ways, but I just don’t think it actually had any impact on how Friedkin wanted her performance to be in the film.

In other news, here’s the Blu-ray artwork for the Australian release:

Unfortunately we won’t be getting the original theatrical version, otherwise I probably would have gotten a copy eventually because I like the artwork. I’ll just pick up the DVD version instead.

[Justin]

The larger forum is much better! New layout is great, too.

[Justin]

I noticed in this clip you can no longer see the wires levitating Linda…

[Justin]

Well it’s just outtake footage, I don’t think it really represents what the final scene would look like. They still may show more?

I believe Friedkin was right to change Regan’s personality in the film anyway. It’s fine in the novel because obviously the characters are much more fleshed-out, but in the movie there’s only a small amount time to establish Regan as a normal little girl, and have the audience relate and sympathise with her.

Regan could have been a really annoying character, which would have been as ineffective as Jack Nicholson in The Shining. Then the whole movie would have been ruined…

[Justin]

It’s hard to tell but the body doesn’t really look like Linda and that’s a hideous wig. The face is chubby like Linda’s, though.

[Justin]

Looks like the Blu-ray is going to clear up any confusion.

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