[Ryan]

I finally bought the two-disc Steelbook editions of Exorcist: The Beginning and Dominion: Prequel To The Exorcist from eBay. When they arrive, it will be my first viewing of both films!

[Greg]

Die Hard 2 is still Harlin’s best film. It really is. Harlin’s talents is always limited to his screenplay, and most often he is given subpar material for him to blow out of proportion. So DH2 worked because the concept was real enough and the big action was actually motivated. I’m not being cynical or anything, LOL.

[Greg]

By the way, those new light effects at the end really worked well, Hatter. It occurred to me now that I looked at this how effective that light worked. I know that Vittorio Storaro and Paul Schrader talked about the cleanliness and purity of white coming in, but the idea of sunlight itself does still preserve that original idea. It does eliminate one editing question I did realize when seeing this cut instead– why would the demon dissolve away and then reappear off screen as Cheche? I understand the idea of dissolves and disappearing (nothing wrong with that in editing), but this seemed more effective in that it preserved the idea and made the believability stronger by using a realistic idea of sunlight blinding us. Cool stuff, Hatter! I approve. 🙂 😀

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