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granville1 said:
No, for me, The Exorcist is the superior film. For all its glories, Legion panders to the worst Hollywood horror cliches, fake scares, arbitrary characters, unnecessarily goofball characters, in-jokes, rehashed Exorcist material, etc.
While the Friedkin film was universal in its horrific-documentary outreach, Legion by contrast is a feeble, ghettoized shadow of the original film, resembling a home movie of an Exorcist pipe dream.
Blatty exchanged the gentle Cobb-Kinderman for the mean-spirited, aggressive, short-tempered, Pattonesque G.C. Scott. This was not simply due to the fact that Cobb had died and Scott was available: no, the mean Kinderman dialogue (“Go home – talk about Wops; It is NOT in the file”) and acts (breaking Karras’/the Gemini’s nose) was deliberately crafted by Blatty specifically for the film. It does not exist in the Legion novel.
Sharp-as-a-tack Kinderman, on the trail of a killer who replaced a decapitated boy’s head with a Christ statue’s head, stands directly in front of the vandalized statue while he waits for an elevator. As if this could get by the real Kinderman; as if the hospital never reported the vandalism to the police, thereby giving them a hot tip on a hot case.
Nurse Allerton is very uneven, often a “bitch” and then suddenly warm and nurturing. Nurse Keating is the victim of melting ice and an Impatient Patient (“Angels of mercy, my ass” – THIS is funny??) before THAT corridor scene.
At the University President’s office, Kinderman is lured for no reason whatsoever into a darkened hallway where the lights dim, a statue goes “The Joker” and then, horror of horrors … “Alice” delivers the President’s speech notes for a truly dud non-payoff: lame, lame, lame.
Elsewhere, an aged patient exposes himself to a nurse, an act we are to take comic delight in. The Friedkin film also featured the mentally ill, but never had the bad taste and insensitivity to mock them.
For all these and many other reasons, Legion will always be inferior to The Exorcist. Unfortunately, it doesn’t come within a stone’s throw of the original, even though scripted and directed by the source author.
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Well, everyone has an opinion. Personally, I think Kinderman was a acting dickhead because he was going through extreme emotional duress because of Karras' death.
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Exorcist III is one of the few movies that effectivley creeps me out and makes me laugh at the same time. the “Rabies” are Jewish priests and Kinderman's mother in law's take on the posessed nurse “She stayin' for dinner or what?” And I can't help but LOL at the old lady on the roof scene 🙂
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But there were some scenes that really got to me, for example the opening scene in the church where the wind blows all the papers in the church and the statue of Jesus' eyes open. And the infamous nurses station scene ALWAYS ALWAYS makes me jump even though now I see it coming.
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In short EX3 was a great film that didn't get the notariety it deserved. Like Dominion, It struck a chord with me but totally struck out with the critics.
In my book, out of the 5 “Exorcist” films. Only 3 are canon. The Exorcist, The Exorcist III Legion, and Dominion Prequel to the Exorcist.
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Exorcist II:The Heretic had very good acting but the storyline was unbelivably cheesy.
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Exorcist:The Beginning is nothing more than a mixture of The Mummy, Saw, and The Exorcist and it turned out just plain AWFUL. Unlike Dominion, I never had any attachments to any characters and the entire movie was just sick. Blood, guts, and dismembered body parts flying everywhere did NOT make the original film AT ALL so why here?!
The class DOES seem very interesting.
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Incidentally, I hope the whole copy posts thing is just a glitch.
Sof those pictures are beautiful <3 <3
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Its funny how a movie so terrifiying can be so beautiful at the same time…
Are you kidding me? The Exorcist III is the TRUE sequel to the Exorcist! Everything about that movie is genius!
Where are you from oachi? because I really dont mean to be rude, but I can tell english is not your first language.
