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Scrupulous Conscience,
It’ll be play-by-play, every little detail worth mentioning (read: exhaustive), since I’m going for DEFINITIVE here. On the other hand, that — a play-by-play — will be just the icing on the cake (or else I’ll only end up with maybe 20 pages to call a book! No one would buy that. 😐
It would be unimpressive to just copy and paste others’ reporting. Gotta bring something new to the table. Thus, I’ll be analyzing, scrutinizing and comparing, reading-into all of the following:
1.Cast and crew testimony (published interviews, DVD commentaries, and forthcoming interviews I’ll personally conduct in the days and weeks ahead.)
2.The films themselves
3.A few other worm cans, such as… no, I’ve said too much! 😮
Thanks for your interest, Scrupulous Conscience.
Keep your crucifix set to any and all of the following:
http://www.evilagainstevil.com
http://www.myspace.com/exorcistprequelsbook
yours, until my body rots and lies stinking in the earth…!
M.I.K.E.
Thanks for letting me spam. 😉
But seriously, looking forward to being back in the groove here. SOON, my babies! 😀
M.I.K.E.
You give us Christians a bad name, Glynisbethel. It’s not exclusively what you allow our eyes and ears to be exposed to which might indeed pollute our mind and corrupt our heart, it’s the less-legalistic daily living as Christians more than just in name. We are to, besides on Sundays or holidays, live out daily the example Christ shared with us.
While you mean well, your methods are not Christ-like, and are not loving toward others, but rather judgmental. Pre-judging them.And hinging on a single movie? Listen, while I’m not a Catholic, I actually see more of Christ’s example in The Exorcist than in your post above. The Damien Karras character, in particular, lays down his life so that another human being, Regan MacNeil, might live. Jesus preached this. “There is no greater love than when a man [or woman] lays down his life for another,” to paraphrase. Oh, and Karras succeeds. The mystery of goodness is fulfilled, and the demon is driven out.
Sure there’s some blasphemus imagery and one-liners, but we’re dealing with a story, a drama, one featuring an enemy of Christ, the devil or a demon — take your pick — and anyway, such a film as The Exorcist is validated in the eyes of God, if I had to guess, because it presents the two-part question to humanity, where a vast majority of our secular culture does not and never would:
“Are you right with God — and if you are, are you settling for mediocrity instead of His very best life for your life?”
Films that present good and evil as thoughtfully as this one actually tend to share the gospel better in many ways than an unloving fire-and-brimstone, legalistic, in-name-only “Christian”. And however we receive the gospel — hopefully mainly through the scripture, God’s word, than a filtered version, even one as heavy-hitting as The Exorcist — that’s better than no contemplation of God’s love for us. A love that challenges us to rethink our broken, selfish culture, lifestyles, and yes, lives.
Please forward this to all who may disagree. The church has changed very much since Christ’s day. Leave it to humanity. But leave it to God to provide His example of how to truly live, for others, and finding true happiness and joy: Jesus Christ.
Love, not hate,
M.I.K.E.
RPD… yeah, good one, Cap! 😛 Response Please Damien, now on tour! 😛
Some others I’ve conjured:
Chipped Face
Priest Minus Parachute
Waddling Detective
Soap For the Serpentine Tongue
Airborne Exorcist
The Burke Dennings
Bedroom Window Refugee
Mental Clearance Sale
Wants No Straps
Evil Against Evil
It Wants Mouse Traps
Brain Legion
Free-falling Exorcist
The Swiveling Heads
Pea Soup & Quince Jelly
Synchronizer
Sweating Richard Burton
The Incidentallys
Red And Yellow Contacts
Pea Soup Will Put Writing On Your Chest
Parker Brothers Are Satanic
The Barringer Clinic
George Cobb Scott
Okay, that’s all I got. 😛
M.I.K.E.
Cap, if anything, other possession flicks could be covered, reminding us why “our movies” are better, or in some cases worse. But a movie news site, let alone a horror one, I think it could kill what a beautiful thing we have here now which has improved with age, and hits (millions of ’em, if I recall correctly). 🙂
It’s your website, so you may do what you wish. 🙂 That said, I appreciate your conferring with us before any such overhaul.
Yours until my body lies stinking in the earth,
M.I.K.E.
Rather than write out the full titles, here are the Aussie slang versions inspired by or coined by the great Justycist (over the years) — with the ratings:
Exy: 10/10
Herry: 5/10
Leggy: 7.5/10
Beggy: 4.5/10
Dommy: 8.5/10
M.I.K.E.
I expected more out of something crafted by Rob Zombie.
Then again, what remake based so faithfully on a classic was ever decent? Psycho, Omen, Halloween…
Argh-sigh. At least we have the originals and not just the lifeless counterfeits.
M.I.K.E.
Maybe we’ll at least get a 10th-anniversary-of-the-first-DVD DVD. In two years. 2009. 😛
Granted, the only difference between the 1999 one and such a followup would be the new one would have a keep-case, not the passe snapper. Gee, THANKS, Morgan Creek and WB. 😛 Surface, surface, surface! Naaah… give us CONTENT.
Trying to be optimistic for something, anything,
M.I.K.E.
Ryan,
The currently more expensive ones are sure to have cheaper copies in decent condition sooner than later. And Demons Five, that’s always affordable. 🙂
Stay tuned, buddy. You’ll find a good deal on each… In time. 😉 GUARANTEED!
M.I.K.E.
