"The Exorcist" Requel: The Power of Woke Compels You

The Exorcist: Believer is what Red Letter Media calls a "requel." That means it's a reboot disguised as a sequel -- it pretends to be a continuation of the original story, but in fact it's simply a copy-paste re-do of the original story.

Like The Force Awakens was a straight-up rewrite of Star Wars but they pretended it was a new story. It wasn't. It was the old story with a "diverse" cast and new ~~merchandising opportunities~~ cute droids.

But requels are now commonplace. Artistically bankrupt, of course, but this Hollywood. Artistic bankruptcy is their stock in trade.

What's more interesting is how woke it is.

Put that aside for the moment. The Exorcist: Believer is one of the worst-received movies of the year, despite its wokeness. Even though it's super-woke (in a demon possession story? what?), it's so bad that leftwing critics are still savaging it.

Universal paid $400 million for The Exorcist rights, and The Exorcist: Believer is earning worse reviews than Halloween Ends (2022).

$400 million. Can you believe it?

And they're planning a trilogy, they say. Of course they have to plan that: If you spend $400 million on a dead IP, you have to make at least three movies to amortize those costs over as many pieces of shit as possible.

But given the reviews, they may not even get to make a sequel.

Halloween Ends, a movie I hate more than PBS, earned a 40 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Exorcist: Believer is getting murdered with just a 22 percent fresh rating.
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So after crash-landing the Halloween franchise into a fireball of lame, Universal paid $400 million so Green and McBride could run a flaccid train on The Exorcist, which is a movie that cannot be franchised.

The whole idea of franchising The Exorcist is absurd. All you can do is dry-hump the formula over and over and over, which is what all four --four! --sequels prior to Believer did.

And it's what this one does again. Except this time, there are two possessed 12-year-olds -- talk about upping the stakes! -- and one of them is black!

Current Year Relevance! Whoo-hoo!

Apparently David Gordon Green and Danny McBride thought that what the movie going public was hungering for in an Exorcist requel was offensively blatant woke political messaging.

That would be their "edge."

Why was this necessary?? pic.twitter.com/tOgQ9iu69N
— A.K.A. JLongb0ne (@JonsLongs) October 7, 2023

Three points:

1, Ellen Burstyn played a non-believing atheist in The Exorcist. Her presence in a room where an exorcism relying on absolute faith in God and Christ would have been, how you say?, unhelpful.

2, she also played a woman who was having a nervous breakdown over the possession. Think Pazuzu could have gotten her to flip her lid during the exorcism? I do.

3, the priests she is now cursing as "the Patriarchy" both gave their lives to save her daughter. They both died. One died of bodily and spiritual exhaustion, the other offered himself as a new vessel for the demon and then jumped out of a window to destroy that vessel.

Spoiler alert for a 50 year old movie.

As Hillary Clinton says: The first victims in war are always women and children.

How dare you.

If you think that's just one line, no.

Red Letter Media attempt to stay out of the culture wars. In fact, they more often mock criticisms of films being "woke" than they'll actually acknowledge films as woke.

It's for that reason -- and just generally being tired of their schtick -- that I stopped watching their videos.

But even they have to mention the unending wokeness in this movie:

First, the Patriarchy line just discussed.

Then, the fact that there are two girls now possessed, and one of them is black. Mike Stoklasa explains this: They wanted to do a race-flip of the family, but the studio objected that they needed to keep it close to the original they were copying, so they said "Well if we have two possessed girls from two different families we can make one white and one black! Diversity!"

He doesn't know that but of course he knows that. We all know that's exactly what happened.

Third, and you're going to believe this: The film takes the position that religion is silly and God Is a Lie so of course they can't call in stodgy Catholic priests to do the exorcism. That would be, of course, Patriarchal. And Christianist.

So guess who they call in to do the exorcism?

(Take a minute and write your answers below.)

You probably got it right because the answer is they call in a DIVERSITY of religious or "spiritual" authorities to conduct the exorcism as a Woke United Religions of Benneton parade.

Not only do they call in all religions, but all non-religions, too: They say they have "spiritualists" who actually disbelieve in God taking part in the exorcism.

We couldn't have a demon be non-diverse in the religious symbols that cause it pain.

Fourth, the father of the white girl is, guess what?

(I'll give you a moment to write your answer to this one too.)

Yes that's right, he's explicitly a Trump supporter, and guess what his evil selfishness causes?

I'll give you another moment to write your answer.

The devil apparently (and I'm not clear on this point, but this is what I think they meant) gives the parents a choice of which child can be saved and which will be condemned to hell, and the white Trump supporter makes a selfish choice (what would be the alternative here? Saying "Take my daughter, Satan"?) and then Satan (or Pazuzu) laughs and this innocent 12-year-old girl is sent to hell to be tortured for all eternity. Because this Trump-Supporting MAGA scumbag didn't give the Devil the right answer.

And I have a strong feeling the audience is supposed to think "Yeah, Satan, you get that no-good Trump-spawn!"

Christian Toto adds a little more:

The film's third act is a mess, neither scary nor spiritually significant. In fact, the sequel has a beef with the faith behind the original masterpiece. The Catholic Church.
The Church refuses to help Victor and Katherine's parents (one-dimensional Christians), referring the matter to psychiatric professionals.
Talk about cutting a franchise off at the knees. It's like making a new James Bond movie and having him reject both the Crown and MI-6 entirely.
The attempt to save the poor girls turns into a Kumbaya affair, with different faiths gathering to beat the demon back. It takes a village to exorcise your children, apparently.
We're even treated to a girl power moment where a secondary female character steps in to save the day when a man refuses to do the job.

Of course. Of course!

Bravo ! Bravo ! Bravo !

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But even with all that woke messaging, critics are still savaging this. So it's a stinker.

The film made $27.5 million over the weekend, which would be good for a horror movie, except if that horror movie spent $400 million on the rights alone.

If this is a single movie play, the film would have to make over a billion dollars to break even.

I know they want to make a trilogy, but can they if they only brought in meh horror movie money? I guess they have no choice -- they can't just use the $400 million in rights on this one piece of shit.

Maybe they'll just reduce the budgets of the sequels to the requel down to almost zero dollars.

Below, Chris Gore and Allen Ng rip the movie apart, and then the Red Letter Media review of the retarded requel.

Chris Gore calls it "the worst movie of the year" and says "I despise this movie."

Jay says that as a sequel to The Exorcist the film is dogshit, but as a stand-alone generic possession movie, it's also dogshit.

One thing Mike and Jay both agree on is how weird it is that the David Gordon Green and Danny McBride decided to pander to the Godless Generation Stupid by taking God out of a movie about demon possession.

I mean, I get it, belief is down. But this is an IP based upon the idea of Satan (or Pazuzu, I can never tell) possessing a little girl. You can't write God out of it.

If there is no God, what are you fighting Satan with? The power of friendship?!

Even if you don't want God in the movie -- He's kind of a central character you just can't write out. He's necessary to the plot.

Though they seem to have done so. The "exorcism" consists of a bunch of hippie weirdos getting together and chanting about "love" or whatever. And then probably smoking grass (marijuana reefer cigarettes, for the innocent) on JackStraw's Fornication Boat.

I am loving Hollywood burning itself down to the very roots.

If they're now destroying horror movies -- the only movies that make money for a reasonable cost -- that's just delightful.

(Although, not gonna lie, this sounds so wretched I kind of want to see it now...)

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:33 PM

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1 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:33 PM (xcxpd)

2 And I am grateful that RLM reviewed the WOKExorcist so I didn't have to watch it myself.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:33 PM (xcxpd)

3 Ellen Burstyn's character in The Exorcist was an actress. Actresses are stupid, mostly.

Posted by: huerfano at October 10, 2023 04:36 PM (cs21Z)

4 When even RLM is making fun of wokeness...

I mean, I assume they're cultural progressives living in big city Wisconsin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:37 PM (LvTSG)

5 “It's like making a new James Bond movie and having him reject both the Crown and MI-6 entirely.”

Didn’t they do that?

Posted by: Rev Dr Happy Hands at October 10, 2023 04:37 PM (Lfl1T)

6 Wait, wait, wait....Jack Straw has a boat specifically for fornication?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:38 PM (xcxpd)

7 >>>6 Wait, wait, wait....Jack Straw has a boat specifically for fornication?

They all do.

Posted by: ace at October 10, 2023 04:38 PM (KRtlO)

8 Spoiler alert for a 50 year old movie.

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Dude...

Just don't tell me where Taylor landed in the space ship.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:38 PM (LvTSG)

9 4 When even RLM is making fun of wokeness...

I mean, I assume they're cultural progressives living in big city Wisconsin.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:37 PM (LvTSG)

I think some/most of them are from Chicago, meaning that city's evil continues to spread...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:38 PM (xcxpd)

10 In other good news, The Marvels started presales for its November open today. They are not going well. The Disney theatrical boycott is alive and well.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 10, 2023 04:38 PM (exHjb)

11 >>All you can do is dry-hump the formula over and over and over,

Is that a bad thing?

Posted by: Hollywood at October 10, 2023 04:38 PM (G1VkD)

12 Meh. I don't care for gross movies and even less for woke ones.

Put them together, it's like the anti-Reese's.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 10, 2023 04:39 PM (N1DT3)

13 Fourth, the father of the white girl is, guess what?

(I'll give you a moment to write your answer to this one too.)

Yes that's right, he's explicitly a Trump supporter,

I laughed. The only thing making it funnier would be if the devil resembled Donald Trump. MAGA Make American Godless again.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2023 04:39 PM (RSbhh)

14 A priest jumping out a window to kill the demon he just saved a girl from while sacrificing his own life doesn't sound very woke.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2023 04:39 PM (ZLI7S)

15 Well certainly avoid it

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2023 04:39 PM (fwDg9)

16 7 >>>6 Wait, wait, wait....Jack Straw has a boat specifically for fornication?

They all do.
Posted by: ace at October 10, 2023 04:38 PM (KRtlO)

I did life wrong.
I should've been a boat owner....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:39 PM (xcxpd)

17
Cheer up. These people hate themselves more than you can even imagine disliking them.

Posted by: Auspex at October 10, 2023 04:39 PM (j4U/Z)

18 It's for that reason -- and just generally being tired of their schtick -- that I stopped watching their videos.

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They've also really decreased the number of current year, big movies they reviewed.

They did a retrospective on three movies of some no-name actor a few months ago...just because.

I think they don't like being told what they need to cover.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:39 PM (LvTSG)

19 Die, Hollywood, die!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 10, 2023 04:40 PM (wtvvX)

20 14 A priest jumping out a window to kill the demon he just saved a girl from while sacrificing his own life doesn't sound very woke.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2023 04:39 PM (ZLI7S)

For that hot take, I'm confiscating your Fornication Boat.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:40 PM (xcxpd)

21 Wait, why are they making the Devil the bad guy?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 10, 2023 04:40 PM (eYoxG)

22 Let me guess: in Woke History, Satan and his fellow demons were put in the "apartheid" "concentration camp" we call Hell, from which they occasionally emerge to torment and murder the Wicked Jews who put them there.

Or something.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 10, 2023 04:40 PM (Y6AXb)

23 My opinion, Covid killed RLM. They’ve seemed bored and uninspired ever since. They were the first channel I subscribed to on YouTube and now I also rarely watch their videos.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at October 10, 2023 04:41 PM (Y8lzz)

24 > 21 Wait, why are they making the Devil the bad guy?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 10, 2023 04:40 PM (eYoxG)

Straight racism and colonialism, obviously.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 10, 2023 04:41 PM (Y6AXb)

25 I think they don't like being told what they need to cover.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:39 PM (LvTSG)

RLM is not a big fan of their fans.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:41 PM (xcxpd)

26 "(Although, not gonna lie, this sounds so wretched I kind of want to see it now...)"

Now, now, money Hollywood earns from people hate-watching is still money Hollywood earns.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 10, 2023 04:41 PM (ou9hh)

27
So we get an Ewok Film Review of a film that he hasn't seen? And he didn't like it?

Dood, I gotta lay off the shrooms.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 10, 2023 04:41 PM (n+4am)

28 >>>My opinion, Covid killed RLM. They’ve seemed bored and uninspired ever since.

I am more of a fan of Rich now, though, for some reason.

Posted by: ace at October 10, 2023 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

29 This has inspired me. Movie idea.
The media is a vampire and it will die like a cheap slutty vampire.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 10, 2023 04:42 PM (7eMFb)

30 Even if you don't want God in the movie -- He's kind of a central character you just can't write out. He's necessary to the plot.

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Exorcism movies consistently perform what they do with the horror crowd with priest central characters, like The Pope's Exorcist recently, and I never get the sense that the horror crowd are particularly religious.

So, The Exorcist has the horror crowd baked in, and then, considering the price tag, you have to bring in more general audiences. The only reason you'd say that general audiences are going to reject a priest as a central figure in a movie about exorcism is if you are so ensconced in a leftist bubble that you literally have no idea how the larger world works.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:42 PM (LvTSG)

31 >>Wait, wait, wait....Jack Straw has a boat specifically for fornication?

Simply not true. Sometimes we drank instead.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2023 04:43 PM (ZLI7S)

32 I always thought Repossessed was a better sequel, myself.

Posted by: Another Anon at October 10, 2023 04:43 PM (7zNjx)

33 The power of woke defeats the devil? Huh.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at October 10, 2023 04:43 PM (VdGjU)

34 I can't do satan movies.
They terrify me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2023 04:44 PM (MUvIp)

35 Took a while to read all that content!

Exorcist without God, yeah, whatever.
This is like saying you can have a Ukraine war without Biden.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2023 04:44 PM (IVkyQ)

36 25 I think they don't like being told what they need to cover.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:39 PM (LvTSG)

RLM is not a big fan of their fans.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:41 PM (xcxpd)

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To be fair, their fans comment in the Youtube comments.

Ace comments > NRO comments > NYT comments > WaPo comments > a thousand feet of crap > Youtube comments

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

37 Willowed from last thread. Always late to the party.
I posted Jennifer Sey's comments to my face book friends. Pretty much all of whom not directly related to me are from the greater Rhode Island bar and band community.
Pretty sure the silence will also be deafening.
As long as my dealer doesn't cut me off I don't much care what they think.

Posted by: From about that Time at October 10, 2023 04:44 PM (4780s)

38 The Conjuring movie franchise definitely includes the idea of God and both leads are right-wing extremist Catholics and that franchise makes money hand-over-fist.

Posted by: ace at October 10, 2023 04:44 PM (KRtlO)

39 ever see The Conjuring?

It got an R-rating for "Terror." No cursing, no violence, no gore, no sex. Just "Terror."

Scary movie, man.

Posted by: ace at October 10, 2023 04:44 PM (KRtlO)

40 28 >>>My opinion, Covid killed RLM. They’ve seemed bored and uninspired ever since.

I am more of a fan of Rich now, though, for some reason.
Posted by: ace at October 10, 2023 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

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He does seem to be the one who is genuinely appreciative for the fact that he has a paid life just talking about movies with his buddies.

His last job before Mike hired him? Installing smoke detectors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:45 PM (LvTSG)

41 The power of woke defeats the devil? Huh.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at October 10, 2023 04:43 PM (VdGjU)
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Something about a house divided against itself comes to mind...

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at October 10, 2023 04:45 PM (z5vMw)

42 One thing Mike and Jay both agree on is how weird it is that the David Gordon Green and Danny McBride decided to pander to the Godless Generation Stupid by taking God out of a movie about demon possession.

Yeah, this is cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Even if everything else was done right, this is such a gross error that it would overwhelm the rest.

Posted by: Why Would An Exorcism Even Work Under Such Conditions? Magic? at October 10, 2023 04:45 PM (ppBhU)

43 I haven't watched any horror movies in a few decades. If I want that kind of action, I can turn on the news. Nope.

Posted by: Cheri at October 10, 2023 04:45 PM (oiNtH)

44 Too bad they Woke the Exorcist up. The Vatican's chief exorcist, the late Gabriele Amorth, greatly admired the original movie, and thought that it should receive a wide viewing.

Posted by: Paco at October 10, 2023 04:46 PM (njExo)

45 Someone needs to Exorcise Hollywood.

Or maybe they can Decolonize Hollywood instead?

Posted by: rd at October 10, 2023 04:46 PM (VfV44)

46 Hillary is possessed by Pazuzu isn't she?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at October 10, 2023 04:46 PM (VdGjU)

47 RLM is not a big fan of their fans.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:41 PM (xcxpd)

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To be fair, their fans comment in the Youtube comments.

Ace comments > NRO comments > NYT comments > WaPo comments > a thousand feet of crap > Youtube comments
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

Harsh but fair indeed

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:46 PM (xcxpd)

48 Her presence in a room where an exorcism relying on absolute faith in God and Christ would have been, how you say?, unhelpful.

Catholic exorcist priests don't allow just anybody in the room, even if they are believers. Usually they have other clergy or consecrated pyrsyns, such as nuns on hand for prayer support. But they all have to go to confession first because the demon will publicly announce the sins of whoever is present.

Posted by: kallisto at October 10, 2023 04:46 PM (ZuJrE)

49 *glares*

Non-nooding bastids.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 10, 2023 04:46 PM (N3zMI)

50 This is like a lot of today's "artists".

They only know that anything from the past is bad.

They don't understand the works they are copying/stealing.

They don't understand human nature.

They don't understand reality.

As a result: their crap works are unrealistic, cannot touch the human soul, and spit on everything that came before.

So, at least they spat on what they hate!

Most people won't pay for that, though.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 10, 2023 04:46 PM (N1DT3)

51 In the next one, the possessed person could be possessed by aliens. That'll bring the crowds in!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 10, 2023 04:47 PM (CHHv1)

52 The power of woke compels you...the power of woke compels.
*sprinkles holy, err tap water on the 'demon'*

Posted by: The Exorcist at October 10, 2023 04:47 PM (GTqXr)

53 hiya

Posted by: JT at October 10, 2023 04:47 PM (T4tVD)

54 40 28 >>>My opinion, Covid killed RLM. They’ve seemed bored and uninspired ever since.

I am more of a fan of Rich now, though, for some reason.
Posted by: ace at October 10, 2023 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

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He does seem to be the one who is genuinely appreciative for the fact that he has a paid life just talking about movies with his buddies.

His last job before Mike hired him? Installing smoke detectors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:45 PM (LvTSG)

I've grown to like Jay as he actually seems to still enjoy movies and can analyze them. Mike has given up on film analysis to just...complain and mope I guess?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:47 PM (xcxpd)

55 48 Catholic exorcist priests don't allow just anybody in the room, even if they are believers. Usually they have other clergy or consecrated pyrsyns, such as nuns on hand for prayer support. But they all have to go to confession first because the demon will publicly announce the sins of whoever is present.
Posted by: kallisto at October 10, 2023 04:46 PM (ZuJrE)

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This is one thing the demon in Pet Sematary did in the book.

When he announced Norma's sins, I've simply rejected it as being true. Norma wouldn't do that, but the demon never lied in any other situation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)

56 Is this the one where the devil wins?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 10, 2023 04:48 PM (l10hq)

57 The only time I notice Hollywood/movies is when Ace posts about them.

I'd say eff 'em, but I don't even care that much.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at October 10, 2023 04:48 PM (Qt4kF)

58 Is the exorcist a tranny?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at October 10, 2023 04:48 PM (VdGjU)

59 I always liked Rich and Mike. Jay was fine most of the time. The giant penis head dude though (Jack?)……. It’s always hilarious whenever he brings up how he has a semi working knowledge of firearms and he sees fit to apologize for said knowledge.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at October 10, 2023 04:48 PM (Y8lzz)

60
They've also really decreased the number of current year, big movies they reviewed.

They did a retrospective on three movies of some no-name actor a few months ago...just because.

I think they don't like being told what they need to cover.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:39 PM (LvTSG)

Well, once Jay basically outed himself as having almost no background in films, even as a fan, I started tuning out. I'd rather suspected as much because he never made references to films that were older than 30 or so.

Referring of course, to his review of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly where he admitted that he'd never seen it until he watched it for the review. How can you expect to be taken seriously as a film reviewer, even an amateur, and you haven't seen TGTBTU?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 10, 2023 04:48 PM (n+4am)

61 IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE YOU CAN’T HAVE SATAN WITHOUT GOD.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at October 10, 2023 04:48 PM (Hkcdp)

62 Newsweek, on the person whose corpse was paraded through the streets of Gaza:

On Tuesday, Louk's family announced they had proof that Louk—who grew up in Israel—was alive. Swiss German-language news website Blick reported that her mother said she was in a hospital in Gaza with serious head injuries.

"We now have more information that Shani is alive," her mother told television channel NTV, adding she received the information from unnamed Palestinian sources.

The mother added that Louk is seriously injured, and asked the German government for help and quick action.

I think that the odds are about 99.99999% that Louk is dead, and Hamas is claiming she is alive so they don't look so bad.

Also, Hamas propaganda sources are now claiming that the festival goers were killed in a "crossfire" between imaginary IDF soldiers and Hamas.

They're just going to brazen it out - and they will have lots of propaganda help.

Posted by: The Defamation League! at October 10, 2023 04:48 PM (2tUFv)

63 54 I've grown to like Jay as he actually seems to still enjoy movies and can analyze them. Mike has given up on film analysis to just...complain and mope I guess?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:47 PM (xcxpd)

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I get the feeling Mike is playing up a persona.

I don't know. I don't actually know these people.

I did enjoy them talking about Pee Wee's Big Adventure with Kevin McAllister.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)

64 >>Wait, wait, wait....Jack Straw has a boat specifically for fornication?

Simply not true. Sometimes we drank instead.
Posted by: JackStraw

'Instead'? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Now if you had said "first" or "in addition" it would be completely believable.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2023 04:49 PM (IVkyQ)

65 O/T Israelis have bombed Rafah crossing. Cit. JNS TV

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein at October 10, 2023 04:49 PM (RIvkX)

66 Everything is shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2023 04:49 PM (CBBR5)

67 Trust me its worse than you are letting on.

SAW X was like Gone with the Wind by comparison.

Posted by: DOYLE at October 10, 2023 04:49 PM (Z8Yh2)

68 I haven't seen the Conjuring movie but I hear Nefarious is a good one. This is not about an exorcism, instead it's a guy on death row who is obviously greatly influenced by demonic entities, if not downright possessed. Also produced by conservative Catholics.

Posted by: kallisto at October 10, 2023 04:49 PM (ZuJrE)

69 55 48 Catholic exorcist priests don't allow just anybody in the room, even if they are believers. Usually they have other clergy or consecrated pyrsyns, such as nuns on hand for prayer support. But they all have to go to confession first because the demon will publicly announce the sins of whoever is present.
Posted by: kallisto at October 10, 2023 04:46 PM (ZuJrE)

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This is one thing the demon in Pet Sematary did in the book.

When he announced Norma's sins, I've simply rejected it as being true. Norma wouldn't do that, but the demon never lied in any other situation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)

Well demons can certainly lie, unless they're under compulsion.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 10, 2023 04:49 PM (eYoxG)

70 Money laundering. That's the only explanation I can come up with for how these projects get funded time after time, knowing they will "lose" hundreds of millions of dollars. Hollywood accounting is well known for being, uh, creative. If the purpose of making these money-losers is to, intentionally, "lose" a lot of money, it makes sense to hand terrible scripts to insane directors and let them go berserk.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 10, 2023 04:49 PM (F1Gu6)

71 Exorcist 3 is a good movie.

And how do you defrat the devil wothwoke. As its creator, pretty sure that is like trying to beat a fish by dumping a cup of water on it.

Posted by: Bete at October 10, 2023 04:49 PM (pgFf5)

72 Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2023 04:49 PM (CBBR5)

No, it isn't.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2023 04:50 PM (RSbhh)

73 This is basically a problem any time they try to tackle some explicitly religious themes because you can't actually make a coherent story where objective good and evil explicitly exist when the religions you are pulling from explicitly disagree with you about the nature of that objective good and evil you're putting on the screen.

This was my main gripe with the HBO series The Young Pope. It was obvious that the filmmakers didn't want to make a movie where the rad trad Pope was the good guy, so they had his pontificate be portrayed as one which caused the Church to shrink... except that they also needed him to be a compelling and interesting character so he could actually perform miracles. So God, in this universe, disagreed with moral themes the filmmakers were trying to portray. It doesn't come across as clever or ambiguous writing, it comes across as a confused writer who wrote themselves into a corner.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at October 10, 2023 04:50 PM (fKIdX)

74 >>Wait, wait, wait....Jack Straw has a boat specifically for fornication?

A John boat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2023 04:50 PM (CBBR5)

75 Korea does it better, Priests about 2 Priests battling demons and THE GUEST on netflix about a Demon that possessed people and then murders people and when the Demon jumps the Possessed dies of drowning.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 10, 2023 04:50 PM (dKiJG)

76 I have this great idea, bear with me, to re-make the Passion of the Christ.

Only, it won't have God or Jesus, or whatever in it. No Christ will be a teenage sassy girl named, get this, Marie Christos. And she will be Hispanic, or black or something like that. Maybe Hatian. Whatever.

So, like she'll be in this playground see...and around her will be all her pals. There will be a black one, and an Asian one, and a gay one....they are smoking weed and such, no wait, taking magic mushrooms. And one of her friends decides to rat her out to the pigs...

Posted by: Every damn Hollywood Executive at October 10, 2023 04:50 PM (8E/8X)

77 Haven't seen any of the Exorcist movies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2023 04:51 PM (RSbhh)

78 60 Well, once Jay basically outed himself as having almost no background in films, even as a fan, I started tuning out. I'd rather suspected as much because he never made references to films that were older than 30 or so.

Referring of course, to his review of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly where he admitted that he'd never seen it until he watched it for the review. How can you expect to be taken seriously as a film reviewer, even an amateur, and you haven't seen TGTBTU?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 10, 2023 04:48 PM (n+4am)

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Yeah, I wish they had deeper appreciations of film in general.

But they're obviously part of that small subculture that loves bad movies from the 70s and 80s. That's the stew he's played in since his childhood, and now he's made a living out of doing Best of the Worst.

It really would have been nice if he had known that John Carpenter was inspired by Howard Hawks at this point. Or even to have said, "Carpenter loved Hawks? I should watch some of those movies."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:51 PM (LvTSG)

79 RLM is not a big fan of their fans.

I've never watched their stuff, I think. Unless maybe it was following one of Ace's links. I usually just consult TJM and do the opposite: because that Hater is not the Boss of Me.

Posted by: Why no Cheech & Chong reboots? at October 10, 2023 04:51 PM (ppBhU)

80 I wonder if Hollywood understands that I'm responsible for its ongoing demise? Meh. Screw it. But I do enjoy the irony.

Posted by: Satan at October 10, 2023 04:51 PM (aXxgO)

81 Swiss German-language news website Blick reported that her mother said she was in a hospital in Gaza with serious head injuries.

Next up - Hamas will announce that Louk died because the Israelis bombed the hospital that she was in.

Posted by: The Defamation League! at October 10, 2023 04:51 PM (2tUFv)

82 /sorry whack job sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2023 04:51 PM (RIvkX)

83 Well, once Jay basically outed himself as having almost no background in films, even as a fan, I started tuning out. I'd rather suspected as much because he never made references to films that were older than 30 or so.

Referring of course, to his review of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly where he admitted that he'd never seen it until he watched it for the review. How can you expect to be taken seriously as a film reviewer, even an amateur, and you haven't seen TGTBTU?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 10, 2023 04:48 PM (n+4am)

Yeah, I bailed on that review. They know nothing that happened before 1970 and know nothing of Westerns as a genre.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:51 PM (xcxpd)

84 The girl spawn and friends are going to see this later today.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 10, 2023 04:52 PM (Wy1BU)

85 Yeah, Shani Louk’s limbs looked like what you would expect from a puppy that spent an hour with a future serial killer. There’s no way.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at October 10, 2023 04:52 PM (Y8lzz)

86 >>They don’t understand human nature, reality

They don’t understand Christianity - it’s like everything they learned about it was from ignorant stereotypes in other movies and tv.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2023 04:52 PM (Hkcdp)

87 The mother added that Louk is seriously injured, and asked the German government for help and quick action.

her legs and arms were unnaturally contorted, signifyin that they were broken. And the /pols zoomed in on a big old bullet hole at the base of her skull.

That poor mom is being played. they're making this up to get the Israelii govt. to restart the electricity in Gaza because at some point the hospital generator will give out.

Posted by: kallisto at October 10, 2023 04:52 PM (ZuJrE)

88 Red Letter Media shilling for the man, and joking about shilling for the man like some sort of meta commentary. When mostly, they're just playing step and fetchit for early access and those 3rd tier gift bags. Sad.

Posted by: KJP is a race and gender swapped Side Show Bob at October 10, 2023 04:52 PM (QpUKb)

89
Money laundering. That's the only explanation I can come up with for how these projects get funded time after time, knowing they will "lose" hundreds of millions of dollars.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 10, 2023 04:49 PM (F1Gu6)

*whistles absently*

Posted by: Uwe Boll at October 10, 2023 04:52 PM (n+4am)

90 83 Yeah, I bailed on that review. They know nothing that happened before 1970 and know nothing of Westerns as a genre.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:51 PM (xcxpd)

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It helps that neither of us really like The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:52 PM (LvTSG)

91 O/T Israelis have bombed Rafah crossing. Cit. JNS TV
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein at October 10, 2023 04:49 PM (RIvkX)

Hi Mary! Did you manage to get the cats back inside last night? Neighbors said you were out in the shrubs with a salmon net after dark, and if it hadn't been so late, and you making so much noise, they would have been concerned about you doing yourself harm

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2023 04:53 PM (xhaym)

92 What this movie clearly needs is a lightsaber duel between the spunky young girl and the Devil.

Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at October 10, 2023 04:53 PM (h3ySp)

93 I am more of a fan of Rich now, though, for some reason.
Posted by: ace at October 10, 2023 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

It's his infectious laugh, isn't it?

Posted by: Thrawn at October 10, 2023 04:53 PM (uGhsv)

94 The power of intersectionalism compels you!

Posted by: brak at October 10, 2023 04:53 PM (WxvBY)

95 spirit demons don't scare me nearly as much as human demons and monsters.

Posted by: kallisto at October 10, 2023 04:54 PM (ZuJrE)

96 THIS JUST IN: Washington Post announcing 240 layoffs/buyouts. Pray for Journalism. With a backhoe.

Posted by: Fat Jonah of Krypton at October 10, 2023 04:54 PM (PwP1X)

97 Off-topic.

Is there anywhere to get news on what the hell is happening in Israel right now without commentary that won't make me want to start punch holes in my screen worse than I already do?

Posted by: Ryan Frank at October 10, 2023 04:54 PM (SLZRw)

98 90 83 Yeah, I bailed on that review. They know nothing that happened before 1970 and know nothing of Westerns as a genre.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:51 PM (xcxpd)

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It helps that neither of us really like The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:52 PM (LvTSG)

I don't LIKE it, but I know what it's trying to do and why. And I know the genre, as do you.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:54 PM (xcxpd)

99 "The power of Woke compels you!"

"The power of Woke compels you!"

"The power of Woke compels you!"

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 10, 2023 04:54 PM (bNf8H)

100 I finally got around to watching the HBO Chernobyl miniseries. There is a female nuclear physicist character. She was depicted as figuring out what was happening while being miles away in Minsk with no direct knowledge of the events. She takes it upon herself to drive to Chernobyl. She barges in to tell the men she knows exactly what is going on and everything they are doing wrong. This totally set off my bullshit detector. Sure enough, I looked up some info on the movie and discovered that this character was totally fictional and was supposed to be a composite of several real people.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 10, 2023 04:54 PM (xPl2J)

101 Saw a video of woman in jeep but couldn't tell dead or not.
Not many hostages are getting back alive I fear

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2023 04:55 PM (fwDg9)

102 They say if you wanted to see Ellen Burstyn she does it toward the end of the film.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 10, 2023 04:55 PM (h3ySp)

103 For no particular reason while trying to get some sleep during the day I turned on one of those Indy AI movies on Tubi, 'Artifice Girl', and actually really liked it.
Opinions may vary.
It's more of a 3-act play than a 'movie-movie' but if you like fast-paced dialogue and a result driven more by a small ensemble performance, I recommend it.
I stress, opinions may vary.
(I'm a sucker for B-movies made on the cheap with something on their mind, so I liked this one.)
It has a terrific 'ALIENS' easter egg, watch carefully! If you choose to do so.

Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 04:55 PM (/BBNv)

104 97 Off-topic.

Is there anywhere to get news on what the hell is happening in Israel right now without commentary that won't make me want to start punch holes in my screen worse than I already do?
Posted by: Ryan Frank at October 10, 2023 04:54 PM (SLZRw)

Sadly, Twitter/X is your best source of info. Find an uploader you like and follow them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:55 PM (xcxpd)

105 >>>Exorcist 3 is a good movie.

everyone says so. I've never seen it but I sure have watched that one clip they have on YouTube! And that is a scary two minutes.

Posted by: ace at October 10, 2023 04:55 PM (KRtlO)

106 98 I don't LIKE it, but I know what it's trying to do and why. And I know the genre, as do you.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:54 PM (xcxpd)

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And Dances with Wolves is boring as fuck, a simplistic morality tale for children told with an incredible amount of pretensions about being high art and subverting the genre.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:55 PM (LvTSG)

107 "So guess who they call in to do the exorcism?"

My first guess was Ghostbusters

Probably said above, my apologies for being late.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 10, 2023 04:55 PM (FxH7T)

108 "You probably got it right because the answer is they call in a DIVERSITY of religious or "spiritual" authorities to conduct the exorcism as a Woke United Religions of Benneton parade."

Benneton, Ace?

Talk about an 80s Mystery Click. I hadn't thought about Benneton in decades.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 10, 2023 04:56 PM (O0tMK)

109 The bed is on my foot!

Posted by: Richard Pryor, Black Priest in SNL Sketch at October 10, 2023 04:56 PM (4I/2K)

110 Your mother sews socks that smell !!!

Posted by: Drive By at October 10, 2023 04:56 PM (MNhXM)

111 105 >>>Exorcist 3 is a good movie.

everyone says so. I've never seen it but I sure have watched that one clip they have on YouTube! And that is a scary two minutes.
Posted by: ace at October 10, 2023 04:55 PM (KRtlO)

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I really like Paul Schrader's prequel: Dominion.

It's more meditative drama about guilt than scarefest, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:56 PM (LvTSG)

112 "The power of nice compels you!"

Oh, and kudos to those parents who let their kids perform in this nihilistic piece of trash. I'm sure they'll grow up to be as well-adjusted as Linda Blair, of her cocaine ring and probably got a ring made of cocaine from Rick James.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 10, 2023 04:56 PM (IBWqU)

113 (Although, not gonna lie, this sounds so wretched I kind of want to see it now...)

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:33 PM
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Unlike many horror movies, this will *not* fall into the "so bad it's good" category over time.

It will *not* become a cult classic like so many other horror movies.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 10, 2023 04:56 PM (YIVH2)

114 There is a female nuclear physicist character. She was depicted as figuring out what was happening while being miles away in Minsk with no direct knowledge of the events.

Was Kathleen Kennedy a consultant to Chernobyl?

Classic Mary Sue character.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 10, 2023 04:57 PM (2tUFv)

115 88 Red Letter Media shilling for the man, and joking about shilling for the man like some sort of meta commentary. When mostly, they're just playing step and fetchit for early access and those 3rd tier gift bags. Sad.
Posted by: KJP is a race and gender swapped Side Show Bob at October 10, 2023 04:52 PM (QpUKb)

Feel free to hate RLM, but they are the anti-shills. They aren't getting invites or goodie bags. George Lucas and other big directors reportedly HATE them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:57 PM (xcxpd)

116 >>And Dances with Wolves is boring as fuck, a simplistic morality tale for children told with an incredible amount of pretensions about being high art and subverting the genre.
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I liked that film better when it was called "Lawrence of Arabia."

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 10, 2023 04:57 PM (bNf8H)

117 > she was in a hospital in Gaza with serious head injuries.

Well, technically the morgue is a place in a hospital, and a bullet in the skull is a serious head injury.

Agreed: they're playing her mother.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 10, 2023 04:57 PM (Y6AXb)

118 George C Scott in Exorcist 3. I liked the movie.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2023 04:57 PM (CBBR5)

119 Another 'Near-Future' type movie ala Black Mirror is OtherLife, also on Tubi. I liked that one too.

Again! Opinions may vary.

Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 04:57 PM (/BBNv)

120 115 Feel free to hate RLM, but they are the anti-shills. They aren't getting invites or goodie bags. George Lucas and other big directors reportedly HATE them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:57 PM (xcxpd)

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There's a funny little story of someone asking Jay on Twitter about a little, recent horror movie. Jay shat on it.

And the guy asking him about it was the director.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

121 There was a time when "news" magazines could offer the headline "Is God Dead" as an eyebrow raiser -- knowing full well that culturally, the issue was dead. Of *course* God isn't dead! It was within a society that was reeling from disillusion -- but still honored faith -- that the original Exorcist was released. The current iteration finds the country in a completely different spiritual place, and within a sea of antiChristian competition at the box office, streaming services, and tv. (Heck, there's a tv commercial for a Halloween fright-fest at the local amusement franchise that's scarier than the original Exorcist.)

Having survived the past few years of insanity, I am no longer able to simply dismiss evil stupidity
as such. The country is too far down the rabbit hole to roll our eyes at evil in our midst. Too many slippery slopes were scoffed at rather than stopped in their tracks. Pendulums don't always get the chance to swing two ways.

Posted by: red speck at October 10, 2023 04:58 PM (0Id0S)

122 They don’t understand Christianity - it’s like everything they learned about it was from ignorant stereotypes in other movies and tv.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2023 04:52 PM (Hkcdp)

They are profoundly ignorant and proud of it.

They know these things are evil, so there is no reason to learn about them.

They are worse than their caricature of the bowdlerizing Christian.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 10, 2023 04:58 PM (N1DT3)

123 will *not* become a cult classic like so many other horror movies.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 10, 2023 04:56 PM (YIVH2)
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Groovy.

Posted by: Bruce Campbell at October 10, 2023 04:58 PM (z5vMw)

124 www.jpost.com/
www.israelnationalnews.com/
www.timesofisrael.com/

Posted by: Braenyard at October 10, 2023 04:58 PM (f4xAl)

125 And Dances with Wolves is boring as fuck, a simplistic morality tale for children told with an incredible amount of pretensions about being high art and subverting the genre.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:55 PM (LvTSG)

Critics are suckers for good cinematography. Dean Semler knows what he's doing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:58 PM (xcxpd)

126 And Dances with Wolves is boring as fuck

During the publicity tour for the movie, Kevin Costner suggested that we give the Dakotas back to the Indians.

After all, almost nobody lives there.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 10, 2023 04:59 PM (2tUFv)

127 116 I liked that film better when it was called "Lawrence of Arabia."
Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 10, 2023 04:57 PM (bNf8H)

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Lawrence of Arabia is the tale of a madman who tries to bend the world to his will.

Dances with Wolves is about a bored military officer who bangs an available white squaw.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:59 PM (LvTSG)

128 @105 Exorcist 3 is definitely good.

Posted by: Allen at October 10, 2023 04:59 PM (lFLgt)

129 I really like Paul Schrader's prequel: Dominion.
It's more meditative drama about guilt than scarefest, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason'

I liked that one too. Yeah, not a scarefest.

Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 04:59 PM (/BBNv)

130 Some clove cigarettes as well.

Posted by: InZona at October 10, 2023 04:59 PM (P/us6)

131
Hi Mary!

_________

There's a guy named Sid you ought to meet.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2023 04:59 PM (MoZTd)

132
Catholic exorcist priests don't allow just anybody in the room, even if they are believers. Usually they have other clergy or consecrated pyrsyns, such as nuns on hand for prayer support. But they all have to go to confession first because the demon will publicly announce the sins of whoever is present.
Posted by: kallisto at October 10, 2023 04:46 PM (ZuJrE)

I read about how one Exorcism the Priest was late, the little boy laughed and said the Priest was in an accident the Priest showed up soaking wet, The Demon laughed and said that damn St. Christopher protected him from being Killed, He was run off the bridge by a car

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 10, 2023 04:59 PM (dKiJG)

133 >>>Feel free to hate RLM, but they are the anti-shills.

they are anti-shills, yeah, but I think the guy who said they were steppin fetchit was making a point like "if you're still seeing these movies, even if you pan them, you're still part of the Machine.'

But yeah they've created memes like "consume product wait for next product" that really make anyone who's a fanboy question his life.

Posted by: ace at October 10, 2023 05:00 PM (KRtlO)

134
If there is no God, what are you fighting Satan with?

Care Bears!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 10, 2023 05:00 PM (63Dwl)

135 125 Critics are suckers for good cinematography. Dean Semler knows what he's doing.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 04:58 PM (xcxpd)

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I've detected a pattern over the 80s (and late 70s) where it really felt like the actors in the Academy (by far the largest voting body) were pushing to award those actors that went director.

I mean...is there any other explanation for Redford's win for Ordinary People?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 05:00 PM (LvTSG)

136 Agreed: they're playing her mother.

Not that we needed more evidence, but if they are lying to the mother and giving her false hope for propaganda reasons, they really are monsters.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 10, 2023 05:00 PM (2tUFv)

137 Please tell me that they'll depict Satan as a tranny pedo.

Lir to me if you must ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at October 10, 2023 05:00 PM (6rpE9)

138 Exorcist 3 is a good movie.

It may be a good movie. But as near as I can tell it has as much to do with the Exorcist as Halloween III has to do with Halloween.

Also, I find George C. Scott pretty unwatchable. In horror at least, for which he is too high falutin. The Changeling. Lol.

Posted by: Old actors never fade away, they just keep beating their wives. at October 10, 2023 05:00 PM (ppBhU)

139 If you want to see a creepy AF horror movie watch “The Skin I Live In.”

Definitely could not be made today. 😮

Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2023 05:00 PM (Hkcdp)

140 Has Critical Drinker reviewed it yet? It's odd. I prefer watching his reviews than watching the actual movie being reviewed.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 10, 2023 05:01 PM (sAmhv)

141 138 It may be a good movie. But as near as I can tell it has as much to do with the Exorcist as Halloween III has to do with Halloween.

Also, I find George C. Scott pretty unwatchable. In horror at least, for which he is too high falutin. The Changeling. Lol.
Posted by: Old actors never fade away, they just keep beating their wives. at October 10, 2023 05:00 PM (ppBhU)

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Exorcist III has a lot more to do with The Exorcist than Exorcist II: The Heretic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 05:01 PM (LvTSG)

142 @111 Agree -- I consider myself a relative expert on The Exorcist. Among other things, my second cousin Jimmy was featured in the preface to the book -- he was a member of the Outfit who tortured Action Jackson to death, which frankly seems kind of tame given the events of the weekend.

The very unfortunate thing about the original movie, which I consider to be an extremely well-done film, is that it opened up the Pandora's box on the sexualization of children, which really began in earnest in the mid-70s.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 10, 2023 05:01 PM (IBWqU)

143 THIS JUST IN: Washington Post announcing 240 layoffs/buyouts. Pray for Journalism. With a backhoe.
Posted by: Fat Jonah

"The staff reductions come as Washington Post leaders determined that recent revenue projections were overly optimistic."
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This made me smile.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2023 05:01 PM (IVkyQ)

144 There's a funny little story of someone asking Jay on Twitter about a little, recent horror movie. Jay shat on it.

And the guy asking him about it was the director.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

LOL
Oh dear....yeah, Jay's twitter feed was one of the last I read before killing all my bookmarks to that site.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 05:01 PM (xcxpd)

145 140 Has Critical Drinker reviewed it yet? It's odd. I prefer watching his reviews than watching the actual movie being reviewed.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 10, 2023 05:01 PM (sAmhv)

He was busy reviewing Robyn Hood.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 10, 2023 05:01 PM (uGhsv)

146 A priest jumping out a window to kill the demon he just saved a girl from while sacrificing his own life doesn't sound very woke.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2023 04:39 PM (ZLI7S)

They should be lecturing the demon about possessing GIRLs and not TRANS Girls. Or boys.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 10, 2023 05:02 PM (eoQWY)

147 It sounds like even Lenny Riefenstahl would be ashamed of this movie.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 10, 2023 05:02 PM (BdMk6)

148 Paul Schrader was/is, if I recall, Dutch Reformed Calvinist which is explained in 'Hardcore', rather succinctly.

I liked 'Light Sleeper' with Willem Dafoe.

Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 05:02 PM (/BBNv)

149 her legs and arms were unnaturally contorted, signifyin that they were broken. And the /pols zoomed in on a big old bullet hole at the base of her skull.

she did not look alive

massive head wound

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 10, 2023 05:02 PM (AcWfM)

150 If you base your views on Blade Runner , the future population will be 80% Chinese.

If you base it on The Matrix , it will be 75% black.

The Hollywood fantasy of a non white world has been around for a long time.

Posted by: Drive By at October 10, 2023 05:02 PM (MNhXM)

151 148 Paul Schrader was/is, if I recall, Dutch Reformed Calvinist which is explained in 'Hardcore', rather succinctly.

I liked 'Light Sleeper' with Willem Dafoe.
Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 05:02 PM (/BBNv)

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He's making one final movie now.

And then he goes on the list!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 05:03 PM (LvTSG)

152 But they all have to go to confession first because the demon will publicly announce the sins of whoever is present.

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It would be like someone hacked my phone all over again.

Posted by: Flaming Frank Biden at October 10, 2023 05:03 PM (h3ySp)

153 A woke movie in 2023? Da fuq outta here with these conspiracy theories.

Posted by: Montec at October 10, 2023 05:03 PM (bWsRe)

154 For genuine scares, I used to listen to Art Bell. Harlot the Witch really gave me the creeps.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 10, 2023 05:03 PM (IBWqU)

155 >>Lawrence of Arabia is the tale of a madman who tries to bend the world to his will.

Dances with Wolves is about a bored military officer who bangs an available white squaw.
___

I understand. But both are "going native" stories, like Avatar after them DwW and Avatar are more alike than LoA, though.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 10, 2023 05:03 PM (bNf8H)

156 My favorite horror movie of all time is Carpente's The Thing, with Alien coming in a close second. They are both pretty old movies.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 10, 2023 05:03 PM (pohLc)

157 A priest jumping out a window to kill the demon he just saved a girl from while sacrificing his own life doesn't sound very woke.

Everyone is against toxic masculinity until they need to get the lid off a jar of pickles.

Posted by: Or dispose of a demon by jumping out a window. You get the idea. at October 10, 2023 05:03 PM (ppBhU)

158 97 Off-topic.

Is there anywhere to get news on what the hell is happening in Israel right now without commentary that won't make me want to start punch holes in my screen worse than I already do?
Posted by: Ryan Frank at October 10, 2023 04:54 PM (SLZRw)

I24news english from Israel

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 10, 2023 05:03 PM (dKiJG)

159 I'm pretty sure Hillary loosens up in the morning by rotating her head around to the back.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at October 10, 2023 05:04 PM (VdGjU)

160 Except this time, there are two possessed 12-year-olds -- talk about upping the stakes! -- and one of them is black!

But is one a tranny???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 10, 2023 05:04 PM (llON8)

161 138 Exorcist 3 is a good movie.

It may be a good movie. But as near as I can tell it has as much to do with the Exorcist as Halloween III has to do with Halloween.

Also, I find George C. Scott pretty unwatchable. In horror at least, for which he is too high falutin. The Changeling. Lol.
Posted by: Old actors never fade away, they just keep beating their wives. at October 10, 2023 05:00 PM (ppBhU)

Uhhh..it has the same writer/creator: William Peter Blatty.

It directly links to the first movie through Father Dyer, the Inspector and through father Karras, played by the same actor as the first movie.

Tastes vary as far as actors of course. I like Scott overall.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 05:04 PM (xcxpd)

162 Scary movie, man.

Posted by: ace at October 10, 2023 04:44 PM (KRtlO)

One of the brats suggested it to me.

Yup...pretty scary.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 10, 2023 05:04 PM (3Gtis)

163 He's making one final movie now.
And then he goes on the list!'

HAHAHA!!! About damn time

Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 05:04 PM (/BBNv)

164 Sure, Woke steadily has been gaining strength, from making an ordinary guy lose his job to now getting autistic kids to lose their genitals. But to defeat the evil one is a bit of a stretch. I'll pass.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 10, 2023 05:05 PM (zBYaP)

165 How did they not blame the Catholic Church?? Shocked Shocked.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 10, 2023 05:05 PM (dKiJG)

166 Is the pea soup still green?

Posted by: DaveA at October 10, 2023 05:05 PM (FhXTo)

167 The Power of Hashish compels you! The Power of Eatables compels you!

Posted by: Dr Spank at October 10, 2023 05:05 PM (HbvSG)

168 163 He's making one final movie now.
And then he goes on the list!'

HAHAHA!!! About damn time
Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 05:04 PM (/BBNv)

=======

I just don't like revisiting my lists. They're a pain to reorder when something new comes out.

It's why I waited until Friedkin died to put him on the list (won't happen for a while). He has one final movie about to come out, too, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 05:06 PM (LvTSG)

169 >160 Except this time, there are two possessed 12-year-olds -- talk about upping the stakes! -- and one of them is black!

But is one a tranny???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 10, 2023 05:04 PM (llON

That's what the sequel is for.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at October 10, 2023 05:06 PM (GTqXr)

170 How do these studios survive with flop after flop? Is this a case of 5 flops that lose $200M each, followed by a comic book movie makes $1.5B and all is well?

Posted by: Montec at October 10, 2023 05:06 PM (bWsRe)

171 147 It sounds like even Lenny Riefenstahl would be ashamed of this movie.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 10, 2023 05:02 PM (BdMk6)

Well yeah, she was a great filmmaker. Despite being an unrepentant Nazi.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 05:06 PM (xcxpd)

172 George C. Scott in that Exorcist movie seemed more of a riff on the franchise, and reminded/reminds me quite a bit of late-stage Frank Sinatra 'detective' movies.

Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 05:06 PM (/BBNv)

173 "If there is no God, what are you fighting Satan with? The power of friendship?!"

Exactly what the woke thinks is god.

Posted by: look whats not at October 10, 2023 05:06 PM (nakGR)

174 The Exorcist series on HBO I think was really really good

how did that fall thru the cracks?

it was fantastic

there are some really good horror anthologies and series on streaming. some of the best horror content can be found there

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 10, 2023 05:06 PM (AcWfM)

175 Is Pazuzu the hero of the movie?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at October 10, 2023 05:06 PM (VdGjU)

176 "Wait, wait, wait....Jack Straw has a boat specifically for fornication?"

"They all do."

With the customized "Stabbin' Cabin"

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 10, 2023 05:06 PM (R2gO3)

177 >I am more of a fan of Rich now, though, for some reason.
Posted by: ace at October 10, 2023 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

Dick The Birthday Boy has grown on me as well.

I haven't watched much of their stuff in the last few years, but I do enjoy their TNG content. Come to think of it, they haven't done much of that lately either.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at October 10, 2023 05:07 PM (WhX4C)

178 " then Satan (or Pazuzu) laughs and this innocent 12-year-old girl is sent to hell to be tortured for all eternity. Because this Trump-Supporting MAGA scumbag didn't give the Devil the right answer."

That's not how possession works, but okay...

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at October 10, 2023 05:07 PM (KB0Aa)

179 I finished reading the content (mostly).

Did FakePope Frankie write this shit? Him and his little buddy Pachamama or whatever that thing it.

(the screenplay, not the post, you Morons!)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 10, 2023 05:07 PM (llON8)

180 I just don't like revisiting my lists. They're a pain to reorder when something new comes out.
It's why I waited until Friedkin died to put him on the list (won't happen for a while). He has one final movie about to come out, too, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason'

No, I mean it's about time Schrader wrapped it up!

Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 05:07 PM (/BBNv)

181 Has Critical Drinker reviewed it yet? It's odd. I prefer watching his reviews than watching the actual movie being reviewed. - Puddleglum

Same here.

Posted by: Paco at October 10, 2023 05:07 PM (njExo)

182
It's why I waited until Friedkin died to put him on the list (won't happen for a while). He has one final movie about to come out, too, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 05:06 PM (LvTSG)

Oooh, a Friedkin retrospective?!! Sweet, another rare one where I already own the movies for it...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 05:07 PM (xcxpd)

183 >>>Feel free to hate RLM, but they are the anti-shills.

they are anti-shills, yeah, but I think the guy who said they were steppin fetchit was making a point like "if you're still seeing these movies, even if you pan them, you're still part of the Machine.'

But yeah they've created memes like "consume product wait for next product" that really make anyone who's a fanboy question his life.

Posted by: ace at October 10, 2023 05:00 PM (KRtlO)

I think they were miffed that the fanbase with the Force Awakens didn't wait for them to product the definitive slam on their schedule and did it themselves and it resulted in their piece on the Force Awakens was late, and strange, seemingly going after fandom too.

After that they were just another player in the anti establishment media game.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 10, 2023 05:07 PM (eoQWY)

184 170 How do these studios survive with flop after flop? Is this a case of 5 flops that lose $200M each, followed by a comic book movie makes $1.5B and all is well?
Posted by: Montec at October 10, 2023 05:06 PM (bWsRe)

=======

Well, Blumhouse is one of the best studios financially.

They make dirt-cheap stuff (even this actual production budget was only about $25 million, most of the rest are sub-$5), and they make several multiples pretty consistently.

Jason Blum is essentially the modern, horror version of Roger Corman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 05:07 PM (LvTSG)

185 so far my October movies - Cobweb, Malignant, Talk to Me (again, I liked it that much) and M3GAN - all great

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 10, 2023 05:07 PM (AcWfM)

186 Saw it. Worse than you can imagine.

I actually really liked the first act. It was genuinely creepy and was really building tension.

Then she used her patriarchy line;

And the film took an absolute nosedive into hot fucking garbage and proceeded to get worse with each passing scene.

I left the theater actually angry.

Posted by: Cashin at October 10, 2023 05:07 PM (W5On5)

187 Wow, the Christianist little girl dragged to Hell for eternity...I hate to do the reductio ad Hitlerium but that's like it's out of a Nazi propaganda film.

I'm sure it'll appeal to my dipshit atheist nieces who consider Halloween to be their High Season.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 10, 2023 05:08 PM (IBWqU)

188 They only got away with this because I'm dead.

Posted by: William Friedkin at October 10, 2023 05:08 PM (WWBWe)

189 Inquiring minds like mine want to know who got the $400 million paid for rights. Somebody was guffawing all the way to the bank.

Posted by: Introverted Elephocentric Hypochondriac at October 10, 2023 05:08 PM (rw/ga)

190 182 Oooh, a Friedkin retrospective?!! Sweet, another rare one where I already own the movies for it...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 05:07 PM (xcxpd)

========

Six months or so.

Paul Leni, Joe Dante, Frank Capra, Pier Paolo Pasolini, George Romero, and Ishiro Honda first. Plus the rest of the Best Pictures.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 05:08 PM (LvTSG)

191 >>My favorite horror movie of all time is Carpente's The Thing

True story. When I first got out of college I played on my company's softball team. After the game a bunch of us went over to our co-workers place for a couple beers.

His roommate and his roommate's girlfriend were there and they were getting ready to watch this scary movie with a new popcorn concoction they had just come up with so we watch it with them.

The movie turned out to be The Thing and the popcorn concoction was a precursor to what became Smart Food. To this day I look over my shoulder when I eat Smart Food.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2023 05:08 PM (ZLI7S)

192 189 Inquiring minds like mine want to know who got the $400 million paid for rights. Somebody was guffawing all the way to the bank.

yeah Blum was! but honesty he has a great track record with low budget, clever horror

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 10, 2023 05:09 PM (AcWfM)

193 I found M3GAN hilarious.
Like really funny and clever for a B-movie.

Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 05:09 PM (/BBNv)

194 The Skin I Live In was more disgusting than scary. IMHO.

Posted by: Drive By at October 10, 2023 05:09 PM (MNhXM)

195 Are the "Exorist Stairs" in Georgetown still a thing? I recall a couple drunkin visits there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2023 05:09 PM (Q4IgG)

196 How do these studios survive with flop after flop? Is this a case of 5 flops that lose $200M each, followed by a comic book movie makes $1.5B and all is well?
Posted by: Montec at October 10, 2023 05:06 PM (bWsRe)

Now the comic book movies that are claimed to cost 300 million but actually cost 500 million make 200 million or less. There's gonna be some empty seats in Hollywood.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 10, 2023 05:10 PM (eoQWY)

197 Like really funny and clever for a B-movie.

yes! and if that appealed to you watch Malignant

also clever and I thought pretty funny

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 10, 2023 05:10 PM (AcWfM)

198 The bed is on my foot!
Posted by: Richard Pryor, Black Priest in SNL Sketch

LOL !!!

THERE'S a blast from the past !

Posted by: JT at October 10, 2023 05:10 PM (T4tVD)

199 The Priests Trailer Korean movie, they don't crap on traditionally beliefs
https://tinyurl.com/k9k4y6dy

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 10, 2023 05:10 PM (dKiJG)

200 Back in the day, people who used to disparage religion in movies at least had some passing familiarity with the tenets of the religion. If someone had suggested a plot device in which the demon had the authority to condemn someone's soul to hell, they'd have been laughed out of the writers' room. Maybe fired.

They don't make unbelievers like they used to.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 10, 2023 05:10 PM (wzAuc)

201 Pier Paolo Pasolini'

Oh yeah, NOW we're into the weeds, can't wait to see the reaction to THAT.

Posted by: LenNeal seriously can't wait at October 10, 2023 05:10 PM (/BBNv)

202 When will there be a movie with Molech as the hero?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at October 10, 2023 05:10 PM (VdGjU)

203 195 Are the "Exorist Stairs" in Georgetown still a thing? I recall a couple drunkin visits there.

whenever my kid plays there I go to the stairs

to me they're still a "thing"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 10, 2023 05:10 PM (AcWfM)

204 More exorcisms on the way...

The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
'The 700 Club' Sets Rapture Clock Two Minutes Closer To The Start Of The Tribulation https://buff.ly/3rOohjB

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 10, 2023 05:11 PM (TGPs7)

205 Conference call time.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2023 05:11 PM (ZLI7S)

206 How can it be called Exorcist: Believer when no one, apparently, actually believes?

Posted by: GWB at October 10, 2023 05:11 PM (NvvR3)

207 CNN has an explainer on the $6B Iran got. After investigating it all, CNN has concluded it's just Republicans pouncing and that Biden/Obama did nothing wrong and Iran is indeed innocent in all of this.

Phew and here I was worried.

Posted by: Montec at October 10, 2023 05:11 PM (bWsRe)

208 Inquiring minds like mine want to know who got the $400 million paid for rights. Somebody was guffawing all the way to the bank.
Posted by: Introverted Elephocentric Hypochondriac at October 10, 2023 05:08 PM (rw/ga)

We are shocked! Shocked, that anybody would do that.

Posted by: JRR Tolkien's Grandkids at October 10, 2023 05:11 PM (F1Gu6)

209 Ken Russell's The Devils is creepy and religious and historic

twisted but the story itself is twisted

a favorite

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 10, 2023 05:11 PM (AcWfM)

210 Paul Leni, Joe Dante, Frank Capra, Pier Paolo Pasolini, George Romero, and Ishiro Honda first. Plus the rest of the Best Pictures.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason at October 10, 2023 05:08 PM (LvTSG)

I have thoughts on...half of them.
But'll I'll try to read all of them.

Honda's gonna be a long one, tho

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 05:11 PM (xcxpd)

211 "...then Satan (or Pazuzu)...

There is only one.

Posted by: Father Merrin at October 10, 2023 05:12 PM (IBWqU)

212 When will there be a movie with Molech as the hero?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at October 10, 2023 05:10 PM (VdGjU)

There've been a couple of pro-abortion movies, haven't there?

Posted by: GWB at October 10, 2023 05:12 PM (NvvR3)

213 There is also a scene where the demon torments a nurse about her abortion;

“You killed your baby…scraped out like a rotten pumpkin”

Which was decidedly pro-life even if being said by a demon, a woke writer wouldn’t even allow that line in there. ITS HEALTHCARE after all.

All the more shocking when it became a woke mess.

Posted by: Cashin at October 10, 2023 05:12 PM (W5On5)

214 "If there is no God, what are you fighting Satan with? The power of friendship?!"

Well... Friendship is magic, Y'know.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 10, 2023 05:13 PM (Wy1BU)

215 @198

"Your mama sews socks that smell!"

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 10, 2023 05:13 PM (IBWqU)

216 True story. When I first got out of college I played on my company's softball team. After the game a bunch of us went over to our co-workers place for a couple beers.

His roommate and his roommate's girlfriend were there and they were getting ready to watch this scary movie with a new popcorn concoction they had just come up with so we watch it with them.
The movie turned out to be The Thing and the popcorn concoction was a precursor to what became Smart Food. To this day I look over my shoulder when I eat Smart Food.
Posted by: JackStraw'

I think you have mentioned this prior. What a thing. During Rona The Kid and I went to see The Thing on a big screen, our local was running revivals and man, did that hold up. I thought it would be hokey but now way, man, that movie is scary as shit.

Posted by: LenNeal seriously can't wait at October 10, 2023 05:13 PM (/BBNv)

217 My favorite horror movie of all time is Carpente's The Thing

I always thought THE FOG and PRINCE OF DARKNESS were good, Prince of Darkness where everybody near the object have the same Dream was always creepy

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 10, 2023 05:14 PM (dKiJG)

218 Since being trapped in a loop type situation is nit my favorite thing, my two movies that make me the most uncomfortable are 1408 and The Cube.

Posted by: Drive By at October 10, 2023 05:14 PM (MNhXM)

219 "Your mama sews socks that smell!"

wait was that SNL or like, a comedy movie?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 10, 2023 05:14 PM (AcWfM)

220 Yimmy, what you do Yimmy?

Posted by: Archer at October 10, 2023 05:14 PM (gmo/4)

221 The Power of Hashish compels you! The Power of Eatables compels you!
Posted by: Dr Spank

You know what's actually hard to find now? Good, ol' traditional hashish. Good stuff.

Posted by: SFGoth at October 10, 2023 05:14 PM (KAi1n)

222 >> Spoiler alert for a 50 year old movie.

And I was going to pick up a vhs from Blockbuster tonight to watch this movie.

Dang.

Posted by: Lancelot_Link at October 10, 2023 05:14 PM (xNeIs)

223 > Lenny Riefenstahl

Lenny? I had no idea she'd "transitioned".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 10, 2023 05:14 PM (Y6AXb)

224 When will there be a movie with Molech as the hero?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at October 10, 2023 05:10 PM (VdGjU

"The Margaret Sangar Story"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 10, 2023 05:15 PM (F1Gu6)

225 218 Since being trapped in a loop type situation is nit my favorite thing, my two movies that make me the most uncomfortable are 1408 and The Cube.

the Cube is good. it sticks with you

if you like that try The Platform

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 10, 2023 05:15 PM (AcWfM)

226 > Richard Pryor, Black Priest in SNL Sketch

The Exorcist bit on one of his albums is even funnier. As one would expect, it's extremely NSFW.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 10, 2023 05:15 PM (Y6AXb)

227 "Your mama sews socks that smell!"

wait was that SNL or like, a comedy movie?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 10, 2023 05:14 PM (AcWfM)

Eddie Murphy as a priest in the SNL Exorcist skit was hilarious!

Posted by: Archer at October 10, 2023 05:15 PM (gmo/4)

228 From the descriptions of this movie, I have a different take. I think the rolls have been reversed. The good guys are pesky but lovable kids getting their freak on. The bad guys are the hierarchical authoritarians trying to take the fun out of life.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 10, 2023 05:15 PM (BdMk6)

229 Conference call time.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2023 05:11 PM (ZLI7S)

HIYA !

Posted by: JT at October 10, 2023 05:16 PM (T4tVD)

230 Uhhh..it has the same writer/creator: William Peter Blatty.

It directly links to the first movie through Father Dyer, the Inspector and through father Karras, played by the same actor as the first movie.

Oh, I understand the links. But those are pretty threadbare links. The links are inessential. You could make this same movie with any detective, any priest, and it's still be the same story, which really isn't about or like the original. Maybe thoise connections come across as more meaningful in the novel. I don't know.

Posted by: I've never liked any of the movies beyond the first one though. at October 10, 2023 05:16 PM (ppBhU)

231 > You know what's actually hard to find now? Good, ol' traditional hashish. Good stuff.
Posted by: SFGoth at October 10, 2023 05:14 PM (KAi1n)

Yeah, that stuff was everywhere back in the early '80s.

Err..... or so I've heard.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 10, 2023 05:16 PM (Y6AXb)

232 I'm confused, is the demon transgendered or is it the possessed children, or is it both?

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at October 10, 2023 05:16 PM (Somy5)

233 OH, my bad Richard Pryor.

Posted by: Archer at October 10, 2023 05:16 PM (gmo/4)

234 When will there be a movie with Molech as the hero?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd

Yes, the Obama bio-pic.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 10, 2023 05:16 PM (IG4Id)

235 Coming soon.....Amos and the Anti-Christ

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 10, 2023 05:17 PM (9i2W3)

236 Pier Paolo Pasolini, George Romero, and Ishiro Honda first. Plus the rest of the Best Pictures.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, at Camp Crystal Lake with Jason'

Some of my all-time favorite reviews on Netflix Back When was when they streamed 'Arabian Nights', 1974 Pasolini, and people turned it on thinking it was 'Aladdin', 1992 Disney, based on punching in the search term.

Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 05:17 PM (/BBNv)

237 232 I'm confused, is the demon transgendered or is it the possessed children, or is it both?
Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at October 10, 2023 05:16 PM (Somy5)

The demon possess two girls

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 05:17 PM (xcxpd)

238 Sadly, Twitter/X is your best source of info. Find an uploader you like and follow them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Why sadly?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at October 10, 2023 05:18 PM (G1VkD)

239 You know what's actually hard to find now? Good, ol' traditional hashish. Good stuff.
Posted by: SFGoth'

Not in the Balkans.

Posted by: LenNeal will steer you in the right direction at October 10, 2023 05:20 PM (/BBNv)

240 > The Exorcist bit on one of his albums is even funnier. As one would expect, it's extremely NSFW.

https://is.gd/ePAHbB

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 10, 2023 05:20 PM (Y6AXb)

241 Why don't porn stars and models get possessed in movies? Seems like a given.

Posted by: Dr Spank at October 10, 2023 05:20 PM (ANH3w)

242 You know what's actually hard to find now? Good, ol' traditional hashish. Good stuf
---
Hash under glass!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2023 05:20 PM (Q4IgG)

243 Sadly, Twitter/X is your best source of info. Find an uploader you like and follow them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Why sadly?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at October 10, 2023 05:18 PM (G1VkD)

Social media is cancer

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 10, 2023 05:21 PM (xcxpd)

244 238 Sadly, Twitter/X is your best source of info. Find an uploader you like and follow them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Why sadly?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at October 10, 2023 05:18 PM (G1VkD)

I24news english on Youtube it's from Isreal

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 10, 2023 05:21 PM (w6+3J)

245 218 Since being trapped in a loop type situation is nit my favorite thing, my two movies that make me the most uncomfortable are 1408 and The Cube.
----
"It's an evil fucking room." -- Samuel L. Jackson

What more needs to be said?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 10, 2023 05:21 PM (YIVH2)

246 I saw a preview the other day for a romantic comedy starring Peter Dinklage and Anne Hathaway. I guess I'm anti-midget or whatever, but that seems weird.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 10, 2023 05:22 PM (DRSnL)

247 I remember seeing Hereditary a few years ago, which is a MUCH better possession movie. SPOILERS below...

After watching it I decided to read about it and...the demon in the movie, one Paimon.

They didn't invent that character for the movie as the demon comes from a book from the 1800s. And there were videos online people claiming they summonsed him both before and after the movie came out.

What a stupid time to be alive. In Soviet America we've moved away from all that "religious mumbo jumbo" to...people posting supposed demon summoning videos to youtube.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 10, 2023 05:22 PM (XqcwY)

248 Why don't porn stars and models get possessed in movies? Seems like a given.
Posted by: Dr Spank

The lore dictates that the Devil taking the young and somewhat innocent is to terrify believers and mock God. The fallen aren't as effective in that no one's surprised.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 10, 2023 05:22 PM (IG4Id)

249 Can't say way from day 1 in Ukraine I didn't believe a word from either side, yet Israel am believing almost everything.
But hope the Propaganda doesn't get stated though know their is nk reason it seems to make up anything.

Am I off my rocker?

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2023 05:22 PM (fwDg9)

250 Why don't porn stars and models get possessed in movies? Seems like a given.
Posted by: Dr Spank at October 10, 2023

***
Succubus, starring Veronica Avluv and Nikki Rhodes!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2023 05:22 PM (J2vNu)

251 the most uncomfortable are 1408'

1408 is a weird, weird movie and very effective. I didn't figure it out until probably halfway through as I just thought of Cusack as Lloyd.

Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 05:23 PM (/BBNv)

252 Peter Gibbons:
What would you do if you had a million dollars?

Pazuzu:
I'll tell you what I'd do, man, possess two chicks at the same time, man.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 10, 2023 05:23 PM (XqcwY)

253 Harvey Cthuhlu, to whore up the pointy tip of your excellent review are you saying The Wokercist Twins vs. The Diversity Shamans is a remake of Snow Woke and the Diversity Hires?

Posted by: lost in space at October 10, 2023 05:24 PM (0WYmJ)

254 Wait, there's a midget exorcist film coming out?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 10, 2023 05:24 PM (IBWqU)

255 Thai stick, FTW.

Says a friend.

Posted by: DOYLE at October 10, 2023 05:24 PM (Z8Yh2)

256 Why don't porn stars and models get possessed in movies? Seems like a given.
Posted by: Dr Spank

My career needs a shot on the arm!

---Mia Khalifa

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 10, 2023 05:24 PM (9i2W3)

257 Something Wicked This Way Comes

I Love this movie so much, be careful what you wish for, When Disney made good Movies

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 10, 2023 05:25 PM (w6+3J)

258 Peter Gibbons:
What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Pazuzu:
I'll tell you what I'd do, man, possess two chicks at the same time, man.
Posted by: 18-1'

Nothing.

Posted by: LenNeal would do that. at October 10, 2023 05:25 PM (/BBNv)

259 I'm no movie buff, but I always assumed the exorcist was like gone with the wind or the wizard of Oz or Bambi. Pretty much perfect, leave it alone.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at October 10, 2023 05:25 PM (7Sday)

260 >>> 249 Can't say way from day 1 in Ukraine I didn't believe a word from either side, yet Israel am believing almost everything.
But hope the Propaganda doesn't get stated though know their is nk reason it seems to make up anything.

Am I off my rocker?
Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2023 05:22 PM (fwDg9)

I haven't been watching the teewee.

Mostly I've heard of atrocities committed by mooslims, which ... isn't a stretch to believe.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 10, 2023 05:26 PM (llON8)

261 When will there be a movie with Molech as the hero?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd
Yes, the Obama bio-pic.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 10, 2023 05:16 PM (IG4Id)

Remember when there was a movie about Christ and the Devil was played by an actor who happened to resemble Obama? Maybe somebody knew something.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 10, 2023 05:26 PM (F1Gu6)

262 Exorcist 3 deals with faith, evil and its ability to strike out at good people, and create havoc for seemingly no good reason. So yes, it fits the originals theme but doesn't just copy the steps. It's also one of the films where the studiomade the right choice and forced an alternative ending. The Shout release has a production copy/work of that footage, and...yeah.

Posted by: Bete at October 10, 2023 05:26 PM (g1vYl)

263 Peter Gibbons:
What would you do if you had a million dollars?

-

That's not even enough to retire on after 2021.

Wow.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at October 10, 2023 05:26 PM (7Sday)

264 Something Wicked This Way Comes
I Love this movie so much, be careful what you wish for, When Disney made good Movies
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio'

The Black Hole. That ending is...

Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 05:26 PM (/BBNv)

265 @170 Montec , how do studios survive flop after flop? Volume

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 10, 2023 05:26 PM (eNQKw)

266 When James Cameron named his villain Colonel Deathkill McMurderface, I thought that was a little heavy-handed.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 10, 2023 05:26 PM (44ww/)

267 how bad is Del Toro's Frankenstein gonna be? as bad as the deNiro one? worse?

I say worse

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 10, 2023 05:27 PM (AcWfM)

268 259 I'm no movie buff, but I always assumed the exorcist was like gone with the wind or the wizard of Oz or Bambi. Pretty much perfect, leave it alone.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at October 10, 2023 05:25 PM (7Sday)

Their is a 15 Minute Intro to Gone With The Wind on how Racist it is, F you TCM

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 10, 2023 05:27 PM (w6+3J)

269 I saw the original in the theater and it scared me. I won't be seeing this one because I'd be scared, no not that. I'd get thrown out for being a disruption.

Posted by: Eromero at October 10, 2023 05:27 PM (NxC5+)

270 Something Wicked This Way Comes

I also like this one. The book is a favorite.

I have a distinct memory from childhood of the scene in which the witch travels by hot air balloon to one of the boy's roofs. Problem is, the movie doesn't have that scene. So my brain must have invented this memory (pretty sure it's in the book). Which is super reassuring about the quality of my memories.

Posted by: I've never liked any of the movies beyond the first one though. at October 10, 2023 05:28 PM (ppBhU)

271 248 Why don't porn stars and models get possessed in movies? Seems like a given.
Posted by: Dr Spank

The lore dictates that the Devil taking the young and somewhat innocent is to terrify believers and mock God. The fallen aren't as effective in that no one's surprised.

Posted by: weft cut-loop

A lot of these ladies are working their way through college so I won't judge them. You hearing me Pazuzu? They're innocent, so leave them alone.

Posted by: Dr Spank at October 10, 2023 05:28 PM (ANH3w)

272 >>> 266 When James Cameron named his villain Colonel Deathkill McMurderface, I thought that was a little heavy-handed.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 10, 2023 05:26 PM (44ww/)

More subtle than I would expect from Cameron.... was the bad guy's middle name 'cisnormative white supremacist'?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 10, 2023 05:28 PM (llON8)

273 When James Cameron named his villain Colonel Deathkill McMurderface, I thought that was a little heavy-handed.
Posted by: BourbonChicken'

I am required to have my name embroidered on my shirts at work and have been threatening for years to get one that reads, 'Hey You', but that's a far better suggestion.

Posted by: LenNeal will do it, you watch at October 10, 2023 05:28 PM (/BBNv)

274 >>> 265 @170 Montec , how do studios survive flop after flop? Volume
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 10, 2023 05:26 PM (eNQKw)

*tee hee*

Posted by: Hollywood Accounting, probably in bed with Money Laundering at October 10, 2023 05:29 PM (llON8)

275 American Families of hostages taken to Gaza speak out

https://tinyurl.com/bp6ayy3t

goes to ABC news youtube

Posted by: kallisto at October 10, 2023 05:29 PM (ZuJrE)

276 > Why don't porn stars and models get possessed in movies? Seems like a given.
Posted by: Dr Spank

Dude, you need to catch up on the classics.

https://is.gd/2JjyeY (SFW link to Wikipedia)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 10, 2023 05:30 PM (Y6AXb)

277 270 Something Wicked This Way Comes

I also like this one. The book is a favorite.

I have a distinct memory from childhood of the scene in which the witch travels by hot air balloon to one of the boy's roofs. Problem is, the movie doesn't have that scene. So my brain must have invented this memory (pretty sure it's in the book). Which is super reassuring about the quality of my memories.
Posted by: I've never liked any of the movies beyond the first one though. at October 10, 2023 05:28 PM (ppBhU)

I got the Blu-ray and it has an alternate version or ending and I have to watch it so you might be right.

I think it's the TV version

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 10, 2023 05:30 PM (w6+3J)

278 249 Can't say way from day 1 in Ukraine I didn't believe a word from either side, yet Israel am believing almost everything.
But hope the Propaganda doesn't get stated though know their is nk reason it seems to make up anything.

Am I off my rocker?
Posted by: Skip

I think so.
I thought the "40 babies, some beheaded" was suspect. I am not saying the Gazaians are not evil and capable of doing that, only that there is no reason to believe these early reports and right now anyone could say anything.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at October 10, 2023 05:30 PM (G1VkD)

279 Why don't porn stars and models get possessed in movies?

Because they're crying out for God's assistance the whole time.

Posted by: Duh at October 10, 2023 05:31 PM (ppBhU)

280 Avatar Villain, according to the internet:

"You speak so proudly of the plugs dangling from your skulls, little realizing that they are but strings and you puppets. What little you have accomplished you attribute to the wisdom of your goddess, who is nothing but the voices of your dead echoing for all eternity. She moors you to the past, serving as a leash that keeps you as little better than apes, sad parodies of civilization that lack that special spark to become something more.

"We have come to your world in search of resources. Whether your actions drive us back or we take what we want and move on, the outcome is the same. We will depart from your wretched planet, leaving you behind. And in a thousand years, you will not have changed from this contact with another world. You will remain in your trees, hunting your prey, communing with your goddess, until your sun burns out and your world dies.

"And above your tomb, the stars will belong to us..."

Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 10, 2023 05:32 PM (44ww/)

281 Peter Gibbons:
What would you do if you had a million dollars?

-

That's not even enough to retire on after 2021.

Wow.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at October 10, 2023 05:26 PM (7Sday)

Depends on how old and close to room temperature one is. For the young, $1 million isn't much anymore. For an 80 year-old it's the jackpot of a lifetime.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 10, 2023 05:32 PM (BdMk6)

282 What was that soap opera in the 1990s where the one character got possessed? It was the absolute talk of the ghetto where I lived at the time.
I had to look it up!
'Days Of Our Lives', the TVs at the currency exchanges and such ran it and people were just rapt!
We're all like, 'Uh, I'm here to get my plates renewed, WTF is all that goin' on up there?'

Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 05:32 PM (/BBNv)

283 I had a thought on another site.

There was discussion about "stolen land."

Made me think - in 100 years, when whites are pushed out of Europe and wandering the world in a diaspora, and some find a foothold in, perhaps Norway, will they be invaders too? Will their settlements be stolen land?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at October 10, 2023 05:33 PM (G1VkD)

284 Possession films are big business. Those Insidious, Conjuring, and Nun films collectively made BILLIONS of dollars. On small budgets.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 10, 2023 05:34 PM (vnmXK)

285 ...

Even Allan Smithee would have the decency to have his name removed from this movie.

Meanwhile C.S. Lewis is busily tearing up The Screwtape Letters in the afterlife.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2023 05:34 PM (MEceg)

286 I have a distinct memory from childhood of the scene in which the witch travels by hot air balloon'

The ending of CATS. That movie was disturbing. I've mentioned it before but for real, it was a Trip in the 'LSD' sense like I know the concession stand spiked my popcorn.

Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 05:34 PM (/BBNv)

287 nude

Posted by: Dr Spank at October 10, 2023 05:35 PM (ANH3w)

288 I am a huge fan of Kenneth Brannaugh, and I will tell you to avoid the Deniro Frankenstein. Under no circumstances will Del Toro produce a worse movie than that.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 10, 2023 05:35 PM (44ww/)

289 Muslims don't always toss out the invaded population, they tax them and like public humiliation.

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2023 05:35 PM (fwDg9)

290 They should just change the background music to something slapstick, add a laugh track, and it would make a great comedy!

Posted by: The Script Doctor at October 10, 2023 05:36 PM (WW2im)

291 There will be a sequel, it's already in production.

I think I read it's called the Co-Existorcist.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at October 10, 2023 05:36 PM (daLFM)

292 Speaking of racism, it's worth looking up the racist history of the lawn jockey. It's tied to the American Revolution and a young black man that fought with Washington

Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at October 10, 2023 05:36 PM (7Sday)

293 nude
Posted by: Dr Spank'

Saw it, it bombed

Posted by: LenNeal at October 10, 2023 05:36 PM (/BBNv)

294 The $400 million figure for the rights has got to be bullshit, or egregious self-dealing. Possession films are a dime a dozen (see my comment above) and they’re all basically the same. The “exorcist” has no meaningful brand recognition to the younger moviegoing public. They will probably think the Exorcist is a ripoff of the Insidious films, rather than the other way around.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 10, 2023 05:37 PM (vnmXK)

295 Actually each Catholic Diocese will refer those with a possible case of possession to psychiatrist first. When all mundane efforts fail, then will a priest be called in.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2023 05:39 PM (MEceg)

296 nood

Posted by: Dr Spank at October 10, 2023 05:40 PM (ANH3w)

297 Last

Posted by: Lancelot_Link at October 10, 2023 05:41 PM (xNeIs)

298 To attend an exorcism you need to be two things, useful and completely imperturbable. The mom in the original was neither. Everyone else is just a liability. Accidental correct plot point. Since they never did get a real exorcist to do a real exorcism, the demon is never "forced" to leave or do much of anything against his will, and essentially "wins" by claiming the soul of an innocent. Good job inadvertently making the point that only God can cast out demons.

Posted by: mikethemoose at October 10, 2023 05:42 PM (AmpGx)

299 What was it that Dark Helmet said, "...now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb"?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 10, 2023 05:44 PM (fY84s)

300 Who the fuck told these retards that the rights to The Exorcist was worth $400 million ??? Get a second opinion for fuck sakes

Posted by: deadrody at October 10, 2023 06:12 PM (aP/y7)

301 The Exorcist TV show that was on Fox about five years ago was actually pretty decent. Some good scares, and one really solid "oh shit" moment in the second season.

Plus the current pope was obviously influenced by the Church hierarchy storyline.

Posted by: Werner's Shoe at October 10, 2023 06:18 PM (6B7GV)

302 Awww! i missed the Exorcist thread...

Anyway-

The greatest trick Satan ever pulled was the apparently endless supply of terrible Exorcist sequels.

Including what has to be the most heretical version- The Exorcist TV series, wherein the Exorcist was teh ghey and regularly breaking his vow of chastity by regularly getting cornholed.

The trailers made it pretty obvious but I still couldn't believe that H'wood was going with the most stupid aspect of Exorcist II: The Locustification, for The Exorcist: Believer and that was
doing away with the Catholic aspect and going with (mostly) Science!!! for a demon problem.

But, I'm sure the Super Friends of Spirituality and Crystal Power were just as good as those grotty old white Catholic guys.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 10, 2023 06:21 PM (QzZeQ)

303 In real life, Exorcists have to live lives of extreme purity.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at October 10, 2023 06:28 PM (8fpTj)

304 Atheists performing an exorcism would be an oxymoron.

Maybe the makers of this movie thought they were being clever and trying to suggest that Satan == God, the creator of Heaven and Earth.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2023 06:36 PM (pJWtt)

305 Taking Christianity out of an Exorcist movie is...I can't even explain how stupid that is. Most of the horror of the original is directly tied to the fact that, for the purposes of the film's story, Christianity (and specifically the Catholic Church) is REAL.

It's like trying to make a Star Wars movie where the Force is, in Han Solo's words, just a hokey superstition.

Posted by: Ex-liberal at October 10, 2023 06:45 PM (wxmlD)

306 I had a thought on another site.

There was discussion about "stolen land."

Made me think - in 100 years, when whites are pushed out of Europe and wandering the world in a diaspora, and some find a foothold in, perhaps Norway, will they be invaders too? Will their settlements be stolen land?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at October 10, 2023 05:33 PM (G1VkD)

Only by the leftists whites exiled with them and the toadies they infect in the unis. Most people just fight people they don't like and push them out, or lose. This pre battle and post battle hand wringing is almost excusively a West thing.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 10, 2023 07:16 PM (eoQWY)

307 Taking Christianity out of an Exorcist movie is...I can't even explain how stupid that is. Most of the horror of the original is directly tied to the fact that, for the purposes of the film's story, Christianity (and specifically the Catholic Church) is REAL.

It's like trying to make a Star Wars movie where the Force is, in Han Solo's words, just a hokey superstition.
Posted by: Ex-liberal at October 10, 2023 06:45 PM (wxmlD)

The first movie had a staffer say exactly that to Vader just before he got force choked.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 10, 2023 07:17 PM (eoQWY)

308 I actually saw a decent movie the other day "A haunting in Venice" Not the greatest thing every but sheesh, it didn't make me cringe.

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