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I started watching it at one point a while back, I found it so depressingly bad I could not finish it. Maybe I got halfway through it and that was a major struggle. They just never came up with a decent concept about how to make this film, what the story should be, nothing.

They paid $400 million just for the rights to The Exorcist, its story and the characters in that novel? Seriously? I figured that covered some other stuff. If that is all they get for the $400 million, that seems kind of nuts. Basically, stories about exorcism and possession are a dime a dozen...

Maybe it is me, but personally, I think there are too many exorcism/possession films anyway. We recently had two others, The Pope's Exorcist and Nefarious. I fell asleep during The Pope's Exorcist so I will need to go back to finish that. Nothing to do with the film, I was tired when I set out...

Personally, I would much rather see that story than another go at a couple possessed little girls. What do I know though. Probably, the "fans" would say "No possessed children means it is not an Exorcist movie." I read the novel a long time ago and hoped at the time Blatty would turn it into a...

Here's a few bits on Dimiter: The novel begins in Albania, where a spy named Paul Dimiter is tortured by the authorities. Revealed as an "agent from Hell", they try to get more from him, but before they know it, he escapes. The novel moves to Jerusalem one year later, where a half-Arab European...

So, I mentioned this earlier in the thread. Basically, I do not believe this is the way to create a successful "franchise" with whatever they bought the rights to. I probably won't see this film until it is available for home viewing because what I have seen from trailers and clips looks pretty...

Technically, I would say there is nothing for this team of filmmakers to learn from Heretic, except in a story sense. That you do need to create a compelling story to make a sequel, if you want it to be at all a decent film. Heretic was about Boorman taking the story in an opposite direction...

Really, this has happened before, with the two versions of an Exorcist prequel, one of them made by Paul Schrader. In Schrader's film he works off the key concepts of The Exorcist, testing human faith and having to confront "evil" in the world while trying to hang on to that faith. Can you hold...

I'll confess, I am a big fan of The Exorcist and The Exorcist 3, both excellent films in different ways. The key to both films is the focus on the people that are drawn into the possession, not actually on the person that is possessed. That character really mostly comes into play at the climax...

Likely not by accident.

You know, reading Burstyn's comments it sounds like the production is first class and they handled things well. So, what remains to be seen is if they have a good story. Obviously, if they backed up a Brink's truck to land Burstyn, I would think she has a sizable role, otherwise why dump cash on...

I mean, I liked the third film and the Schrader prequel. Neither were as fantastic as the first picture was. Good horror movies though. With this series I am pretty sure what they will do is focus on a new possession. They probably want to move away from the previous pictures and have a new set...

I don't find the team that is making this a particularly good choice. It appears to be a bunch of the same people that did the latest Halloween pictures, which were not great, so this has the fragrance of mediocrity all over it. Probably they write Burstyn's character in, in the simplest way...

My guess would be that they would not want to base the pictures around Burstyn and she is just a name being used to draw old fans in. I would guess they will want to establish a new group of characters so that they can franchise away. It is of note that she is appearing in at least one of these...

Interesting development. Friedkin's last spin around the exorcist ring was the supposed documentary The Devil and Father Amorth...it was horrible and I think the last film we will ever see from him. So, if the devil was looking for revenge on Billy he got it with that disaster. I did like the...