New Exorcist?

Get the directors of Talk to Me or Saint Maud on the phone!
 
Just got done seeing it. Is it HORRIBLE? No. Should it have tried to connect its self to the main Exorcist? HELL NO. It was just way to generic to be part of its world officially. They played things very safe to the point where you knew exactly what they going to do.

If you are going to have 2 possessed girls in this, at least try to make their stories equally as engaging and ensure that we care about both of them. Unfortunately one girl/family were the MAIN characters and the other set were just along for the ride and just used to kind of prop up the other. That was the biggest disappointment of the film.

They brought back Ellen, paid her a bunch of money and the character was fairly useless, in about maybe 10mins of the film? And they made the mistake of what a lot of franchise films do when they bring back a big character....

The acting was good, the characters were fairly enjoyable, I did enjoy some of what they did with the demonic shots.

I enjoyed when we saw the the one girl who died....her "soul" basically losing and getting dragged into the darkness. It was sad. However you knew she'd the one to not survive this. She wasnt given any sort of real development. She had the "happy" family, a mom/dad/siblings. She had a massive cross scar on her forehead and none of the emotional weight the other girl had...

The other girl lost her mom at birth, raised by a single dad, was SUPER CLOSE to said dad, they had an awesome relationship. She wasnt scarred at all by the possession...face wise. Her side of the supporting characters played the biggest roles. Everything was set up clearly for her to come out as the survivor.

Bringing Chris back only to blind her and take her out the rest of the film...useless. It was nice that they had her finally reunite with Raegan at the end. I enjoyed that the demon knew her, she knew it, they had a good scene together but it was never explored as well as it could have.
 
The Exorcist never should've become a franchise in the first place. This is the problem. The hubris of corporations viewing everything as IP and content. They can't leave well enough alone.

This movie was horrendous. There's absolutely no reason for Ellen Burstyn to appear in this film. What she does in the movie is ridiculous and what happened to her was also ridiculous.

Dialogue was awful.

And I will give the actors credit. I can tell the actors are taking this seriously and clearly trying, especially the young actors. However, Blum and Gordon Green don't understand the original film and what it was about and why it was so powerful.
 
Green and co. plummeted the series back into the ground immediately after but H18 still remains my favorite Halloween sequel.
 
Primal Slayer said:
Just got done seeing it. Is it HORRIBLE? No. Should it have tried to connect its self to the main Exorcist? HELL NO. It was just way to generic to be part of its world officially. They played things very safe to the point where you knew exactly what they going to do.

If you are going to have 2 possessed girls in this, at least try to make their stories equally as engaging and ensure that we care about both of them. Unfortunately one girl/family were the MAIN characters and the other set were just along for the ride and just used to kind of prop up the other. That was the biggest disappointment of the film.

They brought back Ellen, paid her a bunch of money and the character was fairly useless, in about maybe 10mins of the film? And they made the mistake of what a lot of franchise films do when they bring back a big character....

The acting was good, the characters were fairly enjoyable, I did enjoy some of what they did with the demonic shots.

I enjoyed when we saw the the one girl who died....her "soul" basically losing and getting dragged into the darkness. It was sad. However you knew she'd the one to not survive this. She wasnt given any sort of real development. She had the "happy" family, a mom/dad/siblings. She had a massive cross scar on her forehead and none of the emotional weight the other girl had...

The other girl lost her mom at birth, raised by a single dad, was SUPER CLOSE to said dad, they had an awesome relationship. She wasnt scarred at all by the possession...face wise. Her side of the supporting characters played the biggest roles. Everything was set up clearly for her to come out as the survivor.

Bringing Chris back only to blind her and take her out the rest of the film...useless. It was nice that they had her finally reunite with Raegan at the end. I enjoyed that the demon knew her, she knew it, they had a good scene together but it was never explored as well as it could have.
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I hate that ending. I hate having an innocent girl dragged off into hell. That’s just sickening. And it ultimately makes zero sense. The film ultimately shows the demon as all powerful and the various faiths and exorcists as weak. The demon basically beats them all and then strikes a bargain? Why would It do that? It basically proved itself unstoppable.

What a mess. A mean spirited (no pun intended) nihilistic mess.
 
I'm sure the execs at Universal are thanking every god conceived by man for Oppenheimer's unprecedented box office run. Absolutely INSANE to spend $400 million dollars on the rights to this. Fireable, really.
 
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Babillygunn said:
I hate that ending. I hate having an innocent girl dragged off into hell. That’s just sickening. And it ultimately makes zero sense. The film ultimately shows the demon as all powerful and the various faiths and exorcists as weak. The demon basically beats them all and then strikes a bargain? Why would It do that? It basically proved itself unstoppable.

What a mess. A mean spirited (no pun intended) nihilistic mess.
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All came down to the power of love and one parents love being stronger...lol...lord.
 
Boom said:
I'm sure the execs at Universal are thanking every god conceived by man for Oppenheimer's insane box office run. Absolutely INSANE to spend $400 million dollars on the rights to this. Fireable, really.
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Yeah, I'm really confused as to why they spent so much. It was in between Halloween '18 and Halloween Kills, so maybe they thought DGG could spin it into gold but even then, when was the last time an Exorcist movie really lit up the box office?
 
Drizzle said:
Yeah, I'm really confused as to why they spent so much. It was in between Halloween '18 and Halloween Kills, so maybe they thought DGG could spin it into gold but even then, when was the last time an Exorcist movie really lit up the box office?
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In what universe did they think a trilogy of Exorcist films would yield a strong enough return on investment to justify a purchase price like this?

A) This purchase should have never been authorized to go through in the first place.
B) Whoever pushed it through should be fired. It's mind-bendingly irresponsible.
 

This is utterly embarrassing, my god.
 
Boom said:
In what universe did they think a trilogy of Exorcist films would yield a strong enough return on investment to justify a purchase price like this?

A) This purchase should have never been authorized to go through in the first place.
B) Whoever pushed it through should be fired. It's mind-bendingly irresponsible.
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I can't actually think of any horror franchise out there that's worth that price tag. Even the three DGG Halloween movies combined made a worldwide gross of about $500 million and that franchise is arguably far more popular than The Exorcist.
 
I wonder if William Peter Blatty would have considered this a bigger affront than The Heretic.
 
There’s other exorcism movies released every year. The concept isn’t unique anymore. Not worth the alleged $400 million rights buy for something that isn’t exclusive and hasn’t really been relevant since the early 1970s - even if DGG had made a masterpiece or three out of it.
 
The Shape said:
Can't take anyone who says this is worse than Heretic seriously.
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Not what I said.

And what I mean is that Blatty was obviously a very devout Catholic and went so far as to say that he'd hoped The Exorcist would either make believers of those who didn't believe, or rekindle some semblance of faith in lapsed Catholics, etc. This film featuring Ellen Burstyn's character using a variety of world religions in order to cast out the demon seems to fly in the face of what Blatty wrote with the original and sounds even more hokey new-age spiritualism than even The Heretic was.
 
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