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Post by progressiveelement on Jun 2, 2017 16:14:24 GMT

Jun 2, 2017 12:28:40 GMT Arlon10 said:

Jun 1, 2017 17:25:10 GMT progressiveelement said:

That's not really true. 😉

For many at the time, it was scary shit. And it wasn't some B-movie, it was a major production, with noted actors, it made a lot of money, and won Oscars.

And was banned from video in Britain from about 1984 to about 1999. Which was bullshit! What are we? Pussies? Fucking pansy BBFC!!! Assholes!!!! Way to set us back to the Stone Age, wankers.

😐

In fact, to show you how stupid that was - it was available on video in the early 80s. It was banned when the BBFC took over censoring videos because of the whole video nasty bullshit, yet Exorcist was never on any nasties list.

It was a phenomenon and made a lot of money for certain. I think some people watched it like a train wreck though, not wanting to watch just not turning away. I thought it was a really good movie except for the foul language. I think they have the "mature audience" warning backwards. Mature audiences don't need to hear that sort of language. Immature audiences go for that sort of thing. If you can get an edited for television version that would be a really great movie. I have the complete boxed set

The Exorcist
The Exorcist II The Heretic
The Exorcist III
The Exorcist the Beginning (2004)
Dominion prequel to the Exorcist (2005)

I and III are the best, but none of them are edited for television. I would have paid extra for that. I like some of Richard Burton's work especially 1984 (The movie based on the "futuristic" book titled "1984" by George Orwell in 1949, the movie released in 1984).

The 4th and 5th Exorcist movies are the same movie, set in the same place, at the same time, with mostly the same characters. A few characters are different. Some key events are different. That is bizarre, is it not? What other movies have done that?

It seems like picking over junk in a garage sale when they do that.

The 4th and 5th movies were especially anti-militaristic and, perhaps not surprisingly, were not as successful.

4th and 5th are basically two versions of what the 4th was supposed to be, 5th is a rejected version, 4 was result of extensive reshoots and new director.

Closest I can think to it is Superman II, and the Richard Donner cut version. The Donner Cut is a very rough approximation of how the original director planned to make it, with less comedy, a bit more faithfulness to the character (no sudden new powers), no stupid memory wiping kiss, a more understanding Lois than the whiny me me me one. Only thing is, Superman turning back time again. It was meant to feature in II, but seeing it happen again just comes off as a lazy "it was all a dream" type ending.