Couldn't the thread, and I'm sure there is one. (Feel free to point me in the right direction. I can never seem to find anything with this search.)
I really love this movie. The exorcism aspect always made it seem disjointed, but I read today that was Morgan Creek Studio's decision and not William Blatty's.
Blatty really should have made more movies than this and The Ninth Configuration. I'm tickled John Carpenter turned it down and left it to Mr. Blatty. The dialogue is enjoyable and memorable. Ed Flanders really holds his own with George C. Scott. The film is intelligent and its moments of brevity serve to heighten the chills. Blasphemy, I know, but I love this movie even more than I do the first film in the series.
(I think the two are different animals and I'm a big fan of William Friedkin.)
I think I appreciate this movie even more as I get older and with each viewing. When I first saw it, I was a young teen who had seen everything from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (thanks, Mama; this was the first movie she bought and on the day we got our first VCR!) to Texas Chainsaw Massacre to every Hammer, Universal, Castle, slasher movie and everything in between. This movie struck me as different. It was like those paradigm-altering albums that come along once in a blue moon, the ones that change your perception of the medium.
But enough about my armchair critique. What do y'all think?
I really love this movie. The exorcism aspect always made it seem disjointed, but I read today that was Morgan Creek Studio's decision and not William Blatty's.
Blatty really should have made more movies than this and The Ninth Configuration. I'm tickled John Carpenter turned it down and left it to Mr. Blatty. The dialogue is enjoyable and memorable. Ed Flanders really holds his own with George C. Scott. The film is intelligent and its moments of brevity serve to heighten the chills. Blasphemy, I know, but I love this movie even more than I do the first film in the series.
(I think the two are different animals and I'm a big fan of William Friedkin.)I think I appreciate this movie even more as I get older and with each viewing. When I first saw it, I was a young teen who had seen everything from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (thanks, Mama; this was the first movie she bought and on the day we got our first VCR!) to Texas Chainsaw Massacre to every Hammer, Universal, Castle, slasher movie and everything in between. This movie struck me as different. It was like those paradigm-altering albums that come along once in a blue moon, the ones that change your perception of the medium.
But enough about my armchair critique. What do y'all think?
