After seeing The Exorcist III for the first time I decided to dive into this.
This is... fine.
Everything is basically obvious, no subtlety. Obvious characters, obvious premise, obvious plot, etc. An exorcist film should be more punk rock than this and it just plays it so safe. Have the possessed girls take a pedo dig at the Catholic priest or something. But nope, nothing edgy. There just wasn't really anything clever or unexpected. I think that's why I enjoyed III is because it was a more original idea and required a bit more subtlety. I think David Gordon Green's style kind of worked for the Halloween series a little more, the trashy slasher premise. But The Exorcist needs a bit more elegance to not come across so generic.
I did really like the opening in Haiti with the earthquake to establish the characters. That felt a bit creative and interesting. If that didn't establish the film then it REALLY would have sucked.
Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Ellen Burstyn's appearance feels very tacked on just so the film can technically be a legacy sequel. This is a reboot masquerading as a sequel.Jesus, and he's going to do 2 more of these? But why? (Other than an attempt to make $$ of course)
That was the only way to keep it from being a bad topple, if they would have tried to make it into an obvious last edition, it would have backfired. Why? Because most of the original actors are dead. This was the only way to keep it from burning out. Two stories, yet connected; made it genius
Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Genius? Really?Fine. It's fine. Good actors and performances working with mediocre, corporate boardroom material. Genius is going WAY too far. It's another mediocre soft reboot.
😮💨 😠
Because they could have made it all about Regan, but that would have been to obvious and the distance between the first couple of movies is off. You would need more of the original actors and same scenery to make it a legitimate series triquel.
Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Genius? Really?Fine. It's fine. Good actors and performances working with mediocre, corporate boardroom material. Genius is going WAY too far. It's another mediocre soft reboot.
It was good though. I mean I like possession movies, so It’s gotta be really stank for me not to enjoy one.
Making this a trilogy’s an obv. cash grab but I hope they try and be creative at least; change up the setting and characters in some way.
Originally posted by Impediment
My friends told me this movie was deep fried cat shit.
Originally posted by Kazenji
Same i've heard this movie is dogshit
Cat shit, dog shit... which IS it??
But in all seriousness, it's not bad, per se. It just feels too calculated and not artistic like the 1st and 3rd. And shoehorning in Ellen Burstyn so terribly hurts it. Especially since the marketing really emphasized her return...
so yeah.. maybe it IS house-hold pet shit.
I think RLM nailed it...