Exorcist - The Beginning (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: "This is the place where the Church thinks Satan fall"...
Review: ....I can't believe tt a character in the movie said that.

This is so lame it hurts.
This movie confirms tt Hollywood has ran out of ideas.
The acting is poor, the story is terrible, and the demon at the end of the movie....come on...(he only appears for 15 minutes).

Movies like these should be forbbiden.
Even a review of this crap is a waste of time.

Don't see it. Trust me.


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Summary: Should be great, but I'm very worried
Review: First off, let me say that I personally don't think THE EXORCIST should've gotten any sequels. Why can't they ever just leave a good thing alone? It was completely destroyed by its terrible, laughable sequel. Actually, no one ever talks about the second and third films and they still love the original. This one might actually be good, though, because it is a prequel to the original and there are some very good actors in it. Let's just hope it goes back to the creepy roots of the original and that everything goes smoothly! I guess we'll find out together!

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Summary: Who knows what this will be Like
Review: Hello, R U all ready to see this movie? In some cases I am, and in others Im not. I'll tell you why. I am a big fan of the first Excorcist; it scared me SEVERELY (but i was only 9 or 10). Its still HORRIFYING! (but i can go to bed now without a nightlight) This movie was absolutely flawless, from the script to the acting and directing. Thats why i can't wait to see it. I can wait to see this movie cuz of what ive seen in one of the sequels (exorcist III). This was one, downright stupid movie. There wasn't anything good about this movie! I never saw #2, but i heard it was just as bad as #3. It SCARES me to think what this one will be like. Since this one is a prequel to the original, and takin place in the MIDDLE EAST, where that one guy discovered the EVIL, maybe it wont be about a dumb investigator finding a serial killer! But who KNOWS. This is gonna be INTERESTING.

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Summary: A New Beginning For Old Horror Tricks
Review: I actually have to say that I found this film to be fun, but only fun up to a point. That point is when it starts to get gross and disqusting. Thinking back to like 4 years ago when I saw the original Exorcist I was in about 6th grade, and I thought that it was not scary at all. Now 4 years later I had basicly the same experiance only this time I was in the theatre. The story of the movie I think was great, its a church they found buried in the ground in Africa, and you know it just kind of sets the mood for a creepy movie. By creepy I mean weird, not scary. As the movie moves in, it gets a little more weirder and a little more grosser. It's really disturbing when hiennas(?) are tearing apart a kid and when they put leaches on a kid to suck satain out of him,and when a baby is born and it's coverd in maggots. The title I gave to this review reffers to how the oringinal one had weird mind horror stuff to make it scare, but the horror in this is basicly the same horror tricks we have seen in every horror movie since then. It's more of just jump out at you scary suprises rather then stuff you think about to make it scary. So yeah, this movie has potential to be a good horror movie, but it never really uses its abilities to do that. I give it three 1/2 stars becuase I like horror movies, it's a mediocre horror flick that you should definitly see and if you want some scary suprises this is one for you.

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Summary: Rent the DVD.....Save your money on the movie
Review: I call this film entertaining and scary...to a point, but not the point the original was. The Exorcist orginal movie is my ultimate favorite movie, so to be honest, I was a bit jaded going into the movie in the first place....In the movies defense, it tied in the first and second together quite nicely, (think: Pazazu, Africa, Locusts, etc), it does work.

We have our gratuitous gore scenes, female wet white shirts, etc...shock value scenes and yes, I must say CHEESEY CGI animation (the hyennas/flies sucked)and the new possession/Pazazu demon lacked imagination (think: the original). To be honest, the demon could have made this movie considering what new movie techniques have became available since the original was made. For all of the pros of the movie, this is one of the biggest cons of the movie, next to the CGI. Yes, I was disappointed, but not totally disgusted either.

If you are a true fan, my ratings on the Excorsist movies are as follows:
1. The Excorsist
2. The Excorsist III
3. The Excorsist: The Beginning
4. The Excorsist II: The Heretic

I am hoping to buy the DVD ASAP and I hope that they include the orginial cursed script/cuts from the movie.

Try to enjoy to enjoy the sunshine...(Tales from the Darkside the series ending dialogue)

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Summary: Falling Stars...
Review: I give this prequel the benefit of ONE STAR...because with ME in the mix, there can only be ONE STAR...and he is writing this review accordingly. Upon receipt of this review, I will have more than likely fantasized about myself quite a bit. And having taken matters within my own hands, my eyesight will have faltered. Uh-oh, made dooty...

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Summary: The Exorcist
Review: I have not yet seen this movie, however as soon as it is available to buy I will do so. But the best Exorcist movie I have seen this far is the movie "Possessed" starring Timothy Dalton as the pastor performing the exorcism. Based on the movie extras, and the shows I have seen on TV, this is the closest movie based on the actual events of the true Possession.

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Summary: The Most Unsettling Film of the Year!
Review: I really, honestly have no idea why this movie was bashed. From the very beginning I was curled up in my theater seat, knees to my head. I was petrified. Just when i thought it was safe to put my feet down, I put them back up in horror. Also, the film was downright disturbing. The scene with the butterflies on the wall and the supposed "exorcism" scene with the bent back fingers had me cringing and my cousin, who was sitting right next to me, screaming her head off. She's scared very easily, but my other cousin and I were both petrified and we find it extremely hard to be scared. Why the critics and audiences bashed this, I'll never know. I personally thought it was a lot more straight-forward scary than the original 'Exorcist' film. Definititely not as disturbing, but it delivers a lot more thrills that are needed now-a-days to scare the desensitized modern audience. It certainly worked, and I don't think critics realize that.

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Summary: Know the Director
Review: Seeing how Renny Harlin directed the films Deep Blue Sea (1999) and Nightmare on Elm Street 4, it might be pretty good.

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Summary: Gore-fest Version of Occult Thriller, and That's Too Showy
Review: The initial idea is very fine. 'The Beginning' leads us back to the final days of WW2, when young Father Merrin, later to appear in 'Exorcist,' is hired to search for the relics in the desert of Kenya. Merrin, who has lost his faith because of the tragic past, is surprised to find that the ruined church where he has arrived has unusual characteristics -- among them, we find, an inverted cross. What does that mean?

But everything about the concept underwent changes when Renny Harlin replaced the original director Paul Mazersky. Whatever the reason, the film became a simplified version of just another occult thriller with so much gore, gore, and gore. Stellan Skarsgard's Merrin becomes a more one-dimentional hero, who gets the secrets behind the tombs, and the love of the nurse Izabella Scorupco, too. There are lots of things thrown into the film -- a young priest who doesn't know what to do (James D'Arcy), whom we don't know what to do with. The characters clutter, the dim of the sand storm roars, but nothing makes sense.

But the most irritating thing about the film is that it tries to find a profound spiritual aspect in this superficial story. Father Merrin remembers his sad memories related to German soldiers and the Jewish people. If Renny Harlin thinks that the most effective way of expressing the personal grief is pointing a gun at a girl's head, he is awfully mistaken. Merrin's flashback scenes, or any other sneces that have something to do with the religion for that matter, fall flat with misguided direction that keeps on giving much stress on the spilled blood and mutilated bodies.

The only thing I found interesting (and barely so) is the beautiful but spooky photography of Vittorio Storaro ('The Last Emperor'). but when he (if the credit is right) has to shoot a scene of a native boy who body is bitten and nearly torn by some wild animals, then we are reminded of the fact that we are watching the film by the director of 'Deep Blue Sea' and 'Driven.'