February 23, 2005
Trailer online for Paul Schrader's Exorcist: The Beginning
I've just watched the trailer for Paul Schrader's Exorcist: The Beginning.
To catch up on the history of this, check out the following posts:
Censorship and rewriting affect both His Dark Materials and Exorcist: The Beginning
Exorcist: The Beginning DVD announced without Schraders version
Paul Schraders Exorcist: The Beginning to get Premiere
It appeared from Bloody Disgusting, through Coming Soon, go to BD and you can download it yourself.
It's not that shocking or surprising, and in fact gives next to nothing away, which for a trailer is pretty good going nowadays. If you consider the trend is to show your three quarters of the movie including any twist ending! Actually, it doesn't even make me interested in the film, the trailer for the second version did a better job!
The trailer was included on the DVD release of the second version of this movie, Renny Harlin's Exorcist: The Beginning.
Posted by at February 23, 2005 03:47 PM
Comments
Posted by: evergreen at February 23, 2005 08:53 PM
Yes, the trailer left me a bit disappointed as well...I've been building it up too much in my mind' eye, and that didn't look much better than the Harlin version's Trailer. I did not, and will not be seeing Renny Harlin's film...my time isn't even that valuable, but it's worth more than that film.
Still, i approach the possible release of Mr. Schrader's version with a bit more apprehension than anticipation than I had before seeing the trailer.
Posted by: Triflic at February 24, 2005 10:33 AM
I saw the photos, but not the trailer. Looks cheesy. I think it's gonna suck. It's probably gonna be more of dvd release rather than hitting cinema. So I'd stick to Renny's version, no matter what people say out there. Schrader's is just awful.
Posted by: Mary at February 27, 2005 04:39 PM
Mary: You've got to be kidding...
next thing you're going to tell me is that "Deep Blue Sea" is better than "Jaws"
Posted by: Triflic at February 27, 2005 05:11 PM
I'm not kidding. To me, it looks lame and cheesy.
Posted by: Mary at February 27, 2005 07:10 PM
Well, to me, it looks lame and cheesy. People out there won't give Harlin a chance to fix it right. Maybe if they see it on dvd, it'd probably be a little better. And we're not really sure if the first one is gonna be on cinema or not, or it maybe a dvd release, don't know yet. We'll just have to find out later. If they do release on cinema, it'll be a limited release only. Schrader is probably doing this for money.
Posted by: Mary at February 27, 2005 07:20 PM
The difference between Paul Schrader and Renny Harlin, is that Schrader has actually made a good film during his career.
Posted by: Mungo at March 1, 2005 03:33 PM
made "a good film"? Schrader wrote some of the finest films of the 70's & 80's and if you like to use your noggin' his films are always interesting and usually very good, i.e.; Mishima, Light Sleeper, Affliction, Autofocus,etc. I'm looking forward to this film. I suspect it's not for everyone but then again neither is Bergman or Dryer.
Posted by: bob crane at May 3, 2005 05:18 PM
Schrader is a good director. forget to mention he directed "taxi driver", starting Robert Deniro, which includes a memorable seen with him in front of the mirror mocking himself. For those who oppose this movie and say it will be cheesy and lame, that's just ur ignorant mind set. I'm not saying it's going to be a great movie but i think we'll get more out of it from the original Renny Harlin version.
P.s the trailer looks more interesting than the Renny harlin version of the film.
Posted by: Amir latefi at September 21, 2005 10:47 AM
Guys you need to check our review section, I've had the review of this up for a while.
http://www.judymoodymovie.com/archives/2005/09/richard_reviews_dominion_a_prequel_to_the_exorcist.html
Posted by: Richard Brunton at September 21, 2005 02:05 PM
Wow... that was completely mysterious and not in a good way. Vague would be the better word. I'm hoping it's just a badly done trailer though. From what I've heard of this version, it has more potential than the crap dished out this past summer.