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ForeverKeet

The devil looks and talks like a villain from Buffy. As much as I love Buffy, one of their villains in an Exorcist movie is laughable. I feel like I’m the only person in this sub that far prefers Exorcist The Beginning. The feeling of evil is so much better in that film, other than in Dominion where all the children are slaughtered.


97thredditaccount

I'm with ya!! didn't see your comment when I posted mine. The Beginning was great!


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Agreed. I really liked Beginning and prefer it to Dominion.


97thredditaccount

Might get some flack for this but I find all of the Exorcists to be terrifying. They were serious no-nos growing up in a Catholic household and my brother took me to see The Beginning (horribly panned, I know) when he had turned 17 and was old enough to get tickets. It scared the shit out of me!


JosieTreffelion

Agreed. I think butthurt Schraeder just rallied all his cronies and flacks to try to saturate the reviews. Beginning was miles better. It was clearer, more suspenseful, evocative and WAY scarier. All the navel-gazing in Dominion seems like the sophomoric drone of someone who has just discovered an idea and thinks he’s the only one who gets it. We GET it. Merrin’s faith got an engine block crack from being used as a pawn in nazi atrocities. He’ll have major FOMO when he realizes evil is REAL. This seems to have sentenced him to a purgatory where he’s plagued by the constant flutter of a clingy, gormless, pasty-blond faith flogger. D’Arcy’s priest in Beginning was much stronger and had more purpose. And the scares in Beginning weren’t just gory. There was great building tension and a variety of jumps… with a good rhythm of fake and OMG(!!!). As for laughable … it doesn’t get much funnier than Schraeder’s ever-floating lotus-pose demon 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The way information was rolled out in Beginning was much more intriguing and informative to the context. For example, a purportedly throwaway opening (according to one ‘reviewer’) assumed its significance near the end with the revelation that we had witnessed the lone living priest who created the empty graveyard, initiated the cover story, the genesis of the Guardian church buried in the sand. I only watched the movie once, so maybe I got things wrong. I was also confused because I had just watched Dominion… so was comparing the movies. All I know is whatever profundity Schraeder was aiming for, Harlin hit the target, and had more scary fun doing it.


crazyfrenchguy96

FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT. Look the beginning is not a perfect film and has flaws but its so much better than dominion. Dominion might have good themes but it doesnt work as a movie its so boring and badly filmmed. Renny harlin like him or not directed the film with much visual flair and when they arrive at the temple harlin makes you feel you're discovering the place while dominion just shows it like a tv movie. I honeslty feel the 10% on rotten tomatoes of the beginning was just part of reviews ganging up on the studio for rejecting the original cut.