Movie Review - Dominion - The Prequel To The Exorcist
Published October 16, 2005
And then it's CGI hyenas and hovering bove the altars and clunky dialogue and stupid fucking stereotypical snarls from every direction.
Don't it make you just wanna grab hold your face by the jaws and tear the flesh offa the bone and then maybe fling the flesh at folks outside the windows, look at them there, hollerin back, "G'on ya fuck, what's this all about, the flesh flung at ma new strides?" and the answer;
Because it was supposed to be amazing! Didn't you see the talkbacks and the forums and the newsgroups, God almighty, it became an Urban Legend almost, The Great Lost Schrader Exorcist Flick, like the ghost in 3 Men And A Baby, and then what happens, you realize the ghost was just a cut-out a Ted bastard Danson.
Fuck you Danson!
I want my myth back!
You realize Jandek is a fairly ordinary fella now playing gigs left and right and looking for all the world like a real life human being.
Fuck you Jandek!
I want my myth back!
You go through the last year of a dyin relationship convinced that, ah well, least when it falls to mangled fuck, least I'll be able to investigate all those feminine (or "other") avenues been bricked off all this time, and then, yeah, you realize, everyone's "seeing someone" and worse, the ones who ain't aren't overly excited about the prospect, the whole how bout we maybe go see a flick then I can maybe let you hear a song I wrote about the time you walked past for a second on your way to someplace divine just outta my line a vision?
Fuck you Bragg!
I want my myth back!
You realize, I say, that this flick you obsessed over for the best part of too long, you realize it's just a flick, and not even a very good one at that, and to be honest, the one with the possessed nurse was sixty-nine times more endearing.
And the lass with the Ricci-esque demeanour, she says "Yeah, and your review of Exorcist - The Beginning was a hell of a lot more fun too."
And a sigh, and an oh, what's this, talk of some Welles flick done got buggered by the studios, ain't never gonna be seen by anyone, fuck my eyes, it's a masterpiece, I'll bet!!
Thanks folks
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- Movie Review - Dominion - The Prequel To The Exorcist
- Published: October 16, 2005
- Type: Review
- Section: Video
- Filed Under: Video: Drama, Video: Horror
- Writer: Duke De Mondo
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thank you bennett!
i ain't seen Harry Potter Woman in ages. i think she maybe studies at some far distant land, hence workin through the summer, hence plenty train journeys, and now she's away. either that or she's bought herself a car.
ah well.
i still got 98 or so obsessions to work through, so who knows, maybe one of em'll dig some banter bout how Exorcist Dominion made me weep tears a sulphur.
Duke, you're in classic top-notch form here... there's always several classic left field bizarro-gem lines in your pieces, and this one rates above average in my book. And the comedic philosophic underbelly is grand as well.
And invoking the mythic Three Men and a Baby? Brilliant! Made me wish that Three Men and a Little Lady, the follow up, had been recast as a prequel.
Thank you Eric! my god, that prequel talk, my heads reelin with filth!
and watching Curb Your Enthusiasm series 3 last night, i find myself all sortsa fascinated by how white ted danson's hair is all a damn sudden. when did this happen?? there was no crossover, far as i can see.
thats the only possible explanation. but why, is the question that needs to be asked.
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Great stuff, Duke. If it's all the same to whoever, I'll pass on this one. The original hit the theaters when there were no ratings and I was a wee lad of 14 or so.
Scared my balls off it did. Then and there I decided that messing with possessed folks was off the bottom of my list of things to do.
btw... We still think you shoulda given the printout to HPG.
salut!