Because he's fine with shoehorning in horrid leftist propaganda whilst imitating what came before, just enough to entice an audience, to bait them. Green himself is not israeli, surprisingly. Far as I know anyway. Perhaps he is. He looks kinda israelitey.
because halloween 2018 was ok and because he's a ''yes, man'' director and studios are always looking for people who can do the work but more importantly, mindless drones without a vision who won't protest anything or will have an ego like with nolan or scorsese
Directors like Friedkin haven't been replaced with like-for-like. That goes for writers too. It means we get people like DGG directing properties like The Exorcist.
You act like every other Halloween sequel wasn't already directed by some talentless hack who never made a good film in their lives. It's not exactly a franchise that is known for attracting Hollywood's top talent.
Most of those probably got rushed into production when the Exorcist rights got bought a few years ago.
Its not a new thing for one studio to see another studio gearing up to make something and then quickly throw together some similar sort of shite that can directly compete with it.
Halloween reboot-- despite being terrible-- made money.
Jason Blum chose him literally out of a meretricious, money-making rationale but he didn't factor in diminishing returns and the fact that The Exorcist is a very different concept.
A lot of directors have made a variety of movies but there's usually a shared style, tone or vibe so they still feel like they were made by the same person. Get none of that from this guy making stoner comedies, earnest indie dramas and now garbage horror reboots.
George Washington is a really highly regarded film too isn't it? Like, I think Ebert gave it like 4 stars.
The dude can make good movies - but I guess he just choses the easy money. Or at least he did. With this movie bombing maybe he'll go back to indie stuff for a bit.
Halloween Kills/Ends both only made just over $100 million each and were both poorly received. Each movie in the trilogy made less and less, why on gods green earth did they purchase an IP for $400 million and give it to someone with a bad track record to do literally the exact same thing?
>Halloween Kills/Ends both only made just over $100 million each and were both poorly received.
That's still enough to make his trilogy the top three most successful films in the series.
How could exorcist possibly cost 400 million? its not like star wars where you could make games and toys based on it
its just the "name" which isn't even original.
As if that alone can save them.
It was hard to care about this idiot making increasingly stupid halloween sequels because there is simply less at stake there.
But it won't matter if its DGG or some other no name hack for hire, trying to turn a perfect film, a complete masterpiece like The Exorcist into yearly franchise schlock is and will always be disgusting and worthy of nothing but contempt, no matter who's at the wheel.
Imagine being Universal, and spending $400 million just to be able to CURRENT YEAR one of the greatest films of all time, horror or otherwise.
I would also note that in the original, Chris was a broken wreck, literally begging Karras to save her daughter out of sheer desperation. It's not like her presence would have done any good, and iirc, she does come into the room in the novel, and the demon just fricks with her.
A man giving his life for a little girl somehow twisted into le evil patriarchy lmao jesus fricking christ we are truly in the clown era of media, this is actual insanity
It's going to be bad, but modern audiences don't even think The Exorcist is scary. Give them the slop that they crave. I don't care. They've made a ton of exorcist sequels already and all of them but the third are terrible and forgotten.
He's a very mediocre director and his work (along w/ Danny McBride) in the Halloween reboot was subpar-- they admitted to not having a plan for the trilogy.
Blum's decision to hand him the Exorcist reboot was disastrous and based on the financial return of the Halloween movies.
I have zero interesting in his Exorcist movie, what I read in another threads is more than enough.
The dignified thing for him would be stepping aside and not getting involved w/ the next one (if it does go ahead at all).
he was brilliantly honest even if it meant upsetting the people above and below him.
The thing that lead to him getting the exorcist was not giving a shit and telling an established director/producer that was offering Friedkin an olive branch that he wasn't gonna make a film because it had a shit script.
William Peter Blatty was in that room (it was actually his script that even Blatty knew full well didn't work) and when Blatty had written the exorcist he came straight to Friedkin because he knew he was straight shooter, not another consumate hollywood bullshitter.
It made US$27 mil domestic this opening weekend. Not bad in itself but contextually it's very disappointing/floppy because:
-it was tracking for US$ 35 million
-there were no other competitive releases
-Universal paid no less than US$ 400 million for the rights.
Good question, I wonder if that was the case. But the gist of the Exorcist universe is the novel and the original movie. Everything else was a bit peripheral and diminishing returns.
The fact that they fricked with the 1st movie of the proposed reboot is a big loss and a tough lesson. They also lost the Christian market (unlike for instance the Conjuring franchise).
I get the impression that he's not that into horror. He was a guest on The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs a couple of years ago in October when Halloween Kills came out, and they let him pick any movie in Shudder's library to be shown for October, and he picked...Angel. A non-horror movie about a teenage prostitute.
I haven't seen it yet, but is Evil Dead Rise at least ok? I made it maybe 10 minutes in before I had to go do something else, but I noticed that the "son" is played by the same FtM troony who's playing Koby in the live-action One Piece.
>is Evil Dead Rise at least ok?
It's exactly that: OK.
Cons:
-ALL the main characters are women-- even the "boy" is a troony
-after a nice opening sequence (using a drone), the cinematography becomes murky and nondescript
-make-up/effects are meh/subpar (compare for instance with the much better make-up on Talk to Me, released last year)
Pros:
-it makes an effort to step out from the previous ones: the idea of getting trapped in an apartment building is interesting
-it pulls no punches, with lots of gore etc
-it ties in with the Evil Dead tropes and lore without being too servile to it
-it's a pro-life movie and not just that: it's pro-life using a white pregnant woman to make the point.
It made US$27 mil domestic this opening weekend. Not bad in itself but contextually it's very disappointing/floppy because:
-it was tracking for US$ 35 million
-there were no other competitive releases
-Universal paid no less than US$ 400 million for the rights.
We get it, Mike Stoklasa of Red Letter Media. You are gay for David Gordon Green because you liked Halloween Ends and thus feel the need to damage control his shit movie.
You're not making any sense dummy, reread my comments
He's a very mediocre director and his work (along w/ Danny McBride) in the Halloween reboot was subpar-- they admitted to not having a plan for the trilogy.
Blum's decision to hand him the Exorcist reboot was disastrous and based on the financial return of the Halloween movies.
I have zero interesting in his Exorcist movie, what I read in another threads is more than enough.
The dignified thing for him would be stepping aside and not getting involved w/ the next one (if it does go ahead at all).
It made US$27 mil domestic this opening weekend. Not bad in itself but contextually it's very disappointing/floppy because:
-it was tracking for US$ 35 million
-there were no other competitive releases
-Universal paid no less than US$ 400 million for the rights.
DGG is a hack and Exorcist Believer will at best underperform.
Ironically, I have never even watched a single vid from
RLM
Critical Drinker
Angry nerd or whatever it's called
Mark Kermode
Grace Randolph
etc.
I find it cringe to waste time with these middlebrow types either as parasocial fake friends or sources of opinion about movies.
It's additionally cringe that they seem to post here once in a while and make threads about themselves.
Guys, I saw that some old hag whined that they didn't let her see her daughter's exorcism because of muh patriarchy but what other woke shit is there in the new one?
>Catholic exorcim let bad and useless, bald black root woman GOOD and capable >White Parents bad >White christian girl dragged to hell, Black girl saved by the power of love
Blatty was actually really funny. Reading the Exorcist and Legion, I was expecting something very scary, but the dialogue was very witty, especially Kinderman. I picked up The Ninth Configuration to read next, the movie was pretty enjoyable and the connection to the Exorcist was interesting.
I thought the second one was already shot
How did he become the go to guy for rebooting horror franchises?
This the reason?
Damn
He was always based. Some would call me an antisemite but I've always admired him as an artist and every take he had was based.
F
Closest a israelite ever came to being based, him and John Millius.
Kubrick
I completely believe that William Friedkin would say this
The man had no fricking time for fools
why are they giving him such big ip's? his movies are all dog shit. he literally killed helloween for good (and not in a good way).
Hollywood has been operating on the mantra of "because frick you" for a long time
Because he's fine with shoehorning in horrid leftist propaganda whilst imitating what came before, just enough to entice an audience, to bait them. Green himself is not israeli, surprisingly. Far as I know anyway. Perhaps he is. He looks kinda israelitey.
because halloween 2018 was ok and because he's a ''yes, man'' director and studios are always looking for people who can do the work but more importantly, mindless drones without a vision who won't protest anything or will have an ego like with nolan or scorsese
Directors like Friedkin haven't been replaced with like-for-like. That goes for writers too. It means we get people like DGG directing properties like The Exorcist.
Nicolas Winding Refn is the new Friedkin, he's basically a younger version of him.
DOCTOR, IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE
>Nicolas Winding Refn is the new Friedkin
lolno. Check Friedkin's filmography, dude is a monster
Friedkin made a lot of terrible movies, anon
You act like every other Halloween sequel wasn't already directed by some talentless hack who never made a good film in their lives. It's not exactly a franchise that is known for attracting Hollywood's top talent.
Because Halloween made money and they tried to replicate it with The Exorcist.
>the pope's exorcist
> Pray for the devil
> the nun 2
> exorcist believer
why are so many shitty exorcism films coming at the moment? they truly are some of the worst slop to come from Hollywood currently
Most of those probably got rushed into production when the Exorcist rights got bought a few years ago.
Its not a new thing for one studio to see another studio gearing up to make something and then quickly throw together some similar sort of shite that can directly compete with it.
Papa Sexorcisto was kinda fun, closer in tone to Tales from the Crypt than The Exorcist.
Red Letter Media controls Hollywood and they want him to succeed (especially Mike Stoklasa).
RLMgays especially love him.
Halloween reboot-- despite being terrible-- made money.
Jason Blum chose him literally out of a meretricious, money-making rationale but he didn't factor in diminishing returns and the fact that The Exorcist is a very different concept.
>Halloween 2018
>Budget: $10 million
>Box office: $259.9 million
Gee I wonder
>Halloween Kills
>Box Office: $133.4 million
>Halloween Ends
>Box Office: $105.4 million
His films depreciated heavily between sequels.
Halloween '18 reviewed well and overperformed at the box office
Halloween Ends happened
EVIL DIES TONIGHT
Danny McBride is the real horror film terrorist. He's the writer for the entire Halloween reboot trilogy and this Exorcist.
I just had to look this up out of sheer disbelief
wtf
Halloween 2018 was pretty good but everything he's made after that has been awful.
Does this guy have the most schizophrenic filmography?
>George Washington
>Pineapple Express
>Your Highness
>Joe
>Stronger
>The Halloween trilogy reboot
>This Exorcist
A lot of directors have made a variety of movies but there's usually a shared style, tone or vibe so they still feel like they were made by the same person. Get none of that from this guy making stoner comedies, earnest indie dramas and now garbage horror reboots.
George Washington is a really highly regarded film too isn't it? Like, I think Ebert gave it like 4 stars.
The dude can make good movies - but I guess he just choses the easy money. Or at least he did. With this movie bombing maybe he'll go back to indie stuff for a bit.
It was compared to Malick's work
Go to bed Nic
he's a hack with no creative vision. he does what ever makes a profit
Halloween Kills/Ends both only made just over $100 million each and were both poorly received. Each movie in the trilogy made less and less, why on gods green earth did they purchase an IP for $400 million and give it to someone with a bad track record to do literally the exact same thing?
>Halloween Kills/Ends both only made just over $100 million each and were both poorly received.
That's still enough to make his trilogy the top three most successful films in the series.
The numbers still dont justify the cost of buying the Exorcist brand.
How could exorcist possibly cost 400 million? its not like star wars where you could make games and toys based on it
its just the "name" which isn't even original.
You buy the idea but yes it was a terrible deal, made worse by DGG's (again w/ McBride on the writing team for some reason) shitty woke take.
As if that alone can save them.
It was hard to care about this idiot making increasingly stupid halloween sequels because there is simply less at stake there.
But it won't matter if its DGG or some other no name hack for hire, trying to turn a perfect film, a complete masterpiece like The Exorcist into yearly franchise schlock is and will always be disgusting and worthy of nothing but contempt, no matter who's at the wheel.
https://twitter.com/rimmerjob69/status/1710816017826349060
What is wrong with Hollywood?
>sacrifice yourself to save a kid's life
>get shitted on decades later by that kid's mother with made up bullshit
?
Insanity
Imagine being Universal, and spending $400 million just to be able to CURRENT YEAR one of the greatest films of all time, horror or otherwise.
I would also note that in the original, Chris was a broken wreck, literally begging Karras to save her daughter out of sheer desperation. It's not like her presence would have done any good, and iirc, she does come into the room in the novel, and the demon just fricks with her.
and in the movie he really fricks with her
still the bestorcist
Best scene was when b***h got her eyes stabbed
A man giving his life for a little girl somehow twisted into le evil patriarchy lmao jesus fricking christ we are truly in the clown era of media, this is actual insanity
>sure the Exorcist is beloved and considered one of if not the greatest horror film of all time
>but did you know it was actually sexist?
I hate hollywood so much it's unbelievable.
>damn patriarchy
>homie laughs
>you know I was never actually there during 9/11. They never let me into the building.
>and why is that?
>the first responders were sexist
GREEN'S CAREER DIES TONIGHT!
boo, you beat me to the joke
devastating
I blame Jay Bauman and all the homosexuals that gave Halloween reboot positive reviews.
It's going to be bad, but modern audiences don't even think The Exorcist is scary. Give them the slop that they crave. I don't care. They've made a ton of exorcist sequels already and all of them but the third are terrible and forgotten.
He's a very mediocre director and his work (along w/ Danny McBride) in the Halloween reboot was subpar-- they admitted to not having a plan for the trilogy.
Blum's decision to hand him the Exorcist reboot was disastrous and based on the financial return of the Halloween movies.
I have zero interesting in his Exorcist movie, what I read in another threads is more than enough.
The dignified thing for him would be stepping aside and not getting involved w/ the next one (if it does go ahead at all).
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What the FRICK was his problem?
He was mad dunk wouldn’t frick him
he was brilliantly honest even if it meant upsetting the people above and below him.
The thing that lead to him getting the exorcist was not giving a shit and telling an established director/producer that was offering Friedkin an olive branch that he wasn't gonna make a film because it had a shit script.
William Peter Blatty was in that room (it was actually his script that even Blatty knew full well didn't work) and when Blatty had written the exorcist he came straight to Friedkin because he knew he was straight shooter, not another consumate hollywood bullshitter.
>
It made US$27 mil domestic this opening weekend. Not bad in itself but contextually it's very disappointing/floppy because:
-it was tracking for US$ 35 million
-there were no other competitive releases
-Universal paid no less than US$ 400 million for the rights.
>Universal paid no less than US$ 400 million for the rights.
Maybe they got the rights for the book and the old movies too?
Good question, I wonder if that was the case. But the gist of the Exorcist universe is the novel and the original movie. Everything else was a bit peripheral and diminishing returns.
The fact that they fricked with the 1st movie of the proposed reboot is a big loss and a tough lesson. They also lost the Christian market (unlike for instance the Conjuring franchise).
JUST
this hack is lucky to be friends with Danny McBride and Jody Hill
I get the impression that he's not that into horror. He was a guest on The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs a couple of years ago in October when Halloween Kills came out, and they let him pick any movie in Shudder's library to be shown for October, and he picked...Angel. A non-horror movie about a teenage prostitute.
He’s a hipster that wants to write propaganda.
I haven't seen it yet, but is Evil Dead Rise at least ok? I made it maybe 10 minutes in before I had to go do something else, but I noticed that the "son" is played by the same FtM troony who's playing Koby in the live-action One Piece.
>is Evil Dead Rise at least ok?
It's exactly that: OK.
Cons:
-ALL the main characters are women-- even the "boy" is a troony
-after a nice opening sequence (using a drone), the cinematography becomes murky and nondescript
-make-up/effects are meh/subpar (compare for instance with the much better make-up on Talk to Me, released last year)
Pros:
-it makes an effort to step out from the previous ones: the idea of getting trapped in an apartment building is interesting
-it pulls no punches, with lots of gore etc
-it ties in with the Evil Dead tropes and lore without being too servile to it
-it's a pro-life movie and not just that: it's pro-life using a white pregnant woman to make the point.
We get it, Mike Stoklasa of Red Letter Media. You are gay for David Gordon Green because you liked Halloween Ends and thus feel the need to damage control his shit movie.
You're not making any sense dummy, reread my comments
DGG is a hack and Exorcist Believer will at best underperform.
Ironically, I have never even watched a single vid from
RLM
Critical Drinker
Angry nerd or whatever it's called
Mark Kermode
Grace Randolph
etc.
I find it cringe to waste time with these middlebrow types either as parasocial fake friends or sources of opinion about movies.
It's additionally cringe that they seem to post here once in a while and make threads about themselves.
>David
>Green
They couldn't find someone who isn't antagonistic towards Christianity?
Guys, I saw that some old hag whined that they didn't let her see her daughter's exorcism because of muh patriarchy but what other woke shit is there in the new one?
>Catholic exorcim let bad and useless, bald black root woman GOOD and capable
>White Parents bad
>White christian girl dragged to hell, Black girl saved by the power of love
Weird. I always assumed he was black.
Blatty's son said that he read the script about a year ago and was offended by how bad it was.
Source on that?
I'm interested.
Blatty was actually really funny. Reading the Exorcist and Legion, I was expecting something very scary, but the dialogue was very witty, especially Kinderman. I picked up The Ninth Configuration to read next, the movie was pretty enjoyable and the connection to the Exorcist was interesting.