what the hell was this?

Exorcist the Beginning was better for many reasons, not least of which was the slaughter battle at the end, where Dominion has one that's so coated in sugar it would shame Disney.

Walking off into the sunset, all being happy with the world? Give me a break.

That is very odd. I was to watching this on HBO, kinda wondering why i didn't remember this. then i woke up seeing some shaved head guy in the church and thought "this is not the movie i saw in theaters" now i am reading bout all the posts and can say I'm glad I'm not upstairs finishing it.

Oh, the "Exorcist: The Beginning" and this film are actually two different movies. I saw one and then when I saw other, I was not sure if I was watching the same incredibly bad and boring piece of cinematic crap.

And, am I the only one who seems to notice that it is basically a remake of Exorcist: The Beginning?


Where the hell do you people come from?

Allow me to elucidate the blatantly obvious for those who don't get it:

This movie was shot prior to Exorcist: The Beginning. It was the original Exorcist prequel. Morgan Creek didn't like it, so they fired Paul Schrader and hired godawful director Renny Harlin to reshoot the entire film. The result was Exorcist: The Beginning, the box office flop that left most intelligent filmgoers reeling from its lack of intellect. The movie was such a bomb that Morgan Creek decided to release Schrader's version...though not to give it any special treatment in order to create the good special effects it deserved.

Many people tend to like The Beginning better because Dominion "makes them fall asleep"...after all, how dare a film be introspective and philosophical, rather than "going for the glory" with the old headspin cliche and brilliant dialogue like "You wanna stick your big round cock up her juicy ass?"

Is the post above serious? Did you read any of the posts preceding it? That's exactly what they did! I thought it was WAY better than "The Beginning".

Wanda: I'm sorry about my brother Ken...He's had a hard life. Dad used to beat him up.
Ken: Good.

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> .it seemed almost as if someone actually took the Exorcist: The Beginning, from 2004,

Sorry that you are so ignorantly idiotic; this was going to be The Exorcist: The Beginning, to be released in 2004. The financiers felt the film was too intellectual and don't have enough commercial values to appeal to the lowest common denominator of the public, fired the director and replaced with another guy who supplied a lot of nonsensical actions and gratuitous gore.

> And, am I the only one who seems to notice that it is basically a remake of Exorcist: The Beginning?

Yes you are, who is ignoring the facts and making silly accusations.

> If watching a once docile cow tear apart and eat a hyena (which happened in Dominion - with high school quality special effects, mind you) is not considered vulgar and over the top,

while the limited budget didn't allow the filmmakers to have sufficiently good digital effects on that, people who consider that as "vulgar" and don't get at all the thematic significance of that scene must be pretty idiotic.

> This was a ridiculous excuse for a movie and I am so dissapointed that I wasted my time....

I guess the financiers were correct after all regarding their economic worries; after all this film must have been too intellectual for you (though it isn't really that intellectual; it is just making a western out of a horror scheme).

Hear, Hear manderly6, "Dominion" is a poor attempt of a revisionist view on "The Beginning", in fact "Dominion" should have never even been attempted...I'll say one thing, I'm gonna really think long and hard before I ever eat another steak...those cows were really vicious, lol...and the special effects were truly third rate terrible, it almost resembled a cartoon animation..."The Beginning" was far superior to "Dominion" and I hope the Mr. Blatty gets his just dessert from the studio, either that or the opportunity to burn this flick right in the can...

You uh, are aware that Dominion was the FIRST version of Beginning's correct? and after the producer threw it out and told someone else to make it again they gave Dominion about 50 bucks to do all the special effects with. Now I'll admit they're far from perfect but ... I challenge you to do better with a budget lower than my platinum card.

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Wow, insulting someone for their writing skill is a cheap shot, especially when your posts are as error-filled as any of them.

It's also pretty weird to insist that people must research a film before renting or buying it -- especially given that many who posted in this thread stated that they watched it on TV. I often avoid researching a film before I watch it so I can experience it without bias or preconceived expectations. You only get one chance to watch a film for the first time and experience it with a completely open mind.

That said, most of the questions asked about the film can be answered by reading the notes on the film here in IMDB.

Gotta love how people try to defend these crappy movies resorting to the "you're not intelligent enough to understand it" strategy, despite the fact that it's bassically the same movie, only worse.

Wow...lot of people who think Renny Harlin's version was better than Paul Schrader's...they must have lost their mind...it's like how people are raving about Snakes On A Plane. Those people who are into those kind of stuff don't usually get the whole point. I enjoyed no-brainer films like Steven Seagal or Van Damme films but I usually know the material that well. I liked Paul's verison BETTER than Renny's version because in Paul's verison, it had better cinematography that would keep things feel moved or deeply moving along with the story to push it further that wouldn't keep me bored. Anything that has mtv video style editing usually bores me. Indeed...this one has an old-school feel to it which is another reason why I liked it a lot. Anything that has a moving camera work is usually a great thing because it gives you a more amosphere sighting onto a film so you can picture lot of stuff based on where the story is coming from. That's why Stanley Kubrick did so much with his films even it had lot of moving camera and his theory proved to be true about filmmaking. Making a film is just like how you paint a picture. A lot of people who are into Renny Harlin's verison or Snakes on a Plane don't really understand what an entertainment really meant. I'm sure a lot of directors are having a hard time trying to combine artistic and entertainment together for a film.