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[corey123]

"May the schwartz be with you" Maria.

[mariab]

I think I sorta recall the vomiting-duel. Normally it would've been cheap and stupid, but as an Exorcist spoof it's very funny. I also liked Airplane and even the Naked gun series. My all favorite is Spaceballs.

[c.d.]

Hi Maria,

Yeah, that's a good line. The whole series is just full of them. I think it is the second movie where they do a take off of the Exorcist vomiting scene. Only this time the priest vomits back and they try to vomit on each other like a gun fight. Funny as hell.

c.d.

[mariab]

OK, here goes:
"Look, if it's about that time I puked green slime and ma*****ated with a crucifix, it was my first keg party, Bobby."
I love the Scary movie franchise too, in fact, I adore spoof movies, even the silliest ones.

[c.d.]

I have the perfect quote (for the Quote movie lines thread) about The Exorcist (from Scary movie), but it would get me banned. ;-)

Ah c'mon, Maria don't tease us like that. Can't you phrase it euphenistically?

By the way, the whole Scary Movie series is funny as hell.

c.d.

[mariab]

I have the perfect quote (for the Quote movie lines thread) about The Exorcist (from Scary movie), but it would get me banned. ;-)

[c.d.]

Careful not to fall there, C.D.! ;-)

Fall? Hell, just walking up them can kill you.

c.d.

[mariab]

I don't live too far from Georgetown University where a number of scenes were filmed and I frequently walk by the famous Exorcist steps.
c.d.

Careful not to fall there, C.D.! ;-)

[c.d.]

I watched "The Exorcist" the other night. This was the 2000 version which was digitally restored and had additional footage. I remember seeing the original and although I thought it was good, I was disappointed that it fell far short of the book which is so often the case. For whatever reason the 2000 version was very good and I really enjoyed the movie and yes, it came across as damn scary.

I was reading some background on the movie and the original case on which the book and movie were based. The case concerned a young boy in the late 1940s who received a series of exorcisms as a result of his alleged possession. The priests who participated in the exorcisms believed that it was a genuine case of possession. The ritual of exorcism was performed thirty times over a period of two months.When the final exorcism was complete, it is alleged that there was a loud noise, noted as a "thunderclap" or "shotgun" throughout the floors of the hospital. After this pandemonium, Robbie Mannheim (the possessed boy) declared "It's over. It's over."

As far as the movie goes, both Linda Blair and Ellen Burstyn suffered permanent back injuries as a result of being yanked violently around by harnesses.

The bedroom was refrigerated and freezing cold so that the actor's breath would show.

There were strange occurrences during filming and many of the film's participants claimed the film was cursed.

I don't live too far from Georgetown University where a number of scenes were filmed and I frequently walk by the famous Exorcist steps.

c.d.

[mariab]

I guess it's Scooby Doo. I was never interested in that, but I still watch BtVS a lot. I even take certain episodes along when travelling (depending on the situation expected to encounter, or whatever's going on at the moment). It's amazing how many people of different ages have watched along, and loved it.
Happy New Year to all.

[corey123]

Hello Maria,

No worries. Good memories with that show. I used to watch it a lot when I was younger. Not so much now though.

[mariab]

Hi Corey,
I guess I misspelled it, it's Scoobie Doo. I might have seen an episode once. Mostly I get the references through BtVS and the Scoobies (her clique of friends who help her fight evil, like the clique of human teens who surround Scoobie Doo). I have a very cool book with essays about BtVS which makes fun of Scoobie Doo in one essay, where there's a demon student in Hell's college writing an essay about a supposed human religion “worshiping a large canine, somehow related to the Slayer“. (Only Buffy fans might get the reference here. Actually, embarrassing as it might be, I own 4 different books with essays on BtVS.)

[corey123]

Hello Maria,

Have you ever seen Scooby Doo? It was a cartoon about a talking dog, plus SMG didn't play Veronica, she played Daphne

Happy New Year.

[mariab]

Tom Wescott wrote:
To name a girl 'Marcia' now is to condemn her to a life of people screaming 'Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!'.
I've often heard of people being described as "Marcia Brady", but I'm still not clear on what she stands for. Is she something like “the preppy popular girl“ or “the family matron“, or what? I recall a quote by SMG in Cruel intentions (which is a more or less silly remake of Dangerous liaisons) saying “I'm the fu*king Marcia Brady of the Upper East Side“). ??
I haven't seen the Scuby Doo movies or the 3 Japanese remake horror films that SMG made (horror films about haunted houses bore me), but there's a more or less interesting movie with her named Veronica decides to die (possibly a tongue-in-cheek reference to Scuby Doo and the Scoobies in BtVS?) where she's suicidal in a mental institution, but the ending of the movie is pretty trivial (rom com ending). My favorite movie with SMG is Suburban girl with Alec Baldwin, which (despite a very stupid title) captures very thoroughly the dynamics in a May-December relatioship, in the editing business in N.Y.. It's a free adaptation of (parts from) Melissa Banks' The girls' guide to hunting and fishing (which was a super-advertized girly best seller that came out about a decade ago). The movie (Suburban girl) went straight to video though it's not bad, it's clever and even deep, not at all typical rom com, with some fine, fun acting by the entire cast. My DVD copy is so worn out, I need to buy a new one. Until a few months ago I used to carry it around when travelling and watch it all the time, but this phase is over, I guess.

[Tom_Wescott]

It's the story...

The Brady Bunch is a piece of American culture I've not yet quite understood. Are these movies, or TV series? Did Sara Michelle Gellar play a part in there?

The Brady Bunch was a tv series that ran for five years in the late 60's and early 70's. Like Star Trek, it was much more popular after it went off the air and the cast has done a lot of stuff together since, including multiple TV shows, appearances, and it became a movie series in the 90's, with three films. To name a girl 'Marcia' now is to condemn her to a life of people screaming 'Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!'. SMG had nothing to do with the Brady Bunch, but she did play Veronica in two Scooby Doo movies.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott