"The Exorcism of Emily Rose" -- What a creepy movie.

[Skidmore]

Just watching it on one of the cable movie channels. It is creepier than "The Exorcist." Anyone else ever see this?

BTW, its scarier than the House in session on any day.

[Ohio Joe]

1. I also thought it was real creepy

Especially when she started scratching the walls... ouch.

[Archae]

2. The ad campaign says it's a "true story."

Which is a HUGE pile of total horseshit.

Just like the "Amityville Horror" scam.

[Divameow77]

3. I hear it really is "based" on a true story

which means it could vary quite a bit from true events. I'm not sure if I believe that could happen or not. I do believe that a girl could think it's happening to her.

[Archae]

4. Yes, it could vary from real events.

Same way Oliver Stone's "JFK" was nearly entirely fiction.

Two facts in that movie.
1. JFK was shot to death.
2. Jim Garrison put Clay Shaw on trial.
Other than that, it's total fiction.

Likewise with this "Emily Rose" movie.
She may have thought she was "possesed by the Devil."
Other than that, it's no doubt pure fiction.

[johnnie]

5. Why would it be horseshit?

I take it you haven't seen the movie :shrug:

[SteppingRazor]

6. I have seen the movie. And I have read about the case...

And the movie IS horseshit. It takes a case from Germany and transplants it to America. It lets the priest go free, when in fact he was sentenced to 6 months in jail for manslaughter. -- later commuted to 6 mo. probation. It neglects to mention many of the medications the actual patient was on, some of which, when combined, could result in asphyxia.

Despite a facile attempt to look at both sides of the story, the movie instead takes a case in which a woman was universally recognized to have psychological issues and turns it into a "you decide" format, despite the fact that if it were truly "based on true events," the result would be a film in which a woman died because of poor treatment, and then lack of treatment, of her maladies. But, as is typical with so-called "true story" films, facts are tossed aside if they get in the way of a good story.

[johnnie]

7. Interesting

I thought they did a pretty good job of offering up both sides. Although a lot of it was changed for the movie, it is still based on a true story. I guess it is all in the way you watch the movie. I guess it could have been made into a documentary, but I think the film makers wanted to make a movie and based it on what happened. I don't call that "horseshit", I just think it was a movie based on true events.

[SteppingRazor]

9. I guess I just have problems with offering two sides to a story...

when there's only one legitimate side.

This movie is the same as listening to a Holocaust survivor and then talking to a Holocaust denier to get the other side of the story -- I mean, it's not as cruel as that, but it's the same principle.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Uh, it's a court case movie. *spoiler*

A court case, by definition, offers two sides of a story and the legitimate side needs to be decided by the jury, judge, or movie audience.

In the film, the priest is convicted for manslaughter and given probation.

Seemed fairly accurate to me.

[Archae]

11. Except...

There is real, CONFIRMABLE evidence of the Holocaust.

There is NONE to back up this bullshit movie.

[johnnie]

12. I guess it is perception

Honestly, I saw them offering both sides. It wasn't the best movie I have ever seen, but it wasn't that terrible. I thought they did a decent job in showing either she was mentally ill, or the priest and her family thought she was possessed. I'm not disagreeing with you on your opinion, it is just that I saw the movie differently than you did.

[Archae]

8. So like other "movies based on true stories..."

Like "JFK" and "The Amityville Horror," the producers took a couple facts, and embellished the movie until it was pure horseshit.

Why don't they just be fucking HONEST, and say, "Based on the producers' embellishments..."

I mean, are the Star Wars movies "based on true stories?"

Is "Cars?"
"Lord Of The Rings?"
"The Blair Witch Project?"