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Yep. Time is one thing I don't have enough of. I started the Arkie game a little past noon last Saturday & fast forwarded through all the commercials & halftime, finally caught up about 3/4 of the way through the 4th quarter.

The movie disavows exorcist 3. It can kindly go to hell.

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Yep. Time is one thing I don't have enough of. I started the Arkie game a little past noon last Saturday & fast forwarded through all the commercials & halftime, finally caught up about 3/4 of the way through the 4th quarter.

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My wife and I both come from big Aggie families so this time of year we always have a football group text going and at least half of us are telling the other half not to text updates or commentary because we're recording and will catch up.

It's also a great excuse to close yourself off from the rest of the world for an afternoon.

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Yep. Time is one thing I don't have enough of. I started the Arkie game a little past noon last Saturday & fast forwarded through all the commercials & halftime, finally caught up about 3/4 of the way through the 4th quarter.

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This is my usual M.O. as well. It works great except when the previous game finishes late or has a rain delay.

It also comes in handy during lopsided games.

ETA: Also, what Urban Ag said about not looking at texts from certain people is a nice excuse.

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The movie disavows exorcist 3. It can kindly go to hell.

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Probably tied with Psycho 2 as most underrated horror movies ever.

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Psycho 2 was great! Haven't seen it in 20+ years I bet.
Deserves a re-watch

I saw Juice in the theaters.

Along with Sleepwalkers.

And Whispers in the Dark.

My parents gave no effs about the movies they took us to.

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I mean, to be fair Exorcist 3 acted like Exorcist 2 didn't exist.

And rightly so.

My rant aside, the benefit of having a friend whose parents were divorced in the 1980s was that when his Dad came to hang out for the weekend, I would tag along and see movies I should not have seen at that age, led by Nightmare on Elm Street when I was 10, and Alien when I was 6.

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Has anyone else seen the Exorcist commercials during family broadcasting, like Sunday Night Football? It really irritates me. I get that there are people who love a good horror movie. I'm not one of them. But normal horror movies don't go so far on the commercials. And since I do so much streaming, I don't normally see commercials for it.

I'm surprised they're allowed to advertise so graphically during this type of programming. First of all, I don't want my kids to have to see it. Furthermore, the whole thing just makes me queasy to watch. I don't want to see a little girl on screen screaming in agony about not wanting to go to hell. Or see their skin peeling off because they're possessed. It's ridiculous.

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and after this, can we ban all the @#$@#$ medication commercials while we are eating dinner

discussing bleeding from your liver until you die as a possible side effect?

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Those medication commercials are just previews of the lawer commercials to come next year. You know, when they sue over the medical side-effects.

The theme music from the original Exorcist movie still unnerves me.

When that movie was first advertised in the 70s it really freaked me out.

Still does.

I definitely remember seeing trailers for The Shining as a kid, specifically the scene where elevator doors open an blood pours out. I was born 1972.

It didn't mess me up for life, I know it's fake, but was quite an image. I think it's ok to tell your kids it's fake and some people think it is fun escapism to have pretend scary stuff. Change the channel. They will be ok.

Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" is my favorite lp in my collection. That piece is my ringtone for unknown callers.

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The theme music from the original Exorcist movie still unnerves me.

When that movie was first advertised in the 70s it really freaked me out.

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Yeah, me too.

What else unnerved me for a long time was a sound effect that played with the Alien trailer, a screeching sound when they showed the egg split and light pouring out of it. I remember after having seen that movie in the summer of '79, I was up watching TV late one night and that commercial came on, and I covered my ears. And that is what I objected to with the trailer of Prometheus, not the imagery in the trailer but that freaking sound effect. But as it turned out, seeing that trailer with the sound effect that so bothered me had zero effect on my daughter.

This is the TV commercial that I'm talking about for Alien


And the Prometheus trailer:

Caught that commercial and it made me want to read the exorcist again.

The only time I watch any television that has commercials is for a sporting event. Mainstream television is garbage. Netflix, Amazon, etc is all I watch. When a commercial does come on during a sporting event I mute it and walk away or looked on my smartphone to pass the time.

Can you find a video of the ad? Cant tell if you're spot on or crazy without seeing it.

Same for me too. Took my young son to a couple of pg movies lately and that was one of the previews. Scared the heck out of him twice. I'm talking about crying scared just from the sounds.

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I haven't seen the commercial in question, but I know the original "Exorcist" advertising freaked me out as a kid. Just hearing "Tubular Bells" would make me uneasy.

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Just hearing Tubular Bells NOW makes me uneasy.

This is what freaked me out as a kid, and they put this mo fo on Network TV! In 1981 of course.

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Any sort of advertising sales like this is going to be geared toward the target audience, and the demographics for Sunday Night Football are going to be overwhelmingly adult men.

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I have no way of proving this, but I don't think adult men are really the main demo seeing horror movies.

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This is what freaked me out as a kid, and they put this mo fo on Network TV! In 1981 of course.

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Did Larry Drake only play mentally challenged characters?

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Any sort of advertising sales like this is going to be geared toward the target audience, and the demographics for Sunday Night Football are going to be overwhelmingly adult men.

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I have no way of proving this, but I don't think adult men are really the main demo seeing horror movies.

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If you do a search for "horror movie demographics" and look at what information is out there, it skews a little younger into GenZ, especially when looking more recently than 5 years ago, but still more male than female and a significant number of Millennial and GenX viewers, which still lines up pretty well with what you'd expect a prime time football audience to entail. I think the fact that it's an Exorcist sequel plays into it as well, maybe trying to appeal to that older generation who have any nostalgia for the original.

The marketing budget for this must be huge. Ads are everywhere.

The reviews I've seen say it's a big turd.

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The marketing budget for this must be huge. Ads are everywhere.

The reviews I've seen say it's a big turd.

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Exorcize that piece of shi*! [/Samuel Jackson version]

Promising Halloween remake debuts have been a kiss of death for new directors.

I thought the movie was pretty meh. Not as bad as I worried based on reviews, but certainly doesn't belong anywhere near the original. It's pretty forgettable.

Two things that really bugged me:

1. DGG needs to film somewhere besides South Carolina already. It's so obvious even when a movie is supposed to take place somewhere else, that they're in SC. This just looks like the exact same "Haddonfield" as the recent Halloween movies, which looks absolutely nothing like the original Halloween.

2. There was absolutely zero reason for Chris McNeil to be in this movie. Her character added nothing, and was in it for probably 5 minutes total. Very cheap bringing her back just for the marketing.

Oh, and most of the jump scares were super cheap. A couple good ones, but not much else.