![]() ![]() ![]() In fact over the 30 some years since I bought my first computer-a genuine IBM PS/2 ( ) for some $2000, in 1987-I’ve played various solitaire games in part out of compulsion and in part as a mechanism to distract my conscious attention while my deep mind ponders other things. I should set the context that I have never been a “gamer,” and in particular have never had any interest in “first-person shooter” games or racing car games or any games that involve competition with other players. RealMyst, Uru, and later Obduction, were vast improvements: the player, using arrow keys, could move freely in any direction, look around from any spot. By Myst IV you could at least swivel around from each node to see your surroundings in every direction… That was true of Myst V too. ![]() In Myst and Riven and Myst III the point of view at each node was fixed. The issue is that the early games in the franchise were what were derisively called “slideshow” games in which the player could move only to certain preordained positions or nodes. And, well, I played RealMyst not the original Myst. ![]() Well, not played I followed walkthroughs posted on various online sites, to revisit the games’ environments, their beauty, without having to re-solve all their puzzles from scratch. Instead, inspired by a New York Times article I linked on Facebook,, about the comfort of replaying computer games from years past (the article writer’s childhood my 40s and 50s), I did in fact, over five or six weeks, replay all the Myst games, including the associated Uru and Obduction. I’d started Brian Greene’s intriguing UNTIL THE END OF TIME, and left it suspended around page 30. It was much more important to pay attention to everything going on in the outside world. Things were too unsettled and uncertain to allow for the indulgence of sitting down and turning inward into a book. For the next five weeks I suspended reading of books entirely. His first day working from home was March 17. Highly recommended! A majority of people hate intellectual horror films.Here we are at the middle of May, some seven or eight weeks in to stay-at-home orders here in the Bay Area – when it started, my partner began working from home, except for the one day a week he would go in to work, his site’s senior staff alternating days to be on site. I enjoyed the book and the movie as well. I wished Blatty could have the original version of this film restored. I'm probably one of the few people who are actually satisfied with the movie. Even though it was fiddled around with during the final phase of production, scenes seem to have been added and the ever presence of the producers looking over the director's shoulder, it's still a great film. Is the movie worth watching? Yes it is because it's a worthy follow up to the Exorcist. I think so to because the book's ending was far different than what was put out on the silver screen. Word has it that the film was indeed tampered with during the post production. The ending felt rushed and it has "post production" stamped on it. Nicol Williamson has a guest star spot as a Father Merrin type priest (his scenes seemed to have been added during post production because they don't fit in with the rest of the movie). he plays the role of the detective as if he was tailored made for the part. Kinderman's faith in man is tested as he continues on through out this bizarre and seemingly never ending case. That is until he follows the clues and they lead him to a very unlikely place. Kinderman is called into duty and is puzzled by the brutal slayings. Meanwhile a serial killer is running around Georgetown gruesomely murdering the city's residents. The producers wanted Jason Miller and an exorcism! Who won out? The film follows the friendship between Father Dyer and Detective Kinderman. Blatty wanted to make an atmospheric horror film, the producers wanted a prototypical 80's horror film. The producer wanted some gore and "exorcism" thrown into the mix. The novel was a straight forward mystery/ thriller. This wasn't going to be the first or the last conflict Blatty would have with the producers. In Europe it's called Legion: Exorcist III. But the producers wanted to cash in on the Exorcist name so he caved into pressure. Writer/ Director William Peter Blatty wanted to simply call the movie "Legion" like the name of his novel. Despite the number three next to the title, this was the true sequel to the first film. Exorcist III (1990) was the follow up to the classic Exorcist. ![]()
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