Talk:The Exorcist III

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Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Trivia insert 3 WikiProject class rating 4 Fair use rationale for Image:The Exorcist 3.jpg 5 Plot summary

[edit] Synopsis

I just spent a little bit of time cleaning up the article, but I'm not entirely sure that its lengthy synopsis is apropos for an encyclopedia entry. I'm tempted to summarize the entire synopsis (or even delete it--there's some pretty horrendous writing there), but I haven't seen the movie. --C-squared 15:25, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

I'm not convinced it should stay either, but I have seen the film so I tried to improve the sludge somewhat. It appears that someone has changed the article for the novel to redirect here, which is unfortunate as even the semi-literate who produced this murky text has pointed out that there are substantial differences between the novel and the film. Unfortunately I haven't read the novel in 23 years, so I can't even contribute a section to this article outlining the differences. Canonblack 03:17, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I sometimes check the wikipedia entry for movies I'd just seen - I find a lot (and I mean, a lot) of the movie articles have overly elaborate, blatantly POV synopsises. There is some trademark writing that makes me believe this is the work of one movie lover with poor concepts of what an encyclopedia is about, an even poorer grasp of what the movies in question are about and way too much time on their hands. I have pointed this out at several other movie talk pages, but nothing seems to happen. Here's a nice example from this article. From the "The Corridor Scene" part: "A security guard who sits in the corridor is summoned by someone and leaves, falsely suggesting to the viewer that events will follow him.". As I said, I just saw the movie, and I can say only a person who paid no attention to the scene directly preceding this one can believe the guard are of any concern. The scene preceding this one has the possesed maniac explicitly declaring that the next victim will be Amy. 213.172.254.28 01:43, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I've made a slight change to the synopsis,to correct an error, but I take your point about it being too long, however I would say that, as the film itself is a little confusing, I think entries such as these help unravel the confusion.80.42.129.6 14:27, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia insert

According to an A&E series episode, American Justice, the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was a huge fan of the movie. In fact, I believe they said it was Jeffrey Dahmer's favorite movie. In the American Justice episode, one of Dahmer's would-be victims said that, while watching the movie, Jeffrey would go into an almost trance-like state and giggle. I have also seen this mentioned in other reviews of the film from various sources. I think that if the Danny Rollin fact is going to be mentioned in the trivia section on the page then why not mention Jeffrey Dahmer as well.Sonicpsyops 20:33, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:12, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:The Exorcist 3.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:02, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Plot summary

I removed an extremely long section about the plot. We already have a synopsis. Please add essential details to that if necessary. --TS 21:37, 21 February 2008 (UTC)