tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2643714587047748844.post859546670383573396..comments2023-12-05T22:38:15.929-08:00Comments on Fr. Dennis at the Movies: Deliver Us From Evil [2014]Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2643714587047748844.post-62338329342769050072014-07-15T18:13:07.627-07:002014-07-15T18:13:07.627-07:00Dan, you can buy the book, new, in paperback form ...Dan, you can buy the book, new, in paperback form on Amazon ( http://www.amazon.com/Deliver-Us-Evil-Investigates-Supernatural/dp/1250059496/ ) for (as of 7/15/2014) for $8.95 - $10.95. <br /><br />But you may also consider getting a tablet. Android driven tablets can be purchased for as low as $50.00 these days (just Google "android tablet"). Then the Kindle Ap is FREE ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004DLPXAO/ ). Dennis Krizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16913610930132868134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2643714587047748844.post-59798712495882162942014-07-15T18:04:13.492-07:002014-07-15T18:04:13.492-07:00Dear Father I want to read this book 'Beware t...Dear Father I want to read this book 'Beware the Night" but I can only find it on ebooks. I want an actual book. Can you help please? - DanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2643714587047748844.post-82088783336859039292014-07-05T15:34:16.862-07:002014-07-05T15:34:16.862-07:00Hi Arkanabar! Thanks for your comment.
But listen...Hi Arkanabar! Thanks for your comment.<br /><br />But listen, if the movie didn't make the claim that it was based on the true accounts of Sgt. Sarchie, I'd say "what the heck." BUT, with the exception of keeping Sarchie's name and his character being NYPD, there is NOTHING in the film that's from Sarchie's book NOTHING AT ALL, NADA.<br /><br />EVERY SINGLE MEMORABLE ASPECT of the film IS AN INVENTION OF THE SCREENWRITERS. EVERY ONE.<br /><br />And honestly, let's go through them (SPOILER ALERT):<br /><br />(1) Sarchie makes NO MENTION OF ANY TORMENTED VETERANS of the Iraq War (or of ANY WAR).<br /><br />(2) There's NO MENTION AT ALL (!!) in Sarchie's book of ANY INCIDENT at the Bronx Zoo.<br /><br />(3) There's NO MENTION of ANY "INSCRIPTION" (in the film a satanic inscription that a squad of U.S. Soldiers stumble upon in a chapel somewhere out in the Iraqi desert puts a satanic curse on them.<br /><br />(4) There's NO MENTION of THE DOORS in Sarchie's book, NONE. ZERO.<br /><br />(5) And in Sarchie's original book the hip "feet on the ground" / "man of the barrio" practically wearing a Che Guevara bandana Fr.Mendoza WAS ACTUALLY A CONSERVATIVE (LATIN PREFERRING) BISHOP with as IRISH a name that he could have lived down the street from St. Patrick.<br /><br />Now I DON'T OBJECT to artistic invention BUT THEN CALL IT _FICTION_.<br /><br />As such this film is the ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE SLAYER of exorcism movis ;-) ... and I actually LIKED _that_ film. But then no one was claiming that that film's "artistic assertion" that Jefferson Davis was a VAMPIRE ;-) ;-) was "based on true events." :-) ;-)<br /><br />But "Deliver us from Evil" DOES TRY to cloak itself in "real events." AND THAT'S SIMPLY NOT TRUE.<br /><br />And it's a shame because Sarchie's original book is quite readable and quite interesting. With no need to suck "The Doors," lions, "secret incantations," etc, etc into it ;-)<br /><br />And I'm calling the film-makers on it. They had every right to _invent_ a story, ANY STORY, even a story about a police officer involved in investigating the demonic phenomena. But then be honest about it ... and call it FICTION.Dennis Krizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16913610930132868134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2643714587047748844.post-87514704021001478932014-07-05T13:41:15.518-07:002014-07-05T13:41:15.518-07:00Ask anyone who has ever studied fencing to watch t...Ask anyone who has ever studied fencing to watch the famous swordfight scene from "The Princess Bride" with the sound off. They could come to hate the whole movie as a result. He will decry the fight choreography as entirely boring, like unto a kung fu scene where all the guys do is block without any attempt to hit each other.<br /><br />Your reaction to this movie is very similar to that, and for largely the same reasons. Or perhaps, it's more like despising that movie The Rock was in, "Walking Tall," because it had nothing to do with Buford Pusser.Arkanabarhttp://arkanabar.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com