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There's also Keith Gordon's horror-loving, aspiring movie maker Lloyd, which lesser movies like this one would relegate to weirdo status, but it makes him three-dimensional and gives him a chance with the girl!

Aesthetics are not all this movie has going for it, though: for one, there's the political struggle with its quest for the deadliest sword in the land shared by royals, the ever-charismatic Ti Lung's usurper and quadruplet enforcers, all of which resembles the plot of a Game of Thrones season.

Besides succeeding at laying out the consequences, this movie goes further for how it shows that your plan would still occur in the real world, inconveniences and all.

The leads from Blair to Von Sydow, writer Blatty and priests who consulted are also never not interesting whether they're discussing how much they enjoyed working on the movie - surprising given the constant makeup, freezing cold, Friedkin's temper and all that pea soup - or what the movie means to ...

From all the vehicular destruction to the opening stunt in the title to the clips of the desert sci-fi epic movie within the movie you'll wish was real, it made me realize how much large-scale action I've reacted to with passive indifference in this young century.

That brings us to his "dream auditee," Bella (Fuller), who seems just as out of place in our current lonely world as she does in the movie's speculative 2030s: someone who wants to share her dreams with someone else.

I also appreciate the documentary's stylistic touches, especially how well it draws parallels between news and movie clips.

I'll at least say that the finale will not only challenge your expectations about "who done it" or even when the movie concludes, but also about society and how we treat each other.

The movie still stands as a fulfilling tribute to the company and to the era when record stores mattered.

James Gray is a favorite director of mine because his movies seem like analog ones in a digital world, which is also the case here even though it's the first movie he filmed with digital cameras.