Post by Toasted Cheese on Nov 27, 2017 23:38:23 GMT
Nov 27, 2017 23:24:37 GMT @screamingtreefrogs said:
I thought moreso in the first. I liked her more in the second and Annie as well. love/hate relationship - if they just cast the character like the original Jamie Lee Curtis character - they would have been tremendous.
i thought the 1st half of '1' was great - loved Zombie's take on Michael's upbringing.
huge fan of '2' and it's got some great scenes like Michael trekking through the cornfields and backpacking to make it home. i didn't mind the White Horse aspect of it - numerous others bash it stating it's too similar to F13th how he was killing to please his mother - i enjoyed the spin on it.
it was just Laurie who ruined it for me.
i still give them a watch but find myself fast forwarding through her scenes so my ears don't bleed.......
I agree she was very shrill. I'm not so sure about making Laurie like the Jamie Lee Curtis character. That was a different time and place, and these were different films, ala Zombie style. I like the second part of Zombie's Halloween more than the first, but just barely. I really didn't go for the trailer trash take thing. It was too over-the-top and gaudy and didn't ring true or sincere. It was showcasing too much and was almost a parody. Keeping Sheri Moon Zombie—who can also be an annoying actress, because she can't really act—to just psychotic visions of Myers in the sequel, was a better utilization of her.
Myers character worked in Carpenter's original because he was just an enigma. It didn't really matter what made him evil, he just was. Zombie's Halloween II made him more in this mould without the backstory his first gave us and I feel it worked more to it's benefit. The evil was still alive stalking the countryside and wanted to find Laurie. That's all we needed to know.