Post by Toasted Cheese on Nov 11, 2018 5:17:25 GMT
While I could say this film could be considered kinda cool in some aspects, it was a hybrid of nearly every Halloween that has gone before it, including Rob Zombie's versions and lets be honest, it was bulls<>t.
While I have to accept it was made to pander to today's millennial generation in presentation, I saw the film as parody. It substituted suspense and scares and atmosphere for the most part, with graphic bloody violence, loud noises and jump frights. For fans who can recollect the series, they would see aspects of homage, like the woman in hair curlers and dressing gown making ham sandwiches who has her knife taken by Myers, which was in direct contrast to Halloween 2 - 81', whose events this film ignored anyway. Of course Myers had to bash her head in with a hammer first, rather than present us with a scary and well timed sequence of just taking her knife when she was distracted. He just goes in for the kill. Most of his kills here are arbitrary, without any focused narrative or build up of Myers lurking from behind the shadows to sneak up on his unsuspecting prey. The original Halloween - 78' and Halloween 2 - 81', knew how to present their characters and build up the scenario and at least make us have some inkling of care factor for who is being offed. Not just present them as a bunch of random new age jerks.
I found Jamie Lee Curtis's character to be quite tiresome and absurd and she was more like a Granny Grunt Rambo with serious psychological issues herself. Even her daughter told her she was psychotic and her granddaughter told her to get over herself. Whoa! Wait! Laurie Strode had a son in Steve Miner's terrific Halloween H20 - 98' and Uncle Mikie came back to get him. Whoa! Wait! Myers apparently wasn't Laurie's brother after all here. That s<>t was just made up and now we have an entirely different Laurie, who didn't end up being stalked in a hospital and then changing her name and being headmistress at a posh and private boarding school to escape her past. They did homage H20, alluding to Laurie being a lush and downing a glass of wine like she did in H20. The only difference here though, is that it was red not white. She was also a bossy bitch to her daughter, just like she was with her son in H20.
After ignoring the events of Halloween 2,