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Halloween (2018) Nov 13, 2018 3:29:07 GMT via mobile

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Post by theshape25 on Nov 13, 2018 3:29:07 GMT

Nov 12, 2018 23:01:17 GMT Toasted Cheese said:

Nov 12, 2018 15:13:39 GMT theshape25 said:

All in all I thought it was a solid movie. Was it as good as the original? Nope. Did it have the suspense of the original? Nope. I really didn't expect it to either. Like someone previously said, had they made it more of a slow burner like the origial today's audience would have called it boring and slow. Does that make it right? No, but sadly this is the time in which we live.

For me it's my second favorite movie of the series. While I have a soft spot for all of the sequels, I grew tired of Myers chasing family. I always hated that storyline, so I'm glad they got rid of it. I also liked the brutality that Myers showed. For me it made him disturbing again, which is something I think he lost over the course of the series.

It did have some problems though. I would have preferred Laurie persuing Myers along with the cop in the streets of Haddonfield a la Loomis and Brackett rather than his Dr driving him to Laurie's compound.

I liked it better than Rob Zombie's Halloween, but I didn't like it better than Zombie's Halloween II.

It opened with a tone of Zombie's film and Michael going all crazy and grunting when he was shown the mask by the reporters. It just wasn't scary though and I felt it needed an opening that was harking back to the original 2, to somehow to set the feel. The tone was set with a slow start to the film anyway and wasn't that atmospheric either. The actors were average to awful and they were stupid stereotypes. I might have missed something, but how was Myers captured at the end of the first films events?

I also didn't find Laurie's obsession with Myers that believable compared to H20 and her obsession was understandable here because he was her brother.

I loved the twist in Halloween 2 - 81', when it was thrown into the mix about Myers and Laurie. It gave the film more of an incentive for him to continue stalking her. When I was a kid, I also thought this was a scary scene in the school room when the word Samhain was found written in blood on the blackboard. I hadn't seen the original at that time either.

I will have to revisit tbe movie because I didn't remember Michael having any reaction at all when the reporters were there. I remember all of the other patients reacting, but not Michael. I even thought I remember hearing the reporter telling Laurie that Myers gave no reaction to them at all.

For me Laurie wanted closure and to exercise all the demons that came with the experience of seeing all of her friends killed, as well as nearly being killed herself.