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Post by darkpast on Oct 29, 2020 19:34:22 GMT
NEW TRAILER RELEASED *** 6/24/2021
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Post by simest on Oct 29, 2020 19:46:48 GMT
I still don't know why Laurie at the finale of the last one didn't just fill him with lead from all those firearms she'd stockpiled over 40 years.
He was trapped in the basement right in front of her with nowhere to go.
Instead she burns down her own fortress and walks away leaving him breathing.
I audibly groaned in the theatre! This looks like more of the same.
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Post by James on Oct 29, 2020 22:11:30 GMT
Not bad. I can tell those who didn't like the last movie won't be fond of this trailer, but for us that do like that last movie are enthusiastic of what's to come.
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Post by seahawksraawk00 on Oct 29, 2020 23:15:58 GMT
Upon rewatch of the last one, these films do kinda miss the point of Michael and really just embrace the "slasher" of him, which is fine. I don't mind that he's particularly randomly killing his victims, since he is evil and would kill indiscriminately anyways, but when they announced these new reboots, I was really hoping for a smaller-scale, stalker film that builds on suspense and tension much like the first, with only a small handful of kills. Obviously in this age of horror, it would be hard sell for an R-rated horror film, particularly a slasher, without a body count and blood and gore to focus on to keep audience interested. And they're really trying to resell the Michael-Laurie dynamic and capture the rivalry and arch enemies arc like Michael and Loomis, but it doesn't work as well, especially how they had to contrive a reason for Michael to go after her in the last film. If they really wanted to make Laurie the new "Loomis", it should have focused entirely on a new group of characters not related to her, even outside of Haddonfield, and have her come in later into the film. I'll definitely see this as Michael Myers is my favorite slasher, but I really hope they can shake up the character and give us something new and refreshing.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 30, 2020 0:06:10 GMT
Upon rewatch of the last one, these films do kinda miss the point of Michael and really just embrace the "slasher" of him, which is fine. I don't mind that he's particularly randomly killing his victims, since he is evil and would kill indiscriminately anyways, but when they announced these new reboots, I was really hoping for a smaller-scale, stalker film that builds on suspense and tension much like the first, with only a small handful of kills. Obviously in this age of horror, it would be hard sell for an R-rated horror film, particularly a slasher, without a body count and blood and gore to focus on to keep audience interested. And they're really trying to resell the Michael-Laurie dynamic and capture the rivalry and arch enemies arc like Michael and Loomis, but it doesn't work as well, especially how they had to contrive a reason for Michael to go after her in the last film. If they really wanted to make Laurie the new "Loomis", it should have focused entirely on a new group of characters not related to her, even outside of Haddonfield, and have her come in later into the film. I'll definitely see this as Michael Myers is my favorite slasher, but I really hope they can shake up the character and give us something new and refreshing. There were a lot of bizarre ideas in contradiction to the inspired one of wiping the sequels. -constantly referencing the sequels -making Michael an indiscriminate, head-crushing Jason wannabe, like the sequels -making the main character a relative of Laurie, like the sequels They might as well have just contrived some bullshit excuse to ignore Laurie's death in Resurrection and kept them canon because, aside from a little asterisk saying otherwise, it feels like the same universe. Anyway, this looks like more of the same. Though I'm kinda here for a baseball bat wielding Tommy Doyle played by Anthony Michael Hall.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 30, 2020 0:11:48 GMT
I just wish they would stop.
I mean what is the hook of this one--Lindsey's return?
Michael Myers is not very interesting-slasher characters are not very interesting. Freddy is performance driven and speaks so at least he has that (although he has long since ceased to be taken seriously), but these silent masked killers are way beyond their shelf life.
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Post by thisguy4000 on Oct 30, 2020 0:36:48 GMT
It was obviously never going to be happen, but I wish the 2018 film was just a one and done. How are they supposed to keep peopleβs interest for two more of these?
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Post by simest on Oct 30, 2020 0:49:26 GMT
It was obviously never going to be happen, but I wish the 2018 film was just a one and done. How are they supposed to keep peopleβs interest for two more of these? Two more? Trust me..........they won't stop there!
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Post by politicidal on Oct 30, 2020 16:21:41 GMT
The 2018 is not that badly made, but I just couldn't care anymore. Not sure if I'd even bother with this one.
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Post by simest on Nov 1, 2020 10:34:53 GMT
Upon rewatch of the last one, these films do kinda miss the point of Michael and really just embrace the "slasher" of him, which is fine. I don't mind that he's particularly randomly killing his victims, since he is evil and would kill indiscriminately anyways, but when they announced these new reboots, I was really hoping for a smaller-scale, stalker film that builds on suspense and tension much like the first, with only a small handful of kills. Obviously in this age of horror, it would be hard sell for an R-rated horror film, particularly a slasher, without a body count and blood and gore to focus on to keep audience interested. And they're really trying to resell the Michael-Laurie dynamic and capture the rivalry and arch enemies arc like Michael and Loomis, but it doesn't work as well, especially how they had to contrive a reason for Michael to go after her in the last film. If they really wanted to make Laurie the new "Loomis", it should have focused entirely on a new group of characters not related to her, even outside of Haddonfield, and have her come in later into the film. I'll definitely see this as Michael Myers is my favorite slasher, but I really hope they can shake up the character and give us something new and refreshing. I wrote something very similar when the last movie came out and agree with every word you say. For saying they disregarded all the sequels to connect directly to the original, HALLOWEEN (2018) has far more in common with those movies than Carpenter's film. Michael's like a bull in a china shop here, knocking all manner of victims off, left right and centre without the vaguest of patterns. In HALLOWEEN (1978), he was patient, calculated and very specific in who he went after - teenage girls that resembled his sister Judith. That was the event that was seemingly playing out over and over in his head and the event he was back to re-enact. That was his pathology and probably the only thing we knew about what might be driving him. Chillingly though, it still left the mystery of why it began in the first place. What evil within led him to kill Judith? This dynamic was perfect for setting the scene and slowly building suspense as Michael goes about stalking and dogging the footsteps of his target victims. He didn't just crash from one house to the next slaughtering whoever might just happen to live there, stomping on heads, etc. as he went along. This latest film was all about giving us the familiar, well-worn Michael Vs Laurie showdown (as per the sequels, not the original) as though they were still brother and sister. The idea of Michael escaping and stalking a small group of new characters - again to relive killing Judith - with Laurie showing up to thwart him, would have remained consistent with the original Myers character while also adding an interesting and believable extension to Laurie Strode. I almost wonder if the makers of HALLOWEEN (2018) actually sat and watched Carpenter's movie or if they just watched all the ones they were supposedly ignoring.
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Post by darkpast on Jun 25, 2021 4:28:00 GMT
added trailer first post
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Post by gbone on Jun 25, 2021 11:49:53 GMT
I think the trailer showed every kill in the movie.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jun 25, 2021 14:23:57 GMT
I think the trailer showed every kill in the movie. If not then all all talk about the huge body count must be real.
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Post by James on Jun 25, 2021 14:28:32 GMT
I get they wanted to hype us up with the kills but they didn't need to show that much. Other than that, I'm in.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jun 27, 2021 19:27:00 GMT
I get they wanted to hype us up with the kills but they didn't need to show that much. Other than that, I'm in. They don't even need to show that much in the actual movie. For direct sequels to the original, the atmosphere of these new ones couldn't be more off. Michael v. Firefighters looks like a scene from My Bloody Valentine 3D.
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Post by James on Jun 27, 2021 19:36:14 GMT
I get they wanted to hype us up with the kills but they didn't need to show that much. Other than that, I'm in. They don't even need to show that much in the actual movie. For direct sequels to the original, the atmosphere of these new ones couldn't be more off. Michael v. Firefighters looks like a scene from My Bloody Valentine 3D. Yeah that kind of felt out of character for him to just do that since he's a more secretive killer. He didn't even need to really, coulda just hid somewhere in the house and waited until they left and made his way from there.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jun 29, 2021 14:50:13 GMT
They don't even need to show that much in the actual movie. For direct sequels to the original, the atmosphere of these new ones couldn't be more off. Michael v. Firefighters looks like a scene from My Bloody Valentine 3D. Yeah that kind of felt out of character for him to just do that since he's a more secretive killer. He didn't even need to really, coulda just hid somewhere in the house and waited until they left and made his way from there. He kinda feels a little more like Jason than Michael.
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Post by James on Jun 29, 2021 15:14:33 GMT
Yeah that kind of felt out of character for him to just do that since he's a more secretive killer. He didn't even need to really, coulda just hid somewhere in the house and waited until they left and made his way from there. He kinda feels a little more like Jason than Michael. I still think he's better handled than with the Zombie films, though I liked Tyler Mane's performance fine.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jun 29, 2021 15:28:44 GMT
He kinda feels a little more like Jason than Michael. I still think he's better handled than with the Zombie films, though I liked Tyler Mane's performance fine. I would agree. I mostly liked the last movie, and I think it's a pretty well made bigger budget slasher movie, but it's a bit more generic than the style of the original. To me it's similar to the leap that the first movie made to the second. Added brutality and gore, less suspense and subtlety. Still, I think it's better than most slasher movies around now and the cast and iconography (and score) of Halloween elevates it all. I think this time I'll be a little more open to the style not reflecting the original that much and will embrace the approach a bit more.
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Post by Anonymous Andy on Jul 7, 2021 15:20:05 GMT
This looks like a big ball of fun. I dunno. I feel less critical of these movies the more time goes on. Just happy to have more Halloween movies to chew on, good or bad. I look forward to nitpicking and then subsequently rewatching the shit out of this, just I have all the other sequels.
But yeah, trailer really gave away too much for my taste. Probably going to avoid any publicity regarding this one going forward.
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