The only one I kind of liked was Rob Zombie's Halloween.
they're incredibly hollow attempts by the industry to make easy profit...they'e lazy, uninspired and devoid of creativity/inspiration.... they're just dogshit
Rob Zombie's Halloween was aight.
I enjoyed the Halloween movies. Zombie's approach.
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The Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2009) remakes were also garbage.
I really liked Rob Zombies Halloween movie
Rob Zombie's Halloween films were ok.
Halloween I sort of liked.
I hated Rob Zombie's Halloween he pretty much took a giant dump on everything that made the original great.
RZ's Halloween was decent.
@shadow_priest_x you better be watching the RZ Halloween by now, young man!
Okay, just got done watching Halloween.
I didn't love it, but I also don't think it's a bad movie. I think that for what he was trying to do, he actually did a pretty good job of it. The question, really, is if there is any merit in telling the story this way.
From a craftsmanship standpoint I thought the film was actually quite good. The production design and cinematography work together to give the film a distinctive look, the direction renders some nice shots from interesting angles, and the acting was solid across the board.
Just to get this out of the way, as I'm sure some of you (but probably not all of you) know, the little girl who starred in Halloween 4 (Danielle Harris). . .
. . . plays Annie Brackett in this one:
She's all grown up!
This film is almost like two movies in one. There's Michael Myers backstory and escape from the asylum. And once that is out of the way, we then get what is something like an abbreviated remake of the original film.
Does MM's backstory need to be told? Not really, and doing so obviously makes this a fundamentally different movie from its predecessor. I think that an element of mystery is important, regardless of whether we're talking about MM or Jason or Freddy or really any other slasher villain who's going to be really interesting.
But at the same time, what I will give Rob Zombie credit for is for doing something different. I think
@ufcfan4 made the point earlier that remakes/reboots need to justify their existence by giving audiences something different from what they've already seen, and RZ did definitely did that here and I have to applaud him at least for that. He worked hard to really make this version of the story his own.
I could not fucking wait, however, to get away from all the trashy people at the beginning of the movie--not counting the mom, who ends up being one of the few decent characters in the whole film.
And that leads me to the next point I want to make: Why is everyone in Haddonfield so nasty? It seems like almost every single character in this thing--even the "good" ones--has some kind of fucking attitude. Every line has to be delivered with a snarl or a tinge of sarcasm, if not outright contempt. I'm not sure what it says about Rob Zombie that he feels compelled to populate nearly the entire film with these kinds of people, but I know it says SOMETHING.
Most of the major characters in John Carpenter's movie have a counterpart in this film, but none of them are as likable in this film than they are in Carpenter's. The girl who plays Laurie Strode in this one has nothing on Jamie Lee Curtis. Malcom McDowell does a good job as Dr. Loomis, but again, he has such a fucking hard edge to him that it's difficult to REALLY like him. The girls who play Laurie's friends just come off as bitches, so yeah, fucking kill them, who cares. And so on.
The other thing that really stuck out to me was just how serious the film took itself. Obviously many of the entries in the 80s' slasher franchises became straight up campy, but it always seemed to me that even the more serious ones were winking at the camera
just a little bit. But there is none of that here. RZ just wants to make a violent, bloody film that would apparently not be complete without at least one scene of gratuitous rape.
I do think that this movie deserves more credit than its gotten, because it has gotten almost none from what I can tell. With a 25% RT score, and mostly lackluster-at-best fan reactions, I think RZ deserves a little more praise than that. Like I said, I think that the thing it's trying to do, it does a pretty good job of. But I just am not that interested in the thing it's trying to do.
This is one of those movies that I'm glad I've seen once, and I'm glad that I can now join in on conversations about it, but I doubt it's a movie I'll ever watch again.
