Wasn't a huge fan of the new Halloween. It was well made and you could tell Green tried to craft it through Carpenter' vision. The production values were definitely superior to most slasher movies... but other than that I didn't think the script worked for me.
I didn't like the change in the relationship Myers has with Laurie. Sort of a spoiler, so I won't delve into it too much. To me the twist makes the franchise unique, not just your generic movie monster movie. To change the lore of the characters after all these years was a real turn off for me.
Also many characters act like complete idiots in the movie, and the random bits of comedy didn't work for me. People are being stalked/murdered and yet they're cracking jokes at the same time? Jamie Lee Curtis was great as was Myers, but didn't care for any of the other characters.
Why they couldn't use H-20 as part of this new series is beyond me. They could have just made a direct sequel to that with Hartnett as her son; just forget the Busta Rhymes Resurrection nonsense. Keep the rest!
First Man is incredible. The way it shoots the flying scenes focused on the insides of the craft is jarring. It feels claustrophobic, loud and scary. The acting is excellent and the supporting cast feels like they came straight out of the 60’s.
Just a superb job of creating a sense of time and place for the movie. Well worth seeing.
Please see on IMAX! The lunar sequences are amazing!
Why they couldn't use H-20 as part of this new series is beyond me. They could have just made a direct sequel to that with Hartnett as her son; just forget the Busta Rhymes Resurrection nonsense. Keep the rest!
H20 was decent, but I think this new movie is a superior film and works even better than part 2 (1981) as a direct sequel to the original. So I don't mind that they ignored the other sequels, even though I liked some of them.
I don't consider Season of the Witch to be part of the franchise, as it's a completely separate story. I do think it's underrated though, and not nearly as bad as some fans make it out to be.
Nor do I consider the Rob Zombie movies as official canon either. His 2007 remake was well done though and he made some interesting story choices that I wasn't expecting. His 2nd film was terrible though.
Halloween Resurrection is a complete abomination and is better left forgotten. 5 and 6 were pretty bad as well.
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I remember as a kid being all excited to get my hands on a VHS copy of Season of the Witch only to suffer maybe the first WTF moment of my young life after watching it.
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I see Hunter Killer is getting some fairly large promotion. I’m surprised studios keep bankrolling big budget Gerard Butler movies as nearly everything he’s done of late has ended up in the red and lost a lot of money. It’s at 38% on Rotten Tomatoes which is actually higher than I expected. Who’s spending $25+ to watch this guy’s movies?
I see Hunter Killer is getting some fairly large promotion. I’m surprised studios keep bankrolling big budget Gerard Butler movies as nearly everything he’s done of late has ended up in the red and lost a lot of money. It’s at 38% on Rotten Tomatoes which is actually higher than I expected. Who’s spending $25+ to watch this guy’s movies?
Reminds me of a funny moment on Jimmy Kimmel's "Mean Tweets" when they had Gerard Butler on a couple years ago. It said something like "does Butler have a massive student loan or something? Is that why he makes all these s**t films?"
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I see Hunter Killer is getting some fairly large promotion. I’m surprised studios keep bankrolling big budget Gerard Butler movies as nearly everything he’s done of late has ended up in the red and lost a lot of money. It’s at 38% on Rotten Tomatoes which is actually higher than I expected. Who’s spending $25+ to watch this guy’s movies?
When I see that kind of heavy promotion warning bells go off in my head. I begin to think it must be a bad movie and they're doing all that to sucker people into paying too see their garbage.
Another hot take - I watched White Lightning last week. It is the first of Burt's "Gator" movies. Smokey and the Bandit is a funnier, cleaned up version of White Lightning which is a pretty bleak movie. So much of these two shows are the same. He even has the same job, bird doggin' for a moonshine runner who just happens to look a lot like Jerry Reed. Same abusive sheriff, stupid deputies, Hal Needham car stunts, etc.
Speak ill of Smokey and the Bandit all you like as that film was boring garbage but I’ll be damned if I’ll stand here and let you disparage White Lighting. They killed his brother, SJ! HIS BROTHER. A man simply cannot stand by and let that happen. Gator McClusky was basically disowned by his own folks for working with the feds because they thought he’d give up good, hard working, ‘shining folk. No sir White Lightning is an amazing film and I take umbrage that you’d even compare the two. Umbrage I say.
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Hey, I didnt say White Lightning was a bad movie. In fact, I quite enjoyed it. I’m just saying it feels like the template for the Bandit movies. I loved that Ned Beatty was the corrupt southern sheriff.
H20 was decent, but I think this new movie is a superior film and works even better than part 2 (1981) as a direct sequel to the original. So I don't mind that they ignored the other sequels, even though I liked some of them.
I don't consider Season of the Witch to be part of the franchise, as it's a completely separate story. I do think it's underrated though, and not nearly as bad as some fans make it out to be.
Nor do I consider the Rob Zombie movies as official canon either. His 2007 remake was well done though and he made some interesting story choices that I wasn't expecting. His 2nd film was terrible though.
Halloween Resurrection is a complete abomination and is better left forgotten. 5 and 6 were pretty bad as well.
There's a theory that Halloween 3 was absolutely part of the overall story line and showed how Michael Myers was replaced by a terminator style android, made by the Silver Shamrock novelties company.
It's pretty amazing to see how far climbing has progressed. That hob nail boot pendulum looked fun. Free climbing el cap was still unimaginable when I spent summers there in the 90's. And then Lynn Hill came along. Now Honnold is doing 5.13 moves 2500 feet up with no ropes and topping out in 3 and a half hours. I can't think of another athlete in any sport that progressed the state of the art like him. That movie made my finger tips sweat.
