Post by His Majesty on Oct 20, 2021 20:57:05 GMT
I'm a Halloween purist. Since Halloween 2 in 1981, I've felt my joy being killed off (no pun intended) with each subsequent sequel. Some had promise, while others took a massive shiet on the legacy of Carpenter's classic.
For whatever reason, they just couldn't get the mask right. At all. Prior to the 2018 reboot, the closest was the pre-rot version of Rob Zombie's Myers as a child.
The Myers house. Obviously part 2 used the same location, but after that, it was a joke. Halloween 5 I'm looking at YOU for crimes against the mask AND the house). Resurrection did a pretty admirable job in recreating the Myers house, but it was all ruined by Busta Rhymes just BEING there.
The first ten minutes of Halloween Kills restored my faith and knocked it WAY out of the park. The mask was PERFECT. The house was PERFECT. The guy who played Loomis was nearly perfect as well. Even the little details, like the Strode Reality sign in the yard and the cracked hole in the window. Even the dead dog in the living room. Spot f******g on.
Another thing I noticed was lacking was the way Myers moved in the sequels. The 2018 version and Kills got the Myers essence, the vibe, the walk correct as well. It FEELS like Nick Castle was in every Myers scene, even though he wasn't.
Even though Halloween 81 is not canon anymore, I loved how they used the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital logo from H2 and even used a scene from that movie in one of their flashbacks.
The Legacy characters:
It was good to see nurse Marion, Sherriff Brackett and Lindsay Wallace again. As it was to see Tommy Doyle and Lonnie Elam as well, more "legacy characters (not played by the original actors)". How they handled these characters was one of two gripes I had about this movie. With the exception of Lindsay ( a huge surprise because I was sure she was a goner), they killed off the legacy characters with little to no fanfare and no real emotional resonance. It felt like the new Star Wars trilogy where they brought back the main characters back for the sole purpose of killing them off.
And then the shocking kill at the end.
I understand why they had to kill someone close to Laurie (to set up her unholy vengeance against Myers in the third movie) but to kill off Karen, the most relatable, human, interesting, and engaging character in the trilogy so far is heartbreaking. Laurie's granddaughter is the future of the franchise. I get that. But it felt like they were setting Karen up for something much bigger in the third movie, but guess that's not in the table anymore.
Then again, the trooper that we thought was killed by the doctor in H2018 is still alive, so...
Very pleased by this movie overall. The first 10 minutes was worth the price of admission alone.
For whatever reason, they just couldn't get the mask right. At all. Prior to the 2018 reboot, the closest was the pre-rot version of Rob Zombie's Myers as a child.
The Myers house. Obviously part 2 used the same location, but after that, it was a joke. Halloween 5 I'm looking at YOU for crimes against the mask AND the house). Resurrection did a pretty admirable job in recreating the Myers house, but it was all ruined by Busta Rhymes just BEING there.
The first ten minutes of Halloween Kills restored my faith and knocked it WAY out of the park. The mask was PERFECT. The house was PERFECT. The guy who played Loomis was nearly perfect as well. Even the little details, like the Strode Reality sign in the yard and the cracked hole in the window. Even the dead dog in the living room. Spot f******g on.
Another thing I noticed was lacking was the way Myers moved in the sequels. The 2018 version and Kills got the Myers essence, the vibe, the walk correct as well. It FEELS like Nick Castle was in every Myers scene, even though he wasn't.
Even though Halloween 81 is not canon anymore, I loved how they used the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital logo from H2 and even used a scene from that movie in one of their flashbacks.
The Legacy characters:
It was good to see nurse Marion, Sherriff Brackett and Lindsay Wallace again. As it was to see Tommy Doyle and Lonnie Elam as well, more "legacy characters (not played by the original actors)". How they handled these characters was one of two gripes I had about this movie. With the exception of Lindsay ( a huge surprise because I was sure she was a goner), they killed off the legacy characters with little to no fanfare and no real emotional resonance. It felt like the new Star Wars trilogy where they brought back the main characters back for the sole purpose of killing them off.
And then the shocking kill at the end.
I understand why they had to kill someone close to Laurie (to set up her unholy vengeance against Myers in the third movie) but to kill off Karen, the most relatable, human, interesting, and engaging character in the trilogy so far is heartbreaking. Laurie's granddaughter is the future of the franchise. I get that. But it felt like they were setting Karen up for something much bigger in the third movie, but guess that's not in the table anymore.
Then again, the trooper that we thought was killed by the doctor in H2018 is still alive, so...
Very pleased by this movie overall. The first 10 minutes was worth the price of admission alone.