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Rob Zombie's Halloween

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So after folks suggested that it was a better than I believed it to be, I decided to give it a second chance. Turns out it's not as bad as I thought.

It's worse :mad:

What's clear to me is that Zombie didn't really get why the original Halloween was so scary. A significant part of what made Michael Myers so frightening was that you had no frigging clue what he was, or why he was what he was. He was a kid from a seemingly normal family, the family that might live next door to you, who one day just went ape s--t and nobody knows why. Well, almost nobody. There's the one English guy who realizes that he's just...plain...evil.

But instead of that, Zombie had to give him a backstory that turns him into just another picked-on kid from a white trash family who FINALLY HAD ENOUGH AND MADE THEM ALL PAY.

Yee...ha :rolleyes:

Throw in that original Michael never said a single word, always moved in a slow - almost inhuman - manner, and he certainly never gave a flying rip about anybody or went looking for a happy family reunion. Contrast that with new Michael who, while huge and with a better mask (that much I'll give him credit for) has lines and makes noises, moves in a fashion that's more manic than maniac and just wants to find his long lost baby sister and be loved.

Heck, he even changed Dr. Loomis from a slightly off-kilter guy who knows Michael is something straight from Hell to a normal child psychiatrist who sells books. To his credit, Zombie's teenagers actually look like teenagers instead of twenty-somethings playing teenagers, but that's more on the casting director than on him.

So to sum it up, thanks for taking all the mystique out of it Rob And thanks for taking one of the greatest screen bogeymen ever and turning him into a garden variety serial killer.

To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen, Mr. Director, I've watched John Carpenter, been a fan of John Carpenter, John Carpenter is a favorite of mine...

Director, you're no John Carpenter :nonod:

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I didn't mind the backstory so much. But I do see your point about the pure evil aspect of killing and not having a reason. Still liked it, but have only seen it once and probably will only see it once. Unlike the original that I have seen a couple of times since seeing the remake. Which puts the count around 1000 times, maybe a little high, but I have seen it a lot. hauntedpumpkin.gif

It was better than the remake of Friday the 13th. And I have the remake of Nightmare on Elm street on the Q just waiting for netflix to get it.

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