11-15-2018, 08:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-29-2018, 12:07 PM by ZpaceJ0ck0.)
So I watched the new Halloween movie.
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I liked it.
The performance of Jamie Lee Curtis as an older Laurie Strode, a Laurie that trained herself in case Michael came back was really good. You can tell how traumatized she was after that one night. As for Michael Myers? He was beast! My favorite scene has to be the one where he pushed the cage in the police car and pressed it into the doctor's back, followed by the doctor getting his head crushed like a watermelon in one stomp. You can tell that Michael never skipped leg day!
I can't really comment on the whole Laurie being Michael sister thing being written off the story given the only Halloween movies I have seen where the original from 1978 and the new one, that and because apparently this brother-sister relationship was introduced in the second movie. The only thing I have to say is that... Michael didn't specifically targeted Laurie. He was killing random people because that is what serial killers do. In fact, it was the doctor who brought Michael into Laurie's house, and even if he didn't do that, Laurie would hunt Michael down (rather than the other way around) anyway. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong in this one.
And last but not least, there is the post-credits scene (more like a post-credits sound effect, since they pretty much pulled off a Star Wars episode 1 if you know what I mean). About which I have to say the following:
Of course Michael is alive! What kind of question is that?
In fact, I counted up to three times where Michael could have been killed once and for all but he didn't die because... Plot.
Sure, the second one where Michael falls downstairs could be explained as the characters having their 'flight' mode on rather than the 'fight' one (you know what they say about humans having a fight or flight response to something terrifying?), but the third and final one, where Michael was finally captured inside the basement? They could have shoot him down and then burn the house. Rather than burn the house while Micheal is standing still in the stairs.
So overall, I can say that this is a solid sequel to the original.
The performance of Jamie Lee Curtis as an older Laurie Strode, a Laurie that trained herself in case Michael came back was really good. You can tell how traumatized she was after that one night. As for Michael Myers? He was beast! My favorite scene has to be the one where he pushed the cage in the police car and pressed it into the doctor's back, followed by the doctor getting his head crushed like a watermelon in one stomp. You can tell that Michael never skipped leg day!
I can't really comment on the whole Laurie being Michael sister thing being written off the story given the only Halloween movies I have seen where the original from 1978 and the new one, that and because apparently this brother-sister relationship was introduced in the second movie. The only thing I have to say is that... Michael didn't specifically targeted Laurie. He was killing random people because that is what serial killers do. In fact, it was the doctor who brought Michael into Laurie's house, and even if he didn't do that, Laurie would hunt Michael down (rather than the other way around) anyway. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong in this one.
And last but not least, there is the post-credits scene (more like a post-credits sound effect, since they pretty much pulled off a Star Wars episode 1 if you know what I mean). About which I have to say the following:
Of course Michael is alive! What kind of question is that?
In fact, I counted up to three times where Michael could have been killed once and for all but he didn't die because... Plot.
Sure, the second one where Michael falls downstairs could be explained as the characters having their 'flight' mode on rather than the 'fight' one (you know what they say about humans having a fight or flight response to something terrifying?), but the third and final one, where Michael was finally captured inside the basement? They could have shoot him down and then burn the house. Rather than burn the house while Micheal is standing still in the stairs.
So overall, I can say that this is a solid sequel to the original.