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Video Contributor Posts: 127 Joined: 31 Dec 2008     | |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 79 Joined: 16 Jun 2009    | accordian as a hint? you've got me... |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 969 Joined: 26 Apr 2009    | Sounds interesting. I'm surprised you seemed to like it as much as you did. All the other reviews have been pretty positive as well so guess I'll go check it out. |
Paperboy  Posts: 47 Joined: 20 Jun 2009   | Well, at least one remake from the horror genres has actually done something right. Doesn't seem perfect to me, but I'd consider seeing it. The second you mentioned accordion I got a good idea who we'd see. |
Master Archivist  Posts: 9225 Joined: 5 Mar 2009     | You know, when its not about comic books, video games, sci fi, or fantasy you wear the reviewers hat and actually review a movie. Try doing that more often. As for this movie, ill pass yet again. Horror movies havent done much for me in some time, this probably wont change that at all. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1511 Joined: 31 Jul 2009     | I haven't seen it, but I may be able to guess who it is: Nothing can compare to the first two Halloween movies by John Carpenter. I honestly thought that Rob Zombie's remake of the first one sucked a big one. |
Senior Editor  Posts: 2262 Joined: 9 Jan 2007     | The first Halloween is still one of the best ever made. I watch it every year, and even though I can pretty much recite it verbatim at this point, it still never fails to deliver chills. Halloween 2 was serviceable, if ordinary, but everything really, really started going downhill with part 3. Seriously, what the HELL was that crap? Silver shamrock, my fat aunt Sally. I actually thought the most recent Friday the 13th was quite well done. Enjoyed it greatly, especially the opening. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 710 Joined: 13 Mar 2008     | Weird Al Yankovic??? |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 98 Joined: 15 Jul 2008 | Yeah, even critics that don't particulary care for horror movies liked the original. For my part, I liked the original, and, I confess, even Season of the Witch. My question would be, since I avoided seeing any of the others: did they ever return to the story hinted at in the first movie, that Michael was actually the earthly avatar of Samhain? |
Paperboy  Posts: 32 Joined: 5 Aug 2009  |
just how the hell would he fit in Halloween? |
Muckraker  Posts: 286 Joined: 24 Jul 2009     |
In a way you wouldn't expect,believe me its fucked up. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 585 Joined: 24 Jul 2009   | Wait? An accordian? Does that mean...Weird Al???!!! 'Da Fuck! Most go to confirm somewhere...I was sold at Brea Grant being in it, but if Weird Al's there too, I have to see this. |
Paperboy Posts: 32 Joined: 5 Aug 2009 |
He's the second serial killer and kills Myers with his accordion? |
Video Contributor Posts: 127 Joined: 31 Dec 2008 |
It actually got A LOT stranger than that... After bringing Michael back under the pretense of "look, he's REALLY hard to kill, okay?" in #4, the series went off on a weird tangent in order to keep bringing him back and involving all the various strands of the Strode and Myers families in the continuity: Basically, over the course of 5 and 6 we learn that Michael was "created" by "The Cult of Thorn" (There's unsubstantiated rumors that at first "Thorn" was supposed to be "Silver Shamrock" again, which would've tied #3 to the rest of the series, but I doubt it) a bunch of Druid mad scientists and that all of his killing up to this point was supposed to be part of some big sacrificial ritual. No, really. "Thorn" and everything else is basically ignored in the 7th one, which retcons Jamie Lee Curtis back to life (we were previously told she'd died in an accident between #2 and #4) and has Michael turning up at a school where she's working. #8 is about a bunch of kids doing a stunt webcast inside the old Myers house, guess who shows up. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1518 Joined: 15 Feb 2009  | An accordion? Weird Al? Dude, that'd be hilarious. Anyway, I can read horror novels and get through horror video games but horror movies always give me really intense nightmares. So, a pass for me. |
Video Contributor Posts: 127 Joined: 31 Dec 2008 |
Eh... "like" is a strong word. I'd say I "appreciated it." I've seen so many bad, formula slashers in my life that originality - which Zombie brings by the buckets - will perk me up much more than "quality" will. Like I said, it's a MESS of a movie, but it's really something in fits and starts. I like that Zombie deliberately takes the "thrill" out of the money-shot kills by forcing the audience to watch the victims die slowly, painfully, begging for their lives instead of the "wham! gotcha!" instant-death in the Jason flicks. I like that the teenaged characters actually appear to be the ages they are, which increases the threat unlike most slashers where the bad guy is up against "kids" with the physiques of 35 year-old triathletes. I like that, even though it doesn't totally work, Zombie is trying to imagine what the "real-world" mental-state of a movie-slasher would have to be. And I LOVE that Zombie gives us a believable sense of A.) just how massive and STRONG Michael has to be to do what he does and B.) even-still how much effort it actually takes. "Slasher" isn't even appropriate here... Zombie's Myers literally has to BUTCHER people to make sure the job is done. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2677 Joined: 15 Jan 2009    | You guys are all jackasses. I had no idea who the person he was hinting at was, and then only one person decided to use spoilers. Fuck you all. Infact, I reported everyone who mentioned his name without spoilers. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 903 Joined: 15 Apr 2009    | good review you almost made me go see it, but i really dont care for horror movie in fact i haven't seen a horror movie since i dated that freaky goth chick, blood, poor writing/acting and murders really did it for her for some reason. |
Paperboy Posts: 32 Joined: 5 Aug 2009 |
whew, I'm glad I didn't or else I'd have to face the wrath of some guy on the internet. No offense. |
Time Lord  Posts: 9923 Joined: 13 Feb 2008    | Myers is a pussy next to Jason |
Muckraker  Posts: 345 Joined: 10 Jul 2009   | Slasher flicks are never really any good. Don't think I'll see this one. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2440 Joined: 11 Oct 2008     | First, amazing intro! Funniest thing you've done, I think XD Second, damn you. Now I want to see the movie just to see who the cameo is. I didn't even want to see this! Your reviews keep getting better, keep it up! EDIT: WEIRD AL!??!?!?!?!?! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2230 Joined: 5 Jan 2008  | Damn...I was unimpressed with the first one (even though I love The Devil's Rejects), but from the sound of it, this one sounds good. Thanks, MovieBob. |
Video Producer  Posts: 367 Joined: 23 Feb 2009     | I would guess Judy Tenuta. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1387 Joined: 26 Jan 2009 |
he is Michale......oh wait, was I supposed to put that in a spoiler? |
Muckraker Posts: 286 Joined: 24 Jul 2009 |
Yes,I thought that come to bite me in the arse. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 68 Joined: 16 Jan 2009 | I was actually waiting to see this with my friend who I have to rent the first one and now I think I will go see it for sure this week. You really are a good Movie Critic when it seems to be something that isn't close to your heart or mind or anything like that. I have to agree with loving the 1st half of the 1st Halloween remake and what it could have been and was interested to see what he would do with no chains. Zombie is always a jumble of mess, but it's Zombie, it's what he does and it works so I say go for it. PS: People who did spoil the cameo, that was really kind of a jerk move guys. Just use spoilers lol :) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1387 Joined: 26 Jan 2009 |
dont worry, I havent seen the movie yet, so its a blind guess, but still, Michale has long hair, Al has long hair.............
heres another spoiler, Michale kills people in the movie! |
On the Record  Posts: 5674 Joined: 2 Dec 2007   | Nice Fraggle Rock reference. Otherwise, I will not be seeing this movie. Rob Zombie as a director? No way in hell. |
Paperboy  Posts: 20 Joined: 3 Jun 2009  | Its Wierd Al Yankovich, I know it is!! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1291 Joined: 31 May 2008 |
Just about to say that. I want this so bad. Lol the credits would be I lost on jepordey or something. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1173 Joined: 1 Jul 2009 | i wasn't going to see this thing. But now i am..... |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 995 Joined: 26 Jun 2008 |
That's what I'm guessing too. Holy sh*t. If that's it I'll have to see it (and I'm scared to death by horror movies) O.o |
Paperboy Posts: 45 Joined: 5 Aug 2009  | If I didn't hate horror movies (nothing against them, I just don't like being scared by my entertainment,) I'd have to see this just to find out how they got the King of Musical Parody in there. Also, mad props for using the All-Knowing Trash Heap from Fraggle Rock. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1673 Joined: 1 Nov 2007   |
Yeah I was under the (well) understanding that the curse of thorn required that he kill his whole blood line. Sort of like a mafia curse, until he did so he would succumb to maddening agony and could not die. I earnestly can't tell you anymore why I think that is the case it is one of those "read it way back when" things. But it certainly made the series make sense. Then again...honestly if someone told me I'd have to choose between Killing Jamie Lee Curtis or doing/feeling essentially anything else...I just might go and kill her. I think I'm one of the few people that was rooting for Michael the entire time. Sort of like every time I prayed at night that the next Alien movie would involve the death (permanently) of Sigourney Weaver. But NO! You know who goes off and dies? Goddamn Heath Ledger. It's never the people I want to die. I think I'm doing things backwards. |
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Halloween 2
This week MovieBob cuts into Rob Zombie's latest film Halloween 2.
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