https://www.facebook.com/JohnCarpent...type=3&theaterQuoting John Carpenter
http://www.blumhouse.com/2017/02/09/...for-blumhouse/
What ... the .... ?!
https://www.facebook.com/JohnCarpent...type=3&theaterQuoting John Carpenter
http://www.blumhouse.com/2017/02/09/...for-blumhouse/
What ... the .... ?!
I'll await for the first shot to happen, but why not?
Sometimes I wish these guys would just come up with a new concept, but whatever.
Um... fuck yes?
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
There's so many ways you can make a movie about a dude in a mask who kills people. I wonder what exciting vision DGG and McBride can bring to this tired genre.
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
Exactly. I really don't understand why these studios don't pump out 1 of these a year like they did the Paranormal and Saw series. They are cheap to make. People love the character. Hell people love Freddy and Jason too. Just keep making them. The new Friday the 13th was just pushed out indefinitely this week. I don't understand why. What else are you (studios) doing in the horror space?Quoting Watashi (view post)
Agreed, Duke. People act like they're such sacred properties that haven't already had a bunch of misses. Just go for it.
On most cases, I agree with this point.Quoting Skitch (view post)
But Halloween: Resurrection had Busta Rhymes kick Michael Myers's face in.
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
615 Film
Letterboxd
Ha. I just looked up this movie on Letterboxd to refresh my memory and this is what I wrote:Quoting Ivan Drago (view post)
Halloween 8 AKA Resurrection: Back to Suckage- I'm glad they finally wrote off Laurie character. I was getting tired of her with only 3.25 appearances in 8 movies. It was a nice way to explain the beheading of Michael Myers. Though the opening of the movie takes place in ANOTHER hospital where there doesn't appear to be anyone working in it, the rest of the movie is filled with victims. We have a young Katee Sackhoff, Busta Rhymes (presumably at the height of his music career) and Tyra Banks fresh off the SI Swimsuit Edition and Coyote Ugly. Just by the latter two stars this movie already feels incredibly dated with tons of internet lingo, and the help of some really bad product placement of an HP Palm Pilot and Yahoo. The premise of the movie tries to piggyback off the previous events in the franchise with the exception of ignoring the 6th movie; Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers where a family actually moved into the old house where Michael murdered his sister. In Resurrection it is presented as if the house has been unoccupied for 50 years. The death scenes are 90s-eye-rolling-worthy- In fact, aside from some F-Bombs by Bustra Rhymes and some boobs on a grainy lipstick camera, I'm wondering if this could pass for PG-13 today. As expected, not the best way to end a classic franchise; at the bottom of the barrel. "Hey Mikey, Happy Fuckin' Halloween!"
I didn't say which were misses.Quoting Ivan Drago (view post)
That's a good post Irish, but I think the Saw franchise and the Final Destination franchise both proved that theory wrong. There's a trillion different ways to portray death in a slasher film. The cooler the death, the more fun the movie. The more over the top, the better. I was giggling when I saw this and I want more.
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Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Maybe Michael Myers will be the victim?????
So apparently this is not a remake. They're doing the Superman Returns thing and going to make it a direct continuation of the first Halloween II, ignoring the rest of the series (and the Rob Zombie version).
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Okay well thats the most interesting thing I've heard so far.
The first two are the only ones where Myers is just a dude in the mask rather than a supernatural entity, so I'm gonna wager that that's the main reason for that decision.
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Aw, man, I know H2O ain't so good, but I appreciated its efforts to play fair with Curtis's character. De-canonizing that isn't the worst thing, but it's a bummer.
He's inexplicably unstoppable in the Carpenter flicks, yes, but it was only in the 4-6 trilogy that it's revealed that he's under the control of a Viking cult that made him immortal with a curse when he was a baby.
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
I'm glad Halloween Resurrection is the first I watched, because many years later H20 is a very good ending point for me. The first two and H20 make a pretty good trilogy.
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
I should see those someday. lol.Quoting number8 (view post)
The sixth one has Paul Rudd playing a grown up version of the little kid from the first movie.
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Holy shit I need to rewatch those. I've only seen them once, and I don't remember anything that cool.Quoting number8 (view post)
My notes on that one:Quoting number8 (view post)
Six years after the events of the last movie, Jamie is all grown up and about to give birth. Right out the gate we are forced to accept the fact that Jamie was somehow knocked up, kidnapped and brought to the exact place Michael was living. We are at least explained who the mystery man in black was. And the significance of the tattoo on Micheal's hand. Halloween 6 could possibly be the most dated movie in the series- ty dye shirts, grunge boots, flannel and INTRODUCING PAUL RUDD! H6 does have some positives- some brutal death scenes including a drill to the torso, an electrified head explosion and an operator room massacre. Overall a pretty bad script and premise. The best they could do was having Jamie continue the blood line so Michael had motivation to kill more- or as the movie puts it- a "last sacrifice"? Maybe if they let them kill the baby, Michael will stop killing everyone in the town. What was he doing for the last 6 years anyway? Nothing? Nudity was lacking in this one- a short topless after-sex scene.
**½
Same here.Quoting Skitch (view post)
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
"one last time"
Oh, you.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer