I think Rob Zombie missed the point on so many levels, so many times here.
I saw a sneak version, and the credits had him as the "writer and director". No credit to Carpenter. Shame, sir.
It also spent the first hour showing how Michael was the victim of terrible torture, and how everyone he killed didn't deserve to live. For some reason, his family in Illinois spoke like Texans...we get it Rob, you like Texas.
What Rob doesn't get is that films like TCM, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm St. and Friday the 13th were cool because they were examples of living urban legends. If you were a "bad" kid, the monsters would get you.
Rob has decided that the monster shouldn't be an urban legend, but a vigilante you should cheer for. Well, why not write a screenplay about that and not ruin a movie that didn't need to be remade? An hour or so into the movie, it gets into the "after the asylum" segment, finally. We're introduced to the babysitter, and have no reason whatsoever to care about her. At this point, the movie down-shifts from 30 mph to 10 mph without warning. Our hero Michael is supposed to be an immortal killing machine, an urban legend, punishing teens who do wrong, but instead looks like a member of Slipknot that got lost and wandered into the wrong music video.
Thanks Rob, for getting rid of that annoying "suspense" and "implied violence" and "shadowing" that the original was so full of.
We get it. Please go back to making movies about Texan killers with your trophy wife cast first. Hollywood, please get Michael Bay to do the remakes of Nightmare on Elm St, Friday the 13th, Evil Dead and Poltergeist so that old fans like me will know it's not worth wasting the time to watch...
I honestly wish I'd been getting a root canal instead of watching the Halloween remake. At least something constructive would have been done with my life.
I saw a sneak version, and the credits had him as the "writer and director". No credit to Carpenter. Shame, sir.
It also spent the first hour showing how Michael was the victim of terrible torture, and how everyone he killed didn't deserve to live. For some reason, his family in Illinois spoke like Texans...we get it Rob, you like Texas.
What Rob doesn't get is that films like TCM, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm St. and Friday the 13th were cool because they were examples of living urban legends. If you were a "bad" kid, the monsters would get you.
Rob has decided that the monster shouldn't be an urban legend, but a vigilante you should cheer for. Well, why not write a screenplay about that and not ruin a movie that didn't need to be remade? An hour or so into the movie, it gets into the "after the asylum" segment, finally. We're introduced to the babysitter, and have no reason whatsoever to care about her. At this point, the movie down-shifts from 30 mph to 10 mph without warning. Our hero Michael is supposed to be an immortal killing machine, an urban legend, punishing teens who do wrong, but instead looks like a member of Slipknot that got lost and wandered into the wrong music video.
Thanks Rob, for getting rid of that annoying "suspense" and "implied violence" and "shadowing" that the original was so full of.
We get it. Please go back to making movies about Texan killers with your trophy wife cast first. Hollywood, please get Michael Bay to do the remakes of Nightmare on Elm St, Friday the 13th, Evil Dead and Poltergeist so that old fans like me will know it's not worth wasting the time to watch...
I honestly wish I'd been getting a root canal instead of watching the Halloween remake. At least something constructive would have been done with my life.
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