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Post by pandaeyes on Oct 28, 2019 11:44:49 GMT
5Star, Thursday, at 11.35pm.
Stars Jamie Lee Curtis, as a recovering alcoholic teacher. It's been twenty years since her encounter with Michael Myers, but he wants to celebrate the murderous anniversary too.
Never saw the first one, but I'll be watching this. The first hour, anyway. |
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Post by yankee on Oct 28, 2019 14:24:00 GMT
Much better to watch the original which was superb. Every other film in the series (and there were many) were very pale by comparison. Even the ones were Jamie Lee returned to her role as Laurie Strode.
The one exception was the remake of the original that was produced and directed by Rob Zombie. It was quite excellent IMHO.
Rather than a shot for shot remake, Zombie instead focused a lot more on young Michael Myers as a boy.
The original started with the first murder when Michael Myers was a lad, then picked up years later when he escaped the asylum.
In Rob Zombie's remake, he begins with Michael and his family life as a young boy and the events that led up to him blowing a gasket and becoming a killer, and also the Rob Zombie film filled in the years about Michaels incarceration at the mental institution and his therapy sessions with Doctor Loomis (played by a terrific Malcom McDowell), why Michael developed a fascination for masks, visits from his mother etc.
Then it progresses to the escape, return to his home town etc. and the rest of the narrative from the original film.
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Post by pandaeyes on Oct 28, 2019 15:17:23 GMT
Thanks yankeepov, I'll be sure to watch out for it in the future.
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Post by yankee on Oct 28, 2019 15:27:52 GMT
My pleasure Pandaeyes I should clarify that I don't want to dissuade you from watching H2O. Even though its not a patch on the original it is still a well-made slasher film and of all of the sequels one of the better ones along with Halloween II - which picked up on the same evening right after the cliffhanger events of the original. Some of the middle sequels are not even really cannon to the original but use the name. But if you go in not having seen the original you will probably enjoy H20 as a stand-alone film.  |
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Post by yankee on Oct 31, 2019 16:24:12 GMT
I wound up watching this last night and it was much better than I remembered. Jamie Lee Curtis really gives her all in these Halloween films even though she could just phone it in.
Its interesting to see a sequel of a slasher film where the main character was a teen in the original and is now many years older and they make a point of showing how damaged she is from the PTSD and how it affected the rest of her life.
It reminded me of one of the sequels to "Taken" where the sequel features the families of all the baddies that Liam Neeson had dispatched in the previous film grieving over their deaths.
You always see a rather high body count in these shoot-em-up films but rarely do they ever pause to consider that even the bad guys have families and loved ones who mourn their loss. |
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Anymore to come?
