Halloween (Gordon-Green, October 19, 2018) Movie • Page 15

She just looks like a crazy cook lol coulda made her somewhat less over the top old lady

 

I pooped a little

 

lol yea that was pretty goofy.

I’m still annoyed at him being arrested after the first one, kind of ruins the ending.

 

Wow, they turned The Citadel into Michael's asylum...

 

This will be a great movie to watch right before Halloween.

 

Solid trailer. That last scene with the door definitely feels like something they'd make fun of in a Scary Movie haha.

 

From Comingsoon.net

“Anyone who’s a fan of any of these films will find nice little Easter Eggs acknowledging our salute to the filmmakers that have preceded us in the stories and mythologies as they’ve unfolded,” director David Gordon Green tells us on the set of Halloween. “For us, it was a clean slate type of opportunity, where if there was a little inspiration or mirror image of something it’s very subtle in the movie because we want to start fresh for a new generation but with great appreciation for the previous.”

“I feel like it’s almost one of the things like Batman or something,” McBride says. “You see these different artists take on these iconic characters so I think it’s kind of cool to see what different filmmakers will do with a property that is so well known. I would rather have that approach to Michael Myers than everyone just continuing some storyline and just trying to regurgitate these things. I think it’s more interesting to have someone like David or Rob Zombie, these filmmakers that just come and put their own stamp on it for better or worse. I think that’s a more interesting way for a franchise to stay alive than to just continue to beat the same drum over and over again.”

Without the sequels though, the new film is free of one of the biggest moving parts of the series: the familial relationship between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. Removing the “twist” of making the pair related which gave “reason” to Myers’ killing spree now takes the shackles off a piece of continuity that should never have been added in the first place, and as McBride notes, makes it all scary again.

“I was pushing for that removal right off the bat,” McBride says. “I just felt like that was an area where he wasn’t quite as scary anymore, it seemed too personalized. I wasn’t as afraid of Michael Myers anymore because I’m not his f***ing brother so he’s not coming after me. Also you’ve seen it, so wouldn’t it be interesting just to see what would happen if it wasn’t that, and what does that open up for us if it wasn’t this random killing that has affected this character, so it just seemed like new territory to bite off.”

“We were trying to come up with what our take would be and really just found an original path that more or less takes the first one as our reality,” Green adds. “(That film) kind of sets the tone for our story or history and then we jumped forty years into the future and we see how the world today responds to, was affected by, how we meet our characters in a different phase of their life under the reality of this traumatic event and have to come to terms with some of these issues horrifically, in many circumstances, how that is relayed and that’s kind of the fun of how we launch off.”

There is also one important thing to mention about the new Halloween movie: it brings back series creator and horror master John Carpenter to the franchise. Carpenter met with both Green and McBride to talk about their ideas and will even co-write the music for the final cut, but it’s his advice that the director took to heart when making the movie.

“His advice was brilliant,” Green recalls before quoting him: “Make it relentless.”

 

I’m intrigued that they’ve thrown out everything except the original. The series is a mess in terms of continuity, so it makes sense that fans can kind of “choose their adventure”.

 

I’ve always liked him more as an unstoppable random force of terror than the sister storyline anyway

 

It’s funny that they are nixing the brother-sister storyline but have to address it in the movie since it’s a Luke/Leia-sized WTF moment from the sequels. Very meta.

 

Yeah, storywise i prefer that they aren’t related, but I’ve never given that revelation much thought anyways (mostly because I wasn’t alive when Halloween’s 1-5 came out and I never knew it was a big reveal until I saw part 2 about 6 years ago), but it’s so weird to now not think of them as siblings since it’s been established for decades. I do like that they decided to do an alternate universe where the other events didn’t take place. It really makes it feel refreshing.

 

More movies need to do stuff like this. Like, just because an idea doesn't 100% mesh with one, two, or eight previous iterations, who gives a fuck. Someone else come in and play with the characters in that universe to fit what's best.

 

I dig the trailer but the scares they show somehow make it feel like a greatest hits collection.

But I'm a sucker for the franchise. This tops my most anticipated list for 2018.

 

Hopefully a slim 90 minutes.

 

Epic 3-1/2 hours with intermission

 

Really? I was hoping for closer to two hours.

 

There's only so much you can do with a man doing a hack and dash so I'm all for a trim movie.

 

More movies need to be 90 minutes. These 2-3 hour epics can be a slog to get through.

 

2 hour epic?

 

It's totally subjective and my own taste, but I don't think most movies should be 2+ hours. It seems that practically every comic book movie is 150+ minutes long, for example, and they wear on me.

 

100 minutes is my sweet spot for the vast majority of films. The original Halloween was 91, so I’m sure it will be somewhere around there.

 

I'm still gonna go see it but when I looked up Heredity saw it was over 2 hours and was like

 

Yep. My personal preference is Halloween (1978), Halloween 2, and H20. That’s my Halloween trilogy. I ignore 3 (obviously), 4-6 (progressively worse each film) and Resurrection (worst in the series).

 

Yeah, that kind of bummed me out when I checked but it flew by for me.

 

The only thing that doesn’t excite me is her hair. She works so well with the short cut and I kind of get what they were going for but it just looks weird.