tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post430623008245605340..comments2024-03-28T20:46:33.836-04:00Comments on Final Girl: Holiday GreetingsStacie Ponderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07784074536271206501noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-48577401866568410422006-11-27T09:31:00.000-05:002006-11-27T09:31:00.000-05:00I am holding my breathe with this one. There is a ...I am holding my breathe with this one. There is a lot i could say with the material provided, but I want to keep it simple with this:<br /><br />A 10 year old boy masterbating to dead animals he has killed.<br />Do movies really need to go there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-51049049709599122132006-11-26T14:25:00.000-05:002006-11-26T14:25:00.000-05:00Ugh! Hate! So much hate. I totally agree with S...Ugh! Hate! So much hate. I totally agree with Stacie that if he's gonna veer this far away from the original, then why not create something separate from the franchise all together. This is a blatant money-grab by Zombie and his many professions of being a huge fan aren't going to convince me otherwise.<br /><br />I also hate that this 'huge fan' is leaping into the Laurie as Michael's sister thing. That was one of the things that signaled the downward trajectory of the series. Why not drop in some Druids while you're at it, Rob!<br /><br />And Zombie's imagination isn't very imaginative. Instead of just the epitome of evil, Michael now sounds like a cross between Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy. Rob's been reading his John Douglas books because he's going with the Evil Women make helpless boys into serial killers. <br /><br />If he weren't associating this with the original, this little venture would be like any other (straight-to-DVD) movie about a crazed killer and a lot less irritating. The fact that Mr. Super Fan would dare think we needed him to re-do/re-imagine/re-tell Michael's story is just infuriating.SikeChickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08135793754935172240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-24447157651106687572006-11-24T23:39:00.000-05:002006-11-24T23:39:00.000-05:00That cast is way too huge for just one film, unles...That cast is way too huge for just one film, unless (1) most of the characters make only a brief appearance (2) they're planning to bring some back for the inevitable sequel (3) the movie is 4 farkin' hours long. <br /><br />I've got mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it feels unnecessary, esp. since Zombie seems to be taking the mystery out of Michael Myers, and it's not like Halloween is some flawed or dated film that screams to be remade, or "reimagined". OTOH, at least it won't be some boring, tame PG-13-rated snoozefest. But just b/c it's R isn't any reason to see it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-65626376818449585062006-11-24T15:49:00.000-05:002006-11-24T15:49:00.000-05:00Hey, I'm just glad he apparently is going for a "h...Hey, I'm just glad he apparently is going for a "hard R" rating, instead of the dreaded "horror by committee" PG-13.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-85541062001628524642006-11-24T15:02:00.000-05:002006-11-24T15:02:00.000-05:00Other elements that seem a little off are the numb...Other elements that seem a little off are the number of reporters being cast in the film, which sounds to me like the kids won't be watching The Thing from Another World and Forbidden Planet, or if they do, it's going to be constantly interrupted to remind us that Michael Myers is killing people.<br /><br />The big one that bugs me is that Zombie is going ahead with the Halloween 2 "Laurie is his sister" motif, which takes some of the vagueness of Michael's stalking. What I really liked about Halloween is that Michael chooses the girls seemingly at random.<br /><br />I've heard Zombie talking about wanting to make it more about Myers and beef up Loomis so that he doesn't just show up for exposition every twenty minutes, but I always thought the Shape was better when we didn't know everything behind the mask.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-58205396438979127022006-11-24T11:38:00.000-05:002006-11-24T11:38:00.000-05:00Of course it's a huge cast - somebody has to die, ...Of course it's a huge cast - somebody has to die, right? And apparently, there'll be a few naked bad girls mixed into that group. It looks as if it boils down to Zombie's visual sense, since it appears to be shaping up to be a standard "kill the teens" flick...but with lotsa naked bad girls...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-26459617013871635232006-11-24T11:04:00.000-05:002006-11-24T11:04:00.000-05:00It's kind of an insanely huge cast list, isn't it,...It's kind of an <i>insanely</i> huge cast list, isn't it, especially compared to the original. I guess we're going to see Michael at school, Loomis's home life, life at the hospital, Michael's mom on the job...yeesh. Unless this thing is 10 hours long, there won't be that same <i>build</i>, the same sense of stalking so prevalent in the original. But I suppose that's 'updating' it for today. <i>TO THE EXTREME!</i><br /><br />I think some remakes fail because the writers and company don't seem to try to understand the <i>essence</i> of the original...why the original movies were successful and/or enduring in the first place. With <b>Halloween</b>, for example, I think it was about simply creating a "boogeyman", a faceless terror. It wasn't about killing teenagers, necessarily- that's been done a gajazillion times to lesser effect. If you resort to that angle without capturing the meat of the thing, so to speak, it'll just ring hollow.<br /><br />"the meat of the thing", heh.<br /><br />And yes, "gajazillion".Stacie Ponderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07784074536271206501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-20987640801084921112006-11-24T10:31:00.000-05:002006-11-24T10:31:00.000-05:00That strikes me as a whole lot more characters tha...That strikes me as a whole lot more characters than necessary for <b>Halloween</b>. I guess they've already cast the adult Michael, too, unless I'm just missing him on the list. I wonder which one of these victim roles is going to Sherri Moon Zombie, who is already announced. She's a little too old to play one of the girls if he's really looking to cast teenagers.<br /><br />I don't know about this... I mean, he could just make another Devil's Rejects style film and leave Halloween out of this. It's not as though we're more willing to take a remake because Resurrection was awful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com