re: Thoughts on Halloween Kills

“I always thought Michael Myers was flesh and blood, just like you and me. But a moral man could not survive what he’s lived through. The more he kills, the more he transcends into something else impossible to defeat. Fear. People are afraid. That is the true curse of Michael Myers.”

So yea, supernatural.

Anyway, what a mess of a movie. The tone of the 2018 film was substantially better and so much more focused. This had zero idea what it wanted to be. It felt like it wanted to be a movie grounded in the slasher film you’d expect but with an overall theme about fear and how it affected a generation of people over the course of 40+ years. I actually like that as a concept and think it could have worked well, but this was just an absolute mess.

This felt like a film we would have gotten during/immediately after the 08 writers strike when so many films and tv shows were super hollow and directionless.

They lost me with the mob shite

The sixth movie explained why he isn't human. In a sense he is still human but was put under a curse of Thorn by members of the occult.

I thought it was a pretty mediocre movie even by slasher standards. I also didn't like the knife and pitchfork scenes with Tommy and that stupidly cheesy chant of, "Evil dies tonight!" The dialogue was overly melodramatic and the kills, while brutal, were boring and unoriginal. And did it bother anyone else that Michael's main targets seemed to be older men as well as women going through menopause? I realize the guy is closing in on 70 years of age, but the franchise has a formula relating to horny teenagers that needs to remain the standard.

if you don't think the mob of angry, scared townspeople chanting shite and chasing a poor, toady looking mental patient around a hospital only to watch him kill himself out of terror is SOME sort of social commentary then...ok i guess.

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I thought it was pretty good. 2018 one was better. The only time I got really annoyed was when they had him hemmed up and decided a few whacks, 6 or so gunshots, and one stab was good enough and just left him laying there. shite.. 50 cent survived more than that Maybe I’m a maniac but if I’m in the mix I’m sawing his f’ng head clean off his body.

Loved it

Sucks there wasn’t a big confrontation but it was still enjoyable. Michael was a straight up dick in this movie with his kills.

I enjoyed the live. It’s a slasher. I’m not looking for some deep meaning. Just looking for Michael to drop bodies. And he did.

The people who said he didn’t kill a lot weren’t keeping count. Had to be 20-30. I mean he racked up close to 10 with firefighters.

At this point do we just accept the lack of guns in a small Midwest town as necessary plot device? There were like 3 pistols and a shotgun in the movie and no one knew how to use them. You can’t tell me there would be a few baws with ARs that have waited all their lives for this moment.

Also, the mob went way light on him when they had him dead to rights. I get that they said he was supernatural at end but I’m not sure he has the mending skills of the T1000. Let’s give decapitation a try folks.