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misshorrorbitch

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Rob Zombie's "Vision"
on: August 28, 2009, 16:01

I believe you got the review on H2 right even though I have not seen it yet. I will sadly say I have in a few hours.

RZ’s first attempt and “revamping” the genre would have been a great movie if it was a new psycho monster, rather than the classic Michael Myers.

Yes, the Halloween series in itself is a total mess. Halloween (the original) and the second one are grouped together, while the third, titled “Season of the Witches” doesn’t even include MM. The fourth and fifth are grouped together with Danielle Harris playing Jamie Lloyd, however the sixth was an unnecessary add-on. There is actually two versions of this movie floating around giving two different plots and twists while using the same characters and setting. H20 disregards anything after the second one, and is practically genius. However Resurrection made a laughing stock out of a failed attempt at a screen play where Busta Rhymes compares MM to fried chicken.

RZ has obviously watched these films and re-created the characters using the outline that John Carpenter so carefully formulated. The re-creation of these characters is what made the movies fail so badly.

Dr. Loomis who was always one of my favorite characters is now completely different, and honestly Donald Pleasance is probably turning over in his grave. (rip)

The girls have became sluttier, which is hard to envision, but the essence of Laurie Strode was the innocence factor. The normalcy to the everyday female. Scout’s character…..does none of these things.

Michael Myers is now this violent over sized killing machine, which probably makes John Carpenter sick. Michael was created to emulate the “boogeyman”, retaining the outline of a normal sized guy who swiftly killed his victims and moved on. He remained a mystery. It’s what made him spooky. Especially the way he moved and tilted his head, which ended up inspiring the moves of the white masked killer in “the strangers”. RZ has taken this formula and totally screwed it over.

It’s all a big mess.

You got it right.

Now it’s my turn to get pissed and aggravated.

Off to pack the car for the drive-in.

I suppose I’m a contradictory person.

By day I am a student teacher who is finishing their degree to teach elementary.

By night (and weekends) I am a horror movie guru. I guess that’s a nice way to say “geek” or “nerd”.

Vaughn Fry

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Re: Rob Zombie
on: August 28, 2009, 19:53

These are definitely good points, but many of them I couldn’t bring up in my review because I didn’t see the ’07 film. I did of course realize that Loomis was some walking metaphor, but if Laurie starts out any different than Jaime’s then her role is obviously compromised.

When a movie is this bad, it’s easy to get carried away with paragraphs. I decided to make my video a summary of my reactions, while the text portion covers some of the technique gaffs.

But as for the characters…

SPOILERS…

For instance, you’ll notice that Loomis is the only character living with any kind of message. Everyone else is just random fodder. Unfortunately, Loomis really has no business being in this film considering his mindset. But that raises a whole new set of questions. If you remake a film, how much can you change without upsetting the fanbase? It’s bold to make these calls with Laurie and Loomis, but it doesn’t fit. Then again, if you change nothing or at least very little, then the artistic interpretation is voided.

Ideally I’d like to see Hollywood move beyond the rehash cycle. Looking to the past is no way to find innovation. That said, I believe one of the better horror remakes was Friday the 13th. The original series was always a step below, so throwing in some quality production value really does it well. It retained humor, blood, and was reasonably entertaining. Besides that, Jason is demon. He’s free to do the impossible from the very start. That doesn’t make him more compelling that Michael, but it lends some escapist plausibility to his resilience; something the new Halloween glosses over.

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