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Originally Posted by Jeritron
So bad
I'm a big Halloween fan, and I was open to the idea of a remake/reinterpretation.
It's not a matter of dissapointment or purist anger with me, it's just a flat out horrible movie. Aside from it being a terribly paced and meaningless movie, the whole thing is such patchwork. The end is just thrown together and the characters that we're supposed to care for are meaningless. Myers is the focus, but without anything devoted to his victims, they're just victims.
Aside from that, it's an abortion to characters like Loomis, and they back off on key elements of Myers.
Probably a reason why Halloweenmovies.com has had their boards taken down, and it isn't being screened for critics. It's a disaster and I think they know it.
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The pacing wasn't bad it was just very much a theatrical pace (as in a play) that is to say 3 acts, I thought each worked in their own right came to tell a overall decent story. The ending I'll give ya is a wee bit weak, the workprint one is more interesting but if ya think they weakened Myers ya wouldn't like that one. Honestly Zombie sets you up to care about Laurie through Micheal's interactions with her as a baby, this was more a Mikey Myers film than a Laurie Strode one which works for me becase quite frankly if you tried to find anyone to redo Jamie Lee Curtis you're just asking for trouble, the new Laurie while obiviously not given the time that Jamie got did well enough to be likeable. As for the others ya really don't care about them much in the original either, at least I didn't.
I disagree on Loomis, it's different sure, but I thought MacDowell did a bang up job channeling the spirit of Loomis even if this Loomis is in an entirely different situation.
In a random note one of the best things that Zombie did do was get rid of the Myers stalks Laurie and friends with his car for hours.
What key elements did they back off on Myers btw in your opinion?