I laughed my ass off when I saw the trailer for this flick (release 10/19/18) mostly because it looks like a new draft of the H20: Twenty Years Later script. Plot seems too similar, especially with JLC looking like an old woman, unlike H20 where it made sense both in real time and in the script (as it was twenty years later, 1978-1998, guess Michael's been away for a long time).
Let's get the facts:
Halloween: H20 retconned the Jamie Lloyd/niece storyline that occupied movies 4-6 due to reportedly the real-life death of Donald Pleasance and script changes to #6 also due to it. In H20...
Can't quite say if #2 was taken as canon in H20, as it wasn't mentioned much. H20 I own in my collection, but I don't think was very popular overall. Popcorn flicky, some of the same themes as the original. Some nice memorable moments, IMO.
Next:
Halloween: Resurrection retcons H20. How, you ask?
A horror house gimmick follows, with Sensei Busta Rhymes Cobra-Kai'ing Michael's ass.
Trick or treat, mutha...Stupid fun after a semi-serious start. Cue the un-killable monster ending that threw this franchise off the tracks.
And then we get... ♪ yeah, mother******♪ in the form of Rob Zombie's two hit-and-miss reboot entries. I like them, but I have a light urge to chop them all into one total movie and eliminate the stupid kills. I liked the reprise of the doctor/patient focus and the classic story being redone. Zombie's symbolism sailed over people's heads mostly I think, with #2 being a bit off.
Then finally, we get Halloween (2018), again. Who knows what's gonna happen this time, if anything, with any finality.
It just cracks me up so much that I had to make this thread...
It's curious to me that JLC would come back again after already having done H20 and Resurrection. Here's the trailer for the new one:
Found the perfect comment:
Beyond Tubular
"Halloween: the remake of the remake that remakes the remake"
Let's get the facts:
Halloween: H20 retconned the Jamie Lloyd/niece storyline that occupied movies 4-6 due to reportedly the real-life death of Donald Pleasance and script changes to #6 also due to it. In H20...
WARNING: "Spoilers!" spoilers below
Laurie beheads Michael with a ****ing axe, finally stopping the hunt that we last saw in Halloween 2.
Can't quite say if #2 was taken as canon in H20, as it wasn't mentioned much. H20 I own in my collection, but I don't think was very popular overall. Popcorn flicky, some of the same themes as the original. Some nice memorable moments, IMO.
Next:
Halloween: Resurrection retcons H20. How, you ask?
WARNING: "Spoilers!" spoilers below
Oh, that wasn't Michael who lost his head. It was some security guard (IIRC) whose throat Michael crushed (lol) so as not to be able to speak when Laurie is about to chop his head off. Originally, it just appeared as more silence from Michael (his shtick). In the opening sequence, it's Laurie this time (traumatized and institutionalized due to killing an innocent man, charged with murder and convicted IIRC) that bites the dust, stabbed by that notorious knife and launched into the air.
A horror house gimmick follows, with Sensei Busta Rhymes Cobra-Kai'ing Michael's ass.
Trick or treat, mutha...Stupid fun after a semi-serious start. Cue the un-killable monster ending that threw this franchise off the tracks.
And then we get... ♪ yeah, mother******♪ in the form of Rob Zombie's two hit-and-miss reboot entries. I like them, but I have a light urge to chop them all into one total movie and eliminate the stupid kills. I liked the reprise of the doctor/patient focus and the classic story being redone. Zombie's symbolism sailed over people's heads mostly I think, with #2 being a bit off.
Then finally, we get Halloween (2018), again. Who knows what's gonna happen this time, if anything, with any finality.
It just cracks me up so much that I had to make this thread...
It's curious to me that JLC would come back again after already having done H20 and Resurrection. Here's the trailer for the new one:
Found the perfect comment:
Beyond Tubular
"Halloween: the remake of the remake that remakes the remake"
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