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Triangle
(Christopher Smith, 2009)
[REWATCH]
I liked this a lot when I first saw it. I always remembered it being a mindf*ck kind of horror movie. I wanted to show it to my friend, who liked Primer and loved Coherence when I showed those to him. I was hoping for a similar experience. Unfortunately, he didn't care for it, and I didn't either this time. In the beginning I was hoping to be able to forgive the poor filmmaking once the mindgame stuff started. But that stuff - which was honestly the main draw for me revisiting it - was underwhelming, too. It's all a bit predictable. Fortunately, the ending is pretty good.
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
(Ari Sandel, 2018)
[NEW WATCH]
At it's worst, this film is a very poorly-made way to capitalize on a popular franchise. At it's best, it's at least entertaining and humble about it. I can't get behind the fact that they decided to forgo an anthology type film series built around the stories of the original books and instead chose to just throw a bunch of the creatures from the books into a pretty uninteresting story. Here, they do that - and then include a bunch of creatures that AREN'T in the books. And when they do add something from the books, for example the haunted mask, they do it a great disservice. I don't hate this film, mostly because it's not worth hating and because my best friend, a big Goosebumps fan, had a fun time which in turn made me happy, but I do hate how the studio went about "adapting" the books.
Halloween
(David Gordon Green, 2018)
[NEW WATCH]
Still need to digest this. I'm inclined to say I was underwhelmed, but I want to give it another chance. I shouldn't have been surprised. Honestly, this film made me realize that it's probably impossible to give the original Halloween a sequel that feels justified. The original is *perfect* in it's simplicity, it's like a folktale and concludes on such a haunting note that continuing the Myers storyline in any fashion would be detrimental, in my opinion. It was competently made, but nothing shined for me.
I also don't know why they called this simply Halloween? Shouldn't it be, like Halloween: Part 2 or something?
Halloween
(Rob Zombie, 2005)
[REWATCH]
Possibly the worst thing to come out of the Myers stuff, at least as bad as 6. Doesn't understand a single thing about what makes the original tick. I hate the origins segment that introduces the film the most. Myers is terrifying partly because he came from an average suburban family in the original, not because he came from a family that would obviously produce a psychopathic murderer.
Also, I want to punch and stab every character in this film as obnoxiously-violently as Michael does in this film. Because, as obnoxious and over the top as the violent is (the stall scene, where Michael bashes Ken Foree into the stall wall so violently it starts to bend and break, might be the funniest scene in the franchise just because of the pure silliness of it), none of that grates my nerves as much as the characters forced vulgarity does. Probably wasn't helped by the fact that most of these actors couldn't act. Especially Sheryl Moon. Man, she was bad.
(Christopher Smith, 2009)
[REWATCH]
I liked this a lot when I first saw it. I always remembered it being a mindf*ck kind of horror movie. I wanted to show it to my friend, who liked Primer and loved Coherence when I showed those to him. I was hoping for a similar experience. Unfortunately, he didn't care for it, and I didn't either this time. In the beginning I was hoping to be able to forgive the poor filmmaking once the mindgame stuff started. But that stuff - which was honestly the main draw for me revisiting it - was underwhelming, too. It's all a bit predictable. Fortunately, the ending is pretty good.
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
(Ari Sandel, 2018)
[NEW WATCH]
At it's worst, this film is a very poorly-made way to capitalize on a popular franchise. At it's best, it's at least entertaining and humble about it. I can't get behind the fact that they decided to forgo an anthology type film series built around the stories of the original books and instead chose to just throw a bunch of the creatures from the books into a pretty uninteresting story. Here, they do that - and then include a bunch of creatures that AREN'T in the books. And when they do add something from the books, for example the haunted mask, they do it a great disservice. I don't hate this film, mostly because it's not worth hating and because my best friend, a big Goosebumps fan, had a fun time which in turn made me happy, but I do hate how the studio went about "adapting" the books.
Halloween
(David Gordon Green, 2018)
[NEW WATCH]
Still need to digest this. I'm inclined to say I was underwhelmed, but I want to give it another chance. I shouldn't have been surprised. Honestly, this film made me realize that it's probably impossible to give the original Halloween a sequel that feels justified. The original is *perfect* in it's simplicity, it's like a folktale and concludes on such a haunting note that continuing the Myers storyline in any fashion would be detrimental, in my opinion. It was competently made, but nothing shined for me.
I also don't know why they called this simply Halloween? Shouldn't it be, like Halloween: Part 2 or something?
Halloween
(Rob Zombie, 2005)
[REWATCH]
Possibly the worst thing to come out of the Myers stuff, at least as bad as 6. Doesn't understand a single thing about what makes the original tick. I hate the origins segment that introduces the film the most. Myers is terrifying partly because he came from an average suburban family in the original, not because he came from a family that would obviously produce a psychopathic murderer.
Also, I want to punch and stab every character in this film as obnoxiously-violently as Michael does in this film. Because, as obnoxious and over the top as the violent is (the stall scene, where Michael bashes Ken Foree into the stall wall so violently it starts to bend and break, might be the funniest scene in the franchise just because of the pure silliness of it), none of that grates my nerves as much as the characters forced vulgarity does. Probably wasn't helped by the fact that most of these actors couldn't act. Especially Sheryl Moon. Man, she was bad.
