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Aug 21, 2019 - 11:53 AM
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Mike Esssss
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So TPTB believe there's enough story to milk two back to back sequels?
To be fair, Green and McBride have talked about the fact that they had planned the story this way from the beginning. They just didn't want to put much spotlight on it because they were so worried about how well H40 would be accepted.
But, to your point, yes, I also don't like how nothing can seem to stand on its own anymore. It has to be trilogy, franchise, etc from the jump. Le sigh.
Still Carpenter's score for H40 was brilliant and for me has only gotten better on many repeated HBO viewings, so I'm excited he's involved. And despite H40 being, IMHO, pretty uneven, what it got right -- basically the DNA of the universe, and miraculously making Michael formidable and threatening again -- it got REALLY right and provides hope for where they might take the next two films.
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Aug 21, 2019 - 12:22 PM
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ddddeeee
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Halloween 2018 wasn't perfect, but I got a lot out of it. I thought Laurie looking for Michael near the end was really tense in a way that slasher movies almost never are. It was also anchored by a terrific performance from Jamie Lee Curtis - there's one scene in particular where she mentions to her granddaughter that she was an honour's student, and she really is Laurie in that moment, not Jamie Lee Curtis, and I found that scene quite moving.
Yeah, the Sartain stuff doesn't land at all, and little things like the sandwich cops should have been ditched, but this is the eleventh movie in the franchise, and for it to be well-acted, well-shot, sometimes tense, sometimes moving... I think that's quite an achievement.
Any when people are either currently complaining that Tom Holland playing Spider-Man five times in the last three years isn't enough or trying to dissect meaning from the title of the twenty-fifth Bond movie, the eleventh Michael Myers movie in 42 years seems almost fresh!
I like these titles, by the way. Pure 'B-movie' fun.
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Aren't THEY stabbing this thing to DEATH now....but I welcome the John Carpenter news!
I am hoping the next sequels to HALLOWEEN 2018 be an improvement 'cos I enjoyed more
fright thrills watching GOOSEBUMPS 2 which was duly lost in this fan-made re-incarnation, remake!
The Score from John Carpenter & co was awesome & a great addition to the franchise!
Hmm another viewing might change me!
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Halloween 2018 was awesome and they did the most of it right. Didn´t like the Sartain looney bit , but they got Myers right and Laurie was better than in H20.
Most of the characters were good too, epecially that little kid and the babysitter, Will Pattons character and those two poddcasters
Carpenters score was great and the cutting and direction it took was good too.
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