Halloween 2007 first reviews.....

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Halloween 2007 first reviews.....

Post by Dr Strange » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:39 am

Read if you like, it's about what I expected.

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934 ... id=31&cs=1

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/re ... hp?id=1219

I know many will say a reviewer's opinion is just that, an opinion. But the analysis was good in both, and the latter comes from a horror movie fansite so it carries a little more horror "street cred" if you will.

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Post by Haunted Horseman » Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:59 pm

Thanks for the reviews. Like you said, no big surprise here, but I'll probably go see it anyway.

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Post by hauntmaster » Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:26 pm

Thanks for the review! And also, I've read it in the newspaper today... So I probably go see it tomorrow nite with a friend of mine...

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Post by Haunted Horseman » Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:46 pm

HM,
Looking forward to your personal take on it. I probably won't make to the theatre this weekend.

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Post by Dr Strange » Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:16 am

Worst comment I've read about this, and by far the most damaging and consistent, is that the movie is boring. Suspense, scares, timing, and editing were replaced with shaking cameras and brutality.

I can't say I've seen it of course, but I might just re-watch the original this weekend. :wink:

Can't wait to read your reviews here though.

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Post by hauntmaster » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:16 pm

So I went and saw HALLOWEEN today as I had pre-screening passes. I am not gonna give my opinions or movie review just yet as I know SOME of you are gonna go today/tonight, so I don't wanna spoil anything for you - But anyone that wants to know or already saw it and compare each others thoghts, please feel free to ask me! ENJOY!! :wink:

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Post by midnight kitty » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:16 am

ok, so i saw it last night, and it was what i feared it would be
another torture porn movie
trick or treat

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Post by One Eye'd Jack » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:56 pm

Personally, I really don't understand what all the hype is about.
For the sake of all my Halloween friends, I finally broke down and rented the original. My intent was to write a very open minded review complete with screen caps point out various good and bad parts of the film.

Oh... I'm sorry, did I say 'film'? .... I meant DRECK!

This was one of the worst excuses for 'scary' that I can remember seeing.
I found NOTHING redeeming about this 'waste of celluloid' (not to mention brain cells), at all. Not the acting; not the dialogue.... the cut-aways, the editing, nothing!

"but, OEJ", you add. "You have to take into consideration, the time it came out."
Really? Ok then, let’s look at some other scary movies of the 70’s that were made prior to Halloween…
The Exorcist (1973)
Jaws (1975)
The Omen (1976)
The Sentinel (1977)
And one that was put out the same year as ‘Halloween’: The Omen 2…
Just to name a few.

One of my favorite lines in the movie was when Dr. Loomis and that other drone were waiting outside the Myers’ house hoping Michael would return. The guy said to Dr. Loomis something to the affect of getting the Police involved, to which Loomis replies…
“NO! They would look in every house. Knock on every door. Look on every street and in every corner.”

Ummm………. DUUUUUUUUUUUH!!!!

Other REEEEEEEEALLY bad moments:
We’re to believe that a 10” knife could be stuck into a guy and into the wall behind him hard enough to suspend him above the ground?

When Laurie is hiding throughout the house and backs towards the closet, you’ll notice there is NOTHING that prompts the closet door to actually open. Now, if Laurie’s, now dead, girlfriend’s arm had been braced against the door and it pushed it open, that would’ve been one thing but, the door just opens, on cue, all by itself.

Same with the girlfriends boyfriend. He just suddenly comes swinging dead from the other closet with no provocation.

All of it was dumb and I just don’t get it!
And for there to be a REMAKE of a movie that I thought was awful to begin with……. Well, again….. I just don’t get it!

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Post by Haunted Horseman » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:21 pm

Really OEJ? I have to admit, all the things you point out are absolutely true. However, I still love that movie. How about the music? You have to love the music! The music rings suspense. Another thing I love about that movie is the almost complete absence of blood and gore. It is totally unnecessary for what the director is trying to accomplish. You are right, the movie itself is not scary, I see it more as an action/adventure/suspense. A struggle against the forces of evil that occurs on the most exciting night of the year. The mood that Carpenter set just does it for me.

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Post by hauntmaster » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:55 pm

Well, this movie is presented to us as the "re-inventing" of a legend. It is the story of how Michael Myers became to be what he was. To quote the trailer, "These eyes will deceive you, they will destroy you. They will take from you, your innocents, your pride, and eventually your soul. These eyes one finds only blackness, the absence of light, these are the eyes of a psychopath".

Frankly, the movie is poorly lit during most of it. You can't see what's going on. The blood and gore does not save the movie.

I was not impressed with any of the suspense moments. They just arent scary.

This movie has moments that are good, and has earned its right to be rented.... but as a big screen, full price ticket movie.... it doesn't cut it.

Rob Zombie needs to stick to things he knows something about... Long Live Devil's Rejects!

I'd given it 5 out of 10.

That's my story... and I'm sticking to it.

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Post by One Eye'd Jack » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:57 am

Boy HM, that's the most lucid post I can recall having read from you.

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Post by hauntmaster » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:55 pm

Why, Thank You, OEJ!!! :D

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Post by Tidytourniquet » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:59 am

I haven't seen the movie yet and don't plan on seeing it until it comes out on DVD but I just has to say if you don't like Rob Zombie movies no matter how much you loved the original Halloween movie you won't like this one. He definitely has his own style on movies which involves lots of blood and s e x so of course all that will be in this movie as well, even in the original there was s e x though.

To me no "scary" movies are scary, maybe it's because I'm desensitized to it all. I have always loved watching movies and shows with blood, I even watch surgery shows. So to me movies that have the blood and gore are usually good, but I'm not saying that as long as they show a lot of blood I will like it.

This is to what OEJ said,
If you watch a movie, any movie and can pick out all the things that don't make sense like the things you mentioned or if something was in the shot one minute and the next it's not there but then the next minute it's there again then you can't be into the story and it's more like you (or anyone else) is just watching the movie just to watch the movie and not because it something you really wanted to watch. I know when there is nothing on TV and the only thing I can find is a movie that I don't really want to watch I can finds all kinds of things wrong with it, even some movies that I have seen way too many times and I know the story all too well I find things wrong with it but all the other times I didn't noticed because I was too into the story of the movie and it just wasn't something important. The fact that you only watched it for the sake of your Halloween friends and to write a review about it kind of proves the point that it wasn't something that you really wanted to watch so I don't know how open minded the review really could of been. Of course you don't have to love the movie or even like it but it sounded more like nit picking rather then an open minded review. And those movie you listed are good, I mean they are classics and so is Halloween, but they all have there flaws and parts that don't really make sense too. Look at Jaws, it's about a killer great white shark and there are so many things about that movie that don't make sense. The biggest thing is actually the whole movie, if you know anything about sharks then you would know that yes shark attacks do happen but nothing like that and great whites aren't even the most dangerous type of shark and they usually only attack when they think we are a seal, but the movie it still good. Now it sounds like I'm nit picking and I sorry if it sounds like I'm attacking you but I don't mean to be, so I'm going to stop typing now.... :oops:
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Post by Dr Strange » Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:12 am

See what I mean? His first paragraph has the words "I'm an idiot" inserted throughout. How is that happening?

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Post by Tidytourniquet » Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:48 am

That happened because I wrote a word that the filter didn't like and it changed it to say that. I'm gonna fix them now. Oh and BTW I'm a female

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