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Originally Posted by Liar,liar
I enjoyed Halloween I love all of Rob Zombie's movies there very gory and twisted hell I've even seen Zombie in concert.
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I've seen Zombie an concert and, quite frankly, he scares the fuck out of me... I was in high school an I had this horrible feeling that someone was going to reach out in the crowd... And stab me.
Then again, I was a relatively paranoid teenager.
Rob Zombie himself, I think he's brilliant. Though I don't enjoy his music, I find it very easy to pigeonhole him as a person, as someone that's a mindless metalhead (not saying that I do that, but that people who do not necessarily enjoy that kind of music might stereotype him)... I love watching interviews with him, and I especially love hearing him talk about movies. I think that he has a wide range of knowledge of pop culture and, in particular, the horror genre.
His MOVIES, however, are another story, an I've been honestly wondering WHAT people see in his movies. "Gorey and twisted," it's been done. I feel as though he draws heavy influence from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and relies solely on that and his sensibilties for torture porn. Devil's Rejects was like Natural Born Killers except without... a point. I actually have a lot longer rant in regards to that movie, but I'll save it for another thread (because, honestly, I am very VERY curious about what people think of Rob Zombie as I honestly do not see or understand the appeal - so I WANT to hear from people who actually like him).
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Halloween... Ugh...
I felt as the movie actually consisted of TWO movies...
Michael Before (The Mike Myer's Story)
Michael After (The Halloween Remake)
As for Movie I, I thought that, well, it was nothing really new. Tortured youth takes revenge on their family in a very preditacble way. Honestly, the beginning of the movie... Made me feel... NOTHING. Rob Zombie's major weakness is character development (though one can argue that that's the POINT - we are suppose to focus on the spectacle and not the characters), but in this film, I think that we're supposed to FEEL something... Maybe for Michael. Maybe for his mother.
But... I... Didn't... I never thought of Michael as a threat and I just couldn't suspend my disbelief. I felt as though Zombie was making a movie about a tortured kid. Nothing new, but could have been ok if, well, developed.
Oh, and it had a rape scene... What would a Zombie movie be without a rape scene?!
But the backstory has already been critiqued quite a bit. There's the downside that it's nothing new. Trash family and abuse at school.
But you know what else really cheesed me off? I thought that the backstory was completely unnecessary. What I really LIKED about the original Halloween is that we DON'T know why Michael Myers is the way he is. According to Dr. Loomis, he's just "EVIL."
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Death has come to your little town, Sheriff. Now you can either ignore it, or you can help me to stop it.
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Even though we do not get a lot of insight into the Myers' household, you get the impression that they are a normal family; the neighborhood is suburbia an their house is decked out for Halloween. Honestly, turning them into a cliched white trash nightmare was... disappointing. I prefer the concept of Michael being just... "Evil." Sociopathic. The "Bad Seed," as it were. I find that to be more chilling. Providing a backstory creates a new villian and therefore a new movie.
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Movie II. Follows Halloween fairly closely. So closely, in fact, that I was again wondering, "What's the point? I've SEEN this already." He wants to add more blood? He wanted to add more profanity? Well, I wasn't impressed... There WERE a few parts that made me jump, which was worthy of note, but overall, honestly, I thought that Halloween was an iconic, fantastic horror movie, and did NOT need to be remade.
One strong point: The very, VERY end. I thought was incredible. I am a HUGE fan of the victim-become-victimizer. THAT was incredible. But it was a good 5 minutes out of 90. Overall, I thought the movie was superfluous. As are his movie in general.
But I am willing to hear the merits of Zombie. I am curious as to what the draw is.