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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 26
Sign: Scorpio

City: newark
State: New Jersey
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/15/2005
Monday, August 31, 2009 
i walked out of the theater with dani and we both agreed that the new halloween was very good.
then i went home and went on imdb to read all the stuff that i feared contained spoilers.
what i found was an army of angry people. they have all united to advise that ROB ZOMBIE IS THE WORSTEST HORROR GUY EVER> PS SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR NEEDS TO DO ANOTHER HORROR MOVIE.
i feel the need to defend the movie so>>>>
i saw halloween ii last night and i was very happy with the film that rob zombie has added to the halloween legacy.
i liked the film because halloween- like friday the 13th, like SAW, etc- is a franchise where we're so deep in, everything has been done and the plot lines have been exhausted and your scary "killer" is now a pop culture icon so people aren't afraid of him because you see six year olds dressed like him for halloween.
i feel like zombie delivered a great film UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCE.
the way the franchise was going pre-zombie- ll cool j, busta and tyra banks- was absolutely shameful. i don't think anyone can say that they think that a better halloween movie would have been delivered if this was given to a horror shlockster.
the criticism of the film that it's brutal is silly because it's a slasher movie. it was shot on the 16mm to be brutal. so many films now have that gloss of ditigal. audiences clearly like this- look at the failure of grindhouse with the grainy digital- they like their horror movies to look like a music video. i can't argue that the film isn't ultra violent, but i think that people are so put off by the violence because it happens in the dark, sometimes it happens from the distance, it's shot on a gritty film so it has a grittier feel.
the criticism that you don't care about the characters when they die i find unrelatable because, first, how many times have you cared about a character dieing in the previous halloweens and second, zombie built the film so that it wasn't a group of seven goodlooking friends who got killed every nine to keep the "pace" up. rob kept close to carpenter's second halloween where there was laurie and the people around her affected. i thought the death of danielle harris' character in the movie was incredibly affecting, but i'm not sure everyone has followed her character from the first movie. danielle dying was very very important to the film and sent all of the characters on another path. her death meant that the police captain AND laurie lost the person they were closest to. it meant that loomis has another victim on his conscious. this means that on both sides of a negociation with a pyschopath, you have someone filled with pyschopathic rage. i thought that made for a very tense last scene.
the criticism loomis' character is off base because it's the moral compass of a film where the main character is intrinsically immoral. michael myers is EVIL. that's why in carpenter's script, he is just listed as "the shape". that's why he can get shot in the face. you can't kill evil. loomis' character was important because he was constantly being pointed out, via his agent or by fans or by cheesy talk show hosts just how immoral writing this book was. you witnessed loomis himself struggle with it in the hotel scene when he watches what he said on the talk show. loomis is doing something immoral and you see him fight his moral compass throughout the film. laurie is having visions of killing like she was michael and so she's a war with her immoral thoughts. she even has gone so far as not to eat meat because of this guilt. then we have michael. michael operates throughout the film, free of a moral compass to stop him. this is how evil moves, free from the ties of that little voice inside you that makes you feel guilty, ashamed, remorseful. this made michael scarier to me.
it seems that many of the elements that rob added to the film that made this one of the best halloweens, were the elements that people attacked.
i think this movie bothers people because it's not a formula slasher.
people's strong negative reaction to this film might mean that rob zombie has made not a good halloween by public opinion, but an effective one based on artistic merit.
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