The idea to make a 20th anniversaty film supposedly belongs to Jamie Lee Curtis. She tried to get John Carpenter to direct it, but he wisely declined. Since Donald Pleasence was dead when this was filmed, at least they still had a recognizable face w\ some talent. In addition, they'd a not-too-terrible director in Steve Miner, who beats the hell outta any director since Dwight Little in IV. It also looks like they spend a bit more time looking for supporting cast members than normal. There's Alan Arkin, Josh Hartnett, & Michele Williams.
In one of several nods to the original, they got the actor that played the nurse that drives in the car w\ Dr. Loomis from the original Halloween.
Jamie Lee plays a refreshingly not-dumbfuck protagonist as opposed to IV-VI. The problem is that's about the only thing the film has going for it. It completely ignores III-VI w\ no explanation, despite the fact that IV-VI clearly involved Haddonfield. It was there that the only attempts to give Michael Myers a history & flesh out some motivation existed. It appears that was dropped in favour of a film that's one-half pale "Halloween" imitation and one-half a poser "Alien."
Is this sequel good? Compared the other pieces of crap churned out since II, yes. Does it do much of anything new? Eh, sorta. Problem is after a certain point, this flick just didn't've much of anywhere to go. & much like "Jason Goes to Hell," this may've been intended to end shit. However, the box office numbers were simply too much for the producers to resist, & so "Resurrection" was...ugh...made.
Verdict : 2 stars.
At 'Dem Flicks w\ Malcolm - Halloween VII : H2O
Eh, I probably already ruined it for people. Not that I care too much since I highly doubt anyone is going to run out to see it.
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Arighty. I suppose this is in order :Eh, I probably already ruined it for people. Not that I care too much since I highly doubt anyone is going to run out to see it.
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As for Michael being her ex-husband, I don't remember a damn thing about that. Thruout the film, she constantly refers to him as her brother. In the chase scene as the end, Michael is caught between a crashed vehicle & a tree. Jamie Lee decapitates him w\ an axe. VIII explains this away by saying when Michael got thrown from the balcony near the building, he got up & switched clothes w\ a paramedic (in the time it took Jamie Lee to run down to ground level). Then, the false Michael is loaded into the van & wakes up. He can't make any noise cos his larynx has been crushed, though, & Laurie kills the wrong dude.
The only thing I can remember about Michael's familial relations is the alledged incest in Halloween VI (which has taken FOREVER to arrive, despite being in my queue above VII & VIII). What is certain now is that Michael has killed both his sisters & his niece. The only people even left w\ a remote connection to the story are : Tommy Doyle (the kid Laurie was watching in Halloween & the main protagonist in VI), Laurie Strode's son (Josh Hartnett in VII, though I doubt they're bringing his ass back), his niece's son (from VI), & the rest of the Strodes, particularly Danny (from VI). They ain't gonna use Tommy anymore, I'd think, Josh ain't ever signing onto another Halloween, which leaves them get his niece's son, Danny Strode, or (as they've elected), try & bring an extension of Dr. Loomis. All this shit started while Carpenter was writing the script for Halloween II. He was like, "I was sitting in front of the typewriter with a six-pack with the worst case of writer's block realizing that this story didn't have anywhere left to go. So I went, 'Eh.......I'll make her his sister.'" He said that last bit with one of the most "I can't believe I did that for the cash and gave them infinity ways to rape my original story" looks ever.
Moustapha Akkad was the driving force behind getting the flicks made. Now that he's dead, maybe, just MAYBE the rest of the suits will stop hiring fuckwits & making outrageous requests of their plots & characters. Then again, maybe Iran will rename itself "The Land of Fairies, Kitties, and Cuddly Unicorns."
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Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."