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Post by patriotpunk4eva on Jan 4, 2008 12:33:01 GMT -5
My all time favorite would be the original Halloween it was just a great movie and a all time classic.
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Post by hurricane on Jan 4, 2008 12:35:50 GMT -5
Honestly, I thought Zombies was the best one yet. The only actual good sequel was the second one. And Rob made the original ten times better. Therefore he wins by proxy.
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Post by Quanthor on Jan 4, 2008 12:37:07 GMT -5
The first by far.
The second was decent and I'm quite fond of the third as well, I know it's super cheesy and has nothing to do with Michael Myers, but that was the initial point of the series that John Carpenter started. It just so happened that people loved that character so much that fandom turned him into a everlasting saga.
The last few were absolutely abysmal.
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Post by James St. James on Jan 4, 2008 12:55:50 GMT -5
I voted for the remake, it was just more action packed and entertaining than the original (which was the best story wise, Rob just made it less boring but kept the story the same)
I'm by no means a Halloween fanboy, so little things like killing extra family members in the beginning don't bother me.
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Post by JDSFullmetal on Jan 4, 2008 13:37:43 GMT -5
The first one was the best, That one was great because it bult up every shocking moment in the movie, Rob zombies version was overly gored up to mask the lack of a good story and somewhat killed halloween for me(Michael killed people because his sister was a whore, his mom was a stripper and his stepdad was a a-class dick?) and what the hell timeline was the remake on? everyone looked and dressed like it was the 70's yet they had F'n cell phones. Carpenter film told a story of how a normal child just snapped and started killing people. All that plus the fact that zombie killed off michael and loomis is why i voted for the first.
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Post by Jason Bourne on Jan 4, 2008 13:48:21 GMT -5
The first one was the best, That one was great because it bult up every shocking moment in the movie, Rob zombies version was overly gored up to mask the lack of a good story and somewhat killed halloween for me There was barely any gore in the movie. The one thing I was worried about was it being over the top with gore like most horror movies do today (which is why most suck). But I was glad to see that it wasn't gory at all.
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Post by sasso on Jan 4, 2008 13:55:42 GMT -5
The first one was the best, That one was great because it bult up every shocking moment in the movie, Rob zombies version was overly gored up to mask the lack of a good story and somewhat killed halloween for me There was barely any gore in the movie. The one thing I was worried about was it being over the top with gore like most horror movies do today (which is why most suck). But I was glad to see that it wasn't gory at all. "Barely any gore"? Did we see the same movie? Anyway, the original. How can anyone say otherwise? It's one of the greatest movies of all time. Zombie's was an insult to everything the original was and was just an overall terrible movie.
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Post by Quanthor on Jan 4, 2008 14:00:21 GMT -5
Rob Zombie's rendition was flat out terrible. There must be too many kids on this site that can't appreciate true horror, because Rob's had very little.
I'm going to provide a review I wrote after seeing this film in the theater. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When I first heard of the upcoming remake of the groundbreaking masterpiece John Carpenter directed. I felt immediate annoyance, yet another remake of a horror classic that has come out in the last five years. Then I saw that Mr. Zombie was in charge of direction and it had then peeked my interest. Rob along with Eli Roth and Neil Marshal have restored some respect into the genre after witnessing, the truly horrific teeny bopper non violent 90’s and the remake generation we are now apart of.
Rob’s first two films were a real treat. The devilishly funny cartoonish take on a Texas Chainsaw Massacre type family House of a 1000 Corpses. Rob then took a complete different direction with the sequel Devil’s Rejects. I was hoping and expecting it to be more like its predecessor, with bizarre monologues and nifty editing and I was also anticipating to see more of the world of Doctor Satan. At first I was a little disappointed, but then realized Rob was doing something unique. He took the murderous psychopathic family and turned them into outlaw renegades that everybody was routing for. Now after have enjoyed his first two films, the expectations were immense.
Halloween starts off looking into the everyday life of a young Michael Myers. The film is aesthetically pleasing with cool camera angles an cinematography. This is Rob’s best bet to make the film his and not a cheap remake. The film could have really shined during this portion of the film, but I never got the sense that this kid was a deranged killer, he seemed more like a whiny punk teenager causing mischief, than a demonic psychopath. His family along with the school children had an unnecessary and unrealistic amount of crass language and behavior which led me to believe Rob was either intentionally or inadvertently making a mockery of the original, more so than paying homage to a film that paved the way for the first impervious maniacal killer that set up a generation of copycats.
Rob neglected to indulge us into the evolution of the character. He went from killing a few harmless animals, to directly killing classmates and ultimately his family. The killings were gruesome and entertaining, but he failed to convince me that he doing this out of sick pleasure and not because he was a spoiled momma’s boy. Before the slaughtering of his sister he picked up the infamous mask that is the trademark look for Michael Myers. Subsequently he stabs her to death wearing the ridiculously over sized adult mask when the clown mask was far more menacing and again making a mockery out the legendary picture.
The next segment was the best the movie had to offer. Michael went through a series of anthropology studies made by Dr. Loomis hoping to crack the enigma of Michael while he drifted silently into madness. This was by far the most enjoyable aspect of the film and Rob pulled it off with out having to condescend you. His mother believably committing suicide after being left alone in the abyss, I was beginning to have hope for this movie after all.
Fifteen years later, we are taken to a place that looks and feels like the past. Following a bunch of naughty high school girls(more crass language), one of them being Danielle Harris who was in both Halloween’s 4 and 5 and developed into a sultry vixen. I’m left guessing who is Michael’s kin, for none of the characters never really stand out. All the while the now inconceivably GIGANTIC Michael is being escorted to a place I have no idea where as he inevitably kills everyone in his path and escapes to find his baby sister.
The problems pursue as Michael becomes the focal point of the picture leaving for very little suspense. Unlike the original where we follow Laurie always wondering if and when Michael would be lurking behind corner, showing very little of Michael allowing to build great suspense. In Rob’s version he became apart of nearly every scene leaving all the killings to be completely lackluster. We still have no idea why Michael is chasing after his sister and how the hell he was able to recognize her after fifteen years have passed. The rest of the film was simply forgettable, I even spaced out about ten minutes before Laurie and Michael were playing the typical cat and mouse game while I was thinking about my favorite horror movies and realizing what a huge disappointment this film was.
As the old saying goes a picture is worth a thousand words…….this one however….. was worth very few.
iodine/quanthor
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Post by The Assassin on Jan 4, 2008 14:07:37 GMT -5
not a big fan of horror, but i have seen most of them, and i think the original is the best. didn't like H20 or Rob Zombie's at all.
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Post by Jason Bourne on Jan 4, 2008 14:09:11 GMT -5
There was barely any gore in the movie. The one thing I was worried about was it being over the top with gore like most horror movies do today (which is why most suck). But I was glad to see that it wasn't gory at all. "Barely any gore"? Did we see the same movie? Anyway, the original. How can anyone say otherwise? It's one of the greatest movies of all time. Zombie's was an insult to everything the original was and was just an overall terrible movie. I can't remember gore. I think of gore as LOTS of blood and guts which is didn't see much of at all. And yes the original is much better but as a horror movie on it own, the remake was far from horrible especially when it comes to horror movies in general these days. I really can't think of any good horror movies that have come out in a long time... nope nothing worth mentioning.
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Post by chumped on Jan 4, 2008 14:23:15 GMT -5
I liked H20.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2008 16:25:44 GMT -5
The original. I always felt like there should have never been a Halloween II and so forth. I think if you don't put Halloween in front of Season of the Witch, it's an amazing movie on its own. I just think the need for sequels back then altered the series' story and we still can't figure things out as to what means what and so forth...
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Post by Codesters on Jan 4, 2008 16:41:00 GMT -5
Halloween 2 in the Hospital, it opened alot of details and filled plotholes that were in the first one.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2008 16:53:00 GMT -5
Halloween 2 in the Hospital, it opened alot of details and filled plotholes that were in the first one. ...I don't think so. In the first, he killed his sister. just had one, but then laurie in the second halloween is introduced as his other 'real' sister. the first mentioned nothing of the sister and laurie was only targeted (possibly after she drops the package off on the porch of the myers house) i never thought the first halloween needed detail as to why he was chasing laurie...i always just thought of her as a target...just like judith myers was. i think when they tied jamie lee curtis in a relationship with michael, it sorta of made the series go down. i mean halloween made jamie lee curtis. she did the 2nd and then when it came time to the 4th, they had to introduce a new character and do a death cover-up story with jamie (which they then had to cover up in h20) that had a relationship with him (danielle harris) and eventually this screws over because she doesn't agree to the 6th. imo, it had a domino affect.
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Post by Kenny Powers on Jan 4, 2008 20:03:16 GMT -5
I gotta go with the original.
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Post by Suckasays on Jan 4, 2008 20:12:38 GMT -5
Here's how I rank em
- Halloween II - Halloween - Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers - Halloween 4 - Rob Zombies Halloween - Halloween H20 - Halloween 5 - Halloween Resurrection - Halloween III
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Post by Wfigs #1 Metal-Head on Jan 4, 2008 21:11:38 GMT -5
Personally i like ALL the halloween films. I think each one is good in it's own way.
I'd have to say the 1st one is the best.
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Post by uzerx on Jan 4, 2008 21:20:17 GMT -5
The original is always the best.
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Post by James Hetfield on Jan 4, 2008 21:34:18 GMT -5
Halloween 2 had better music than the original, so I'm gonna go with that.
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Post by James Hetfield on Jan 4, 2008 21:38:01 GMT -5
Oh, and why would you even include Halloween 3 as a choice?
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