Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Feb 28, 2009 21:01:57 GMT -5
I liked Rob Zombie's Halloween. I just wish he hadn't made Michael Myers such a sympathetic character.
He gave him the stereotypical broken home, abusive step-dad, whore of sister and stripper of a mom. In the Original Halloween the sister wasn't a whore and the parents were still together and by the looks of them weren't poor.
What makes Michael scary is the fact that you don't know why he's doing what he's doing. Not being able to rationalize something can make it scarier than it is. But in Rob Zombie's Halloween, you almost feel bad for him, and that's bad when you start rooting for the bad guy.
There shouldn't be scenes of Michael alone, I don't want to know what he's thinking, what he's planning, or what he does when he's off screen. In the original Halloween, he's hardly ever on camera, and when he is, it's always fast and in a dark setting so you don't get a good look at him. In Rob Zombie's movie you saw him alone, getting the mask, he killed that lady in a well lit living room and then the scene stayed with him walking around alone looking at the pictures.
Zombie just needs to make Michael a little more ruthless with a little less reason behind it and I think Halloween II could be very good.
He gave him the stereotypical broken home, abusive step-dad, whore of sister and stripper of a mom. In the Original Halloween the sister wasn't a whore and the parents were still together and by the looks of them weren't poor.
What makes Michael scary is the fact that you don't know why he's doing what he's doing. Not being able to rationalize something can make it scarier than it is. But in Rob Zombie's Halloween, you almost feel bad for him, and that's bad when you start rooting for the bad guy.
There shouldn't be scenes of Michael alone, I don't want to know what he's thinking, what he's planning, or what he does when he's off screen. In the original Halloween, he's hardly ever on camera, and when he is, it's always fast and in a dark setting so you don't get a good look at him. In Rob Zombie's movie you saw him alone, getting the mask, he killed that lady in a well lit living room and then the scene stayed with him walking around alone looking at the pictures.
Zombie just needs to make Michael a little more ruthless with a little less reason behind it and I think Halloween II could be very good.
