Rob Zombie's Halloween

[Vertigo]

Gotta see it. Maybe a midnight showing is in order. Depends on how late my friends play at their show tonight. But I want to see it tonight.

Anyone else going?

[Bradzilla]

It just seems to unneccessary to remake, and to release it in the summer instead of Halloween seemed like a dumb choice. I'm not planning to see it, but I am curious to hear what people think of it.

[Vish]

i'll be missing this movie for sure.

[Amon]

I may check it out if I find the time. It's not high on my movie priority list. I want to see War first.

[Vertigo]

Too bad you guys don't want to give this one a chance. Sure there are your usual stereotypical cheesy horror-film moments, but what remake of a classic would be able to get away with NOT having those? The back story on Michael makes the whole movie way more interesting. For people like my husband, who haven't seen the original, I would worry that the back story takes up a little bit much of the movie. Although HE said that was fine and he liked it. I would just worry that newcomers would be like "when is he going to grow up and start killing?" you know? But I suppose it works out this way.

I don't know what everyone is so up in arms about "trying to garner sympathy for the killer" and "animal abuse" - yes there are some images of mangled animals that appear for a couple of short seconds. It's not like they go off on a snuffing tangent. And I doubt any rational human being would feel sympathetic toward a character in a movie who is a killer through and through. I don't feel Rob is trying to go into Michael's back story to garner sympathy, but rather to give the faceless "Michael Myers" from the original movie some actual character development. If you end up "feeling sorry" for this character, then you are as psychopathic as he.

The cameo appearances are almost worth the ticket price alone, IF you are already a fan of Rob's work.

[Amon]

Saw it today. It bored the hell out of me. Pretty much a rehash of stuff I've seen many times before.

[Vertigo]

Sorry to necropost... but I saw a few minutes of the original Halloween on t.v. the other night. There is no replacing Jamie Lee Curtis, and I want to make that clear right off the bat. BUT... good LORD that shit is cheesy. At least R.Z.'s version was a little bit more realistic.

[Mythos Inibri]

It looked like something I'd usually like but I was let down.

Jason > Michael