Omg his reviews are brilliant
A little later we see a different rabbit dead on the road. Maybe it’s just for scenery, like the dead armadillo in THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE. But this guy is not roadkill. Doesn’t it seem like Jason is supposed to have killed him? What I am proposing is that rabbits can sense Jason, and Jason knows it. They’re like dogs to Terminators. If he doesn’t want people to see him coming, he has to kill all the rabbits in the area. And if so that means the best way to be safe from Jason is to carry a rabbit around in a cage, like Jean-Claude Van Damme in THE SHEPHERD: BORDER PATROL. Think about it.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:34 (two years ago) link
Part 5 definitely has the worst acting. My favorite bit is the douchey greaser dude singing "rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tooie! rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tooie!"
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link
ugh vii is the BEST goddamn you
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
it's def got the coziest-looking sweaters
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:48 (two years ago) link
Yes, the outhouse scene is definitely from the same movie.
― peace, man, Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:48 (two years ago) link
VII isn't bad but all the gore got hacked out! I'm a big John Carl Buechler fan so I want to love it more than I do. I'll probably watch these all again next year and revise my opinions.
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:55 (two years ago) link
2, 4, and 6 are the ones for me. 4 being the uncontroversial favorite.1 is good too, but y’know… I like Jason.I’m thinking about marathoning Halloween this month, realized I’ve seen almost none of the sequels past 3.
― circa1916, Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
honestly I got the first five years ago to binge watch and I got so bored I didn't even finish.
I like trashy slasher and I love voluminous franchises with needless sequels, but while I've seen all of these now (except Jason X, and Jason Takes Manhattan), it was purely due to academic interest.
that said, I like I and VI
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:08 (two years ago) link
― circa1916, Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:09 (two years ago) link
One and two have a nice grainy grime to them, though they're a bit boring and rote. By 3 I feel like they start to go too far in the other direction, overboard with the bright sitcom lighting and self-aware (in the worst sense) gimmicks (even more than the pokey 3D shit).
Goes to Hell is a piece of shit (though the only one I've seen in the theater!), but the intro scene is awesome.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:09 (two years ago) link
One thing that really bothered me about 5 was that when the guy gets twisted to death against the tree, they keep cutting back and forth from the hands twisting the wooden rod to the guy's face, and all of a sudden the rod-twisting switches from counter-clockwise to clockwise and it was so apparent and I just had this moment of like "damn, they just stopped trying for this one", also Pam running away from fake-Jason at the end and falling and rolling around over and over and over was like extra EXTRA stupid, even by F13 helplessness standards
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
I’m thinking about marathoning Halloween this month, realized I’ve seen almost none of the sequels past 3.
my feelings on the sequels
Halloween 4 - mostly crap, cool endingHalloween 5 - mostly crap, crap endingHalloween 6 - whether you watch the original or director's cut, CRAAAAAAPHalloween: H20 - weird flick, mostly cos Myers has to drive 2,000 miles to get to Laurie Strode. very dated because shitty Creed songs play during the movie. but pretty good!Halloween: Resurrection - awful awful terrible shit this is like American Pie: Halloween featuring a very OTT Busta Rhymes, god I hated this era of horror
(not part of this series but)
Rob Zombie Halloween - lol fuck this movieRob Zombie Halloween 2 - didn't see, see prior comment
and then
Halloween (2018) - wow this actually is fun, stupid moments aside (like the Loomis-esque doctor who turns out to be an OTT weirdo)
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
my favorite thing about the first three Fridays is they can be summarized as such
Friday the 13th - no Jason, mommy is killerFriday the 13th, Part 2 - Jason has paper bag over headFriday the 13th, Part 3 - Jason now found a mask
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
the Jason in 3 is infuriatingly sedate, I remember telling Brad last year that his demeanor was basically like, bored dad ambling around the barbecue waiting for something to do, like he doesn't even want to be there
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
"his pulse never went above 85 bpm"
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
I used to love these dumb movies and seeing them in the theaters was part of the fun, but I got really turned off to seeing them in crowds when we went to see Freddy v Jason and the crowd went uncomfortably nuts, screaming in giddiness when Jason killed Kelly Rowland's character. It was gross and weird.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
the only redeeming thing about 3 was this character's necklace, a miniature boot on a string?????
https://i.imgur.com/9dmipeO.jpg
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
I will also say that 5 movies in I continue to be surprised at how tame they are, like ALL of the gore has been cut out and somehow all of the footage was lost and we don't have restored directors cuts of like, any of these???? titties aside, every single one of these has felt like an edited-for-tv version
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
Halloween: H20 - weird flick, mostly cos Myers has to drive 2,000 miles to get to Laurie Strode.
― circa1916, Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
there needs to be a film to document the Myers road trip IMO
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
As it turns out, there is a shadow transportation app out there that helps get slashers from point A to point B, called Slyce.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
LOL
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
turns out Michael Myers does speak, just wait til you fuck up his omelette at Waffle House - you won't hear the end of it
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
― circa1916, Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
"Hey man, make sure you give me five stars, but watch those finger knives on the leather please."
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
my feelings on the sequelsHalloween 4 - mostly crap, cool endingHalloween 5 - mostly crap, crap endingHalloween 6 - whether you watch the original or director's cut, CRAAAAAAPHalloween: H20 - weird flick, mostly cos Myers has to drive 2,000 miles to get to Laurie Strode. very dated because shitty Creed songs play during the movie. but pretty good!Halloween: Resurrection - awful awful terrible shit this is like American Pie: Halloween featuring a very OTT Busta Rhymes, god I hated this era of horror(not part of this series but)Rob Zombie Halloween - lol fuck this movieRob Zombie Halloween 2 - didn't see, see prior commentand thenHalloween (2018) - wow this actually is fun, stupid moments aside (like the Loomis-esque doctor who turns out to be an OTT weirdo)
Yeah, during my current rewatch, I got up through 4, then skipped to 2018. Might revisit some of the other entries later. I watched the first Zombie entry years ago and don't remember too much about it, but I heard that the second one is the better of his two.
― peace, man, Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link
i mean slasher movies from the 80s also just seem a bit tamer because they used to threaten X ratings for much more benign shit back then, so a lot of the more OTT stuff got shelved or 'edited' to cut away or were merely implied.
whereas nowadays you can show a brutal decapitation on a Marvel television show that is ultimately otherwise considered PG-13 ish (Daredevil) and nobody bats an eyelid.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link
Halloween 3 fucking rules though
8 more days to Halloweenhalloweenhalloween
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
omg neanderthal, watch jason x immediately
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
or don't and just put on Moonraker or Superman 3 or something instead
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link
let's watch both *slams Budweiser down*
Jason X, Moonraker
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
i'm rewatching Halloween (2018), once I finish that, I will probably throw Jason X on. heard too much about it to put off any longer :)
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
halloween 4 is a good movie. halloween 5 is a cursed movie, much like friday part v. halloween 6 is like... a total misfire that is fun to watch but it also sort of sucks, much like jason goes to hell
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
halloween resurrection is fucking hilarious
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
like the moment where there's two Michael Myers walking around and for a moment you're like OMG, this is how he's immortal! he franchised serial killing, like Gallagher with his comedy show, he hires multiple Michael Myers to do the killing, omg this is brill
and then one of them pulls his mask off and he's Busta Rhymes trolling the people on his reality show.
weak.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
Yes, I will get around to Jason X sometime this season.Halloween takes are OTM. 3 is spectacular, 1 & 2 are fine, the rest of the OG sequels are zzzzzzzzzzzz. Most worthless of the Big Three slasher franchises, easily. Will also watch the 2018 sequel sometime soon, though.
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
resurrection is the hellraiser sequel of the halloween franchise, totally unrelated movie with michael myers grafted onto it
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
the dude at the end of Halloween 3 is kinda me at work every day
"STOP IT! STOP IT! STOOOOOOOOPPPP ITTTT"
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
(director's cut of the zombie halloween 2 is astonishing)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
the problem I have with early-mid 2000s slasher films is that it reminds you how lame bro culture was back then.
fuckin half expected Michael Myers to sip on a Zima
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
Halloween III is definitely unique. I wouldn't necessarily say it rules though. I think a lot of people try to defend it because of the backlash. It's like Phantasm meets Howard the Duck meets IT (1990) and probably a few other things.
The poster is one of the best movie posters of all time though. The comic book series Stray Dogs just used the poster art as a variant cover for their tpb.
https://media.keycollectorcomics.com/media/b1629464859608s-l1600__3_.jpg
― peace, man, Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
lol, I xposted right over Brad's Halloween opinions. I rewatched Halloween 4 a couple weeks back and I still don't think I've awoken from my coma. Sorry, Brad.
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:12 (two years ago) link
The Loomis turn in the remake is one of the all-time groaner contrivances.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:12 (two years ago) link
listen, if you fall asleep to a movie, i consider that a good thing. the thing that rocks about halloween 4 is the autumnal vibe is the strongest in that one
the michael myers mask sucks ass but i like pretty much everything else about it
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
there are a few undercooked ideas in Halloween 3 that keep it from being perfect for me, but Kupfer's entire family being killed is an astonishing critique of unchecked capitalism and it rules
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
Fun fact: I have read the novelizations of both Friday the 13th part 6 and Halloween 4.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
also I love that Helloween's first EP samples that annoying assed "8 more days to Halloween song" before the song kicks in
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
xpost
Jamie walked down the stairs, sobbing. She was wearing her uncle's mask, and holding a bloody knife.
Loomis did not even need a moment for the truth to sink in.
Jamie...
...was on drugs.
Immediately, he pulled out his pistol and shot Jamie dead.
Not in Reagan's America, you don't.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
halloween 2 (rob zombie)halloweenhalloween 3: season of the witchhalloween h20halloween 4: the revenge of michael myershalloween 2halloween (rob zombie)halloween 5: the cookie womanhalloween: resurrectionhalloween (2018) (sorry)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
Trailer for the 3rd in the new Halloween trilogy will have a slowed down/creepy kids’ choir version of the “8 more days till Halloween” silver shamrock song y/n
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link