I guess Jamie Lee Curtis isn't considering retiring. Either that or she LOVES doing the Halloween movies!

I'm totally okay with this.



I know a lot of my horror friends absolutely hated Halloween (2018), but I enjoyed it. I'm all in for the "last" two. 

Personally, I liked the 2018 movie and I hope the sequel does just as well.

What makes the movie interesting is that instead of Laurie Strode going after Mikey, all of Haddonfield's going after him.

But imo, no matter how many times they make a Halloween II, it can compare to the imaginitive original.

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This is a fascinating topic. The NPR movie critic, Bob Mondello, was on Weekend Edition Saturday trying to explain to Scott Simon why he thinks Jamie Lee Curtis changed her mind on "Halloween".

It's the same process that led Leonard Nimoy to embrace Spock after Star Trek was cancelled by NBC - "absence makes the heart grow fonder". Jamie Lee Curtis has embraced the role that made her career. It's not easy to deny your "Glory Days", especially when fans never let go!

Brace yourselves, "Halloween Kills" is only the second film in a trilogy. That means a lot of the plot ends on a cliffhanger. There's nothing magic about a trilogy. And this generation's obcession with trilogies will ruin many movie properties. "Trilogy-itis", needs to die before it's too late!

Kyle Richards, who played Lindsay in the first Halloween, returns in the new film.

The new film doesn't hit theaters til tommorow, but Rotten Tomatoes has already given it a 46%.

Are they giving them a private viewing?

Has anyone else seen it? I caught it tonight after work. It's fairly alright. It had more and better action than the 2018 version. I felt that the second half was a bit more lackluster. It spends more time building on character points that go nowhere.

I went and saw it last Friday night. As a life long Halloween fan, I gotta say I didn't leave disappointed, but I felt like I could write a thirty page paper on the various themes, failures, and attempts the script tried for. I described it to a friend as John Wick + Scary Movie + Jason VI = Halloween Kills and a week later I still think that is a pretty good description. The movie did some things really right, and some things very wrong. I'm excited to see what someone can do with a fan edit down the road.

I dug it. It's not a perfect movie by any means, but I certainly didn't fall into the camp of people who are screaming bloody murder over their hatred of it. 

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Yeah, this one was brutal. I guess some people won't like that, but I enjoyed it. And not only because of how people are killed, but those lingering shots as they die. That was effective. 



I think viewers are split on the "mob mentality" themes that run throughout the movie, but I thought it was done well and gave as a mirror to society without being too in your face about it. I want to say they were also throwing back to Frankenstein with those scenes.

Another thing people seemed to dislike were the small bits of humor (like Little John and Big John), but again, these were elements I enjoyed, as I've always been a fan of breaking suspense with humor in horror. 

One thing I do agree with is that the pacing is pretty janky in this film. If viewed alone, yeah, it's a problem. But I think once the third movie comes out and we see how everything fits together, it won't be an issue. Kind of like how everyone was complaining that Dylan Arnold's character Cameron just sort of disappeared from the plot in the first movie with no resolution? And then we see the rest of his arch in this movie. Pretty sure that's how they're playing it. The pacing in this movie is weird because it's essentially the second act in a three-act play. 

Anyway, just a few thoughts.