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Was that the Boogeyman?
Sep. 1st, 2007 08:15 pmLast night, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje and I saw Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween, which was pretty good. I'm sure plenty of critics are going to say something along the lines of, "It wasn't scary, just really super-violent, and an excuse for Rob to show off his wife's ass!" All of which is basically true, but having seen House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, I think Rob doesn't really do scary movies so much as movies that show humanity at its most vile and violent, often involving rednecks. The Halloween remake was, to use Beth's word, brutal. And I certainly appreciate that that isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea, so I imagine that a lot of people aren't going to like it. I think it was effective for what it was, though.
While the original Halloween didn't say much about Michael Myers' back story (which was intentional on John Carpenter's part, from what I've heard), it seemed to be the main focus of the remake. It kind of seemed to rush through the part that paralleled the original film, without building up much suspense. But then, I guess it's difficult to make a movie particularly suspenseful when a good portion of the audience knows what's going to happen. One of the changes from the original did bother me, but I won't say what it was so as not to spoil it. Overall, I thought it came across as a remake that presupposed knowledge of the original, but I have no problem with that. It's sort of like how I feel the Harry Potter movies are intended primarily for people who have already read the books.
The theater where we saw the movie was pretty full, and there were some annoying people surrounding us. One lady in our row apparently paid no attention to all those "silence your cell phone" messages, because hers kept ringing during the film. There was a lady with a young kid behind us, and while I'm hardly one of those Family Values types who says kids should never see R-rated movies, this child was obviously disturbed and confused. I certainly wouldn't have taken a kid to a movie like this one; as I indicated in the first paragraph, it was far too brutal.
bethje and I saw Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween, which was pretty good. I'm sure plenty of critics are going to say something along the lines of, "It wasn't scary, just really super-violent, and an excuse for Rob to show off his wife's ass!" All of which is basically true, but having seen House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, I think Rob doesn't really do scary movies so much as movies that show humanity at its most vile and violent, often involving rednecks. The Halloween remake was, to use Beth's word, brutal. And I certainly appreciate that that isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea, so I imagine that a lot of people aren't going to like it. I think it was effective for what it was, though.While the original Halloween didn't say much about Michael Myers' back story (which was intentional on John Carpenter's part, from what I've heard), it seemed to be the main focus of the remake. It kind of seemed to rush through the part that paralleled the original film, without building up much suspense. But then, I guess it's difficult to make a movie particularly suspenseful when a good portion of the audience knows what's going to happen. One of the changes from the original did bother me, but I won't say what it was so as not to spoil it. Overall, I thought it came across as a remake that presupposed knowledge of the original, but I have no problem with that. It's sort of like how I feel the Harry Potter movies are intended primarily for people who have already read the books.
The theater where we saw the movie was pretty full, and there were some annoying people surrounding us. One lady in our row apparently paid no attention to all those "silence your cell phone" messages, because hers kept ringing during the film. There was a lady with a young kid behind us, and while I'm hardly one of those Family Values types who says kids should never see R-rated movies, this child was obviously disturbed and confused. I certainly wouldn't have taken a kid to a movie like this one; as I indicated in the first paragraph, it was far too brutal.
