Post by sean on Aug 30, 2009 13:16:42 GMT -5
I saw it last night. It was fucking amazing. So much better than I thought it would be and better than the first one in every way.
It starts out with a flashback of Michael Myers' mom and young Michael in Smith's Grove. Then we fast forward 15 years and find Laurie Strode wandering around after she shot Michael in the head at the end of the last one. Sheriff Brackett finds her and sends her to the hospital. While we get really great up close shots of Laurie's surgery Michael is placed in an ambulance and sent off to the morgue. Luck helps Michael stop the ambulance and kill the two paramedics. He then goes to the hospital where Laurie is and kills her. A great, fast paced, well shot opening.
Laurie wakes up, a year later, from the nightmare that was the first 10-15 minutes. We are introduced to her new life living with Sheriff Brackett and his daughter Annie and taking therapy. We are then introduced to Loomis' new life of fame with him promoting his book and being an entertaining asshole. Meanwhile Michael is walking around killing anyone and everyone while he hallucinates that his mom is telling him to do all these things. The cool part about that was Michael's responses came from the kid version of himself. He gets back to Haddonfield and does what he does best with some great kills like stomping on a guy's head.
Michael eventually takes Laurie hostage, and she hallucinates about Mom and young Michael too, and brings her to a shack. The police surround the place. Meanwhile Loomis, after an embarrassing interview, realizes what an asshole he has been and sees on the news what's going on and tries to save Laurie. He stalls enough so that Brackett can shoot him down and then Laurie repeatedly stabs him. And there's a "surprise" ending.
The acting was great. Malcolm McDowell as Loomis and Brad Dourif as Sheriff Brackett were the best. Nobody annoyed me unlike the remake where I wanted Michael to kill every character to die so they couldn't talk anymore.
The score was surprisingly cool. Lacking the theme until the end didn't hurt it at all.
What really impressed me was the camera work. Definitely Rob's best.
I had only one problem and that was the fact that Michael was hallucinating about his mom telling him to kill. Something about that wasn't right to me. She was supposed to be the sane person of the family. I think it should have been Judith or even better, his father since we know nothing about him except that he died before the first film.
Other than that, it was fantastic. One of the best in the series. 5/5
It starts out with a flashback of Michael Myers' mom and young Michael in Smith's Grove. Then we fast forward 15 years and find Laurie Strode wandering around after she shot Michael in the head at the end of the last one. Sheriff Brackett finds her and sends her to the hospital. While we get really great up close shots of Laurie's surgery Michael is placed in an ambulance and sent off to the morgue. Luck helps Michael stop the ambulance and kill the two paramedics. He then goes to the hospital where Laurie is and kills her. A great, fast paced, well shot opening.
Laurie wakes up, a year later, from the nightmare that was the first 10-15 minutes. We are introduced to her new life living with Sheriff Brackett and his daughter Annie and taking therapy. We are then introduced to Loomis' new life of fame with him promoting his book and being an entertaining asshole. Meanwhile Michael is walking around killing anyone and everyone while he hallucinates that his mom is telling him to do all these things. The cool part about that was Michael's responses came from the kid version of himself. He gets back to Haddonfield and does what he does best with some great kills like stomping on a guy's head.
Michael eventually takes Laurie hostage, and she hallucinates about Mom and young Michael too, and brings her to a shack. The police surround the place. Meanwhile Loomis, after an embarrassing interview, realizes what an asshole he has been and sees on the news what's going on and tries to save Laurie. He stalls enough so that Brackett can shoot him down and then Laurie repeatedly stabs him. And there's a "surprise" ending.
The acting was great. Malcolm McDowell as Loomis and Brad Dourif as Sheriff Brackett were the best. Nobody annoyed me unlike the remake where I wanted Michael to kill every character to die so they couldn't talk anymore.
The score was surprisingly cool. Lacking the theme until the end didn't hurt it at all.
What really impressed me was the camera work. Definitely Rob's best.
I had only one problem and that was the fact that Michael was hallucinating about his mom telling him to kill. Something about that wasn't right to me. She was supposed to be the sane person of the family. I think it should have been Judith or even better, his father since we know nothing about him except that he died before the first film.
Other than that, it was fantastic. One of the best in the series. 5/5