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I warned you about Ends bro. I told you dog. I'm glad I decided to nope out after Kills because I haven't seen such a unanimous negative reaction to a Halloween film since ZombieWeen 2. It took me 30 minutes of skimming comment sections to find anybody defending this shit, and even then I could count them on the fingers of one hand and still have fingers left. I can't believe they put this same mongoloid at the helm of the next Exorcist. Please let this be the death of letting pseuds hijack popular franchises in order to SuBvErT oUr ExPeCtAtIoNs.

I find it incredibly gay when people refer to Michael Myers as "The Shape"
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No, if it were gay it would be "The Outline".
 
Calandrino said:
Yeah they didn't call it Jason Takes a Cruise because nobody wants to see Jason taking a cruise because it's a shit premise, there you go.
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No, it's not, it's a fantastic premise. I'd take Jason Takes a Train, Jason Visits the Effel Tower and Jason's Night At the Museum any day of the week, took. Just put Jason in a closed environment and let it him kill people.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
No, it's not, it's a fantastic premise. I'd take Jason Takes a Train, Jason Visits the Effel Tower and Jason's Night At the Museum any day of the week, took. Just put Jason in a closed environment and let it him kill people.
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Did you wish Jason was your dad when you were growing up?
 
Internet War Criminal said:
No, it's not, it's a fantastic premise. I'd take Jason Takes a Train, Jason Visits the Effel Tower and Jason's Night At the Museum any day of the week, took. Just put Jason in a closed environment and let it him kill people.
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I'm still pissed they never did Jason Meets Cheech & Chong. It could've been like a modern Abbott and Costello meeting all the monsters. They could've done one with Freddy next or Leprechaun.
 
I didn't hate Halloween Ends, but I didn't hate Kills either, but they should have stopped with 2018, which was really good, it figures they'd get greedy and try to milk it.

Ends is a head scratching direction to go in to say the least and I can see why it's divisise, but they made two whole movies of Michael Myers killing people, I'm not surprised they decided to go in a weird direction for the third one.

But the worst thing you can say about Kills and most of Ends is that it's filler, but there's not really anything that ruins the overall lore is there? Like saying Michael Myers is the result of a Druid cult or something like that, in fact they wisely avoid trying to explain why Michael is seemingly supernatural and they finally deliver on him getting killed, so I don't see why people are THAT upset about it.

Like I said, focusing on a new character for most of the movie essentially amounts to filler, so it's certainly not great, but I like that they did have the balls to finish him off at the end.

One thing I do hate though, the lack of gratuitous nudity, especially when it seemed like it was going to happen with the annoying nurse, we're so Woke that we no longer need "gratuitous" nudity in our slasher films but it's ok to still have all the violence? That seems grossly hypocritical to me.
 
After months of waiting, I'm glad to announce this movie was everything I expected.

Awful fucking movie.

I'm going to go back one day and rewatch Halloween 1 & 2 to remember the last time this franchise was good. Until that day comes though I'm going to go back and enjoy some other slasher franchises because I'm sick to the back teeth of William Shatner's stupid fucking face.
 
IDanceonTrannyGraves said:
I've been watching old Hammer films lately and they're pretty fun. Watching Curse of the Werewolf but Oliver Reed is no Peter Cushing.
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I genuinley love the Hammer movies, maybe it's because I saw them on tv as a kid and it's nostalgia but they're proper cosy watches, I love the fact that they were shot on the same backlot, reusing sets and filming movies back to back, there's a real charm to them and it doesn't hurt that they frequently had Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee front and centre.
F_Break said:
I can't believe they put this same mongoloid at the helm of the next Exorcist.
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I think you just ruined my night.
 
Kills is at least decent slasher-porn if you ignore the stupid mental patient subplot.

Ends just has... nothing but really shitty drama. Michael's death in it is weak and shitty, especially when compared to the trap-house finale of the 2018 one and even Kills when the townsfolk corner him.
 
Tor Lugosi said:
Kills is at least decent slasher-porn if you ignore the stupid mental patient subplot.

Ends just has... nothing but really shitty drama. Michael's death in it is weak and shitty, especially when compared to the trap-house finale of the 2018 one and even Kills when the townsfolk corner him.
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Kills at least makes for a fun kill-reel. But they even ruin that a little bit with the black woman who was stabbed in the neck with the fluorescent light somehow surviving and returning for Ends.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Kills at least makes for a fun kill-reel. But they even ruin that a little bit with the black woman who was stabbed in the neck with the fluorescent light somehow surviving and returning for Ends.
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That seriously annoyed me. How the fuck do you survive a fluorescent light getting shoved in your neck and not bleed to death from it?

Associate Rick said:
I genuinley love the Hammer movies, maybe it's because I saw them on tv as a kid and it's nostalgia but they're proper cosy watches, I love the fact that they were shot on the same backlot, reusing sets and filming movies back to back, there's a real charm to them and it doesn't hurt that they frequently had Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee front and centre.
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The Hammer horror movies are some of the best written hour movies made. God I hope they never remake them.
 
I just saw Halloween Ends. It really feels like they put two different movies and fused them together since the last act was the most watchable part of the film. Adventures of Incel Man felt like some weird indie director's first time making a movie and the new character felt like they were transplanted from an entirely different movie.

The Last third when all the killing happens was the most entertaining part of the movie. But most of it was just filler that I feel convinced was meant to be part of a tv show or something since I really couldn't give a shit about these characters.

The final fight with Myers was meh but it didn't feel earned whatsoever since he just suddenly appears for the final fight. But the wood chipper scene is really retarded since it's this somber scene where everyone just overcomes trauma despite the fact that there would be people acting hyped or cheering for it to happen, or even filming it.

Not to mention all the times Jamie Lee Curtis provides some very pretentious speeches that are annoying.

I don't hate this movie despite that since it really takes a lot for me to hate a movie nowadays, but this is definitely in the same tier of bad Halloween movies like Curse and the Rob Zombie films which all took themselves extremely seriously like they were telling high art when people just come to these movies for a dumb slasher.

For as dumb as Kills was, it was at least a funny comedy movie since the subplot was unintentionally funny. But this reboot trilogy really shouldn't have been a trilogy since 2018 honestly felt like a good conclusion and not to mention that was the only one where people acted like actual human beings in this trilogy.
 
Haven't seen Ends yet. But I just found out until now that was Juila Stiles in the Orphan: First Kill. I knew she looked familiar throughout the movie but I couldn't tell where I seen her before.
Must be the hair change
 
I get the vibe they intended 2018 to be a one and done, but got offered too much money to make sequels and then it was a real case of "oh shit, now what?" since they already blew their load with the 2018 movie.

At least if you really hate the sequels you can just pretend that 2018 is the last one and Michael burned to death.

Does anyone get the vibe though that with the character of Corey, they're introducing the idea that though Michael may be gone, the town of Haddonfield itself is cursed or something and a new killer may pop up for future Halloween films?
 
Dom Cruise said:
I get the vibe they intended 2018 to be a one and done, but got offered too much money to make sequels and then it was a real case of "oh shit, now what?" since they already blew their load with the 2018 movie.

At least if you really hate the sequels you can just pretend that 2018 is the last one and Michael burned to death.

Does anyone get the vibe though that with the character of Corey, they're introducing the idea that though Michael may be gone, the town of Haddonfield itself is cursed or something and a new killer may pop up for future Halloween films?
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The director and Blumhouse claimed the plan was always for a trilogy right after the first hit theaters. As far as I know the Blumhouse deal expires with Ends unless they sign a new one so I don't know why they would be planting seeds for new ones without a deal in place.
 
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