Red Letter Media

  • 🏰 The Fediverse is up. If you know, you know.
  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account

Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
Gaear Grimsrud said:
The alien in Starman had a line where he said that the thing he loves about humanity is that they are at their best when things are at their worst. I saw an interview with John Carpenter made years later where he said he doesn't believe that anymore. Dat trademark Carpenter cynicism. lol.
Click to expand...
I mean ... I wish I could say that Carpenter's cynicism is unfounded, but it's totally not.

The 2020's have already proven that. People are collectively acting more horrible than ever. lol.
 
Mola Ram said:
It's very good, but it's also the only John Carpenter movie I can think of that will elicit a "Well that was a very nice movie!" from grandmas.
Click to expand...
There was a (now forgotten) TV series of Starman that was my grandma's favorite show at the time.

I haven't seen that movie since I was a kid, but it was an influence on me. I remember writing a story in school that ended up being a total ripoff of Starman (and Back to the Future).
 
I'm so fucking amped for their HITB for Halloween Kills
Click to expand...
I'm guessing it'll be one of those generic, lukewarm HiTBs where they say "what you see is what you get" and boil it down to only recommending it to viewers who want to see people getting stabbed for two hours
 
kindwater said:
I'm guessing it'll be one of those generic, lukewarm HiTBs where they say "what you see is what you get" and boil it down to only recommending it to viewers who want to see people getting stabbed for two hours
Click to expand...
It would be funny if they did an "AT-ST! AT-ST!" skit for it.

Just finished watching Halloween Kills and literally every single character that was even mentioned in the first Halloween is in it somehow. Motherfuckers saw Michael Myers walking by the street 40 years ago and are still traumatized and talking about him like he killed their families. Its understandable for Laurie to be like that, but now theres a whole gang of Michael obssessed geriatrics going around town.

Its also full of shitty heavy handed "Maybe we're also monsters" themes. The fucking escaped mental patient plot makes absolutely no fucking sense. You telling me none of these people ever saw a photo of Michael's actual face? Dude was in a mental health institution for 4 decades, his face shouldve been all over the news when he started rampaging again.
 
Dr. Pasquale said:
It would be funny if they did an "AT-ST! AT-ST!" skit for it.

Just finished watching Halloween Kills and literally every single character that was even mentioned in the first Halloween is in it somehow. Motherfuckers saw Michael Myers walking by the street 40 years ago and are still traumatized and talking about him like he killed their families. Its understandable for Laurie to be like that, but now theres a whole gang of Michael obssessed geriatrics going around town.

Its also full of shitty heavy handed "Maybe we're also monsters" themes. The fucking escaped mental patient plot makes absolutely no fucking sense. You telling me none of these people ever saw a photo of Michael's actual face? Dude was in a mental health institution for 4 decades, his face shouldve been all over the news when he started rampaging again.
Click to expand...
It actually was shown on TV in an earlier scene but somehow no one saw that news report because everyone involved in that subplot is stupid.
 
Dr. Pasquale said:
It would be funny if they did an "AT-ST! AT-ST!" skit for it.

Just finished watching Halloween Kills and literally every single character that was even mentioned in the first Halloween is in it somehow. Motherfuckers saw Michael Myers walking by the street 40 years ago and are still traumatized and talking about him like he killed their families. Its understandable for Laurie to be like that, but now theres a whole gang of Michael obssessed geriatrics going around town.

Its also full of shitty heavy handed "Maybe we're also monsters" themes. The fucking escaped mental patient plot makes absolutely no fucking sense. You telling me none of these people ever saw a photo of Michael's actual face? Dude was in a mental health institution for 4 decades, his face shouldve been all over the news when he started rampaging again.
Click to expand...
My thoughts exactly. Every time Michael was on screen murdering people I was pleased and having a good time. Every time we cut away to that gay fucking hospital or another long-winded rant about the nature of evil and his super secret and important motivations I was unbelievably bored. I cannot believe no one looked at the pacing and plot and said hold up, why are we tossing all our strengths away for some heavy-handed and ultimately incoherent message about mobs?
 
Halloween 2018 had some awesome Michael Myers moments...and a bunch of moments of unfunny comedy, bizarre character interactions, and nonsense on the nose references to the first movie. Oh, it also had a legit kickass score by Carpenter, which definitely helps.

I had no desire to see Halloween Kills. Not one bit. I've been down this road with Halloween before. They get a suitable ending (2, H2O, H-18) and then they continue to beat the dead horse by making more and more sequels (IV-VI, Resurrection, and Kills) that ruins the decent ending they already had. Its a cycle of abuse to the IP at this point. Just leave it the fuck alone!
 
Titos said:
It's up.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=K71JAJMWeco
Click to expand...
3D7D412D-29EF-4F92-97C1-96BD32B2009B.jpeg
 
Mike's intimate knowledge of how long it takes to choke someone to death coupled with his alcoholism tells me he's got some dark shit going on
 
I'm calling it, Michael will be defeated by the power of love in Halloween Ends.

It's established at the end of Halloween Kills that Michael has transcended beyond something that can be killed with brute force.

Love is the only way to stop him now.

I hope it's as dumb as it sounds.
 
For a second at the end I thought they were going Halloween 4, that the darkness had transferred from Michael to Laurie's daughter (thus the reflection of a now free and innocent child Michael) because of how much she embraced the darkness and enjoyed Michael getting killed, so she would become the killer and I was actually excited for it. And then.. nope.
 
The hodgepodge nature of Halloween Kills was really entertaining to me.

Sometimes you're supposed to take it deadly seriously, but other times they delve right into the dopiest slasher tropes, like the gay couple who don't just get out of the house and call the police when somebody with bloody hands, who they're pretty sure isn't a kid playing a prank, sneaks into their house, but instead pick up tiny kitchen knives and decided to go through the house looking for him. And these are like middle aged men, not dumb teenagers.

And the comical repetition of the phrases "40 years ago" and "Evil dies tonight".

The multiple scenes of Michael going John Wick on big groups of people that felt like they were conceived by a 14 year old Michael Myers fanboy.

And just the weirdness of a movie coming out in this George Floyd era where a cop character is lamenting that he didn't turn his back and let an unarmed person be executed in the street without trial.

It was such an odd blend of all this different stuff.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom