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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
BrunoMattei said:
Make the opening murder much more intentional. Cory intended to scare the kid because he hated the kid and it backfired. Establish the fucked up mother from the beginning.

Make him not the recipient of bullying by band geeks. Maybe they're not even bullies but mock him from a far?

Instead of his bullies attempting to kill him by throwing him off a bridge, he instead wants to get away from them and stumbles upon Myers. Myers is not decrepit and old but needs to be helped and fed victims because he needs to keep a low profile and has been killing homeless and junkies -which would also feed into the town slowly going to Hell. Then Cory leads some of his more innocuous bullies down there to buy weed or whatever, Myers slaughters the lot of them but one gets away. Cory continues to hang out with Myers, police come and waste Myers, the town torches the sewer AND THEN Cory grabs the mask and continues the rampage.

Then it proceeds pretty much the same way except there was a fake out and Myers is still around. Final battle happens. He's fed to the grinder and then the evil is fully passed over to Cory.
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That sounds a lot better. I think my main problem with the movie is the fact that Corey is just a victim, which doesn't make him interesting. Having his actions be more intentional and have unintended consequences would have been better than what we got.
 
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Yeah, this is one of those times where I just flat out disagree with them. I see what the movie was going for and I agree with them that those themes could be interesting, but the movie did it terribly and just wasn't very good.
 
Themes don't mean shit if the film isn't good. James Rolfe's review was better and it only took him ten minutes to prove his point.
 
urr13 account said:
Jay, a culturally jewish 45-year-old incel, loving a movie that opens with a scene of a white child being brutally murdered isn't really surprising. This kind of pretentious self-serious junk was practically made for Jay.
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Those damn Jews. First they killed Jesus and now they made Jay have bad taste in Halloween movies.
 
Glad that people in this thread are coming to the realization that Mike and Jay (and Rich and the rest) are just dimwits with an undeserved sense of intelligence that look down on people who are no dumber than they are.

They sometimes make funny content when they're ragging on shit but they're ultimately what they accuse other people of being: pseudo-intellectuals and manchildren with simplistic tastes.

Hopefully at some point in the future two braincells in one of their heads can collide and they'll realize that Half in the Bag is only entertaining when they critize things and nobody cares about their retarded opinions on the garbage they enjoy.
 
A lot of the arguments they make for Halloween Ends are the same justifications that others bring up regarding Star Trek, Star Wars or any other franchise that has a prequel/spin-off/reboot that challenges tropes, subverts expectations, etc. The fact that Corey gets a pass is interesting, because he'd be the perfect excuse to showcase the character as some chud or incel in any other slasher flick. I don't get how he's shown as an empathetic character. Funny how they brought in the Mr. Plinkett voice to go over the homages and themes. They pull a quote about the triangle symbolism from some new age spiritual blog:
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I thought it was interesting how they kept mentioning how it was Carpenter's idea to make a trilogy, but it was really Jason Blum that wanted it. As the sequels went on, they had additional writers added for Kills and Ends. Maybe they needed someone to quell the McBride non sequiturs? It really should've been one film, but they wanted to milk it for all its worth and set things up for a spin-off since the rights went back to Malek Akkad. There was a lot of talk about the leaked script, test screenings and how it originally was supposed to end. Due to the negative feedback, there were additional reshoots that took place in June, four months before the release date. If anything, Blumhouse will revive Corey and have their own straight to streaming slasher series.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Every non-lolcow thread will eventually turn into a Griefing thread because everyone eventually gets mad about said person not having the same opinion as them and suddenly they’re “not as good as it used to be” or “they’re lazy” or whatever.

Just because the funny drunk men have a YouTube show doesn’t make their opinion the end-all, be-all. You can disagree with them and still enjoy the videos.

I heard Ends was pretty divisive in a “you’ll love it or you’ll hate it” kinda way. I’m not really surprised they really like it in that regard.

That bit at the beginning naming the “Worst film in the series” only for Jay to break halfway through was pretty funny.
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That’s what’s happening though. I still like their content (enjoyed an old BOTW yesterday), but I’m not gonna kiss their ass.

It’s hypocritical that the people in here who lap up everything they do, cuz the greasy Milwaukee men may have them on the show one day:optimistic:, are pretending otherwise.

It’s good that there’s mixed opinions in here. Sorry it’s not a praise and worship thread at the church of middle aged beer-beards.
 
BlueSpark said:
Glad that people in this thread are coming to the realization that Mike and Jay (and Rich and the rest) are just dimwits with an undeserved sense of intelligence that look down on people who are no dumber than they are.
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I disagree with their take but it's not like I see them as lesser critics for it and I especially don't think they're dimwits. I just don't agree that the film is good because it just decided to do some curve ball love story. I can see why they like it and they convinced me to give it a second viewing but even after that viewing I still don't agree that it's good because it decided to just go this direction. I felt like they like it because they were just tired of Halloween so the fact it tried to do something new was enough to entertain them. The only thing that kinda irked me the wrong way was how they kept mocking the disdain for Michael being sidelined, weak and absent the whole movie, which came off a bit tone deaf and condescending.
 
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Your movie can have all the themes and symbolism in the world but it doesn't matter when your movie is boring as fuck.

Takes WAY too long getting anywhere and the movie spends too much time being an off-color teen romance instead of real character building and satisfying payoffs.
 
idk what to think about "Mr. Plinkett Talks About Halloween Ends", I'm still not sure even if it's a parody or not of contrarian video essays that try to forcefully find symbolism and allegory while ignoring everything in the plot that doesn't fit.
 
Tepes Thot said:
That’s what’s happening though. I still like their content (enjoyed an old BOTW yesterday), but I’m not gonna kiss their ass. It’s hypocritical that the people in here who lap up everything they do, cuz the greasy Milwaukee men may have them on the show one day:optimistic:, are pretending otherwise. It’s good that there’s mixed opinions in here. Sorry it’s not a praise and worship thread at the church of middle aged beer-beards.
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
idk what to think about "Mr. Plinkett Talks About Halloween Ends", I'm still not sure even if it's a parody or not of contrarian video essays that try to forcefully find symbolism and allegory while ignoring everything in the plot that doesn't fit.
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Yeah ... the symbolism was so outre and downright speculative that I couldn't tell if they were making a gag or not.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
idk what to think about "Mr. Plinkett Talks About Halloween Ends", I'm still not sure even if it's a parody or not of contrarian video essays that try to forcefully find symbolism and allegory while ignoring everything in the plot that doesn't fit.
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This is an excerpt from the Halloween Ends episode of Half in the Bag. Here it is on it's own! Mr. Plinkett defending the internet's latest punching bag of a film. What a time to be alive!
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