tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post1044324094442734583..comments2024-03-28T02:09:36.343-11:00Comments on Kinemalogue: John Carpenter, part X: What the Samhain is going on in here?!Hunter Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-15392776348033445342024-03-20T20:16:38.779-11:002024-03-20T20:16:38.779-11:00I largely agree with you on Myers, but don't s...I largely agree with you on Myers, but don't say it too loud, people get mad and roll their eyes. I still don't understand why people fixate so much on Halloween '78.<br /><br />I'd watch a Season of the Witch sequel. Makes more sense than doing a forty years later sequel to Halloween where only Halloween happened, which still annoys me about Green's Halloween because Myers is just not a legend, or even ought to be a figure looming large in Laurie's mind, without Halloween II. Aggravating.Hunter Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-54016736204132907692024-03-20T02:33:57.186-11:002024-03-20T02:33:57.186-11:00 I must admit to having a real soft spot for this ... I must admit to having a real soft spot for this piece of work: if nothing else it has the most delightful villain in the entire franchise (I’d argue he’s a straight-up supervillain with an eccentric that reminds me of the late, great Terry Wogan in a way that really sells the ‘Wolf in sheep’s clothing’ aspect of the character): Michael Myers is a mightily effective monster, but he has all the personality of the Great White Shark (Which costs him Villain Points).<br /><br /> Also, I think it a real pity that the notion of HALLOWEEN as an anthology franchise never took off (For my money a sequel to HALLOWEEN III which showed a new generation of children in a World without Halloween - following the ‘Silver Shamrock’ incident - challenged to bring back a little Trick or Treat in order to scare off the Malicious Spirits running rampant without the annual festival of disguises intended to spook the heck out of the otherworldly entities sneaking through when the boundaries between worlds become thinnest, even as a thoroughly traumatised generation of adults do their best to stop them).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-43997856427387479502022-06-06T15:42:56.219-11:002022-06-06T15:42:56.219-11:00Oh, yeah. I mean, I like the 1989 time travel mov...Oh, yeah. I mean, I like the 1989 time travel movie Millennium pretty okay, so far as I remember. But if they released Millennium as Back to the Future Part III because Zemeckis and Gale had gotten sick of Marty and Doc Brown, I don't think it'd be worthwhile to blame people for rejecting it sight unseen. It's an interesting unhammered nail for a franchise retrospective, but not in any sense good business for what I think is reasonable to still call an A-picture (even if it is about evil Druids and magic masks).Hunter Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-33220778129633997172022-06-05T19:47:26.076-11:002022-06-05T19:47:26.076-11:00I'm glad this review doesn't fall into the...I'm glad this review doesn't fall into the easy assumptions retrospectives seem to take: that audiences were either (a) too closed-minded to accept anything other than another Michael Myers slasher romp; or (b) too dumb to understand what an anthology was. I posit that the public could tell *exactly* what they were getting: a random movie with the name "Halloween III" slapped on it. I remember, before I had any idea what the main storyline was for the 'Halloween' series, being confounded by the ads for this movie that was inexplicably called 'Halloween III' (it doesn't even use the same logo!) despite looking for all the world like a standalone movie.Dafnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-89596131446237296042015-11-07T00:32:35.614-11:002015-11-07T00:32:35.614-11:00When did Ellie become a robot? Who cares! She...When did Ellie become a robot? Who cares! She's a robot, man!<br /><br />And when Tom Atkins yells, even the FCC must listen. Too bad one of the networks didn't. I want to see a Season of the Witch sequel. I bet it would be all Children of Men-y.Hunter Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-84838055577117715942015-11-06T20:19:14.811-11:002015-11-06T20:19:14.811-11:00Oh man am I overjoyed to see this one on your mara...Oh man am I overjoyed to see this one on your marathon list. It has its severe faults as a narrative, but as a bonkers 80's gumdrop, it's sublime.Brennanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399713449347559869noreply@blogger.com