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Anybody celebrating this version is an idiot!
THIS SHIT IS NO JOKE... OUR COUNTRY IS IN DANGER
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My rebuttal to a YouTube idiot reviewer
Is being eviscerated in Hollywood. :-)
Is her reputation being eviscerated in Hollywood?
If you don't like Tina, then you don't really understand this franchise
Rachel wasn’t a heroine and got what she deserved.
Fascinating!
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It’s an assembly-line machine with CPU programming that, while it did end up traveling through time, wasn’t designed for the purpose of temporal assassination. It was designed to hunt humans in general in the future war environment. It obviously had no memory banks of data of human history and evolution of technology, evident from the plasma rifle request. It only attempted to arm itself in accordance with it’s most basic programming, which would be overkill in 1984. Didn’t even have any info on Sarah Connor other than name and city.
In future installments, since the T-800 had been reprogrammed by John Connor to be good, they had greater knowledge and sophistication to adapt to the late-20th century timeframe.
Makes sense to me.
Think also of it’s list of acceptable responses as it receives a knock on the door in the motel room. It chooses what it considers the most appropriate response as, “Fuck off, asshole.” But a strategy for non-suspicion in a peaceful environment would surely include a response such as, “No turn-down service required. Do not disturb at this time.” That response, however, would, ironically, be more suspicious and uncharacteristic in 2045 or whenever, post-Judgment Day.
It’s because the real stars of Robocop were Miguel Ferrer, Ronny Cox and Kurtwood Smith.
Peter Weller was, like them, a character actor, and not a leading man type.
He’d move to Alabama, and run for the Senate after seeing the narrow loss of Judge Roy Moore.
Once they hear Trump speak at the RNC (and likewise Joe Biden at his Chicago convention at a later date) they'll reassess their complaints and "uncommitted" status, and realign. Trump's not gonna run centrist or left on this. Everyone knows he'd give Benjamin Netanyahu a proverbial high 'five' in contrast with Biden's contemplative and deescalated approach. He's also gonna call for Marshall Law on college campus protestors, and run on abortion bans. It's not gonna work out for him.
Besides, Pence, Romney, the Cheney's and the Bushes' are all going to endorse Biden and speak at the DNC convention in the name of compromise and bipartisanship. Say nothing of the Clinton's and the Obama's of course. Evangelical Christians will jump ship and won't touch a ballot with a ten-foot pole. Trump will be destroyed in the suburban districts of both red and blue states, and he's gonna be orange, black & blue himself during his stint in the penitentiary.
Well, I must certainly thank you for acknowledging the topic at hand and giving me something to work with. I respect your opinion since it seems to conform to your viewpoint that, aside from the original masterpiece, they all suck. In order for this to be a valid conclusion, though, you must also prove that, 1. Halloween fans are near unanimous that the sequels suck, and 2. The copyright holders have shown a certain carelessness about their property, and therefore likely just churn them out without too much thought.
I'm a member of social media groups, such as The Legacy of Halloween run by Fandom Empire, with a subscribership numbering at a quarter of a million. You may be surprised to learn that there is not anything close to a consenses about which sequels are good or bad. Many, like me, don't even consider the 1978 original the best, though we do acknowledge how revolutionary it was as a low-budget film. It's strengths are in the varied performances, twist ending, and Carpenter's legendary film score, and clever lighting & framing of shots. On the other hand, it's rewatchability value is quite low since about half the film is just suburban images of houses along with repeated scenes of young adults making small talk on the phone, driving or watching television. Compare that to the pickup truck battle in Halloween 4 or the dynamic party scene in Halloween 5 at the Tower Farm that incorporates the barn & harvest themed setting—with elements of mistaken identity utilized by the antagonist, telepathy, and a climax vehicle chase through the woods. The director also, being European, incorporated his own Gothic Victorian-type ambience which variably enhances all the very standard Americanized horror tropes.
While it's definitely true that after II in 1981, they were originally going to finish the Myers storyline and move to the seasonal anthology format. However, they were inundated with calls and scripts in the 1980s to bring back Myers to compete with other horror icons. What I'm saying is they saw this as an opportunity to continue the pattern, sometimes with a single director, such as David Gordon Green or Rob Zombie, and sometimes with a little more variety as was the Thorn Trilogy, but essentially inserting many similar beats to the familiar routine.
As with Season of the Witch (1982), a lot of casual viewers were put off by the choices of Halloween Ends (2022) and now we see an extraordinary level of chatter to continue one of the prior timelines to bring back Michael, or otherwise expand on the established mythology perhaps even in a limited TV format. Sometimes it's good business to subvert the expectations of the masses even to the point of anger & disillusionment.
What do you think they do all day, anyway, in these corporate production offices? Design butcher knives?! No, they have conversations like I'm having right now to give the series a familiar niche and make all their previous efforts as exciting and relevant as ever.
Now... if they never pick up from a prior timeline in a new trilogy format EVER again. Only then will I acknowledge your stance of it being a half-hearted coincidence. Until then, please re-read my OP, and consider the evidence that the timeline branches consist of three separate trilogies and two other sets where the third chapter was set up but never came to fruition... YET.
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Director is a man. Kim David Henkel.
Hey, do me a favor and start your own thread, perhaps? You are not replying or even acknowledging the existence of the Halloween "trilogy format" pattern that I mention, which seems to have been intentional by Trancas/Compass Int'l Pictures since the 1980s—perhaps as early as 1982, and continues to this very day.
They may even have intentions to complete the Zombie trilogy or the H20 set at some ceremonial future date like an
anniversary, and could easily do so with the right script. I would imagine they get tons of unsolicited scripts sent to their corporate location.
I'm interested in the future of this franchise, not the opinion of some random detractor who spends far too much time on MovieChat, and keeps watching films that he hates.
Myers simply followed the girl who approached his house and dropped off a key at the porch. He actually began to take much less interest in Laurie though, when it was clear that she was observant and always watching him back. She wasn't a soft target like her friends, especially the one who mouthed off to him, Annie Brackett. In fact, more than anyone else, it was Annie who he used to relive the memory and satisfaction his original killing of Judith, and I believe that's what placing her headstone at the crime scene above her corpse represented. Lynda & Bob were next as they, then came over, of their own accord. Hard target, Laurie, eventually investigated, and by that point Myers was off his game and got beaten back.
That's the interpretation of the original 1978 film on it's own. If you add the sister angle of the sequels in, then all you have to say is that either he wanted to torment her by killing her friends first, or that the Thorn curse wasn't very precise and he could feel his bloodline, but easily got the girls mixed up.
In 2018, he never targeted Laurie, as you may remember. Dr Sartain, obsessed with understanding Michael and hearing him speak, sought to bring the two together and drove the police cruiser to her compound.
I like II, 5, Kills and embarrassingly, Resurrection, as favorites even over the original. This is what helped attune me to the pattern of the trilogy format... realizing that I liked the climactic middle chapters that pick up from the previous entries, which were more focused on character development and/or containing a twist ending. Ranking the series is meaningless, though, since I hold all in high regard.
Sorry, bot. My post was intended for human users. But thanks for giving us a generic summary of popular opinion based on internet chatter and box office results.
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