I think they were thinking “What could Bond say after the woman gets shot in the head to convince Silva he didn´t care about it/her?”
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they certainly weren’t thinking of the implications of taking that route, that’s for sure.
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Halloween Kills (2021)
This was probably my most anticipated movie of the year, but with that being said I have a lot of things to digest with this film.
Firstly, this movie isn’t particularly bad, but it’s okay. It’s the middle entry in a three part trilogy of films with the conclusion to be released next year. Unfortunately doesn’t necessarily stand on its own compared to Halloween 2018 and more so pads out it’s run time with exposition meant to catch up anyone who isn’t familiar with the Franchise and has made Halloween Kills their first Halloween film. This is done between present day exposition and flashbacks with the flashbacks mainly catering to fans of the 1978 Classic, but I digress.
Halloween Kills lives up to its name, it’s a bloody film which expands upon its counterparts gore in 2018 where it shows more. It’s not done in a way where it’s meant to gross someone out, but done in a way where it is gruesome. The kills are inventive for the series and feel fresh through it’s almost two hours run time. Michael is probably his most sinister in this entry and some could argue is eerily supernatural given the beating he receives which makes it almost comical.
One this with this new trilogy is that it retconned the events of Halloween ll (1981), that has been emphasized more than once back in H 2018, but unfortunately if you have a keen eye and also are familiar with the franchise DGG made the opening portion of H2 canon to the current timeline, by implementing a single scene that is otherwise inconsequential to the overarching narrative. I bring this up cause not other people have around the internet.
John Carpenters Score is used strategically throughout the film and isn’t as prolific compared to its counterpart, but it’s serviceable and doesn’t disappoint when you hear it on screen with some familiar beats from the original 1978 film to something completely new.
Unfortunately this is where I have to get into negatives which will involve spoilers. Halloween Kills while not a boring film the last 15 minutes feel like a race to the finish line. So much happens is a short span of time that you can digest it all on your first screening. Michaels carnage against the mob is cut and shot poorly that you can barely see what’s happening and it leaves what is otherwise an highlight of the film underwhelming, the film also ends abruptly with the ending shorten from its initial test screening back in early 2020.
Halloween Kills while being the middle entry it’s a mindless slasher to enjoy while spooky season persists in our communities. It’s a fun little escape. With that being said Halloween Ends arrives a year from now and it will have a time jump taking place in 2022 and also continue its social commentary element according to DGG. I don’t particularly look forward to that aspect after the hell that was 2020, but that’s my own personal opinion.
I’ll be seeing it again on Friday Night with a friend for his birthday.
6.5/10
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Because they have the sequels already planned. They announced it before the film even came out.
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Yeah, that’s the drawback to the sequel obsession that I personally blame on the Friday the 13th series for cementing. These days, movies aren’t made so much as franchises born. Thank goodness the Cinematic Universe concept only has one genuine success, or that would blow the whole thing open, with no standalone stories of any sort anymore since every universe would be interconnected.
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It’s funny but at first the studio didn’t want to make Godfather part II bc “people won’t go see a sequel.”
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I mean it seems to be, at the very least, a decent film aimed for box office crowds and is based on a well-known series that has hyperfans. I am going to say it is more likely that it will be greenlit than not.
You mean Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 14 hour long exercise in artistic delusions and seeing how much you can inflate a hypothetical budget before it is canned and David Lynch’s enjoyable incomprehensible clusterfuck?
This film has made ~32mil (US Domestic as per *Deadline, combined from preview tickets and opening sales) which isn’t bad (not optimal if you are a Warner Exec. though but they are idiots), in fact it is double its next major rival Halloween Kills. If you are beating out a Halloween film in the Halloween season you aren’t failing as bad as Lynch did. Plus HBO Max factors into it a lot, so engagement might beat out cash when it comes to signalling a sequel.
All of this is moot however because the book (or books I should say) still exist and have the ending.
I mean it was fourteen hours long, they had a cast list of random celebrities they picked from a hat, he wanted his own 12 year old son to play Paul and the concept art pieces would have been brought to life with the fortune that could feed everyone in Africa. He compared it to Proust’s body of work and he was right, it would have lead an audience to a pursuit of lost time!
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but great art is a delusion, maaaan
- jodorowsky (probably)
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All art is delusion good and bad but to AJ’s credit his version of Dune isn’t the most misguided sci-fi film ever. I personally give that honour to ET 2: Nocturnal Fears, the name alone is a red flag.
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that sounds like softcore porn, so i’m in.
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From what I remember reading about it, Elliott is abducted by evil aliens and he has to call ET so ET and his ET friends can come and save him from the evil alien or something stupid like that. Spielberg was smart enough to realise that would have been a terrible idea and scrapped it.
is it wrong that i want to see et’s combat capabilities?
It can turn guns into flashlights, we know that much already.
Also I fucking hate Attack for ruining Yoda like that. That needed to be more about using the force than flipping around with lightsabres.
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Sorry, @Accidental_Kills98, but I loved that scene. We already know Yoda is top-tier with the Force, and he already schooled Dooku in it just from defense. There would have been no battle. The battle we got was George Lucas’s fuck you to people who watched ESB, listened to Yoda ask if Luke judged him by his size, and asked what the short, old gremlin could do besides use the Force. Nobody saw Yoda’s moves coming in that fight, nobody knew he was capable of it because of his age. That was the point, and I was totally for it. My only gripe would be that it should have been saved for the fight with Palpatine.
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Just watched Legally Blonde, still decent and holds up better than I expected.
Only problematic things are a couple ableist words, one of which isn’t even a slur in the USA.
It had dogs and they were friendly. Liked the characters quite a lot. But the dogs were even better.
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F9.
I can’t imagine something more stupid. But we still have 2 movies in store where they can tell us.
It’s a shame that in real life you can’t make up a background story explaining that Paul Walker is alive and well, just was out for a holiday for a few years
Sunday movieday! Forrest gump, Scarface and John Wick.
Seen all of them before but my Gf hadn’t seen scarface yet!
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