sigp220.45
US Veteran
I love John Carpenter's Halloween. I watched it twice in the theater when I was a freshman in college in 1978, and have loved it ever since.
I suffered through the various sequels and remakes. Michael Myers somehow became Laurie Strode's brother and then morphed into an unkillable murder machine.
I had low expectations going into this year's Halloween. It is a direct sequel to the original, as if none of the intervening dreck had ever happened.
I loved it.
Carpenter didn't direct, but was a producer.
Jamie Lee Curtis may be a standard issue anti-gunner, but her character Laurie Strode is all in with guns. She owns quite a few, but the "hero guns" in this movie are a Smith 4" Model 66, a Winchester 73 short rifle clone, and a Mossberg Cruiser.
Without getting into spoilers, "guns are good and will help you when no one else can" is a major plot point in this movie. Characters who think otherwise are shown to be fools.
I watched the original the night before watching this, and it helped a lot. There are many direct call backs to the original, and it is fun to watch for them.
Standard movie thread caveats apply: Hollyweird is full of libtards, the last movie worth watching in the theater was "The Osterman Weekend", you want two hours of your life back, and until John Ford and John Wayne are resurrected and start making movies again you'll stay home and watch TCM.
(For the record, I love TCM).
Anyone else seen it?
I suffered through the various sequels and remakes. Michael Myers somehow became Laurie Strode's brother and then morphed into an unkillable murder machine.
I had low expectations going into this year's Halloween. It is a direct sequel to the original, as if none of the intervening dreck had ever happened.
I loved it.
Carpenter didn't direct, but was a producer.
Jamie Lee Curtis may be a standard issue anti-gunner, but her character Laurie Strode is all in with guns. She owns quite a few, but the "hero guns" in this movie are a Smith 4" Model 66, a Winchester 73 short rifle clone, and a Mossberg Cruiser.
Without getting into spoilers, "guns are good and will help you when no one else can" is a major plot point in this movie. Characters who think otherwise are shown to be fools.
I watched the original the night before watching this, and it helped a lot. There are many direct call backs to the original, and it is fun to watch for them.
Standard movie thread caveats apply: Hollyweird is full of libtards, the last movie worth watching in the theater was "The Osterman Weekend", you want two hours of your life back, and until John Ford and John Wayne are resurrected and start making movies again you'll stay home and watch TCM.
(For the record, I love TCM).
Anyone else seen it?
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