I agree with one or two gripes aside, such as Kung Fu Rhymes—character was largely fine, but should have died and at around the same time of Dangertainment associate, Tyra Banks, so that Sara Moyer could be a more effective final girl. Deckard's role should be shrunken down some, perhaps, and there should have been some alarmist character instead, such as a Haddonfield sheriff to have a significant role and butted heads with the Dangertainment team. Remember that Michael Myers killed Nurse Marion in Langdon, Illinois just a year or two before this, so it's ridiculous that nobody seems concerned about a Myers resurgence. Dude's body was never recovered. He's a fugitive at large and there should be, like, FBI agents or someone on the hunt.
Halloween Resurrection is a very entertaining and unique movie which holds up well. I also detest the two Rob Zombie films, and think that Resurrection is leagues better than H20. Normally, I would place H20 dead last in my series rankings, but since Resurrection exists and provided an intiguing twist to the supposedly definitive, but thoughtless and anticlimatic, end delivered in H20, it gets brownie points for creativity. I actually appreciated the abominable prior entry just a tad bit more than when first viewing in 1998 because of *this* sequel. The best thing a good sequel can do is to make the previous entries more interesting and essential. Resurrection did this a few ways. The return to Haddonfield. The mythology of the Myers House setting. A director, who previously helmed a very popular outing in the series, returned to provide the essential atmosphere, framing, lighting, mask and characterization that had been sorely lacking since 1981. Steve Miner of H20 was nauseatingly amateur director. Pathetic. Rick Rosenthal is God by comparison.
Jamie Lee Curtis is vastly overrated, and her creative control to make H20 a vanity project was absolutely abysmal. It was living off the Scream-hype as well, with the Kevin Williamson crap, but it should have been the reverse since Scream was nothing more than commercialized, derivative crap.
I also enjoy how Halloween Resurrection (should have been named by script title, "Halloween Homecoming") depicted my generation of community college-era students and young adults. They had very appealing and familiar characterizations with their banter, true crime interests, and so forth.
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