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The pretentious marketing

posted 2 years ago by Indig0Mist (84)
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I just think these new films are way too overdramatic to a ridiculous cringeworthy level, I hate Laurie's character the way she delivers the lines as if she was some sort of a Loomis/Sarah Connor/Ripley hybrid and I hate how it is conveniently marketed as if it were the true continuation to H78 just because there is no siblings relation but still is the same exact plot over and over again Michael chasing and fighting Laurie, he effectively kills everyone but her granny ass. The overdramatic angle might have been more aceptable have they acknowledge at least the H2 events.

[–] mirelurk (884) 2 years ago

Agreed. This series makes no sense

Jamie Lee Curtis is playing the character of Laurie as if H2O and Resurrection were canon. Meaning that she's playing as if she's extremely jaded and battle-worn

Yet in this continuity she only had a single encounter with Michael Myers and he's not even supposedly interested in her

David Gordon Green showed that he could be an okay director in the past, Joe was pretty good, but he's been just plain bad with these two Halloween movies

[–] Indig0Mist (84) 2 years ago

You nailed it, that's what I was trying to say, she acts as if H20 happened and I thought she was better written in that movie, she had more trauma to deal with and still tried to lead a normal life living with the fear of her psychotic brother coming after her as the body was never found; this new Laurie is a total loser and had just one single encounter with a killer who was locked up for 40 years and is not even related to her at all, ridiculous

[–] mirelurk (884) 2 years ago

Thanks! Yeah, H20 is a good movie and these aren't. It boils down to that

Halloween 2 is a great movie, I don't get why Green and Danny McBride would make it non-canon. I mean, I get it, they wanted to do something different, but it didn't work at all

I think Halloween 2 was just as important as Halloween 1 in defining the franchise's legacy

[–] Indig0Mist (84) 2 years ago

That's the point, they wanted to make something different ignoring all the sequels but they ended up doing exactly the same thing they criticized, and appartently their marketing was so good there's a lot of people unable to see this and pretentiously bashing the original sequels following a trend

[–] ADBruno1985 (3491) 2 years ago

Yeah, Michael's not really interested in her. Shown in Kills by the fact that they don't share a SINGLE SCENE. Which is bothersome. And while that movie has enjoyable parts to me, that fact, along with the cliffhanger ending, show how it's just a filler. But many other entries had cliffhanger endings with him getting away, and they stood on their own better, less as filler.

And your point about her acting like 7 & 8 were canon, I've always thought that too but you found better words.

They're fun. But at times I can't tell if they're too self-serious or not serious enough.

[–] Lord Rake (4465) 2 years ago

They have made me hate the character of Laurie. She is no Loomis, he came off as crazy but she comes off as nagging. I liked Halloween Kills but could not stand the Laurie parts or hospital Frank. I hate how they are focusing on Michael vs Laurie.

The new films have done a good job with Michael in my opinion. But "Strode Strong" what... huh? That's cringey, I'm going to go eat something so I can throw it up.

[–] Indig0Mist (84) 2 years ago

I agree, these films did a good job with Michael, he's terryfing, they take care on every detail about him

[–] LeWildPlatypus (768) 2 years ago

At this point I expect Laurie to arrive on screen hanging out of a chopper dressed as Rambo firing rounds at Michael who is now Immortan Joe from Mad Max because subverting our expectations is a thing now.

[–] Indig0Mist (84) 2 years ago

You're right! And have her arrive with the same outfit and hairstyle she wore on the first film right when Michael is stalking a little girl dressed up with a clown costume identical to Jamie Lloyd as a callback, referencing the sequels they conveniently erased but will continue to leech off.

[–] javie (2216) 2 years ago

It's all crap.