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Sorry to say, but the Blumhouse trilogy (2018-2022) was way better than the Thorn trilogy (1988-1995) and H20/Resurrection Duology (1998-2002)

posted 2 years ago by CodyXBrenda (387)
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Let me count the ways!

* No shitty looking masks that look like they came from Party City
* No retconning of a twist ending (i.e. The niece is now the killer)
* No stupid bullshit with a mute psychic child
* No clown cops (accompanied with retarded music)
* No mansion-sized Myers house
* No crazy Dr. Loomis
* No Tina!
* No man in black who is later revealed to be a minor character from the original film
* No stupid cliffhanger ending that took years to resolve
* No ridiculous over the top Celtic droid cult
* No mysterious disappearance of Michael Myers after he's defeated
* No ignoring recent sequels (even if H'18, HK, and HE already ignores every sequel)
* No cliche 90210 teens in a horror movie about a masked killer
* No rappers who are no longer relevant
* No stupid rectcon of "It wasn't Micheal Myers, it was a paramedic!"
* No killing off the original main female protagonist in a very insulting way
* No stupid reality web cam show
* No "Trick or treat, mothafucka!"
* No wisecracking rapper kung-fu-ing Micheal Myers
* No cliffhanger ending that gets ignored in the next film, which was a complete re-imagining of the franchise

Honestly, if you think the new trilogy is bad. Go back and watch the Thorn trilogy and H20 and Resurrection. Halloween 4 was pretty good and still holds up and sadly is the only decent one out of the bunch, Halloween 5 was godawful and just fucking boring and nothing happens until the last 10 minutes or so. While Halloween 6 was "so bad its good", the whole cult plot makes literally zero sense and doesn't belong in the series at all. Also Paul Rudd wasn't terrible, he was just "okay" as Tommy Doyle. The guy who played him in Kills was way better. As for H20, it's very dated and Myers is a complete pussy in that one, and we all could give zero shits about Resurrection. Also one thing the Blumhouse trilogy did better; Michael Myers is actually killed off, for good; instead of him scurrying away like a little bitch for the 1,000th time.

[–] DavidM (884) 2 years ago

"No cliffhanger ending that gets ignored in the next film, which was a complete re-imagining of the franchise"

That's not accurate, as Ends ignores the cliffhanger ending of Kills, in the sense that Kills suggests things about Michael and his powers (principally the conexion with his childhood house and the window of his sister, but also with the white mask) which are forgotten in Ends (using the excuse that the house was demolished). In fact that's the worst thing of Ends, which otherwise for me is the best Halloween film I've seen along with the original.

[–] CodyXBrenda (387) 2 years ago

There wasn't really a cliffhanger ending. Unless you're thinking of the scrapped deleted ending where Laurie calls Karen and Michael picks it up, right after he kills her and Laurie says "I'm coming for you, Michael!" as he breathes into the phone. That was originally planned because they wanted Ends to originally take place on November 1, 2018 and they changed it, at the last minute, and the setting was changed to October 29-31, 2022. I would've been weird having a 3rd movie take place a day later after the first two, this isn't Jeepers Creepers and Friday The 13th Parts 2-4 already did something similar to that, 40 years earlier.

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 2 years ago

Sorry to say (I'm really not), but everything after Halloween III is garbage. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[–] acelesson (809) 2 years ago

this is the appropriate answer.

[–] Narwhale37 (1280) 2 years ago

* No retconning of a twist ending (i.e. The niece is now the killer)
This wasn't a retcon. They never intended to make Jamie Lloyd (an 8 year old) a killer and made that abundantly clear as they were thinking of ideas for 5

* No crazy Dr. Loomis
This is the 3rd time he's tracking down Micheal and now Jamie mighr have the same problem. Of course he would be annoyed and nutty.

* No Tina!
She's just someone trying to have fun on Halloween and most teens think he's over hyped

* No man in black who is later revealed to be a minor character from the original film
How is this a bad thing?

* No stupid cliffhanger ending that took years to resolve
How is this a bad thing?

* No ridiculous over the top Celtic droid cult
The problem isn't that it's ridiculous but that it's poorly explained?

* No mysterious disappearance of Michael Myers after he's defeated
Kills did essentially the same thing and it's a franchise trademark

* No ignoring recent sequels (even if H'18, HK, and HE already ignores every sequel)
How was this different?

* No cliche 90210 teens in a horror movie about a masked killer
Did you watch H18?

* No rappers who are no longer relevant
What's wrong with this?

* No killing off the original main female protagonist in a very insulting way
Kills with Karen. Literal teleportation

* No "Trick or treat, mothafucka!"
No you got other phrases instead.

* No wisecracking rapper kung-fu-ing Micheal Myers
His ending in Ends is just as lame

* No cliffhanger ending that gets ignored in the next film, which was a complete re-imagining of the franchise
Not yet.

This isn't even discussing the actual problems of the trilogy. Try again.