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T3hRen3gade posted:Which Halloween 2? If it's the Zombie one then no way, Director's Cut is the only one worth watching. If it's the original 2 then sure, I guess? I wouldn't want to watch a TV edit of anything personally, but you do you. Zombie Halloween 2 is the only one that matters. Idk maybe the new David Gordon Green Halloween 2 that'll be coming out will be good, I liked the first one a lot.
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NienNunb posted:Zombie Halloween 2 is the only one that matters. Personally I think the only real way to see the proper version of Halloween 2 is the director's cut, and I doubt that t.v. edit is the director's cut.
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Hills Have Eyes 2 would have been a funny stupid horror movie had they removed the obsession with rape it has.
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feedmyleg posted:Where the heck did you find it? It seems to only be available on DVD. I don't think it's on any streaming services, unless someone else happens to know of one (Shudder, perhaps?)
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Oct 29, 2019 20:40
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OpenSourceBurger posted:Hills Have Eyes 2 would have been a funny stupid horror movie had they removed the obsession with rape it has. Remove all the rape, and make the troops better at fighting the mutants instead of just getting effortlessly picked off one by one because they keep doing dumb poo poo. Those two changed and The Hills Have Eyes would be a much better, completely different movie
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Like this is a movie where a dude who looks like Ben Stiller in Tropic Thunder gets his arm cut off and waved to with it but then you get these brutal unneeded and loving awful rape and sexual depravity scenes that are so out of tone with the rest of the movie.
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NienNunb posted:Zombie Halloween 2 is the only one that matters. Technically Halloween 2018 was Halloween 2, meaning the new ones will be Halloween 3 and 4. For what it’s worth, I liked Halloween 2018 a lot too - though 90% of that might be the score, which is so loving good. I’d rank the Michael Myers movies this way Halloween (1978) Halloween (2018) Halloween 2 (Rob Zombie) Halloween 2 (1981) Halloween (Rob Zombie) Halloween 4 Halloween: H20 Halloween 5 Halloween 6 Halloween: Resurrection There’s like a 90% chance I posted this list earlier in the thread with H20 ranked higher but I recently rewatched that and didn’t like it nearly as much as I remembered.
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Blast Fantasto posted:There’s like a 90% chance I posted this list earlier in the thread with H20 ranked higher but I recently rewatched that and didn’t like it nearly as much as I remembered. Yea my personal list would actually be identical to yours with just H20 moved down even further. Really haven't enjoyed it the past few times around. I'd move the new movie down a few slots as well, actually. I think Zombie's Halloween 2 is better.
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Yeah that's a pretty accurate list. All this Halloween 2 (2009) talk makes me want to watch the unrated version again, because I haven't done that in ages. Rob Zombie marches to the beat of his own human skin-covered drum and I loved both of his remakes, screw the haters. 
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I haven’t watched Halloween 2018 since the Thursday it came out - I’m sort of afraid to because I had such a great time at the theater and I’ve listened to the score so much. Looking back, I know there are things I sort of didn’t like that will probably be more apparent on a rewatch (like all the stuff with the “New Loomis”, except for Michael crushing his fuckin head which was awesome). But man was that a perfect theater experience, probably the best I’ve ever had with a packed house for a horror movie. No stupid “I’M NOT SCARED BRO” teenagers talking, no one on the phone, people reacting audibly in the right way. Just a great time.
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Blast Fantasto posted:I haven’t watched Halloween 2018 since the Thursday it came out - I’m sort of afraid to because so had such a great time at the theater and I’ve listened to the score so much. Yea I enjoyed everything involving Laurie and her family and Michael stalking around the neighborhood, but anything with the New Loomis or the two researchers was just blah for me.
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I'm saving '18 for the 31st but my ranking probably looks the same but with it going 6 > H20 > Resurrection. But those 3 are all kind of relative and I probably give 6 a pass because it got hacked up so badly and I've created this idea in my head that the Producer's Cut at least TRIES to be a Halloween film unlike H20/Resurrection.
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STAC Goat posted:I'm saving '18 for the 31st but my ranking probably looks the same but with it going 6 > H20 > Resurrection. But those 3 are all kind of relative and I probably give 6 a pass because it got hacked up so badly and I've created this idea in my head that the Producer's Cut at least TRIES to be a Halloween film unlike H20/Resurrection.
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T3hRen3gade posted:Which Halloween 2? If it's the Zombie one then no way, Director's Cut is the only one worth watching. If it's the original 2 then sure, I guess? I wouldn't want to watch a TV edit of anything personally, but you do you. The tv cut of The original Halloween had a ton of new footage added because they were trying to hype up the release of Halloween 2 and added scenes to the first to help bridge the continuity (Laurie’s relationship to Michael is established in the tv edit so it doesn’t come out of nowhere in the sequel). Matt from Dinosaur Dracula did a write-up on it recently. https://dinosaurdracula.com/blog/halloween-tv-premiere-1981/
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ruddiger posted:Matt from Dinosaur Dracula did a write-up on it recently. Love this guy. If I saw an X-E page these days it’d probably send me on the type of nostalgia trip the article was about.
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Holy poo poo. X-E! That's a blast from the past.david_a posted:I watched the Producer’s Cut of 6 last weekend and sort of? The Michael parts are incredibly uninspired and there’s the cult thing going on that isn’t interesting in the slightest. The ending is also pretty moronic (Loomis gets cursed and becomes the head of the cult) The cult stuff is stupid but like on some level I kind of appreciate that the Producer's Cut at least follows through on it vs the theatrical version that just makes you sit through the cult stuff in the first two acts and then kind of brushes it off in the last act. At least it means the original guys had a real vision for the movie, even if it was a dumb one. Plus the impression I get is there's just lots of Carpenter sound cues, lingering shots, and some better story exposition. Plus Jamie gets a LITTLE more dignity, it seems. I've never seen it but at least in my head I've just created this idea that Akkad and Co were trying to make a Halloween movie and it got hacked up. Even if their version was probably bad too. Its at least a better narrative for me than "Kevin Williamson wrote another slasher and threw Micheal and Laurie into it."
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ruddiger posted:The tv cut of The original Halloween had a ton of new footage added because they were trying to hype up the release of Halloween 2 and added scenes to the first to help bridge the continuity (Laurie’s relationship to Michael is established in the tv edit so it doesn’t come out of nowhere in the sequel). Huh, I definitely know I've seen the TV version, on TV before, because there are some scenes I remember but just couldn't place.
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You guys know the Are you afraid of the dark reboot has aired right? It’s a fun little show with some very on the nose horror references, I enjoyed it immensely.
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Gaz2k21 posted:You guys know the Are you afraid of the dark reboot has aired right? It’s a fun little show with some very on the nose horror references, I enjoyed it immensely. Really? Gonna have to VOD it, thanks for the heads up.
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ruddiger posted:The tv cut of The original Halloween had a ton of new footage added because they were trying to hype up the release of Halloween 2 and added scenes to the first to help bridge the continuity (Laurie’s relationship to Michael is established in the tv edit so it doesn’t come out of nowhere in the sequel). I only recently heard about this, I think they talked about it on the In Myers We Trust podcast (which is fantastic by the way, anyone who loves these movies should check it out) but I don't recall the scenes they mentioned even though I know I've watched Halloween more than once on TV. I guess it only matters if you intend to watch the original Halloween II immediately afterward, but still that's kind of cool. I would say this is the exception to the rule, and only if you're interested in seeing them try to desperately tie the Michael/Laurie relationship together after the fact. I still stand by what I said though, in this day and age there really isn't a reason to watch old "edited for TV" versions of anything when you can easily pop in a Blu-ray or stream it online, and usually for free. Unless you're just really into funny watered-down overdubs of bad words (the original Predator was hilarious when toned down for TV) but otherwise no thanks.
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Just checking in to say that hospital scene in Exorcist III is so loving good. I knew what was coming and I was still completely on edge.
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STAC Goat posted:Holy poo poo. X-E! That's a blast from the past. I remember X-E but I thought it was a bit depressing because he always seemed on the border of complete financial destitution The hilarious thing about H6 is that apparently the writers of 4 & 5 couldn’t coherently explain where they were going so the writer for 6 had to make something up that fit. I also don’t know that I would say Jamie gets “dignified” treatment in the Producer’s Cut since she unceremoniously gets shot in the head while in a coma after surviving Michael’s attack.
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I used to read X-E and WhateverDude all the time in my early net days. It’s awesome seeing Matt still at it.
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david_a posted:I remember X-E but I thought it was a bit depressing because he always seemed on the border of complete financial destitution Well I said "a little." Its a low bar for the little girl that gets kidnapped, held hostage for a decade, raped by her uncle, and then killed in the opening scene. And, you know, recast because of what was probably a very small amount of money.
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weekly font posted:Just checking in to say that hospital scene in Exorcist III is so loving good. I knew what was coming and I was still completely on edge. The head scissor scene? My favourite part of that movie will always be Brad Dourif's "Don't you know you're in the presence of an artist!" speech
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weekly font posted:Just checking in to say that hospital scene in Exorcist III is so loving good. I knew what was coming and I was still completely on edge. I cannot emphasize enough how insanely good this movie is at being tense.
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the book its based on called legion is fantastic too one of my all time fav books
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Kvlt! posted:the book its based on called legion is fantastic too one of my all time fav books
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I’m glad that the three great misunderstood horror sequels (Halloween 3, Exorcist 3, Psycho 2) have all been revisited culturally and are now rightly understood to be Good, Actually Edit: Halloween 3 has a lower IMDB rating than Halloween 5 and H20 and the same rating as Halloween 6. That’s some wild poo poo Blast Fantasto fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Oct 30, 2019 |
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Blast Fantasto posted:I’m glad that the three great misunderstood horror sequels (Halloween 3, Exorcist 3, Psycho 2) have all been revisited culturally and are now rightly understood to be Good, Actually
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Ms Fuchi posted:The head scissor scene? My favourite part of that movie will always be Brad Dourif's "Don't you know you're in the presence of an artist!" speech Yeah the jump, I forgot how much of the movie technically takes place in a hospital. Dourif is incredible and the modulation on his voice is extremely unsettling.
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^^^Dourif and George C. Scott in the same movie is a real treat. Two of my all time favorite actors for totally different reasonsHUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Lost cause. IMDB is fuckin frozen in amber. Oh yeah, for sure. It’s just an interesting time capsule into a time when Halloween 3 was basically reviled for existing Blast Fantasto fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Oct 30, 2019 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Lost cause. IMDB is fuckin frozen in amber. What do you mean?
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Everything about IMDB is like looking 12 years into the past but I have to conclude at this point that's its appeal.
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I’m still bummed they got rid of their awful message boards
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sponges posted:I’m still bummed they got rid of their awful message boards If you want dipshit opinions from 2000 you can still read the reviews. Finally gonna revisit From Beyond for the first time in over five years after I finish rewatches of Mandy and You're Next. The From Beyond boxart on Tubi is some real SyFy channel movie of the week Dracula 3000 poo poo.
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are you opining that a movie made in the 70s is better now than it was in 2002
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I still don't actually like Halloween III, but I get why people do.
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weekly font posted:If you want dipshit opinions from 2000 you can still read the reviews. Yeah it’s terrible, I don’t know what the gently caress this is even supposed to be  It’s like they’re trying to deceive people into not realizing it’s a movie from the 80s. vs. this which fuckin rules obviously 
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STAC Goat posted:I still don't actually like Halloween III, but I get why people do. yeah this is p much my opinion too tbh. Tom Atkins' character is a creep.
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