What I Didn’t Like:
The constant changing between head cams, room cams and normal cinema cams is
more jarring than I thought it would be.
The quality of the picture varies so much and switching among the locked
down vs super handheld styles is too disorienting.
Characters is these horror franchises, especially sequels,
aren’t very likeable usually but this group seems more irritating and dumber
than average.
You hear a whole lot of mask breathing in this, probably the
most since the first one I think. It’s nice,
except that they overuse it and it becomes distracting.
Ok, yes the idea of mixing a web reality show with a Halloween is a bad one. Like to the point where you might think this
is a joke. However…
Overall Impressions:
having an installment in this franchise take place entirely within the Myers
residence is an intriguing thought worth exploring. That’s certainly different than doing the
same old shit again and again or attempting to concoct some sort of utterly
ridiculous multi-film storyline involving an evil cult and magic rune stones.
This could’ve been the most interesting sequel in the series
if they got rid of the abysmal live webcam show stuff which only comes off as
older folks trying desperately to appeal to younger movie goers. It’s like they wanted to do a take on The Blair Witch Project but didn’t want
to go full found footage so they did some in between crap. And of course, the end result doesn’t feel
like Halloween.
A lot of people dislike Halloween:The Curse of Michael Myers but Resurrection
is despised by the entire community and I can understand why. The twisted bullshit they make up to
discredit the ending of H20 just so
they can crank out another sequel must feel like a slap in the face to the fans
who have been faithful to these pictures for 20 plus years. And then to throw some half baked reality
show concept at you after that (with the lesson that reality shows aren’t
actually real!) is disrespectful.
So is this film really so much worse than the other
installments? I wouldn’t say it’s miles
worse than part 4, 5 or 6 but it is clearly worse. I mean when you got Busta Rhymes (Higher Learning, music shit) as your
lead and he comes to the rescue with a badass line like “Trick or treat
motherfucker!”, and then he does a few martial arts moves on Michael Myers,
electrocutes him in the crotch and exits with “Hey Mikey! Happy fuckin’ Halloween!” well, it puts one
helluva big ass grin on my face. It all
feels horribly out of place in a Halloween
movie but goddamn it’s entertaining as fuck. Alright, maybe this is a lot worse than the
one behind it.
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