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Post by Neal on Jul 7, 2007 16:39:13 GMT -5
Do you think it's a good or bad sign that Rob Zombie has now filmed a new ending and 6 new death scenes for the movie ? I read they are very gorey death scenes. To me it sounds like he showed the movie to the studio or a test panel and they wanted more gore. I don't know if shooting more scenes and a new ending so close to the movie being released is a good sign.
I'm really looking forward to seeing it though either way.
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Post by duckman on Jul 7, 2007 17:38:09 GMT -5
yeh i dont know. i think it will be a good movie but zombies films always seem to have a vision from the beginning. if the studio fucks with that vision it might not work
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Post by john on Jul 7, 2007 17:39:00 GMT -5
Definitely pumped about seeing it more so then any other remake or remaining out yet.
It does seem like the studio had problems with it and when the studio mucks around with stuff it’s never a good thing. Just that way to me, I could be wrong.
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Post by Riren Voorhees on Jul 7, 2007 18:02:48 GMT -5
I rarely go to the theatre and definitely won't go see this. Halloween and Black Christmas are two really important horror films, and one of their strongest points was their lack of gore. The most visceral things were always in your imagination, something Zombie has shown no understanding of in his previous movies. The rumors for other things he's changed, like adding a necrophilia fetish and starting out with 45-minutes of Myers as a kid (which I'm only accepting as rumors, and mostly hoping are either total B.S. or get cut after the test panel research), sound God-awful. Just changing the ending is fine by me; this isn't like Psycho, where they're going for a shot-by-shot remake. If it gets a good reaction on WYH, though, I'll check it out when it hits DVD rentals.
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Post by joeflyman on Jul 8, 2007 1:23:28 GMT -5
yes it one of my favorite movie as a teen. i don't know how it will be! but we will wait to see how it is? joe
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Post by Neal on Jul 8, 2007 1:28:30 GMT -5
I didn't mean he changed the ending from the original movie. Which he may have I don't know, but he went and reshot the ending he had already filmed. About a month before it's release and they reshoot the ending seems a bit odd to me.
I agree completely about the lack of gore in the first Halloween. People assume it's just a blodfest, but you only see like one shot of any blood. It's mostly your imagination on what he does.
I disagree about one thing though, Riren. I think the addition of Michael Meyers as a kid sounds really cool to me. It's what I am looking forward to the most about the new one. I think that is something different than the original, and something I think can be very interesting. Seeing the interaction with Dr. Loomis and a young Michael Meyers.
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Post by Riren Voorhees on Jul 8, 2007 1:54:39 GMT -5
I'm fine with interaction with Dr. Loomis. When I watched the Halloween movies as a kid, the only part of the backstory I wanted to know was what went on between Loomis and Myers. You could sell me on this if that was how the movie opened, with some exposition in their dialogue that explained his childhood trauma. But I never wondered about Myers' childhood, at least not enough to be remotely interested in paying to see it. Call me a mean bastard, but I hate children, I hate child actors, and I find almost nothing so insufferable as watching them tortmented on film. I'm also tired of villains getting origin stories (I think the Hannibal Rising novel was the end for me), especially the pseudo-sympathetic ones where you see the character going through hardship and being abused while you're beaten over the head with foreshadowing. I probably wouldn't be as opposed if I hadn't heard so many rumors about what they do with his childhood (again, don't know if they're true, hope they're B.S.) - but even then, I go to Halloween for an adult Michael Myers. He's much more interesting to me as an enigma or even as "the Thorn," though I know that's a personal preference.
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Post by headcheese on Jul 8, 2007 4:38:26 GMT -5
I really want to see the move. I am a big fan of Rob Zombie's videos and both his films. I think Devil's Rejects is the best of the 2, but both were stand out films to me. Zombie should have remade TCM instead of the jabroni who did it.
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Post by Granny Weatherwax on Jul 10, 2007 13:57:24 GMT -5
Usually reshooting this late in the game isn't a good thing, as others have stated.
I won't be watching it until Netflix (if ever)--I can't stand Rob Zombie's movies.
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Post by ukadam on Jul 10, 2007 14:19:04 GMT -5
im not going to see it either.now correct me if im wrong but in an interview did rob zombie have a moan at all these new directors by saying what are they proving by doing remakes
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Post by Loser-Boy 2049 on Sept 9, 2007 8:08:37 GMT -5
I'm new so I don't know how the board feels towards admitting these things but I don't live anywhere near a theatre (and I don't drive) so I did download a work print of this Halloween. The one I saw didn't have the six extra deaths or the new ending and I felt that It worked rather well (despite the obvious mistake of how they portrayed Lori). When I read about the extra stuff I got the sense that the work print I saw was how Rob would of made the film, then he was told it needed to be more gory and thats where the new stuff came in (I could be wrong, just my theory)
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Post by Neal on Sept 9, 2007 16:10:43 GMT -5
I'm not sure what the original ending was, or if it's really any different. I'd have to see both versions to have a real opinion on which was better, also if it was his decision to add the extra stuff or if someone talked him into it.
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