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This review was originally written in October 2020. October Movie Review #10- Halloween II (the Rob Zombie sequel) One disclaimer: Apparently I was watching the Director's Cut, which made a lot of changes (including having a completely different ending). I have never seen the non-Director's Cut version, so I can't comment on it (though I can't imagine it being different enough to change my thoughts on the film as a whole). I really don't have a lot of positive things to say about this one. It's a sequel to the last one, which was nothing special, and this time it's going off on its own direction and doing its own thing. In theory that could have made it great- nothing wrong with spicing up a series by taking it in a new direction, as long as it's done well- but the end result is a disjointed mess that seems pointless and doesn't even feel like a Halloween movie. One complaint that was also present in the last movie: All of the characters are awful. E...

This review was originally written in October 2020. October Movie Review #2: Halloween II I spent about forty minutes writing a review for this movie and then something happened and the page refreshed, and I lost it all. I don't plan on doing that again so I'll try to just hit the highlights. Overall I liked this film. Not as much as the first one, but the action was good, it had a much better pace this time around, and although not all of the things it did were good, it felt like a suitable end for Michael Myers (as it seems it was intended to be at the time). It has a lot of issues, though. It still does a lot of "telling", reminding us again and again about how Myers is apparently "pure evil", something they seem to be sticking to a lot. They certainly "show" us more than they did before (mainly by virtue of not having to spend 2/3 of the run time expecting the audience to not know who or what Michael Myers is, and by having a higher body count)...