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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 #9- Halloween (the Rob Zombie one) I have very mixed feelings about this movie. On one hand, it's not BAD. It's a pretty stock-standard modern reboot of the original. But it's not GOOD. It tells the same story (with a couple noteworthy changes), which is good, but if fluffs it up with all sorts of filler that I really don't think makes it better, which is bad. So spoilers for my review, but I think I give this one like a 5/10. One of the big changes is that this movie is much more about Michael Myers than it is about Laurie Strode- or, at least, the first half of the movie is. I kid you not when I tell you it takes 40 minutes to get to modern day, and nearly an hour- 54 minutes I think- before Laurie is introduced as a teenager. 54 minutes! And the reason is because they really want to build up who Michael is, where he came from, how he became who he is. Except... I seriously have no clue what I...