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Halloween Ends (2022)
What a bad, bad movie
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I haven't been to these message boards in years, I had to reset my IMDB password for this, but I am so annoyed by this experience I just had to post before I exploded. The other horror franchises of the 80's (I realize the original Halloween was in the 70's) all fizzled out with terrible films, but this has got to be the worst only because what came before it was at least serviceable.
2018 Halloween I thought was decent, even though it made almost no sense. At least it felt like a Halloween movie. I rememeber hearing friends talk about how good it was. Not for me, but it was watchable and had a decent ending. Same for the 2021 even though that one was far worse. But this?
Anyone remember how mad Jason Goes to Hell was? Very bad movie and fans were annoyed that Jason wasn't actually Jason in that movie until the end. What poor decision making it is to have a fan-favorite villain become something totally different in the grand finale (sound familiar yet?). At least in that movie it was self-aware that is was cheesy, goofy, and was trying to be a setup for the Freddy V. Jason movie eventually.
This film? It makes the same mistakes but *thinks* it's a good movie. The plot make almost zero sense and the characters themselves behave in nonsensical ways after what was laid out in the previous two films.
And now for Michael Myers himself. It actually could have been cool to see this unstoppable killing machine start to age-out and have all his injuries catch up with him. But this is done in such a clumsy way with almost no plot that it's laughable to that it even made the final script. The killings are supposed to make Michael stronger. But after he kills a couple of people he basically gets mugged of his mask by a bruised kid for no real reason. Then, when the showdown we all wanted finally happens... it's just "blah". Laurie cuts Michael's throat and wrist and... yay? We were already told and shown that brute force cannot stop him. They should have at least made him still twitch or grab for Laurie one last time before he was turned into dog food. What a waste.
So even though I remember having somewhat negative feelings about the 2018 film, that might as well be Citizen Kane compared to this. What a piece of garbage.
Room 237 (2012)
Some parts interesting, most aren't.
This review should be done in two parts: firstly, reviewing the theories presented and secondly, reviewing the documentary style itself.
First, most of the theories are just plain boring and are of a "so what?" nature and they lead nowhere. Example is the number 42 stuff. It's presented as an interesting point, but it doesn't lead anywhere. Same with the American Indian stuff. The movie itself plainly tells us that the hotel was on an Indian burial ground and there are Indian motifs in the hotel. It's not a grand conspiracy to think that Indian spirits could be involved here. And the whole minotaur part was 5 minutes of my life I wish I had back. Some of what these people are saying could have easily been edited down.
The Apollo 11 stuff was somewhat interesting, but it this seems to have been handled the least for some reason.
Overall the theories I don't think were presented well at all in most cases.
Now, as far as this film itself, it was pretty poor an amateurish. The interviewees' sound wasn't good at times, and one of them even has to say "hold on" because his child is making noise. This is what I would expect of my neighbor, not a produced film that is getting good reviews.
Also, the clips not of The Shining that occur during conversation to relate to what's being said is at times distracting and unnecessary. And there are more than one times where someone who might not know every second of The Shining don't know if they are watching a clip from it or some other movie or just some random thing that's trying to tie in to what's being said. Again, this isn't handled very well at all.
The film works in that if gets you thinking at times, but there are other times where you roll your eyes. This doesn't help the overall theme.
It could have been much better.