MC_Lovecraft
@MC_Lovecraft@lemm.ee
- Comment on My Review of Friday the 13th (1980) 1 year ago:
I dig RLM, and I like seeing what they thought of movies I’ve already watched, so I’ll definitely give that one a view once I track down the next few in the series.
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- Comment on My Review of Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) 1 year ago:
Thanks, I’ll be posting them here, as well as to my Letterboxd and a few other forums. If you haven’t read them already, you can find my reviews of the other Halloween movies (and others) here.
- Comment on My Review of Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) 1 year ago:
I’m watching them all before the 31st. I am prepared for the high-water mark to be behind me at this point. I remember enjoying H20, but I saw it so long ago that that impression means nothing. I’ve heard good things about the most recent reboot trilogy, but I’ll have to make it through Rob Zombie-land before I get there.
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- Comment on My Review of Ghostbusters (1984) 1 year ago:
God I miss dollar theaters. The last one I know about closed down in 2012, but for about a year I saw movies there almost every weekend. They would get the reels from the local cinemark after they had run there, and they ran two screens all day, starting at 9am. The local film society would screen cult classics there too, and I saw some things I would never have discovered on my own. It’s a little slice of the human experience that is just kinda gone now.
- Comment on My Review of Ghostbusters (1984) 1 year ago:
He’s not in a lot of stuff, but every time I see him I’m like ‘That dick, he let all the goddamn ghosts out!’
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- Comment on My Review of Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) 1 year ago:
It’s a shame they don’t use this song in the film. Most likely due to how much this one leans into the 1980’s techno-thriller tropes, using such an iconic 60’s song might have clashed with that theme, although I’m sure a good director could do it in a way that worked.
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- Comment on My Review of Halloween II 1 year ago:
I’ve been giving this some thought (far more than it actually merits, but that’s what I’m here for) and I realized that I don’t know how Michael knows that Laurie is his sister. She was two years old when he killed Judith, so there’s no way he recognized her (discounting a supernatural connection, which would be a totally valid explanation in this series) at 17. In the intervening time, he clearly learned some things about the world (like how to drive, and what Samhain means) but I think it would be very strange if Dr. Loomis were telling him anything about his family, at least after the first few years of their relationship, given the way that Loomis talks about Michael. So he should have no idea that his parents are dead, or that Laurie was adopted by another family in Haddonfield. In fact, we don’t know for sure that Laurie is even the same name he knew her by. She was adopted at four, but I can imagine the adoptive parents changing her name to try and shield her a bit from the notoriety of her birth family.
So, Michael shows up at his childhood home, ready to finish the job he started fifteen years earlier, but finds it empty, something he probably never even considered. Then, a girl about the same age as his remaining sister would be, who another person calls Laurie within his hearing (assuming this is actually her birth name here), just happens to turn up on the house’s doorstep? I think he decided in that moment that Laurie was his sister, and that he was going to kill her, completely absent any hard evidence to back that conclusion up. He happened to be right, but that’s probably down to Fate or some bullshit, not any actual knowledge that Michael possessed. From there, the only other people he kills in the first movie are canoodling teenagers, which is what (apparently) set him off in the first place, and he uses them to make a shrine to Judith, which makes me think their murders were really just auxiliary crimes, subordinant to his true goal of offing Laurie and making her the centerpiece of his Idol.
In any case, I no longer know whether this plot element makes any sense at all, but I’m pretty sure I need to just move on to the one without Michael, to wipe my brain clean and smooth again.
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- Comment on My Review of Halloween (1978) 1 year ago:
I’ve actually seen it, and that’s probably where I got the idea.
- Comment on My Review of The Last House on the Left (1972) 1 year ago:
For what it’s worth, this isn’t a particularly ‘scary’ movie. It is hard to watch for a lot of reasons, but having just rewatched the original Halloween, that movie is much scarier than this one.
- Comment on My Review of The Last House on the Left (1972) 1 year ago:
You know, I hadn’t even though of that. That is an interesting parallel!
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- Comment on My Review of Halloween (1978) 1 year ago:
The only one without Michael Myers in it is your favorite? I don’t hate 3, but I don’t understand the appeal either.
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- Comment on [Weekly thread] What is the best movie you watched last week? 23 September 1 year ago:
I’ve heard good things about the Labyrinth cut. A few years ago I found a fan-edit of the whole prequel trilogy that aims to do the same thing. It edits the three films together for a runtime of just over three hours, and it’s a glory to behold. Supposedly it was based on Topher Grace’s personal fan edit, but I don’t think he ever released his on the internet.
- Comment on My Review of Hair (1979) 1 year ago:
I must confess that I haven’t seen either film. Vanishing Point is on my list because I love Cleavon Little, but the only Born to be Wild I could find was a 2005 comedy (and a 1938 drama) and the Steppenwolf song, so I’m not familiar with the film you’re referencing. If it’s good, I’ll definitely put it on the list though.
- Comment on My Review of The Arena (1974) 1 year ago:
Libraries usually take requests, and there are national film libraries that loan copies out to local branches. It can be a bit awkward to ask the septuagenarian at the help desk to request a copy of The Schoolgirl Report, or whatever, but they’ll do it, and with older movies, they almost always can get them.
- Comment on My Review of Hair (1979) 1 year ago:
I’m afraid I’m a generation younger 😅 , I saw the stage production in 2009, so I would have first seen it on TV in maybe '02 or '03. It’s good to know I wasn’t the first or only person to have this experience though.
- Comment on My Review of Hair (1979) 1 year ago:
If it weren’t clear enough why I identify so strongly with Claude already, the lyrics to Manchester repeat: “Claude Hooper Bukowski Finds that it’s groovy To hide in a movie Pretends he’s Fellini And Antonioni And also his countryman Roman Polanski All rolled into one One Claude Hooper Bukowski”
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- Comment on My Review of The Arena (1974) 1 year ago:
I used to do junk removal, and people would constantly be getting rid of boxes and boxes of DVDs and VHS tapes. I kept a couple hundred from that time, and have since added to the collection with finds at garage sales, record and book shops. Anything that I don’t have and can’t find from one of those sources, I will torrent.
- Comment on My Review of The Arena (1974) 1 year ago:
Thanks!
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