if the family members he kills are such despicable white trash slime instead of nice suburban teenagers who are merely guilty of experimenting with sex?
Also, if this took place fifteen years earlier, why do the "origin" scenes look a lot more like the 1970's than 1992? Is this supposed to be Michael Myer's back-story or Rob Zombie's?
"Let be be finale of seem/ The only emperor is the Emperor of Ice Cream"
No. Murder is evil.Being mean to someone having a crappy childhood and bullies and abuse is not free reign to kill someone. It can lead them to snap, but it's still no excuse. What did Steven Haley, Judith's boyfriend really do to him? Keep his sister from trick or treating with him, which he did anyway, given the amount of candy he had, or was that what they were handing out? Either way, no excuse to kill him.
The timeline is iffy. There is no clear date when Michael kills the bully, Ronnie, Steven and Judith. It has to be after certain songs played at Rabbit in Red were released and it was more like 17 years. His Mom was alive 2 of those years and it was 15 years after she committed suicide and Laurie was adopted. So again, no frame of reference to properly date this film other than it wasn't 1963 or 1978.
"He came home." - Dr. Sam Loomis from the original HalloweeN
I'm pretty sure the beginning scenes were from 1971, so 17 years later would have been 1988.
shareNot necessarily, but that's as good a date as any. Obviously the timeline would have to be sometime after the songs used in the film were released, giving a relative starting point, but not accuracy.
"He came home." - Dr. Sam Loomis from the original HalloweeN
I think it makes him just as evil, while the original Michael was never given a reason for killing his sister this one had a reason and it helped to show how fu--ed up he really was. You don't take me trick or treating so I'll kill you...what kind of insanity is that? In addition there was the killing of the nurse, she makes a smart ass comment so in Michaels mind he thinks it will be a good idea to kill her....WTF! Even though the movie shows the events that lead to his actions we are still shown how fu--ed up he is for responding the way he does.
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This movie could have gone one of two ways for me - either would have been satisfying; it chose a third option I didn't consider, and that option was terrible for me.
Option One was to have Michael Myers develop as the initial plot suggests; that he is not in fact "evil" but that he is "insane" and at that all of his killings can be understood if we understand what made him insane specifically.
He killed the nurse (possibly) because she had elements that reminded him of the things that prompted his initial killing of his mother - he spared people that did not "trigger" the elements that were woven into the nuances of his insanity.
The Second Option was to have him kill people because he was "evil" - but to have done this properly I would have liked to see him act more "evil" as a child - to demonstrate that he knew all along that he killed his family simply because it amused him to do so, but that he was demonstrating a terrifying cunning by feigning insanity so that he could escape justice - that he had managed to deceive the doctors, the observers, the people who watched him - that all of them assumed he was a poor, crazy boy - but that when we saw him as a child we'd see quick shots of his face, revealing expressions of barely contained delight or pleasure when he could punish one of the guards simply on a whim - simply because it amused him to hurt people as a child, and pleased him that no one knew he was truly evil, they merely underestimated his true self.
Sadly - this movie figured out a Third and disappointing option for me.
Specifically - it spent the bulk of the movie portraying Michael as a good boy who was - quite literally - insane. He honestly didn't remember what he did that night; it was so horrible he blocked it from his mind - he has using the "masks" to hide from the reality; to escape from the horror of what he was, he needed to become something else.
But THEN the movie jolts forward with the death of Danny Trejo - suddenly Michael Myers has no "method to his madness" - he's just on some murderous killing spree. But why? What made him go from a crazy boy who didn't know what he did to an evil man who relishes doing evil things?
I have no idea - and apparently neither does Rob Zombie - he had me hooked with his initial concept, but then dropped the ball by trying to make Michael Myers into just "evil" - as in - "You make him sound like the anti-Christ!" - "Maybe he IS!" - I mean, what the hell is that?
His doctor is not trying to heal him, he simply tries to kill him - and poorly, I might add.
Oh well, the point is - it had some potential, but in the end I think it failed to a good job on making him seem crazy or evil.
There's only one answer : Rob Zombie.
He just threw every gnarly, ugly concept that he liked at it without any coherent motivation while pretending he was building a realistic psychopathic killer.
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