Continuity? This Is A Halloween Movie!
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Aw man! He put Laurie in the dryer. That's some cold shit, Michael!
I would have loved to have been sitting in the production meeting for H20 when they decided to fuck up all continuity of any Halloween film that Jamie Lee Curtis hadn’t been in. I sure it went something like this:
“Well, you know, there were three other movies about Michael, and there’s an established history with the Jamie Strode character.”
“Fuck that! We got Jamie Lee back. We don’t need continuity! It’ll be like printing our own money!”
“Whatever you say, Satan!”
And so on.
I actually find it to be a good movie. I like that twenty years on, Laurie is an alcoholic who can’t deal with her son. I like that her son resents her for it. I would really, really like to know where the fuck Michael Myers has been for the last twenty years in this film’s continuity. Did he crawl on his hands and knees to California? Were the buslines not running, or wouldn’t they let a psychopath in coveralls, a white mask, carrying a huge knife on the bus? Cause that’s discrimination, and Michael shouldn’t have to put up with that shit.
Anyways, Laurie is now the headmistress of a private school in California. She’s a little hard on her son because of what happened to her, and doesn’t want him out of her sight. When a holiday trip sends most of the school away, her son (Josh Hartnett) and some of his friends hang around doing stupid teenybopper shit. When Michael shows up, you really do want him to start gutting them. That is, until one of them tries something new with Michael. Punching him in his goddamn covered face. That’s balls, my friend, and no matter what you think about Josh Hartnett…at least he punched Michael Myers in his Shatneresque face.
One cool little part in this movie, I thought was that the school’s receptionist is played by none other than Janet Leigh (Jamie Lee’s mom in real life), and when she goes to her car (the same car she drove in Psycho), a little piece of the Psycho music plays. I thought it was great!
Another welcome addition, I thought, was LL Cool J, who apparently has a contract clause that says he doesn’t die in any of his films. So, I don’t think I’m spoiling anything by saying, yeah…he makes it.
Something that doesn’t work however, is that goddamn mask! Apparently, there was some argument over what mask would be used, so some scenes were shot with different masks. There’s some scenes where the mask is changed with CGI! Now, there’s technology at work right there. Finding new and different ways to work Shatners fat face into different scenes. Bravo Hollywood…Bravo.
I absolutely enjoyed the ending of this film. Laurie means to see this through to the end, and afterwards, you’ll ask yourself…How the fuck did they make another one of these? (Dear God, I wish they hadn’t made Resurrection, except for the novelty of seeing Katee Sackhoff get beheaded by Michael…watch that part, then turn that shit off!)
So…are we confused yet? Didn’t mean to be…It’s almost like I said I don’t give a shit about the continuity of this review!
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