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Season of the Witch was a good horror movie actually....Should get remade....And JAson Goes To Hell was just......
Yes, you've indeed spent plenty of time fitting the description referenced in my avatar and custom title.
The problem is that Halloween has refused to admit any links to that growth. After building a story from 1,2 and 4-6...the creators tossed that away so they could bring back Jamie Lee Curtis (and avoid the very obvious fact that she sent her daughter to die intentionally).
They tossed away the H4-6 plot in H20 because the franchise was in danger of going DTV from that. They wrote themselves into a corner. By the end of H6, Jamie was dead, Loomis was dead, Michael was being controlled by some stupid cult called Thorn, and Michael had spawned a child with his own niece in this cult, and the child was being protected by TOMMY DOYLE, who had been the little kid Laurie was babysitting in H1.
What a croc of s***!!!! The Halloween franchise badly needed Laurie Strode, one of the original icons back again in a fresh new story arc that ignored all that crapola.
I do not take money into account when judging a films quality...therefore, it doesnt matter to me that Curtis' name value saved it from DTV.
There was no corner to paint themselves into. The fact of the matter is that Halloween has a mythology that you dont like...deal with it.
In case you want to erase 4-6, Rob Zombie also featured the same concept of the Meyers bloodline being evil in his films. That means the concept you want washed away has been featured in 6 films...Jamie Lee Curtis in 4.
It appears that you simply dont like the mythology of the series and prefer to keep reliving the first film over and over with no growth.
Laurie's character evolved in part 4 as well...she died off screen because the actress felt the franchise was beneath her.
The growth continued in Halloween: Water when it was revealed that Laurie actually faked her death and was in hiding for years, even sending her own daughter to be stalked and murdered.
By the way, I can back that up with cinematic history...at no point did 4-6 disqualify 1 or 2...but Water attempted to convince us all that 4-6 never occurred...the movies were never filmed.
The only reason why Water doesnt fit perfectly into the mythos is because of the ego of the actress and cowardice of the creative team.
Water made money because it was hyped as the return of the original team, thats it.
You keep saying over and over that 4-6 never happened, but I have DVDs that prove they did. I can post links to order those DVDs if you need evidence.
Were 4-6 bad writing??? Maybe...they had to go in a different direction though since Curtis wasnt around to be in the movies...and they wanted to develop SOMETHING instead of being like Jason and reliving the same movie over and over. I suppose they could have not made movies and waited for Curtis to have 20 years in the business so she could return triumphant...
I'm not defending the story that took place in 4-6, I'm merely saying that it exists...and part 6 moves forward
Halloween: Water was a reunion in the fans eyes of the original team...Jamie Lee and Michael.
You talk about bad writing, yet I would also define bad writing as merely deciding to forget about a characters past and pretending it never happened just so you can tell your story.
For instance, I hate the Clone Saga of Spider-Man, but if Spider-Man writers ever developed some stupid story to retcon those years away I would disa...what??? Oh...yeah, I disapprove. You must be loving the Spider-Man books right now.
Also, you left off option 3...
Continue on, since the principles were all dead except Mikey and he wasnt going to mention it again.
You glossed over the Green Gobilns existence like it was nothing...um...you do realize that he is a HUGE factor in the Marvel Universe...hardly comparable to an itty bitty baby though...that baby would come back for revenge!!!!
Thats why I said Michael and Jamie Lee instead of Laurie. The bulk of the audience for Water probably couldnt give you the name "Donald Pleasance" if their lives depended on it.
You are saying that the franchise was in such shambles that they had to bring back Curtis to avoid going DTV...and then follow up with what a household name Donald Pleasance was.
A LARGE portion of Water's revenue came from people too yung t have seen the first 2 in theaters, and they probably would have skipped 6 anyway, according to your logic.
The Green Goblins return spat in the face of the second most important event in Spider-mans life. yet again you gloss over history to justify the current decisions... To me, Green Goblins death was a major event that should not be wiped away just because lazy writers have no new ideas. Laziness from writers being what you call "in a corner".