The only drawings I've seen of him were in Beavis & Butthead, which I liked.

Give that long-haired, redneck obsessed metal guy his Razzie.

I love the original, and I hated this ridiculous, laughable remake.

Ratner has been evicted as director of the "Escape from New York" remake! No new director has been selected yet, but I'd like to see Alex Proyas direct it...

Originally posted by SchumacherH8ter Originally posted by SchumacherH8ter Originally posted by deadguy76 Is there some conspiracy out there to remake classic John Carpenter movies into crappy movies? I hear they're going to remake Escape from New York, directed by... Len Wiseman. With Underworld and Van Helsing under his belt this is destined to bomb.                                                                         Actually, Stephen Sommers directed "Van Helsing". Wiseman, also, directed "Live Free Or Die Hard" so I have faith in it.                                                                This just in, Brett Ratner has been slated to direct "Escape From New York". Yeah, I've lost all faith in this now.

                                                                           

I enjoyed it!  I don't mean to be the odd one out, but I thought it was good. Certain parts I could have been left out, but I think it's a fun Halloween film.  I do wish it was released closer to Halloween, though. It would've done better & would created more hype... 

Response from Head RAZZberry: I would guess the makers of HALLOWEEN 2007 were afraid to go head-to-head with SAW IV, which opens this Friday, and has tracking numbers that suggest it might buck the Blood-n-Guts-Horror-Movies-All-Bombing-Big-Time trend that's been confounding Hollywood of late... 

I hear there's gonna be a "Friday the 13th" and "Hellraiser" remakes. Michael Bay is supposed to be producing the "13th" one. Gee, I'm really excited for that

When will they stop? I think there should be a new category called "WORST UNSCARY MOVIE".

...also Malcolm McDowell as Worst Actor (for Doctor Loomis) & Tyler Mane as Worst Supporting Actor (for Michael Myers)... 

FYC - Halloween

Worst Picture

Worst Director - Rob Zombie

Worst Screenplay

Worst Remake or Rip-Off

This just in, Brett Ratner has been slated to direct "Escape From New York". Yeah, I've lost all faith in this now...

Originally posted by SchumacherH8ter Originally posted by deadguy76 Is there some conspiracy out there to remake classic John Carpenter movies into crappy movies? I hear they're going to remake Escape from New York, directed by... Len Wiseman. With Underworld and Van Helsing under his belt this is destined to bomb.                                                                         Actually, Stephen Sommers directed "Van Helsing". Wiseman, also, directed "Live Free Or Die Hard" so I have faith in it.

                                                                     

The Devi's Rejects was a fantastic movie!

Originally posted by JoeBacon If only they got Lindsay Lohan to do the Jamie Lee Curtis role...

If only they hadn't remade the movie...

Originally posted by moviewizguy I think the only reason people didn't like Halloween was because it was very different from the original, if anyone had seen it.

Nope.

1. Several of us have seen it. It was somewhat different, but the notion that different=better is wildly erroneous.

2. "People" didn't like it because it isn't very good.

3. What was the point of remaking this movie, beyond:

 a) intellectual and creative laziness

 b) a craven assessment of public gullibility suggesting that people came out to see the original in droves, so why not cash in on it by applying new technologies to create a new, but not necessarily better version

 c) The fact that Rob Zombie's name on it might create further public curiousity, which of course=even more box-office $. In spite of the fact that Zombie has yet to prove to most of us that he has any real talent (or even promise) as a filmmaker. 

Originally posted by moviewizguy I don't mind remakes....unless it's bad....but I always have a soft spot for them.

The vast majority of them ARE bad which is precisely the point. Here is what it all boils down to:

**If a good/classic movie is being remade, it is the height of hubris on the part of the director to believe that he/she can actually improve upon the original. The technology exists to create a better looking version of, say, 2001: A Space Odyssey but no director will recreate the magic, atmosphere or originality of Kubrick's version

**If a bad movie is being remade, it is the height of hubris on the part of the director to believe that he/she will not only sidestep the problems that sunk the original, but will not contribute half a dozen new ones.

I'd issue a challenge to anyone out there that can actually provide a single example of a remake of a movie, good or bad, that is truly superior to the original. For a brief moment, I was going to concede the most recent remake of King Kong but the more I consider the issue, the deeper is my conviction that much like my example of 2001 above, it was better looking, but not a truly superior story.

There probably are a few, but I am either too tired or just too cynical tonight to come up with any.  Let's see what you guys can offer.

I just saw it, I agree with Criss, not a single bloody scare. It was more predictible than Titanic. Scout Taylor Compton seems nice, but she couldn't compare to Jamie Lee Curtis. However it did have a few good points:

1. Malcolm McDowell was pretty good, although he won't make anyone forget about the late, great Donald Pleasance.

2. Brad Dourif and (Surprisingly) Sheri Moon Zombie did well with their sympathetic roles. I think Dourif's a tremendous Villainous actor, but he's done most of the best work of his career in nice guy roles, like One flew over the Cuckoos nest (Insanity aside), Deadwood, etc.

About the only thing I can say is that William Forsythe's character was pretty one note (But that wasn't his fault, he did OK with what he was given).

I think that one of the primary reasons that the original Halloween and a lot of the even older Hollywood horror classics are so much better than the modern stuff comes down to the graphic nature of the modern genre. The older directors understood that we can create much greater horrors in our own minds than they can ever show on the screen, consequently most of the action in those classic movies is implied, rather than shown directly.

When they show us every graphic detail, we just become so numb to it that it doesn't affect us anymore.

I just got back from seeing this movie and I must say I was very disappointed. How could Rob Zombie (the director of "The Devil's Rejects") make such an uninspired mess? The film was boring and unexciting, the characters were all unlikeable and stiff, the story has been told a thousand times before, and it just seemed to be missing one important thing...ANY SCARES!!! I didn't jump outta my seat one time and I will admit I am a sucker for getting scared. This movie was a huge let down and I feel like I've just waited hours of my life that I will never be able to get back. R.I.P Halloween FOREVER!!!

Hey HeadRAZZ, while I am very glad to see this movie getting Razzie attention, I think that we should also discuss Death Sentence, which also looks really bad and has a lower rating than this on RT! 

Response from Head RAZZberry: I plan to wait 'till the final numbers are in at B.O. MoJo and, if the weekend totals on DEATH SENTENCE are as pitiful as Friday's numbers were (less than $750 per screen!) I may go ahead and add SENTENCE to our Forum. Though with grosses that low, even our own Voting Members may not bother to see it!