Yes, The remake of Halloween is as bad as people are saying. It it horrible. Rob should never have been chosen to direct it. Here is a review I wrote.
Rob, how could you screw up so badly?
1) The camera angles
Blurry, distorted, waay too close ups so close you could see ingrown hairs and make up cake. It looked like it was filmed with a cheap film at times that kept pulsing and having streaks.
2) The cuts
Dude, was it asking too much that you match the dialogue to the mouths speaking it when filming? And I lost count of how many songs were butchered because you did an amateur thing of filming dialogue with actual music in the background and not fixing the cuts (the gaps in songs)
3) The pull you right out of the scene totally amateur cuts that annoying enough were so badly done that you could HEAR how off and spliced it was. Footsteps didn't match bodies, dialogue didn't match mouths uttering it.
Your overkill with Don't fear the Reaper sucked. It was cool the first time and totally ruined the kill the next.
Your love of filming interior shots with no exterior reference to know that we changed locations.
4) THE LANGUAGE. Dude, you might not have come from the best household and I can imagine that Thanksgiving at the Zombies comes with porn on the tv, cigarettes and cheap beer cans piled everywhere and rude bathroom humor but still, even with the dumbing down of society it is not seen or appreciated elsewhere. You made the Myers white trash, fine, it was stupid but I accept it. But then no, in your sick writing you have to make every character use the F word repeatedly. I lost count at like 30 times. Every character was saying it just for the sake of saying it. It was stupid.
5) The poor, lazy screenwriting.
Apart from an excellent young Myers and some effective scenes with his mother you took the lazy way with fleshing out Laurie and her friends. In fact, fleshing out to you means having them take their clothes off, doesn't it.
What I mean Rob is that you created the worst stereotype movie characters that came after Carpenter's classic. The many clones of Halloween? You topped them by recreating originals that had no other placement in the film except to die. They had no depth. No reason and of course you have to make everyone foul mouthed and sexually lewd.
You took the biggest free lunch in horror cinema history, Laurie Strode and her friends, and you turn them into crude, arrogant, bitchy, spoiled, vulgar mouth characters and not only that but you take their legendary, powerful kills and replaced them with rushed, cut and paste emotionless, unscary scenes.
This was clearly the most unscary Michael Myers ever. In fact everytime I saw him I couldn't help but think this was some parody of Halloween. Some made for TV Halloween special. Michael was unscary. His rotting mask completely lost the magic and power of the expressionless, " great white" hollow eyes of the original.
What is funny is that ONLY TIME the audience responded is when we heard CARPENTER'S theme song. That was it. It was giggles and scorn from the crowd I saw it with. The briefest magic or symmetry to this entire film was what was taken from Carpenter's work, not yours.
Its funny how everyone is saying, DON'T JUDGE THIS HALLOWEEN BY THE ORIGINAL. Fine then, without even referencing the original, Rob, you created a very strong Michael Myers in the first act (kudos) and the worst cookie cutter characters after that (Laurie and her friends) characters that screenwriters everywhere know that you are supposed to created likable main characters that we should care about their journey. Dude, I couldn't wait for Laurie and her friends to die. Laurie was bitchy, annoying, and one of the worst baby sitters. Her friends, (judging from YOUR WRITING) were pointless, rude, vulgar mouthed, one dimensional characters that I would have to think hard to find a film to match such poorly written characters. I saw the movie. There was not one single scare in the entire flick. I saw the movie. There was not one single scare in the entire flick. It's like YOU cut and pasted Carpenter's Halloween into this one and you want to be respected for your own vision and yet you LAZILY expect us to know and accept Laurie and her friends because, hell, we all know Halloween. Sorry dude, everyone is telling us not to judge your movie based on Carpenter's. Fine. Name ONE THING you did to cause us to feel any empathy for Laurie or her friends, BASED ON YOUR WRITING. You already had established characters there. Instead the greasy hands had to further tarnish whatever it touched. It's like you feel uncomfortable in a world without grime, abuse, violence towards women, vulgarity, crudeness and scorn. You have to foul things up for you to feel at home. Its why you brought the cast from your other films because thats just what the hillbilly types do isnt it? Bring the whole clan. Thanks for confirming my suspicions. You are like the trailer trash that moved down the street and immediately took a pristine neighborhood and littered it with filth, noise and rude, crude neighbors and made everyone else feel unwelcome. Please leave Haddonfield. You don't belong here. I paid my money (and got it back by the way) and therefore I have the right to express my opinion. Its clearly an opinion most reviewers hold. The film is trash. But then again, it was exactly what I expected considering who was behind the camera.
Save yourself and sleep, or even stare at paint drying.
