The Reel Rejects - HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION (2002) IS A WILD TRAINWRECK! MOVIE REVIEW

Starting point is 00:00:00 Thank you to Hewle for sponsoring this video. More on them in just a bit. Tara just pulled up Halloween Resurrection, and I see Jamie Lee Curtis has long hair, so I'm curious how we go on here. Yeah, I'm ready. Shall we do it? Let's do it.

Starting point is 00:00:15 Three, two, one. I did it. This is a Reject Nation. I have some updates for you guys. They're very important updates. Number one, Tara, you and I continue. Well, first of all, Apple, Spotify, five-star.

Starting point is 00:00:31 Thank you, Preper, for helping edit us down. I know these horror movies are difficult, so we really appreciate you. Tara, you and I continue to not remember anything. Ryan Merriman is the guy who's watching on the cameras the whole time, and he was the lead of Final Destination 3. Oh, I've never seen any of the Final Destination movies. I thought didn't you watch them after Greg and I watched them?

Starting point is 00:00:50 Weren't you part of that second crew? I was not. Oh. Well, I didn't remember that, and I just watched them for the channel. So that was that. Um, the guy that I was like, what was he, an entourage or something? Nope, continued to not remember what I'm talking about. He played Lenny Bruce on Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Starting point is 00:01:07 And I was like, I knew he's on a current show. Oh, yes. I love, love that show. Yes. Sean Patrick Thomas, who I was like, oh, I definitely know who he is, uh, who played Rudy. Um, he is Polarity on Gen V, another show that I absolutely love. Is that my guy that I liked that I had the crush on? Nope.

Starting point is 00:01:25 No. Um, you're great. is named Thomasian Nicholas He was in eight episodes of party of five American Pie

Starting point is 00:01:34 Yeah you're right about that I did say American Pie Finally I got there You did at the first Yeah He's Kevin and American Pie What was the TV show? Party of Five he was in eight episodes of

Starting point is 00:01:48 Okay What about Any more TVs before that? A million What do you want to do? Okay. Then that must be why. We've got a ton of questions. Yeah, so let's just jump right into it,

Starting point is 00:02:04 but we just had to look up a little bit of the cast. For sure. I know. I love that. Oh, sorry, before we jump into it, I do want to see how many projects Buster Rhymes ended up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would like to know as well. Oh, he's in the most recent naked gun, which I didn't see. Apparently, let's see. He plays a bank robber in that.

Starting point is 00:02:25 Other than that, he did two episodes of Everybody Hates Chris. Yeah, no, it seems like this was the peak of his You had an episode of fresh off the boat An episode of Master of None Uh Yeah, it seems like this was where the career, the acting career Peaked Um, started and stopped

Starting point is 00:02:45 Yeah Uh, yeah, yeah Everything else is a music video. Okay, happy love, love it Curious about that Uh, let's get into these if you're a patron, you get to ask us questions. We appreciate you guys doing so.

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Starting point is 00:03:15 That's awesome on the site. So check that out. Here we go. Valerie Fisher. Tara and Roxy first. I love watching the thesis horror movies. Thesis? These is?

Starting point is 00:03:27 horror movies with you guys. And if you could go stay in Michael Myers' house, for a reality show, would you do it? I know I wouldn't unless I could go with some friends. Thanks, Valerie. I would not, even if I could go with friends. No, thanks. I would go into it, but I wouldn't stay there.

Starting point is 00:03:42 Like, I would do a tour. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A tour, a tour is good. I'd probably do the tour. Jane Rhodes, among the fans of the franchise, this movie is considered terrible and disrespectful to the franchise. But I'm question is how do y'all feel about, killing off Laura right off the bat.

Starting point is 00:04:00 I'm guessing you mean Lori Strode. I don't think they killed her. I think she's alive. Yeah. But that's a bummer. I wish she was in the whole movie. And I understand why the fans don't love this one.

Starting point is 00:04:14 Yeah. Don't feel great about not having Lori in this one. But also with the writing, don't think it could have saved it. I'm with it. That it's terrible. And I do think, especially after H-2-0, it is a bit disrespectful to the franchise they made a bunch of like terrible time jokes they tried to like make it funny and like uh didn't go over well we really gave this a fair shot yeah it wasn't until we were halfway that i was like um yeah not feeling it like they didn't make us care about because we opened with lory which is why we cared at all like yeah yes this was not a great one um i think john must have been making a joke but before we started john was like this is the best one of the franchise so i was kind of hoping it was going to

Starting point is 00:04:56 be good. Right. D.K. Lounge. Jamie Lee Curtis did not want to come back as she felt H2 had a perfect ending for both Michael and Lori, but was upset to learn they already had the Michael Pan paramedic swap twist set up in case H2 got a sequel. She only agreed to come back in exchange for a lot of money and the condition that they permanently kill Lori off at the start of the movie so that she could finally move on from this franchise. Hashtag trick-or-treat motherfucker.

Starting point is 00:05:24 Wow. When bus rides had trick-or-treat motherfucker, I was like, I've heard that before. Is that from him? I have, too. I, I, maybe it's from this. Maybe this is what started. I don't know. But this must not have permanently killed her off because.

Starting point is 00:05:37 Yeah, I mean, she's in the last, last one or something. Yeah. Yeah. So, I don't know. But thank you for that fact. I understand, though, why she would, why she'd be like, that is a perfect ending, but then be pissed that it was a swap out. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:05:53 And I'm kind of glad that she did get murder at the top Because I'm going to tell you right now If she read the whole script, I don't think she would have signed off on it We have more questions for this movie than we've ever had for any movie before So that's an interesting thought Michael Medina Catheria Hey ladies, this is one of the Halloween movies that I rewatched the most It's probably one of the most disliked

Starting point is 00:06:14 You can tell how inspired they were by previous films Scream Blair Witch Project oh I called that out I think I really enjoyed the premise slash plot of this movie but the execution was lacking. I completely agree with that. Was there anything in this film that you enjoyed more than the others,

Starting point is 00:06:27 found the kills to be more fun and Michael himself felt more ominous and scary? I like the idea that somebody else was dressed as Michael, that there was two Michaels going around. And I like the premise of people watching and that being creepy. They're watching in the house. Totally.

Starting point is 00:06:40 I agree with the premise and plotted's movie was actually cool. The execution was so majorly lacking. Terrible. Terrible execution. Was that the girl from the last movie? I didn't even look that up. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:06:51 we've got to figure that out rocks you said it and i was like i don't know i and you know what there i don't think that there's really honestly anything that i enjoyed more than the others except it was a little freaky to see the the downstairs area where michael is actually living that was kind of fun um and i do agree with the double michael thing like it there was one continuity thing when he kills katie sack off his knife is clean and that was the one way he cleaned it in the he must have but I wish they would have done a pickup

Starting point is 00:07:28 on that Tara she was not in another ho oh my god I legit thought she was that other girl the whole time yes you did and I didn't correct you because I didn't know I was like I I have no idea she doesn't look like her I didn't think so but

Starting point is 00:07:46 oh man yeah okay wild wild wild Residence Z. Shijeks. How do you feel about the camera POV parts of the movie? At the time, it was pretty new and it thought

Starting point is 00:07:56 it was an interesting way to go. Plus, it would add doubt to people watching, which makes sense. I could have done without Buster Rhymes. Yeah, not the greatest acting part in there. A lot of his lines, I think,

Starting point is 00:08:09 not him being disrespectful, but that writing, ridiculous. Like, why are we making it more ridiculous than it is? That was a tough role. the POV I of the Blair which was 99 by the way

Starting point is 00:08:23 Oh okay so And yeah this came out after Okay yeah that makes sense I like the POV of the camera The camera stuff that was good It's just again like the execution of it I think it could have done a little bit better Yeah agreed

Starting point is 00:08:37 Stone Trunks love your name So she Jex what did you all think of the internet show Slash found footage gimmick And do you think that they tried making the movie today They could have pulled it off better Yes. Yeah. I think that this really could have worked.

Starting point is 00:08:53 Like if you told me before we started, this next Halloween movie is a found footage internet show of everybody locked in the house and people watching trying to give them advice on how to get out, it reads as like Hunger Games meets Halloween. I would have been like, that's sick. Right. I didn't care about any of the characters at all. Nope. Which is a big problem.

Starting point is 00:09:13 So I think that if they had more time to write the script, I don't know how much time they have, but like if they really, really, and it has to have lore. and she has to come back, save the day, something. Like, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I definitely think, like, today somebody would get in there, rewrite the script, not put a bunch of jokes and definitely focused on making it scary. And most of rhymes maybe would be a different character.

Starting point is 00:09:39 The writing of them looking at the footage would be different. Tyra wouldn't just be a pretty face who's like, calm down, we're doing that. That's all great. people the smarter of the writers would have fixed it like your tire banks and you kill her off screen

Starting point is 00:09:55 totally so Jay Rushden what you think of movie returning and was ending predictable there what's movie returning like probably coming back after H2O I assume is what he means and was ending predictable

Starting point is 00:10:11 it definitely was not predictable to me so if Buster Rimes was alive I was like wait what exactly like and him saying trigger treat motherfucker uh was not predictable a lot of his like ridiculous we should dang we need to get that out by in the next week we need to do that actually we'll maybe on the back of these we should add it we should add it that'd be hilarious but well uh because it's just ridiculous it's just ridiculous this movie returning i do agree with what people said

Starting point is 00:10:46 I don't, this movie was, it's not good. I don't know how you had producers sit in a room and you screen this for them. If I was one of them, I'd be like, take my name off. This isn't going out. I don't know what you thought this was going to be. But whoever did this film and thought, it's ready to go. It wasn't. Definitely wasn't.

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Starting point is 00:12:39 well time Greg bottled Mark Leach Is my least favorite Out of all the Halloween films The gimmick of reality TV Was perfect for this time What gimmick do you think That they would have done

Starting point is 00:12:52 If it was made today I was thinking they may try Screen Life Like unfriendly searching, etc., yeah Which would have been awful I think it could have been interesting But maybe something like only fans related That could be fun

Starting point is 00:13:11 Yeah, because we always need Tata and Bunda. Or like a content house, you know, those content houses that exist. Totally. They're like doing the Instagram, the TikToks, but Michael, he's, maybe they all move in to a new house that the production renovated, but they never looked at the basement and Michael's been down there. This isn't my pitch for a Halloween movie, but if you're saying, well, gimmick today. Exactly.

Starting point is 00:13:33 We're just pulling shit out of our ass. Yep. We'd be riffing. Alex Danner, and my question, for your reaction to Halloween 4. I mentioned that the series itself is a choose-your-own adventure because of the various timelines.

Starting point is 00:13:50 We now have reached that point, the first branch, if you will, H-2-0 picks up after the very first two films and ignores all the other sequels, Halloween 1, Halloween 2, then H-2, then-Resurrection. What are your expectations for the series going forward? And are you still excited for the future installments?

Starting point is 00:14:09 Are you worried about the deviations? I'm kind of worried that Lori's not going to be in it for a while now. We know she's in the future ones, but, you know, there are 13 of these movies. We're on eight. So I'm worried about Halloween movies without Lori. Lori is, to me, my favorite part of the Halloween movies. So, but then I've seen the most recent ones. And I remember really liking it.

Starting point is 00:14:35 So where are you at, Tara? This, if I was her. I would be pissed and say, I'm never going to, the fact that you wrote off at H2O and now this is what you bring after, it's not even in the same caliber of film. So this film specifically does not make me excited about future installments. H2O did. She was saying, oh, it's not going to be him. And I'm like, that's exciting. Then we find out the beginning of this movie, it's not him.

Starting point is 00:15:07 Okay, cool. How are you going to deal with that? They didn't. It ain't lordy to deal. It wasn't fun. It wasn't, this was not fun. And it's like, because we just didn't care about any of the characters. Why would we have cared about these people?

Starting point is 00:15:21 We just. They weren't related to Loomis. They weren't related to Lori or the Stroads in general. It wouldn't even have mattered if they had put some foundational work in there and made us care about a few of them. But like, why not use Josh Hartnett? I know. I know.

Starting point is 00:15:37 Like, he probably was on the same with, with, with, uh, Lori, being like, I'm not going to come back because that was a great ending. They probably had no idea that they were like, the switch out paramedic thing. Yeah, H2O was so good. This movie was not good. I just cannot believe the producers went from H-D-O to this. But the one before H-2O wasn't good either. I know, I know.

Starting point is 00:15:56 Remember halfway through that movie and I said, this movie is not good. It's not good. But then H-2-O brought us back. And I was like, hell yeah. Maybe now they're getting smart to it. They're getting smart up here by being like, we need to stop making crap Halloween. movies and then you know here we are i think the next two are rob zombies Halloween movies oh i think they're called Halloween and Halloween two oh but i don't think she's in the i'm not sure we'll have

Starting point is 00:16:22 to see leon oh three do you think Halloween resurrection is a worthy follow-up to h jo's storyline despite the death of lorry and that her son not been even mentioned in the final cut warning y'all need to buckle up for rob zombies remake oh boy as there's some material that you both will not be too proud of I hope you all can watch a producer's cut of Halloween 6 in a bonus video as I would love to see your thoughts on that infamous cut

Starting point is 00:16:51 I wonder what they're talking about Halloween 6 was two videos ago yeah it was the one we didn't like yeah but what got cut yeah is an infamous cut let us know what it is because we're not doing it I think yeah but yeah let us know

Starting point is 00:17:03 the cut crazy her son wasn't mentioned here we didn't go to her funeral I guess you saying to buckle up for Rob Zombie and that we're not going to be proud of it makes me think like, what could that mean? Yeah. I like Rob Zombie, so.

Starting point is 00:17:22 Either it's really bad or the way they go about it is like, must be just like Wackadoo Wild. When I hear not proud of something, it makes me think that something's going to be sexist, homophobic, racist. Exactly.

Starting point is 00:17:38 Like a product of their time. but the those movies are in the late 2000s right so I don't know I don't know man now late 2000s wasn't any good you know it was still it was rocky times let's see when it is so you know and and just to answer your question if you didn't I mean I feel like we've already answered it but no this was not a worthy follow up to H2O to at all by any means I'm surprised it got passed on 2007 is the next movie

Starting point is 00:18:11 Rob Zombie I'm just going to let you know from Jump I don't see Jamie so that's a bummer for us And then Halloween 2 is 2009

Starting point is 00:18:20 Oh and the main character is played by a person named Scott Taylor Compton and she's playing Lori Strode So it must be a real reboot reboot

Starting point is 00:18:30 Okay All right Okay I'm proud of us For not watching the reboot When we meant to watch the original Like we've done

Starting point is 00:18:37 sometimes We've done that We've done that. We really have. Tara, not this time. I think we didn't need to GTFO. Yeah, we really do. This is not exciting for me.

Starting point is 00:18:47 I hope I move on to another better movie after this. Any final thoughts? Like, I still love the franchise guys. Don't get me wrong. But like, we're here to tell you the truth. And this is not a good film. Like, I feel like, put me and Roxy in the room. We could have made it better.

Starting point is 00:19:03 That's all I got to say. I agree. I agree. A little behind the scenes information for you. guys. I watched Coraline before this. That movie was awesome. It makes this movie even worse because of what you just said. The thing I said at the end of watching Coraline is I could never have made this movie in a million years. And that's why it's so amazing. I could never have done this. Yeah. And then just hearing you be like, put us in a room, we could make a better

Starting point is 00:19:27 movie. I'm like, yeah, that's exactly what it is. Like, yeah, that's a bummer. All right. Well, y'all, stay safe. Stay sane. Go get our Halloween gear. And we'll probably come up with the shirt, if not put trick-or-treat M or Fers on the bag of this. So if you order it in the next week or whatever, you got to figure it out. It might be back there. We'll see. A third option. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:19:51 Totally. Like on the lower back. On the lower back, like hashtag it, though, or something that's so stupid. So stupid. So good. So dumb. All right. Later, Rejects.

The Reel Rejects - HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION (2002) IS A WILD TRAINWRECK! MOVIE REVIEW

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