Halloween 2018
Oct. 20th, 2018 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzLast night, I had tried to find tickets for the 2018 "Halloween" sequel, as I'd been looking forward to the movie for months. Every theater was packed with just a speckled number of seats in showings all evening. I hate crowded theaters, so I decided to pass until the next day.
So this morning, I'd gotten up especially early for a Saturday, went to the gym to run my 3.2 miles on the treadmill, lusted after this tall hottie that I am sure plays in my softball league in the locker room, then home to shower and change and head to the theater. I went to the 9:45 AM showing at the local Rave.
It wasn't packed, but I was surprised how well attended it was at this hour. No real spoilers for the movie, but I will say that it did not disappoint. The movie is pretty deep in a strange way. Jamie Lee Curtis plays the adult Laurie Strode, a woman in her late 50's whose life has been severely damaged by that Halloween night in 1978. There are some great scenes where you can see she has been wound tight and fearful every day since that night. She's not a shining light, full of hope. She drinks, she's anti-social, and people, including her family, believe that she's crazy. Until the night when Michael escapes again.
It's wonderfully rated R, so there's no watering down of the language and gore, which I think is necessary to tell this story.
The audience wasn't perfect sadly. There was one large, special needs kid who had no volume control. Why the parents would bring a kid to such a movie is beyond me. Still, it didn't ruin the flick for me for a change.
So this morning, I'd gotten up especially early for a Saturday, went to the gym to run my 3.2 miles on the treadmill, lusted after this tall hottie that I am sure plays in my softball league in the locker room, then home to shower and change and head to the theater. I went to the 9:45 AM showing at the local Rave.
It wasn't packed, but I was surprised how well attended it was at this hour. No real spoilers for the movie, but I will say that it did not disappoint. The movie is pretty deep in a strange way. Jamie Lee Curtis plays the adult Laurie Strode, a woman in her late 50's whose life has been severely damaged by that Halloween night in 1978. There are some great scenes where you can see she has been wound tight and fearful every day since that night. She's not a shining light, full of hope. She drinks, she's anti-social, and people, including her family, believe that she's crazy. Until the night when Michael escapes again.
It's wonderfully rated R, so there's no watering down of the language and gore, which I think is necessary to tell this story.
The audience wasn't perfect sadly. There was one large, special needs kid who had no volume control. Why the parents would bring a kid to such a movie is beyond me. Still, it didn't ruin the flick for me for a change.
