I feel like this is an endless crusade for me, but I don’t understand why people endlessly praise RT but more or less ignore metacritic. Because of the binary nature of RT, movies are constantly shoved into high or low percentiles even if many critics just feel most “meh” about them.

Well... it’s an anecdote, let’s leave it at that.

I saw it in a preview screening tonight. I liked it a lot more than Dowd did. If you can accuse it of something, it’s having a very inconsistent tone, changing from act to act. Do you want a building dread with disturbing imagery that mirrors the broken family dynamic? Check! Do you want a Manic Murder Myers plowing…

Dowd only digs the worst of The Criterion Collection, IT’S A FACT.

Totally agree.

Anyone who thinks 2 was better than 1 needs to get their eyes & ears examined. Possibly their entire nervous system.

Since this partially reboots the continuity, there was only one murder in the early 60s, then a few more in 1978. So not terribly surprising that 40 years later it’s not such a big deal. Although you’d think that having escaped once before there would be more scrutiny around Michael’s transfer.

You have to watch it in the context of its time. It was groundbreaking in many ways, not least of which because it was among the first of the slasher films to show the heroine putting up a fight against the murderer, as Roger Ebert noted in his original review. In order to fully appreciate the first Halloween, you…

A grade of C from A.A. Dowd plus an 86% fresh critics score on Rotten Tomatoes equals a B+ according to Real Movie Metrics™, the system I designed to make Dowd’s reviews relevant (Note: RMM™ values are doubled for Marvel movies).

They let the same guy who reviewed the movie for the TIFF feature and thought it was meh do the official review and he STILL thinks it’s meh?! I’m shocked, SHOCKED.

It’s one of those things that’s hard to put your finger on. Mostly it’s the awesome mood that Carpenter sets up in my opinion.

Ok, I tried to just leave it at the flip, brief reply, but I can’t. I have opinions about these movies, and since this is the internet, I will type them out, for some reason.

I can’t trust the judgment of a man who can’t tell a ball from a strike, sir...

If Dowd thinks it’s shit, I’m sure I’ll be in for a fun two hours.

For an unpopular opinion I sure have been seeing this a lot this Halloween season.

That’s... not really that unpopular. 3 has received it’s due in the last decade or so.

“It’s an inferior H20".

I guess I’m about to be that girl, but fam its BAD.

Couldn’t disagree more with the review or most of the comments. I loved the ending.

I think people are really misinterpreting the ending as trying to be “happy” (or at least I got something completely different). Yes, the souls are still in the house. No the house doesn’t get burned and the souls don’t get magically…

The 1960s movie is pretty good. Fidelity doesn’t equal quality. Different isn’t somehow “bad.” The show has more female characters than the book and passes the Bechdel Test several times over (even more so than the book), if that’s what you’re worried about.