tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177211463845465336.post4122910594833653651..comments2024-02-02T16:47:52.931-08:00Comments on the groundhog day project: this whole thing is a big jokerobert e g blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055327935875718742noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177211463845465336.post-3399173134084261552014-10-09T09:28:40.123-07:002014-10-09T09:28:40.123-07:00It might be an Irish thing! It could be racial mem...It might be an Irish thing! It could be racial memories of paganism and human sacrifice!<br /><br />You make a good point about the slasher expectations raised by the title. And also about needing to sympathise about characters before you care if they get bumped off. But the thought of thousands of excited kiddies putting on Halloween masks, which should be fun, and turning into monsters (or whatever happens...I barely remember) is really disturbing.<br /><br />I seem to remember Roger Ebert's review was particularly hilarious about the plot holes, and pointed one out that I hadn't even noticed.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177211463845465336.post-46495125764317728352014-10-09T08:17:33.153-07:002014-10-09T08:17:33.153-07:00Now I gotta ask, is it an Irish thing?
Seriously,...Now I gotta ask, is it an Irish thing?<br /><br />Seriously, though, I think the pseudo-Stepford town plays a bit too subtly, and the metaphor is a bit TOO vague. Watching this in the midst of slasher films--and doing so deliberately because it was slasher fans who went out to see Halloween III originally and slasher fans who left the theater disappointed--perhaps I'm biased toward a film in which barely anything actually happens, the climax seems arbitrary--Dr. Boring just happens to know what buttons to push to mess with the computer, then drops those Shamrock chips and it is sheer luck that they DO anything--and the ending is ridiculous; he calls... SOMEONE and they have control over multiple networks? Big problem at that point is why should we care? the movie hasn't really told us that HE cares. As I tell my speech students when they are doing interpretive pieces, just being loud doesn't mean you're angry. Just yelling at the random superpowerful person over the phone doesn't mean you sound like you care about kids that have nothing to do with the story we're seeing. And, me personally--if a bunch of kids just died in this fictional universe, I just can't be bothered to care because I don't know them. HIS kids are who we should see being saved because we've met them.<br /><br />for a "classic" to be "deeply flawed" and remain a "classic" for me, the film has to do something far more special than Season of the Witch doesrobert e g blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12055327935875718742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177211463845465336.post-13278861408368707912014-10-09T03:47:22.177-07:002014-10-09T03:47:22.177-07:00No way! I can't agree with you about this one....No way! I can't agree with you about this one. I think Halloween: Season of the Witch is a deeply flawed semi-classic in its own right. The Silver Shamrock song isn't annoying, it's the creepiest jingle ever invented, and I think that ON ITS OWN it makes the movie! It certainly haunted my childhood. The corporate neighbourhood is quite creepy and works effectively as some kind of vague metaphor for a corporate society. There are plot holes bigger than the Grand Canyon, for sure, but I definitely feel this has much more of a horror atmosphere than a thriller or a detective movie. Not on a par with Halloween, for sure, but memorable in its own right.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.com