Review of Halloween (2018) by Cris M — 01 Nov 2018

This week I'd hoped to post a review for the new 'HALLOWEEN'. However, I'm foregoing that experience and subsequent review in lieu of its Box Office success last weekend and the attributed boasts of the number of 'apparent' records it'd broke according to a 'Tweet' on Sunday, Oct. 21st by Jamie Lee Curtis: 1. 'Biggest horror movie opening with a female lead.' (Don't all horror films have a female lead?) 2. 'Biggest movie opening with a female lead over 55.' (Is this a thing? Either way, doesn't this 'achievement' apply 'within' first proclamation?) 3. 'Second biggest October movie opening ever,' (NOTE: a 'Second' place biggest-opening is not a milestone.) 4. Biggest 'Halloween' - from which, I assume she means, 'of the entirety of the franchise' - opening ever; (This one's debatable.) Yet, lastly - and most nauseating - lies within her conclusion, that 5. hashtag (#) 'WomenGetThingsDone'. (Rather pretentious and pompous statement - if not entirely inaccurate: as, having been filmed by a male, starring a reoccurring male villain - featured in 10 sequels or adaptations since the original - created by John Carpenter (male) forty-years ago.

Thus, of her conclusion - in this current pop-world desperately seeking to balance an invisible equality boundary - these conjectured achievements were realized solely under the attribution of entrepreneuring females.

Sorry Mrs. Curtis, but the success of the film is of one reason, and one reason only; that being that, #MichaelMeyersGetsThingsDone.

A few weeks prior to the release of the new 'Halloween' film, a major news channel was criticized for calling Jamie Lee Curtis a 'hypocrite' for toting and expelling a gun against her on-screen adversary despite her on-going petition against the second amendment of the United States Constitution.

The overwhelming rebuttal was justified as 'It's just a Movie.'.

Here's the deal. If you're one of celebrity position with an agenda to abolish an American right, you cannot walk the fine-line of the debate solely in the name of art. You must uphold the presentation of your opinion in art as equally as you claim in waking life. Therefore - in this instance of Mrs. Curtis, to abolish the second amendment - you have one of two options of artistic license. Either show us the positive effect of what a world without guns looks like, or portray the extreme opposite, taking up the role of a rouge psychopath, taking out everyone, in a world where everyone has access to guns; guns bought and sold to everyone like candy to kids, and everyone dies...therein the attempt to justify your crusade.

What you don't do, is take 'one' gun, and shoot 'one' guy who's trying to kill you. As by portraying such a victim shooting an intrusive (albeit fictional) masked adversary only warrants the fact of our right to defense.

Thus, rather than feeding this allusive equality seeking machine, I'd opted to stay home instead and watch the original 'John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN' on VHS. The way it should be. Which hits a heavy 10 out of 10.

- A.M. Rorabeck, 'The Weekend Fizz, CLINTON COURIER, 10/26/18.