Last movie you watched......

I have read that story about The Defiant Ones and the Tony Curtis role.

And someone mentioned it is based on an old movie, you could say that...
A Star Is Born (1937)
A Star Is Born (1954)
A Star Is Born (1976)

 

Next project for BCoop will be directing a personal story of his childhood titled 'ET.'

 

This is a very funny sentence.

 

It’s something I could hear Sheldon saying on The Big Bang Theory.

 

I'd be a lot more excited for this if it wasn't the fifth time they've tried to reboot the series and alter its timeline. I hate going into franchise films like this having to ask, "OK, so which ones count and which ones never happened?"

 

I assumed this fit in with the original timeline. I thought there was just the one reboot, Rob Zombie's Halloween 1 and 2. Then there is Season of the Witch, which has a story that has nothing to do with any of it. I was never sure if that was a one-time attempt to profit off the movie title or if there was actually a plan to turn it into some sort of anthology movie series.

 

The new one takes place 40 years after the original (meaning Michael Myers is going to be a spry 61-year-old serial killer, which will be interesting) and ignores ALL of the sequels, including Part 2. I guess he somehow got arrested after the original, even though he got up after being shot by Loomis. One cool bit of continuity, though, is that Michael is blind in his left eye thanks to Laurie Strode sticking the hanger in it during the famous closet scene.

Originally, Season of the Witch was supposed to take the franchise in a totally different direction. Carpenter wanted it to be an annual anthology horror series and not the Michael Myers story. Part 3 bombed so badly, though, that they had to go back to the Myers well to continue. That ran out of steam with the awful Part 6, which led to H20. Same with Resurrection (which was an interesting standalone concept that somebody decided to morph into a Halloween movie), which led to the Rob Zombie films, and now this.
So, if you're keeping score, there are now going to be FIVE different timelines spread over 12 movies in the Halloween Universe:
• Parts 1-2 and 4-6 - The "original" timeline, ends with Part 6
• Part 3 - Standalone movie
• H20/Resurrection -- Counts the original and possibly Part 2, ignores the rest
• Rob Zombie's movies - Reboot and its own separate timeline
• Halloween 2018 - Counts the original, ignores everything else
There are also comics that fill in the gaps between stories and are considered canon with the Parts 4-6 timeline. They explore some of the side characters and their eventual fates. Michael is still a shadow terror in all of their lives and around Haddonfield generally, and ends up murdering most of them in some form or fashion.
It's all a little bugnuts. Fans of the series can keep it straight, but casual fans or those that don't follow it closely might be like, "Wait a minute, why is he in prison? Hasn't he been shot, stabbed, chopped, etc., about 500 times in the last 40 years? This is stupid."

 

Red Sparrow. Jennifer Lawrence is always great but the movie had a generic spy/double cross plot mixed with extreme violence.

 

Thank you. I knew I'd heard that bit about Part 3 somewhere, but the rest I didn't know.

I agree with you that having Michael blinded in the left eye is a cool idea.

 

Michael Meyers: also a pilot and a mechanic

 

Speaking of iconic 80s horror movie characters, it seems a bitter and broke 78-year-old man with a dubious copyright claim might have finally done what scores of camp counselors and sagging box office receipts never could -- kill Jason Voorhees.
This link is a year old, but lays out the back story:

'Friday the 13th' Producer Points to Writers' Union Membership in Bid to Retain Franchise Rights

To make a long story short, a guy named Victor Miller who co-wrote the original Friday the 13th has sued Sean Cunningham, the other co-creator, over the rights to the franchise. Miller might have created Jason, but had no involvement in the sequels and thus owned the rights to "Kid Jason" who popped up out of the lake at the end and inspired Mama Voorhees' murder spree in the original, but not "Adult Jason," the hockey mask wearing maniac everyone is familiar with.
The lawsuit has been languishing in court for a while and likely led to the latest F13 sequel/reboot being abruptly canceled a couple of years ago. In the meantime, there was an F13 game that was released last year and sold well. Sean Cunningham had granted the makers, Gun Media, the rights to almost all of the intellectual property from the series in a sweetheart deal.
As of today, however, Gun announced it can no longer make and distribute any downloadable content like new characters or maps, calling it "unfeasible."
That would seem to indicate that the lawsuit might have gone Miller's way -- Gun and Cunningham would have to give Miller a (likely significant) cut of profits from anything new -- and the status of the entire franchise is in question -- fresh sequels, merchandise, video games, possibly even streaming and distribution rights. Specific details are still sketchy, but it's a dark day for fans of the franchise.

Legal Claim Brings an Indefinite End to New 'Friday the 13th: The Game' Content - Bloody Disgusting

 

It's an interesting case. Screenwriters - as opposed to those writers creating shows on TV - really get screwed. Whether or not Miller was working in his capacity as a WGA member originally, he deserves more than 10 grand for helping kick off the franchise.