The Fog remake is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Ever.

The Fog remake is indeed awful. I still regret giving in and watching it, I told myself not to do it, but I did anyway. Apparently I like to suffer....:mad:

As far as the Halloween remake goes, well, I didn't care for it either. And couldn't stand the backstory. I was bored out of my mind. It was heavy handed, just not handled very well at all, in my opinion. Nothing subtle there. :rolleyes: But that's not surprising, since Zombie's filmmaking style is definitely NOT subtle. And there's not a thing wrong with that, it just didn't fit with a remake of such an important, influential horror film. I just hope he decides to make somewhat original films in the future.

I MIGHT have liked his backstory if it wasn't completely unoriginal. Forsyth gave a good performance and I liked the kid from Spy Kids getting beaten to death, but it takes 40 minutes to tell us what only needed ten. His family was white trash and people were mean to him. Really? Is that the BEST you can come up with, Rob? Mean hicks?

And Michael shouldn't have been the Huge Freakin Guy that he was. Michael Myers isn't scary because he's a physically imposing beast. That's Jason. Michael was scary because he was The Shape. He could be anywhere. The lights in the house are out. The room is completely dark except the moonlight coming in through the window. Suddenly, in the shadows of the background, you can make out the hint of the white mask. THAT is Michael Myers. In Rob Zombie's vision? He's a lumbering Frankenstein. No subtlety. No white mask creeping in from the background. Rob just cuts to a closeup. I know subtlety isn't Rob's style, but then maybe he shouldn't have done the movie.

And the thing that really bugged the shit out of me was Laurie. She acted no differently than any other broad in the movie. Oh, but she wore glasses. And she "doesn't like to lie." According to the Teen Comedy Movie clichés, she's the shy, quiet girl. Rob, if 3 of the 7 writers of Scary Movie are able to call you on your shit, then something is very wrong. I never thought I'd say this about a Rob Zombie movie, but the writing is just lazy. Ho1KC sucked, but at least it wasn't lazy. But Halloween? Lazy as shit. It's like he was talking to someone going on about how cool it would be if he could remake Hallween. And then they had him remake Halloween, and he panicked and went on auto-pilot.

EXACTLY....it worked well for him in The Devil's Rejects. It didn't work here, it was absolutely the wrong style for this film.
And I agree about Micheal's size as well. That bugged the hell out of me. He just didn't make a suspenseful film, not at all, while the original was incredibly suspenseful.

I liked the "Fog" remake, more or less.

I didn't like the "Halloween" remake, at all.

Stole the words right out of my mouth.

"The Fog" remake was deplorable.

I have mixed feelings about Zombie's "Halloween". I liked the back story (as many of you have stated). **SPOILER** - I didn't like the fact that Loomis was killed off and I despised who was cast as Laurie Stroud. She was ridiculous. All she did was scream and cry...now I know this could have been the writing or directing at this point...but seeing her onscreen for the first time was disappointing and then became a constant irritant. The fact that her hair and eyebrows didn't match irked me even more.

I have said this time and time again that I hate the Halloween remake. To me it just felt like Devil's Rejects all over again but instead of Spaulding and Otis you have Michael Myers and his nutty redneck family. Just plain bad.

zombie's uninspired and unoriginal backstory took the mysticism out of michael myers, which is what made him so frightening to begin with. the new halloween just turned him into some unstoppable psychopath by-product of a messed up family.

booooring.

I've heard about three hundred people say the "Fog" remake sucks horribly, but I haven't heard a single person who was able to explain why they thought this was so. "It sucks, it sucks..." Okay, but can you tell me why you feel this way? Illuminate me. I didn't think it was a masterpiece but I had no serious problems with it.