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He’d move to Alabama, and run for the Senate after seeing the narrow loss of Judge Roy Moore.
Once they hear Trump speak at the RNC (and likewise Joe Biden at his Chicago convention at a later date) they'll reassess their complaints and "uncommitted" status, and realign. Trump's not gonna run centrist or left on this. Everyone knows he'd give Benjamin Netanyahu a proverbial high 'five' in contrast with Biden's contemplative and deescalated approach. He's also gonna call for Marshall Law on college campus protestors, and run on abortion bans. It's not gonna work out for him.
Besides, Pence, Romney, the Cheney's and the Bushes' are all going to endorse Biden and speak at the DNC convention in the name of compromise and bipartisanship. Say nothing of the Clinton's and the Obama's of course. Evangelical Christians will jump ship and won't touch a ballot with a ten-foot pole. Trump will be destroyed in the suburban districts of both red and blue states, and he's gonna be orange, black & blue himself during his stint in the penitentiary.
Well, I must certainly thank you for acknowledging the topic at hand and giving me something to work with. I respect your opinion since it seems to conform to your viewpoint that, aside from the original masterpiece, they all suck. In order for this to be a valid conclusion, though, you must also prove that, 1. Halloween fans are near unanimous that the sequels suck, and 2. The copyright holders have shown a certain carelessness about their property, and therefore likely just churn them out without too much thought.
I'm a member of social media groups, such as The Legacy of Halloween run by Fandom Empire, with a subscribership numbering at a quarter of a million. You may be surprised to learn that there is not anything close to a consenses about which sequels are good or bad. Many, like me, don't even consider the 1978 original the best, though we do acknowledge how revolutionary it was as a low-budget film. It's strengths are in the varied performances, twist ending, and Carpenter's legendary film score, and clever lighting & framing of shots. On the other hand, it's rewatchability value is quite low since about half the film is just suburban images of houses along with repeated scenes of young adults making small talk on the phone, driving or watching television. Compare that to the pickup truck battle in Halloween 4 or the dynamic party scene in Halloween 5 at the Tower Farm that incorporates the barn & harvest themed setting—with elements of mistaken identity utilized by the antagonist, telepathy, and a climax vehicle chase through the woods. The director also, being European, incorporated his own Gothic Victorian-type ambience which variably enhances all the very standard Americanized horror tropes.
While it's definitely true that after II in 1981, they were originally going to finish the Myers storyline and move to the seasonal anthology format. However, they were inundated with calls and scripts in the 1980s to bring back Myers to compete with other horror icons. What I'm saying is they saw this as an opportunity to continue the pattern, sometimes with a single director, such as David Gordon Green or Rob Zombie, and sometimes with a little more variety as was the Thorn Trilogy, but essentially inserting many similar beats to the familiar routine.
As with Season of the Witch (1982), a lot of casual viewers were put off by the choices of Halloween Ends (2022) and now we see an extraordinary level of chatter to continue one of the prior timelines to bring back Michael, or otherwise expand on the established mythology perhaps even in a limited TV format. Sometimes it's good business to subvert the expectations of the masses even to the point of anger & disillusionment.
What do you think they do all day, anyway, in these corporate production offices? Design butcher knives?! No, they have conversations like I'm having right now to give the series a familiar niche and make all their previous efforts as exciting and relevant as ever.
Now... if they never pick up from a prior timeline in a new trilogy format EVER again. Only then will I acknowledge your stance of it being a half-hearted coincidence. Until then, please re-read my OP, and consider the evidence that the timeline branches consist of three separate trilogies and two other sets where the third chapter was set up but never came to fruition... YET.
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Director is a man. Kim David Henkel.
Hey, do me a favor and start your own thread, perhaps? You are not replying or even acknowledging the existence of the Halloween "trilogy format" pattern that I mention, which seems to have been intentional by Trancas/Compass Int'l Pictures since the 1980s—perhaps as early as 1982, and continues to this very day.
They may even have intentions to complete the Zombie trilogy or the H20 set at some ceremonial future date like an
anniversary, and could easily do so with the right script. I would imagine they get tons of unsolicited scripts sent to their corporate location.
I'm interested in the future of this franchise, not the opinion of some random detractor who spends far too much time on MovieChat, and keeps watching films that he hates.
Myers simply followed the girl who approached his house and dropped off a key at the porch. He actually began to take much less interest in Laurie though, when it was clear that she was observant and always watching him back. She wasn't a soft target like her friends, especially the one who mouthed off to him, Annie Brackett. In fact, more than anyone else, it was Annie who he used to relive the memory and satisfaction his original killing of Judith, and I believe that's what placing her headstone at the crime scene above her corpse represented. Lynda & Bob were next as they, then came over, of their own accord. Hard target, Laurie, eventually investigated, and by that point Myers was off his game and got beaten back.
That's the interpretation of the original 1978 film on it's own. If you add the sister angle of the sequels in, then all you have to say is that either he wanted to torment her by killing her friends first, or that the Thorn curse wasn't very precise and he could feel his bloodline, but easily got the girls mixed up.
In 2018, he never targeted Laurie, as you may remember. Dr Sartain, obsessed with understanding Michael and hearing him speak, sought to bring the two together and drove the police cruiser to her compound.
I like II, 5, Kills and embarrassingly, Resurrection, as favorites even over the original. This is what helped attune me to the pattern of the trilogy format... realizing that I liked the climactic middle chapters that pick up from the previous entries, which were more focused on character development and/or containing a twist ending. Ranking the series is meaningless, though, since I hold all in high regard.
Sorry, bot. My post was intended for human users. But thanks for giving us a generic summary of popular opinion based on internet chatter and box office results.
Woody Allen is *still* married to Soon-Yi now, like, 30 years later. Pretty impressive for someone with a reputation for philandering, accurate or not. At a certain point, you just have to admit that Cupid struck, and it was a match made in heaven.
“Shouldn't Mia have been able to trust this man with her children regardless of his status in their lives?“
Abusive Mia cannot even be trusted with her *own* children. If you don’t believe that, ask Soon-Yi or read Moses Farrow’s blog. Another adopted child even committed suicide.
The same thing as WWE superstar, Chris Benoit, maybe? Diminished capacity for empathy from damage done to the prefrontal cortex during athletic exchanges turned them both into psychopaths, probably. Fortunately, crimes are crimes, and in a perfect world justice would and must be served. No excuses. Victims deserve action, and the public requires safety. Partisan and ignorant jurors of Los Angeles County didn't live up to the standards required of them. Simpson was left free to burglar, kidnap and terrorize folks in Las Vegas before some justice took affect.
Reading your reaction (here and elsewhere) to this perfectly legitimate and accurate post regarding the film and the reality we live in has really highlighted the type of posters (you!) who are actually suffering from the TDS.
You see, the "derangement" is not subject to those who discuss current, historical events, or prior Executive leaders. It's actually held by those who have constructed and adopted a ready-made narrative of phantom conspiratorial and malign intentions permeating through society. "The Establishment" "The Elites" "The Deep State" "Globalists"
These are Trump's authoritarian trademarks, which he's used as a campaign tactic for 8 or 9 years now. So, who's symptomatic of being overtaken by this nonsense? It's you. And many others. You're sick, son.
Photo-journalists are regular people. Some maybe who succumb to an adrenaline rush, now and again, God bless them. But the service they provide as they put themselves out there to bring us images and stories (and do so at the expense of their own safety) is valuable. Here, you are instead looking to Alex Jones and Ben Shapiro in the cozy home-studio mansions... & just plain parroting idiots who are invested in branding themselves as opposed to public service. Some on the Left, no doubt, as well.
You're saying *they* bring the truth. Junior, the folks bringing the truth are the ones content to examine the "nitty-gritty" of the thing without sucking all the oxygen outta the room with their own blatant and shameless self-promotion. Much of this is MSM with resources and staff and networking clout.
"Propaganda" is the inverse.
It's what made... <i>this</i> relevant:
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And you ate it up like yesterday's sloppy joes. Someone get this lad some medication for his TDS.
Evil and disgraceful post with malign intentions.
You need to eject yourself from a collective-mindset, and just find whatever specifics, as far as lifestyle, for yourself and your family that will bring happiness and prosperity, and don’t concern yourself so with everyone else. There are plenty of options, and I’d say if you have the tools to post on MovieChat, you are certainly more advantageous than people drowning in jungle swamps or starving in vast deserts. You don’t need to worry about assimilation of others like the Borg on Star Trek, and don’t try to be the assimilator yourself. Zero chance of humanity extinguishing themselves.
The Time Machine is about as fictitious and fantastical as a story can get. If you’re scared, please sober up.
The older and wiser you get, I’d say the more you tend to do so. When you’re young, curious and adventurous, you tend to say to yourself, “hey, why not try to spend time with the punks, the rabble, the gangster rappers, the injuns, the rednecks, the fairy queers?” and so on. See what their world is like. Many times these all correspond to certain ethnicities or racial traits on a whole. For example, I can recognize within German and Irish peoples, the similarities that are within me both physically and psychologically. I feel the community with a second nature and that wouldn’t be present if I were visiting Shanghai or Moscow. I believe it’s productive to stereotype as long as you’re not being discriminatory with it.
If you’re an open-minded person, diversity is not scary. Like anything else, though, at some point you reach your limit and say, “okay I now have attained a certain level of conceptualism of other cultures. I made a few friends outside my circle and they’ll be with me, always… but it doesn’t mean I’m gonna continue to listen to Tupac if I prefer Mozart.” I think it’s perfectly healthy to do so.
What scares me are the people who are taught to hate at a young age, avoid diversity at every stage of life, or call for cultural supremacy. In my experience, in America, this happens most often with WASP rural whites and urban blacks—and in both cases it corresponds heavily with low-IQ individuals. It could also be the result of some traumatic underlying incident, though. For those cases, they may need a shrink.
Moses Farrow, another adopted kid, says it didn't happen and the Mia coached the younger Dylan—essentially brainwashing her. Fortunately, it didn't stick... you see, since it never happened, the circumstances are bound to change, and they have. I actually think it's Mia that should be fined, lose custody, or do jail time for child abuse. Telling your adopted daughter to imagine and describe being molested by the adoptive father? Essentially out of spite and paranoia. Sick.
https://mosesfarrow.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-son-speaks-out-by-moses-farrow.html
It's been said time-and-time again, but polling is only reaching the increasingly diminished seniors answering their landlines. Millennials are now the largest generation alive, all now of voting age, and they are not being reflected in the polling because they are not answering their smartphones for this crap assuming it even targets those.
I reviewed the link, but took it off "national" and searched state-by-state numbers for the battleground. Biden is ahead (or at the worst, tied) in places like Minnesota, Wisconson, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Georgia, New Mexico, etc. These are places that Trump cannot afford to lose again. In fact, he pretty much has to pick them all off if he wants a narrow victory that looks more like 2016 rather than his landslide loss to Biden in 2020. And yes, by modern standards, it *was* a landslide for Biden. Look how many presidential elections in recent memory came down to 1 or 2 states and required recounts. Trump brought lawsuits (famously laughed out of court, mostly) in half a dozen states. Does that sound like the course of action of a winner?!
Biden will do even better in 2024 after he holds the convention (which comes after RNC, which provides strategic advantage), and crushes Trump in debates assuming his opponent rises to the challenge. He hasn't thus far! Trump couldn't even properly outwit Kirsten Welker.
We must not, also, overlook the long arm of the law which could likely result in juries convicting DJT on multiple felony charges. If you think this is fake news campaign tactics, you are an idiot. He is an insurrectionist and a traitor.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/who-is-greg-jacob-and-why-is-he-testifying-in-the-jan-6-hearings
Wherever you're from, and whatever you read and watch, has been an impediment to your ability to decipher the American character.
I am writing (in a larger context) to the voters of the United States during an election year. The Democratic Party of America is no longer celebrated or recognized as part of the legacy of Andrew Jackson, aside from the anti-monarchical and anti-monopolistic sentiments that he brought to it during the pre-Industrial & Gilded Age 1800s.
I weep for the education system that produced a comment of such blatant lack of reasoning, surface-level analysis, and possible covert malign intentions or cognitive dissonance.
I am an American of New England and Western upbringing, and an enlisted Naval veteran who served during the Global War on Terrorism campaign. I once visited a Confederate Museum in Greenville, SC on a road trip and Civil War excursion through various Southern states. These people peddle books and other merchandise minimizing slavery as a cause for conflict, biographies of George Wallace and other pro-segregation literature, KKK and Grand Imperial Wizard memorabilia (particularly Nathan Bedford Forrest) and books that denounce Abraham Lincoln and the Union establishment. Also, they sell Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father memoir.
Obviously, I'm kidding about the last one.
They did sell this though:
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I challenge you (or anyone else) to compliment these private citizens on their establishment and their "wokeness", and suggest that a portion of the proceeds from their sales and admission tickets go in support of the Democratic National Committee, the Biden/Harris 2024 campaign, the George Floyd Global Memorial and the NAACP.
Here's the address: 15 Boyce Ave, Greenville, SC 29601 I DARE YOU.
Please... look and think deeper... turn off Fox News and Truth Social, and join the democratic (small 'd') civilization where you will be welcomed amongst modern Republicans and Democrats who stand united and opposed to MAGA and authoritarian white supremacy.
"Between the Zionists (both Christian and Jewish) and the evangelical nationalists nutjobs, this country is heading in the wrong direction. There is a reason why the Founding Fathers wanted a separation of state and religion."
You are making the mistake of assuming that people in high levels of government, whether elected or unelected, are actually motivated by fundamentalist religious fervor in their policy goals. Do you also think George W. Bush was actually "born-again Christian?"
Biden needs to sweep up some of these evangelical nationalist nutjobs to be his voters even though they may vote Republican down-ballot, and this is the perfect moment to do so considering the way his opponent has run his courtroom "campaign." GOP or not, evangelicals are not wicked people and are likely a little skittish about the porn-star hush money leader. The ordinary voter in some of the most important swing states in the nation is essentially Ned Flanders and his family. Normally, they wouldn't be necessary to court, but Trump helps bring out the "degenerate ingrate" like no other, and these folks are typically non-voters.
You are well-read and make some thoughtful posts—but as are most Americans, what you are doing is essentially talking about the stories the media tells you to talk about. I mean, Ukraine, Israel, Iran? People die every day. Shit happens everywhere. You didn't even know about the non-European slave trade in Timbuktu, Mali until I told you, and thought Africa was a civilized place cuz that's what "wokeness" tells you. Well, guess what? Presidents and their teams DO know these things, and they help set the narrative. They WANT our focus to be Ukraine and Israel above all else. If some other story was more important to their legacy and constituency, then it would be favored in the coverage and you would make 32,000 posts on an obscure forum reflecting on that instead.
The older you get, the more you realize that you can't take election year events so seriously. Don't be so naive. Just vote Biden and support his strategy for reelection since he's the only serious candidate and his major-party opponent is a confirmed authoritarian.
Never was married to Mia Farrow, the lying slag wench. Never adopted or raised his future wife of over thirty years, Soon Yi Previn, who's foster parents are Andre Previn and Farrow. Never lived with Mia.
Ronan Farrow is Frank Sinatra's kid... old blue eyes. Never touched Dylan or Moses. A bunch of Gullibles, you all are.
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned"