Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

lukem-52760 H20 is a BRILLIANT Thriller, i remember when it first hit the cinema in the 90s & it was the biggest film around, i couldn't wait to see it but was too young at the time so had to wait to buy it on video aww the good 'ol days. H20 is so well made & so well acted especially by Jamie lee curtis who gives the best performance of her career in my opinion as the older & more troubled Laurie strode. The music is Fantastic,a nice new score mixed wuth carpenters classic theme & the cinematography is really gorgeous & slick looking a real Thriller look. Josh Hartnett is great in this film as Laurie's fed up troubled son John. Now i love Halloween '78 of course it's a classic but i didn't really like H2 '81 as i thought it was stupid & unnecessary especially making myers her brother!!! There is some fun kills & the creepy hospital setting is really well used But the silly "brother" twist was silly but it had to happen for the brilliant H20 to exist so gotta take the bad with the good. Anyway loved H20 ever since watching it hundreds of times on video & it's one of the only BRILLIANT films in the troubled Halloween franchise the greats are HALLOWEEN (1978), HALLOWEEN 2 (1981),HALLOWEEN 4 (1987),HALLOWEEN 3: SEASON OF THE WITCH (1982) & HALLOWEEN H20 (1998), these are all fantastic Halloween films but the rest are silly & boring except the very good Rob zombie reboots

tuckerconstable-07055 20 years later, Laurie Strode is living under a new alias and is now working as a teacher at a college. However, Michael Myers has come back to Haddonfield in search of Strode after learning of her new alias. If that weren't bad enough, Laurie's son is being watched by Myers. But, this time Strode is tired of constantly running from the boogeyman and she's not gonna take it anymore. She's ready to face her greatest fear head on."Halloween H20" is the seventh film in the Halloween franchise and it's surprisingly fresh for that number. The overblown plot of Michael being involved in some crazed Kool-Aid cult has now been dropped, which is a wise move. Instead, he's brought back to his roots as just a crazed maniac hiding under a mask. Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode and gives arguably her best performance in the whole series. Her character has grown leaps and bounds since we last saw her in "Halloween II". She's much stronger and more willing to fight for what she loves. She's no longer the meek, teenager she once was. If there's any complaint with "H20" it's that it's not as scary as the films before it. The influence of Wes Craven's "Scream" can be felt all over this picture. Instead of going for all out scares, "H20" instead has more of a fun feeling than anything. That's not to say fun is a bad thing, but in certain scenes the intensity of the original feels a little watered down.Despite it's flaws, "Halloween H20" is a very strong entry in the Halloween franchise. It's smart, fun and has some good scares, and isn't that what Halloween is all about?

Realrockerhalloween H20 was the twentieth anniversary that features the return or I like to call it revenge of Laurie Strode.Jamie had realized during lunch that twenty years had pass since the original film and wanted to do a follow up film. She wanted to get the whole crew back and John Carpenter to direct. He refused after divorcing himself after his anthology idea was ruined. I consider Halloween, the fog, season of the witch, Prince of darkness and the thing his true series.Williamson wrote a script that was quite different from the finished project yet Jamie didn't want her character to be seen as a bad mother.I don't blame her. Who wants to look bad?The supporting castes were all fresh faced and did fine. The Halloween theme and scream score mix well together.The only problem is Donald Pleasence passed away before It was even dreamed of. It truly was the final Halloween in my opinion.

Leofwine_draca Yet another HALLOWEEN sequel, this one directed by Steve Miner, the guy responsible for Friday the 13th Part 2 and HOUSE. As to be expected, it's not much cop, following the modern horror conventions too closely and therefore failing to generate any surprise or thrills by the fact that we already know what's coming. The plot is terrible, with events which occur not being explained or explainable, and details being passed by or glossed over in favour of dumping the cast and the killer in a deserted school.Watching this film, you will spot many take-offs of other movies (Michelle Williams looking out of the window and seeing Michael just like Curtis did in HALLOWEEN). The director would call these "homages", I myself call them "lack of ideas". Also, surprisingly, there are many continuity errors and mistakes. I wish they could have taken a little more time to polish things instead of rushing this out and leaving all the errors in, it really makes the editors look incompetent.While no actor is particularly bad, nobody really shines in this film. Adam Arkin (in some medical television series I believe) is pretty bland as Curtis' grey-haired lover who wears jumpers just like my old grandad. LL Cool J lends some comic relief as he recites erotic stories to his wife on the phone, but this humour is out of place in a HALLOWEEN film and just doesn't fit. Can someone explain to me how he was shot seven or eight times (twitching as the bullets entered his body) and yet manages to survive? The last we see of him is his corpse, laying in a pool of blood and riddled with bullets, then he returns at the end to tell us that the bullets only 'grazed' him. Yeah, right.The young cast are all pretty bad and sort of merge into one, nobody is memorable. Michelle Williams is in fact awful as a female token love interest, but to be fair she is given literally nothing to do in the story apart from run around. The only one who's at least partially adequate is Josh Hartnett who plays Laurie's tough son, he manages to be both believable and likable. Unfortunately he is in it too little, as Jamie Lee Curtis dominates the film. Much has been made of how Curtis puts in a brilliant portrayal of an alcoholic woman plagued by nightmares, but to be honest she wasn't that brilliant. Good, perhaps, but not brilliant, and her performance was definitely not enough to make this film into a classic.Which leaves us with Michael himself. Once again he's played by a different actor and he's even more absurd this time around, with his spiky hair bushing around the sides of his mask. Excuse me? Not the Michael I know, get yourself a haircut man. Unfortunately the camera dwells on his eyes far too often, making him not in the least bit scary, for as they say, the eyes are the windows to the soul. The murders are all clichéd and generic, the only good bit being where a girl has her leg broken and nearly ripped off. Otherwise it's the typical slashings and stabbings which we've seen millions of in these past few years.Leave it to Kevin Williamson to pepper the film with unwanted in-jokes. Janet Leigh has the PSYCHO music playing, while characters watch SCREAM and SCREAM 2 on televisions. These I could have done without; this is meant to be a horror film, not a comedy horror like SCREAM was. What an arrogant fellow that Williamson seems to be. There are other elements which are pretty nauseating too, like a poor actor doing an impression of Donald Pleasence (they dedicated the film to him, but managed to spell his name wrong in the process!). HALLOWEEN H20: TWENTY YEARS LATER is better than the previous sequel (thanks to a refreshingly short running time), but even so it's only average at best, marred by one too many false jumps and a lack of real scares.