Half in the Bag: Halloween Ends



It is time yet again for evil to die tonight! The online movie discussion world has turned into the angry town mob of Haddonfield with their pitchforks and irons in hand to take aim at Halloween Ends, the third and final film in the David Gordon Green trilogy of Michael Myers movies. Grab your candy corn and Activia and listen to Mike and Jay make you angry for 45 minutes!!!!

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48 thoughts on “Half in the Bag: Halloween Ends”

  1. I don't think I've ever lost more respect for two human beings in my life. I'm not just throwing that out as an idle internet comment. I actually talked this over for a friend and really thought about it and yeah… this is the most precipitous drop in respect I've ever experienced.

    At this point I wish I could just subscribe to Best of the Worst because there's no way I can take their movie reviews seriously again.

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  2. I really liked the first movie where the doctor wears his mask and then starts being insane, this would make for a great myth that there is something else than the person, but then they discarted it like it was nothing… so sad… btw, having the protagonist bullied his whole life and then goes killing every bully out there sends a pretty nasty message to society, so I don't think they would've allowed him to live and become the new michael myers…

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  3. I’m still waiting for Dexter Jettster’s prequel and quick follow up review from Plinkett. He’ll be around 127 by then, he’s got some time, that’s considered young these days..

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  4. I like the ideas in this film, but it was so clunky and disjointed (I’m mostly saying this in relation to the past two) that it didn’t work for me. I was laughing, but it felt like it was at the movie. I agree with Mike in that I think it would’ve worked if they had actually tried to implement these themes and characters into all of them instead of into whatever this finale was supposed to be. I kind of hate it right now, but whatever lol

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  5. If you don't think they could have come up with something fresh to do with Laurie and Michael, without some out of no where character taking up the whole movie, then you lack an open mind and creativity

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  6. So Cult of Thorn was terrible (it was) but magical transference of evil is not a problem? I liked the ideas at the beginning but again it's like they didn't know where to go so evil transference. lost me there.

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  7. I'm sure Mike's theory about some exec hijacking the movie is 100% true. I'm also sure that, out of spite, the director of Halloween Ends gave Mike Myers the most unambiguous, 100%-certain, hilarious death scene they possibly could.

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  8. I think one of my biggest gripes is Laurie’s character. The 40 years between the first movie and the 2018 one, she spends all the time preparing for Michael to come back. He is locked up in a maximum security asylum during that time, leaving her the opportunity to have peace of mind if she chose. He comes back and kills like 30 people between 2018 & Kills, then disappears. And THATS when she decides “you know what? Time to move on”. It literally makes absolutely no god damn sense.

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  9. I love how Mike has apparently been dealing with the trauma of liking Jurassic world this whole time LOL. I still remember Dunkey commenting on that video taking a shot at him.

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  10. "This is the final chapter of a trilogy; why is it a trilogy?"

    Because people incompetent enough to be overpaid by Hollywood have heard of a Three Act Structure, but not actually learned what an Act is, and only know that counting to three is what they're supposed to be doing with their careers.

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  11. It is not a trilogy. It’s one Halloween film in 3 different concepts. The first film was a Halloween where he is a 60 year old still dangerous killer. That is the wrap up that most fans needed. Then the second is a concept of him being non human. Just a vessel of pure evil. With this Curtis is dwarf back to a senile crazy useless woman character. The final concept would take place in the first film BUT Curtis didn’t even do what she did in the first film and was just a normal senile grandma. The town has no knowledge of Michael because he never killed those people. He instead just escaped and went to the sewers because he was locked in an asylum for 40 years. With zero ability to drive or map direction, he has to resort to waiting by a sewer and kill whatever comes his way. He goes from being a shark with killer instinct and no remorse. To a snapping turtle that’s slow, small and long game.

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  12. It's a film that tried to please both people who wanted a final showdown between Laurie and Michael and also people that wanted the franchise to do something new for once, it failed at both, it should've really committed to just one thing. I liked Corey, some things about his character and the relationship with allyson felt a bit rushed but the whole "evil changes shape" aspect was great.

    They needed to do just one single thing that would've elevated the finale: having it so Corey's corpse disappears after the Laurie vs Michael fridge moment, and then having him staring at the final procession/meat grinder scene from far away, only to disappear in the darkness of the night. It would've reinforced the movie's idea and also completed the circle.

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  13. I didn't want more of the same, I just wanted it to be good especially considering its the end to Laurie's arc. Saying it's good because it's different is like chewing on 5 pieces of shit in a row then getting to the last piece and thinking it tastes good because this one has a milky aftertaste. Different shit is still just shit.

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  14. I enjoy this movie a lot more if I pretend a lot of the stuff in the previous 2 didn't happen. The Corey stuff is the best in this movie. But Laurie's temperament, Myers being weak, all that shit makes no in the context of this series. However, ENDS is way better than Kills.

    I do like the idea of as soon as Michael is grinded down to mush Coery sits up. But nerds wouldn't like it at all. As Jay says, " it's not Michael Myers."

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  15. I can't stop thinking about this film, the audacity. Loved it. DGG expanded the themes of the original and made Michael bigger, much bigger than he ever was. I was engrossed the entire time and giddy that he delivered a story that made Michael's evil palpable. It swallows the town and then Corey. Who needs seeing Michael in his makeshift bed or eating a stray dog. KILLS was non-stop slasher mayhem but with a boring, boilerplate script that TELLS without SHOWING. "Michael is transcending," Laurie says for no reason whatsoever. But in ENDS we SEE him transcend from being a man in a sewer to an infecting evil. I know this film will only grow in stature over time.

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  16. Michael grabbing Laurie and tossing her into the grinder….fade to black, would’ve redeemed this POS film, at least by a c@nt hair. People go to watch the guy in the white mask kill people, and live to see another day…to kill some more. The only good thing about this film, is the fact we’ll never see crazy/activist/yogurt lady again.

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