Wife really wants to watch El Royale so we might give that a go soon, somewhere among our holiday nonsense (we co-host a thanksgiving thing and then a Christmas thing for friends, plus go to multiple family things, and honestly it's pretty exhausting, plus we go to a week-long board game convention the week before thanksgiving). We also want to see the Freddie Mercury movie but I was hoping to hear from some buddies that have seen it first. I like Rami Malek well enough so that's a positive. I guess that's movies I want to see not ones I have seen, though.
Not really a movie but I just found out on Halloween this year about the David S Pumpkins animated special that SNL made last year. It was not exactly good but was good enough for what I wanted that day.
We also watched Halloween, it was the wife's first time seeing it. She's not big on horror movies. I forgot how much I love some John Carpenter's shots. He was good at doing some creepy shit like Michael Myers sitting up in the background of a shot, and him being in the backgrounds of some shots where you might not see him (or the car he stole). It also has a few jump-scares, which I fucking hate. Horror movies need more creepy shit and less jump scares. Then again, it also had some cheeeesy stuff, like the gravestone above the girl on the bed and really just that entire scene when Laurie finds their bodies. I guess we can explain some of it away by saying that Michael has the mind of a 6 year old but I feel like that only gets you so far.
And how about that asshole next door that not only turned on the lights, looked at her, and didn't let her in but also didn't bother to call the cops to say there was a screaming girl outside. Halloween night, I guess. So ignoring anyone who's in distress makes plenty of sense.
Something my wife brought up, what kind of shitty parents don't take their kids trick or treating on Halloween, and then go off to a party that isn't even a costume party, on Halloween? I guess things might have been different in the 70s but it did seem weird.