Do you think Rob Zombie's Halloween remakes are better than the originals?

[FreddysFingers]

[COLOR="Red"]Obviously they aren't better than the originals. But thye aren't terribly horrible films either.

I respect him for taking Halloween 2 in a completely batshit crazy direction, as opposed to bending to the wills of the study, which you can tell he did with the first Halloween.

The first Halloween wasn't completely all bad. It had some interesting dynamics and a lot going for it. As far as the remakes of the big three slashers are concerned, it's ahead of Friday the 13th in quality and lightyears ahead of that piece of trash Elm Street remake.

Agreed, Zombie should continue to direct his own original work. Anybody see his Woolite commercial he just directed. Pretty creepy stuff for a commercial about laundry detergent.[/COLOR]

I don't think I was pissed off about the direction so much as the characters. I hated Laurie, Loomis and young Michael. Three characters that are essentially the entire film and he had to make one a party-hard bitch, another an egotistical doctor, and a whiney brat who kills animals. Zombie is a great director, as evidenced through the Halloween films, but he shouldn't have been allowed to write them. His intentions were great but that kind of "white horse" mythological bullshit shouldn't be in a Halloween movie. If any supernatural element was allowed, it should be vague like the original. Gives it an ominous tone.