HALLOWEEN: The Aftermath

So this year for Halloween I decided to watch the Halloween franchise back to back and live tweet what I was watching. You'll notice in the image above that you do not see the two Rob Zombie Halloween flicks, that's because they're remakes so they're technically a new franchise. Also technically they're called "ROB ZOMBIE'S HALLOWEEN" and "ROB ZOMBIE'S HALLOWEEN 2" so they'd more appropriately be called the Rob Zombie's Halloween franchise. I know I'm being picky, I didn't want to include 'em in this viewing because that would have been 10 movies in one day and that is 2 movies too damn many. Why did I decide to do this? I thought it would be fun. I've always wanted to do a horror movie marathon for Halloween and since Shout Factory released Halloween III this year and another company re-released 4 and 5 I figured why not go with a marathon viewing of the Halloween franchise.
This is what I learned while watching:

• Haddonfield Illinois gets dark pretty early in October.
• Haddonfield's Memorial Hospital closes up shop around 11 p.m.
• the HMH runs with very minimal staff, probably because the emergency department closes up around 11 p.m.
• Not whole lot of patients end up at the hospital.
• The most used security company is also the most incompetent.
• Irish druids have a really weird idea of what makes "a great prank." Especially if said prank is played on kids
• They should have stopped making Halloween movies once Donald Pleasence died.
• Rob Zombie's Halloweens aren't the worst Halloween movies (thanks H20 and Ressurection)
• The Mark of Thorne plotline (Halloween 4, 5, 6) while goofy and unnecessarily complicated was actually really fun and didn't deserve to be retconned out.
• H20 was the beginning of the end of Halloween.
• It's harder than you think it would be to replicate how scary the William Shatner mask was.
• It's harder than you think to be a really frightening Michael Myers.
• There is such a thing as eating way too much candy. This has nothing to do with the movies but everything to do with what I decided to eat while watching these movies.
• Franchises that are 6 movies long are probably the maximum single sitting marathons (I really enjoyed my Planet of the Apesathon in April last year and Star Wars is always a good marathon, if you cut out credits the three Evil Deads can be watched in about 4 hours, less if you can skip the recaps) the 8 Halloween flicks took almost until midnight, including bathroom breaks and preparing lunch and dinner. I started at 8:30 a.m.

And now that they're all fresh in my mind it got me wondering: why don't fans of the Halloween movies call Michael Myers "the Boogeyman?" I know he's listed in the credits as "the Shape" and his name is Michael Myers, but EVERYONE in the movies call him "The Boogeyman" if they aren't calling him Michael Myers. I'm pretty sure he's referred to as "The Boogeyman" more often than he's called "Michael Myers." "Fans" of the Alien movies refer to the aliens as Xenomorphs even though only ONE guy ever refers to the aliens as xenomorphs ONCE in ONE movie. He's not even referring to those specific aliens as xenomorphs, he's just warning his squad that they might be dealing with a xenomorph. He's using big words to impress his troops. The only person in the room that knows what the aliens are is Ripley. In the rest of the series the Aliens are called either "the aliens" or "AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH, NOOOOO, PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!" So why over the course of seven movies, a character who is called "The Boogeyman" by EVERYONE ALL the time is not generally known as "The Boogeyman?" I'm not saying I'm going start calling him "the Boogeyman," I just think its weird how Fandom works.

Went to a live WWE event ...

C M Punk once again proving why he's one of my favorites.

You could probably guess from some of my sketches I enjoy watching Wrasslin'. I got pretty bored of it in the beginning of the 21st century when everyone seemed to be and angry bald guy with a goatee in black trunks. But near the end of last year I heard about this C M Punk guy going off on how crappy the WWE was, they were his bosses, and talking about how boring wrestling had gotten. I completely agreed with him. He also talked about how he wanted to change wrestling or something. Anyway long story short I figured I'd watch a couple episodes of RAW see how different wrestling was and was surprised at how fun things seemed to have gotten again. So after not watching it for a little more than a decade I'm back into digging wrestling. Its fun so who cares.

Any way last night Leigh and I went to out first Live WWE event ever. We had floor level seats seven rows back from the ring so they were pretty good. We enjoyed ourselves enough we're looking forward to the next time we get to go see them live.

None of the matches were terrible, there was one that featured two guys I'd never heard of before and the Divas' match seemed to go on for a long time, Cena and Kane's last man standing match spent a lot of time out side the ring so it was kind of hard to see but everything else more than made up for it.

That picture at the top? Punk had a best 2 out of 3 falls match against Dolph Ziggler which was right after the Kane / Cena match were a couple of tables were broken and the ring needed cleaning.  Ziggler had a difficult time with a broom, it kept attacking him (seriously that's what was happening).  But I managed to snap this quick shot of Punk calmly sweeping up the ring apron. They went on to have one of the best if not THE best matches of the night. I wouldn't expect less from them they're amazing performers.

Anyway here's some other cool shots Leigh and I managed to grab through out the rest of the night.

Santino Marella facing off against Jack Swagger, couldn't believe how awesome this match was and it was the first one of the night! 

Chris Jericho talking about how crummy Toronto is. The crowd hates him.

Jericho taking a break from beating up on Kofi Kingston. Now the crowd loves him.

Kane waiting to see if John Cena will get up after  he hit him with a chair, sadly he did. Kane lost. boo.

Dolph Ziggler confused by how difficult it is fighting C M Punk after his difficult match with a broom.