While I disagree with your opinion (I actually couldn’t disagree more), you have the right to your opinion.
My favorite Halloween soundtrack is the 1981, 1978, and the 2018 Halloween Trumiphet!
Yeah, I see what you mean man. I’d suggest to stay away from the Facebook group. I’m mainly on there to see what’s for sale, a lot of really nice guys and hard core collectors left that group. It’s a really toxic environment.
I was just being funny with my comment, wasn’t meant to be taken seriously. Everyone has their own opinion and that’s cool 
We’re cool dude.
All very good music choices. Most of the movies in this franchise have amazing soundtracks. I think the soundtrack in the 2007 is pretty good as well.
I’ve honestly been thinking about leaving the Halloween Facebook groups, for now I’ve just muted them. It’s ridiculously toxic.
This might be sacrilege, but I almost prefer him to Castle. He feels like the same character, but just a lot more sadistic and cruel. Almost as if he was playing around with his prey in the first movie and after 40 years of not being able to kill anyone he’s just having a bloody ball. It feels intentional on DDG’s part to make this difference too, as with the flashback scene in Kills, Myers goes for a more traditional strangulation than any sort of gorier murder we see in present-day.
For one, I think he feels much more like a natural progression of what Nick did in the original than Warlock or Durand if I’m gonna compare him to the sequel Myers’. In movement, presentation, and what he’s actually given to work with, it all feels to me like the 78 version but just a lot more sinister in how much pain he likes to cause. That creepy weirdness to the character where he seemingly does odd things to bodies just for the sake of curiosity finally returns, with the best example by far being his murder of the old couple in Kills. The way he sticks the old woman with the glass and just leaves her there to watch while he plays around with knives on her dead husband feels very much in the same vein as the Bob kill, where he’s almost making art from a corpse. In a lot of the other sequels, Myers only goes so far as to maybe hang or sit the body somewhere, which always felt a little tame compared to how he orchestrated the corpses like decorations in the original.
I don’t really see your Tyler Mane comparison either, at least in portrayal. I suppose you could argue the way he’s used in H18 and Kills is more akin to the way Mane was used in the Zombie flicks since he’s mostly killing and not stalking, but in terms of movement and just overall feel, I don’t think they’re alike at all. Tyler Mane was a very angry, emotional sort of brute that killed in a lot of rage. JJC’s Michael feels more like a sadistic predator, who genuinely seems to get off on what he’s doing in the same way Nick Castle’s Shape seemed to get off on stalking and scaring. JJC feels to me like they took Nick Castle’s Myers, made him a lot more vicious, and used him as more traditional slasher villain than the more ghostly-figure approach of the original. Then also maybe made him a little taller, but that’s neither here nor there.
I actually agree with you on this. JJC is basically joint first place with Castle for me at this point. I always felt that his lack of stalking and playfulness in the DGG movies was because he’s been locked up for 40 years, and that’s 40 years of pent up killing potential just building and building. He doesn’t have the time or patience to be as “mischevious” as he was before, he just kills and kills to get it out of his system, but for him, it will never be enough. There won’t ever be a stage for him where he stops because he’s killed enough. I also agree with your take on the Tyler Mane version. His was a very angry version of the character. No real mystery as to why, and its a far less appealing version.
After re-watching some of the remake recently, I still think JJC is very similar to Tyler Mane. Tyler’s performance in the remake is kinda weird in a way.
I like to split Tyler’s performance in two. His performance before he puts on the mask feels a lot more aggressive, and chaotic in his movements. However once he has the mask on, he seems a lot more calm, and composed.
Courtney’s performance feels very reminiscent of Tyler’s performance in the later half of the remake. They’re both very brutish. Also imo Courtney doesn’t really come off sadistic in his portrayal, brutal sure, but not sadistic.
Nick Castle had a background in dancing which is why his movements came off very fluid, and cat like in the original.
Am I wrong to think when Michael chases Karen it’s very Castle like?
His walk is ok, he’s a bit slower than Castle though. The rest of his performance doesn’t feel very Castle like, especially during the firefighter scene.
I thought it was spot on. It deffo had a NC walk to it.
Well thats because MM was killing them like no one’s business, so of course it would be nothing like NCs version.
Exactly, Michael is doing things in kills he’s never done in the original so itd look odd but jjc did a solid job for that
I think he did a really good job. The mask helped quite a bit too. They should have never shown any part of his face/head though w/o the mask. That was a huge misstep.
When I think Michael Myers I instantly go to the original film and Nick Castle’s portrayal of The Shape. JJC was pretty close with some of the Castle mannerisms that only us fans would really catch. It wasn’t perfect but it sure as hell was better than what came before. I just never bought the actors portraying Michael in the sequels. Halloween 4 is clearly a completely different guy. Ruins the entire movie for me. Reminds me of an actor in a haunted house pretending to be Michael Myers.
If you get the monster right you’re already ahead of the game. The Blumhouse films may not be great but at least they do okay depicting The Shape, something I haven’t been able to say since Halloween II (1981).
I don’t blame you for sticking with the original as your favorite, especially with all the wired choices made in the previous movies.
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I was rewatching 2018 a few weeks ago, JJC does the classic sit up very well. But I’m not a fan of his walk and most of his movements. He’s too stiff, both with his walk and upper body movements. It’s a problem I have with most of the Michael portrayals in the sequels. He feels more influenced by Warlock, except for the sit up which feels very Nick Castle influenced.
In retrospect, JJC’s movements during the fire fighter fight in Kills is a lot better compared to 2018 as a whole. He’s a lot faster and not as stiff in that scene.
Nick was very quick and agile for most of the original, jumping out like a Jack In The Box when ambushing the characters, and power walking while chasing Laurie down the stairs and across the street.
Most of the sequels portray him as very slow, stiff and, lumbering. Which granted Michael was stiff when he sat up and slowly sunk up on Laurie at the end.
But for most of the rest of the movie, Nick Castle’s very quick and cat like as JJC puts it. There’s a predatory aspect to Michael’s movements for most of Halloween 1978, that’s missing in most of the sequels.