A lot of stuff has been happening lately. Rayl closed after what seemed to be a pretty long closing process. I don’t know exactly what is involved with closing a company, I just know I was there a lot longer then I thought I would be cleaning up the place. I did get a new job working for a company called Ideal/Setech. They are a joint venture between the Ideal Group and Setech. Both are big companies which do a lot of work with GM. I’m the implementation project manager. What does that mean? Well, if you look at my list of duties, it means a whole lot. Basically, I’m in charge of setting up their remote facilities. The first project I will be working on is in Toledo. Heck of a commute, but it’s only until the project is finished. Then off to the next project, or a permanent job in Livonia.

Other then that, not much else is going on. Let’s see…I saw the new Halloween movie. The one thing I’ve noticed from reading online is that when it comes to Rob Zombie movies, people either love him, or really hate him. There aren’t many people that are in the middle with this guy. I was sort of in the middle with him, as I don’t love him or hate him, but I do think the movies House of a Thousand Corpses and The Devils Rejects are pretty entertaining. So I was kind of excited to see what he would do with this remake of the original Halloween. Don’t be fooled by the studios though, they call it a re-imagination of the original film, but it’s a friggin remake. That is their feeble attempt to separate this film from the negative connotation that comes with the term “remake”. Anyway, saw the movie, and hated it. Totally hated it. I loved the original Halloween. That was what all horror movies should strive to be. This new one was just garbage. Michael Meyers was an escaped mental patient that wore a creepy mask (which was originally a William Shatner mask for you trivia buffs) and stalked a baby sitter for seemingly no reason. There was no motivation, he was just a fucking psycho. Then his doctor shows up to further the point that this guy is just nuts. He states that he spent 7 years trying to rehabilitate Micheal, and the rest of the time trying to keep him locked up because he realized that he was nothing but pure evil. When your shrink says your way to fucked up to be helped, you’re in bad shape. That’s scary stuff.

This new version of the story goes back to when Michael Meyers is 10 years old. We see how he was brought up, we see his home life and how screwed up it was. We see what drove him to be a crazy killer (sort of, I mean you need to be screwed up already to start wasting people with kitchen knives). But you see how bad he had it growing up. This totally humanized him…which is not at all good for the story. This made him, NOT scary. Meyers always freaked me out, which is probably because I was a fetus the first time I saw him in the 70’s. (I probably didn’t actually watch it until the 80’s, but either way, I was young) This new Meyers was just a screwed up dude, from a fucked up home. During this movie, you actually felt bad for this kid. For a horror movie to be scary, the audience should never root for the killer. In this movie, you find yourself doing just that. To further that point, there was so much development on Michael Meyers, that when it came time to introduce Laurie to the movie, there wasn’t enough time to develop her into a character that you actually gave a shit about. So again, you didn’t care about her when Michael showed up. Also, Rob Zombie decided to incorporate the family aspect that Michael and Laurie were related which didn’t actually come out till Halloween 2. Another mistake since it furthers makes him seem more normal then this emotionless lunatic that just likes to watch people bleed.

If you’re a Halloween fan, and lets face it, if you like any kind of horror movie, you ARE a Halloween fan, then stay clear of this movie. It really was a piece of crap.