What gets me about this scene is how he knows Michael survived and is somewhere nearby, but he takes time to talk shit to the neighbor instead of reloading the damn gun!
And everyone knows when the killer is slowly walking towards you in a movie, relaoding a revolver usually 3nds in panic and shaking dropping most of the bullets on the floor
Loomis isn't scared of Michael Myers because he is the only true father Michael has ever had and he knows it. Loomis is the only man who ever actually sat down and listened to Michael as a child. Loomis knows him better than he does. Michael Myers respects loomis too much to kill him and Loomis understands that too. That is why Loomis doesn't fear him. Loomis fears for other people's lives, not his own.
@@JamaicaZ160R1793010A There is absolutely no reason why this couldn't have happened before Myers escaped to the alleys, where he was apprehended at the Myers home. It fits like a glove.
He's the only one who has common sense and is smart. Dr Loomis is just plain awesome. I am seriously going to miss him The guy is a legend. Who will be remembered for Halloween 1-6. Except for the 3rd one there was no Dr Loomis or Michael in that one but I loved that one too.
Out of every supporting character in a horror movie, no one was more awake on the situation than Loomis. He saw this monster in the form of a man, and knew the only way to stop such a monster was a well placed bullet!
What i didn't understand about this scene was that in the original halloween movie when michael disappeared after been shot, loomis reaction was that he wasn't surprised that michael got up and walked away because he thought that he wasn't human.. Fan theories also said the same thing. Yet on this movie he looked shocked that he wasn't there
That and why did Michael leave if his target was his sister the whole time? She is still there and Michael could probably take him out, especially since he is out of ammo. I guess that is the one good thing about Halloween 2018 retconning this.
It’s sort of retconning the ending of the first. Micheal falls off the front balcony rather than the back. They also used a different take of Laurie talking to Tommy and Lindsey. And to top it off, Loomis doesn’t look over the balcony, he only realises Micheal is gone when he goes to the front door. All very odd decisions considering the transition from 1 to 2 is intended to be pretty much seamless on paper, but then it probably works better for the film both in terms of being a more dramatic opening as well as getting the audience up to speed, as it had been 3 years since the original by the time it came out. Micheal might not seem like such a threat from the offset of the film if Loomis seemed so nonchalant. Despite that I think it was a mistake to make Loomis so panicked from the start of the scene, although it still works really well as Donald Pleasance absolutely sells it with his marvellous performance. It might have been better in my opinion had they completely preserved continuity from the first film, and have Loomis act a little more calmly as he initially speaks to the neighbour, focusing on reloading his revolver, not even facing him as he speaks. Then as the neighbour says he’s been trick or treated to death tonight, he makes eye contact with him and spouts his famous line. The rest could play out exactly the same.
I always felt like Donald Pleasance's reaction to seeing Michael gone in Halloween 1978 to his reaction in Halloween 2 wasn't really consistent. I remember John Carpenter saying in the original Donald played the scene two ways. 1.) Knowing Michael wasn't going to be there and 2.) Being shocked that he wasn't there. Idk but it's still good acting.
Anyone notice his raincoat is a different design and a size bigger? The sheriff's sideburns are also an inch shorter than they were in 1978, which throws up the idea that while his daughter Annie was being murdered, he popped home midshift to shave them shorter. And Jamie's wig ha ha. Also in The Fog in 1979, Tom Atkins asked Jamie where's she's from, and she replies Pasadena, which is where Halloween was made.
Damn they ruined an incredible scene. I was getting into it remembering how incredible of an opening sequence this was and then....the worst part of the internet happened.
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The horrible, foreboding horns as he comes out to inspect the area. His face, he looks confused, terrified. Completely lost. His worst fears confirmed. Evil is on the loose now
Lol finally somebody who gets the scene and I mean actually gets the scene it was meant to be funny not scary me and my buddy always left at this part of growing up and now somebody actually edited made it funny as fuck
Frankly, the Halloween franchise was at its best with Loomis and Michael having that "Ahab and the whale" type of dynamic. The modern trilogy being pure Laurie and Michael just wasn't satisfying. The original film had thrills and terror because of Laurie, but the audience believed that terror because of Loomis and the amazing performance of Donald Pleasance.
