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Thanks.
It's a matter of taste I suppose. I don't like the original Halloween 2. There was time when I did, but know it bores me. I also have no interest in the majority of these horror remakes. They have all been a huge disappointment. (I'm going to watch Last House remake tonight. Love the original, dreading this remake.) So for Rob Zombie to deal with the original H2 for 15 minutes (more effectively than anything Rosenthal did) and then scrap it for an original take on the franchise I thought was a wise decision. A straight remake would have been far more offensive to me.
You might be right about Mike being a finesse killer, but that's because of Carpenter's style. Personally I don't think movies like that work today. As I get older I appreciate seeing the reality-based brutality and horror of violence as depicted on screen. It's more interesting to me to see Zombie's chest pounding knife kills with all of their intensity and bloodsplattered aftermath than to see Michael Myers stab a nurse in the back with a tiny scalpel and lift her into the air ridiculously, or burning a nurses face in the hot tub lifting her out every few seconds so we can see the damage. Those things just don't resonate with me now the way they did when I was 14.
Again though...you haven't seen the film. To each his own. I would rather spend my money on a director trying to do something with his material than a studio pumping out franchise fodder like Final Destination in 3D. Trying and failing is better to me. (Although I don't think RZ failed with this movie.)