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worst movie ever!

First, thanks to the Mirror for the preview tickets to Halloween II. Don’t get me wrong, it was a thrill to go to the premiere.

We felt it only fair to give you our review of the movie. My wife wrote the review, she is a Rob Zombie fan through and through—cried at the end of The Devil’s Rejects type fan. If anyone could be counted on to be unbiased it’s her.

No spoilers? The entire movie is a spoiler. Rancid. Crap. Worst movie ever made. I won’t even buy it for my Zombie collection, it would stink up the place. No exaggeration. Halloween II is the biggest waste of two hours since The Boogeyman and even Boogeyman had more merit than this waste of film.

If you really feel the need to blow two hours of your life in a more constructive manner than seeing this garbage, buy some paint, paint a wall and watch it dry.

Okay, why was it bad? Oh, let me count the ways:

1. Absolutely no character development at all. None, zip, nada. 2. No plot, no story. 3. No acting. Michael Myers was a welcome relief—at least he didn’t try to talk. 4. Hack job editing. 5. Lousy, lousy cinematography.

By the end of the movie, which seems interminable, like a root canal, you are wishing—no, you are praying, for Michael to kill the heroine just to stop her two hour screaming and crying jag. Two hours of it.

Do not waste your time and money. This movie is destined for the discount bin at Wal-Mart and even there it will sit on the bottom, where it should have gone in the first place.”

>>A diehard Rob Zombie fan

Enough with the
Israel debate

[Re: “Re-re-explaining Israel,” Letters, Aug. 13] Enough with the Israel-Palestine squabbling. The debate is tired, repetitive and reminiscent of a schoolyard showdown that never ends. Why does this local newspaper choose to cover the topic ad nauseam? Aren’t our local problems sufficiently letter-to-the- editor-worthy? The Middle-East is for The Economist.

I’m sure that weekly entertainment papers in Tel-Aviv are not full of articles or letters discussing our constant language bickering in Quebec.

>>Jack

The debate continues

[Re: “Re-re-explaining Israel,” Letters, Aug. 13] I find it incredibly ironic, if not hypocritical, that people like John Dirlik, Shirley Groves, the staff of the Mirror, and millions of leftist armchair activists in Western countries seemingly feel such indignation at the evil Zionists occupying a tiny sliver of land, to which they have historical and even religious ties.

Whereas not a word comes from any of you about the fact that we, the “Canadians,” are living on occupied land hundreds of times larger than Israel, land to which we have absolutely no ties and no rights, and yet, when was the last letter to the editor the Mirror published on this subject?

>>Igor Gutman, an atheist Jew who supports little Israel with all his heart

[Re: “The pasta diaspora,” Letters, Aug. 20] Mr. Binder considers concern for issues of human rights and international humanitarian laws a hobby. Well, I have news for Mr. Binder. He had better get used to the idea that this is one hobby that is not going to disappear, and that not only are the numbers of people who have “disapproving, negative and derogatory arguments” and engage in “repetitious diatribes about Israel” on a significant increase worldwide, but a very large proportion of people at the forefront of such a “hobby” are Jews and even Israelis.

Perhaps Mr. Binder should educate himself about the number of Israeli human rights organizations obsessed with this same “hobby.” For you, Mr. Binder, perhaps the seeking of justice and fundamental human rights for a long-oppressed people is a mere trivial hobby, but for many others it is a deep value worth struggling for and committing to. There are huge numbers of Jews for whom the term “never again” means “never again for anyone, not just Jews.”

>>Mira Khazzam

[Re: “Re-re-explaining Israel,” Letters, Aug. 13] If Israel is Barry Merson’s “home,” can he please inform us why he, along with millions of other Jews, choose not to “return”?

>>Lina Magliola

[Re: “Re-re-explaining Israel,” Letters, Aug. 13] Barry Merson complaining that his “facts” about Israel are met with “propaganda” brings to mind Mark Twain’s quip that “it’s not what people don’t know that’s the problem, but what they know that just ain’t so.”

Merson’s “facts” have been repeatedly and irrefutably exposed as fiction. Unable to challenge his detractors, poor Merson must resort to: “I stand by all the facts that I stated”—as though sheer repetition can lend him credence.

Newsflash: crude propaganda inevitably elicits rebuttals. Get used to it.

>>Patrice Bombardier

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