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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 343932" data-attributes="member: 23">Yes - I think when a film was first watched can have a lot of influence on how much we enjoy it.I was very late discovering slashers as I&#039;d avoided them altogether until 1997 when I was introduced to them by a friend who was obsessed with slashers (to quite a worrying degree, looking back on it. He devoured all of them, even the obscure ones that were straight-to-video, TV movies or ripoffs of other franchises). I think Scream and Scream 2 were my entrée to the genre (Scream 2 was the first slasher I watched in the cinema).I wish I could remember where Halloween came along. I remember watching H2O at the cinema, and I think it was my first encounter with the series. It&#039;s certainly the one that had the biggest impact on me, and I still do like those slick, slightly glossy late-Nineties films because that&#039;s the time I lost my slasher virginity. That&#039;s a big part of the reason why Halloween/H2/H20 has been my preferred timeline.I like the Jamie Lloyd films - especially Halloween 4 which has a wonderful atmosphere and reboots the story in a creative way - but I suppose because it was already retconned out of continuity by the time I first watched 4-6 it&#039;s always felt like an alternative reality to me. Still... there have still been some years when it&#039;s been exactly what I wanted to watch and hit the spot as my timeline of choice.I do wonder how people who experienced the Jamie Lloyd films as they came out felt about H20 . In a way it&#039;s the equivalent to Dallas&#039;s dream solution since it writes off something in which the audience had been invested.I had a feeling this might be the case, and it&#039;s great to think that I might end up feeling the same way as well. From what I&#039;ve seen it does look like there&#039;s been a lot of attention paid to the details and I&#039;m hopeful that the three films form a really satisfying, well-constructed arc (even if, as you said, there&#039;s some filler).Ha ha. Mr. Behind-The-Times strikes again. I&#039;m looking forward to catching up with it... eventually. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 343932, member: 23"] Yes - I think when a film was first watched can have a lot of influence on how much we enjoy it. I was very late discovering slashers as I'd avoided them altogether until 1997 when I was introduced to them by a friend who was obsessed with slashers (to quite a worrying degree, looking back on it. He devoured all of them, even the obscure ones that were straight-to-video, TV movies or ripoffs of other franchises). I think [I]Scream[/I] and [I]Scream 2 [/I]were my entrée to the genre ([I]Scream 2 [/I]was the first slasher I watched in the cinema). I wish I could remember where [I]Halloween[/I] came along. I remember watching [I]H2O[/I] at the cinema, and I [U]think[/U] it was my first encounter with the series. It's certainly the one that had the biggest impact on me, and I still do like those slick, slightly glossy late-Nineties films because that's the time I lost my slasher virginity. That's a big part of the reason why [I]Halloween/H2/H20[/I] has been my preferred timeline. I like the Jamie Lloyd films - especially [I]Halloween 4 [/I]which has a wonderful atmosphere and reboots the story in a creative way - but I suppose because it was already retconned out of continuity by the time I first watched [I]4-6 [/I]it's always felt like an alternative reality to me. Still... there have still been some years when it's been [U]exactly[/U] what I wanted to watch and hit the spot as my timeline of choice. I do wonder how people who experienced the Jamie Lloyd films as they came out felt about [I]H20[/I] . In a way it's the equivalent to [I]Dallas's[/I] dream solution since it writes off something in which the audience had been invested. I had a feeling this might be the case, and it's great to think that I might end up feeling the same way as well. From what I've seen it does look like there's been a lot of attention paid to the details and I'm hopeful that the three films form a really satisfying, well-constructed arc (even if, as you said, there's some filler). Ha ha. Mr. Behind-The-Times strikes again. I'm looking forward to catching up with it... eventually. ;) [/QUOTE]

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