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Originally Posted by bobbyh64
The lighting and framing are factors, but I think the main reason is that his physicality is too awkward. He seems like some goofy guy pretending to be Myers as opposed to the real deal. When he stands or walks his legs are wide apart and his arms stick out. Looks like someone trying to look intimidating when they’re the complete opposite. I don’t think it’s entirely his fault though. The mask is pretty terrible and the pants are too long and baggy.
And as you said, some of the framing isn’t that good. This shot (with an H6 mask) is probably the best shot of Myers in the film. Too bad there couldn’t have been more of this.
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Yeah the coveralls were way too baggy in H20; definitely did not like! I still think I'll take Durand's performance over George Wilbur or Brad Loree's though.
Despite H4 being my favorite sequel, I think Wilbur's is the weakest of all the original shape performances. He's way too stiff and clunky in his movements and the padding he has in H4 doesn't help, nor does his weight in H6. The only time the shape looks good in H4 is when it's Tom Morga. Same with H6, I prefer when it's A. Michael Lerner playing the shape (although I don't like the way that Lerner clutches his fists so much).
Brad Loree has this weird mechanical glid to him that makes him look like he's powerwalking everywhere.
I have the opposite problem with Dick Warlock weirdly enough where I feel like he's moving too slow at times. The walk he does between the Elrod house and Alice's house at the start of the movie is cool, as is the walk he does when he bumps into the radio kid on the street, but there's a few parts in the hospital that make the shape look soooo slow, like after he pulls back the sheet on the hospital bed to see that Laurie isn't there, he turns around so slowly to leave after violently stabbing into the stack of pillows. Or when he's chasing Laurie and Loomis into the operating room, there's that wide shot of him walking down a hallway towards them that lacks any sense of urgency for me because he's taking so long to get to them! Maybe all those gunshot wounds were starting to have an effect, haha
IMHO, the shape shouldn't ever look like he's exerting himself too much when he walks
but he should move with a sense of purpose. It's a hard balance to strike, but I think that's what works so great about Castle's and Courtney's performances, and to a lesser extend Shanks' and Durand's (and sometimes works for me with Warlock's), there's something a little more natural and relaxed about them. Just my two cents.
And for the record, I'm not including Tyler Mane's performance because it's deliberately meant to be so much different from the rest, but it fits the tone of Zombie's movies (for better or worse).
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