Insanely overrated
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cjh8504 — 10 years ago(March 21, 2016 12:43 PM)
I actually agree with, Barn. While, there are boring parts in Halloween, and everyone knows I dislike Nancy Loomis immensely, it's also riveting. And particularly the last 15 minutes or so, are edge of your seat exciting. I think.
RIP Wayne 'Trapper John' Rogers. MASH wasn't the same w/o you. RIP Tony Burton. RIP George Kennedy -
kurt7825 — 10 years ago(March 24, 2016 11:20 PM)
yeah. also, i watch newer movies like It Follows and the Paranormal movies and while i really like them they are just as slow paced as Halloween.
i'm not sure why younger people find Halloween so boring. i find the scariest parts to be when Michael is stalking laurie on the street. of course the killing scenes and chase scenes are scary to. it seems like something creepy or scary is always happening -
simest — 10 years ago(March 25, 2016 04:54 PM)
I agree with Kurt.
It is a mystery to me why people find any part of HALLOWEEN boring - day sequences or night.
At 90m it is a relatively short moviethere's hardly time for it to drag.
We have barely 30m of daytime sequence in the movie. In that short time we have Laurie stalked early on at the Myers house (great scene), again while in class (great scene), again on the way home behind the bush (great scene), again when she gets home out the back yard (great scene).
We should also throw in menacing moments like Annie's "speed kills" - where Myers is again prevalent and the danger ever close and the fabulous schoolyard sequence where a bully is seized by Myers and Tommy then ominously stalked - not to mention Laurie and Annie tailed by Myers en route to the Doyle/Wallace street.
That is 30 short minutes punctuated regularly by so many great moments - each of which adds a growing sense of threat and looming danger to the last.
I mean for heavens sake.how much more does one want?
Should we just fill every second with incident to avoid a 5m stretch where essential plot/dialogue scenes play out?
We're all different of course but as I said, I'm quietly amazed and in some ways saddened that people could be bored through this when there is so much to appreciate.
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cjh8504 — 10 years ago(March 26, 2016 04:26 PM)
It's a little slow paced. Sim was saying all those daytime scenes were great, of course that's just his opinion.
The punctuation to those scenes, where you saw Myers is all top notch. But just the girls talking books and cheerleading , I could do without.
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ThiefOfStars — 10 years ago(March 26, 2016 05:36 PM)
But just the girls talking books and cheer leading , I could do without.
But what would you like teenage girls in the 1970's (or any decade) to talk about to establish themselves as relatable human beings and characters that you would care about?
Like it or not, those scenes established the girls as individuals Laurie the studious introvert, Lynda the air headed, boy crazy cheerleader and Annie the sarcastic smart-ass and if you 'could do without' those scenes how would you have established the above without the existing scenes that lasted all of what, 1>2 minutes?
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