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Thanks CJ. I did have a nice Easter with family and ate some good food. Hope yours was nice as well.
BTW Are you gonna see any classics in theaters this year? I'm seeing Willy Wonka, Planet of the Apes, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Ferris Bullers Day Off, The Shining and On the Waterfront.

It's all about soul. Good to see you, Some. Where've you been hiding yourself. Hope you had a nice Easter.
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I really don't know how you could find it overrated or slow, as in boring slow. I happen to love slow paced films. I just saw The Force Awakens at my second run theater, and it was like watching a 2 hour trailer. Ridiculous ADD pacing.
I love the sleepy feel of the day half of the film. The creepiness of Michael stalking the girls builds and builds for me. This is his the story had to be told. There's not too many plot points in the first half of the film.
As for it being overrated, I just don't see it as that, as most people. The tone is perfect with boogeyman theme. It's executed perfectly. It's the little things like Loomis' terrific lines, which would probably go over a typical slasher fan's head.
This movie has soul.

That's true, Dave.
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Agreed, but a lot of people compare it to the past 3 decades of horror, not realizing simpler times, simpler methods and lazily slap an overrated label on it to make themselves feel better.
"He came home." - Dr. Sam Loomis from the original HalloweeN

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i never thought of that. those are better than what i use

I just use upper case i's or lower case l's.
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the only option i have is to use these line things ||||. i don't have roman numerals or anything

I know. How are you making the ll, Kurt?
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|| sucks. you like the worst movies ever.
just kidding

Agreed, though I prefer II.
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i think it is

Greatest horror ever made

Star Wars TFA is highly overrated. Halloween is scary and not boring at all. i'm surprised it isn't rated 8.5 or higher

HALLOWEEN wasn't made for people who WANT to see people get killed. It's designed for people who are afraid of seeing people killed.
Very well said. The majority of these types of movies are garbage exactly for this reason. The good movies concentrate on the humans, the bad ones on the gore. A lot of fans just watch these films for the killings, but the ones that grasp storytelling, atmosphere and characterization will get more out of certain films.
Death by stereo

the fact the original poster is saying halloween is trying to be a slasher is frankly, absurd. that's like saying the telegraph was trying to be the internet.
Exactly right.
LBJ's mistress on JFK:

thank you for saying everything i had planned on saying when i read the original post. lol you hit the nail on the head with every single point. "slasher" wasnt even a genre when halloween came out, it CREATED the genre. and in the early years of slasher films there werent these fans who identified with the killer. that happened much later. the original point was to root for the final girl.
after time and when the genre started to become a bit ridiculous people just kind of changed the way they watched them and it became almost like a sport, rooting for the killer to get another one. but that was not the point in the beginning. like you said you were identifying with the victims hoping they got away. (personally when i watch a horror movie i still watch it with this mindset and that's why i cant stand any of the films where the characters are crap).
that is a big problem with younger people who watch older movies like this for the first time NOW with all of the information they already have about films that came after it. they cant put themselves back in time and appreciate it for what it was then. the fact the original poster is saying halloween is trying to be a slasher is frankly, absurd. that's like saying the telegraph was trying to be the internet. lol

HALLOWEEN wasn't made for people who WANT to see people get killed. It's designed for people who are afraid of seeing people killed. I really don't think the bloodthirsty slasher fan types even existed back then.
If you're looking for creative and plentiful "kills", I wouldn't have recommended HALLOWEEN to you. I would've suggested THE BURNING or THE PROWLER, something along those lines.
By the way, no one involved in making HALLOWEEN regarded it as a " slasher" during production. That label hadn't been invented yet.

Very good.
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Quite the saxophonist?
RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time. RIP Matt Roberts. You were great.

i'm thinking dave koz.
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