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Post by GL on Jun 4, 2007 10:50:40 GMT -5
For some reason, it doesn't affect me as much as it did when I first saw it. It's become too desensitized to it, and while I'm not going to deny it's a great film, I get more out of the sequels than this one.
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Post by Dr. Butcher M.D. on Dec 17, 2007 10:36:56 GMT -5
Great film. Saw it as a youngling and loved it ever since.
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Post by GL on Dec 17, 2007 11:25:00 GMT -5
It's a fun film, and while I've become really desensitized to it and don't really care that much for it now, it's still a classic in the genre.
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Post by Dr. Butcher M.D. on Dec 17, 2007 16:33:14 GMT -5
Classic indeed.
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Post by GL on Dec 19, 2007 11:31:45 GMT -5
I wouldn't put it up with the others in the series, as I somehow like those better, but this is still decent enough. I just wish I wasn't desensitized to it.
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Post by Lazario on Jan 29, 2008 6:45:08 GMT -5
4. Some of the acting just doesn't work. And by some, I mean almost 70%. But Carpenter is amazing at using the style and all the visual / production values / designs to cover that. But I'm really good at sniffing it out. Of course its genre-defining and influencial... But I can't let that take precedence over filmmaking. So many other actors (better trained, sure) work very hard to get it right. That should always be rewarded by respecting the craft. These actors try but most of them don't quite get it.
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Post by GL on Jan 29, 2008 11:07:20 GMT -5
Not bad, although you're reasoning is based around the acting thing which I can't really tell.
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Post by Lazario on Jan 29, 2008 15:32:21 GMT -5
Well, listen to the sound of their voice. If it screeches... that's a good sign the actor needs more training. If they sound like they're not sure of the way their reading of the line sounds. That's another. If a statement sounds like a question. That's yet another. If every expression on their face is the same whether they're angry, happy, sad, scared, or confused... That's even yet another.
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Post by 7 on Jan 29, 2008 18:13:13 GMT -5
The most important aspect of a horror film - in my eyes, of course - is atmosphere. And Halloween has that in spades, so I can overlook nearly all other flaws.
I find rating films on scales, any scale - to be pedantic and boring. I have two ratings: Liked It, Didn't Like It.
Halloween: Liked It
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Post by Lazario on Jan 29, 2008 19:12:39 GMT -5
Oh you won't hear me say I feel lucky to have my system. But I've chosen to deal with it instead of walk away from movies altogether.
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Post by 7 on Jan 29, 2008 19:56:30 GMT -5
I can see where you're coming from. I used to try and rate films too, but I noticed that I wasn't even watching the films anymore - I was just picking them apart. But hey, to each his, or her, own
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Post by GL on Jan 30, 2008 11:08:30 GMT -5
I've tried all the techniques, but it still looks the same to me. If during the course of the film I can attach a name to a face, I'm fine. that's good enough.
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Post by bobbygoreful on May 23, 2008 11:39:15 GMT -5
There is not much I can say that everyone has already said. Halloween is a classic, 100 percent classic, with it's chilling opening sequence down to it's supernatural ending,( yes the ending was supernatural.) Jaime Lee Curtis is cute, loveable and strong as our hero Laurie Strode and there is not a moment you do not root for her, Halloween is the perfect horror film it's scary, which I wish I could get more of. Though having teens being butchered by a masked maniac is fine with me.
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Post by Canetoad on May 25, 2008 3:51:01 GMT -5
Agreed... and Toad rewatched it for the first time in years recently, and was surprised at how effective it is with almost no graphic violence (and it's still 18+ here). Very powerful film-making, but then of course it was Carpenter ).
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Post by abraxas on Dec 13, 2009 12:20:45 GMT -5
Obviously its a classic and obviously it should get a 5, but frankly after seeing it so many times its no longer effective on a scare level.
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