Don't listen to him....he's Canadian....his brain is frozen.

hell no - its been really warm here ...
last year was the worst summer in memory - this summer is pretty damn good so far.

short skirts and bare legs .....mmmmmmmmm



anyway - see the damn movie !!

Liked-

Virtuosity

House of 1000 Corpses- I didn't think it was great but it wasn't bad either, I did feel like it was ripping off TCM a bit but after they got into the house I let that go. I think Rob Zombie made everything his own way.

Lost in Translation- It seems to run to slow for everybody, I admit it does move slow but I don't have a problem with it at all, I think it's a great film.


Disliked-

Blair Witch Project- the majority here seems to hate it and rightfully so but everybody I know likes it.

I'm more than sure there's more but I can't think of 'em right now.

The first time I saw Halloween I didn't have the slightest idea who John Carpenter was, you could be right about other people but I highly doubt it. Just because you didn't like it doesn't mean that everybody that does like it only does because it was directed by Carpenter but hey ''To each his own''



I'm not sure why there's mentions of Land of the Dead, seems that the majority here doesn't like it.

i saw it at the theatre when it was released.
it scared the living shit out of everyone because no one had seen anything like it before.
no one knew who carpenter was - it was this film that made him a household name..

Exactly.....I don't like when people don't like something and then try to make-up a reason why other people do but everybody is entitled to their opinion even if it's ridiculous.

Ouch. I knew that adding Halloween to my list was asking for it. :rolleyes:

If you don't like it you don't like it no big deal, I know everybody isn't going to like every movie but I just don't understand why people have to come up with a reason why other people like something that they don't.

Understandable. But how does that movie seem to you now? The original Alien movie is much the same. Nothing like it before which made it scary as hell. But when I watch Alien today I still find it a great movie, even though it is quite old now. The Terminator is another old film that despite the (now) cheesy special effects I find still an amazing film. Halloween , for me, gets more retarded to me with age.

As far as my John Carpenter comment, if it doesn't fit you, so be it. But there are more than a few people out there go see, rent, buy whatever films he's involded with. I mean, there are people that seriously think films like Vampires, Prince of Darkness, and Ghosts of Mars are good films. Are you kidding me?

True the films you mentioned suck but Halloween doesn't and regardless of how effective it is today it's still a good movie. Everybody is desensitised these days that's why some of the older films that scared the hell out of people back then don't today.

Psycho for example was the first of its kind and back then people had never seen anything like it and it scared the hell out of 'em but if you show it to someone today there's a 98 percent chance it wont do a thing for 'em.