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Originally posted by TheOmen
I have seen both the B&W Hawks version, and the '82 version multiple times. And while I liked the first, it doesn't hold up today. You really think an 18 year old kid is going to relate to the analogies being drawn in the 'original?' The dialogue is old fashioned, and so is the alien. It is a good movie, but the Carpenter version is more effective as a thriller for me.
By the way, I'm not some punk kid, I'm old old old! I tells ya!
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While I'm not old, old, old...I am old, old, and I still like all eras of horror films. The old ones take all of us back to Horrors' roots (ie., how far would horror have gone if it wasn't for old movies like Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera, Nosferatu, The Wolfman, The Day the Eart Stood Still etc...) of course the dialogue is old fashioned...but it wasn't when the movie was made. I agree, that Carpenters Version is better (I have three copies of it) but you still gotta love the old style B&W's where they don't cuss and blood doesn't cover the set. I throughly enjoy watching the old fashioned ones as a matter of fact, I just watched The Wolfman a couple of days ago. I might have backed it up with Dawn of the Dead to get my daily quota of necessary gore, but I still like the Classics.