so im watching halloween.......

[acealive1]

3! and my god is this movie under rated just because it has the halloween name. i was listening to the beginning score and they shoulda had carpenter do the terminator 1 score, his sound is way more cooler. a proper remake with today's technology would blow your mind.

[bassman]

I watched Halloween 3 and 4 last night on AMC. Didn't much enjoy either of them. 3 was pretty much made-for-tv quality. Atkins was the only good thing about it.

[acealive1]

I watched Halloween 3 and 4 last night on AMC. Didn't much enjoy either of them. 3 was pretty much made-for-tv quality. Atkins was the only good thing about it. what do ya expect with a 2 mil budget? a very practical movie, save for the beams of light and it was FINE. it was an extension of the haddonfield universe and it was a great movie. they tried to show u more and people weren't having it obviously. if only it hadnt been named halloween...but then again, some of the films with myers sucked too

[Mike70]

I watched Halloween 3 and 4 last night on AMC. Didn't much enjoy either of them. 3 was pretty much made-for-tv quality. Atkins was the only good thing about it. ditto here, except i didn't make it through all of 4. most movies centered around kids don't do much for me and that one is no exception. then again, maybe it is the fact that 4 sucks ass as film... my opinion of III has improved over time but i still think it is mostly crap, saved somewhat by the inclusion of tom atkins. on another note: i watched rob zombie's turdtastic offering the other night and while my opinion of it has gone up with a second viewing, i still don't much care for it. one of my biggest problems is the depiction of dr. loomis. why make him so unsympathetic in the remake? zombie took one of horrordom's greatest characters and shit all over it.

[bassman]

I would much rather watch Zombie's remake over the original or first three sequels any day of the week. Going to watch part 5 and 6 tonight and tomorrow, but I doubt they can save this series. Much like the Friday the 13th series, it's just one crap film after another imitating crap film.... what do ya expect with a 2 mil budget? a very practical movie, save for the beams of light and it was FINE. it was an extension of the haddonfield universe and it was a great movie. they tried to show u more and people weren't having it obviously. if only it hadnt been named halloween...but then again, some of the films with myers sucked too The budget or title mean nothing to me. They could have called it "Tom Atkins Battles the Shamrocks" and it still would have been a piece of shit.

[MikePizzoff]

3! and my god is this movie under rated just because it has the halloween name. i was listening to the beginning score and they shoulda had carpenter do the terminator 1 score, his sound is way more cooler. Hm, I had no Carpenter did the soundtrack to Halloween 3. Just looked up the them and it definitely sounds like a leftover track from Escape From NY.

[acealive1]

Hm, I had no Carpenter did the soundtrack to Halloween 3. Just looked up the them and it definitely sounds like a leftover track from Escape From NY. its creepy for sure. i liked it

[Kaos]

I consider Halloween 3 a guilty pleasure. I know a lot of folks dogged it only because it was not a MM story. I think the approach made perfect sense, and they were right when they thought MM was played out after Halloween 2. Is it great cinema? Nope, but I still enjoy the hell out of it. It is camp and kitsch well done. I am a Silver Shamrock fan all the way. I wish I had bought those masks when Don Post was selling them back in the day. Each mask had a little button on it with a chip in it just like in the movie.

[Eyebiter]

While watching Halloween 3 today brought back an old memory. Was in a Lewis Drug store shortly after the movie was released. Must have been in November because there was a huge rack of the three masks from Halloween 3 left. The retail price was too high and no one bought them. Recall the lady stocking shelves was trying to get me to buy one marked down at $20. Said I'd wait until the next year to buy one, she said there wouldn't be any next year. ---------- Post added at 12:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:12 PM ---------- Vintage Silver Shamrock Advertisement from Starlog magazine http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...orVideo064.jpg

[LouCipherr]

3 was pretty much made-for-tv quality. Atkins was the only good thing about it. This. what do ya expect with a 2 mil budget? Something as good as the original, considering the original cost a hell of a lot less to make.

[ProfessorChaos]

The budget or title mean nothing to me. They could have called it "Tom Atkins Battles the Shamrocks" and it still would have been a piece of shit. seconded. i tried to watch this the other day but that annoying fucking song totally killed any desire for further viewing after i heard it like 3 times in the first 15 minutes of the movie. if i worked with JP (who's always going around singing that song at work, so he claims) i'd probably throw a stapler at his head as soon as i heard him start in on that irritating shit. and in my humble opinion, all halloween sequels past part 2 are fucking worthless, H20 and H: resurrection being the worst, by far.

[LouCipherr]

and in my humble opinion, all halloween sequels past part 2 are fucking worthless I have always held fast to this idea when it came to Halloween: Halloween, Halloween 2, and H20 are the only ones that I consider "real" halloween films, and H20 I did not care for one single bit, but, at least JLC "came home" (to borrow part of the phrase on the poster for the original Halloween). The rest of them can eat a really big bowl of fuck.

[ProfessorChaos]

i tried watching H20 this weekend, but it was so fucking lame, and every five minutes they had some corny "ZOMG JUMP OUT OF YOUR SEAT WITH LOUD MUSIC AND QUICK CAMERA SHIFTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" bit, even if it was just jamie lee curtis turning around in broad daylight and bumping into that old lady at the school/academy/whatever the fuck that place was. and don't get me started on resurrection and busta rhymes and his dumb internet show helping MM jump the fucking shark. so yeah, halloween 1 & 2 are classics to me, the only ones on my shelf, and like you said, the rest can piss off.

[MoonSylver]

You can see my thoughts in my Halloween movie thread if you're really interested. Capsule version: Hadn't seen 2-6 in years, H20 or Res at all. Enjoyed 1, 2 & 4, didn't enjoy 5 & 6 as much as I remembered, H20 was okayyyy-ish, Resurrection can burn in hell. Every copy of that movie should be gathered & rammed up Busta Rhymes ass. Overall, it's a shame that the Halloween "series" doesn't really hang together as a "series" as well as Friday the 13th IMO.

[triste realtà]

Watched III yesterday and it has shot into my top 10 aided by the fact that it has a white haired old man as a world killing villain that has minions in suits that bleed yellow. Now where have I seen that before... Cool music, great sets and camera work by Carpenter (which made me realize how many cool movies he's made and why don't I own any?). I read the dude that wrote it was disgusted by all the gore and subsequently wanted his name removed from the credits.