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Halloween 1978
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On this latest watch I noticed something that I guess I had never really considered before.
Why is Annie on the bed in front of Judith’s tombstone instead of Lynda, who would seem to be a better mimic of Judith on Halloween Night 1963 (actually just screwed a guy)?
Of course I can’t speak to the intention of the creators. Maybe it’s cause she’s a brunette (altho I think Judith’s hair color is in the middle of Annie and Lynda’s).…
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House 1977
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In several ways, House is an adolescent film. Obviously, it is about adolescents. Additionally, the picture was director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s first feature film, and cast largely with similarly inexperienced actors — their collective first, fumbling foray into the feature-length thing.
But most centrally, what I mean is that House is the perfect film to see when YOU are an adolescent. The film, commissioned as a summer horror picture intended to evoke Jaws, was a smash hit with the contemporary teenybopper…
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He Got Game 1998
The wrongest anyone has ever been is Bill Simmons’ trashing Spike’s choice of score for this film, an opinion I heard at least twelve years before finally seeing He Got Game today. The basketball scenes, with that score, are basically the closest anyone has gotten to replicating the sensation one gets when watching classic NFL Films. Everything else is really just gravy.
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