I scored 76%

BOO YEAH!!!

http://www.seethru.co.uk/games/quiz/sci-fi.htm

Nope. I'm just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill freak.

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Flickguy's back!

Where've ya been, slacker?

Apart from being on ICQ, of course... incidentally, where did you disappear to the other night? *stern look*

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Erm... I was... uh... waiting for an answer to my question... and then.. uh... bedtime approached.

So I hadda go to bed. You didn't get my "Must run now, my bed calls" message?

Daggit.

(By the way, *did* you like Halloween III?)

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Isn't anyone gonna take this test of geekhood?!

"you just like watching alien totty prancing about in jumpsuits"

That came as something of a suprise.

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I made it to the third question before recognizing my sorry self so forcefully that answering any more questions seemed beside the point. Still made me laugh, though.

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Halloween III kicks arse. In my humble and wildly unpopular opinion it is the best of the Halloween sequels, though the original is still the best, of course. (I'm a colossal horror geek.)

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Being female, I couldn't take the sci-fi freak test (designed for males), so I chose one of the other available tests:

http://www.seethru.co.uk/games/quiz/lesbian.htm

I won't go into the rating.

Hee hee hee... *knowing look*

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nate, why is your sig sniffing his fingers?

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Been fingering a donkey... maybe that's a young wirthling, hair clamped down by a heavy-duty reinforced hair net...

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(Prolly should be in a different thread, but I'll be damned if I let one of Nate's threads stay on topic.)

Here's the rub: H3 *might* not have been half bad if it had been a) direct-to-video, and b) not allegedly in the Halloween series. To me, a Halloween movie needs Michael Meyers. The fact that Meyers wasn't even mentioned (and if he did, it was only in passing) completely turned me off.

But, I also remember not liking the plot much, either, so even a d-t-v release might not have saved it. It was definitely not worthy of the name Halloween. (All in this flickguy's oh-so-humble opinion, of course.)

You may rebut.

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Well, briefly since I am really sleepy and must crash soon, John Carpenter originally intended to make each Halloween film 99% unrelated to the previous, linking them up only with very tenuous plot threads, but with each based around Halloween in some way. Trouble was, the studios got the first sequel made with Myers. Carpenter had very little to do with it - it was directed by Moustapha Akkad, who has directed/produced pretty much all the sequels as far as I know. Carpenter wrote and co-produced H3, staying true to his vision of unrelated sequels. Unfortunately, everybody said "Where the fuck is Michael Myers?" and the movie flopped. The studio suits, who had created this expectation with the first sequel, felt all vindicated, and never-fucking-ending Myers sequels were born.

As far as I am concerned, Michael Myers has long outlived his usefulness. He has become dull - not a joke like Freddy Krueger did, but dull none the less. He was a wonderful boogeyman in the original Halloween, and still fairly effective in Halloween 2, though it was a terribly inferior movie compared to the original. Carpenter saw it coming, and tried to get the series back to what he had originally planned, but it didn't work. Sad, really, since H3 is really quite a fun horror movie, with some great scenes and a really kick-arse ending.

Counter-rebuttal?

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Must...not...stab...slasher...film...fans...

Anthology-ish movies are actually a great idea. And if that was Carpenter's "intention", so be it. Still, Halloween III didn't even stand up well (to me) in that regard. For one thing (and most unforgivable) is that annoying song that played all throughout, that makes one want to gouge out Andy Dougan's eyes. (Which is a neat trick, since I hadn't even met you when I saw it. *hehe*) Beyond that, I really can't articulate WHY I didn't like it... only that I didn't. (Yeah, Michael Meyers was but a factor -- I didn't like the movie at all.)

What you describe was why I really loved the idea of the Creepshow movies -- Unrelated, except maybe by author and/or style. Sadly, they stopped after the second one.

Knowing now what I didn't know then, I guess I can cut H3 a LITTLE slack -- but not much.

You may now counter my counter.

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Flick - I highly recommend you give H3 a second viewing. I hated it the first time as well, for no better reason than I was expecting Michael Myers.

Andy - Halloween 3 isn't a slasher film. It is a horror fantasy thriller, I suppose.

Even so, there's nothing wrong with a well-made slasher. The Italians, especially the wonderful Dario Argento, and to a lesser degree Mario and Lamberto Bava, showed just how imaginatively and originally a slasher could be made. Having just watched Argento's Profondo Rosso (aka Deep Red) again, but this time in its 100% uncut DVD form, he is firmly seated in my top five favourite directors.

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