jakeloves

I don't care what anyone says. One man's meat is another man's poison.

This is my all time favorite Halloween films! In fact, I will go as far to say, this is the better than the first one and the one I watch over and over again.

I really only care for this film.

It is creepy and has the feel of a bad nightmare.

It also has excellent old school special effects makeup.

And the great thing about so many people not liking this film means they will never remake it!

A Masterpiece! Up there with the best of the best. Dawn of the Dead. The Thing. Northville Cemetery Massacre. The Beast Within. The Evil Dead. Escape from New York. Assault on Precint 13th. Mad Max. Eraserhead. El Topo. A Clockwrk Orange. City of the Living Dead. Suspiria. Deathrace 2000. Road Warrior. Lisa and the Devil. The Devils. The Hunger. Cat People. First Blood. Conan the Barbarian. Indy and the Temple of Doom. Just Before Dawn. The Party Animal. Cujo. The Hitcher. Buckaroo Banzai.

Long Live Halloween 3!

Won't Anybody Listen, is a surprisingly fresh documentary about an aspect of the music industry I have never seen or heard about before - how to cope with the realization that your dreams are NOT going to come true. After almost two decades of blood, sweat and tears (literally), the members of NC-17, and more heartbreaking, those close to the band (family, friends, wives etc) deal not with final, triumphant success, but, with the painful, sobering reality of failure. As a struggling writer myself, I completely identified with their journey. In pretty much all societies, (but, especially, America) no one is loved more than a winner, and there is nothing more leprous than a LOSER. However, the reality of life is for every winner, there are countless losers. For every successful rock band, there are tens of thousands that fail. For every successful spec screenplay sold, millions never see a dime - you get my drift. The most profound gift of Dov Kelemer's documentary is how it works like an 80 min therapy session. For anybody who is actually struggling to achieve something in life but facing the growing awareness that success is seemingly less and less likely - Won't Anybody Listen promises a real Catharsis. So little in society helps us cope with failure. Yet, so many fail everyday. The band, NC 17, may have failed, but, they have succeeded in showing that life goes on, we pull up our bootstraps, we soldier on. These people may not have got the record contracts, the limo rides, the millions. But, these 'losers' have something a lot of those 'successful' guys believe they have - integrity and strength. Kurt Cobain is considered a Grand Winner as far as superficial success is concerned. Perhaps, he should have stuck around a while longer and watched, Won't Anybody Listen, to realize he had nothing to justify blowing his head off.

It's rather sad to see that so many people seem turned off by this comedy. Just like Romeo is Bleeding, too many people seem to just give up when they're finally shown something that truly creates an original tone for itself. This movie walks a tight-wire between the absurd and offbeat while still seemingly plausible and realistic. The plot twists with wonderfully subversive glee. I could not help but fall hopelessly in love with this charming movie. Don't listen to all the negative comments. Rent it and judge for yourself. You just might be wonderfully surprised.