Halloween (2018)

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Halloween (2018)

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This seems deserving of its own thread.

Just got tickets for opening night. Really looking forward to it.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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When its the opening night there?

Here its October 25th.
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tragabigzanda wrote::hooray: I'm psyched, and I bet our little theater will even get it.
It definitely will. Gonna be a huge hit. Already tracking for a $60 million opening weekend.
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VinylGuy wrote:When its the opening night there?

Here its October 25th.
October 18th here.
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Still can't book tickets here in the UK :?
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote::hooray: I'm psyched, and I bet our little theater will even get it.
It definitely will. Gonna be a huge hit. Already tracking for a $60 million opening weekend.
Thats huge...im not sure if they ll reach that mark though.
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So this movie pretends Halloween II and other sequels didn't happen, correct? Just a direct sequel, 40 years later?
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meatwad wrote:So this movie pretends Halloween II and other sequels didn't happen, correct? Just a direct sequel, 40 years later?
Yep, pretty much. They've scrapped the whole 'Michael and Laurie are siblings' rubbish.
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Terrible. Just terrible. The 2018 streak of shit continues.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:Terrible. Just terrible. The 2018 streak of shit continues.
You’ve been more grumpy and pessimistic than usual .... so you’ll have to expand on this for me to take you seriously
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I don’t have to answer to you!!!!!!!!
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LV's going through manopause
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There is a good chance the movie is good now right? Considering LV´s hatred to anything thats not directed by Joel Schumacher or Michael Bay.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Next week for me.
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seeing this tonight as well!
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Strat wrote:seeing this tonight as well!
Are you going solo? I am. We can text each other afterwards.
Nope! Unless J dumps me between now and then.

we can still text though
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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