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Why is it that loop holes exist?  How come I have to fear buying something or using a service because of “the fine print”.   Why can’t I just have what I paid for with out any strings?  I look at a commercial for a car and at the bottom is all this tiny lettering basically saying they will eventually screw you but since they put that tiny lettering it’s ok because according to the law they told you what they needed to.  Why do we have  to deal with companies telling us about rebates or special discounts when they also tell us that some restrictions may apply?  When they say that I know they are going to rip us off too by stating what isn’t included, which is usually lots of stuff that they sell.  You go to a restaurant and they serve you something that doesn’t look at all like the picture, but because there is something on the sign in 7 point font that says the same you are stuck with dealing with the issue.  Why is it that people can’t give you what you paid for. they have to always try to get over on you.  Hmm are we really that morally bankrupt a society?

My wife gave me a good idea for a blog.  Who is cockier, Han Solo, or Indiana Jones.  Although they are the same actor, they are two totally different characters.  They both are good with their gear.  Han Solo is good with a blaster, Indiana is good with his gun and his whip.  How do you quantify a topic as this.  Han expresses to Leia how he knows that she loves him,  Indiana just sort of expresses to Marion in Raiders of the Lost Ark” how good he is.  I gather since they are both played by Harrison Ford there is an aspect of him in both characters.  Han Solo’s famous line is “hey, it’s me”  Indiana Jones has his own special way of handling a situation, like in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” when instead of fighting with the Sword Master in the movie Indiana just pulls his gun out and shoots the guy.  Han Solo is the kind of guy who isn’t afraid to show that he knows how good he is.  Indiana knows what he thinks of himself.  I guess it is a tie since they both have the same roguish attitudes.  What do you think?

I often wonder how certain things gain popularity. You take a movie about a masked man who decides to go around killing babysitters on Halloween and you think to yourself how can something like this possibly make money. Well in 1978 John Carpenter and Debra Hill sold a movie made for only about $300,000, which was a “B” movie at the start, that grossed over 2 million in the box offices. To me any way, it is a shock that something that was basically filmed in a month could make so much. All “Halloween” had to offer was a little slash and dash. It however started what is known today as the slasher genre. All other such movies were just pale copies of a cult classic as Halloween. If we look at the popularity of the movie, it was simple. A simple sound track, which the major part of the theme consisted of only four notes, a metronome, and a small orchestra ensemble, we learn from a Master about building up suspence. The parts where Michael Myers just suddenly appears out of no where and they play that high pitched squeal that they did had me jumping out of my skin for years to come. Halloween only had a few principle locations to it and at least from my view point used a minimal of sets. It’s simplicity not withstanding I love it for what it is the under dog that no one expected to go anywhere and yet it came up and gave us something new. A new reason to scream for, and a new name In terror. For a movie that was classified as a B film it spawned at least 8 sequals. Will we ever know why things that make us scream thrill us or for that matter why little kids, who haven’t even seen the film are scared of Michael Myers. It must be the absence of “a soul” in the Mask. A Mask, which was just William Shatner any ways. Either way it lets us see that, a scream queen Jamie lee Curtis, a director, Nick Castle, and a Legend, Donald Pleasance, all had a big pay day. Well Thanks Mr. Carpenter, Mrs. Hill, and all the rest for giving us reasons to be afraid of the dark, and entertaining us. Here is to over 31 great years of terror.