When John Campea over at The Movie Blog said HALLOWEEN (1978) was a terrible movie, he recieved a reponse saying that the film was “A Classic.” Which begs the question, what makes a classic movie?

From The Movie Blog:

Everyone agrees that first of all it has to be a great movie. Ok, on that I think we all agree. But there seems to be two very different trains of thought on this. To be a classic…
1) The movie has to hold up. It must be able to be viewed by an audience TODAY and still be considered great, as well as have been considered great in its time…

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