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re: Fav John Carpenter?
Posted on 11/1/24 at 12:32 am to fightforus82
Posted on 11/1/24 at 12:32 am to fightforus82
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Posted on 11/1/24 at 8:08 am to fightforus82
Everybody’s sleeping on Christine
Posted on 11/1/24 at 9:42 am to pevetohead
assault on precinct 13 is underrated too
Posted on 11/1/24 at 9:45 am to pevetohead
“Look how cockeyed he works”
Posted on 11/1/24 at 9:54 am to fightforus82
also you people cant read, I said your favorite, not the best. Yall got some basic af tastes, cant believe 5 people downvoted In The mouth of Madness
Posted on 11/1/24 at 10:11 am to fightforus82
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also you people cant read, I said your favorite, not the best
Irony. One poster said best and chances are it is his favorite and everyone else said their favorite. Lighten up Francies.
Posted on 11/1/24 at 10:25 am to fightforus82
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also you people cant read, I said your favorite, not the best. Yall got some basic af tastes, cant believe 5 people downvoted In The mouth of Madness
2 people downvoted Elvis. Can you believe it? I bet they never even watched it.
This post was edited on 11/1/24 at 10:26 am
Posted on 11/1/24 at 10:35 am to Seldom Seen
Lol i always forget he made this, i have not seen it tho
Posted on 11/1/24 at 10:49 am to SlowFlowPro
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The best is easily The Thing
On of the best from ANY director. Watched it so many times.
Posted on 11/1/24 at 10:54 am to Carson123987
tier GOAT: The Thing
Tier 2: Escape, Halloween, Big Trouble, They Live
i enjoy the rest to varying degrees
Tier 2: Escape, Halloween, Big Trouble, They Live
i enjoy the rest to varying degrees
Posted on 11/1/24 at 11:02 am to Dire Wolf
They Live is so good.
Posted on 11/1/24 at 11:06 am to fightforus82
They Live
This post was edited on 11/1/24 at 11:08 am
Posted on 11/1/24 at 12:24 pm to fightforus82
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Lol i always forget he made this, i have not seen it tho
It's really good it's got Kurt Russell as Elvis. Pure Americana, anyone who watches it and doesn't like it is a communist.
This post was edited on 11/1/24 at 12:27 pm
Posted on 11/1/24 at 12:25 pm to SlowFlowPro
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The best is easily The Thing
I just learned recently this movie was absolutely hated/despised when it was released.
It bombed hard. Its a sore spot for Carpenter because he believes if it would have been successful his career would have been much better.
It didn't get the accolades it deserves until about a decade later from critics.
Posted on 11/1/24 at 12:28 pm to tWildcat
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The Fog
scared the frick out of me as a kid.
No one talks about this movie.
Posted on 11/1/24 at 12:29 pm to fightforus82
1a. the thing
1b. big trouble little china
1b. big trouble little china
Posted on 11/1/24 at 12:58 pm to CBandits82
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I just learned recently this movie was absolutely hated/despised when it was released.
It bombed hard. Its a sore spot for Carpenter because he believes if it would have been successful his career would have been much better.
Edbert dogged it that it is only good as a gross-out horror flick. He hated that characters and thought they acted like dumb horror movie cliches walking towards death
It is a bizarre read on it. I don't need to know why these people are working there. Their actions are fairly well-reasoned despite the lack of sleep and paranoia
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"The Thing" is a great barf-bag movie, all right, but is it any good? I found it disappointing, for two reasons: the superficial characterizations and the implausible behavior of the scientists on that icy outpost. Characters have never been Carpenter's strong point; he says he likes his movies to create emotions in his audiences, and I guess he'd rather see us jump six inches than get involved in the personalities of his characters. This time, though, despite some roughed-out typecasting and a few reliable stereotypes (the drunk, the psycho, the hero), he has populated his ice station with people whose primary purpose in life is to get jumped on from behind. The few scenes that develop characterizations are overwhelmed by the scenes in which the men are just setups for an attack by the Thing.
That leads us to the second problem, plausibility. We know that the Thing likes to wait until a character is alone, and then pounce, digest, and imitate him--by the time you see Doc again, is he still Doc, or is he the Thing? Well, the obvious defense against this problem is a watertight buddy system, but, time and time again, Carpenter allows his characters to wander off alone and come back with silly grins on their faces, until we've lost count of who may have been infected, and who hasn't. That takes the fun away.
"The Thing" is basically, then, just a geek show, a gross-out movie in which teenagers can dare one another to watch the screen. There's nothing wrong with that; I like being scared and I was scared by many scenes in "The Thing." But it seems clear that Carpenter made his choice early on to concentrate on the special effects and the technology and to allow the story and people to become secondary. Because this material has been done before, and better, especially in the original "The Thing" and in "Alien," there's no need to see this version unless you are interested in what the Thing might look like while starting from anonymous greasy organs extruding giant crab legs and transmuting itself into a dog. Amazingly, I'll bet that thousands, if not millions, of moviegoers are interested in seeing just that.
Posted on 11/1/24 at 1:04 pm to Dire Wolf
Rog was not the best on horror and was terrible on comedy.
Posted on 11/1/24 at 1:18 pm to Dire Wolf
Critics' opinions mean nothing to me tbh.
Posted on 11/1/24 at 2:16 pm to fightforus82
Depends on the critic. Ebert was solid
This post was edited on 11/1/24 at 2:17 pm
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