Movie Thread

[Lindsay's Liver]

John Carpenter's movies up to 1988 are all winners. I have good things to say about all of them.

"Big Trouble in Little China" is my sentimental favorite. We wore that out on VHS when I was a kid and I still love it now. I think it's his most outrageous and funniest movie.

Carpenter is a filmmaker who benefited a LOT from the advent of HD television and being able to see films in widescreen in your home. When I was a budding young film snob, Carpenter got very little respect as an artist. He wasn't HATED, but wasn't taken seriously. Carpenter's name was not on the table in discussions about interesting filmmakers back in the 90s. He just didn't come up.

Now though, we have home video formats that can do "Escape to New York" and "The Thing" justice as beautifully shot and composed films. You can analyze their economy of storytelling and how they make suspense happen in widescreen imagery where danger can pop up in any corner of the frame or deep into the background of it.

For film dorks of my generation, we enjoyed John Carpenter movies, but we also saw them sliced down to square boxes for VHS and TV. HD was a revelation. And now we revere him.

[Old Black Man]

I actually think that The Ward was passable.

[ebin namefag]

Za Warudo

[wulfenlord]

I value Carpenter as a composer more than a filmmaker, I like how he's perfectly at ease with with a walrus of its time.



His movies never grew on me. I saw Christine and Dark Star. I get why Solid Snake and Big Guy in Little Chinese have their cult following, but they're not my cup of tea. Some of it could be missing out on them in my youth in the 90s, since they've not been promoted in Krautland, or just went under my radar.

[TheManWithNoPlan]

28 years later really good i’m sure the final scene will confuse many non-British people

[Gendo's Ocular Dickhole]

Apparently, it's boring?

[CuckTurdginson]

Boring is good sometimes. The movie got me on a Danny Boyle kick, i rewatched Trainspotting; and boy the Scots truly are the niggers of Europe.

Still, a really successful portrait of addiction.

[TheManWithNoPlan]

Apparently, it's boring?

Those twats wouldn’t know a good film if it hit them in the face

[Complicity]

Those twats wouldn’t know a good film if it hit them in the face

Critical Soylent likes it, and because of that i was set to avoid it.
Is it better or worse than the one with Robert Carlyle, aka the only one i liked?

His movies never grew on me. I saw Christine and Dark Star. I get why Solid Snake and Big Guy in Little Chinese have their cult following, but they're not my cup of tea. Some of it could be missing out on them in my youth in the 90s, since they've not been promoted in Krautland, or just went under my radar.

At least watch Da Thang.
It has music composed by Carpenter, AND Ennio Morricone.

[rabidtictac]

Escape from New York is excellent. The quintessential dark futuristic action-thriller.