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Not as good as I remembered.

posted a year ago by [deleted]
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Seen this about 4-5 times over the years. I remember the first time I saw it I found a few scenes to be quite scary and also the whole reality bending narrative to be quite fascinating.

Watched it last night for the first time in about five years... didn't really hold up. Still an alright film but a 7.1 on IMDb is probably a bit generous given some other horror flicks, including some others by Carpenter such as The Fog, Christine, Prince of Darkness and so on, have lower ratings.

[–] jk90us (7143) a year ago

I never thought it was good.

[–] e3e34ifj (1912) a year ago

I think it's a solid 7/10 and the best Carpenter film of the 90's. I think it is slightly underwhelming tho. The use of the heavy metal music is really lame and is some of the most unfitting music ever used in cinematic history.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

Stop following the crowd, have your own opinions please.

[–] pjl69 (2647) a year ago

Compulsive avoidance of mainstream opinions leads to Never-never-land.

[–] e3e34ifj (1912) a year ago

what crowd am i following? the music? i love metal. but the ac/dc cover band doing the score does not fit the disturbing imagery.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

You’ve probably only seen like 8 movies in your life with dumb comments like that. The end credits to “An American Werewolf in London” has the most out of place music ever orchestrated.

2001: A Space Odyssey has the worst score of all time, In the mouth of madness isn’t even a top 5 worst John Carpenter Score….Halloween, They Live, Ghosts of Mars, Vampires, and Village of the damned are all easily worse.

Stop trying to fit in with strangers on the internet, it’s a bad look.

[–] e3e34ifj (1912) a year ago

you're either trolling or a complete idiot if you cant see the difference between the ironic use of 'blue moon' in AWIL and the faux-enter sandman cover in this movie. one is intentionally unfitting as a joke, and other is just unfitting. and all of those scores absolutely wallop this movie's score. ghosts of mars has a heavy metal score too, but that one actually suits the movie. really not that hard to fathom.

judging by your username, you come off as the type of kid who plays CoD and dreams of being a buff soldier. maybe you should stop following the crowd, little sheep.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

Heavy metal suits ‘Ghosts of Mars’? Wow, that joke landed even worse than John Landis completely butchering his own movie :)

Let me guess….you’re 16 years old, wear wrangler jeans, and follow whatever mainstream trend that floats your way….sound about right?

Your username is so dumb it sounds like a computer AI suggested it for you….and you wanted to fit it….yeah you really ooze of being a complete tool.

Again, stop latching onto other people’s opinions to fit in. It makes you look like a complete dweeb.

Sincerely, society.

[–] e3e34ifj (1912) a year ago

are there two wolves inside of you?

[–] BrandNewPoster (10996) a year ago

I think it holds up really well and gets an 8/10 from me.

[–] jcnyclv (1557) a year ago

Same here

[–] [deleted] a year ago

On par with prince of darkness imo

[–] [deleted] a year ago

I watch those two together about once a year. I prefer in the mouth of madness of the two, but they pair well.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

I think it was Carpenter's last really good movie. After this, things went downhill.

[–] BOandBarbecue (2264) a year ago

disagrees.

vampires and village of the damn are classic fun carpenter film. ghosts of mars would've been good if they cast statham as hero instead of fugly fat bastard ice cube who ruin film with his fat ugly face

[–] BOandBarbecue (2264) a year ago

yes.

the only jc movies i do not like are prince of darkness and this. too bleek. these are his "apocalypse" movies - which are all shit apart from the thing.