I realize many don't, but I consider it a pure fun ride from beginning to end.
Yes Natasha looks incredible, but that's not alone to like it so much. The story and looks of the movie are like a good combination of sci-fi FPS games from the 90s and 2000s.
Anyway, I won't go into more details. John Carpenter remains one of my two favorite directors/filmmakers. I just wish he would do more more more.
Yes i agree, while this might not be a good Movie it doesn't mean it is not fun to watch it.
You are the first person i heard of that also thinks the Movie feels like a 90's action fps, like for example quake 2 on n64
Oh no no no, you misunderstood me. I didn't say this is not a good movie. I said some people think it is not a good movie. I am not one of them. :)
Good to know someone else thought about FPS.
I like it too, it's not his best work by far but it still delivers some mindless fun. Heavy Metal, guns, and possessed bodies. People keep comparing the adversaries to zombies, but they reminded me of pissed off Mayans IMO.
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Decapitations mainly. The way they made these ornate weapons out of junk reminded me of a warrior culture, rather than I'm dead and I want to eat your brain stuff. Of course they showed flashbacks of the actual Martians and they were some warrior cult. Just a thought.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Maya_culture
I've always liked this movie. Yeah, it's not 100% original in that it has elements of Assault on Precinct 13 (the thug criminal has to work with the cops a la Napoleon Wilson), a touch of Snake Plissken, etc. But I thought it was a cool script, the usual intentionally corney one-liners from Carpenter, atmosphere was fun, good action, creepy, exciting generally. I liked the cast. Music got annoying at times. I'm not a big Anthrax fan.
I just don't understand all the hate and loathing for this movie? To each his own. I'm fine with it. But then again there's not much I don't like from Carpenter....my all-time favorite direction period.
It is a truly powerful film, very scary, definitely far more frightening than The Thing, I had nightmares for weeks after this film. The film presents itself as a dream, a nightmare itself, and it doesn't stop until the end, part of me wishes stop stop get me out of this dream I can't live through this vision. In dreams words like cheesy or corny don't exist, it is irrational, nonsensical, just like dreams are, it has no logic, it does exactly the opposite of what a thinking man would probably do when awake. I see the film more like a reflection of the spirit or a ghost that left the body during out of body experience and watches the whole chaos unfolding somewhere in an alternate universe on Mars, and that can be truly TRULY frightening. Why because it is possible and extremely realistic, it can happen, and I believe it does happen the moment I watch it. Many people watching this might be already dead inside. I always watch films like a little child with innocence and new perspective as if I haven't watched any so called film ever before in my life. Then true essence and power of films comes alive for me. It is no longer a mere film for me, it is an experience. Ghosts Of Mars, what a haunting title, imagine these ghosts are real. For me this is one of the greatest achievements from John Carpenter, easily, always was.
I rarely post on this site because it seems that even expressing difference of opinion or just love is trolling these days here. Based on this site one would even believe Ghosts Of Mars is just hated by about everyone, when in my experience in life actually most people hold it among their most favorite from John Carpenter's films. That's how removed from reality people can be, interacting with real people vs reading words from critical minds on the net.
The trolling in this post is hilarious ???
shareYea well of course I saw this shit for Natasha's hot ass!
I loved this movie too. It was great, awesome fun. Especially for the theaters.
I wish he had done more especially since around this time he did a lot of the shit I liked. Like Escape, and Vampires. Westerners types, with leather jackets, a lot of blood, and fine as bitches. I love his movies. I was never disappointed except like you unsatisfied.
I honestly found this movie to be so out there that it scared me.
I was young when i saw it though, without much horror film experience.
To me it is still John Carpenter's greatest and scariest film to date... the most powerful, not in terms of popularity, but in its power to produce in us imagination enough to start creating in our minds events that could have happened yet were never shown, and it is those events in our minds that can become living nightmares, like in my case, because it allows you to go very far in your imagination, very very far, it works almost as a literary fiction or a comic book, it suggests possibilites of what might be happening or have happened, but unlike Rashomon type of films, there is never revealed at the end what is true and what is not, thus then it gives you the freedom to imagine alternate realities to each scene, as if each scene or image was merely reflecting a bigger chain of events. Ghosts Of Mars is literally loaded with imagination, it took me almost 10 years to find out the trick in how Carpenter achieved this, the whole magic was all in the editing and narrative.
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