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Proof that Carpenter can no longer direct

posted 17 years ago by xX_Flow_Xx
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Compare The Thing to this. One's a genre-defining masterpiece, the other is a derivative sci-fi B-movie with the feel of a sci-fi channel series. Sure, this film is a popcorn-flick (hey, I enjoyed it) but sincerely you can't deny one film is head and shoulders beyond the other in pretty much every respect.

I mean with lines like this: 'Yeah, and while you're at it why don't you go and grab me a beer killer?!' Carpenter must have known he walking into gray by putting his skills behind this film. And the end result raises the same point: not great, not rotten but neutral uninspired film-making.

You don't spin a menorah.

[–] movietrailer 17 years ago

JC is a king. always has benn, always will be.

his movies are nice, all of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEa9LmIL3tA&feature=related

legend!

[–] layton59 16 years ago

Poster movietrailer, have you ever seen a JC movie without being high on something?

Trust me, if you see it sober it STINKS.

Legend that.

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[–] movietrailer 16 years ago

I was high. but that's long time ago Baby.

Trust me i understand John Carpenter's Movies, like Escape from la for example.
Now thers a lot of people saying that movie has nothing on Escape from New York.
Because parts of it was the same like the first one.

well i think that movie is good like the first one. Nobody was made a L.A. underground movie like this one. sometimes you can love a movie anybody else calling a bad movie.

[–] mwhite182 16 years ago

layton59 apparently doesn't appreciate good directing. Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, Escape from New York, Assault on Precinct 13, Prince of Darkness were all great films. And the OP has no right saying that this movie is proof that Carpenter can no longer direct. Ghosts of Mars is seriously underrated. I just watched it again and can't believe it I didn't like it when I first saw it years ago. The fact is the film is not perfect, and isn't nearly as good as the movies I listed above. But every director has a film or two that isn't as good as some of their others. People think Escape from L.A. was bad. I don't see a problem with it. It wasn't as good as New York, but it wasn't bad. Just don't say he can no longer direct. I hope he comes out with something amazing just to prove you wrong.

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