If yer old enough to remember... this thing is a dead ringer for old John Carpenter movies (minus Adrienne and the swamp monsters.)
Same synth score. Same 'movie of the week' acting. A LOT of the shots and even the colour grading looks like something he'd do.
I think the critics that like this so much either: a) watched too many of his movies on HBO as kids
b) have a sweet spot for -anything- 'Texas' and 'Noire'.
It's OK, but just not that great. Trying to hard to make 80's 'chic' again. It was never chic, trust me.
Michael C. Hall is a great actor but I can't quite get past Dexter (yet). Mainly because he's still bulked up. If he was as skinny as Six Feet Under it woulda gone better with the mullet.
Obviously I'm showing my age, but I always find it amusing that younger directors find drive-in quality movies as 'big influences'. I thought Quentin was just an aberration but clearly it's just how younger people roll.
It's really not that good a movie, but if you're below a certain age it will undoubtedly appear innovative. The closest analog I can think of is 'Drive' (a much better movie).
"Obviously I'm showing my age, but I always find it amusing that younger directors find drive-in quality movies as 'big influences"
John Carpenter has made some of the most entertaining and original flicks in the 70s and 80s. If you struggle to understand why that would inspire someone then or today, your age should be the least of your problems...
What a ridiculous "point". If thats the best you can come up with just stop trying and embarrassing yourself further. Kim Kardashian is J. Lopez for "new" generation, just another talentless parasite with large ass. 20 years from now no living soul will know who she was. Does she sing, act, tame lions or walk on fire? Nobody even knows what she does.
Carpenter is one of the greatest ever "independent" directors and few, if any have had such a great run of movies from middle of the 70s till the end of 80s. The fact they were made on a shoestring budget and had more bal.s, imagination and originality than most of the blockbusters at that time only makes it more impressive. He directed, produced, wrote, edited and composed soundtrack for majority of his movies, something very few others have. Some of his movies are hailed as mastepieces everywhere, like Halloween or The Thing. Halloween was biggest indendent movie success for well over 20 years. Most of the other movies are pure cult, many of them 20-30 or more years ater they came out. Comparing that to Kim Kardashian just makes you look endlessly pathetic and clueless. You have yet to make ONE valid point, it looks like just another (old) troll crying for attention...
yeah but one stands above the rest, the one that made him legend,
the one that'll remain atemporal whatever the decade (unless a revolution of consciousnesses happen & we wake the f$ck up)
"they live" (of course)
this being said i believe many people think Carpenter is just a hollywood B movie director with no originality or intelligence or artistic vibes whatsoever. They should get sunglasses (& remove the sausage skins from their eyes).