Quote: Marc P @ June 26 2012, 11:17 AM BSTSnake Plisken... I heard he was dead?
"Snake...? Snake!!!!!!!!"
I've just seen... Page 287
John Carpenter was a film making genius! Until he wasn't and was instead a film making rubbish maker.
Quote: Nat Wicks @ June 26 2012, 11:37 AM BSTI had to convince Dan not to turn it off halfway through. Snake Plisken is the most lazily written anti-hero I have even seen. There was a decent amount of cowbell though, you know in the soundtrack that didn't make any sense in context of what was happening at any point.
Got the film for you.
"Bubba Hotep"
ok its horror not scifi.
But Elvis and Black JFK fight an evil ass sucking mummy in a Texas old folks home.
It's funny, entirely bad ass and cool. And yet somehow deeply moving.
The short story also kicks ass.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/
Oh and Bruce Campbell is a wicked Elvis.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 26 2012, 11:53 AM BSTJohn Carpenter was a film making genius! Until he wasn't and was instead a film making rubbish maker.
My favourite is the one with Alice Cooper playing an evil demon tramp.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 26 2012, 11:53 AM BSTJohn Carpenter was a film making genius! Until he wasn't and was instead a film making rubbish maker.
Yeppity Doodle. And I'm one of those people that absolutely loved Big Trouble In Little China, which I consider to be his last great film.
Prince of Darkness and Vampires was okay-ish but Escape From LA, They Live* and Ghosts of Mars were just the worst kinds of dated, cliched, crapola.
*They Live is worth watching for the small flashes of Carpenter genius from the old days, but overall, it's a very crap film.
Ghosts of Mars looks like one of those videos; right on councils pay out of work actors to make with young offenders. To distract them from heroin and stabbing people.
I seem to recall 'They Live' featuring a very annoying soundtrack, a constant loop of depressing drumbeats.
'They Live' is great.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 26 2012, 11:53 AM BSTJohn Carpenter was a film making genius! Until he wasn't and was instead a film making rubbish maker.
Unfair and typically Stott. How many artists stay at the genius level throughout their career? Hardly any.
Quote: chipolata @ June 26 2012, 1:09 PM BSTUnfair and typically Stott.
Oh, don't be a dick. There was no need, at all, for you to jump on my post and have a little dig, but you did anyway; typical Chipolata.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 26 2012, 1:15 PM BSTOh, don't be a dick. There was no need, at all, for you to jump on my post and have a little dig, but you did anyway; typical Chipolata.
No need for snip, Stott! I'm just an artist protecting a fellow artist from another barbaraian at the gate.
Reading this saucy exchange is certainly working for my little barbarian. Don't stop now, guys...
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 26 2012, 1:03 PM BST'They Live' is great.
They Live has some great underlying themes and a valid commentary on the state of American class politics, but it also has a 12 minute sequence of two professional wrestlers throwing bins at each other.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ June 26 2012, 1:42 PM BSTThey Live has some great underlying themes and a valid commentary on the state of American class politics, but it also has a 12 minute sequence of two professional wrestlers throwing bins at each other.
Precisely. AND THAT'S WHY IT'S AWESOME!
Quote: David Bussell @ June 26 2012, 1:46 PM BSTPrecisely. AND THAT'S WHY IT'S AWESOME!
