Favourite John Carpenter Film

[Total Longo]

The Thing is a quality film, but it is in no way better than Alien.

[Adebisi]

The Thing is a quality film, but it is in no way better than Alien.

Agreed. Aliens on the other hand..

 

 

[Sugar Ape]

[Sut]

I love those little nods to his other films in there!

[SasaS]

Interesting. I have always adored  the early works, but could never get the love for Little China and They Live, I've seen them again recently and they are even worse than I remember them. Dark Star, Assault and Halloween are masterpieces, Thing is great, Escape hasn't aged too well but i still love it (that opening shot when the camera climbs over the wall) and the Fog is a bit silly, but Little China and They Live come across now as, well,  massive 80s turds. I tried to get people to explain the attraction of ham acting, plot holes and crude jokes, but it seems that "I just don't get it".

 

The premise of They Live is intriguing enough but the acting is terrible, the film is so poorly written and the ending is just so incredible you have to howl with laughter. I sort of get the deliberate dumbing down and B movie plot approach but it always leaves me thinking it may not be that deliberate after all. I guess you have to watch it from a certain angle but I still seem to be tilting my head the wrong way.

Of the more recent offerings, I guess I would pick The Ghosts of Mars.

 

I have a similar relationship with Walter Hill, whose early films to a great extent shaped what I appreciate in films (Driver, Warriors mainly) but who went on the serve up some pretty cringeworthy stuff like Last Man Standing and many more I'd rather forget.

[Mook]

I'm not having any criticism of Big trouble in Little China.

[Tony Moanero]

Mook knows.

[General Dryness]

Mook and Tony know.

[Sut]

Mook, Tony and the General know.

[Mook]

State of his fucking jumper here.

[manwiththestick]

So bad it's even next to his name on the screen.

[General Dryness]

State of his fucking jumper here.

 

Although in his defence, he's John Carpenter and he'll wear whatever the fuck he wants to.