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18-02-2012, 20:44
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Your Favourite John Carpenter Film(s)?
The Fog is my all time favourite John Carpenter film.
I also like most of the films from his 1976-1988 run: Assault on Precinct 13 Halloween Escape from New York The Thing Christine Big Trouble in Little China Starman They Live Escape from L.A., Vampires and The Ward are also good. |
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18-02-2012, 20:46
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"The Thing" is excellent. But Carpenter seems to have lost his touch over
the last two decades. 
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18-02-2012, 20:52
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Halloween - without a doubt.
BUT!!!!!! I love The Fog and The Thing. Have a soft spot for his Village of the Damned remake. |
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18-02-2012, 20:59
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Love VIrtually all his stuff but my favourites are...
The Thing The Fog They Live Halloween |
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18-02-2012, 21:28
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The Thing
Escape from New York The Fog They Live Halloween Loved his movies with kurt russell,watching Vampires right now,its on sky. |
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18-02-2012, 21:39
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Has to be The Fog for me, I love that film, have watched it many times.
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18-02-2012, 22:55
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Dark Star
They Live The Thing Escape from New York Rest equal, except... ..way down last (at Plan Nine From Outer Space level) Big Trouble in Little China |
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18-02-2012, 23:15
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Halloween,but also remembr liking Starman when I saw it on TV.Seen Big Trouble... too,bit cheesy.There was also a computer game based on that film
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18-02-2012, 23:29
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The Thing
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18-02-2012, 23:34
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They live
The Thing Langoliers..was that john carpenter too ? |
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19-02-2012, 01:02
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The Thing
Escape from New York Assault on Precinct 13 Big Trouble In Little China I think it has been a *very* long time since he last made anything good
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19-02-2012, 01:51
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A tie between Halloween and Christine for me, I think.
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19-02-2012, 01:53
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The Thing - it's a master class in how to build tension and to create atmosphere.
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19-02-2012, 01:56
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Assault on precinct 13 Halloween The Fog Escape from New York The Thing Good Prince of Darkness Christine Star Man Big Trouble in little China They Live In the mouth of madness Vampires The ward Awful Escape from L.A Village of the damned Memoirs of an invisible man Ghosts of Mars |
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19-02-2012, 02:05
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In order of preference....
1/ The Thing 2/ They Live 3/ Big Trouble in Little China 4/ Assault on Precinct 13 5/ Prince of Darkness 6/ Starman 7/ Escape From New York I haven't seen Dark Star yet so I can't rate it. Never liked Halloween. Never liked The Fog. |
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19-02-2012, 10:29
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19-02-2012, 10:33
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Need to re-watch the film but holding out for a Blu-ray release. |
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19-02-2012, 10:43
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 Underrated i think.Wasn't really expecting much with The Ward but was surprised. Forgettable but very good all the same. |
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19-02-2012, 12:27
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Tricky,
Assault is pretty damned gripping, Halloween trendsetting, the Thing eye-popingly intense but I'll go with Escape From New York which is as close to a live action 2000AD comic strip adventure as you'll ever see. I retain a very soft spot for this one. Pity about the sequel... |
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19-02-2012, 12:40
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Always had a soft spot for Big Trouble. Not sure why a lot of people don't like it, maybe because it was a departure from the horror/thriller genre he would normally work in.
I thought it was an interesting blend of genre's, bit of kung fu, bit of comedy, action, mystery etc. Kurt Russell was excellent and obviously realised the whole thing was not to be taken seriously and had an absolute blast sending himself up. The only thing that dates it for me are the rubbers monsters. Like the score too. |
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19-02-2012, 12:55
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Halloween
Assault on Precinct 13 The Thing Prince of Darkness In the Mouth of Madness btw - few have matched Prince of Darkness in the shaky-cam stakes, used here as a weird demonic/future vision with truly spine-tingling pay-off. A lovely touch - way ahead of its time - and a hugely underrated film too. |
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19-02-2012, 13:00
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Dark Star. Wth the argumentative bomb, & beach -ball alien that tickles people ........
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19-02-2012, 15:32
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19-02-2012, 17:52
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Escape from New York
The Thing Escape from L.A would have like to have seen Escape from Mars ,which would have been the next one |
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19-02-2012, 18:15
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It's got to be...
THE THING A masterpiece |
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