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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It's like some kind of flying battleship.  I always wonder what the filmmaker thought when he saw his prop for the first time. I imagine it was "Ah poo poo."
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An evil turkey vulture could be kind of cool but good gravy.
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Dec 28, 2015 22:51
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High quality gravy that is also evil.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:An evil turkey vulture could be kind of cool but good gravy. Compare to the canonical vulture horror, made by children and recently found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IF2jZZ806g
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Dec 29, 2015 00:29
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As far as giant death vulture/turkeys go, the 2 headed roc from 7th Voyage of Sinbad is head(s) and shoulders above the rest.
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Glamorama26 posted:
Yeah the effects were outsourced to a Mexican firm and when the movie premiered, yikes.
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Dec 29, 2015 01:23
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Has anyone here seen Bone Tomahawk? I just did and thought it was pretty drat sweet.
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Drunkboxer posted:Has anyone here seen Bone Tomahawk? I just did and thought it was pretty drat sweet. If Kurt Russell has a mustache the movie owns. If Kurt Russell doesn't have a mustache the movie owns but just slightly less. This is the first law of filmmaking.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:If Kurt Russell has a mustache the movie owns. Yo Kurt Russell doesn't have a mustache in Escape From New York and that's my favorite movie
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Drunkboxer posted:Has anyone here seen Bone Tomahawk? I just did and thought it was pretty drat sweet. I'm the only person who didn't like it. I think you can find my posts about why earlier in the thread.
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Blast Fantasto posted:Yo Kurt Russell doesn't have a mustache in Escape From New York and that's my favorite movie Escape from New York owns. But Kurt Russell has a mustache in The Thing which is better. Argument destroyed.
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Dec 30, 2015 17:33
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Mustacheless Russel in Big Trouble in Little China. The law makes no sense.
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Dec 30, 2015 17:34
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Snak posted:I'm the only person who didn't like it. I think you can find my posts about why earlier in the thread. Did you not like the part where the cowboy got hit with a bone tomahawk?
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Dec 30, 2015 17:35
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Drunkboxer posted:Did you not like the part where the cowboy got hit with a bone tomahawk? Did not have a problem with that. If you read my posts, my problems were 90% with awkward and unnecessary dialogue. I feel like you could go through and cut ~10 minutes of unnecessary poo poo and make the movie really good.
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Dec 30, 2015 17:41
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wyoming posted:Mustacheless Russel in Big Trouble in Little China. The law makes no sense. I have not seen Elvis, but Big Trouble In Little China is the best Carpenter/Russell movie I've seen, so this checks out.
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Dec 30, 2015 18:04
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I have not seen Elvis, but Big Trouble In Little China is the best Carpenter/Russell movie I've seen, so this checks out. I just watched this again like two days ago. It's so good.
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Dec 30, 2015 18:05
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I have not seen Elvis, but Big Trouble In Little China is the best Carpenter/Russell movie I've seen, so this checks out. Go watch The Thing.
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Dec 30, 2015 18:51
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Cinema Discusso › Gimme Blood: What are some peoples favorite giant turkey vulture scenes?
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Glamorama26 posted:As far as giant death vulture/turkeys go, the 2 headed roc from 7th Voyage of Sinbad is head(s) and shoulders above the rest. All Harryhausen monsters own.
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Dec 30, 2015 18:52
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Snak posted:I just watched this again like two days ago. It's so good. Even though Halloween is easily Carpenter's best film, Big Trouble might be my favorite one to watch. It's just so drat fun. A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Go watch The Thing. I've seen the Thing, I prefer Big Trouble.
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Dec 30, 2015 18:58
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:All Harryhausen monsters own. Its because the guy was a true filmmaker, not just a monster guy. He knew the craft and took everything into account when he designed his monsters. He knew what would work and what wouldn't, while also pushing the techniques to their limit every chance he got. A lot of creatures in today's films could easily be done in stop-motion animation(Dynamation!) if there was the same amount of care and effort as Harryhausen put in. Nobody wants to do it though because its tedious as hell.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Even though Halloween is easily Carpenter's best film, Big Trouble might be my favorite one to watch. It's just so drat fun. The Thing is hand's down his best film. Fake edit: I started writing this post after reading the first half of your first sentence. That's pretty fair.
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Dec 30, 2015 19:01
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If we're not talking about "best", then my favorite Carpenter film will forever be The Fog. I love the setting, the premise, the characters, everything about it really.
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Dec 30, 2015 19:03
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Even though Halloween is easily Carpenter's best film, Big Trouble might be my favorite one to watch. It's just so drat fun. You know what, Halloween doesn't do a whole lot for me. I can appreciate its strengths and how influential it is but the horror and suspense don't click with me and I have a hard time getting sucked into the mood of the film. Without those elements getting to me it doesn't make for a very enjoyable watch. I like the rest of what I've seen him do but I'll also admit that I haven't come close to seeing even half of his films.
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Dec 30, 2015 19:06
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Adlai Stevenson posted:I like the rest of what I've seen him do but I'll also admit that I haven't come close to seeing even half of his films. If you have not already, please watch the following ASAP: The Fog Starman Prince of Darkness They Live Bonus: Halloween III(Carpenter's fingerprints all over it but he didn't direct.)
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Wait, Starman was a John Carpenter film? Holy poo poo I haven't seen that in like 20 years.
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Snak posted:Wait, Starman was a John Carpenter film? Holy poo poo I haven't seen that in like 20 years. The guy is/was an incredibly versatile director. Much more so than he ever got credit for.
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Dec 30, 2015 19:20
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Basebf555 posted:If you have not already, please watch the following ASAP: Carpenter's '78-'88 run is fantastic, and all the films there are worth checking out. Halloween III is a good pick because it's what Carpenter wanted for the series, an anthology series with different stories about Halloween night.
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Dec 30, 2015 19:20
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Basebf555 posted:If you have not already, please watch the following ASAP: Challenge accepted, I have the rest of the week off so let's see how much I can plow through. Anything post-1990 of his you/anyone would recommend? e: I've seen They Live but it's been at least 15 years so I think it's time for another pass
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Adlai Stevenson posted:Challenge accepted, I have the rest of the week off so let's see how much I can plow through. Personally yes, I really enjoy Vampires, but not everyone agrees. Ghosts of Mars is really only good if you enjoy seeing all the various High Noon remakes that have been done over the years.
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Adlai Stevenson posted:Challenge accepted, I have the rest of the week off so let's see how much I can plow through. In the Mouth of Madness is pretty great. I liked Vampires at the time but just tried a rewatch and oof.
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Basebf555 posted:The guy is/was an incredibly versatile director. Much more so than he ever got credit for. I mean, you don't have to tell me, I love the guy. I haven't close to watched all of his films though.
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morestuff posted:In the Mouth of Madness is pretty great. I liked Vampires at the time but just tried a rewatch and oof. Haha poo poo I forgot about In the Mouth of Madness. Carpenter has made so many good films its really difficult to list them all by memory.
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morestuff posted:In the Mouth of Madness is pretty great. I liked Vampires at the time but just tried a rewatch and oof. I'll second the recommendation for In the Mouth of Madness. Between that and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, 1994 was a good year for meta-fictional horror. X-Ray Pecs fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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Basebf555 posted:Personally yes, I really enjoy Vampires, but not everyone agrees. Ghosts of Mars is really only good if you enjoy seeing all the various High Noon remakes that have been done over the years. Ghosts of Mars isn't a remake of High Noon, it's one of Carpenter's riffs on Rio Bravo.
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Jedit posted:Ghosts of Mars isn't a remake of High Noon, it's one of Carpenter's riffs on Rio Bravo. Eh, its all the same really. Rio Bravo was an answer by Hawks and Wayne to High Noon, which they found to be un-American or something.
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Yeah, if we're playing the "favorite JC film, not his best one" I'm going with In The Mouth of Madness. I love meta-horror like this. He went back to that well on a much smaller scale with his Masters of Horror episode "Cigarette Burns" that I also thought was pretty great.
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So I think In The Mouth of Madness wins the post-90's recommendation award. I'll try to dribble out a reaction to this slate of movies as it happens.
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Whatever you do don't watch Escape from L.A. If anyone else had made it, it would be one of my favorite bad movies. But because it's Carpenter it feels so sad. Like seeing Harrison Ford shuffling around in Spielberg's god awful Crystal Skull levels of sad. Phantom Menace sad. Blues Brothers 2000 sad.
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Thinking about it, my holes in Carpenter's filmography are few, but gaping. I've not seen Elvis of course (seriously, who has?) and somehow I still haven't seen Vampire$ or Assault on Precinct 13. I'm surprised The Eyes of Laura Mars never gets any love. Carpenter wrote it but didn't direct it. It's star-studded and plays out very much like a US studio trying to jump on the Giallo bandwagon that had recently taken off in Italy. Like, it's a very well done Giallo, American Style.
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