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Josh the cat 
"ice wouldn't melt, you'd think ....."
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 Posted - 11/11/2007 : 15:40:57
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Still need a white background
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Josh the cat
"ice wouldn't melt, you'd think ....."
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Posted - 11/11/2007 : 15:42:00
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randall 
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 11/11/2007 : 17:09:34
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V&V. Mutha, thanks for helping us recall a guilty pleasure. Now where's that DVD? It's around here somewhere. Must watch the fistfight again.
And BTW, I agree: HALLOWEEN and PRECINCT 13 are the best movies Carpenter has ever done. [THING follows just behind, only for splatter audacity.] HALLOWEEN in particular is a master class in what you can achieve on no money if you're inventive and smart. |
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Animal Mutha 
"Who would've thunk it?"
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 11/11/2007 : 18:29:15
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she said modestly
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 11/11/2007 : 19:38:22
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quote:
Next week, why Walter Hill is a living god.
First, for hiring one of my closest college buddies to star in THE WARRIORS. |
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Animal Mutha
"Who would've thunk it?"
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Posted - 11/11/2007 : 19:47:57
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| Really, that's very cool. Can you tell us who? If you don't mind me asking. |
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 11/11/2007 : 21:58:14
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| His stage name is "Michael Beck." We were best buds in college [not gay, just mates!], and later, I was able to help him into a second career as a reader for audio books, which I believe he's still enjoying. |
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 11/11/2007 : 22:07:13
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| I also attended junior high school with the later-to-become-New Age-pianist George Winston, but that's another story. |
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 11/12/2007 : 00:08:59
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V&Ved.
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 11/12/2007 : 02:57:44
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V&V
Couldn't help but notice a striking similarity between Animal Mutha's "From Dusk Till Dawn" review and mine.  |
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leXXVIycaution
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 11/12/2007 : 03:11:40
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 11/12/2007 : 05:42:54
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I've always thought John Carpenter had a master's vision in his films. Well, that, and he had a great habit of hiring Kurt Russell, who was simply hot in the 80s and on whom I had a huge crush. Besides the masterpiece that is Halloween, I loved The Thing and Escape from New York and still try to catch them when they are on. The best line in a Carpenter film? In The Thing, when the thing-infested guy's head falls off & it sprouts spider legs and walks off, upside down... "You've got to be fucking kidding."
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 11/12/2007 : 06:08:18
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rabid kazook
"Pushing the antelope"
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Posted - 11/12/2007 : 12:44:14
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Originally posted by Randall
And BTW, I agree: HALLOWEEN and PRECINCT 13 are the best movies Carpenter has ever done. [THING follows just behind, only for splatter audacity.] HALLOWEEN in particular is a master class in what you can achieve on no money if you're inventive and smart.
I'll probably be assaulted for this here, but here it is. I find a lot of the Carpenter's "well known" movies very dated and due to the very low budget very plain and oblique. Also I don't think he can evenn-up the stories in his movies very good.
But then I'm in luff with the awesome Big Trouble in Little China, which is on a somewhat bigger budget and doesn't feel not a glance dated today.
Cigarette Burns 6/10
Ghosts of Mars 5/10
Vampires 4/10
Escape from L.A. 1/10
In the Mouth of Madness 3/10
Memoirs of an Invisible Man 4/10
They Live 4/10
Prince of Darkness 4/10
Big Trouble in Little China 8/10
The Thing 5/10
Escape from New York 3/10
The Fog 3/10
Halloween 6/10
Assault on Precinct 13 4/10
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