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MacheteZombie posted:oh babe we both know he likes to be bound. usually we switch
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I just read that John Carpenter was developing Firestarter when Christine got greenlit. I love Christine, but holy moly do I want that John Carpenter X-Men movie so bad.
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Jan 28, 2019 00:37
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I havent seen Christine since I was a kid. Had no idea it was Carpenter. Is it actually good?
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Jan 28, 2019 01:14
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Robert Englund's accent work in The Last Showing is... not good.
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Jan 28, 2019 01:15
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Gejimayu posted:I havent seen Christine since I was a kid. Had no idea it was Carpenter. Is it actually good? It’s really fun and very underrated
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Jan 28, 2019 01:20
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Gejimayu posted:I havent seen Christine since I was a kid. Had no idea it was Carpenter. Is it actually good? It's extremely good, top 5 Carpenter in my opinion.
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Jan 28, 2019 01:20
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Christine is a legitimately great film despite the stupid premise.
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Jan 28, 2019 01:29
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It's kind of a symbol of how prolific Stephen King is that despite being involved in two 80s horror films about evil cars and famously being hit by a car, he's not the killer car guy
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Jan 28, 2019 02:04
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Christine could use 3-5 extra minutes of Arnie becoming who he becomes because it happens kind of suddenly but otherwise a very good movie.
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Jan 28, 2019 02:32
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TheBizzness posted:Christine could use 3-5 extra minutes of Arnie becoming who he becomes because it happens kind of suddenly but otherwise a very good movie. I think that would have been hard to do without incorporating some of the goofy stuff from the book that Carpenter wisely jettisoned.
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Jan 28, 2019 02:48
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I've never read Christine, but since it's Stephen King I'm assuming that Arnie fucks the car in the book, yeah?
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Jan 28, 2019 02:49
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Origami Dali posted:I've never read Christine, but since it's Stephen King I'm assuming that Arnie fucks the car in the book, yeah? Eh, there’s maybe some psychosexual subtext, but no. The book is actually one of the funniest things King has ever written tho, and not in an ironic way. It’s legit comedic.
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Jan 28, 2019 02:53
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Fart City posted:Eh, there’s maybe some psychosexual subtext, but no. The book is actually one of the funniest things King has ever written tho, and not in an ironic way. It’s legit comedic. I agree. The book was great, and intentionally goofy in awesome ways. The goofy stuff would not have worked in a movie, though, so Carpenter made it less goofy and made one of his best films. In an interview I read a long time ago, King said that he felt it was, at that time, the best job anyone had done of adapting one of his books and admitted that what made it work was Carpenter knowing his medium and keeping what worked and cutting what wouldn’t.
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Jan 28, 2019 02:59
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quote:Corporate Animals This sounds like one of those Netflix movies written by algorith.
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Jan 28, 2019 03:46
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Gejimayu posted:I havent seen Christine since I was a kid. Had no idea it was Carpenter. Is it actually good? It owns, the scene of the car repairing itself is so drat cool.
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Jan 28, 2019 04:08
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Phenomenal soundtrack, too, one of Carpenter's best.
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Jan 28, 2019 04:09
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Carpenter shot the gently caress out of that car, there is some really beautiful stuff going on in that movie.
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ruddiger posted:Carpenter shot the gently caress out of that car, there is some really beautiful stuff going on in that movie. There were so many loving cars playing Christine in the shooting of the film.
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Jan 28, 2019 04:55
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I think there were 16 cars used and only 3 remain since they mostly got hosed up.
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s.i.r.e. posted:I think there were 16 cars used and only 3 remain since they mostly got hosed up. 28 cars, and only 2 remained. And most of them weren't even Plymouth Furies but you can't really tell at a glance.
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Jan 28, 2019 05:13
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Dennis and Arnie’s nerd/jock relationship dynamic is legitimately cool and unique in the realm of horror, both in the film and novel.
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Anyone else see the Danish film Shelley?
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Hollismason posted:I watched Rampant (2018) the S Korean Zombie Period piece film from the studio that did Train to Busain. Overall its pretty good and honestly well choreographed sword on zombie action ( although these zombies are a little weird). Anyway pretty good flick. I thought you meant Kingdom, but it turns out that is the S Korean Zombie Period piece series released recently. Probably gonna watch both, love South Korean movies and I'm still into zombies.
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Jan 28, 2019 10:26
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ruddiger posted:Carpenter shot the gently caress out of that car, there is some really beautiful stuff going on in that movie. The video he shot for the 2018 version of the main theme shows exactly how much he didn't lose it, too. We're still only two things away from one last amazing Carpenter movie - him developing the urge to get off his rear end and make it, and the script good enough to give it to him.
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Jan 28, 2019 13:29
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Jedit posted:The video he shot for the 2018 version of the main theme shows exactly how much he didn't lose it, too. We're still only two things away from one last amazing Carpenter movie - him developing the urge to get off his rear end and make it, and the script good enough to give it to him. You’re missing a third, key component. Financing. He has said he stopped making movies because it got too hard to get the backing to do so, which is a sad loving state of affairs.
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Jan 28, 2019 16:08
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Deadguy2322 posted:He has said he stopped making movies because it got too hard to get the backing to do so, which is a sad loving state of affairs. I wonder if maybe the success of Halloween will change that equation enough to make a difference, I certainly hope it did. Like, I'm sure before Carpenter could've gotten together 20 or 30 million for a budget, but he would've had to work for it. You know, tons of meetings and probably lots of rejections and all kinds of boring poo poo he's not interested in doing anymore. Maybe now someone will just step up and offer that no-strings funding where he can just make the movie and not worry about fund raising.
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Jan 28, 2019 16:16
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Basebf555 posted:I wonder if maybe the success of Halloween will change that equation enough to make a difference, I certainly hope it did. Like, I'm sure before Carpenter could've gotten together 20 or 30 million for a budget, but he would've had to work for it. You know, tons of meetings and probably lots of rejections and all kinds of boring poo poo he's not interested in doing anymore. Maybe now someone will just step up and offer that no-strings funding where he can just make the movie and not worry about fund raising. I’d like to see him get a Coen Bros. Netflix gig where they just go “here’s a bag of money, do whatever weird poo poo you want.” Whatever it takes to get at least one more feature out of him.
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Fart City posted:I’d like to see him get a Coen Bros. Netflix gig where they just go “here’s a bag of money, do whatever weird poo poo you want.” Whatever it takes to get at least one more feature out of him. I feel like that's more of an Amazon move, but yes, seconded. I'm all about Amazon becoming the go-to destination for schlock, horror, and schlock horror outside of Shudder.
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Jan 28, 2019 16:22
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Deadguy2322 posted:You’re missing a third, key component. i heard the same thing about john waters and tbh id prefer a new waters movie to a new carpenter one
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flashy_mcflash posted:I feel like that's more of an Amazon move, but yes, seconded. I'm all about Amazon becoming the go-to destination for schlock, horror, and schlock horror outside of Shudder. I’d kill for him to get the chance to actually take Body Bags to series like they tried in the early 90s. Carpenter running an anthology show would be so good.
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Jan 28, 2019 16:42
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the weird thing with carpenter is a lot of his best movies were financial flops, big trouble in little china, the thing, they live. Like I guess now everyone realizes what a master he is but that was not the case for most of his career
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Jan 28, 2019 16:45
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I watched Rockula last night after Choco recommended it to me a few months ago. I was in the mood for something light. Every musical number made me cringe. It's one of those comedies where the sense of humor is embarrassing.
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Kvlt! posted:i heard the same thing about john waters and tbh id prefer a new waters movie to a new carpenter one It's probably happened to more great directors than not, it seems pretty rare for a director to just cruise through their whole career without having funding issues at some point. The most notable exception I can think of is Spielberg, because his production company was just so wildly successful and he reached a point where money was never going to be an issue again.
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Tolkien minority posted:the weird thing with carpenter is a lot of his best movies were financial flops, big trouble in little china, the thing, they live. Like I guess now everyone realizes what a master he is but that was not the case for most of his career They talk about this a bit on the special features for The Thing, but like with Blade Runner, a slow burn tonally dark/weird flick had no chance in hell of doing well in theaters in 1982 when it was going against Conan the Barbarian and especially E.T. So getting notoriety as cult movies on VHS made sense in retrospect. Like adventuresome optimistic stuff is what folks wanted at the time, and you had quite a few would-be big fantasy/sci-fi movies that were majorly flopped and forgotten for being deemed too cynical (or too real depending on how you want to look at it :P ). Flesh+Blood and Dragonslayer both come to mind. Both of those movies are cool but got buried fast, and I'd even go so far as to call Flesh+Blood obscure until the late 90s which is kind of nuts given the folks involved in it.
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Does this count as horror news? The Universal Monsterverse is... no morequote:“Upgrade” director Leigh Whannell has signed on to direct an “Invisible Man” movie. The movie reunites him with Jason Blum, who is set to produce the Universal Pictures movie through his Blumhouse Productions banner. Upgrade was really good and fun so I’m looking forward to this.
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Jan 28, 2019 18:31
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It's almost as if a cinematic universe only works if you bother to make the movies good instead of hoping that brand recognition will push everything through.
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Jan 28, 2019 18:32
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Johnny Depp was previously attached to “The Invisible Man,” but sources say he will not appear in this film. 
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Jan 28, 2019 18:36
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I'd be happy if Johnny Depp were never hired again.
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Its kind of fascinating to watch Depp look at late-90’s Robert Downey Jr. and say, “that’s the ticket.”
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Fart City posted:Its kind of fascinating to watch Depp look at late-90’s Robert Downey Jr. and say, “that’s the ticket.” He's really counting on that career revival after the total destruction
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