john carpenter and today?

BlitzKrieg

Someone fill me in here



WHA IS WITH JOHN CARPENTER???????



i dont know if he is making these films or just selling his name like a hoe cause i have not seen a good carpenter film in years.


and no its not memories cause i've rewatched halloween escape from new york and big trouble in china town over again recently and still love em.


But Ghosts of Mars is one of the worst films i have ever saw

and Vampires was terrible as was the sequel (though i know he did not direct that one or come up with story)



i thought your skill improved with age not turn to turd????

Karl Hungus

I quite enjoyed Vampires...
Plenty of action, gore, and James Woods.

But yes, Ghosts Of Mars was abysmal!
And the less said about Escape from LA the better...

Another great John Carpenter film from back in the day was The Fog, which seems to be very overlooked.

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by BlitzKrieg
i thought your skill improved with age not turn to turd????

The studios didn't expect Halloween to be the runaway success it was going to be. As a matter of fact, they were fairly sure it was going to bomb abysmally. So, they agreed to give John Carpenter a MASSIVE cut of the gross/net (whichever one you don't get shafted on). The film was a massive success, one of the most successful horrror films of all time, and John Carpenter made millions.

So John Carpenter doesn't actually have to work again for the rest of his life - he could easily just sit back and live off the royalties of Halloween, if he wanted. But he doesn't, he wants to continue to make movies. And he wants to make movies he wants to see, whether anyone else wants to see them or not.

Why else would he (effectively) remake Assault on Precinct 13 again and again and again and again?

dazberry

Don't forget DarkStar and the infamous beachball .

patch

Don't forget Starman. I mean the movie, not the crappy tv series....

mike65

I think Carpenter just got lazy, as suggested, by wealth.

His last great film was.....? I dunno-some would say he only made one - Assault on Precinct 13 and that Halloween etc were popular but not great films. I thought Vampires was hateful to be honest. Just explict cartoon gore with no head or heart (unlike his earlier flicks)

Mike.

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by mike65
I think Carpenter just got lazy, as suggested, by wealth.

I didn't mean to suggest he got lazy. I meant to suggest that he realised he never actually had to make another movie that he didn't want to. Whether his new movies are a success or not, he's still going to be rolling in cash from Halloween, so he can afford to make lousy movies that entertain nobody but himself.

And it's just a theory me and some friends came up with when drunk, too

Gillie

Fair enough but aren't most Directors rolling in it?
ANd they still make moderately good movies (when I say moderately good I mean they become Box Office hits, does not mean they are good movies!).
Speilberg, Cameron, etc.

I would say he is lazy. Shame really. Halloween, Starman, The Fog, Escape for New York, and especially Assault on P13 - All superb!