The John Carpenter/Kurt Russell combination

Necronomicon

I was watching The Thing just there (unbelievably, for the first time). Amazing movie, creepy as hell with special effects that must have made people crap their pants for the time it was released. It got me thinking that John Carpenter and Kurt Russell have combined to make 3 absolute gems: Escape From New York, The Thing and Big Trouble In Little China. Which one is your favourite?
The Thing, as I mentioned above, was superb I thought. Escape From New York is just pretty badass, and BTILC has Lo Pan. Hard choice!

(Just to be fair I added an Atari Jaguar option for those crazy people who thought that Escape From L.A. was better than its predecessor, or for those that want to pick that Elvis Biopic which I didn't see)

Rhyme

The Thing, simply for the

ressucitation scene with the set of jaws in the guys chest, hands eaten, flamethrower, head drops off, head sprouts legs, "You have got to be f*cking kidding"

So good.

TerrorFirmer

The Thing is an amazing movie, can't believe you haven't seen it until now!

Very creepy, with some absolutely amazing special effects that still freak me out when I watch it, just the whole style of the movie is brilliant.

Puts any modern attempts at "creature features" to shame really....

garred

Big Trouble is my favourite. Great fight scenes, women, fast action, ninjas, guns, jokes, monsters and tacky lines...."its all in the reflexes". If there was a cheesy production company making cheesy films this would be its cheesiest.

Agent Orange

The Thing wins by a country mile. Carpenter's finest hour and his own personal favourite - one of my favourites too. It's drenched in suspense and has the greatest movie monster ever.

It's a shame it wrecked Carpenter's career.

mike65

I voted Escape From New York cos I'm a scared-y-cat! I've yet to see The Thing all the way through, I keep seeing parts. The effects and atmosphere are what caused the film to flop, no-one in 1982 had the stomach for grim. Blade Runner suffered for the same reason, while ET and Poltergeist (scarey but fun) did the business.

Mike.

Devious

I cant understand how Carpenter could go from making films like The Thing, Escape from New York etc to films like Ghosts of Mars - just seen that the other day and I was speechless with horror at how BAD it was!

mike65

Carpenter has'nt made a good film for 25 years apart from Starman.

Mike.

Devious

mike65 wrote:

Carpenter has'nt made a good film for 25 years apart from Starman.

Mike.

Well, Big Trouble in little China and They Live weren't too bad. In the mouth of madness was OK as well, I suppose. But Escape from LA? Snake Plisken surfing?? *shudder*

J.R.HARTLEY

garred wrote:

Big Trouble is my favourite. Great fight scenes, women, fast action, ninjas, guns, jokes, monsters and tacky lines...."its all in the reflexes". If there was a cheesy production company making cheesy films this would be its cheesiest.

that was the whole point of russells charecter, to be john wayne, listen to his delivery and the language, its wayne to a T. put him into the more up to date situations and he came accross as uber-cheese, plus the fact that the sidekick always saved the heros ass was so brilliiant.

i do think they live should have gotten a mention, a lot of people missed they beautiful subtleties involved in the narrative, thought it was simpy an alien story. plus it has to be a classic for that fight scene.

madrab

im here to chew bubblegum & kick ass, and im all out of bubblegum... great line

the thing is my favourite, love how atmospheric it is

Scratch Acid

It's gotta be 'The Thing', one of the best horor movies ever made. Followed by 'Big Trouble...' and lastly 'Escape...'.

Pigman II

The Thing of course. It's just pure greatness.

Creature

Can you guess which one I'd choose?

Davei141

The thing>Escape from New York>Big trouble

My favourite horror ever is The Thing, never bored of watching it.

lostexpectation

there was a couple of articles about him and russel in an empire a few months back it said carpenter took alot inspiration from Howard Hawks...