Dan S -Read the discussion of Prince of Darkness upthread and then see it ASAP. It's an amazing, genuinely terrifying movie.― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, January 29, 2021 11:30 AM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Read the discussion of Prince of Darkness upthread and then see it ASAP. It's an amazing, genuinely terrifying movie.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, January 29, 2021 11:30 AM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I mean, don't read too much of the discussion upthread because a few of us were dropping spoilers like nobody's business. But yeah, definitely see it.
I agree with Brad's assessment of "mortally terrifying". It's always landed that way for me.
― peace, man, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
Boring is fair but I prefer stately.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Friday, 29 January 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
I love The Fog, agree that it is a bit boring at points, and think the problem is that it should have been about an hour longer.
― Brad C., Friday, 29 January 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
This poll really needs to have Elvis on it too― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 11:35 PM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 11:35 PM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
My 2007-era mistake, apologies
― kicked off mumsnet for speaking my mind (Matt #2), Friday, 29 January 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
My favorite parts are probably the most “boring” i.e. Adrienne Barbeau’s endless walk down the steps to tge lighthouse, which come to think of it yeah please give me an hour more of that stuff ... Abbas Kiarostami’s The Fog.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Friday, 29 January 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
re that interview, he seems like a real mensch
― satanist of size (map), Friday, 29 January 2021 17:57 (three years ago) link
Watched the Fog remake over the holidays, and it wasn't too terrible - it was less boring but also less scary. You need to be able to stretch out a bit to feel scared, so as noted the boring is necessary.
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Friday, 29 January 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
The Fog tries in a way to split the difference between an old-fashioned atmospheric ghost story and a King-style monsters vs. small town horror show, landing, predictably for Carpenter, much harder on the latter, with occasional longueurs that suggest rather than realize ghost story effects. I would love a version with an extra hour of gratuitous moody shots of foggy landscapes, creepily sustained slow builds, and a more traumatic ending.
― Brad C., Friday, 29 January 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
I don't ever get scared by horror movies anymore, so "less scary" is a non-entity for judging. But, yes, it's especially not very scary.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
also the original Fog is loaded up with great character actors!
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
maybe ILX likes it because we also secretly want to be DJs at that badass radio station on the water
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
The Fog was interesting I thought. Big Trouble in Little China only had remote charms for me
― Dan S, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 01:53 (three years ago) link
! Big Trouble is all charms! That's the best thing it has going for it! Then again, maybe you had to see it first at 13 or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 03:25 (three years ago) link
I really can't understand watching Big Trouble in Little China and not just instantly loving it.
― so tonight that I might ramona quimby (f. hazel), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 04:54 (three years ago) link
I first watched it as an adult and it took a few times to get really into it, love it now.
The comic series was surprisingly fun.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 11:19 (three years ago) link
there have been multiple new comic series of BTiLC as of late btwhttps://www.boom-studios.com/wordpress/series/bigtrouble/
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 March 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
I'm an enormous fan of BTiLC, so when the comic was announced I was very excited. I just remember picking up the first issue and it didn't really gel with me. I think it was that the artwork was too cartoony or something? Maybe I'll have to dig it out of storage and give it another try.
― peace, man, Thursday, 4 March 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
i can't really speak to the quality of them but there's been quite a few runs!
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
looking for a free way to watch The Fog remake so I can hate it
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 5 March 2021 02:44 (three years ago) link
The artwork is very cartoony, but surely BTiLC is a very cartoony film?
The Snake Plisskin series they started at the same time was a snooze tho.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 5 March 2021 12:18 (three years ago) link
Big Trouble is a film that revels in physicality, I can see light 2D-styled drawing not connecting with someone trying to evoke the film in their reading (the text on that page said Eric Powell, but the image clearly wasn't Powell).
fyi Boom is one of the most outrageously exploitative publishers in the field, reading their output from your municipal library is a better option if you have it.
― grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Friday, 5 March 2021 12:26 (three years ago) link
That's a bummer - I've really been enjoying Something is Killing the Children. How outrageously exploitative are they?
― peace, man, Monday, 8 March 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
They pay $35 a page for scripts, $100 a page for writing & drawing. Make t-shirts and merch of artists' work without compensation. Underpay invoices, pay months late, sometimes ghost artists altogether. Recruitment model is largely to give young artists their first jobs so it's easier to rip them off. "Some shady stuff in their contracts, and sometimes tries to secretly annul contracts by slipping extra clauses into the fine print of their payment vouchers," per one former worker.
(I assume Tynion is treated better, likewise John Allison - but I have also assumed that Allison stopped drawing Giant Days himself when it went to Boom bcz their rates weren't worth it.)
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Monday, 8 March 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
Ugh, that sucks. Thanks for the tip.
― peace, man, Monday, 8 March 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
Watched Big Trouble in Little China, which I don't think I'd seen in maybe 25 years. So much fun and went way further than I remembered in terms of being utterly batshit. I think the wildman monster that kidnaps Gracie and leaves on Russell's truck at the end might be one of my favourite screen monsters of ever.
https://monsterlegacy.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/bigtroublewildmanyehe.jpg?w=768&h=508
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
Its a masterpiece
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
I saw that at the cinema when I was a kid. It's ok but I wouldn't go that far!
― calzino, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 21:43 (two years ago) link
Give it another crack, its the biggest, funnest pisspull of a movie, great performances and effects
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
I will do cos I just re-watched The Fog recently and that was fun.
― calzino, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 22:02 (two years ago) link
RLM did a three-parter on Carpenter films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSuKs44w_vI
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 01:32 (two years ago) link
Big Trouble in Little China was imo a better 'best' John Carpenter film than The Thing
Halloween was the best, though
― Dan S, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 01:56 (two years ago) link
Blank Check is doing Carpenter too. Quality varies according to guests but it's pretty joyful and man, what a streak that guy had.
I'm in a weird place because I love Carpenter a lot but am a giant coward when it comes to horror, can't really do anything more extreme than like 60's Hammer. So I don't think I'll ever watch Halloween but I'll admit The Fog and Prince Of Darkness have been calling out to me.
(I did see The Thing, it's great but that scene w/ the dogs means I'll probably never revisit)
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:43 (two years ago) link
The Fog has some jump scares and overall quite chilling, I love it.
Prince of Darkness I haven't seen for years so I'm struggling to recall the scares, unless you count seeing Alice Cooper in yer back yard, still a great film though.
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:56 (two years ago) link
Big Trouble in Little China is very not-my-speed Carpenter.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 13:14 (two years ago) link
daniel you may have been inured to halloween's scariness by forty years of slasher movie cliches. or maybe not! movie is far scarier to me now than it was when i first saw it in college
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
prince of darkness has three scenes that are scarier than anything in the carpenter filmography tho, fair warning
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
I revisited The Fog over the weekend. It's cozy, not too scary, and a bit slow. Was very distracted by Jamie Lee Curtis's character hooking up with Tom Atkins' character and then just being like "I'm going to follow you around like a puppy for the rest of this movie even though I'm a young free-spirited hitch-hiker and you're a middle-aged man and everything in your life seems to be falling dangerously apart at this precise moment..."
― peace, man, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
movie is far scarier to me now than it was when i first saw it in college
This is very true and I'm somehow surprised each time I watch it. Not a drop of '80s slasher laziness/crassness in it.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 13:26 (two years ago) link
STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson) at 9:22 20 Oct 21prince of darkness has three scenes that are scarier than anything in the carpenter filmography tho, fair warning
― peace, man, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 13:28 (two years ago) link
if tom atkins appeared in my life i would do the same thing xxp
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
He also hooks up with a much younger woman in Halloween III! I guess I just don't understand the Atkins effect.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 13:33 (two years ago) link
the stache... the rugged masculinity... the alcoholism... swoon
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
not as dreamy as Nancy Loomis/Kyes
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
Prince of Darkness is in some ways the flipside of Big Trouble, a movie that doesn't really make a lick of sense, but this time played for mood and menace over adventure and comedy. In Big Trouble, Jack Burton is the guy that just can't process what's happening around him but barrels forward anyway, which is funny. In Prince of Darkness, it's scientists recognizing they're dealing with something over their heads, and it scares them.
Anyway, I love "The Fog," one of the few movie ghosts stories made like someone telling a ghost story (in this case, literally). And if there's something good that came out of the relatively pointless RLM three-parter it's a) recognizing how often Carpenter essentially made a zombie movie with no zombies b) how often he made a western with no horses and c) just how diverse his catalog actually is.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 13:50 (two years ago) link
Blank Check is doing Carpenter too.
― Gimme some skin! Because I don't have any skin. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link
https://ultimateactionmovies.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/They-Live-Roddy-Piper-Glasses.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link
thing about Prince Of Darkness is the idea of Donald Pleasance and Victor Wong having long, cryptic dialogues slowly proving both scientifically and spiritually that we live in a fallen world sounds tailor made for me but I think that what happens when shit finally does start to go down towards the end will be too rich for my taste
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
Blank Check ep on They Live went into a tangent about how young kids on YouTube now put fake "sponsored content" in their videos - not as satire, they just do their best imitation of an ad read because having a sponsor is a sign of success and they're on a fake it till you make it kick
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
When my kids were younger and used to do goofy fake unboxings and stuff, they would always throw in a compulsory "be sure to click like and subscribe!"
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
I'd never seen a single Carpenter film until about a year ago, but now I've seen Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, and They Live. Most of those have been because I've been remote-watching movies with friends on Friday nights, and we've gravitated toward '70s-'90s genre classics, but I also watched Halloween for the first time specifically because I wanted to listen to the Blank Check episode about it.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 16:47 (two years ago) link