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
They Live was not good like i was led to believe it was in fact bad, very bad- ambitious and endearing but bad
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
this guy wore some kind of reverse sunglasses while watching it
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
Wow classy move making it personal
*Raises fists*
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
Halloween has become my new favorite upon rewatching. So economical, nothing wasted, incredibly tense. SO scary. The sound of him breathing through the mask & first person POV still messes w me even now. The Thing is still & will always be incredible and stands outside any list or ranking as my ideal perfect movie Big Trouble is great & so enjoyable even in its silliest, weirdest moments I saw Prince of Darkness once 10 years ago and was furious that it was so stupid and boring. Blank check made me want to revisit so it may be a “Halloween movie night” watch this year. They Live is cool! Rowdy Roddy Piper & Keith David rule always but the main woman always weirds me out with her scary blue eyes, and it definitely plays a lot slower than i remember. The alien robot skeletons are creepy af, i love them. it’s cool 🕶The only upcoming ones I haven’t seen are Memoirs of Invisible Man and The Ward, and its been a long time since I’ve seen all the others in between, most of which were bummers for me at the time. But I love the guy! How can you not.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link
The secret formula of They Live is that it is simultaneously very bad and very good. Carpenter knew what he was doing. I mean he put Rowdy Roddy Piper in the lead, for the love of pete.
― Gimme some skin! Because I don't have any skin. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
apparently the Blank Check podcast is more popular than i assumed
― circa1916, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
The Thing is still & will always be incredible and stands outside any list or ranking as my ideal perfect movie
daaamn, so otm. What did you think of The Fog?
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
Simultaneously good and bad is fair, I think I was hitting for acknowledgement of this when I said "ambitious"
I don't think it cares whether or not it works as a movie
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
I love how from the very start, the scene of the old man telling a ghost story to children, it stays completely within that tone all the way through.
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
Xp re they live, to be clear
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
Also recently re-watched Escape From New York for the first time in years. I enjoyed the shit out of it, though it was emptier than I remember somehow - I had the impression of there being more in terms of pitched battles and set pieces? This was all street toughs being tough on the street (I swear one guy had a giant plug round his neck?) and hard-bitten dialogue. Kurt Russell is such a badass. I could have taken way more of him and Lee Van Cleef squaring off. And more Adrienne Barbeau in general.
Nb I immediately attached a couple of chandeliers to my car.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
I like The Fog but I don’t love it … its overworked & weird, you can sorta see the seams? l the feel of trying to spin straw into gold, i guess. Carpenter is great when you get sucked into the full illusion, like The Thing, no matter how often you watch you get sucked into the story while you are trying to work out how he did it.And knowing that even carpenter was unhappy with his first attempt at it before they added the extra footage etc makes those “seams” stick out. but it’s hard to hate it: the cast is great so it kinda balances itself out. it’s like the little engine that sortof could lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
I've never seen The Fog but it's streaming for free on Amazon Prime, so I guess I'll check it out tonight.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
I grew up watching The Fog with my old man and have no critical distance from it at all. It's like trying to judge an old blanket or something.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
It's awesome, obviously.