Yep. I like They Live, Big Trouble in Little China and I have a verylarge soft spot for The Invisible Man movie he did with Chevy Chase and Sam Neil. But it's like you can actually see the moment where his joy at film making was shattered in two.
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Octo I ruin everything.,
Thu 11 Dec 2008, 15:25,
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That is an extraordinarily accurate way to describe it, sir. Consider my cap to be well and truly doffed.*ponders what that moment of realisation must have been like*
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J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot,
Thu 11 Dec 2008, 15:33,
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And he consequentlyallowed all his good films to be inferioringly remade
But it's like that conversation about Stevie Wonder in High Fidelity. He's still a genius despite writing I Just Called to Say I love You.
Carpenter is still a great director despite not having made a good film since They Live
(But it's like that conversation about Stevie Wonder in High Fidelity. He's still a genius despite writing I Just Called to Say I love You.
Carpenter is still a great director despite not having made a good film since They Live
Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration,
Thu 11 Dec 2008, 15:38,
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