Poll: Favorite John Carpenter film
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sheetsadam1 — 10 months ago(May 28, 2025 08:09 PM)
Looks like somebody voted for Prince of Darkness. Which is fine. I have zero issues with anything he made prior to '90s. Maybe Christine a little, but only because it's not a particularly good adaptation of the novel. But Carpenter in the '70s and '80s may be the longest winning streak by any director.
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JohnnyBoy — 10 months ago(May 28, 2025 08:23 PM)
Believe it or not, I gave Prince of Darkness a '10' while Escape of New York gets '9' from me. Many reasons why for both, but "favorite" has a different meaning for me compared to "best."
Longest winning streak by a director, I'll think about it, but good point there. I was really disappointed when he disappeared after the late 80's, thinking he had more left up his sleeve.
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JohnnyBoy — 10 months ago(May 28, 2025 11:50 PM)
If you compare both, Steven Spielberg easily wins with many masterpieces:
Steven Spielberg
1975 Jaws
1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982 Poltergeist
1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1985 The Color Purple
1985 The Goonies
1987 Empire of the Sun
1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
John Carpenter
1976 Assault on Precinct 13
1978 Halloween
1979 Elvis
1981 Escape from New York
1982 The Thing
1984 Starman
1987 Prince of Darkness
1988 They Live
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Phaenon — 10 months ago(May 28, 2025 09:46 PM)
In The Mouth of Madness (1994) for me. Between that releasing and Strange Days (1995) concluding there were tonnes of good movies to see at the cinema
Not that there weren't plenty of great cinema films before and after, but that was a good run and so In The Mouth of Madness tops Carpenter's directorial and music composition list for me
It's the personal touches that you can't add to appreciation of lived experience. That information just isn't transferable but holds a lot of the weight of the situation in a non-objective fashion.
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