While i like almost all of his work most of his movies have this signature cheesiness and goofiness , you know by warchi

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Breakwood83 — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 11:41 AM)

While i like almost all of his work most of his movies have this signature cheesiness and goofiness , you know by warching them its a john carpenter movie.
but my 2 favorites movies of his are the thing and halloween, 2 dead serious terrifying movies.

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nazcarfanatic24 — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 05:11 PM)

I disagree. They are made in his aesthetic. Look at the writing. In most Carpenter films(including Halloween and The Thing) the characters are fully formed and do not seek out character development, nor is there really an emphasis on backstory. Another element of his aesthetic is that the characters represent the film's ideas as a whole. In Halloween Michael and Lori represent repression, both sexually and socially, they are sort of a yin and yang.
Almost all his movies fit this style at their core. Along with a minimalist approach, sort of similar to the simplistic approaches used by Jean Luc Godard.

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gianlu-1 — 9 years ago(January 24, 2017 07:17 PM)

Ummm Halloween and The Thing are probably the MOST typically aesthetic of his films. In fact, those two films DEFINED his aesthetic.