[a fool in paradise]

Mr. Carpenter never could see the forests for the trees.

“The Republicans” may have been his intended target of They Live but look at who beats the daily drum of media? Look at who runs corporations now and does all of the cultural messaging? Look at who ran an “OBEY” poster campaign AND used that to elect a damned Marxist red diaper doper baby president.

[Pontiac]

Carpenter’s best films, from his 1974 debut Dark Star (originally his student film at USC)

Never knew that was his movie.

I saw that movie on HBO back in the early 80s and laughed myself silly.

I haven’t seen it again anywhere. I don’t know why that movie isn’t on TV regularly.

[Pontiac]

(Only his two warmest and most immediately accessible movies, 1981’s Escape From New York and 1984’s Starman, truly got their due right out of the gate.)

I thought Starman sucked.

Horrible dragging script. A message movie with no message worth reading.

[ETL]

[avenir]

[Moltke]

thanks to the fact that Carpenter composed the pioneering electronic scores for most of his own movies

Meh. Just ripping off Tangerine Dream. Listen to TD's score for Sorcerer (1977/William Friedkin - remake of The Wages of Fear). Or pretty much anything else by TD.