Escape from LA is wacky and pissed off which is an odd combination but it makes a good movie. Think of it like this - there’s this Spike Lee movie called 25th Hour and the Edward Norton character has 5 minutes of hate speech - so this movie is John Carpenter motherfucking everything he hates about Hollywood and American culture in general - pretty much everything you see is some kind of “fuck you”. On the other hand, this movie feels like lost Metal Gear Solid 2 adaptation at times - chances are Kojima’s MGS2 rethread was inspired by EFLA
Yeah, I’ve sort of heard this is a big fuck you from Carpenter, which flew way overy pre-teenage head.
I’ve got a couple weeks of involuntary sitting around coming up (minor surgery) and I think a basically “new to me” Carpenter would hit the spot quite nicely, I’ll have to get this ready. (And one of the awesome Orson Welles I think you told me about!)
You should try watching Howard Hawks and John Carpenter movies back to back. He was a major influence on Carpenter and his directorial MO is all over Carpenter movies.
Escape from LA is wacky and pissed off which is an odd combination but it makes a good movie. Think of it like this - there’s this Spike Lee movie called 25th Hour and the Edward Norton character has 5 minutes of hate speech - so this movie is John Carpenter motherfucking everything he hates about Hollywood and American culture in general - pretty much everything you see is some kind of “fuck you”. On the other hand, this movie feels like lost Metal Gear Solid 2 adaptation at times - chances are Kojima’s MGS2 rethread was inspired by EFLA
Yeah, I’ve sort of heard this is a big fuck you from Carpenter, which flew way overy pre-teenage head.
I’ve got a couple weeks of involuntary sitting around coming up (minor surgery) and I think a basically “new to me” Carpenter would hit the spot quite nicely, I’ll have to get this ready. (And one of the awesome Orson Welles I think you told me about!)
You should try watching Howard Hawks and John Carpenter movies back to back. He was a major influence on Carpenter and his directorial MO is all over Carpenter movies.