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MisterWhiplash — 11 years ago(April 04, 2015 08:49 AM)
He worked relatively steadily until Ghosts of Mars. Since then it's only been the two episodes for Masters of Horror - one of them was exceptional, the other was OK - and The Ward, which I didn't think was THAT bad, just not up to the standards of his better work.
It's probably tough to work in an industry that is now more concerned with repackaging the stuff he made - which itself was sort of repackaged anyway (Escape from NY and The Fog are basically horror/Western genre films with a bent, though Hollywood isn't anywhere near that creative), so we get The Fog (2005), The Thing (2011), and an "in-the-works" Escape from NY that hasn't happened yet but could any day once the bean-counters are done. And of course Halloween, but that's a franchise unto itself.
It'd be nice if he could get the keys to a really GOOD script, since it seems like he's not really writing for himself much anymore - but perhaps time has passed him. Luckily there are some good horror films in his spirit coming out, like It Follows. But it must be tough when genres are over-crowded with crap that's meant more for over-seas than the US.
As for They Live, that was actually #1 at the box-office. I suspect the failure of Memoirs of an Invisible Man and whatever else followed were what really did it, and maybe not being what Hollywood sees as a "team-player" (if the other films - Madness, LA, Vampires, Mars - were successful it was really overseas, I think I was the only one in the theater to see Vampires and Mars opening weekend back in the day) - same deal happened with George Romero.
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alesisqs61 — 9 years ago(September 19, 2016 03:12 AM)
I think he's pretty much done directing. I've read he's going to help the creators of the "new" Halloween to make it "good" but that's about all I've heard.
He should direct the last Halloween , then retire officially. I mean he's old, makes 1 movie in 9 years. then 2 shows one of them sucked hard IMO Pro Life wow I thought it was so beneath him. The other one was good thoughstyle and everything was solid.
The Ward didn't really feel like classic Carpenter to me. He's old school and it felt way to "new" school to me. He should have done the music a lot of his style goes very well with his old school music style at least with Alan Howarth. His new album I enjoyed 2 tracks.
I mean that man has had a crazy career early success later in life not so much. Doesn't mean much to him as he has admitted he's lazy, directing is hard. Can't argue about that
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