Decided to watch this for first time in many years. Feels relevant.

Thoughts:

• Opening theme song sounds like a combination of themes from Hill Street Blues and The Thing (Carpenter's Thing).
• Lee Van Cleef....he was a martial arts badass in some other 80s movie that escapes me. Was that fake news? I assume so.

I like whiskey.

Escape from New York is on my list. I just finished Escape from LA. How do the my compare?

Escape From LA is turrible. Like Leprechaun levels of badness.

Escape From NY is a masterpiece.

I was in a West Coast mood, so LA came first. Surfing down a street with a machine gun and landing in a convertible.... those words make no sense, yet I saw it happen in EFLA.

I'll check out Escape from New York.

Such a great movie and concept. I'll stop and watch if I ever see it on. And yes, I have thought about it recently when NY seemed under siege and their cops were gelded. Seemed like a good time to wall it up, cut off the power and let it play out.

Wow I'm hungover.

Adrienne Barbeau may have had the best up tops in the '80s. My gosh.

By my calculations, Kurt Russell was around 28 in this movie which kind of blows my mind as well. Good movie!

I don't recall much about Escape from LA other than the surfing scene and I think Peter Fonda was in it.

Escape From New York is a must watch whenever it is on. Snake Plissken is a bad ass who gives a crap about nothing. Donald freaking Pleasance as the President! The Duke of NY is such a badass that he drives around in a vehicle with chandeliers as hood ornaments. And of course Adrienne Barbeau's tatas.

Escape From LA was awful.

If Carpenter ever tours again I encourage everyone to go to one of his concerts. He has his own stuff (which isn't half bad) intermingled in with the scores from his movies with the movie clips on in the background.

And I'll continue to make my annual post about how from the mid 70's to the mid-80's he has a directorial streak that is rivaled by few if any:

Assault on Precint 13 (76)
Halloween (78)
The Fog (80)
Escape from New York (81)
The Thing (82)
Christine (83)
Starman (84)
Big Trouble in Little China (86)


Even the next 10 years were well above average with Prince of Darkness, They Live, Memoirs of an Invisible Man and In the Mouth of Madness.

Sadly, Carpenter passed away in 1995 shortly after In the Mouth of Madness. A shame that he never directed again.

Proposition Joe said:

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And I'll continue to make my annual post about how from the mid 70's to the mid-80's he has a directorial streak that is rivaled by few if any:

Assault on Precint 13 (76)
Halloween (78)
The Fog (80)
Escape from New York (81)
The Thing (82)
Christine (83)
Starman (84)
Big Trouble in Little China (86)


Even the next 10 years were well above average with Prince of Darkness, They Live, Memoirs of an Invisible Man and In the Mouth of Madness.

Sadly, Carpenter passed away in 1995 shortly after In the Mouth of Madness. A shame that he never directed again.

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Agreed.

Not dead yet. Plus, you asked us to check out his concert above. Confused.

YouBet said:

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Proposition Joe said:

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And I'll continue to make my annual post about how from the mid 70's to the mid-80's he has a directorial streak that is rivaled by few if any:

Assault on Precint 13 (76)
Halloween (78)
The Fog (80)
Escape from New York (81)
The Thing (82)
Christine (83)
Starman (84)
Big Trouble in Little China (86)


Even the next 10 years were well above average with Prince of Darkness, They Live, Memoirs of an Invisible Man and In the Mouth of Madness.

Sadly, Carpenter passed away in 1995 shortly after In the Mouth of Madness. A shame that he never directed again.

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Agreed.

Not dead yet. Plus, you asked us to check out his concert above. Confused.

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I'm guessing the post is sarcasm as he is not dead and has directed movies since 95.

John Carpenter is Dead? Goes to wikipedia nope not dead. Although maybe that would be a good movie for TCTTS to write " John Carpenter is Dead"

Bruce Almighty said:

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YouBet said:

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Proposition Joe said:

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And I'll continue to make my annual post about how from the mid 70's to the mid-80's he has a directorial streak that is rivaled by few if any:

Assault on Precint 13 (76)
Halloween (78)
The Fog (80)
Escape from New York (81)
The Thing (82)
Christine (83)
Starman (84)
Big Trouble in Little China (86)


Even the next 10 years were well above average with Prince of Darkness, They Live, Memoirs of an Invisible Man and In the Mouth of Madness.

Sadly, Carpenter passed away in 1995 shortly after In the Mouth of Madness. A shame that he never directed again.

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Agreed.

Not dead yet. Plus, you asked us to check out his concert above. Confused.

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I'm guessing the post is sarcasm as he is not dead and has directed movies since 95.

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Movies is being kind.

Vampires was some mindless fun but only because of James Woods.

The rest were absolute disasters.

YouBet said:

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Proposition Joe said:

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And I'll continue to make my annual post about how from the mid 70's to the mid-80's he has a directorial streak that is rivaled by few if any:

Assault on Precint 13 (76)
Halloween (78)
The Fog (80)
Escape from New York (81)
The Thing (82)
Christine (83)
Starman (84)
Big Trouble in Little China (86)


Even the next 10 years were well above average with Prince of Darkness, They Live, Memoirs of an Invisible Man and In the Mouth of Madness.

Sadly, Carpenter passed away in 1995 shortly after In the Mouth of Madness. A shame that he never directed again.

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Agreed.

Not dead yet. Plus, you asked us to check out his concert above. Confused.

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Serious Clark?

PatAg said:

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YouBet said:

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Proposition Joe said:

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And I'll continue to make my annual post about how from the mid 70's to the mid-80's he has a directorial streak that is rivaled by few if any:

Assault on Precint 13 (76)
Halloween (78)
The Fog (80)
Escape from New York (81)
The Thing (82)
Christine (83)
Starman (84)
Big Trouble in Little China (86)


Even the next 10 years were well above average with Prince of Darkness, They Live, Memoirs of an Invisible Man and In the Mouth of Madness.

Sadly, Carpenter passed away in 1995 shortly after In the Mouth of Madness. A shame that he never directed again.

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Agreed.

Not dead yet. Plus, you asked us to check out his concert above. Confused.

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Serious Clark?

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Yes, it's a pretty impressive list of movies. Starman is a little weak in that list but overall very strong.

Honestly I can only think of one director who beats John Carpenter during that same time frame - Steven Spielberg. That would be quite a testamonial to Carpenter's brilliance during that era.

Dude what? He produced and scored the latest Halloween movie in 2018.

LA was really bad, then a basketball game broke out. WTF????

Horrible, horrible movie.

Snake Plissken, thought you were dead........

YouBet said:

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PatAg said:

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YouBet said:

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Proposition Joe said:

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And I'll continue to make my annual post about how from the mid 70's to the mid-80's he has a directorial streak that is rivaled by few if any:

Assault on Precint 13 (76)
Halloween (78)
The Fog (80)
Escape from New York (81)
The Thing (82)
Christine (83)
Starman (84)
Big Trouble in Little China (86)


Even the next 10 years were well above average with Prince of Darkness, They Live, Memoirs of an Invisible Man and In the Mouth of Madness.

Sadly, Carpenter passed away in 1995 shortly after In the Mouth of Madness. A shame that he never directed again.

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Agreed.

Not dead yet. Plus, you asked us to check out his concert above. Confused.

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Serious Clark?

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Yes, it's a pretty impressive list of movies. Starman is a little weak in that list but overall very strong.

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I meant that you didn't understand that he was making a joke. are you serious, clark?