Daily reminder

>>87477129
Why did The Thing had so many bad reviews when it came out, did Carpenter insulted the jews or something?

>>87477129
Daily reminder that only fedora cringelords post "Daily Reminders"

>>87477185
Because plebs hate horror.

>>87477129
Alien Resurrection is the true patrician choice.

"It has no pace, sloppy continuity, bland characters... It's my contention that John Carpenter was never meant to direct science fiction horror movies. Here are some things he'd be better suited to direct: Traffic accidents, train wrecks and public floggings..." - Alan Spencer, Starlog magazine November, 1982

"A surprising failure" "Carpenter's most unsatisfying film to date." - Phil Hardy, Science Fiction (1984)

"Too phony looking to be disgusting. It qualifies only as instant junk" "A foolish, depressing, overproduced movie that mixes horror with science fiction to make something that is fun as neither one thing or the other. Sometimes it looks as if it aspired to be the quintessential moron movie of the 80's" - Vincent Canby, New York Times

"It seems clear that Carpenter made his choice early on to concentrate on the special effects and the technology and to allow the story and people to become secondary. Because this material has been done before, and better, especially in the original "The Thing"" - Roger Ebert

"This movie is more disgusting than frightening, and most of it is just boring." David Denby, New York Magazine

"The structure of the piece reminds unpleasantly of porno films..." - Daily Variety

"So single-mindedly determined to keep you awake that it almost puts you to sleep" - David Ansen, Newsweek

"A wretched excess" - Gary Arnold, The Washington Post

"The only avenue left to explore would seem to be either concentration camp documentaries or the snuff movie." - William Parente, The Scotsman

>>87477390
Audiences didn't show up, either. Despite Carpenter's proven track record with Halloween ($47 million), The Fog ($21 million), and Escape from New York ($25 million), the box office for The Thing only amounted to $13.8 million, with an opening weekend gross of $3.1 million.

"In France, I'm an auteur. In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum." - John Carpenter

"I take every failure hard. The one I took the hardest was "The Thing". My career would have been different if that had been a big hit... The movie was hated. Even by science-fiction fans. They thought that I had betrayed some kind of trust, and the piling on was insane. Even the original movie's director, Christian Nyby, was dissing me." - John Carpenter

"What the old picture delivered – and what Carpenter has missed – was a sense of intense dread." Variety (In 1951, the same paper had said of Nyby's film: "The resourcefulness shown in building the plot groundwork is lacking as the yarn gets into full swing. Cast members fail to communicate any real terror.")

"If you want blood, go to the slaughterhouse. All in all, it's a terrific commercial for J&B Scotch." - Christian Nyby, director of the original

"We're Dead" remarked producer David Foster. The occasion was his return from the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood and the premiere engagement of E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL, where the trailer for THE THING also happened to be playing. The icy silence of the matinee audience of grandmothers escorting their grandchildren ( and vice versa ) was enough to elicit his precise statement of our predicament.

>>87477256
Uh oh better stop doing it because Anonymous User said it's kinda gay.

>>87477390
Clearly as time has passed, it has become easier to appreciate. Shit like werewolves and vampires were still seen as scary back then. The Thing feels much more original now.

>>87477390
>>87477433
What a bunch f fucking plebs, people in the 80s had no taste.

>>87477129
was there ever even any doubt?

>>87477470
They used to see gory practical effects as a vulgar and cheap gimmicks, their explicit display as unimaginative; it was also perhaps an overall reaction to how those kinds of effects were in a lot of horror movies, compared to how tasteful previous horror relied more on suggestion, like use of shadows, etc. (even in Alien we barely see the creature until the final act) whereas we now see those effects as unique and timeless (we are less exposed to all the other movies that did this), compared to our now soulless and bloated overuse of CGI, we see the hard work and generosity that went into making them.

>>87477129
Childhood is idolizing The Thing

Growing up is realizing Dark Star is the one true Carpenterkino

>>87477850
Darkstar was awful outside of it'seffects.

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>>87477390

>>87477850
Dark Star was David O'Bannon,

>>87477185
E.T. came out right before

>>87477129
Predator is the true patrician's choice

>>87478534
No, it wasn't.

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>>87477701
>people in the 80s had no taste.
You come to that conclusion now?
Have you seen the fashion?

>>87479265
What movie desu

>>87479382
sleepaway camp

Doctor, I need my daily dose.

>>87478816
Not a horror movie and objectively inferior.

>>87477288
The horror tag on a movie or series usually means it's fucking awful.
The only good horror that is actually kinda spooky was the 40k prequel.

>>87480492
t. pleb

>>87477185
because it's a terrible piece of shit only plebians enjoy and the fact that /tv/eddit likes it so much is proof enough that it's garbage

>>87477185
If I had to guess.
>Grossout humor
>Actual horror based on exploiting paranoia and not so much the monster itself
>Kurt Russel is in it

I love Kurt Russel but every movie he is in gets points docked, maybe because he doesn't suck enough Hollywood dick

>>87481207
>Grossout humor
I meant grossout horror effects. Sorry

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>>87477390
>quoting critics for your argument

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>>87477129
Emperor

>>87480773
Gas yourself you plebian sperg.

>>87482033
Terrible adaptation and a horrible film.

>>87483176
>>87483218
Here we see two fine examples of lovers of A24, prestige TV, emotionless mechanical and robotic hackjobs like the shitty remake of a Howard Hawks film squirming like worms in acid, because others have better taste than them, and they just cant accept that fact

>>87483604
>Being so mentally retarded that you can't even come up with actual arguments as to why a film is bad and use ad hominems instead

>>87483604
The Thing is a readaptation you fucking idiot.

>>87481207
>>Grossout humor
what

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carpenter has always been a firm anti-jew, his financier was the famous anti-jew moneyman moustapha akkad. you think it's coincidence carpenter can't get bankrolled for shit ever since akkad's death in a [terrorist attack]? the thing is an essntial anti-kike kino.