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level 1Newest Review: ... from New York' and 'The Thing') show him at his absolute peak, mixing brilliant effects with dazzling technique and a wry wit. They're very downbeat films, but that only underlines Carpenter's refusal to play along with Hollywood's set rules. But some of his most famous movies are just terrible - 'Halloween' may be a very stylish film, but it shares exactly the same faults as all of the other slasher movies - a prurient approach to murder, with whore victims killed with their breasts in shot, and 'nice' virgins proving untouchable. Just because it's well shot and edited doesn't make... more |
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by moronboy - written on 05/11/00 (Very useful, 12 readings)
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Some of John Carpenter's movies are fabulous: 'Assault on Precinct 13' is a classic, brilliantly directed, without an ounce of padding or sentimentality (the shooting of the little girl is one of the most shocking sequences in any movie, anywhere). 'Dark Star' is equally fabulous, an anti-sci-fi movie which deliberately turns decades of awe and wonder about outerspace on their head to depict space travel as infinitely dull and unrewarding. His two early-eighties movie with Kurt Russell, lean, fast pieces of pure badass misanthropy ('Escape from New York' and 'The Thing') show him at his absolute peak, mixing brilliant ...
by broksababe - written on 16/08/00 (Useful, 12 readings)
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The x files, used to be one of my favourite programmes, Mulder and Scully were the best, I waded through all the first series and couldnt wait for more, the stories were always brilliant and really scary sometimes, plus even gory too!!, the plot was always good and kept you hanging on the end of your seat wanting more,such as Alien abductions and people changing into strange lifeforms!, Plus you always wondered wondered when Mullder and Scully would get together!However even the early ones were let down by the really bad endings!!, the good thing about the X files was that it always kept you wanting more and you always somehow believed it could really happen!But the ...
by - written on 23/07/00
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I love watching this programme alot, i am sat ready on a sunday night at 9pm to see this on Sky One. I loved watching it last night on BBC1 a double one, they are very eerie sometimes and sometimes boring, But i will always watch it as i think Mulder us gorgeous and my partner likes Scully i think aswell. But it would not be the same if Mulder or Scully left it. I even contimplated calling my youngest Fox because it is mulder's name. I hope it carry's on and gets bigger and better. ...
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