i think we need a better criteria…the taste of the remake filmmakers is not much of a gage.

agree…that crew was just perfect.  what a bunch of scraggly miscreants.

@avclub-d80ecbbbef6ab40a4e53d1ad2c3fc1b2:disqus i donno….ghost of mars is definitely pretty bad, by any measure.

agree.

i guess with carpenter there is the best, the middling, and a couple of terrible.
halloween and the thing are probably at the top of the pyramid and i remember really enjoying the scrappy low budget desperation of precinct 13.

pretty much have to agree.  he follows that beast right down to the frozen apocalypse.  no cop outs.

the fog struck me as decidedly 2nd tier carpenter, significantly less compelling than halloween, escape from NY, precinct 13, the thing and without the humor of they live.
does it really deserve another watch?

the airforce is particularly bizarre.
needless to say….if somebody there were to laugh at the lack of planes they'd be beheaded immediately.

sheesh…as tho i wasn't already going to see this…now i find out herzog was behind the scenes?
now i'm double in. and errol fucking morris?  triple in.
also i am prepared to be scarred for life considering the subject of the film…..

that would be the funniest trojan horse in entertainment history to pitch the project as a cop show/movie but in the end the main character would be the gay art gallery dude, now well into the prime of his drug/art dealing career.  that would be an entertaining show.

i think i basically agree with you.
i am not against experimental narrative style on principal….but i will always take character, dialog, well crafted cinematography, soundtrack, etc over extreme manipulation of the tools of narrative for the sake of being "interesting", or to help compensate for a low budget.
you could…

i kind of enjoyed it in a disgusted way.
It's both a sleaze fest and a critique of same.
Basically it's garbage but was blaring and weird enough to keep me watching.
also james franco really hit it out of the park….probably the best work he's ever done.

i tried to like upstream color…i knew i was supposed to like it…but i just couldn't hang in.
there's artistry…and then there's deliberately vague and excessively oblique.  it's not a matter of "not getting it" as much as a feeling of floating around in nowhere land.  I'm this was "the whole point", but my attention…

everybody hurts may verge on corny…but it still beats dedicating your life to reviewing video games.
at least imo….

gould gets a pass, even for terrible cameos like the tv movie of the shining, if i remember it correctly…just for the long goodbye.  that thing is a masterpiece with gould and altman both hitting on all cylinders (not to mention sterling haden).  it is simultaneously hilarious and terribly sad/cynical/existentially…

not even that….my contribution is 2 snarky comments.

dang…this wasn't worth a boot let alone a re-boot.

"vampy weeks"?  was that really necessary?
i think i hate them now all over again…..damn good tunes tho.

i keep wanting to not like Vampire Weekend….and yet they keep making better and better records.  the latest one was my favorite of theirs and one of the best i've heard this year.  clever songs very well performed and produced.

follow up….yes….sequel…meh.