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    If you think my opinion is BS, thats fine, but the fact that he's too much of a risk in Hollywood to bank on, thats just the facts. Escape from LA was indeed a big miss on a big budget, but I'm once again, agreeing with most of the sentiment that he's not a draw, he's more a miss than a hit and the underwriters cringe when they hear his name attached to any script.

    with Escape from LA, I think everyone involved just want to build a 'franchise' out of it..much like X-men, or insert any 3 -5 part movie deal here (and it was prime for it) Kurt Russell/Buschemi probably ate up most of the money. Russell is 10-15 mil a film on average, and he was coming off a few 'hits' so it had the price tag but the movie when the top two mouthpieces were paid, left him little, and it showed. It looked cheap and he had the hand for making indie budget films, but he needs production money to ever make anything worthwhile.

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    Russel got 10 mil for Escape... but as much as I love Carpenter... it lies soley on him. He much like other directors had the genre pass him bye... he has classics like Halloween, The Thing, In the Mouth of Madness,Escape from New York, Assualt on Precent 13 and even The Fog, They Live and Prince of Darkness. Other directors have suffered the same thing, but in his defense(Unlike Romero) he doesn't have 1-2 good movies but more like 6-7.

    On another note.. Lucky Mcgee has said the movie is very similar to his movie The Woods... a little to similar.

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    It's available for download for those who care to check it i'm getting it right now, i'll probably check it sometime tomorrow most likely plus i got that new female vamp flick called We Are The Night to also check out.

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    Well he didn't re-invent the wheel but that's not possible anymore. Not paying money for this more than likely will download.

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    Movie was okay for the most part, but I really disliked the ending. Pretty much your standard way to end a flick set in a mental institution and a half-assed approach to not having to explain the plot-holes I noticed throughout the flick. Pretty disappointing, especially coming from Carpenter. Will have a more detailed review sometime soon.

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    i liked it, and the ending reminded me of Identity..

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    I still kinda want to check it out

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    Probably check this one out down the road.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FrighT MasteR View Post
    Movie was okay for the most part, but I really disliked the ending. Pretty much your standard way to end a flick set in a mental institution and a half-assed approach to not having to explain the plot-holes I noticed throughout the flick. Pretty disappointing, especially coming from Carpenter. Will have a more detailed review sometime soon.
    I thought it was just a really terrible film; not even a guilty pleasure passable piece of entertainment. I had high hopes for this after John Carpenter's 'Masters of Horror' episodes; 'Cigarette Burns' was his finest work in many years, and 'Pro-life' was a good time. It was evident from this that he found his passion for filmmaking again, and I thought he would return to Hollywood to wash out the bitter taste left in mouths after pieces of shit like 'Village of the Dammed' and 'Ghosts of Mars'. I found my review of 'The Ward' to be the one of the most depressing pieces I've ever written; a real chore because of the immense admiration I have for this director. It is so sad to see such a talented filmmaker wasted on rubbish like this. It is just a boring, clichéd, uninspired, uneven mess, and Carpenter employs very little of his creative brilliance.

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    I'm suprised at how many fairly positive reviews the film has received. I guess a lot of people are easily pleased by the genre now-a-days

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    I just got ahold of this. Will be watching it later.

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    Hollywood may have turned their backs on Carpenter but the TRUE horror movie freaks haven't. I respect your opinion Eater but to me Carpenters failures are only in the eye of the beholder, They may have failed at the box office but this is the reason why horror freaks love a legend like Carpenter, He has never ever backed down from his true love............horror!

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    Unfortunately, Carpenter, much like the other horror legends now-a-days are only producing mediocre-to-bad genre efforts.

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    I still love anything he does, Call me crazy............Oh wait, I have been called crazy by many many people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by superbeast View Post
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    You CRAZY....um....'Ghost of Mars'...need I say more

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    Quote Originally Posted by Superbeast View Post
    Hollywood may have turned their backs on Carpenter but the TRUE horror movie freaks haven't. I respect your opinion Eater but to me Carpenters failures are only in the eye of the beholder, They may have failed at the box office but this is the reason why horror freaks love a legend like Carpenter, He has never ever backed down from his true love............horror!
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    I still love anything he does, Call me crazy............Oh wait, I have been called crazy by many many people.

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    Just bad, so so so so bad.
    Never a truer sentiment said.

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    I'll look out for this.

    Carpenter might be doing it better than the previous horror masters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Splat View Post
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