Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Salsher movies are the WORST genre.
They are only good when they are self-consciously funny. Which they rarely are.
Dark Star: terrible, godawful movie. You're the only one that liked it. Launched a genre.
I enjoy it to this day.
Assault on Precinct 13: Three stars.
Never saw it.
Halloween: Two and a half stars, launched the slasher genre.
Terrible.
The Fog: Never heard of it
Never saw it. Heard it was terrible.
Escape From New York: Three stars
Laughably bad.
The Thing: Five stars, arguably the greatest movie ever made
The second greatest sci-fi horror movie behind Alien, and if you don't count them in the same genre, then the best in whatever genre it is.
Christine: Not my thing, but probably the best Stephen King adaption until Shawshank.
Awful.
Starman
Three stars, being VERY generous. Only because you realize that you're not laughing at how awful it is halfway through and then remember it's a John Carpenter movie.
Big Trouble in Little China
Never saw it.
Prince of Darkness
Unspeakably, hilariously bad.
THEY LIVE
Almost so bad that you wonder if it's just a gag. If it's a gag, then yes, four stars. Otherwise, so bad that it smells funny in this room just from your positive review coming up on the screen.
You're telling me you'd rather watch Schindler's List, E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark instead of The Thing, They Live and (in your case) Dark Star?
Of course. I might choose The Thing over List, just cuz Christ, lighten up a little, JEW. And I didn't care for E.T. at all. Raiders is better than anything JC has ever done, and if you're comparing him to Spielberg, here are other movies which are better than anything JC has ever done:
Jaws
Close Encounters
Saving Private Ryan
It is a shame that it's been almost 25 years since his last good movie.
No, his most recent movies are just as bad as the old ones, it's just you saw the old ones when you were young and excited about being alive, so you remember them being better than they were.
Now that you're just playing out the string and waiting for the sweet release of oblivion, you see the truth.