ATTACK THE BLOCK, Hawks/Carpenter meets The Goonies in a South London council tower

I will be running my genre-film thread titles past you persnickety c*nts in the future

also I've never watched the fucking Goonies, and AtB blows away every Carpenter I've seen except Starman

Is that...challops?

I'm sorry, I still don't know how to use it right.

Anyway, pretty sure Attack The Block is great AND at least 2 or 3 John Carpenter films are as fun if not slightly more, and none of them are Starman.

Also don't be dumb, the Goonies is great. The Goonies is even better than Attack The Block, and if it was set in London instead of wherever it was set (which was where? I don't know) it would be even better.

If you've never seen the Goonies, why did you compare this to the Goonies in the thread title? And I'm hoping you're dead serious about this being better than any Carpenter save "Starman," when in fact it's better than every Carpenter save "Memoirs of an Invisible Man."

"also I've never watched the fucking Goonies, and AtB blows away every Carpenter I've seen except Starman"

This is why no one in their right mind should care what you think about movies.

Goonies was filmed in Astoria, Oregon. No idea where it was supposed to be set though.

Kindergarten Cop was also filmed in Astoria, Oregon btw.

my dad used to live in Astoria, I bought a necklace there

I've also never seen the Goonies and am deeply fucking suspicious of the assertion that not having seen it is any kind of blot on any cinemaphile's rep

Thinking that Starman is John Carpenter's best film is.

One point awarded to Alex in SF. Total likely to inflate greatly if Spielberg whiffs it twice in two weeks this December. Which he will.

henceforth it should be a requirement that anyone who wishes to post on a film thread must do the truffle shuffle

if Spielberg whiffs it twice in two weeks this December. Which he will.

Eric, The Real Morbs

also, Kurt Russell's best film is The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

henceforth it should be a requirement that anyone who wishes to post on a film thread must do the truffle shuffle

Damn my flat stomach!

I really wanted this to be better than it actually was. Cool soundtrack though.

I enjoyed this.

I feel bad for that dog

i saw this on the plane over and fucking loved it

i love the way it slips actual serious points into the dialogue in a completely casual, natural way. (and also fixes little things that have always bugged me about action films - like the scene when the girls kill the monster instead of being rescued by one of the boys - it's weird, when you see a scene like that you kind of realise how rare it is)

Yeah I saw this the other day and really liked it.

This was great

otm

Yeah, really good fun all the way through.

lol @ Starman talk on this thread - its a somewhat underrated item in the Carpenter filmog that for sure!

just awesome

why wasnt this more of a commercial success

sorry for british

domestically it did ok but doesnt seem to have done anything in the rest of eu, jp, aus etc

so idk how this works in industry terms even if 'ppl' rate it

imdb feebs have it at 6.8

lot of people on imdb angry abt the glorification of youthful thugs who would be better shot by george zimmerman, iirc

it really wasn't that good

i'd like to see you do better

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I wanted it to be good

what were yr problems with it iyo

tell them to my HAND

this was a great cool as hell little movie!!

Not funny enough

like gold is "not shiny enough"

yeah. I have a feeling this probably worked better for mericans on some exoticism shit

thats prob true

""south london"" = ""foreign projects"" etc

yee gods, it's a funny, exciting action flick about kids fighting monsters. location and culture are important to the film, therefore important to its appeal, i suppose, but that doesn't necessarily = "exoticism shit". it made more on its opening weekend in the UK than its entire US run.

I'm glad it did well (Joe Cornish deserves it). I just didn't like it that much

It was excellent.

location and culture are important to the film, therefore important to its appeal, i suppose, but that doesn't necessarily = "exoticism shit". it made more on its opening weekend in the UK than its entire US run

i mean lets not play

you see surely how sentence two belies sentence once

*one

it did well, though not as well as it might've, largely because those to whom it effectively spoke were those who were prepared for a story for south london, that is to say, not vinton, iowa.

yeah, but that doesn't mean that those mericans who did dig it were "on some exoticism shit". i just dislike that phrasing, which seems terribly loaded and disdainful.

it's mildly surprising to me that this has an international audience at all, that kind of setting/humour doesn't usually travel well - can't think of any other instances

i mean i think the necessary converse (that it wasn't made for "vinton, iowa") means it was made for people prepared for a tale alien to their american experience (neither vinton, iowa nor ny, ny, so to speak), which this surely was in at least a couple of ways.

innit

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2383689/Baboon-burglars-How-gang-kleptomaniac-monkeys-terrorises-estate-South-Africa-residents-scared-leave-house.html

this looks fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TADKiHYj6RE