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KvP:
I'd say aside from Suspiria, Argento's pretty hacky. I mean what else has he made that's actually been good. Very, very little. For some reason all the name-brand American horror guys get shat upon for making a good flick or two and then a thousand shitty films but whenever Argento comes up the only thing he ever touched was Suspiria.
I'd say Carpenter is both capable of churning out solid films and was pretty okay with actors. I mean he worked several times with Kurt Russell on seriously fun movies (The Thing and Big Trouble In Little China, the latter of which freaked me the fuck out as a kid, ironically enough)
None of these fuckheads have the hit-to-miss ratio of David Cronenberg, though. Cronenberg's a fucking genius. Go watch The Brood, right now.
pogonrudie:
--- Quote from: KvP on 26 Sep 2009, 02:42 ---I'd say aside from Suspiria, Argento's pretty hacky. I mean what else has he made that's actually been good.
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Tenebrae, Deep Red, Phenomena (aka Creepers) and his first film, The Bird With The Crystal Plumage. (I'd actually name Suspiria as one of his worst films.) I agree that he gets quite overrated, but just not to the agree that Craven does. At least Argento has a very distinct look and style to his works, which you can't say for Craven.
But when it comes to Italian Giallo auteurs, I'd take Mario Bava or Lucio Fulci over him anytime, anyways.
And I agree totally on Cronenberg. I can't think of a film of his that I've disliked, besides eXistenZ and Crash...which honestly aren't horrible at all, they just did nothing for me.
KharBevNor:
Fulci better than Argento?
Suspiria a SLOG?
Maybe you guys don't like films?
Joseph:
--- Quote from: RallyMonkey on 26 Sep 2009, 00:14 ---The only movie I can think of right now that I would want to watch less than Suspiria, is the remake of Suspiria that the guy who directed Pineapple Express is making.
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Have you seen any of his movies aside from 'Pineapple Express'? He's probably one of the most talented directors going these days.
RallyMonkey:
Even if he was a genius, he can't make that movie good.
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