Given the prevalence of heart failure, I'd say that is almost certainly the primary cause, but it's a pretty hard-living profession where excess is encouraged in almost every way, which can be quite hard on the body generally. Joint replacements are very common - Hulk Hogan had both hips and knees replaced in his 50's as an example.
> In 2017, in response to neo-Nazi interpretations of the film's themes, Carpenter further clarified that the film "is about yuppies and unrestrained capitalism" and "has nothing to do with Jewish control of the world".
Yes, Carpenter made it to be about yuppies and unrestrained capitalism in 1988, however, art from the viewer's perspective 36 years later, can mean something different for that viewer or any other. Personally, I don't see the neo-Nazi and Jewish control of the world angle, but the way the media has sold the Palestine-Israel conflict, the passing of the redundant, free-speech-limiting, Antisemitism bill recently, and with thousands of Jews in the US and Israel protesting for a cease fire, and the thousands of police unleased on US college campus protestors, it can have a different interpretation. In 1985 Columbia students occupied the same hall for 3 weeks, and it led to Columbia's divestment from South Africa's apartheid regime, but most Americans under 35 or so, don't have historical depth. They sway in the wind of the media's hot air. For me, putting the glasses on or being red pilled, today makes the film applicable to a host of viewpoints, and not the cliche yuppy / capitalist trope even if that was sincerely John Carpenter's intention as an auteur. Sure, the acting is bad, and the late 80s coloring makes it seem a dinosaur to today's high-tech, SFX, CGI-addicted, chop-editing audience. I guess I am old. I love it. I also loved watching Wood Allen's 1973 film "Sleeper" for about the 7th time last month.
To be fair, when asked he had to say that. Many people think it's obviously about Jews, seeing as how the 'aliens' are in control mainly of banks and the media.
Had he answered any other way, his career would have been over and he might have been killed.
My uncle knew a guy who knew a guy who converted his car to run on pure water, but after word got around the oil companies killed him and burnt down his workshop.
Fun fact: Roddy Piper's line was originally intended for a match against wrestling fighter Playboy Buddy Rose (1952-2009). (Source: "In Search of Darkness" documentary.)
The idea of poking holes in official dogma is novel for the right, and so the reactionaries have adopted the "red pill" symbolism. This causes many to associate the two, especially those newly enamored with the concept after having seen through their first layer of the memetic prison.
That's fine. Just if later in life you come to a revelation that does make the term click for you, do yourself a favor and make sure you keep going with the questioning rather than taking your newly altered model as unassailable truth and thinking you're out.
Y’know, I see these random Wikipedia articles come up every day or so on the front page and wonder what is going on.
I thought they were organic at first but then I got skeptical and wondered if it was some vestige of the early days of HN where it was automatically injecting a random article to bolster content.
The other thing I thought could be happening was that there is an article on the front page in a particular topic, someone reads it finds a novel topic and then thinks to themself: “I know! I can post a Wikipedia article on that topic and farm some karma”.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Anything that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on-topic on HN :)
Wikipedia happens to be a great neutral resource to share curious media/phenomena that others might not know about.
> Anything that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on-topic on HN :)
Yeah — sure. But I’m with the parent comment to which you replied. Sometimes I’m not sure if I’m just coming across one of todays “lucky 10,000” [0] or if there’s another reason why something old has resurfaced and, if it’s the latter, it’d be nice to know the context.
John Carpenter made some good movies some great movies, some truly shit movies, and one of the greatest movies ever - one of my top 3 favorite movies of all time (The Thing).
Story and script seem to be the defining factor in making a great movie.
Me too. The worst I’ve seen from him is average/meh, never shit. I liked the much maligned “Ghosts of Mars”, a kick ass action movie with a twist on his usual anti-conformist work; now a couple of polar opposite archetypes must act together.
I believe Prince of Darkness is the one that had (incidental to everything else, not an important plot point) a possessed Alice Cooper impale a guy with a bicycle. If that’s not enough to move a film out of the doghouse…
I was surprised to find out that most of his movies were box office failures. Didn't matter to me, though. They weren't critically acclaimed, but they were a lot of fun.
Yeah he is a legend in the horror and sci-fi genres but neither of which are too lucrative
We get what we deserve. Nowadays if your movie is not PG-13, a franchise, or both it’s tough to get financing so these original and unique works have pretty much died out
This movie is great overall, in my opinion, but I always chuckle when I think about it because I had no idea about Roddy Piper’s wrestling fame and there is a scene where he fights Keith David that is just silly and I had no idea why it was in there until later.
Saw the move years ago. The acting was not great, but the very end was hard to swallow.
The 'hero' gets to the roof where he has a clear shot to destroy the transmitter (apparently sophisticated aliens with teleporting technology can't be bothered with simple redundancy so they have a single point of failure), but stops to ask his girlfriend if she is 'clear' even though she is standing way behind him. This gives her a chance to shoot him and almost stops him from destroying it before he dies.
Anyone watching has to roll their eyes at whoever wrote that scene.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 148 ms ] threadYa, the hero died at the end. I kept expecting him to come back to the very end.
EDIT: edited due to downvotes. Come on!
John Oliver actually did a piece on it, and that was fairly revealing[0].
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8UQ4O7UiDs
Another of my favourites in this category is Save the Green Planet!, though it's not as family friendly as Carpenter's take on it.
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/
It's a bit low budget but the story is legit and Sheen does a pretty good job with it IMO.
There is some radio astronomy techno jargon which is surprisingly accurate as well and maybe that is why I like it so much.
https://youtu.be/oBcFLmu_tlc
Had he answered any other way, his career would have been over and he might have been killed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripple_Fight
I thought they were organic at first but then I got skeptical and wondered if it was some vestige of the early days of HN where it was automatically injecting a random article to bolster content.
The other thing I thought could be happening was that there is an article on the front page in a particular topic, someone reads it finds a novel topic and then thinks to themself: “I know! I can post a Wikipedia article on that topic and farm some karma”.
Who knows.
Anything that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on-topic on HN :)
Wikipedia happens to be a great neutral resource to share curious media/phenomena that others might not know about.
Feels more prescient every time.
Still, options will differ.
Yeah — sure. But I’m with the parent comment to which you replied. Sometimes I’m not sure if I’m just coming across one of todays “lucky 10,000” [0] or if there’s another reason why something old has resurfaced and, if it’s the latter, it’d be nice to know the context.
[0] https://xkcd.com/1053/
1) Tag boss and other questionable associates through They Live filter.
2) Put glasses on.
3) Chew Gum
4) End Gum
5) Run Kick Ass automation.
Story and script seem to be the defining factor in making a great movie.
Although my favorite would probably be In The Mouth of Madness, because I saw that at a better point in my life.
https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1cepji9/director...
I was surprised to find out that most of his movies were box office failures. Didn't matter to me, though. They weren't critically acclaimed, but they were a lot of fun.
We get what we deserve. Nowadays if your movie is not PG-13, a franchise, or both it’s tough to get financing so these original and unique works have pretty much died out
https://pvto.weebly.com/uploads/9/1/5/0/91508780/eight_o’clo...
The 'hero' gets to the roof where he has a clear shot to destroy the transmitter (apparently sophisticated aliens with teleporting technology can't be bothered with simple redundancy so they have a single point of failure), but stops to ask his girlfriend if she is 'clear' even though she is standing way behind him. This gives her a chance to shoot him and almost stops him from destroying it before he dies.
Anyone watching has to roll their eyes at whoever wrote that scene.