Posted on 07/31/2015 6:51:39 PM PDT by Kartographer
That said, I'm proud to say I hadn't a clue of who he was....
Was he there?
I go back to "The War to Settle the Score" which was the pre-cursor to WrestleMania 1. Not to mention the Piper's Pits with Superfly Jimmy Snuka. Talk abount un-PC!! LOL!
I understand that Hogan has NEVER beaten Piper, correct? That’s a longer streak than unbeaten Undertaker at WM.
Indeed, it was a gem - different from the story it was based on, but had a neat earth-as-a-Third-World-sweatshop twist, with the upper crust being sellouts. Scariest line "We have one who can see."
He did a good job in another cult-type tongue-in-cheek movie called Hell Comes To Frogtown".
This from an IMDB plot summary:
'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred yards from his guard.
IMO, the greatest scene is where a frog-faced woman (GREAT body) thinks he wants sex again and brings out a paper bag.
Very left-wing pic.
Last year's The Purge: Anarchy was a rip-off (or homage, if you prefer).
If they’d laid off the anti-Reagan motif, it would have been a great TEA Party film. Carpenter left the politics out of The Thing and it worked.
"If they’d laid off the anti-Reagan motif, it would have been a great TEA Party film. Carpenter left the politics out of The Thing and it worked."
Indeed it was a commentary, a post-script really, of the Reagan Years. As is often the case it looks rather misplaced in hindsight, because American society at the time was practically Puritan compared to today.
How dare Americans want to keep their own money ( tax cuts ), engage in conspicuous consumption and business ( the thriving economy ), and assert its military might without surrender ( countless examples ).
The mark of a visionary in his commentary is that it transcends his era, and I would say that Carpenter by accident did exactly this. And there are others before him, notably George Orwell ( nominally a die-hard Socialist ) and H. L. Mencken ( roughly equivalent to today's rabid brain-dead Atheists ). Both of these men are now indispensable dispensers of insight that becomes more important every day.
I like to think that the World has taught a lesson to John Carpenter, who I assume didn't like what he saw in the liberated citizenry of the Reagan nation. Now with almost 30 years elapsed, he can look out the windows of his mansion and see the Hollywood Hills full of conspicuous consumption by celebrities that get their very wealth from sheeple that "Buy" and "Consume" and "Conform" and "Watch TV" and "Reproduce".
I especially wonder what goes through his mind when he sees an Obama "OBEY" poster. Hehehe. It is quite satisfying that his nominal party of choice, caught up with and far surpassed his cynical view of the Reagan generation.
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