Monday, February 19, 2007

Chicken

Ghosts of Mars (2001)
directed by John Carpenter
rating: 1 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix

The thin line between must-see extra and don't-see movie was never as thin as the segue from Scott Ian of Anthrax asking for a little less bass to John Carpenter smoking his eighteenth cigarette while Steve Vai and then Buckethead solo to themselves. Is it Buckethead or Carpenter beneath that KFC cap? Is it Martin Quatermass or Rip Haight behind that screenplay? Or maybe the ham-fisted ghost of Douglas MacArthur?