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Trump is like the “John Carpenter” of Presidents


He gets no appreciation now but I guarantee that everyone will look back in 20 years and compare him to Lincoln. Just a feeling I have at the moment.

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Terrible analogy. Just. Terrible.

John Carpenter was respected in the 1980s, at least by audiences. Then in the 1990s his quality of work began to drop off. So yes, when people celebrate him, they look back to the 1980s. But again, back then he was respected. Trump is not respected now, and will not be respected in 20 years. He will forever be the "wtf happened" of Presidents.

Maybe in 20 years they will look back and celebrate Trump from 30 years earlier as the host of the Apprentice who somehow managed to become president, but that's about it.

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Bwa ha ha ha ha.

Lincoln? More like Hoover.

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Wow...deluded much?

Trump will join the pantheon of miscreant Presidents that includes such illuminaries as Warren G. Harding, Andrew Johnson, and of course, good ol' Tricky Dick himself, Nixon.

He'll be appreciated alright...as a scumbag.

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Lots of your comrades already appreciate him. He's Putin's first US oligarch installed as President of the United States. His public fealty to his Russian handler is unassailable.

Forget 20 years, he's already compared favorably to Lincoln in Mother Russia right now.

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How dare you insult John Carpenter that way.

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Poor John Carpenter--the OP might as well have compared John Carpenter to Satan or Hitler. I'm not even John Carpenter and *I* want a bath after reading that OP.

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I agree. In that he hasn't worked in ten years.

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You have, without a single doubt in my mind, leveled a bigger insult to John Carpenter than anyone in the world could possibly level against him. Shame on you...just...shame on you...

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John Carpenter got a shit load of appreciation for Halloween, which is the most overrated movie in the history of mankind. He should have got that respect from Assault on Precinct 13, which is a vastly superior film in every way.

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I agree, Assault is his best movie and under appreciated like hell. But Carpenter was fired from Universal and The Thing was laughed at by critics, Big Trouble in Little China was a box office bomb, and Halloween opened to mediocre numbers but through strong word of mouth the tickets somehow doubled in the 2nd week which is almost unheard of.

It’s only now 30+ years later that his 80’s movies are looked at so highly, even the stars of Halloween were never truly embraced by Hollywood years after its release. Just pull up any Jamie Lee Curtis interview, she will tell you that she didn’t become a movie star until “True Lies” came out in the 90’s.

Halloween is still so popular today because of it’s title and Carpenter’s theme music, without that it would be viewed as mediocre like “The Fog”.

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