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No, John Carpenter Doesn’t Talk Smack on Letterboxd

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No, John Carpenter Doesn’t Talk Smack on Letterboxd

Earlier today, a tweet went viral claiming: master of fear John Carpenter was sending humiliatingeven absurd criticisms of his own work (and other films, including recent ones) Reagan’s biographical) on the movie-watching social platform Letterboxd. Carpenter is a legendary curmudgeon, but the fact that anyone believes these posts are real is a fascinating reminder that there are still gullible people on the internet.

Original post since deletedas does the fake Carpenter’s Letterboxd page, but others have joined in on the fun and shared some of “John Carpenter’s” reviews before. Just a few examples:

It’s unclear whether the X users who shared the reviews actually believed that this person was the film’s director. They are alive, Halloween, ThingAnd Escape from New York He was posting under his own name on Letterboxd, and some of the “likes” of the tweets received were definitely from people knowingly using parody accounts. But it turns out some may have actually fallen for the joke, apparently believing that Carpenter neither knew how to spell the word “embarrassing” nor did he think he did. any Her love of the student favorite turned cult film that catapulted her into her long career in 1974 Dark Star.

To talk Diversity Last year (the same conversation in which he described his perfect day as “Get up late, watch some news, play video games, watch some basketball, go to bed”) Carpenter specifically said: “I’m not doing it, I’m evaluating myself.” He avoided answering a question about what his greatest skill as a filmmaker was, saying only that he was most proud of it. Thing. “I think I did a really great job with it. I would love to make more serious movies that aren’t teen movies like this and aren’t aimed at teenagers. It was a movie I was proud of. I don’t know what my strength is. I have no idea.”

The But if that wasn’t enough, Carpenter himself joined the fray and posted the perfect response that closed the case:

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