If I never see John Carpenter ‘s Starman (‘84) ever again, it’ll be too soon.
I hated hated HATED Jeff Bridges’ performance as a mentally handicapped, slow-on-the-pickup alien — the polar opposite of Michael Rennie’s “Klaatu” in The Day The Earth Stood Still. Plus I hated his hair. Less than a half-hour in I was fantasizing about ways Bridges might be murdered by the authorities.
I felt more affection for James Arness’s meowing vegetable in Howard Hawks’ The Thing (‘51) than I did for Bridges’ “Scott Hayden.”
Plus Karen Allen has always bothered me — she was the Sydney Sweeney of her time.
There’s a Starman 4K Bluray on the way…forget it.
