{"id":56236,"date":"2018-10-19T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/random_hollywood_legend_john_carpenter_doesnt_think_much_of_nintendo_labo"},"modified":"2018-10-19T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T13:40:00","slug":"random-hollywood-legend-john-carpenter-doesnt-think-much-of-nintendo-labo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/19\/random-hollywood-legend-john-carpenter-doesnt-think-much-of-nintendo-labo\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Hollywood Legend John Carpenter Doesn&#8217;t Think Much Of Nintendo Labo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/81916f8efe9f0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/81916f8efe9f0\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/random_hollywood_legend_john_carpenter_doesnt_think_much_of_nintendo_labo\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>John Carpenter&#8217;s contribution to horror cinema simply cannot be understated; via titles like <strong>Halloween<\/strong>, <strong>The Thing<\/strong> and <strong>They Live<\/strong>, he has helped to shape the kind of fright-heavy flicks we know and love &#8211; and that&#8217;s not to mention his many excellent films <em>outside<\/em> of the genre, such as <strong>Escape from New York<\/strong>, <strong>Big Trouble in Little China<\/strong> and <strong>Dark Star<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the original 1978 Halloween will always be the film he is most instantly associated with, and to celebrate the release of yet another entry in the franchise this year, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DIRG6reVYLs\">IGN<\/a> decided to pop Carpenter in front of a <strong>Nintendo Labo<\/strong> piano and ask him to play the famous theme tune of the series &#8211; which he also composed himself.<\/p>\n<p>The result? <em>Hilarity<\/em>. Carpenter makes a good job of replicating the tune if we&#8217;re honest, but his lovable grumbling (&#8220;I have no idea what I&#8217;m doing&#8221;) is what seals the deal. He gets a bit potty-mouthed at the end, so be warned &#8211; IGN has at least been good enough to beep out his swears. Phew!<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it; Carpenter&#8217;s verdict of the Labo piano kit is perhaps as high as the reviews critics gave to <strong>In The Mouth of Madness<\/strong>, <strong>Vampires<\/strong> and <strong>Ghosts of Mars<\/strong>, the latter of which I&#8217;m still annoyed about paying good money to see at the cinema back in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Lord Conrad&#8217;s brewery for the tip!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] John Carpenter&#8217;s contribution to horror cinema simply cannot be understated; via titles like Halloween, The Thing and They Live, he has helped to shape the kind of fright-heavy flicks we know and love &#8211; and that&#8217;s not to mention his many excellent films outside of the genre, such as Escape from New York, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}