Christine

[Will]

This was the only John Capenter movie I had not yet seen (I even caught Elvis: The Movie) until last night.  Carpenter's visuals are so cool, but this is a real clunker.  Looks like half the plot and character development got chopped out.  I mean, Arnie goes from dork to Dean in a matter of a jump cut.  Too much happens too quickly, and a haunted car just isn't scary, even if it can fix itself.  I like James Brolin in "The Car" much better.  Still, Christine was worth seeing if only for Harry Dean Stanton's completely deadpan delivery of the line "The report says someone defecated on the dashboard."

[Cullen]

"Christine" is unique, for me, as one of the few adaptations of a book that I like equal to the source.  Both have their strengths and weaknesses, and both seem to fall short of their creators' talent.

I like 'em both, but they're not the best in the genre.

[Lee]

If you ask me this is an underappreciated movie. That car made me not want to cross a street at night. The music was awesome. The performances were dead on. Arnie turns into one creepy bastard. Not John Carpenter's best and certainly not the best Stephen King adaption but it is one kewl movie.

[Phantom 187]

I think the movie comes off pretty well and has some really great SPFX for it's time. I don't think the car fixing it self up could have been done any other way and comes off with some of the greatest cinematic visuals that I have ever seen before or since. Some of those glare lens flair scenes with the old 70's camera optics have a great look and with a great sound track to boot.