The Thing
![[Deleted User]](https://w5.vanillicon.com/v2/5b0e61703cf72a63a8c71968d0d81190.svg)
[Deleted User]
Posts: 235 Forum Member
✭
I saw a trailer for this today. It's to be released on October 14th. I haven't seen the original but I definitely want to see this prequel. Any early judgements?
0
[Deleted User]
Posts: 235
Comments
I might watch the prequel first as it's set before the original
It'll be interesting to see how the advance in special effects over the years show in the film.
I see it's just a straight remake.Can't help but think some things should be left alone.Time will tell.
It's not a direct remake - It's set three days before the original film. I know what you mean though, we need more original films rather than prequels, sequels, remakes and reboots :yawn:
Oh right.I watched the trailer and recognised a few scenes.But i guess it must be all the stuff that happens before Kurt Russell and his guys save the running husky.
And the 1982 move was itself a remake.
I'll give it a go but looks a bit to popcorn-y too me.
I'd go along with that.
OP, if the remake/prequel/whateva interests you so much then, really, you should check out the original first. It's a fine film, you won't be disappointed.
Hoping for the best, but pretty much expecting a retread of Carpenter's classic despite the pretence of it being a prequel.
But it's got Mary Elizabeth Winstead in it, so it'll be watchable for her :-)
I'll definitely see it but I'm expecting it to be an acceptable time-passer rather than a classic, intense masterpiece.
*before anyone says "it's not a remake", please see my other post regarding this issue.
And as for the cgi effects, nothing but nothing will ever match the originals chest burst/spider head scene for shock and realism.
This one?
I've always wondered whether that was scripted or whether it was just a spontaneous response, because it's possibly the best reaction to anything in a film ever.:D
'i know you gentlemen have been through a lot...but when you find the time...i would rather not spend the rest of this expedition TIED TO THIS ****ING COUCH!!!'
I remember it got a huge laugh in the cinema, because it completely broke the tension.
Oh, and just to make it clear, this movie apparently shows what happened to the Norwegian expedition, though it apparently resembles Carpenters movie quite closely.
Early reviews are reasonably positive, seems to be an OK movie, if not a great one.
Anyway, I think this new one will sink without trace, while Carpenters' movie is completely brilliant !
I'll wait for the BluRay to come out.
It's funny. There was 31 years difference between Carpenter's '82 remake and the Hawks/Nyby '51 original, and roughly the same (29 years) between Carpenter's and this new one.
Carpenter's looked poles apart from Hawks', yet this new one looks like having little difference to Carpenter's. Lesson in there somewhere.
That was a remake of "The thing from another world" from 1951.
Hence the reason that I put 'original' in inverted commas.
And Carpenter's version was closer to the original short story "Who Goes There?" by John W Campbell. Hawks' version was a fairly typical 1950s monster movie (which had neither the budget nor the technical capability to create "morphing" visuals) but shocked audiences with the climactic burning scene.
Oh, and I've got an early draft of Bill Lancaster's screenplay for Carpenter's version and the "got to be f***ing kidding" line isn't in there. I'm guessing it was added during filming as the exact details of the transformations weren't worked out in the script - I imagine a lot was done in collaboration with Bottin and the effects crew.
Alas, poor Christian Nyby. always going to have his credit overshadowed by his producer.