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should be the next remake. Wouldn't mind seeing "I Married A Monster From Outer Space". That was a cool flick.
There are so many other 'A' list movies playing this one will probably only be on the tiny screens at the Cineplexes.
If it's on a decent screen I'll go, otherwise it's blu-ray.
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Greg House
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It is a prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing. It is not a remake of anything.
dfs
If you did the answer should be pretty obvious. If not, really not much to talk about
how the creature wiped out the first guys at the outpost. Basically, a repeat, a set piece. Stock characters, separate during crisis, get attacked one by one, etc. Not much leeway possible. One good thing: it's made me put both earlier ones into my Netflix list.
Again, the lack of imagination is stunning. Perhaps "Oliver Twist" the prequel would be better?
> > how the creature wiped out the first guys at the outpost.> >
Ah, so you do remember there was something that happened between the ship crashing and the begining of the 1982 movie.
> > Basically, a repeat, a set piece. Stock characters, separate during crisis, get attacked one by one, etc.> >
So you have read the script?
> > Not much leeway possible.
Again, the lack of imagination is stunning.> >
Whose lack of imagination? You are the one claiming not much leeway possible. You don't really know though do you? You *may* be right but you *may* be wrong.
I like to form my opinions on movies AFTER I see them not before.
Carpenter's was too Gross Out for me.
this could be filed in the "I must be getting old" category.
Carpenter's "The Thing" was a remake of the 1951 movie that we used to refer to as "The Thing" but the complete movie title was "The Thing From Another World".
But by now, very few seem to remember the 1951 movie but instead recall the 1981 flick by Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell. When I saw the Carpenter remake, I recall being somewhat let down. Or maybe the 1951 flick, dated as it is with its early fifties sensibilities, is a pretty good thriller.
I guess nobody watches those old fifties sci-fi horror flicks anymore.
-Steve
Thorens Rules
Simply another take on the same source material. And quite superior if one can escape their nostolgia.
The thing is its already been done, a couple of times. No law against it. And if the flick makes money, there will be encouragement for other similar 'remakes' to be planned.
I regard it kind of like pop stars covering songs written and performed by other pop stars from 40 years back. While it may work, and even work well, it still strikes me as somewhat bankrupt of creativity. Not original.
-Steve
Thorens Rules
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Both are good, but totally different movies.
Jack
(nt)
The 1981 film is closer to the original John W. Campbell story Who Goes There? (from the Aug. '38, Astounding Stories pulp). It's just my 2 cents, but I think John Carpenter's film a bona fide SF classic, arguably more horrific and atmospheric than the loose adaptation of Campbell's story from '51. Other's mileage may vary.
Who knows what the new film will look like, but my expectations for prequels are pretty low.
This Asylum thread continues the discussion...
and the one I did didn't look too swuft.
If the new one matches it in that respect it will be doing good as that is something often missing these days...
Phil
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They kept mentioning scientific reasons for what might be going on and as they progressed so did the tension.
It wasn't a bunch of loud people running around until the Thing appeared in a bunch of crazy mutations like the second one.
I would like to see a good remake but will not hold my breath.
Phil
....not even aware of the classics.. :)
Baba-Booey to you all!
From the couple previews I've seen it looks to combine the best aspects of the previous incarnations - which is considerable.
And NO DAMN JOHN CARPENTER as "COMPOSER" of the score!
If someone went back and redid the scores for most of his films
they would all move up a notch or two in my book.
" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
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