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Post by denofearth on Aug 21, 2013 6:46:37 GMT -5
Simply a scary and entertaining masterpiece that combines paranoid horror and dark sci-fi with excellent effects by Rob Bottin and Stan Winston with a great score and a nice all male cast especially Kurt Russell, Keith David to Wilford "Oatmeal and diabeetus" Brimely.
I saw this movie on cable when i was 4 and thought it was scary as hell, i later re-appreciated it when i was 13 and been one of my fave movies since.
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Post by Crowfan on Aug 21, 2013 12:57:05 GMT -5
I think it's an underrated Carpenter film. It's truly creepy and the special effects are amazing. Where the alien comes out of the dog is intense.
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Post by Satchmo on Aug 21, 2013 13:50:54 GMT -5
I think it's an underrated Carpenter film. It's truly creepy and the special effects are amazing. Where the alien comes out of the dog is intense. Given its current reputation as one of the best horror movies ever made, I wouldn't exactly call it underrated, but I do love The Thing. The acting is very good, the creature effects are wonderfully gooey, and you can cut the atmosphere with a knife, but the thing that really makes it stand out for me is the psychological horror. It understands that the scariest thing at play isn't the monster you can see, but the one you can't. The growing mistrust of every character is what really makes it so chilling. If only the prequel understood that.
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Post by angilasman on Aug 21, 2013 19:51:40 GMT -5
I'm quite happy to say that I joined in on my father and sister's infrequent movie-watchin' get-togethers a few months ago and recommended this. They'd never seen the film, didn't even know what it was about! I didn't spoil it, and watching it unfold for the first time to two people was joyous. They loved it!
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Post by Justin T on Sept 12, 2013 10:57:48 GMT -5
I discovered the movie one late Saturday night on cable back when I was high school. I was blown away by the movie, not being spoiled really helps with the suspense and gory surprises!
It lead me to explore more of Carpenter's movie's and I became a fan of his.
It still remains one of my favorite movies ever.
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Post by robboss on Sept 15, 2013 9:04:58 GMT -5
Has anyone seen the 2011 prequel to Carpenters film? While not as good A film as the original it manages to tie itself together with with the 1982 film quite nicely. And has some truly horrific special effects. If You haven't seen the film and wish too.. Make sure You continue to watch it even after the end credits start to roll.
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Post by bbqsauce17 on Nov 15, 2013 2:32:38 GMT -5
I also enjoyed the 2011 prequel. Not nearly as good as the original, but still very entertaining with some genuinely creepy scenes and effects. I felt that it tied the two films together perfectly. Not sure why most of the critics and audience hated it as much as they did.
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Post by darkvaati13 on Mar 24, 2015 19:30:00 GMT -5
I also enjoyed the 2011 prequel. Not nearly as good as the original, but still very entertaining with some genuinely creepy scenes and effects. I felt that it tied the two films together perfectly. Not sure why most of the critics and audience hated it as much as they did. John Carpenter's The Thing is one of my favorite films of all time. "tied the two films together perfectly" HAHAHAHAHAHA It is a horrid prequel. Theres the obvious plot hole of the fact that in the JC version it shows on video recording 11 Norwegians blowing the ship up in daylight on the surface. The prequel has the Norwegians digging into the ice to get to the ship, at night, and most of all blowing it up from the inside & not filming it!!! Theres also the fact that everything was written in Norwegian and they couldn't decipher any of the writing in the original. In the prequel everyone, but 1 SPOKE FLUENT ENGLISH and most of the writing we saw was in English!!! The film itself is awful on a story telling standard. The thing has a lower degree of intel than in the prequel than in the original. In John Carpenter’s film, the Thing just wants to hide. As MacReady says: “This thing doesn’t want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It’ll fight if it has to, but it’s vulnerable out in the open” yet in the prequel it attacks at will. It even escapes only to return and kill some more even though MacReady correctly remarks “it wants to freeze. It wants to go to sleep in the cold until the rescue team finds it”. Likewise, logic is absent in an earlier scene where a Thing is being flown to safety yet spurns this gilt edged opportunity that it’s waited 100,000 years for and decides to attack for no reason, and causes the helicopter to crash, killing it in the process. The thing would only expose itself in need to protect itself in the JC Version, in the Prequel the thing will attack if you look at it funny. The original had a bleak creepy atmosphere, great characters, and good tension. The prequel had next to no memorable characters, stupid characters, and no suspense. The Thing (2011) didn’t fail because the audience wasn’t interested in a sci-fi horror. It failed because it ignored what made the original so great. In the original everyone was suspicious of everyone. Even MacReady was under suspicion that built tension on who the thing was so we were unsure of our protagonist. The prequel has our main heroine not be suspicious of anyone especially of the 2 guys who survived a plane crash in the middle of the Antarctic! Guess what turns out one of those guys was infected. UGH! I hate the prequel so much.
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Post by Caedmon on Jun 24, 2017 15:00:34 GMT -5
The Thing is easily one of my favorite movies of all time. I own the 2K scan on Blu-ray from Scream Factory, and it looks fantastic. Apparently Arrow Films in the U.K. is releasing a new 4K restoration of the film sometime soon, which should be interesting. I'm not sure if I want to spend more money on another copy of the movie, but I may do so eventually because Arrow does an awesome job at restoring films. It would be interesting to compare their version with my Scream Factory copy.
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Post by Grievous on Jun 28, 2018 4:03:33 GMT -5
...is one of the best ever horror films created by the human race.
The practical effects are amazing & along with The Fly (1986) show how a remake can actually be a glorious expression of artistic creativity.
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