The Thing movies: Which ones do you love, like or hate?

The Thing movies: Which ones do you love, like or hate? Feb 6, 2019 22:19:16 GMT

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Post by WarrenPeace on Feb 6, 2019 22:19:16 GMT

Feb 6, 2019 22:02:58 GMT @bartlesby said:

I love The Thing (1982) and it is one of my favorite movies of all time.

Yeah, when I first watched it, it scared the bejeebus out of me and now it's like, "This is awesome!"

The 50's version is alright but it deviates quite a bit from the source material and removes what made it interesting-- the paranoia-- and makes it more of a conventional sci-fi monster flick.

I think monster movies were more of a new thing back then.
We are numb to them now.
If we were around back then, we might have found it awesome.
Yeah, I was like, "OK this is a run-of-the-mill monster flick. Why am I supposed to be impressed by it?"
Then I had the above epiphany.
Then I read stuff that it relates to the cold war and Russia etc.
Was there anything that doesn't in movies and entertainment around then that didn't? I dunno if it ties in with it or not.

I'm impressed at what they could do with SFX back then.

I haven't seen The Thing (2011) and I don't plan to. I'm not interested in a prequel film and everything I've gleaned about it through word of mouth makes it sound kinda bad and not a film I'd want to watch.

I just caught bits and pieces of it on a cable movie channel.
It didn't keep me wanting to keep watching.
I got bored with it. It's like there was nothing new to see.

They seem to get sci fi prequel films more wrong than right.
Star Wars
Alien
The Thing.