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Post by WarrenPeace on Feb 6, 2019 8:18:10 GMT
Just watched the orig. Thing.
Carpenter's was one of the few remakes that is better than the orig.
As for the prequel, forget it.
Just garbage.
JC Thing - Love
50's Thing - Like
More recent Thing - Hate
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Feb 6, 2019 9:01:26 GMT
JC's 'The Thing' is a beautiful, intense, ensemble film, with SFX that were clearly ahead of its time. You have to pay close attention to it, or you will get lost about 45 minutes in.
The 1950's version is a great movie with really great dialogue. I've seen it colorized.
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Post by kolchak92 on Feb 6, 2019 12:04:57 GMT
Just watched the orig. Thing. Carpenter's was one of the few remakes that is better than the orig. As for the prequel, forget it. Just garbage. JC Thing - Love 50's Thing - Like More recent Thing - Hate Same ranking as yours. |
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Post by sostie on Feb 6, 2019 12:17:12 GMT
The Thing From Another World - as a standalone film is good, though the Hawksian dialogue doesn't quite work for me in the film. As a book adaptation, one of the worst ever
The Thing (1982) - my all time favourite film
The Thing (2011) - continuity, the nature of the creature and what we already knew about the Norwegian base shackled the film preventing it from coming across as wholly original (giving us those oh so clever people that insist on calling it a remake). I actually really like the film...a decent enough job done considering the restrictions it had upon it.
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Post by alpha128 on Feb 6, 2019 12:32:42 GMT
I own both the 1951 and 1982 versions on DVD.
I thought the 2011 version was OK - neither particularly good nor particularly bad. I did admire their dedication to recreating the settings from Carpenter's film. I also thought the inability of The Thing to recreate non-organic matter, e.g. dental fillings, was a clever addition but still consistent with what we already knew.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Feb 6, 2019 15:04:07 GMT
The Thing (1951)--Great Cold-War sci-fi fun, sets the standard for the next decade.
The Thing (1982)--Pure classic that was misunderstood and ahead of its time when released.
The Thing (2011)--Two hours of my life that I'll never get back.
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Post by wmcclain on Feb 6, 2019 15:19:49 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Feb 6, 2019 15:20:57 GMT
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Post by anthonyrocks on Feb 6, 2019 17:11:57 GMT
I actually Like All 3 of Them!
I also think that if The Studio hadn't interfered with the 2011 Prequel (by ordering the Practical Effects be replaced and covered over in the movie with CGI) then it would have been much more successful and much more liked by others.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Feb 6, 2019 17:38:30 GMT
I actually Like All 3 of Them!
I also think that if The Studio hadn't interfered with the 2011 Prequel (by ordering the Practical Effects be replaced and covered over in the movie with CGI) then it would have been much more successful and much more liked by others.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Feb 6, 2019 17:41:58 GMT
I love all 3 and have all 3 on DVD.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Feb 6, 2019 19:02:37 GMT
JC's 'The Thing' is a beautiful, intense, ensemble film, with SFX that were clearly ahead of its time. You have to pay close attention to it, or you will get lost about 45 minutes in. The 1950's version is a great movie with really great dialogue. I've seen it colorized. Yeah, exactly. I watch 70's/80's movies with practical efx and they still stand up. When I checked out Thing remake, they looked too fake compared to the orig. |
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Post by WarrenPeace on Feb 6, 2019 19:03:49 GMT
The Thing (1951)--Great Cold-War sci-fi fun, sets the standard for the next decade.
The Thing (1982)--Pure classic that was misunderstood and ahead of its time when released.
The Thing (2011)--Two hours of my life that I'll never get back. Literally! LOL |
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Post by WarrenPeace on Feb 6, 2019 19:08:24 GMT
I actually Like All 3 of Them!
I also think that if The Studio hadn't interfered with the 2011 Prequel (by ordering the Practical Effects be replaced and covered over in the movie with CGI) then it would have been much more successful and much more liked by others.
Yeah and I'm under the impression they put the girls in there to make up for the complaints of not having any in the remake. Token females. I don't see anything wrong with having an all male cast for certain movies. We did not need a prequel. We get it what happened from the first one. |
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Feb 6, 2019 19:23:50 GMT
Only like the '82 film.
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Post by gw on Feb 6, 2019 21:51:50 GMT
I've seen the Carpenter movie and the original after that. I enjoyed The Thing but I didn't like The Thing From Another World at all.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2019 22:02:58 GMT
I love The Thing (1982) and it is one of my favorite movies of all time.
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 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.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Feb 6, 2019 22:19:16 GMT
Yeah, when I first watched it, it scared the bejeebus out of me and now it's like, "This is awesome!" 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 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. |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Feb 6, 2019 22:22:26 GMT
JC Thing - Love
50's Thing - Like
More recent Thing - Hate
Sounds about right.
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Post by sostie on Feb 7, 2019 0:07:32 GMT
I know you loved the 2011 version, but the CGI was the least of its problems. The script sucked rocks, the characters were all uninteresting, bland and other than the two leads, interchangeable. No distinct personalities like in both the other versions, just cannon fodder for the monster. The movie gets a very marginal prop for tying into the 1982 version at the end, but otherwise it was a completely unoriginal and unnecessary exercise in banality. Yeah and I'm under the impression they put the girls in there to make up for the complaints of not having any in the remake. Token females. Without getting into the whole "The Thing is not a remake of The Thing From Another World" (it isn't) argument, I don't see why they should make up for The Thing 82 having an all male cast. The book it's based on has no female characters. The addition of a female character in TTFAW was more like tokenism...I'd like to say it was one of the major things that that film divereged away from the book, but that was the least of it's crimes....it has very little in common with the book or JC's adaptation. |
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