The Thing (2011)

Originally posted by EvilAngel
I really enjoyed it =) It's nothing on the old one, but I gave up hoping any horror movie ever could beat one of the classics for a long while until CG steps up it's game considerably.

I also liked how apparently the Thing has already killed the Aliens. As it has a improved version of the facehugger, no? =p

So, I was discussing some pointless and trivial detail about the movies with some friends and I wondered if it might be something you guys were interested in.

The Alien spaceship crash landed on Earth. Kind of hard to believe they didn't see it, I mean a whole planet?. So what happened? The easiest answer we figure was that it found a planet full of life forms, great! That's what it wants, right? So of all the planet to pick from, the Antarctic? It leaves a bit of confusion in the air.

Is it instead possible the spaceship doesn't actually belong to the thing at all, and instead belonged to another race the thing attacked, doing with them what it did to us? That would explain the crash a little better I would think. It did seem to be able to replicate human intelligence when it consumed us, so if it did consume the aliens that explains how it was able to build the ship in the original.

Just food for fun thought. What do you guys think? =)

If you have ever read animorphs and are familiar with the Yeerk species, they did a similar thing, and that's also what I thought when I saw the ship and they dissected it. I loved the movie. I would hate to have been that guy who got melded into split-face. That must have been painful! My only gripe with the movie is Why didn't the Thing start assimilating Winstead's leg when it grabbed her from the tunnel when she was grabbing the grenade. It pulled her out and threw her, allowing her to kill it, instead of the tentacle assimilating on contact

Could have done without this movie. It isn't necessarily a bad movie. Had i never seen, The Thing or Carpenters remake i probably would have liked this. It's essentially a remake of, Carpenters The Thing. Everything unfolds the same way and even the suspense is built in the same manner. The effects arent to bad but they're all CGI. Coming from all practical effects in, Carpenters, The Thing i was left unsatisfied with the effects in this one. This movie would have been better if it were more of a prequel or atleast strayed from Carpenters scenes.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
Could have done without this movie. It isn't necessarily a bad movie. Had i never seen, The Thing or Carpenters remake i probably would have liked this. It's essentially a remake of, Carpenters The Thing. Everything unfolds the same way and even the suspense is built in the same manner. The effects arent to bad but they're all CGI. Coming from all practical effects in, Carpenters, The Thing i was left unsatisfied with the effects in this one. This movie would have been better if it were more of a prequel or atleast strayed from Carpenters scenes.

Hm.. I may not bother with seeing this, then. I just watched Carpenters The Thing and rather liked it. But what I liked most about it was the practical effects. It was truly disturbing. If the new one is all CGI, then that's just not gonna be the same. 😬

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Hm.. I may not bother with seeing this, then. I just watched Carpenters The Thing and rather liked it. But what I liked most about it was the practical effects. It was truly disturbing. If the new one is all CGI, then that's just not gonna be the same. 😬

I just saw carpenters The Thing and god I thought it sucked.sure am glad i did not pay money for it.I could not believe it was so bad especially since carpenter directed it since I love Halloween so much.hollywood should have never made either one of these 2 mindless new remakes.

Originally posted by Mindship

Spoiler:
No, he did not do the weird creature scream. However: there was an earring in his right ear before they went in; it was not there when they came out (and I don't recall it being ripped out; neither do I recall the guy checking like it had been ripped off). And when Kate mentioned the missing earring, the guy did check his left ear (which is why she said, wrong ear).

I think the film's intent was for us to initially think he was infected, but then to throw us off when he screamed like a human.
Poorly done, methinks. I did not find the scenario satisfying.

Or maybe it's meant to be ambiguous, like the suspicions we have about Childs at the end of the previous film, when he sits down with Macready. Is it really him, or the Thing? They let you try to figure it out.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
Could have done without this movie. It isn't necessarily a bad movie. Had i never seen, The Thing or Carpenters remake i probably would have liked this. It's essentially a remake of, Carpenters The Thing. Everything unfolds the same way and even the suspense is built in the same manner. The effects arent to bad but they're all CGI. Coming from all practical effects in, Carpenters, The Thing i was left unsatisfied with the effects in this one. This movie would have been better if it were more of a prequel or atleast strayed from Carpenters scenes.

I had the same feeling for this one...I think they called it a prequel to simply try and avoid comparisons to Carpenter's version because they knew it wasn't as suspenseful of well executed. It had a few decent moments though.

The difference for me is they tried to make it all about the "jump" scares where as Carpenter's was about the suspense of not being able to trust any of the people you know and how that played off against each other. This version had that to a much lesser degree.

For me, there was also no point to the scene in the alien ship...That could've been completely left out as it added nothing other than to say "look...we can do a big ship with big engines in CGI"

Gets a 5/10 from me.

Originally posted by jaden101
I had the same feeling for this one...I think they called it a prequel to simply try and avoid comparisons to Carpenter's version because they knew it wasn't as suspenseful of well executed. It had a few decent moments though.

The difference for me is they tried to make it all about the "jump" scares where as Carpenter's was about the suspense of not being able to trust any of the people you know and how that played off against each other. This version had that to a much lesser degree.

For me, there was also no point to the scene in the alien ship...That could've been completely left out as it added nothing other than to say "look...we can do a big ship with big engines in CGI"

Gets a 5/10 from me.

They also needed a way to explain why there was a giant crater in the 1982 Thing. That scene was necessary to lead into the Kurt Russell movie.