Carlo El Sanchez Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Hey has anybody seen the 1982 remake of The Thing... iv seen it about 5 times and i love it, i dont know why iv read bad reviews of it in the past. What do you think ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDJOHNNYMIKE Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 The one with Kurt Russel? It was alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Admittedly, it's been a while since I've seen it but I thought it was pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Kitty Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Great movie. Sure, quite campy and rather dated nowdays, but I can still watch and enjoy it, even though I've probably seen it a few dozen times over the years. Of course, I love a lot of Carpenter's stuff from those days... Escape from New York, The Fog (not the remake, the old one), Big Trouble in Little China.. Tons of good stuff. And yeah, they're all pretty cheesy, but eh.. Still love 'em anyways -Even the Halloween movies weren't too bad for what they were meant to be. Of course, my fondness for those old classics might be largely because IMO, it used to be that the 'chills' were mainly from the use of music and lighting and also relied a lot more on the actors to convey the sense of tension and fear where nowdays it's usually more from effects, CGI and of course plain old gore. Leaves something very lacking in my eyes by comparison. Not that The Thing had no gore or effects of any kind of course... in fact.. The "spider-head" scene is still one of my favorite horror movie moments. Besides being (at that time) pretty damn original and innovative, you just gotta love the "Oh you've GOT to be kidding" sort of reaction from everyone in the room. I laughed so hard when I heard it for the first time I was in tears. Ahh, memories. -Kitt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo El Sanchez Posted January 3, 2007 Author Share Posted January 3, 2007 Yeah i still like classic Sci-Fi movies, and frankly i find most better nowadays dont you think for the past 5 or 6 years not great Sci-Fi movies have been made ? There have been afew but since the late 80s and 90s i recon they've run out of ideas....like many movies and tv shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus Q'ol Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Oh yeah, know it well. Great sci-fi story. Russell was the man then. I especially loved the way they had to find out who was who. ...it's all in the blood. I knew something was wrong with that dog. The special effects for that time was award winning and quite simply, creeped me out. John Carpenter was crazy. Brilliant, but crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo El Sanchez Posted January 5, 2007 Author Share Posted January 5, 2007 Yeah the effects where damn good when comparred to other 80s movies...but one thing i did not understand, when it gets in sombody and imitates them...you only see it go inside the benings guy with red hair, for the other people does it watch them or somthing ? or does it go into them off screen that you dont see in movie ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus Q'ol Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 That's what's great about this movie and Carpenter altogether. He sets the stage and then leaves some of it up to the imagination of the viewer. Ridley Scott is another who uses this approach. Remember the first Alien? In The Thing, all it needed to do was touch you. Although, I do think it needed time to complete the metamorphasis. Remember the one they found that wasn't done yet? The one they burned outside? Cool movie. The original isn't bad either, for a classic B/W. @Carlo Nice 'tar. How do you like the game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo El Sanchez Posted January 6, 2007 Author Share Posted January 6, 2007 Yeah i remember now, and thanks for the avatar compliment, i havn't played Scarface the game, but i like the movie and the sequel book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 dont you think for the past 5 or 6 years not great Sci-Fi movies have been made ? *COUGH* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Certainly one of the better Carpenter flicks (along with Escape From New York). Good acting, good and gross special effects and good suspense. Liked it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo El Sanchez Posted January 6, 2007 Author Share Posted January 6, 2007 *COUGH* Lol, seen Serenity, I dont know why it did get good reviews, it wasn't really anything that hasnt been done before.....its kinda like Firefly the tv series. I liked the action though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 its kinda like Firefly the tv series....I am...without words. Is that a joke? I would HOPE it is similar to Firefly, what with it being, you know, a movie based on the TV series Firefly, with the same director, writer, and actors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo El Sanchez Posted January 6, 2007 Author Share Posted January 6, 2007 wahh ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedHawke Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 wahh ? To clairify what ET was talking about you stated the movie Serenity was 'kinda' like Firefly the series... Your statement is quite strange as Serenity is the big screen treatment of Firefly the Series. So I reiterate ET's question "Is that a joke?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo El Sanchez Posted January 7, 2007 Author Share Posted January 7, 2007 ohh hahahah!!!! i did not know they had any relation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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