[ARCHIVED THREAD] - The Thing (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 3/24/2011 8:31:40 PM EDT
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1982. Kurt Russle.
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not a remake - a prequel. This tells the story of what happened at the Norwegian base that found it. |
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Matt Dillon as the monster. Priceless. My dad was in junior high when it came out. He stayed through the movie twice so that my uncle (Navy vet from the Nevada) could take him home. For anyone who doesn't know what he is referring to, James Arness played the monster from outer space in the 1951 original. William Self is also in the original (he later produced BATMAN and a shit ton of other 1960s TV shows), as is George Fenneman (who was Groucho's sidekick on YOU BET YOUR LIFE). |
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I don't know what it is but it's weird and pissed off. My favorite quotes from the 82 remake: "Do you believe any of this voodoo bullshit Blair?" 
and, "You gotta be fuckin' kidding me!" (when the dude sees the head sprout legs like a crab and walk away). |
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not a remake - a prequel. This tells the story of what happened at the Norwegian base that found it. I thought they were Swedish...   <–– as close to a MacReady in his stupid hat smiley as I can find.
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not a remake - a prequel. This tells the story of what happened at the Norwegian base that found it. I thought they were Swedish... <–– as close to a MacReady in his stupid hat smiley as I can find.
I was seriously considering using a shot of MacReady wearing that sombrero as my avatar once. |
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Thats OK, Mary 
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I don't know what it is but it's weird and pissed off. My favorite quotes from the 82 remake: "Do you believe any of this voodoo bullshit Blair?"
and, "You gotta be fuckin' kidding me!" (when the dude sees the head sprout legs like a crab and walk away). And that's what is going to make any prequel/sequel suck. First of all, it's going to have some broad in it. And second, it's going to have some utterly ridiculous CGI alien that walks on air like all the CGI effects do. I saw The Thing in high school on a Friday night in a packed theater. People were screaming bloody murder during those creature scenes. The crab-head is an indelible image. |
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Fucking great movie...
I've got it up at my cabin on VHS. My buddies and I watch it when we get up there on friday nights while the cabin is warming up. I need to find those black out contacts one of these years... That way one night when we're watching it I can go out to take a piss and come back inside with those fuckers in and freak everyone out. |
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I don't know what it is but it's weird and pissed off. My favorite quotes from the 82 remake: "Do you believe any of this voodoo bullshit Blair?"
and, "You gotta be fuckin' kidding me!" (when the dude sees the head sprout legs like a crab and walk away). And that's what is going to make any prequel/sequel suck. First of all, it's going to have some broad in it. And second, it's going to have some utterly ridiculous CGI alien that walks on air like all the CGI effects do. I saw The Thing in high school on a Friday night in a packed theater. People were screaming bloody murder during those creature scenes. The crab-head is an indelible image. +1 on it's gonna suck if they use CGI. Saw it on the big screen when it came out as an impressionable 13yr old...... To this very day seeing the heart attack dude's chest morphing into a giant mouth & munching the docs arms off as he's doing defib gives me the heebie-jeebies. |
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Both movies are classics. A couple of years ago I found a special edition DVD of the Kurt Russell version. On a HD T.V. the outdoor scenes are amazing, and the special effects are pretty incredible too, considering how things were done in those days. I've never been much on the special features, but this one has some amazing documentary stuff with the effects people, including how they created the alien ship re-entry footage right at the beginning. I hope they don't screw up the prequel TOO badly. |
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I don't know what it is but it's weird and pissed off. My favorite quotes from the 82 remake: "Do you believe any of this voodoo bullshit Blair?"
and, "You gotta be fuckin' kidding me!" (when the dude sees the head sprout legs like a crab and walk away). And that's what is going to make any prequel/sequel suck. First of all, it's going to have some broad in it. And second, it's going to have some utterly ridiculous CGI alien that walks on air like all the CGI effects do. I saw The Thing in high school on a Friday night in a packed theater. People were screaming bloody murder during those creature scenes. The crab-head is an indelible image. +1 on it's gonna suck if they use CGI. Saw it on the big screen when it came out as an impressionable 13yr old...... To this very day seeing the heart attack dude's chest morphing into a giant mouth & munching the docs arms off as he's doing defib gives me the heebie-jeebies. That would be the other shot that scared the shit out of me. |
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The novella that inspired the movies is called "Who goes there" by John Campbell. Read it for free: http://www.scaryforkids.com/who-goes-there-by-john-w-campbell/ |
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It's a prequel. Supposed to show what happened at the Norwegian camp. Nice job doing the research, though. Actually, I saw the original Thing for the first time last month. It's now one of my favorite movies... |
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Wilford Brimley: Dr. Blair: [Calmly eating beans in the tool shed] I don't want to stay out here anymore. I want to come back inside.
Read more at www.Explore-Science-Fiction-Movies.com: http://www.explore-science-fiction-movies.com/thing-movie-quotes.html#ixzz1HapNhTEN |
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The novella that inspired the movies is called "Who goes there" by John Campbell. Read it for free: http://www.scaryforkids.com/who-goes-there-by-john-w-campbell/ Still a classic piece of hard SF, with a core sense of human perseverance to it... Anyone remember a similar story about a "force creature" found by a starship crew on a dead planet, that tries to absorb the crew? It was written around the same time, but I can't remember who wrote it or where I read it originally. |
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not a remake - a prequel. This tells the story of what happened at the Norwegian base that found it. Retarded, because we know what happened to THEM. I want to see what heppened to the crews who eventually found the US base and whatever was left there. It could even be moved into the present day because the discovery of "whatever" could have been delayed by snow buildup. |
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Quoted: Quoted: not a remake - a prequel. This tells the story of what happened at the Norwegian base that found it. Retarded, because we know what happened to THEM. I want to see what heppened to the crews who eventually found the US base and whatever was left there. It could even be moved into the present day because the discovery of "whatever" could have been delayed by snow buildup. Not retarded, because we don't know how "it" happened, just that it did. Now we'll know how they found it, and how things went down that lead up to the death of the last Norwegian at the hands of Gary... and they did do a proper sequel that explained what happened after, in the form of a Playstation 2 game.  |
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Not retarded, because we don't know how "it" happened, just that it did. Now we'll know how they found it, and how things went down that lead up to the death of the last Norwegian at the hands of Gary... and they did do a proper sequel that explained what happened after, in the form of a Playstation 2 game. I am not a gamer. The original gave enough info through the records they found to know what happened. I don't need to know more than that, but apparently Hollywood feels differently. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Not retarded, because we don't know how "it" happened, just that it did. Now we'll know how they found it, and how things went down that lead up to the death of the last Norwegian at the hands of Gary... and they did do a proper sequel that explained what happened after, in the form of a Playstation 2 game. I am not a gamer. The original gave enough info through the records they found to know what happened. I don't need to know more than that, but apparently Hollywood feels differently.  I'm not a movie watcher. The original short story gave good enough descriptions to know what happened. I don't need to see it on a screen, but apparently Hollywood feels difficulty. |
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I don't know what it is but it's weird and pissed off. My favorite quotes from the 82 remake: "Do you believe any of this voodoo bullshit Blair?"
and, "You gotta be fuckin' kidding me!" (when the dude sees the head sprout legs like a crab and walk away). Chariots of the Gods, man. They practically owned South America. |
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The prequel is supposed to incorporate mostly traditional special effects and some CGI. George Lucas said that about the last Indiana Jones movie too and we all know how that turned out, so we'll see. The plot of the prequel takes characters into the space ship and the first form of the thing is also shown. Don't know if it's the original unaltered form or just whatever was in the block of ice. Personally, I'm glad they went with a prequel based on the events at the Norwegian camp instead of a true sequel.
I really hate Hollywood feels the need to explore every unanswered question about classic movies but since it's being done without my approval anyway, I hope they get it right. I'll never get over Darth Vader starting life as a whiney little bitch. The Thing is one of my favorite movies and I have an original one sheet movie poster at home. |
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The prequel is supposed to incorporate mostly traditional special effects and some CGI. George Lucas said that about the last Indiana Jones movie too and we all know how that turned out, so we'll see. The plot of the prequel takes characters into the space ship and the first form of the thing is also shown. Don't know if it's the original unaltered form or just whatever was in the block of ice. Personally, I'm glad they went with a prequel based on the events at the Norwegian camp instead of a true sequel. I really hate Hollywood feels the need to explore every unanswered question about classic movies but since it's being done without my approval anyway, I hope they get it right. I'll never get over Darth Vader starting life as a whiney little bitch. The Thing is one of my favorite movies and I have an original one sheet movie poster at home. John Carpenter's THE THING is one of my absolute favorite movies... Honestly, I agree with you about the sequels... One of the great things about a movie like that is it lets you use your imagination to ponder what happened to the Nords, and all the other unanswered questions. Unfortunately... I am QUITE CONFIDENT Hollywood will make a stupid movie out of any prequel, or sequel to THE THING. I bet the monster in the prequel will be all wrong. It will probably be really fast moving, and have absurd abilities that it clearly did not have in the 1982 movie...HOLLYWOOD JUST CAN NOT RESIST DOING THAT. OR... Maybe we will find out that the alien came to earth to keep us dirty humans from destroying the planet with our global warming... 
GOD, I hope I am wrong about that. |
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For a movie that is almost 30 years old ('82 version) it's setting still makes it relivent. I think it has surpassed the 50s version by leaps and bounds due to the acting and score. It's a classic horror film in it's own right.
"Trust is a hard thing to come by these days. If I were you, I'd trust in the Lord." - MacReady |