The Thing (2011) (PREQUEL to the 1982 version)

imdb ^ | July 22, 2011 | imdb

[tlb]

CGI fest.

Ice block room 2011

Ice block room 1982

[Old Retired Army Guy]

I believe the original film “The Thing” was filmed back in the early fifties and the 1982 version was the first remake.

[A. Morgan]

So, now Fr is a Movie Review site...?

[Brett66]

Another WTF? movie.

[Perdogg]

Go to the upper right hand corner of the home page and you will see a topic listing as "General/Chat".

[Perdogg]

Mary Elizabeth Winstead = HOTT

[Perdogg]

ping

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

This new movie is a prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 remake, starring Kurt Russell (as chopper pilot McReady). I'm a big fan of that film, which begins with a "Thing" assimilated dog fleeing to American Outpost 31 from the nearby Norwegian research station. When McReady investigates the station, he finds it completely destroyed, along with the corpses of the Norwegian scientists, and soon after, the alien ship itself.

One of the mysteries of the 1982 film is what happened to the Norwegians and how did they find the Thing. This prequel covers that and should be quite interesting.

[rbg81]

The 1982 movie was awesome. Even today, the special effects hold up (especially the “spider head”). And no Hollywood happy ending. I also like the concept of “The Thing”, where every particle of it was an intelligent, independent entity. No way you can fight something like that.

[Vaquero]

absolutely....and the late great Jim Arness played the Man-Carrot.

a better movie than the 1982 flick...

[corkoman]

Creature in ice block from 1951 movie. Arness was the creature. Not a bad flick. 1981 version was so creepy good I cant beleive they are doing it again. Gotta see it though.

[tlb]

>>> I believe the original film “The Thing” was filmed back in the early fifties and the 1982 version was the first remake.

Not a remake per se. Both films based on the same story but the Howard Hawks movie took great liberties. John Carpenter stuck fairly close to John Campbell’s ideas.

This seems much more the remake.

[JoeProBono]

[kidd]

The 1982 movie was good.

But I can’t see how a prequel would be a different movie, other than showing the same type of deaths with modernized special effects.

Hollywood has lost its imagination

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The 1982 remake was more faithful to John Campbell's original 1938 novella, "Who Goes There?"

[The Wizard]

I must agree...I like my monsters where I can see them, not living inside characters I have already met....IMHO that’s boring

[SJSAMPLE]

Given how the ‘82 version started, we know how this one ends.

THEY ALL DIE.

Sort of takes the wind out of the sails.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The really funny part of the 1951 version was the liberal scientist who kept insisting that the Thing could be reasoned with and actually help mankind with its superior intellect and knowledge of the universe, despite all the dead bodies to the contrary. He met a most satisfying end just before the Army dudes juiced the Thing.

[ConservaTexan]

Originality left Hollywood long ago.

[Vaquero]

perhaps if I read Campbells novella I might feel differently, but I like the original movie best

now on the other hand, I thought the first remake of ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’(1978) was better than the original(1956)...(though I like the original)....I hear there have been other remakes since....but WHY.

and the first remake of ‘The Fly’ was incredibly disturbing...I loved it.