The Thing prequel
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I saw it,it's a good film and gives a pretty good idea of what happened before the original one.
As far as how sneaky it was after this-consider it's been encased in ice for,what? 10,000 years? I'd expect it to be just a bit cranky,wouldn't you? by the time it reached base #31 I'd think it'd calm down a bit.
As far as how sneaky it was after this-consider it's been encased in ice for,what? 10,000 years? I'd expect it to be just a bit cranky,wouldn't you? by the time it reached base #31 I'd think it'd calm down a bit.
CB2001
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"They dug it up, carted it back thawed it out, it woke up, probably not in the best of moods." - MacReady, John Carpenter's "The Thing."
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Clutch
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Still prefer Bottin's version. The tongue is stretched, so it looks like it is either melting apart or replicating. Was never explained if the thing can make multiple copies of the same organism. I'm thinking no, because then it could just spawn off a whole army and take over the camp.
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Kerr Avon
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Still prefer Bottin's version. The tongue is stretched, so it looks like it is either melting apart or replicating. Was never explained if the thing can make multiple copies of the same organism. I'm thinking no, because then it could just spawn off a whole army and take over the camp.
I'm sure that's not the case. Even though we don't understand it's biology well, any living being that grows must have energy for cells to divide and the materials to make new cells, ie food. The rate that the creature changes must use a HELL of a lot of energy to do the things it does. Maybe that's why it changes form at times that are inopportune for it as well, like when it was about to escape aboard the helicopter. It was forced to get new food or die.
superDrool
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There should be an official coffee table book by Rob Bottin and the creative team behind the '82 creature to describe their version of the biology, history and little inside tidbits of the how's and why's with rare/personal photos. I'd certainly buy it.
Techkman
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One of the best lines in the movie if you'd ask me.
CB2001
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Probably the only line that best described what happened at the Norwegian camp (which, as we see in the prequel, is probably more than true).
Techkman
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True, when they mentioned the prequel I was hoping to have a similar experience (a sneaky predator systematically killing the cast off and assimilating them).
But after seeing the new movie I did some logical thinking and came to the conclusion that considering circumstances they got it's behavior fairly right, the thing was frozen in a block for an considerable amount of time only to be shaken up on some (presumably) strange distant world by weird little fleshy bags.
In my own vision I considered how I'd feel after sleeping for a week and then getting woken up by a cold shower, so I can't blame it for going on a rampage followed by business as usual.
Clawhammer
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While I thought the hand-thing was a little lame...I loved the hatchet placement that rolled into the Carpenter Original
Ooo. I just remembered something.
Also, the DVD/BluRay will come with deleted scenes so here's hoping for the scene showing our hero cutting both wrists and throat in record time. My money is still on the fact that he killed himself because of the annoying Universal Studios attendees going through the theme event.
The thing can't replicate non-organic matter. Makes complete sense. The Thing doesn't understand why we have stuff like ear rings or fillings so it just spits it all out. What does this all mean? Childs is NOT A THING at the end of the original. He still has his ear ring! You can see it clear as day when he turns his head and says "Fire's got the temperature up all over the camp."
Also, the DVD/BluRay will come with deleted scenes so here's hoping for the scene showing our hero cutting both wrists and throat in record time. My money is still on the fact that he killed himself because of the annoying Universal Studios attendees going through the theme event.
I finally watched this and they really messed up. The problem is they went at this thinking they were making Alien. It lacked the suspense of the first and felt like they were simply rushing to get to the next CG showcase. Limitation is sometimes a good thing - when you have a monster who prefers to strike at people while they are alone, in the dark so it can hide, now chasing after it's victims shaped like giant mouths or upsidedown two face spiders - well, you're making something else. that I don't want to see.
Laspector
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Well, I finally got to watch this the other night. I am certainly glad I did not pay to watch it. I thought it was really bad. I thought I remember when this was gearing up, they said it was going to be a lot of practical effects--my god--were there any? Other than a static shot or two of dead "things" it seemed like it was ALL CG. And not even good CG at that.
This movie is not 1/100th of the Carpenter film. Too bad...
This movie is not 1/100th of the Carpenter film. Too bad...
I like it soooo there......Am i the only one to see the alien head ice sculpt at 11.21(sorry no screen caps yet)if so i want a reward.......
1 a russ rep obi saber
2 a pulse rifle
3 a golden idol
4 a good boba helm
you cam pm me with the rewards(any rewards given shall be ...well cool and you shall pay all costs involved)
1 a russ rep obi saber
2 a pulse rifle
3 a golden idol
4 a good boba helm
you cam pm me with the rewards(any rewards given shall be ...well cool and you shall pay all costs involved)
I know a lot of people didn't care for the prequel, but I just picked it up and enjoyed it as much if not more than I did in the theater. Was it a perfect movie? Not by a long shot. However, I thought it was a great addition to the original story.
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