and try to figure out what happened. It's like a crime scene, with an ax in the door, and the audience gets to be the detective, trying to piece together what horrible things have occurred."
erm but we kinda know already
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 09:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
keith david & wilford brimley kept p busy
Yeah, David Clennon, Richard Masur, Richard Dysart and Charles Hallahan did, too. Solid, well-known TV work if nothing else. (I mean, leading roles on "thirtysomething" and "LA Law" for several seasons are hardly "nothing.")
This prequel strikes me as a perfect example of audience-insulting misguidedness. Does anyone really need a road map as to what happened at the Norwegian camp? Not really hard to piece together.
― Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 10:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://io9.com/5659890/first-thing-prequel-footage-cracks-open-the-alien-ice-block
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/46868
http://io9.com/5659148/the-thing-prequel-same-name-new-tagline
god, this is gonna be terrible
― soon to be major motion picture starring john wayne (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
― soon to be major motion picture starring john wayne (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
i can just smell it: another joyless, poorly edited shitfest that adds nothing to the previous movie apart from needless backstory that could have been guessed by anyone who saw the original.
and it probably won't even make that much money! there is literally NO REASON to make this movie!
― soon to be major motion picture starring john wayne (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
wtffi hate this to the core of whatever disgusting mass of faux-humanity concocted it over a fusion-food speed-lunch meeting
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp!nothing is sacred :(
yeah but carpenter was remaking! and that was good! cmon people be hopeful!
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
I gotta vote with rrrobyn and latebloomer here just because that photo looks so wrong.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh come on like you guys would have been all "oh for sure that's gonna be awse" if it was 1982 and you were seeing this
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yes! Because that does look awesome!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hell I remember when the Escape from New York ads and posters were running and I couldn't understand why my mom wouldn't let me see it.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
right now is not a good era for remakes, as far as i've witnessed, that's the thing :/xpit looks so awesome
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
x-post
this isn't a remake, though! it's a prequel to a remake.
we live in an age of movies-as-fan-fiction. it's really depressing.
― soon to be major motion picture starring john wayne (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
right now is not a good era for remakes, as far as i've witnessed, that's the thing :/
exactly
― soon to be major motion picture starring john wayne (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
― soon to be major motion picture starring john wayne (latebloomer), Sunday, October 10, 2010 12:40 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
otm
― dayo, Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
prequel is worse, it's true! can nothing remain mystery? fan-fiction with big budget! gahhhhi do wish it could be good, as i wish all sci-fi movies could be good. but then, i wished so hard about Alien 4. never forget.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
gotta say, wtf is with that brutalist ice tunnel they are running through. did antarctic researchers really have time to hire architects to stylize their bases.
― dayo, Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is pretty awesome
― dayo, Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean, the picture. haven't read the comic
― dayo, Sunday, October 10, 2010 4:47 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
I think it's supposed to be the Thing's spaceship they're running through
― soon to be major motion picture starring john wayne (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
why can't they just make their own damn movie
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
that is my basic question
Is that one of the Daft Punk guys on dayo's poster?
Also, did anyone else think about warning the people in the screenshot about facehuggers?
― StanM, Sunday, 10 October 2010 05:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Just re-reading this whole thread, and saw this: i suspect childs's thing-dom is kept exactly as ambiguous (and remember someone finds a bit of mac's torn clothing: so he's not out of the picture, just cz he's the hero => yes he's behaving mac-like, but then the thing-that-became-mac WOULD, to fool the others or fool us!!)
Mac and Childs both passed the blood test, yo. Childs gets separated during the whole final battle thing, so the audience can assume some ambiguity there, but I don't think Mac is ever off-screen after he passes the blood test.
― not Morbius old, but still (Phil D.), Sunday, 10 October 2010 10:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
I would totally see this if they'd called it "..And Another Thing"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 10 October 2010 13:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
Or "You've got another thing coming"
"That Thing You Do"
― dayo, Sunday, 10 October 2010 13:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't thing so.
― StanM, Sunday, 10 October 2010 13:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
There's SomeThing About Mary
― Neil S, Sunday, 10 October 2010 13:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha ha, rom com version
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 10 October 2010 14:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
infected dog escaping from Norwegian helicopter, taking shelter in US base = "meet cute"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 10 October 2010 14:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
you guys who're all like "why can't they make their own movie" understand that Carpenter's Thing was...a remake...right
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 10 October 2010 15:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah that's been pretty well established!
― soon to be major motion picture starring john wayne (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 October 2010 16:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
If any of the recent spate of remakes/prequels/"re-boots" of old horror movies had been any good I think more of us would be optimistic!
― soon to be major motion picture starring john wayne (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 October 2010 16:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
^ this. The Thing is a good, 80s interpretation of a cold-war horror original, neither detracting from it nor losing out because of it. in that, it can stand on its own form of originality (much like The Fly did). whereas current remakes (lol of 80s remakes or not) have little to do with 'interpretation' and creating their own real of-the-now qualities, and much more to do with studio quotas. sure, i wish this new movie was from the heart of hollywood magic but, uh.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
but hey, maybe the pairing of the screenwriter for the new Nightmare on Elm Street AND the new Final Destination + a some-time screenwriter for Battlestar, with a first-time feature director will have created the combo we're looking for
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
we all gotta start somewhere!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
seriously though, i mean, john carpenter actually directed B horror movies in the 60s! i feel like his The Thing was more like 'let me show you how i can do it better' - and now we've gone back to hacking out half-assed stuff that isn't about doing better except in the special effects dept.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Real of-the-now qualities? What if this time, in the prequel, we find out that the first movie was a dream (Inception) by the team that dug up the creature, that was actually buried under the ice by the Vatican in the middle ages because it was the illegitimate child of Jesus and Mary Magdalen (Da Vinci Code) and by waking it up they start the Apocalyps, that will end the world in 2012? (oh, and there should be a diversion about terrorists too, obv. - maybe one of the team should be a muslim who jokes about bombs all the time)
?
― StanM, Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
what if it turns out the thing was brought to earth on a predator ship
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
fuck washing a post-post-modernism
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
maybe this is actually the next bourne movie
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
That Bourne Thing You Do (romantic horror sci-fi comedy)
― StanM, Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
That Bourne Thing You Do To Me (the pr0n parody remake)
― StanM, Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
Bourne Again would be a good title for the inevitable 2022 franchise reboot starting Frankie Muniz.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 10 October 2010 19:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Exactly! They're all half-arsed plot + reuse of dialogue from first film + ironic winks at audience + stunt casting
Carpenter's remake took the basic idea and ran with it in all sorts of interesting new ways, with some really quite startling effects
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Sunday, 10 October 2010 22:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
ugh
http://io9.com/5659983/they-live-remake-might-ditch-the-infamous-alien-sunglasses
― StanM, Monday, 11 October 2010 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
seriously though, i mean, john carpenter actually directed B horror movies in the 60s!
erm, carpenter didn't direct his first feature film until 1974 (Dark Star) and didn't make a horror movie until 1978 (Halloween)
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 11 October 2010 15:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
Well, yes but he did direct short films; they are technically movies (and not tv)
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 11 October 2010 15:50 (2 years ago) Permalink