will probably vote the thing higher in the inevitable sci-fi poll than i did here
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
I'm curious about the overlap of people participating in rom com poll and horror poll.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
saw the thing during its initial run when I was 11, thought the effects were great but overall didn't have a ton of love for it (and I was a huuuuuge carpenter fan at the time). in subsequent viewings over the years I've come to enjoy it more, consider it a good solid horror movie but the undying devotion kind of baffles me. if the thing placed somewhere in the top 20-50 I'd be fine with it.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
I said yesterday I thought I had the last 13--was right up until The Thing. I had no idea the remake was that highly regarded. I've never even seen it.
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
It's a remake?
― polyphonic, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
though it's one of my all-time favorite films, i stuck it way down at the bottom of my ballot because i knew its success here didn't depend in any way on me. would have been bummed if too many other people had done the same, though...
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
― polyphonic, Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:41 PM (44 seconds ago)
are you actively trolling morbs or
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
for the love of god do not mistakenly watch the recent prequel ALSO named the thing
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
I would've put the thing from another world on my ballot before I put the thing
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
The irrational part of me was hoping that neither the Thing nor Alien would place, as I consider them both action/sci-fi. However, they're also both totally horror, too, and you can't get away from that.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
Alien? yes, this is ilx dudeUm, Last House? maybe? kind of a wild card tbhSuspiria? yes, this is ilx dudeThe Thing, yes, this is ilx dudeThe Fly? yes, this is ilx dude
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6:49 PM (Yesterday)
*raises hand*
sorta pissed at other polls taking precedence over the romcom poll actually
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
Sometimes, but this time I'm just ignorant.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
i will stan forever for alien being much more of a horror movie than a sci fi or action film, the thing less so xposts
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
see howard hawks' 1951 the thing from another world
remakes of 50s horror were popular for a minute there: carpenter's the thing, cronenberg's the fly, hooper's invaders from mars
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
^ first part of that is redundant now, but oh well...
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
The Blob
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
i will possibly vote in the rom com poll but only after i see how the nominations turn out
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
I probably read Kael in '82, so I've never seen this.
This remake of the 1951 version, by the director, John Carpenter, and the special makeup effects wizard, Rob Bottin, was a folie à deux. They went back to the chameleon idea of the original story, so they seem to be trying to outdo the monster from Ridley Scott's ALIEN (1979)--THE one who could take any form and, at one horrifying point, erupted from John Hurt's chest. In its own putting-the-squeeze-on-the-audience terms, ALIEN was effective. This picture isn't (except for an early episode with a husky trying to escape the hunters shooting at it from a plane). It appears to be a film of limited imagination with unlimited horror effects. A new landmark in gore, it features oozing, jellied messes of blood and entrails and assorted parts of the people and serpents and animals that the mutating Thing devours. And it's grimly serious. Carpenter seems indifferent to whether we can tell the characters apart; he apparently just wants us to watch the apocalyptic devastation.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
Weird for the Thing to poll so high as a horror movie but ah, ilx you're a loveable scamp with your genres and what the hell YAY KURT RUSSELL YAY JOHN CARPENTER and fkn high five for practical effects extravaganza amirite
I love the Macready taperecorder stuff --- I always wished that there were outtakes of him just totally plowed singing Brandy You're a Fine Girl or Blue Oyster Cult or making tearful proclamations to his dead father...I dunno why, but thinking about that just cracks me up everytime I watch it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH7hyzPIbp0
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
THE one who could take any form
*scratches head*
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
pleased by it, tbh. comedy followed immediately by romcom would have been a lot less interesting than comedy - horror - romcom.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
i will be the reverso me in the rom com poll though and probably not vote for anything made after 1960
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
please note: Slither is totally a rom com
"lovable scamp" = sloppy as an oversexed sailor
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
a film of limited imagination with unlimited horror effects
ha, 11yo me and kael on the same page here
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
Love, Actually's status as "the ultimate romcom" makes any such poll moot
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
oh man i wonder if i can come up with 20 horror movies that didnt make it here to get into the rom com poll
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i was going to pull that out, alien in alien cannot "take any form" wtf
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure Kael's review had something to do with me never having seen it; next time I see a used copy, I'll give it try.
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
Kurt Russel is handsomely hairy in The Thing.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
look if all 56 of us make a pact to vote for Meet the Feebles in the rom com poll we can form a strong voting bloc just fyi
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
Kael should've had some beers and watched the Thing again. I think she would have felt differently.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
DeadAlive has a sweet little romcom plot
xp
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
Kurt Russell is handsome in almost every 80's movie he stars in, but he's def at his most handsome in The Thing.
He looks like a heavy metal/lumberjack Kris Kristofferson :D
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
ws Macready
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
love kael, but that review misses the stoic, western-style appeal of the thing's plotting and characters
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
Before I see it, can you let me know if Wilford Brimley plays the monster? That might present a problem.
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:52 PM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
The Thing is so damn manly with all those guys & their beards.
Fans of this need to see the 80s The Blob, which deserves much more love than it gets.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
I can't believe Return of the Living Dead didn't even place, and Wicker Man placed this high.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
80s Blob is pretty good. not a patch on the Thing tho
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
― carl agatha, Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:53 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark
hirsute manliness + snow
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
Wilford Brimley's awesome in The Thing -- NOBODY GETS IN OR OUT OF HERE! {GUNSHOT} NOBODY! {CRASH}
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
It is totally a sausage party.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
which was intentional, and the right choice imho. it would not work the way it does with a mixed gender scenario.
an all-women cast version of the Thing would be interesting.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
Smilla's Sense of Testosterone
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
I had already seen and loved both assault on precinct 13 and escape from NY, so I was familiar with carpenter's prairie tough guy steez, but comparatively the thing seemed dry and stale, macho by the numbers, a little too stoic imo.
xp to contendo
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
WNS Macready, personally.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:57 (eleven years ago) link