xp!nothing is sacred :(
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
I gotta vote with rrrobyn and latebloomer here just because that photo looks so wrong.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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
http://www.moviecritic.com.au/images/kurt-russell-john-carpenter-the-thing12.jpg
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes! Because that does look awesome!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/The_Thing_From_Another_World_01.jpg
this is pretty awesome
― dayo, Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
why can't they just make their own damn movie
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
I would totally see this if they'd called it "..And Another Thing"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 10 October 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Or "You've got another thing coming"
"That Thing You Do"
― dayo, Sunday, 10 October 2010 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't thing so.
― StanM, Sunday, 10 October 2010 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link
There's SomeThing About Mary
― Neil S, Sunday, 10 October 2010 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link
ha ha, rom com version
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 10 October 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
infected dog escaping from Norwegian helicopter, taking shelter in US base = "meet cute"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 10 October 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah that's been pretty well established!
― soon to be major motion picture starring john wayne (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 October 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
^ 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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
we all gotta start somewhere!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck washing a post-post-modernism
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe this is actually the next bourne movie
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
That Bourne Thing You Do (romantic horror sci-fi comedy)
― StanM, Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
That Bourne Thing You Do To Me (the pr0n parody remake)
― StanM, Sunday, 10 October 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Bourne Again would be a good title for the inevitable 2022 franchise reboot starting Frankie Muniz.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 10 October 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh
http://io9.com/5659983/they-live-remake-might-ditch-the-infamous-alien-sunglasses
― StanM, Monday, 11 October 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Whatever the case, he had ideas, man
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 11 October 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
oh fer sure, i mean halloween alone is a game changer
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 11 October 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler, Monday, October 11, 2010 11:46 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
why didn't you just say "until 1978 (Oct. 31)" if you're trying to be so accurate
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Monday, 11 October 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― soon to be major motion picture starring john wayne (latebloomer), Monday, 11 October 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
dbl lol
the 'funny' 'thing' is, until the carpenter movie halloween wasn't really 'celebrated' here in the uk - and it took ET to really popularise trick or treating. i love seeing our supermarkets full of spooky crap, so god bless you john carpenter
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 11 October 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Amazed to find that this movie received such negative reviews when it was released.
Watched the film last night and really was struck by how skilled and confident Carpenter was when he made his great 80s films. What the heck happened after They Live?
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 07:27 (thirteen years ago) link