The Thing

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/10/the_thing.jpg

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!

wtff
i hate this to the core of whatever disgusting mass of faux-humanity concocted it over a fusion-food speed-lunch meeting

xp!
nothing is sacred :(

yeah but carpenter was remaking! and that was good! cmon people be hopeful!

I gotta vote with rrrobyn and latebloomer here just because that photo looks so wrong.

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

Yes! Because that does look awesome!

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.

right now is not a good era for remakes, as far as i've witnessed, that's the thing :/
xp
it looks so awesome

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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.

right now is not a good era for remakes, as far as i've witnessed, that's the thing :/

exactly

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, October 10, 2010 12:40 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

otm

prequel is worse, it's true! can nothing remain mystery? fan-fiction with big budget! gahhhh
i 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.

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.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/The_Thing_From_Another_World_01.jpg

this is pretty awesome

I mean, the picture. haven't read the comic

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, 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

why can't they just make their own damn movie

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?

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.

I would totally see this if they'd called it "..And Another Thing"

Or "You've got another thing coming"

"That Thing You Do"

I don't thing so.

There's SomeThing About Mary

"That Thing You Do"

ha ha, rom com version

infected dog escaping from Norwegian helicopter, taking shelter in US base = "meet cute"

you guys who're all like "why can't they make their own movie" understand that Carpenter's Thing was...a remake...right

Yeah that's been pretty well established!

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!

^ 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.

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

we all gotta start somewhere!

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.

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)

?

what if it turns out the thing was brought to earth on a predator ship

fuck washing a post-post-modernism

maybe this is actually the next bourne movie

That Bourne Thing You Do (romantic horror sci-fi comedy)

That Bourne Thing You Do To Me (the pr0n parody remake)

Bourne Again would be a good title for the inevitable 2022 franchise reboot starting Frankie Muniz.

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!

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

ugh

http://io9.com/5659983/they-live-remake-might-ditch-the-infamous-alien-sunglasses

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)

Well, yes but he did direct short films; they are technically movies (and not tv)

Whatever the case, he had ideas, man

oh fer sure, i mean halloween alone is a game changer

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, 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