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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 414214" data-attributes="member: 8">THE THING (2011)[ATTACH=full]54968[/ATTACH]I know it&#039;s a controversial thing to say but I don&#039;t like the 1982 version. It was perfectly fine when I watched as a child but a recent rewatch turned out to be major disappointment. I think it was especially the cheesy dialogue that annoyed me the most.Therefore this remake only had to do one thing to make it work: not doing that.Apparently it&#039;s a prequel but it&#039;s the same thing with a spaceship tacked on to it, and instead of watching God knows how many ALIEN sequels you can kill two birds with one stone by watching The Thing 2011.21st century remakes means longer and BIGGER and this one&#039;s certainly no exception, well actually it is since it&#039;s a few minutes shorter than John Carpenter&#039;s film.The story looks very familiar even if you haven&#039;t watched the first two films (I guess The Faculty&nbsp; could also be considered a &quot;The Thing&quot; remake) and it&#039;s very effective in all its simplicity.The cast is slightly problematic because &quot;those damn Scandinavians all look alike&quot; and that includes one of the American characters. One black actor is sidelined rather quickly only to come back for his obligatory death scene. That can&#039;t&nbsp;&nbsp; be a spoiler.It looks good for a modern creature feature and there&#039;s no holding back in the carnage department. It was one of those rare occasions when I thought it would look much better on a big cinema screen.I wish the very last part of the story had been based on a mistake, it could have given the film that extra bit of oomph in the style of THE MIST.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 414214, member: 8"] THE THING (2011) [ATTACH type="full" alt="1733083286783.png"]54968[/ATTACH] I know it's a controversial thing to say but I don't like the 1982 version. It was perfectly fine when I watched as a child but a recent rewatch turned out to be major disappointment. I think it was especially the cheesy dialogue that annoyed me the most. Therefore this remake only had to do one thing to make it work: not doing [I]that.[/I] Apparently it's a prequel but it's the same thing with a spaceship tacked on to it, and instead of watching God knows how many ALIEN sequels you can kill two birds with one stone by watching The Thing 2011. 21st century remakes means longer and BIGGER and this one's certainly no exception, well actually it is since it's a few minutes shorter than John Carpenter's film. The story looks very familiar even if you haven't watched the first two films (I guess [I]The Faculty [/I]could also be considered a "The Thing" remake) and it's very effective in all its simplicity. The cast is slightly problematic because "those damn Scandinavians all look alike" and that includes one of the American characters. One black actor is sidelined rather quickly only to come back for his obligatory death scene. That [I]can't[/I] be a spoiler. It looks good for a modern creature feature and there's no holding back in the carnage department. It was one of those rare occasions when I thought it would look much better on a big cinema screen. I wish the very last part of the story had been based on a mistake, it could have given the film that extra bit of oomph in the style of THE MIST. [/QUOTE]

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