The Thing (2011)
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.
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Pretty Good
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson. The Thing (2011) is nowhere near as good as Carpenter's The Thing of course but for a prequel and judging it on it's own it's quite fun and pretty interesting as a whole plus the acting was good but unfortunately the film relied more on CGI and the ending result did not look that scary but mostly cheap but still not a bad movie it's just that the cgi was really not all that good. (6/10)
A prequel to 1982's classic The Thing. Very interesting with equally good effects. I do prefer the original, though, as this version seem to follow cliches of the genre towards the end.
The thing that made 'The Thing' such a good watch, was the tension that steadily ramped up from start to finish. It had 'characters' and a story to it. Here, we basically get fast-forwarded to the CGI fest, that connects the dots of a flimsy plot. The CGI is technically OK, but the people being killed by it don't mean anything to the viewer, as character development was pretty much zero. The Norwegians were comic book Vikings, the Americans...well, American and the British chap was straight from a potty mouthed version of Mary Poppins. I half expected the cockney sparrow to bleat out "Half a bladdy sixpence!" on seeing the digitised doppleganger. The two leads that emerged out of the carnage (Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton) did a good job, but they weren't given a lot to work with. I was a little dismayed to see they had to throw in the old 'all run away, but the screaming girl falls over' routine, that has by now become a parody of a parody. Personally, I'm a big believer in letting classic movies well alone, and this did nothing to change that view. You know what they say 'If it ain't broke.........'.
When I went to see this movie, I knew full well that it was a prequel. As such, I did not compare it for 1 second with John Carpenters updated, special effects version of the original "The Thing From Another World".Instead, I viewed it for what it was. Namely, the answer to the question of "What Happened" and why were they shooting at the dog.Any other interpretation is simply making presumptions about what YOU thought it would be.Those that are old enough can recall the sheer horror of the character created by James Arness in that remote Arctic outpost as the characters are hunted for their blood and breeding purposes.John Carpenters work was great but it simply didn't have the magnitude of horror that the original movie had and comparing this prequel with Carpenters version just does the viewer an injustice.Simply put, everything came together quite well in the ending 5 minutes which quickly defined this as a prequel.