5:06 That is Norwegian. 8:16 Except we know that Lars being bearded and not being able to speak English we know he makes it. 9:38 It's as smart as the smartest thing it eats. It froze itself on peruse to wait for something to find it. 10:06 It was trying to get to a populated area. 13:18 That is not it's original form that is an imitation of a life form that it killed and is imitating. (we never find out what it's true form is) 16:17 Not all of it, he still has the ship in the ice. 18:27 That was the thing imitating his heart problems. It imitates everything including health problems that it's food has. 42:17 The 1982 movie is not the original it was a remake of the 1951 movie "The Thing from Another World", that was biased on a 1938 novella by John W. Campbell Jr. called "Who Goes There?". 43:17 John Carpenter had a year to set up his move, Matthijs van Heijningen had only 3 months from the green light to when he had to start shooting. He didn't have the time to make the fake monsters that Carpenter had in 1981, so he had to go to CGI.
Nearly everything you had to explain about the movie could have quite simply been deduced if he would've just shut the "F" up! What is the point of incessantly yammering on about what's going on during a movie when the whole point of "any story" is to tell you exactly that. Why would you talk over all the little details that are there specifically to clue you in. He only seems to be interested in finding his own personal spoiler alert.🤨
I don't think it's so much a question about the thing's strategy as that this is its form of mating and most creatures enjoy mating. One fascinating thing about the creature is that on some level, it's intelligent, yet we can't communicate with it usefully because it's so driven by instinct.
This is a BRILLIANT prequel and it’s WORTHY it has the same feel look as the original I liked the EFFECTS sorry, and in the original to me the make up and effects practical was awesome but it also looked quite FAKE to even tho it was rob bottins work I loved it and it flows beautifully into the original I disagree what your saying I loved it
Exactly i agree it was brilliant prequel and I loved the effects these people are the type to find fault with everything just like moaning about the characters making stupid decisions but if they new about horror they’d no that’s how it works they chat s**** just born to find fault and complain I loved ❤❤❤❤❤ this movie brilliant had the feel and look of the original his guy just wyns moans
The Thing itself doesn't necessarily have a 'true form' and if it did it's something far beyond our comprehension just it's goals. It's very Lovecraftain The Thing, nobody knows where it came from or why it does what it does but what we do know is that it wants to spread and infected any and all life. It's intelligence is solely based on the size and form it takes, for example in the '82 film the spider head thing wasn't smart enough to wait to escape while the rest of it was burned. It just sat in the door way like a dumbass and of course Palmer (Thing) pointed it out first, so The Thing will resort to outing itself in other forms for self preservation. Plus I think it's implied that maybe you may not know you're a Thing or not until your body starts to transform. A perfect copy that truly believes it's the person it took.
I mostly agree. I think it's solid as a prequel. Obviously, it's difficult for audiences to except it as a good, solid, or great prequel because of how amazing the original is. However, I do like how they introduced a few things here like the Thing not being able to reproduce inorganic materials. A lot of prequels are a carbon copy and would've just recreated the iconic blood test scene, but they went with the fillings checking. One thing that the Original did an awesome job was how they completely took you off guard with who might be a Thing. In this 2011 version, it was easier to spot them in my opinion. The girl luring Kate to that inventory closet, the second guy in command saying "I've heard enough" and dismissing Kate's theory of the Thing replicating a person. I was like "Dude you just discovered a fucking alien, how would a replication of a human not be possible?!". And then that same dude trying to get Peter to use the flame thrower on others.
I agree I loved ❤this movie it’s a brilliant prequel these people chat s**** and are high there the type to hate anything no matter how they make it they’d have something negative to say there just obessed with the original
Hey ..IM that old school diehard Gen-X gate keeping prick ppl hear about...i was EXTREMELY against any attempts at "re-doing" the thing..the best horror suspense practical effects movie to DATE .🤘🔥....but after FINALLY NOT being a prick about it and watching it ....its fucking AWESOME....NOT being a "re-do" but a prequel and tying in PERFECTLY with the Carpenters version its MUCH easier to overlook the CGI...fr...im surprised it worked so well ...👍
WELL PUT. Brilliant prequel and how can the original be way better when it’s almost the same bloody movie they talk s*** it has the same feel,look of the original even the layout of the basecamp love the practical effects in the original by ROB BOTTIN HES a genius but I loved this thing to for cgi it was still cool brilliant prequel and I totally agree with everything you said Kevin
Oddly enough I enjoyed the movie for its' attempt as a prequel. But, I fail to understand Hollywood..if you have a premise that was almost perfect. Why would you allow the scriptwriters to not think these presentations through. Let alone,allow the director to see daylies that wasn't up to par. Why change the practical effects for CG?? As a purely business proposition...why make a movie that will fail,on so many levels. Hollywood...has way more money than it has business sense. This movie could have been so much better....why the interjection of the female characters. The damsel in distress is so passe...she just couldn't pull off the "Ripley" effect. Strong female over the dumb male part was a bit lame. The all male cast in the original, had a better chemistry and tension. Why the screen writer didn't give us some speculation on the original appearance of the "thing" was a glaring mistake. This could have been very informative to understand the original...but they missed the point. Too bad...this could have been a winner!! Nice critique...you showed some imagination in your analysis...Bravo!!
They originally used practical effects but the studios changed it, and replaced it all with cgi. The Director was fuming that they did it that way and ruined the film
Yeah I saw that! Man it looked like the practical effects and puppets they had would've looked awesome as well. Terrible mistake on their part to switch it up. Maybe they've could've used some CGI, but they really should've tried keeping in some practical effects, at least when the thing was a little more still like when that girl turned into the Thing in the inventory closet or when she was assimilating that dude in the hallway.
A really awful film. The bar was set high with the original, probably the best horror film ever made. I can see why they would try to make a prequel, but it added nothing new except shoddy looking CGI. Even if it HAD kept the prosthetics, the story beats were pretty much the same as the first film, minus the tension or likeable characters. And the prequel Thing was so, so deadly. It easily killed/impaled people at a distance, just one-shotting them. It had no reason to hide. It could have rampaged through the whole camp and killed everyone in minutes.
bro I get it's a reaction but like you know you can be quiet for a moment right. I mean you literally talked over the entire movie. Just enjoy the story and stop over analyzing every intricate thing.
I’m sorry but there supposed to make stupid decisions do you no anything about horror movies if they were to make the right choices there wouldn’t be much of a movie there supposed to make stupid choices and make bad decisions for them to find thereselves in peril jeez Christ
All right I'm definitely challenging that. Are you saying that horror movies only work when stupid decisions are made?? There can't be an effective horror/suspense film with smart characters? Have you heard of a character named Ripley? I recommend you watch a film called "Next" from 2011 and broaden your horror knowledge about how a character can make smart decisions and still find themselves in bad situations and can still entertain the hell out of an audience.
5:06 That is Norwegian.
8:16 Except we know that Lars being bearded and not being able to speak English we know he makes it.
9:38 It's as smart as the smartest thing it eats. It froze itself on peruse to wait for something to find it.
10:06 It was trying to get to a populated area.
13:18 That is not it's original form that is an imitation of a life form that it killed and is imitating. (we never find out what it's true form is)
16:17 Not all of it, he still has the ship in the ice.
18:27 That was the thing imitating his heart problems. It imitates everything including health problems that it's food has.
42:17 The 1982 movie is not the original it was a remake of the 1951 movie "The Thing from Another World", that was biased on a 1938 novella by John W. Campbell Jr. called "Who Goes There?".
43:17 John Carpenter had a year to set up his move, Matthijs van Heijningen had only 3 months from the green light to when he had to start shooting. He didn't have the time to make the fake monsters that Carpenter had in 1981, so he had to go to CGI.
Nearly everything you had to explain about the movie could have quite simply been deduced if he would've just shut the "F" up! What is the point of incessantly yammering on about what's going on during a movie when the whole point of "any story" is to tell you exactly that.
Why would you talk over all the little details that are there specifically to clue you in.
He only seems to be interested in finding his own personal spoiler alert.🤨
I don't think it's so much a question about the thing's strategy as that this is its form of mating and most creatures enjoy mating. One fascinating thing about the creature is that on some level, it's intelligent, yet we can't communicate with it usefully because it's so driven by instinct.
The only way this film works is if you never saw the 1982 version. You should check out the 1st version from the 50's 😊
This is a BRILLIANT prequel and it’s WORTHY it has the same feel look as the original I liked the EFFECTS sorry, and in the original to me the make up and effects practical was awesome but it also looked quite FAKE to even tho it was rob bottins work I loved it and it flows beautifully into the original I disagree what your saying I loved it
Just saying hi and great reaction.🩶
Hi there :) Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the reaction!
Great Film people who dont like it just want their 5 minutes of fame to complain.
Exactly i agree it was brilliant prequel and I loved the effects these people are the type to find fault with everything just like moaning about the characters making stupid decisions but if they new about horror they’d no that’s how it works they chat s**** just born to find fault and complain I loved ❤❤❤❤❤ this movie brilliant had the feel and look of the original his guy just wyns moans
The Thing itself doesn't necessarily have a 'true form' and if it did it's something far beyond our comprehension just it's goals. It's very Lovecraftain The Thing, nobody knows where it came from or why it does what it does but what we do know is that it wants to spread and infected any and all life. It's intelligence is solely based on the size and form it takes, for example in the '82 film the spider head thing wasn't smart enough to wait to escape while the rest of it was burned. It just sat in the door way like a dumbass and of course Palmer (Thing) pointed it out first, so The Thing will resort to outing itself in other forms for self preservation. Plus I think it's implied that maybe you may not know you're a Thing or not until your body starts to transform. A perfect copy that truly believes it's the person it took.
Okay, i get the CGI fuss. But, for what it was, I thought it was an excellent prequel. This was always the light in which I judged this movie.
I mostly agree. I think it's solid as a prequel. Obviously, it's difficult for audiences to except it as a good, solid, or great prequel because of how amazing the original is. However, I do like how they introduced a few things here like the Thing not being able to reproduce inorganic materials. A lot of prequels are a carbon copy and would've just recreated the iconic blood test scene, but they went with the fillings checking. One thing that the Original did an awesome job was how they completely took you off guard with who might be a Thing. In this 2011 version, it was easier to spot them in my opinion. The girl luring Kate to that inventory closet, the second guy in command saying "I've heard enough" and dismissing Kate's theory of the Thing replicating a person. I was like "Dude you just discovered a fucking alien, how would a replication of a human not be possible?!". And then that same dude trying to get Peter to use the flame thrower on others.
I agree I loved ❤this movie it’s a brilliant prequel these people chat s**** and are high there the type to hate anything no matter how they make it they’d have something negative to say there just obessed with the original
The 'investor' doesn't really need it to be alive. all he needs is DNA to win a Nobel prize.
Hey ..IM that old school diehard Gen-X gate keeping prick ppl hear about...i was EXTREMELY against any attempts at "re-doing" the thing..the best horror suspense practical effects movie to DATE .🤘🔥....but after FINALLY NOT being a prick about it and watching it ....its fucking AWESOME....NOT being a "re-do" but a prequel and tying in PERFECTLY with the Carpenters version its MUCH easier to overlook the CGI...fr...im surprised it worked so well ...👍
WELL PUT. Brilliant prequel and how can the original be way better when it’s almost the same bloody movie they talk s*** it has the same feel,look of the original even the layout of the basecamp love the practical effects in the original by ROB BOTTIN HES a genius but I loved this thing to for cgi it was still cool brilliant prequel and I totally agree with everything you said Kevin
Oddly enough I enjoyed the movie for its' attempt as a prequel. But, I fail to understand Hollywood..if you have a premise that was almost perfect. Why would you allow the scriptwriters to not think these presentations through. Let alone,allow the director to see daylies that wasn't up to par. Why change the practical effects for CG?? As a purely business proposition...why make a movie that will fail,on so many levels. Hollywood...has way more money than it has business sense. This movie could have been so much better....why the interjection of the female characters. The damsel in distress is so passe...she just couldn't pull off the "Ripley" effect. Strong female over the dumb male part was a bit lame. The all male cast in the original, had a better chemistry and tension. Why the screen writer didn't give us some speculation on the original appearance of the "thing" was a glaring mistake. This could have been very informative to understand the original...but they missed the point. Too bad...this could have been a winner!! Nice critique...you showed some imagination in your analysis...Bravo!!
They originally used practical effects but the studios changed it, and replaced it all with cgi. The Director was fuming that they did it that way and ruined the film
Yeah I saw that! Man it looked like the practical effects and puppets they had would've looked awesome as well. Terrible mistake on their part to switch it up. Maybe they've could've used some CGI, but they really should've tried keeping in some practical effects, at least when the thing was a little more still like when that girl turned into the Thing in the inventory closet or when she was assimilating that dude in the hallway.
A really awful film. The bar was set high with the original, probably the best horror film ever made. I can see why they would try to make a prequel, but it added nothing new except shoddy looking CGI. Even if it HAD kept the prosthetics, the story beats were pretty much the same as the first film, minus the tension or likeable characters.
And the prequel Thing was so, so deadly. It easily killed/impaled people at a distance, just one-shotting them. It had no reason to hide. It could have rampaged through the whole camp and killed everyone in minutes.
This is a brilliant prequel had the same feel look as the original your high mate and chat s**** just like your stupid comment
bro I get it's a reaction but like you know you can be quiet for a moment right. I mean you literally talked over the entire movie. Just enjoy the story and stop over analyzing every intricate thing.
Terrible movie. It is "checklist" the prequel
I’m sorry but there supposed to make stupid decisions do you no anything about horror movies if they were to make the right choices there wouldn’t be much of a movie there supposed to make stupid choices and make bad decisions for them to find thereselves in peril jeez Christ
All right I'm definitely challenging that. Are you saying that horror movies only work when stupid decisions are made?? There can't be an effective horror/suspense film with smart characters? Have you heard of a character named Ripley? I recommend you watch a film called "Next" from 2011 and broaden your horror knowledge about how a character can make smart decisions and still find themselves in bad situations and can still entertain the hell out of an audience.