[quote]simpstr1 wrote:
I agree…and why would he help her so much if he was a “thing” I think she killed him for nothing personally and I think the dog got away![/quote]
Um, you might wanna watch this. Tonight.
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Wow, that was awesome. I neber saw the first one! However, something happened with the 11 frame it was someone filming from their tv set…the last thing I saw was the black guy and Kurt outside in the snow! I CAN’T BELIEVE A BLACK GUY MADE IT TO THE END!
Finally, finally got to see this. Overall, good effort as prequels go, but the inorganic matter test was one of two major bones of contention for me.
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Childs still has his earring at the end of The Thing '82. The prequel punctures the sense of paranoia that ran through Carpenter’s original and made it so great. I’d prefer to think that MacReady wasn’t infected by the end either, just to have two men too distrusting of each other to save themselves.
Childs is dead in The Thing game, which is a sequel to Thing '82 and considered canon:
Macready survives, so events are consistent, but the earring is too much information for fans of Carpenter’s ultimate open ending.
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The other was the way the director ignored the footage of the Norwegians freeing the alien ship from the ice with thermite charges. He felt it wasn’t believable that they could do that; I felt he was pressured into including a set piece where characters explored the interior of the craft.
I enjoyed this on its own merits, but I got the feeling that money was used as a substitute for imagination.
The effects in Splinter were closer to what I’d expect from a movie like this.
The credit sequence bridging scene was so rushed and unsatisfying it was frustrating. What DID happen to Lars ? All of a sudden, the dog shows up and he knows that it’s an imitation?
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I agree that it was contrived (all prequels are). I knew long before I watched this that a non-English speaking character was going to survive to bridge the gap between movies. The Norwegian shooter is killed off through miscommunication, so they had to maintain the language barrier. Unfortunately, they gave the game away with Lars, who was the only member of the team that couldn’t speak English. Some Red Herrings would’ve helped.
However, the husky was his and there was a scene where he looks in on the dog and sees a bloodstained, empty kennel.
Okay finally saw it. Overall not bad, I think they got to much into the “horror” type movie instead of the suspense. Acting was not bad, old movie was better.
