PopeAK49
October 13th, 2010, 02:15 AM
I'm a fan of true scifi horror. Movies like Alien, The Blob, and The Thing were my most favorite horror movies. The Thing by John Carpenter is my all time favorite. It's a classic, brilliant, and uses puppets instead of silly CGI.
The 70's and 80's were the best decades for scifi horrors because they were original and brilliant. Sadly, this era (2000) marks the decades of remakes/prequels/sequels. To my opinion, prequels and sequels are not that bad as long as it's original and also supports the story of the first one. Aliens did this remarkably by showing how the Aliens were made, although it was more action packed than scary people still loved it.
When I heard news of something about John Carpenters The Thing having some kind of remake to it, I was fearing the worse. To me I was thinking why the hell would they even mess with such a good classic, they should know that they are screwing with pandora's box. Then news spreaded about the movies being a prequel instead of a remake which calmed me down a bit. I still was thinking about how terrible this movie would be with CGI and people with flamethrowers would hunt down the director, and the leader of that pack of flamethrower mobs would be me. Then talks about this movie keeping CGI to minimum interested me even more. The cast was revealed and several pictures too, but also a crappy recorded leak of the teaser trailer was revealed. I'm more interested about this movie now, but I'm skeptical about it. Plus most of the movie is going to be subtitled since the story is suppose to explain the Norwiegen's "great discovery". If you pause the film at certain points in the film you can see what "the thing" looks like, and I also paused and saw some guy trying to escape but several tentacles grabbed him and started assimilating which looked awesome.
Video (Can't tag for shit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv9jp_l9qMY&feature=player_embedded
Images
http://www.scificool.com/first-set-pictures-from-the-thing-prequel/
The 70's and 80's were the best decades for scifi horrors because they were original and brilliant. Sadly, this era (2000) marks the decades of remakes/prequels/sequels. To my opinion, prequels and sequels are not that bad as long as it's original and also supports the story of the first one. Aliens did this remarkably by showing how the Aliens were made, although it was more action packed than scary people still loved it.
When I heard news of something about John Carpenters The Thing having some kind of remake to it, I was fearing the worse. To me I was thinking why the hell would they even mess with such a good classic, they should know that they are screwing with pandora's box. Then news spreaded about the movies being a prequel instead of a remake which calmed me down a bit. I still was thinking about how terrible this movie would be with CGI and people with flamethrowers would hunt down the director, and the leader of that pack of flamethrower mobs would be me. Then talks about this movie keeping CGI to minimum interested me even more. The cast was revealed and several pictures too, but also a crappy recorded leak of the teaser trailer was revealed. I'm more interested about this movie now, but I'm skeptical about it. Plus most of the movie is going to be subtitled since the story is suppose to explain the Norwiegen's "great discovery". If you pause the film at certain points in the film you can see what "the thing" looks like, and I also paused and saw some guy trying to escape but several tentacles grabbed him and started assimilating which looked awesome.
Video (Can't tag for shit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv9jp_l9qMY&feature=player_embedded
Images
http://www.scificool.com/first-set-pictures-from-the-thing-prequel/