I'm not sure if you keep up with film news, but the studio plans on doing remakes of all the classics from the 1920s to the 1960s. Yuck.The Mummy (2017).Comment in Mummy thread.
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Remakes are usually crap. I watched the remade version of the movie Memphis Belle,with Billy Zane,was ok as a time killer,but total crap compared to the original 1943 classic "Memphis Belle,the true story of a B-17 Flying Fortress". So,I guess remakes and most follow ups are not very interesting. How many more " new " versions of "Rocky" or " Police academy" do we have to stand before the producers realise that making the same thing too many times is useless?
At least that's better than the Spider-Man reboots. They come round every 5 years!
Batmans not much better!
Most impressive, before CGI is the puppeteering in this movie.Simply a masterpiece, superb taught psychological horror, one of my all time favourites, most interesting is the interactions of the crew of Outpost 31, after all just who can you trust
John Carpenter at his absolute best
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The Thing Plot discussion STOP if you've not seen this movie and plan on watching it.
Plot wise, it seems like a practically impossible situation for the humans to win.
- First there is the dog creature that is given free reign of the compound and is shown to expose at least one human possibly Palmer or Norris, then in the kennel it escapes.
- They have little time to search for it before Benning is exposed while transferring thing remains, before they realize that there is still cellular activity in those remains.
- Dr Blair who realizes the trouble they and the entire human species are in, goes crazy, and ends up put in isolation outside the compound, where he is vulnerable to the escaped dog thing.
- They find Fukes dead out in the snow, but there is no reason to assume he has not been infected.
- It's a mystery imo why Norris, I assume, chooses to act sick and reveal himself by biting off Copper's forearms.
- The blood test exposes Palmer but Windows dies.
- At this point the only option is to stay in a large group. Splitting up dooms their efforts.
- Once the creature, possibly the first dog creature, destroys the generator, ( or the one who has assumed Blair's form), it has won. All it has to do is find an easy discoverable place nearby to fall asleep in the snow and wait for a rescue team to show up.
- I had very low hope that burning the compound would kill the creatures so very arguably this is an unhappy ending.
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The problem is that this is a second remake, along with at least one Hulk remake. We've already ready seen several Werewolf and Frankenstein remakes. Would Creature From The Black Lagoon be worthy? Who knows!
Tobey McQuire Spider-Man 1&2 were excellent. I sampled the remake, and it was unworthy. I've never been a real Batman fan although the Christian Bale, Batman-Joker movie was the best of them all thanks to Heath Ledger.
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yeah,agreed,but when it comes to batman,the original TV series was far better than anything afterwards.
Idiot! Yes of course you are right!I think you mean Adam West ... Fred West was a serial killer.
lol it's nearly 4 pm here!Saturday morning brain cloud, let me buy you another cup of coffee
Most impressive, before CGI is the puppeteering in this movie.
The Thing Plot discussion STOP if you've not seen this movie and plan on watching it.
Plot wise, it seems like a practically impossible situation for the humans to win.
It would be a very interesting movie to pick up a sequel with the rescue team arriving in the Antarctic.
- First there is the dog creature that is given free reign of the compound and is shown to expose at least one human possibly Palmer or Norris, then in the kennel it escapes.
- They have little time to search for it before Benning is exposed while transferring thing remains, before they realize that there is still cellular activity in those remains.
- Dr Blair who realizes the trouble they and the entire human species are in, goes crazy, and ends up put in isolation outside the compound, where he is vulnerable to the escaped dog thing.
- They find Fukes dead out in the snow, but there is no reason to assume he has not been infected.
- It's a mystery imo why Norris, I assume, chooses to act sick and reveal himself by biting off Copper's forearms.
- The blood test exposes Palmer but Childes dies.
- At this point the only option is to stay in a large group. Splitting up dooms their efforts.
- Once the creature, possibly the first dog creature, destroys the generator, (the one who has assumed Blair's form), it has won. All it has to do is find an easy discoverable place nearby to fall asleep in the snow and wait for a rescue team to show up.
- I had very low hope that burning the compound would kill the creatures so very arguably this is an unhappy ending.
Polite correction: That was Windows who dies during the Blood Test, not Childs.
Sequel: there was a direct sequel done in comic book form 25 years ago from Dark Horse comics (actually they did three mini series sequels, but only the first was worth reading) called The Thing From Another World Climate of Fear. I know John Higgins painted the art for that first sequel. There was an insane panel of MacReady freezing on a sheet of ice.
http://m.ebay.com/sch/i.html?cmd=SKW&_pgn=1&_nkw=thing+from+another+world+climate+of+fear
My error, will fix.
Now that I think on it, we have discussed this.
Does Climate of Fear take place in Antartica or back in civilization? The good part about the Antarctic is it's remote, the bad thing there are places to hibernate to be discovered later.[doublepost=1498325495][/doublepost]
The first one was better.
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All pretty much of a muchness to me.My error, will fix.
Now that I think on it, we have discussed this.
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The first one was better.
Indeed twists and turns abound, I really enjoy that as the viewer are put in a position of deciding the outcome and to some extents the path.
I also really enjoy the first film The Thing From Another World (1951) albeit a deviation from the original novella. The 2011 prequel The Thing not so much, not a bad SciFi watch by any means, however just by no in the same league as Carpenters 1982 masterpiece. Coming across more as solely a Scifi horror lacking the tremendous phycological peaks & troughs Carpenters film evokes.
With the The Thing (1982) as per below and much more there is just so much to take from this film it never gets old. One of my all time favourites and will remain so...
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I also really enjoy the first film The Thing From Another World (1951) albeit a deviation from the original novella. The 2011 prequel The Thing not so much, not a bad SciFi watch by any means, however just by no in the same league as Carpenters 1982 masterpiece. Coming across more as solely a Scifi horror lacking the tremendous phycological peaks & troughs Carpenters film evokes.
With the The Thing (1982) as per below and much more there is just so much to take from this film it never gets old. One of my all time favourites and will remain so...
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Most impressive, before CGI is the puppeteering in this movie.
The Thing Plot discussion STOP if you've not seen this movie and plan on watching it.
Plot wise, it seems like a practically impossible situation for the humans to win.
It would be a very interesting movie to pick up a sequel with the rescue team arriving in the Antarctic.
- First there is the dog creature that is given free reign of the compound and is shown to expose at least one human possibly Palmer or Norris, then in the kennel it escapes.
- They have little time to search for it before Benning is exposed while transferring thing remains, before they realize that there is still cellular activity in those remains.
- Dr Blair who realizes the trouble they and the entire human species are in, goes crazy, and ends up put in isolation outside the compound, where he is vulnerable to the escaped dog thing.
- They find Fukes dead out in the snow, but there is no reason to assume he has not been infected.
- It's a mystery imo why Norris, I assume, chooses to act sick and reveal himself by biting off Copper's forearms.
- The blood test exposes Palmer but Windows dies.
- At this point the only option is to stay in a large group. Splitting up dooms their efforts.
- Once the creature, possibly the first dog creature, destroys the generator, ( or the one who has assumed Blair's form), it has won. All it has to do is find an easy discoverable place nearby to fall asleep in the snow and wait for a rescue team to show up.
- I had very low hope that burning the compound would kill the creatures so very arguably this is an unhappy ending.
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The problem is that this is a second remake, along with at least one Hulk remake. We've already ready seen several Werewolf and Frankenstein remakes. Would Creature From The Black Lagoon be worthy? Who knows!
Tobey McQuire Spider-Man 1&2 were excellent. I sampled the remake, and it was unworthy. I've never been a real Batman fan although the Christian Bale, Batman-Joker movie was the best of them all thanks to Heath Ledger.
The Thing From Another World was fantastic for 1951 although the primary threat from the alien upon which the story was based, is completely absent. It's still stands out for sci-fi horror for it's time. They actually tried something similiar with Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) , they grew spare bodies duplicating their targets, but I never understood the depiction of the couple on the run, but when she falls asleep, she became one of them.
My error, will fix.
Now that I think on it, we have discussed this.
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The first one was better.
South American Military installation. I think the subsequent ones went a little further but they were so bad, I effectively blanked them out. The first mini (which I forget if it was two or four issues) was very evocative of Carpenter's movie in every way: (Things going Thingy on people, the characterizations and the mounting dread. Plus insane painted art.)
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (both the 1956 and the 1978) freak me out something fierce. I think because it's a direct human replication; while the Thing does this too, it ultimately reveals it's vast swath of genetic consumption when the stuff hits the glacier. I think that's why I can roll with The Thing so easily...(well, that and Kurt Russell being so awesome and hot...)
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Thor - verily the first one was better. I am really looking forward to the third one for two reasons: no Jane Foster (Buh bye Miss Portman), and the comedy reminds me of how Thor was written during the Eddas (a lovable, loyal brute who was not the smartest hammer in the Norse God pantheon
).and I'll end this post with one for @D.T.
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Watched Transformer 5 this morning. It was an empty theater, and it was an okay movie. Some instances of forced humor, not a very captivating plot or even background story. Wait until you can watch it online, not worth the money to watch in theaters (unless you're with T-Mobile and you got the $4 code).
Also watched Power Rangers last night to see what that was about. That was the most cringe-worthy movie I've probably watched. A waste of time for sure.
Also watched Power Rangers last night to see what that was about. That was the most cringe-worthy movie I've probably watched. A waste of time for sure.
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Speaking of Arnold:
True Lies (1994)- Although Terminator 2 is excellent and a James Cameron product, IMO True Lies is Arnold's best rounded performance... thanks to James Cameron and Jamie Lee Curtis does some very nice dancing.
As always, Cameron has high attention to detail and produces outstanding action, even when it's tongue'n cheek. The sub machine gun falling down the steps shooting terrorists was great. 
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The Others (2001)- Excellent ghost story that relies on suspense, not gore or CGI.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)- Excellent tie-in to X-Men 1&2 movies, showing how Logan became Wolverine. If you are a Wolverine fan, these 3 movies are the cream of the crop, the definitive Wolverine story. Yes, it's subjective, but these movies possess the X-Men vibe and atmosphere carried over from the first movie, that make them feel different than the ensemble messes that came later and muddied the waters even more (like X-Men First Class).
Wait a minute, are these regular people??
Wait a minute, are these regular people??
$4 tmobile code is the only reason I saw this too. pretty empty theater but it was sunday AM. I only saw the first film in the series - Bay is just not my type - and the script is horrrible. Sure it looks good, big booms and flashes of light, but its all sooooo hollow.