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.
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.
At least that's better than the Spider-Man reboots. They come round every 5 years!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?
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 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!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.
At least that's better than the Spider-Man reboots. They come round every 5 years!
Batmans not much better!
yeah,agreed,but when it comes to batman,the original TV series was far better than anything afterwards.At least that's better than the Spider-Man reboots. They come round every 5 years!
Batmans not much better!
If I think of Batman it's always Fred West (rip).yeah,agreed,but when it comes to batman,the original TV series was far better than anything afterwards.
If I think of Batman it's always Fred West (rip).
Idiot! Yes of course you are right!I think you mean Adam West ... Fred West was a serial killer.![]()
Idiot! Yes of course you are right!
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.
My error, will fix.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
The first one was better.Currently watching Thor 2. It's okay whilst dinner is cooking.
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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.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.
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The first one was better.![]()
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.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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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.
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The first one was better.![]()
My favourite of the franchise. Great sound track to.
$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.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).