The Thing Prequel

[MinionZombie]

With Mary Elizabeth Winstead in the lead role, you're gonna act like that's a bad thing?!? I'd rather see her in a porn than this flick. I agree with you both! MEW is one of the best things about this flick to me - possibly the only best thing about it - so I'll definitely watch it at some point, I would have anyway out of curiosity, but I can't see this being all that great with the stuff we've seen thus far. Seriously though, I dig MEW. I like the characters she plays and she seems like a switched-on kind of lady who isn't some typical bag-of-bones preening Hollywood bitch or drugged-out whore ... yep ... it's crush-o-rama time when MEW rocks up on the screen.

[slickwilly13]

The reviews are mixed. Anyone going to watch it this Friday? Or am I taking one for the team?

[MinionZombie]

The reviews are mixed. Anyone going to watch it this Friday? Or am I taking one for the team? I highly doubt I'll bother seeing this in the cinema now after seeing the bits of footage and trailers put out there that make it look like it's trampling over so many of the reasons why JC's flick was so good and worked so well as a horror movie. You might be taking this one for the team, slick.

[AcesandEights]

The reviews are mixed. Anyone going to watch it this Friday? Or am I taking one for the team? I'm tentatively down for seeing it sometime this coming weekend.

[LouCipherr]

I highly doubt I'll bother seeing this in the cinema now after seeing the bits of footage and trailers put out there that make it look like it's trampling over so many of the reasons why JC's flick was so good and worked so well as a horror movie. You might be taking this one for the team, slick. ^This x2. Sorry, slick.

[bassman]

I would love to give it a shot, but getting to the cinema is a rare event these days, unfortunately. I keep hoping that maybe the trailers are putting a spin on it. There are certain aspects of it that still look good though.

[Kaos]

I'll probably hit a matinee this Saturday.

[Mike70]

i'll be checking it out just because...

[bassman]

Anybody seen rottentomatoes today? The Thing sits in the 30's while the remake of Footloose is near 70. It's getting reviews worse than a teen remake of a teen dance movie? Ouch.... Of the reviews i've seen, most say it's a passable sci/fi horror film, but not even close to Carpenter's. Not a surprise there, really. Well I guess that settles it for me - Wait for Netflix.

[Mike70]

Anybody seen rottentomatoes today? The Thing sits in the 30's while the remake of Footloose is near 70. It's getting reviews worse than a teen remake of a teen dance movie? Ouch.... Of the reviews i've seen, most say it's a passable sci/fi horror film, but not even close to Carpenter's. Not a surprise there, really. Well I guess that settles it for me - Wait for Netflix. i avoid rottentomatoes the way i would avoid actual rotten tomatoes. why let the opinions of others influence you into either seeing or not seeing a movie. then again, i operate under the basic principle that everyone in the world is a complete and total idiot until they've proved otherwise.

[bassman]

i avoid rottentomatoes the way i would avoid actual rotten tomatoes. why let the opinions of others influence you into either seeing or not seeing a movie. . Well, in RT's case at least they compile as many reviews as possible. It's not just one person's opinion, but a general consensus. A single person's review doesn't really effect anything for me either, but when a great number of reviews give the film a low number, you get an idea that something bad is afoot. Not that it will keep me from eventually giving the film a fair shake, but it's not encouraging me to go flop down some hard earned cash to see it in theater.

[slickwilly13]

The reviews are very mixed. It is hard to tell if it is decent or not. A lot of people are bitching about CGI and comparing & contrasting the '82 film.

[MinionZombie]

I've read that the CGI is terrible, there's a complete lack of tension or horror, and it spends too much time trying to be JC's flick - i.e. remaking it, without technically being a remake - plus the fact that it seems to be entirely pointless (we already know what happened to the Norwegian camp - which, for me, has always been the big problem with the idea of a prequel of the exact-same-bloody-name-as-the-original). That said ... Mary Elizabeth Winstead is in it, and there's the curiosity factor ... but sod off am I paying to see this in the cinema.

[Neil]

it seems to be entirely pointless (we already know what happened to the Norwegian camp - which, for me, has always been the big problem with the idea of a prequel of the exact-same-bloody-name-as-the-original). Is that entirely true? We don't know if some people survive or not!? But yes, it's not as open as if they'd done a direct sequel to the original set after those events!

[slickwilly13]

That is what bothers me the most about the CGI. They claimed to use CGI at a minimum and use real props similar to what Bottin used for The Thing. -- -------- Post added at 02:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:16 PM ---------- I am going to watch the first showing in my city at 1:20 pm. Central U.S. tomorrow.