The Thing (2012) really could have used a better title (and less cgi), because it isn't a remake. It's a prequel and tells the entire story of why the Norwegians are shooting at the dog in the beginning of The Thing (1982)

[–] shalafi 13 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Worth watching?

[–] M137 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's obviously not even close to as good as the '82 one, but it's definitely worth a watch. Just keep your expectations in check, not superb but not seriously bad. There're a lot of interesting videos and articles about the making of it, and how it would have been much better without some changes that were made later in its development, so you get some cool, and sad, extra stuff after watching it.

[–] Tum 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

if I remember rightly, they had an entire props department doing the creature in the old-school way, with property and special effects, and decided in editing to replace it with CGI. Really sad. Think of how great modern physical effects could be with the advanced we made since the 80s

[–] Couldbealeotard 2 points 2 weeks ago

The worst thing was that they had a seriously bizarre alien animatronic as the pilot at the end, but they replaced it with holographic orange Tetris.

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