I’m one of the very few people who saw The Thing prequel and didn’t just like it, but LOVED it. Madness, I know. It just hit a lot of right notes for me, and while it was nowhere near the level of Carpenter’s masterpiece, it was still (at least to me) not the steaming pile others made it out to be. That Youtube video of the men of Outpost 31 watching the prequel was worth a cheap laugh though.
One of the big marks against it for some was that it was promised to have plenty of practical effects, and in the end a large amount of it was done with CGI. Now, there’s a video making the rounds that shows that there really was practical effects in it to begin with, and they look REALLY good.
Check out the video at the bottom by clicking the link, since for some reason embedding has been disabled by request. My favorite is the Griggs-Thing. Awesome looking, and seems to be a nod towards Norris.
Source: Bloody-Disgusting
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Those are pretty impressive. Dunno if their inclusion would’ve been enough to salvage the film (I certainly didn’t find it to be a steaming pile or anything, but it ranked little above “Meh” level overall), but it definitely would’ve been a step in the right direction.
Yeah, the general consensus seems to be that it’s an ok film. Agree that it would have been a step in the right direction just going completely practical. I don’t remember seeing a “Pilot” in the finished film.
maybe we’ll get a ”Practical Cut” on the bluray. that would be cool.
The Tetris thing was painted over the Pilot, I believe. At least I’m pretty sure that’s what the director stated in an interview.
Yup. I’m not sure, but I think it was meant to be the final boss monster
That is a seriously impressive video.
Without penalizing it for not living up to the original masterpiece, I gave it a solid 8/10. Sacrilege, I know, but on a technical level I found the effects to be superior to the 1982 film, but of course lacking the ground-breakingness and tone.
I liked it. I went home and watched the Carpenter “Thing” right after, worked for me. Did I think the last 5 minutes were perfect, well no, but I stayed and watched the tie-in after as opposed to the 90% who thought the movie was over or were too young to really appreciate the 1982 movie nods (is that really, REALLY, how the axe got there….) The rest was better than most shit they pass for Sci-Fi horror out there today. I was a huge fan of the 1950’s version (hey, what snappy dialog between a guy and a dame), and watched it many times as a child. Watching the Kurt Russell version not only scarred me for life (“No honey, God would not make something like that”)…apologies to my parents thinking they would take the kids to the drive in to see the movie and get laid later that night… Wishing my PS2 game would port to my PS3…
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