John Carpenter's 'The Thing'

Re-released in cinemas from September 15th. Cool. Very cool.

Apologies if this has been done already

Great film.

They dont make'em like that any more 😉

A remarkable film at the time, I wonder if it looks dated now ? Just as technology allowed the Carpenter version to improve upon the original, I wonder if CGI could make an improved version today ?

wicked film – got the dvd recently after having only an awful vhs before

honestly, for a purchased, non taped off the tv video it was appaling – couldn't make out what was happening during the last transformation bit when the thing changes shape loads of time and is on fire

no, no CGI – films like the Thing, American Werewolf in London, Alien and Aliens represent a peak of non-cgi monster effects. CGI just looks like a video game in comparisson

The 'head/spider' thing! Excellent!

Hmm. No sign of Odeon or UGC showing it.

i really hope that they never use CGI on the film (or remake it for that matter.) the "real" special effects are what give the film it's standing today.an awesome film.

I also bought the DVD recently. For £2.79 its a bargain. Great film. Very atmospheric. At present I keep getting cravings to watch random films. At the moment I'm hankering for First Blood.

you guys know there is a carpetner approved prequel coming out next year?

the first script was set on the norwegians base when they discover the thing and its spaceship and that was buy battlestar galactica and DS9 supremo ronald d moore
i believe the script is being re-written

whats the betting instead of a bunch of grisly old men in their long-johns we have a gang of chisel faced pert breasted youngsters
and a not very believable cgi monster

brilliant film only watched it again for the first time in ages, the other day….

didnt look dated at all

please god no cgi!

Ennio Morricone did the music (well nerve jangly random noises), which isnt exactly Gabriels Oboe but it does a lot for the atmosphere I reckon.

oh go on then…..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TevQS4qgE_Q&feature=related

and here it is via the medium of lego

Gruesome, stark bloody film.

One of my favourites!

Top film, his best in my view

Yep thats a classic film – the effects really make "the thing" look real! No CGI has bettered it yet IMO.

The bit where they're all doing the blood test with the hot wire. Jeez I get the creeps every time I see it. Great film – would love to have seen it when it was released, what with the parallels with AIDS and how aware people were of it at the time.

They must have reading the forum last week…when we taling about it!

Awesome film. Was gutted to find out there was a remake.

The head/spider thing is a truly scary creation, and the tribute to it in Toy Story 2 comes off pretty spooky too.

Top film, his best in my view

You've clearly never seen Big Trouble in Little China. 😉

2nd what everyone else has been saying about the effects – there's an element of realism to them that CGI can't match (or doesn't – often it's more of a stylistic thing, like the way in modern films with lots of CGI they have to have the camera lurch around like a fairground ride).

He even added little details like refrigerating the set so the characters' breath showed when they talk – if the actors look miserable and cold, that's because they were. 🙂

im sure i read somewhere that you cant see "Childs" breath in the final scene, whereas "Macreadys" is clearly visible, making Childs the THING!

Hmm. No sign of Odeon or UGC showing it

Try Cineworld, I'm genuinely excited, takes me back to when I lived in Coventry in the early nineties and the cinema in town used to show classics on Saturday nights (well Sunday mornings really). I saw such gems as 2001, The Shining, Alien, The Wall, The Exorcist, Omen 1, 2 and 3 and Predator.

great thread…

The bit where they're all doing the blood test with the hot wire. Jeez I get the creeps every time I see it.

i was about to type that!

im glad im old enough to remember what films were like before CGI came along 😉

they don't make em like that anymore, yeah ive got rose tinted specs but you know what i mean.

i must have watched it a million times on DVD, i love the bit at the end where its just the two of them left and they are eyeing each other up (not in that way!)