The Thing

Well I thought I posted about The Thing when I saw it in theaters. Guess I did that somewhere else. Picked up the movie on DVD and watched it again. Same reaction. I was hoping like hell, this would be added candy to the already amazing Carpenter version. Sadly the directors homage pretty much repeated Carpenters vision. Same scenario’s but with way less tension. When I saw it in theaters, I thought they overused CGI. Come to find out in the extra’s how much CGI was used. Not as much as I thought. They just got very good with practical’s. It’s not a bad movie, but I don’t see a reason for making it.

The extra’s do explain the why and how. They backwards engineered from the clues Carpenter presented in his movie and thus made this theory of what happened. All the influences work, but I was surprised to see them leave out a couple of key moments that helped delineate this version. They are in the ‘deleted scenes.

Recommend a rent at the very least. If you’re a fan of Carpenters Thing, you may get disappointed.