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    The Thing

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    Let me start off by saying I saw the original when it came out at the time and was really impressed by the special effects and the ambiguity of the ending. I have seen it several times on tv over the decades and have always enjoyed watching it. I learned to appreciate how we quickly descend in to the base forms of suspicion, fear and paranoia when we are confronted with something out of our range of acceptable experience. I have read a the first 17 posts on here and will disagree with those who trash this film as substandard to the 1982 version based on the original 1938 novella. Specifically the use of CGI being inferior to the technology of the 82 version. I totally disagree. There are very cool effects that you got with the CGI that you couldn't have gotten with the level of the 82 SFX (Griggs facial split for instance) We need to set aside the superiority of Carpenter's interpretation of the novella and look at it from a generational POV (point of view) The story isn't about puppetry vs CGI then it's more about how we plunge to our base fears when confronted with the unknown. The 1950s version was designed to exploit the cold war paranoia of the pre ww2 generation just as the original novella may have been written to exploit the rise of social nazism. The 1982 adaptation had the baby boomer generation as its target with elements of the previous generation on whose is on our side and who is out to get us) this trend is continued as the Gen x and gen y =have to deal with loss of identity and assimilation to something larger and more powerful than themselves (perhaps the by baby boomer generationalists lol) So the the general them of some sort of loss of identity and assimilation cuts across all 4 generations now inhabiting this planet. Before I saw this latest companion piece and that is what this film is I actually bought Carpenter's version and forced myself to sit through the commentary version on the disk (Kurt and John bring up a very interesting point. If we were space faring and landed on another planet with indigenous lifeforms wouldn't we try to adapt to survive?) All in all I am very glad I did see the prequel even though I knew how it would all end it still made me jump and flinch at points and to me that is effective story telling and believe me at plus 50 and slightly jaded myself it isn't easy to get that sort of reaction from me. So forget all the bashing others have or may inflict on this prequel, check your criticism and just enjoy the movie for its ability to make you forget about your reality for a couple of hours. Shell out your money and go see it on the big screen it is well worth it, strictly for pure entertainment.

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    dwm21057@  19.10.2011 age: 50+ 30 reviews

    Well written and thought out; I can't wait to see the movie.

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    jbflexer@  25.10.2011 age: 50+ 17 reviews

    Have you had the opportunity to see it yet? And what was your impression. Thanks for the compliment. I just thought instead of trashing it as so many are wont to do on these reviews I would try to be as objective as I could.

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    dwm21057@  5.11.2011 age: 50+ 30 reviews

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