I preferred the original Snatchers, mostly because it had Dana Wynter...
Posted on 07/22/2011 4:59:17 AM PDT by tlb
Release Date: 14 October 2011
At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson. While Dr. Halvorson keeps to his research, Kate partners with Sam Carter, a helicopter pilot, to pursue the alien life form. Written by IMDb Editors
Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists.
The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they're infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet.
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up.
When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew's pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.
The Thing serves as a prelude to John Carpenter's classic 1982 film of the same name. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen, the thriller is produced by Strike Entertainment's Marc Abraham and Eric Newman (Dawn of the Dead). Written by Universal Pictures
Sutherland was fabulous in the remake. Absolutely chilling flick. I recently saw the original again - outstanding. 56 and 78 are one of the great original-remake film combinations.
The original was produced by Howard Hawks and featured the trademark rapid-fire dialogue typical of Hawks' films. Pretty much a no-name cast although a pre-Gunsmoke James Arness played The Thing. One of my all-time favorite sci-fi films, from the fifties or any other era for that matter.
As for the 1982 version.... the first ten minutes were great but it devolved into a special-effects extravaganza.
I can’t wait until “jaws the prequel” comes out.
My sources at MSNBC say a young Scheider and friends are on a party boat on a blue fishing trip. There they meet a father and son the son played by a Richard Dreyfuss.
After several hours of fishing, Scheider hooks into something pretty big. As Scheider is fighting the fish and being dragged all over the boat, the young Dreyfuss says it might be a shark.
Well Scheider gets the fish to the boat and sure enough it is what appears to be a sand shark in the 30 pound range. Dreyfuss starts pleading with his father to make the bad men release the shark.
Hence they do.
I agree. ‘The Thing from Another World’ was superb. Carpenter’s effort quickly became one special effects set-piece after another.
Excellent movie which scared the chit (and stomach contents) out of the audience. It made more money in video and dvd releases than in theatres.
It’s on streaming on Netflix.
Hi, guys:
Carpenter knew he couldn’t compete with Howard Hawks’ overlaid dialogue and palpable sense of claustrophobia. So Carpenter substituted paranoia instead and leaned heavily on over-the-top, superbly executed special effects.
Of the two, I still prefer Hawks’ original and see no sense in a third even more lame attempt to mess with near perfection.
Jack.
I preferred the original Snatchers, mostly because it had Dana Wynter...
You’re just stuck on the physics of cantilevered hemispheres.
I'd love to partner up, even shack up, with Sam Carter
In the upper right of your screen, you should see "General/Chat".
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I liked the original Thing with James Arness.
I can’t stand movies in which a bad creature can assume the looks and identity of anyone so I didn’t much like the 1982 film though it was well acted.
Won’t be seeing this one.
And, whoever’s whining about movie threads, don’t go on them. I love movies and I love movie threads.
“They ALL DIE!”. That is exactly what I thought when I read the premise for the movie. Who wants to waste two plus hours watching this when you know from the outset that EVERYONE is going to die a gruesome death? Why bother caring about any of the characters; they are all dead, so why bother?
The 1982 flick is not only far superior, but it is far more accurate to the original story. The 1952 version is almost a totally different story.
“He met a most satisfying end just before the Army dudes juiced the Thing.”
Uh...he wasn’t killed. He was just shoved out of the way.
I always thought that he was killed since he doesn’t show up again after the Thing is fried and the end credits begin rolling.
It is mentioned by one of his scientist colleagues that he has gotten medical attention and is resting comfortably. Hey, if you’ve watched it a dozen times like I have you pick up on these details!
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