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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 24, 2012
Pros: Entertaining, great creature effects.
Cons: Not as good as the original.
Summary: ‘The Thing’ is a remake of the 1982 horror classic ‘John Carpenter’s The Thing’. I loved the 1982 film - I thought it, and I mean to use this word precisely, rocked. Made two years before I was born, the movie ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 13, 2012
Pros: occasional good scare scenes
Cons: too many dull moments between, a ridiculous plot that is easy to predict
Summary: If you’re by any weird chance familiar with Dead Space the video game horror with its mutated aliens waving their serrated limbs, that’s what The Thing is strangely like. This horror classic redone by newbie director Matthijs van ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 13, 2012
Pros: Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s performance, nice tie-ins to the 1982 film
Cons: Alien spaceship scenes are terrible, too much of the film feels like a rehash
Summary: While remakes are generally bad and prequels are consistently even worse, I was surprisingly interested when I heard about the newest take on the film The Thing. The 1982 Kurt Russell flick might be one of my favorite sci-fi films of all time, and ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 26, 2011
Pros: Not as bad as you'd think
Cons: Not as good as you'd wish
Summary: The Thing is arguably one of the best movies from the nineties--easily trumping the original 1950s film it originated from. As the years went by we saw a video game made and more interest in the property due to the cult status of the John Carpenter's ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 17, 2011
Pros: Sufficiently frightening and gross
Cons: Some aspects of the Thing make no sense
Summary: Eight years ago I reviewed John Carpenter's The Thing, giving it five stars. I was not so willing then as I am now to pick apart the aspects of the creature that I don't like. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 14, 2011
Pros: Superlative Special Effects, and a solid movie to hang them in.
Cons: Not enough paranoia, and the Ship scenes were a mistake.
Summary: The Thing (2011) Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr."Anyone could have been compromised."John W. Campbell Jr. wrote a charming little story called "Who Goes There?" way back in 1938, and opened the way to an ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 14, 2011
Pros: Great FX and setting.
Cons: Not much suspense.
Summary: After the success of a videogame based on the original film, rumors of a sequel arose many times but never came to fruition, with creative differences between Universal and John Carpenter cited as the main reason. It was oft-speculated that Carpenter ... read more
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