The Thing 2011 is a prequel not remake, for some reason everyone thinks a remake but it’s a prequel that details how the Norwegian camp found the Thing and leads up to the 1982 movie

the 4k is almost identical to the 2018 arrow blu-ray but without all the awesome new extras that has. i’m having a hard time spotting any difference in 95 pc of the visuals. if i didn’t own either.. knowing what i know i’d get the arrow blu ray instead. considering the arrow version is one of the best blu rays when it comes to older movies then i guess there wasnt much room for improvement. but don’t expect Lawrence of Arabia 4k. quality more like resident evil imo

Bull Moose is the best! I already own the first Scream Factory release and imported the Arrow release with the remaster during a sale. Both releases have different special features, which made that double dip worth it. This may be a $7 pick up at some point, but I'm in no rush for thirds. Thank you for the great review as always :)

No shame. He clearly made a score in Carpenter's style.

Ennio Morricone won a Razzie for worst score for The Thing. Unused songs were used in QT’s Hateful 8, which Ennio won an Oscar for best score.

I’m loving this on my Sony x90j and Sony 4K player. Looks excellent. Makes those whites and blues and practical effects pop

Oh SHIT you are right! I totally forgot he didn’t do this one. Score is magnificent though - Morricone is a genius.

@@JeffRauseo Morricone ended turning in a very Carpenterish score .Carpenter threw a few bits and bobbles into the score. Tarantino used some unused Morricone from The Thing in Hateful Eight.

@@jedgaratxretcon-artist6045 Yes I've heard Carpenter did a lot of uncredited work on the score. I wouldn't be surprised if all the synthesizer elements were added in by Carpenter, as I don't think Morricone has ever done any other synthesizer work though I could be wrong - he has literally done hundreds of scores.

Damn, you beat me to it! Hah

@@JeffRauseo yea the score wasn’t received very well by critics when it came out and they were dead wrong on this movies score it is amazing and fits the movie perfectly

Came here to say this. Its an ok movie.

It's basically a remake. It's essentially the same plot.

The original The Thing was a remake to begin with. Never forget that.

@@alecgolas8396 It only stands to reason that what happened to the Americans also happened to the Norwegians.

@@alecgolas8396 It’s definitely a prequel. Spoiler Alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I haven’t seen it but I just read the plot on Wikipedia. A group of Norwegian scientists found an alien spacecraft and the Thing escaped. It assimilated some of them just like in the 1982 version. At the very end of the movie there are still a couple Norwegians left they realize that a dog is actually the Thing. The dog escapes and starts running and they chase after it in a helicopter trying to shoot it and kill it. At the end the dog is running towards the American station. That’s what we see at the beginning of John Carpenter’s 1982 The Thing. If I remember right, the Americans don’t know what they’re doing and why they would be chasing a dog and one of the Norwegians accidentally blows up the helicopter and the other Norwegian yells something to the Americans but they can’t understand him and one of them shoots him. I actually haven’t seen it in a little while so my memory is a little fuzzy. My 4K copy just showed up today. I plan on watching it tomorrow. So, yeah, it is basically the same story in that the Thing assimilates and kills people, but there’s a little more backstory since it actually shows the alien spacecraft and proves without a doubt that the Thing is an alien.

And a pretty good movie.

I was just about to write this and its not too bad actually :)

That's how derivative the prequel is, numerous people have also mistaken the film as a remake.

@@supoa9489 it was derivative, unnecessary and not very good but they wanted a remake and the perfect idea was doing what they did, which is make a movie about the Norwegian camp, it’s basically the same plot and it’s nice fan service for fans of the original. The cgi can look pretty bad and there were a lot of cheap jumpscares but Mary Elizabeth Winstead is pretty hot so it was nice to have her as female MacReady and it’s fun to know the two-faced corpse is Vaughn from Community xddd

It’s a solid enough horror movie (and yeah, a direct prequel - it leads directly into this one). It doesn’t live up to this, but what does? And Mary Elizabeth Winstead is always good.

Wasn’t it a 2011 release?

@@ddc2957 Yes.

And John Carpenters film was an Remake of "The Thing From Another World" (1951)

I'm picking it up today and now you got me even more excited to watch on my OLED

I picked up my copy yesterday, gonna watch it tonight on my Sony oled.

I got an x900h and I love how it looks but oh wow, im sure that oled would be a huge upgrade!!

Same. Got lucky finding it at best buy

The same here great movie and 4K transfer is wonderful.

Lol but it's carpenter. He only has about 20 movies. Almost all classics.I bought it twice before. Want this since I have 4 others in 4k.

I have that one as well and i just now found out that it’s not true 4K, it’s 4k downsampled to 1080p. my whole life has been a lie.

Slight correction: the Scream Factory was a 2K scan.

Well, Scream released a 2K scan blu-ray disc and 4K scan blu-ray disc in the steelbook, and they both look amazing, it's really just a slight bump in resolution and the HDR that make the actual 4K release better than the 4K scan blu-ray release, that's how good the blu-ray transfer is.

Hmmm, do you have another player you can try? If not, connect the player directly to the TV to rule out the AVR.

It’s your player or the way you have it connected audio-wise. Could even be that you need to clean the laser point.

@@davidbaros9526 thanks for the suggestions - I did try it playing directly to the TV cause I thought maybe it was something funky with the soundbar.... also I tried the other languages and it only dropped out on the English track. Gonna have to rebuy again and hope for a better batch.

Special features are meaningless fluff who cares

We are?

Last one... for now !

Eh, if another studio gets ahold of it and includes the original 70mm and 35mm dolby stereo tracks, I'd probably buy it again lol

While the 4K does look excellent, the Shout blu-ray is no slouch either.

I have the Shout steelbook, and I actually prefer the 2K scan over the 4K scan, because of the color timing, and of course the 4K looks excellent.