I don’t know what you are talking about. The film was good.

@@miamibrando3471 It's great! But they essentially erased most of the practical effects and replaced them completely with cgi. And a lot of the cgi is sadly quite lacking.

Well sadly that version was, what was to become the thing with almost every modern adaptation/remake of movies. Bad directors with no real passion and understanding towards the source and horrible writing. Like for example, with a working helicopter and Thing on it, the movie would’ve ended right there. Or where the one women mutated on the other, totally pointless, Ms maincharacter was totally alone, easiest assimilation, but no, not with that writing.

@@miamibrando3471 The 2011 film was trash. They changed The Thing from a paranoia-striking insidious infiltrator to just another stupid boodyman running after you in the dark jump-scare movie. The writing is horrible, there are no memorable scenes, no character development and the acting is terrible. In the 82' movie we get half an hour only for character development and all the characters have their unique things, shapes and personalities. In the 2011 the character development time was literally cut from the movie. The 82' Thing was smart, smart enough to frame people and smart enought o build a flying saucer smart. The 2011 one is a retard. It goes into a 30+ second transformation stage in front of a potential victim, allowing the victim to run and alert everybody so The Thing gets killed. The creature is also utterly incoherent in the 2011 movie. One moment it splits into several smaller things to fight more people at the same time, the other second (on the Spaceship, in the final scenes) it can't get the protagonist because the protagonist ran into a space-ship vent and The Thing is too big (apparently it forgot it can split into multiple entities). The main character has utterly 0 charisma and all it can do is put on a concerned face like it's constipated or something. And this is pretty much the case with everyone in the movie. In the original people acted very natural because they spent much time together and the script wasn't spoiled to them beforehand. In the 2011 movie everyone acts like the got a huge carrot up their ass and that's about it as far as acting is concerned. I won't even begin with the massive plotholes (such as the crew supposedly being made out of scienties but taking 0 preventive measures agaisnt alien-pathogens, despite it being known even artefacts/thousands-of-years-old-corpses FROM EARTH can be very dangerous... or using A GIANT HOUSE-WORK DRILL ON THE ALIEN IN THE ICE-BLOCK). I'm glad you liked the movie but please don't tell us it's good. If you liked it, you liked it because your standards were very low.

@@Kriegerherz15 Well, the reality would be, with a creature of the Thing's capabilities, all it would need to do would be to split off a bunch of mouse-sized critters, instruct them to wait until people are asleep, then attack them, and zap, no humans. Or emit spores that infect the humans, or mosquito-like things that can inject infection, ad infinitum, just like in the alien universe. There's really no way the earth's biome doesn't become thingized once it surreptitiously infects a human. But where's the story in that? My bugaboo is how much I disliked the majority of the stuff that went into the sanders and juliette Things. Big jagged random teeth and random sprouting tentacles all over and stretched tendon-muscle tissue. It borrowed too much from later-day survival-sci-fi-horror video games and comics, even anime, and not for the better IMHO. It's just not the same philosophy used in the '82 thing. In that one there was a certain economy and fit-for-immediate-purpose 'rational' to how and what the Thing morphed. In the '11 version it was just throw in the kitchen sink and do overkill. Yah, one could chalk it up to the Thing taking a different approach as it gained experience with humans, but storywise '11's MO leaves me cold. The back story with the Thing's escape from its capture pod, killing the other specimens, and the fights with the Pilot species would have been really interesting to me, but I can see, even though it's somewhat circular, the logic in not wanting tho throw money into that if they don't think the movie is going to make a profit or even break even, or somehow drives audience appreciation down (or both). Sh*t.

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Everything would've looked amazing if it were all done with practical effects and very little CGI. But that's just my opinion

same here

They were always intended to be CGI enhanced a little though, so without anything at all they probably wouldn’t work neither, plus there is a lost art to selling stuff like this to the audience, like specialised lighting, framing, reversing or speeding up the shot, and 80s style editing where you get an A to B motion in one shot, then a cut, set up the next motion, repeat, etc. it’d be tricky to ‘convert’ the raw footage at this stage. I’d like to see it tried too, though, I mean heck, what people can do at home now with editing and CGI has advanced so far, that if someone could see their way to accidentally release all the required scenes as filmed, I dare say some fan could do something about adjusting and inserting them into a fan edit of the movie.

behindthenineball I agree. They should release the Pilot Version of this film. I heard it’s better in every way including the ending. (Reply for more details;)

@fuck you (lol) In the original ending, the Sander-Thing ran from the camp back to the ship. Kate and Carter chase it but their flamethrower is out of fuel so they use the Snowcat’s fuel when they get to the ship, noticing Sander’s tracks are becoming less human and more alien along the way. Carter/Kate are separated while looking for the Thing and a chase puts all three in the Cockpit. Kate threatens the Alien-Thing with a Thermite grenade and Carter chooses to burn it after brief hesitation. They go back to the snowcat and Kate takes the flamethrower to refuel it before noticing Carter’s missing earring, commenting on how she knew he was human the whole time. He reaches for the wrong ear and she burns him, knowing she just finished off her ride and fuel for it... This is a brief summary of the original ending, I might’ve missed someThings;)

plot still sucked

@@LordWyatt But that's pretty much the ending in the film. What's different? Carter killing the Thing instead of Kate?

I'm guessing they used that as a reference. You can also see a leaper at 0:43

@@sotheofdaein Oh, yeah, I've never noticed that one.

No, Dead Space reminds you of The Thing. Not the other way around, The Thing had the idea first and even the developers of Dead Space admitted that they drew inspiration from The Thing. Pay respect where it’s due. The Thing paved the way bro.

@@fjr03clips99 actually...fans of both The Thing AND Dead Space realize exactly what he said and DO care. Quit being an idiot. He stated a fact. Dead Space wouldn't exist without "The Thing" 1982.

@@fjr03clips99 Be quiet fapper, quite frankly no one asked you.

I believe your right dude it totally is

I saw a video once where they tossed around ideas for what a sequel could entail. A sex-scene with the Thing would be terrifying. But my favorite idea on that video by far was one where at the end of the movie, after all the run around and effort of the main characters to contain the Thing creature, you learn that the Thing has already taken over the world, and maintains the global status-quo, keeping earthlings corralled in ignorance and only eating, at its leisure, at need or whim. Done with the directoral care and attention of the first Thing, and with ADI arting the hell out of some gruesome Thing monsters, I would watch the SHIT out of that movie :-)

@@cRAVEtrance lol, based on what you said, only if the thing's mind got influenced by a good guy's mind that it absorbed will make it not to consume & replicate the girl that it decided to marry.

Idk.. I'd say none of them survived, I have a gut feeling childs is a thing creature as he disappeared in the underground part at the end. But then also Mc'Ready could be a thing creature too, Since his clothing was found torn into and hidden in a furnace. Hell.. both of them could be the thing duplicates and would both freeze until they were found at a later date.

@@LOLGotYerTags Mc'Ready proven human during blood test. He killed the Blair creature. He and the afro dude might both freeze to death as they have blown up their ice station to pieces, there's no heater, shelter and no food. The sequel will be entirely new cast, the rescue team despated to check on them.

Imo it is the greatest Sci Fi Horror film of all time.

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With some minor concessions that the director acknowledged, it very much was.

@@Xenomrph I am bit confused at what you wrote. Are you supporting my statement or going against it?

@@governorkolp9321 I'm saying the 2011 movie was a true and faithful prequel to the original.

@@Xenomrph I'm sorry but I don't see how! -The Thing is meant to all be about Stealth, in the 2011 movie the monster is stupid and gives itself away rampaging though hallways and so on (NOT true and faithful to the original). -Cheap jump scares (The original did not rely on jump scares, it had a spooky story all the way through) -Inconsistent story with the original (the UFO doesn't get blown up by the Norwegians). -Under developed characters (the characters in the original all have great distinctions) -Predicable scenes (I saw the guy turning into the Thing on the chopper coming) -Awful CGI - Stupid happenings (How could those two Americans crash a helicopter into the icy-cold mountains and still actually manage to make it back alive in one piece without any serious/fatal injuries?) I don't have the energy to keep writing this list.

@@governorkolp9321 The Thing doesn't consider being stealthy at first because it doesn't know what humans are or how to behave around them - it learns that by the time of the 1982 movie, hence why it acts differently. Keep in mind that the Thing doesn't use any stealth when it's in the dog kennel, because it figures it doesn't have to. The original has several jump scares, about as many as the prequel did. The UFO thing is one of the things the director said was an intentional change, because they reasoned that there's no way the norwegians would have enough explosives to cleanly uncover the giant UFO without also damaging it. In fact, the characters try exactly that in the original 'Who Goes There?' novella and end up destroying the UFO. :P The guy on the chopper was given away in the trailer (as were all of the Thing-outs - the marketing was kind of garbage). Without seeing the trailer, it's a pretty effective fake-out because the other guy is acting all weird and shaking and stuff. The Americans surviving the crash is meant to be unbelievable, and the other characters don't believe it - they think the Americans are Things. In short, I think we'll have to agree to disagree.

The Flood were inspired by the film The Thing 1982

Where has he said he disowned the film?

I'd pay good money to see the original version of this movie, before they painted over it in CGI.