"The Thing"

[CatWoman]

[Wickerman]

1. The Thing

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. I have the DVD. Love this movie. Creepy and intense, and SFX still good.

"Trust is a hard thing to come by these days."
-MacReady

[CatWoman]

5. you've gotta be fucking kidding.......................

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. Heh. We played this on my college dorm VCR about a billyun times. One

of those movies, like "The Evil Dead" that, if you're perverse like me, you enjoy introducing people to for the first time. You can't capture that experience of seeing something like that for the first time, but you can get a bit of that reflected through someone else.

[Poll_Blind]

9. That's my favorite line from the whole movie...(n/t)

PB

[Beaverhausen]

24. Mine too!

I love that movie!

[TX-RAT]

16. Type 181

Tough as nails and easy to maintain.

[Wickerman]

23. always wanted one

glad someone knew what the hell it was.

[TX-RAT]

33. Always liked them, never owned one.

When my daughter graduated from high school, we got her a 72 super beetle convertible. She's still driving it. I drove it some when she was in the Navy, she couldn't take it to Okinawa Japan. What a fun little car to drive.

[bobbieinok]

2. the sci-fi movie, right????

saw it as a kid.....gave me nightmares for months

[CatWoman]

3. it was just on Encore

going off now.

One of my faves........

[Poiuyt]

7. I like the original version of "The Thing"

The one with James Arness as the monster. One of my favorite sci-fi movies.

[RebelOne]

19. Yes, the original is the better version.

And I think it was best sci-fi movie ever made. Plenty of suspense, because you never knew where he was going to pop up.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. One of the greatest movies ever

I love it!!

And I love the commentary and "making of" specials on the DVD. Amazing how they made the movie, and how much of the stuff in the movie is real, like the flamethrowers and the throwing of the dynamite and whatnot. talk about putting your actors in incredible danger for the sake of realism!

man, what a movie.

It really should have gotten at least a few Oscars, and I hope it goes down in history as an example of true filmic and story-telling artistry and innovation.

[Enraged_Ape]

10. One of the best horror movies of all time

John D. Carpenter's masterpiece. The "blood test", the freaky tentacled heads, the spaceship in the basement...it's all so bizarre and comes in almost too fast to handle.

This movie still scares the crap out of me, and I've seen it half a dozen times.

[Forkboy]

11. I love both the remake and the original

and the book they are based on ("Who Goes There?").The original was one of the first horror movies I ever saw (yes,just after Godzilla :) ).It was my dad's fav movie so he always watched it.When I was 7 or so I watched it with him one night and had to go to bed right after.I slept right near the door and as he locked it he said,"Not that locking it will stop the Thing anyways". My dad,such a joker!

There's another remake in the works,a 4 hour deal for tv.

[CatWoman]

12. a remake??? really???

do you know which channel?

[Forkboy]

14. Here's the info

New Andromeda, Thing In Works
SCI FI Channel has partnered with Oscar-nominated director Ridley Scott to revive The Andromeda Strain and with fellow Oscar nominee Frank Darabont to produce a remake of The Thing. Scott and his brother, Tony Scott, will executive produce a new four-hour miniseries version of The Andromeda Strain, based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel about an alien virus, the network announced.

Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan (The Quiet American) will write the script for the updated Andromeda Strain. David W. Zucker and Tom Thayer will also executive produce the miniseries, from Scott Free Productions and Thayer's Traveler's Rest Films, in association with NBC Universal Television Studio.

Darabont will executive produce a four-hour miniseries remake of The Thing, about an Antarctic expedition that stumbles upon a shapeshifting alien. David Leslie Johnson will write the screenplay. David Foster (producer of director John Carpenter's 1982 film version of The Thing) will also executive produce the miniseries, from NBC Universal Television Studio. The Thing is originally based on John W. Campbell Jr.'s classic SF short story "Who Goes There?" The story was first adapted for the screen as The Thing in 1951.

Darabont told Variety that Johnson should complete his adaptation of The Thing by Christmas and shooting could get under way next year, with an airdate on SCI FI either in December 2005 or early spring 2006.

[CatWoman]

15. Thanks, Doll!!

:hi:

[DrWeird]

28. They're also making "At the Mountains of Madness"

by H.P. Lovecraft, which was also inspiration for the original "The Thing", about a group of Antarctic scientists who discover a "half-animal, half-vegetable" alien frozen in the ice.

[Forkboy]

29. Cool

I just got done reading two collections of Lovecraft stories.I didn't know about that connection before.

[DrWeird]

30. Yup. Half-vegetable. Crazed dogs.

The shape-shifting monster.

I know Campbell's monster was shape-shifting too, but Carpenter's was just so shoggothy, in the Lovecraftian sense of the word.

[Elidor]

31. Ah, they're going to butcher Lovecraft again, are they?

Someday, someone will do justice to his stories. But it won't be anyone connected with Hollywood.

[DrWeird]

32. From the director that brought you Hellboy.

So, probably, yes.

But it's Dreamworks, so I haven't given up hope entirely.

[CatWoman]

13. a remake??? really???

do you know which channel?

[Beaverhausen]

25. The original was called "The Thing From Another World"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

17. Ben Grimm?

[redqueen]

18. Yes!

One of my very favorite movies... love love love that scene with the crashcart.

[kodi]

20. ah yes, Snake Pleskin does Antarctica

its a great movie, one should remember its derivative of the original one set in the cultural paranoia of the cold war'50s... and The Thing does nothing if not instill paranoia.

[doubleplusgood]

21. what about the 2 sequels ?

"The Next Best Thing" & "The Last Big Thing"

[skypilot]

22. Don't forget "The Sure Thing"

*

[DerekG]

26. It's among the three best remakes ever

It stands alongside Herzog's rendition of "Nosferatu" and Kaufmann's '78 remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

As much as I love the Howard Hawks version, I think Carpenter was more deft at capturing the dread and paranoia of the original tale. Oh yeah and...Best. Ending. Ever.

[JohnKleeb]

27. scared the hell out of me when I saw it with my now Marine friend

sigh memories, lol I even did a third grade book report on it, it was so bad heh, I don't think they knew it was a rated R movie because I got the details so messed up. I'd love to see it again.