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No?
THANK HEAVENS.
That was close. It's a prequel, not a remake. Still looks like it sucks though. If the trailer is any indicator then this movie is going to be filled with jump scares and rehashed scenarios of the original. Probably with some shiny CG effects for good shitty measure.
One thing I don't understand is why they didn't title it at least a little differently, that is, if they really wanted to make sure people knew this wasn't a remake.
By the way, reading the wiki article on this movie and I found this one passage illuminating, but not surprising in the least.
But that would have been epic! With the 50's movie then the one in the 80's it would have been funny to see a third one and watch the confusion as people try to figure out which one others are talking about! Which ones the old one? The new one? Is the 80's one then called the middle one?
ReplyDeleteConfusion rules!!!
A prequel? I saw it just a little bit ago, so I saw how similar the trailer was to a lot of what I had seen. Maybe they just took it from the foreigners, which would mean that I know the ending.. great.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about this movie..
ReplyDeleteshould I check it out? :D
As I think more on this (cause this is the most interesting post I've seen all day) it occurs to me that in the 50's one they come across the space ship and discover the alien then destroy it the end. the 80's one they find it and kill it but others found the alien in the first place. So if the new one has people finding the ship and alien then fighting it then it is a remake. just a remake of the origanal and not a remake of the remake.
ReplyDeleteI just saw a review of this movie and it's supposedly only called prequel to not piss people off. It's pretty much like a remake story wise with the continuity shoehorned in just to be able to call it a prequel.
ReplyDeleteI would like new ideas coming from hollywood
ReplyDeleteWait wait they went looking for new material in a vault containing old things? WTF? Ah well. I never saw The Thing, and I doubt I'd watch this, but at least "horror" movies have come a long way from the really bad days. They're still bad, but at least people die on screen now.
ReplyDelete@Mai Yang: No. No, you shouldn't.
ReplyDelete@Bersercules: I'll take that as a compliment. I have never heard of the 50's one and it seems neither had the producers so I would have to side with them in maintaining that this is a prequel centered on the story of those Norwegians that found the alien. If it is a remake it will have been an unintentional one.
@Bob: I agree. As I said, the scenarios of paranoia about who isn't who, or even what, they seem will have already been done in the '82 film. So, as with many straight-out remakes, I must say, "Why?"
@Mark: You must watch The Thing [1982]. The special FX have aged very well in my opinion. And you're watching (or not watching) the wrong horror movies if you can make such a blanket statement on their quality.
Well really it's just that I'm not much a fan of horror lol. I think true horror isn't so much a genre anymore, there are way more "thrillers" than horrors. I used to love horror movies as a kid, but then one day they actually started scaring me. I love Evil Dead and Tremors though if you can count those as horrors.
ReplyDeleteI'd watch it.
ReplyDeletei hope it somehow turns good, but i doubt it haha
ReplyDelete@Mark: If you want true horror you should check out some of the Asian pieces. I've reviewed a couple.
ReplyDeleteMy brother has a thing for Asian movies (I do too but not to his level) so I have seen some really weird ones, like Ichi The Killer, but I'm not sure that would count as horror. I don't think I've seen full blown Asian horror, but I think The Ring was originally Asian.
ReplyDeleteReading that wiki snippet makes me want to go postal on some hollywood producers.
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