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This movie is incredibly stupid


It might work if they were more than 100 miles from the nearest settlement, why wouldn't they have some ATVs :/

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And why such a small crew with seemingly no supplies? And one generator! "The Thing" did not seem to be concerned with their supply shipment arriving as they apparently had enough stuff to make it for a couple months at a time.

And the "find" was hardly that great. A square stone box with animal drawings on it.

And the pace was horrible. Drag does not quite cover it.

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Indeed!

Like ONE 4x4 and the movie is won.

The movie had some good points, but they were in the bumpy second half.

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They received regular shipments of supplies by helicopter until all outside communications were lost. Once the shipments stopped, they had about two weeks of supplies on hand. They mention it in the dialog. The movie ends before those two weeks are up.

It is weird that no one on the outside noticed that they weren't in radio contact and sent help and that the supplies shipments ceased, but that was a deliberate part of the weirdness of story.

I agree it's seems odd that they didn't have a snowmobile or some other means of transportation.

The "find " was pretty amazing considering the location. What did you expect? An alien spacecraft?

As for the pace, I thought it was great; a slow build, with things going gradually and mysteriously more and more wrong is one of my favorite approaches to this type of psychological horror.

Overall, I liked Black Mountain Side quite a lot until the big reveal, which I thought was a bit silly. Maybe they were going for a Wendigo reference, but it didn't quite come off. I didn't hate the ending enough to spoil the film, though. I gave it a 6; it would have been a 7 at least if they had worked harder on a more horrifying explanation (bearing in mind that the creature, whatever it was, may not have existed at all. One interpretation of the movie is that they all went crazy.)

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I agree with you on all points, except they did in fact have at least one snowbike/mobile. It is seen several times under the tarps they kept in the middle of the camp, and i assumed that was how the professor would make his escape, but nice of them to go full circle with the bear traps.

I also gave the movie a 6, but one thing i always disliked on IMDB is when people simply do not pay attention and then give it a bad rating just because they could not comprehend what was going on (not you, thank you for explaining everything like it happened to the OP, i meant in general, as i have seen that several times on these boards).

I thought at first they were going for a "The Thing" revelation, which i would not have minded at all. Many scenes clearly are callbacks to that movie. I actually did not mind the parasite route, however i felt they rushed the ending a little with Giles going all psycho killer on them, which seemed a bit odd and almost anti-climactic.

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What I found most stupid was that they let all the lights burn all nights, although they seemed to run short on gasoline that fed their generator. Also, some of them walked around in jeans and without a hat, although it was supposed to be terribly cold (and that was before they went crazy). But nevertheless, it was reasonably entertaining.

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It's not so much they're running the lights as much as it is WHICH lights and WHAT lights.

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