Rip-off of The Thing?
I saw trailer. This movie similar "The Thing"
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The guy's who are making this movie were originally hired to create all the practical monster effects for the 2011 The Thing prequel. However the studio then later decided to CGI over their practical effects in post.
So in turn they made this movie, using only practical effects, as a way of saying, "Screw you guys! We'll just make our own The Thing movie" to the studio.
The Giant Paw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUB6PgwVoCA
Got to say whatever they did had to be *beep* tons better than the horrible unnaturally butter smooth cgi crap that was in the 2011 remake. Uh I mean "prequel" I remember hearing the Director say they were doing all practical in like late 2010 or early 2011, and when thing 2011 arrived, I called *beep* on him, but got to apologize, as he wasn't lying. He was just not aware of studio idiots redoing everything that had already been done. No wonder it flopped hard.
What mules, did they even know who to make the thing prequel for? Big Fan's of original are very loyal to the genre of body horror sci-fi. It would be like remaking David Cronenberg's Videodrome with cgi and 3d, it just wouldn't work, some things just blatantly don't mix.
So says Mr. Stewart
I actually didn't hate The Thing prequel at all. It's nowhere near the original but then again what will be? It's a worthy companion if anything. However I can only imagine how great the prequel would've truly been with practical effects
shareSo glad to hear someone else with this opinion. Obviously the original is superior in every way but I really enjoyed the 2011 prequel. I went into it expecting the worst based on reviews and feedback but I thought it was really good.
The tie in to the original was great too.
I usually can see where people are coming from when they hate on a movie but The Thing prequel hate is a head scratcher for me.
When you're dealing with such an iconic and cult film such as The Thing any sequel/prequel was almost guaranteed to fail from the start.
As a standalone movie I really enjoyed it, very few films have managed to pull off a second movie that lives up to or supasses the first.
Plus a lot of disgruntled fans were anoyed that it swaped out a lot of the practical effects for digital so probably rated it lower or bad mouthed it out of spite.
Yeah but I thought the practical effects look great when used but the CGI was solid too. There was no part of the movie where I thought "Yikes, that looks like sh*t".
Considering how crappy almost every creature feature is these days we should count ourselves lucky to have 2011 The Thing.
You haven't seen Harbringer yet, have you?
I see why they were replaced
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