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Dekunobo from underground bunker Since: Aug, 2011
#126: Oct 15th 2011 at 9:32:04 PM

I just got back from seeing this and I really did not like the use of CGI. Carpenter's effects were so visceral, which is exactly what you need in a film about body horror. The CGI made it feel like a videogame.

I also thought the way they segued into the 'Carpenter's Thing' storyline was poorly put together.

edited 15th Oct '11 9:35:05 PM by Dekunobo

Gvzbgul from Middle Earth Since: Jul, 2010
#127: Oct 16th 2011 at 3:22:06 AM

The origonal's effects felt solid rather than ethereal. Which actually helped me not get nightmares, I tend to get more freaked out by stuff that isnt material. CGI seems like it would be better then but it went too far in the other direction. But it could have worked very well for me if it was a little more solid.

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#128: Oct 16th 2011 at 7:30:35 AM

The CG would've worked if they had just kept the creature in the dark a little and not focused on it so much.

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#129: Oct 16th 2011 at 7:52:19 AM

Yeah, it seemed like they wanted to show off their budget a bit too much. Hence the spaceship tongue

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MichaelDj54 Since: Mar, 2010
#130: Oct 16th 2011 at 2:52:09 PM

I just saw it. The only moment that it genuinely freaked me out was the Head merge scene.

JESUS.

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#131: Oct 16th 2011 at 2:57:43 PM

[up]The one that bugged me was when they did a close up of the women-Thing's face when they opened the door to torch her.

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#132: Oct 16th 2011 at 5:34:38 PM

I saw it. Liked it. CGI only bugged me in a few scenes. Found it captured the spirit of Carpenter's really well, if not the atmosphere in all instances.

Regarding the ending: Notice that Kate got into the snowmobile that the Thing took to the ship. The one with less fuel. She ain't gonna make it.

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NULLcHiLD27 Since: Oct, 2010
#133: Oct 16th 2011 at 5:55:00 PM

[up] Why does it have less fuel? Shouldn't it have about as much as the one they took to chase it down.

edited 16th Oct '11 5:55:24 PM by NULLcHiLD27

MichaelDj54 Since: Mar, 2010
#134: Oct 16th 2011 at 6:15:33 PM

Regardless, I'm a little on the fence about it. While I do hate it for pretty much destroying my all time favorite horror movie, it could have been much, much, MUCH worse. It's a decent flick if you're willing to stomach through it, but not the best. Sort of...meh.

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#135: Oct 17th 2011 at 6:20:19 PM

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edited 17th Oct '11 6:20:39 PM by Scardoll

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#137: Oct 19th 2011 at 8:27:34 AM

Already disappointed by the CGI and haven't seen it yet. Earlier on, the director claimed he would be using actual, physical special effects like the original film, which are SO much creepier, cooler, and more convincing. There is nothing the original film did that would have been improved by CG. Not one thing.

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#138: Oct 19th 2011 at 1:22:23 PM

I find special effects made from physical matter to be so much more immersive...I've never seen CG that didn't force mt to realize I'm watching computer imagery.
You probably have; it was probably so good you didn't even realize it was CGI.

That happens to me now and then.

edited 19th Oct '11 1:22:54 PM by Syera

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#139: Oct 19th 2011 at 2:57:00 PM

[up] I can think of...two films where that happened; Zodiac and Laid To Rest 2.

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#140: Oct 19th 2011 at 5:00:35 PM

[up][up]I've seen a few Godzilla films where I though it was CG and it was actually practical.

edited 19th Oct '11 5:01:32 PM by NULLcHiLD27

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#141: Oct 19th 2011 at 8:23:08 PM

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frodobatmanvader Since: Sep, 2010
#142: Oct 25th 2011 at 8:20:04 AM

[up][up][up][up] Davy Jones from Pirates Of The Caribbean was a mild example for me. I thought that just the tentacles on his face were CGI, and the rest was practical prosthetic makeup. I was wrong.

Yeah, the effects on this film just don't hold up when compared to the original. Sigh. I'm just getting worried that practical prosthetics on the level of Rick Baker's skills will one day be a lost art if we're not careful.

edited 25th Oct '11 8:21:51 AM by frodobatmanvader

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#143: Oct 25th 2011 at 8:24:09 AM

It already is. Rob Bottin (who did the effects for the original) retired in 2002 after the projects he was getting weren't the big horror and action films he used to do (his last movie was Serving Sara, of all things).

edited 25th Oct '11 8:25:12 AM by Buscemi

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#144: Nov 6th 2011 at 2:03:45 PM

I think the movie will be hated by everyone and their mother now but within three years it will be called a classic.

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NULLcHiLD27 Since: Oct, 2010
#145: Nov 6th 2011 at 2:55:29 PM

[up]That's a bit of a stretch.

With lackluster CG, a ham-fisted excuse to bring in American characters, inconsistency in itelligence on the creature's part, a Sy-FY-esque last 20 minutes, and a tacked on setup to the Carpenter film... At best, it'll end up like Rob Zombie's Halloween remake. At worst, it'll be completely forgotten, like most (if not all) of the Platinum Dunes remakes.

edited 6th Nov '11 3:07:34 PM by NULLcHiLD27

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#146: Nov 17th 2011 at 7:47:51 PM

@op this is a prequel? I though it was a sequal, since they sent the plane with the thing in it to the arctic at the end of the original.

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NULLcHiLD27 Since: Oct, 2010
#147: Nov 17th 2011 at 8:23:52 PM

they sent the plane with the thing in it to the arctic at the end of the original.

Uhm...what? The end of the original has them blow up the base and everyone freezes to death.

And the '50s version doesn't end like that either...

edited 17th Nov '11 8:28:58 PM by NULLcHiLD27

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#148: Dec 25th 2011 at 6:41:52 PM

There's a reel out now of all the practical F/X that ADI created, which were replaced with CGI after a tepid test screening, and surprise, surprise; some of the shots look far more convincing than what we got.

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#150: Dec 26th 2011 at 12:23:14 PM

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