Marco Beltrami Original Music. Julian Clarke Film Editor. Peter Boyle Film Editor. Denise Chamian Casting. View All Critic Reviews Nov 02, Its as if somebody drunk or high described John Carpenter's version to a filmmaker at a party, and what they made was this movie, without the substance, without the thought, without the bite. The actors are okay, but the special effects guys are expected to carry the whole effort and aren't given any support.
Kevin M. W Super Reviewer. Aug 23, Tries hard but ultimately forgets its own heritage. Marcus W Super Reviewer. Oct 13, Joe: The Rise of Cobra" and the guy who replaced Jim Carrey for "Dumb and Dumberer", and huck them all in the Antarctic with a viciously murderous alien abomination?
You get either what I'd imagine plenty of people wish had happened to Eric Heisserer for co-writing 's "A Nightmate on Elm Street" and Eric Christian Olsen for being in "Dumb and Dumberer" Wow, the Erics attached to this film just can't catch a break , or the makings of a gory cult classic sci-fi horror film's prequel Sorry, but this film's having the same title as the film it's following up makes things very confusing.
I don't know why these people can't come up with a more subtle title when the novel they're adapting is simply titled "Who Goes There?
Things had changed by for the more hardcore, and now, things are even more advanced, and let me tell you, this product of modern filmmaking is Still, it remains pretty decent, though not too much more than that, going "frozen" Ha, snow joke at average for quite a few reasons.
A major problem and, to a certain degree, major strength with the predecessor was its slowness, which often dulled things down, yet just as often established an effective atmosphere, something that isn't quite as present in this film, as opposed to the slow spots, which are for, well, just the first act. Okay, so there are definately slow spots, but they're very few, and what you really have to worry about is a couple of subtlety faults, particularly in the atmosphere department, for although the film doesn't plummet as low as jump scares as often as the Rotten Tomatoes consensus says, only with a more adorable term, boo-scares, there's a certain blatancy to the atmosphere that feels a bit more manipulative than genuine, thus diluting true tension.
These lapses in subtlety aren't so much glaring as much as they're a touch disconcertingly detrimental to the film's overall effectiveness, while what further slows down the final product's impact are lapses in subtleties of a story nature, as this film will often adopt many of the same beats hit by Carpenter's orignal, sometimes for off-putting nostalgia's sake, and sometimes for the sake of substance whose effectiveness goes diluted by the lack of inventiveness.
This film's shameless plummets into its roots are relatively few and far between, yet something that almost never abates is this film's plummets into tropes established by the horror film textbook. The film is a relentless barrage of cliches, some of which can be easily shrugged off, and some of which really dig at you, with the latter being prominent enough to establish predictability and land blows to the steam of a film whose story just doesn't quite have a whole lot of steam to begin with.
There's not too much bite to this story, and that is emphasized by the film's limited subtlety and excessive genericism, thus rendering the final product not much more than just another horror blockbuster, only one that stands in the shadow of a film that truly was inventive and effective for what it was.
However, that's not all necessarily a bad thing, for although I wish that this film was more than what it ended up being, what the final product does ultimately end up being is decently enjoyable entertainment, with certain technical strengths to back up its blockbuster title. What Stan Winston's and Rob Bottin's practical effects had going for them was bonafide inventiveness to go without overall quality, and with this film's visual effects, we're faced with not much more than what we're used to seeing, yet it's not like dazzling digital effects grow tiresome, so sure enough, this film's effects dazzle and blend into this world cleverly, dynamically and organically enough to both impress your technical eye and effectively sell you on the inhuman antagonist.
These effects are among, if not at their most dazzling and effective during the action sequences, which are indeed thrillingly dynamic and rather grand, yet tight enough to give a sense of claustrophobia that secures a sense of consequence all the more firmly.
With dazzling effects and action thrilling set pieces, as well as generic yet enjoyable and effective score work, and by Marco Beltrami no less If you want a conventional score that's good enough to help your audience forget the conventionalism, you might want to hit Beltrami up , this film fills enough of the criteria to stand as entertaining, and sure enough, while this film has its slow spells early on, once things truly get going, the film becomes, if nothing else, thoroughly entertaining, with engagingly lively set pieces and blatancy that may prove detrimental to the resonance of the film, but keeps things going at the smooth pace Carpenter's original was anything but on.
As far as visceral entertainment is concerned, this is the way to go, but at the end of the day, people want meat with their potatoes, and as far as substance and bite is concerned, this film falls far from the caliber of intrigue found within Carpenter's original, having neither the graceful subtlety nor intense atmosphere that made the film it falls in the shadow of as good as it was.
That being said, it's not like this film is dry of genuine intrigue, as director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. What further sells you on the weight of the film are the performances, as this cast of talents will tend to, with about as much skill as the talented performers of Carpenter's original, break up a streak of nothing but charisma with the depth, intensity and human emotional range that supplement the effectiveness of the layers that cut within our characters and define them as compelling, or, if nothing else, make for some good performances.
Again, I wish I could say that the performances offscreen are as good as the ones found onscreen, but they're not, though still have enough lively inspiration behind them to entertain thoroughly, if if this film could have done more.
Overall, the film isn't quite as subtle as it probably should be, boasting a blatant atmosphere and shameless plot beat steals from its predecessor, while going further slowed down by relentless stumbles into horror tropes to make more clear the simple fact that this story just doesn't have much teeth to it, thus leaving the final product to fall short of its potential, but not so short that you can't enjoy yourself, as the film's dazzling visual effects and thrilling set pieces supplement the entertainment value established by director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Cameron J Super Reviewer. May 20, But screw that crap, this movie was horrible in almost ever meaning of the word, even as a prequel. You know, what happened before the movie! The problem with this idea is that the movie makers executed it poorly. Not to mention that a lot of the plot elements are trying to imitate the first one i. Effects: The effects were pretty much the only decent thing in this movie. Enough said. They mixed CGI with special effects, because the director felt that that actors would have a more natural reaction to the monster by using real-creature effects.
I can't say much on the actors because I didn't care for them in the first place. And they also have very little, to pretty much no personality. Seriously, you won't give two-shits of a cent for the characters in the movie. How someone could make such a horrible prequel which could have been GOOD to an amazing movie like John Carpenter's superior one is beyond me. Frisby 2 Super Reviewer.
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The lack of knowledge on these posts is unreal. This is all basic game-ripping. Perry Rhodan 1 point. Here's a bump mapping mod that makes the graphics slightly better.
Edit d3d8. PS Sorry! Forgot second link. Wayne Gwynne White 1 point. Linux Gamer -1 point. Game works without any problem on Linux via Wine. Make sure to download the NoCD. WAS 0 point. RIP Version is nonsense with incomplete directions. Comes with a "The. Thing" file, which isn't explained if it's an archive, an ISO, or whatever. It has filed in it according to my indexer, but nothing to execute a installer, or open the game.
Beanchilla 0 point. Aqua 0 point. Hey i have a question , on mission Ground floor the last doors of the tower are not opening.
Some king of a bugg, you don't need a key to fallow the guy in this mission but yet it won't open. Any suggestions what to do? Thank you. Apok 0 point. Despite not being exactly what I wanted it to be, this game is still fun and I managed to finish it back then.
The atmosphere is tense and you never know who may turn into a thing. Red Hood 2 points. I never got to play this game as a kid. I love the original movie and the prequel. They are some of the best psychological horror movies in existence. The game I am told does a helluva job capturing that atmosphere. I can't wait to play it. Thank you so much for putting it up here. This is one of those games I have always heard people say good things about in my PS2 days but for some reason I ended up skipping it back then.
I didn't know it had a PC version until know, so I guess I'll give it a try. Anyone have a fix?? Lord Ogrogash I watched first the New Movie, then the Old Movie, it made so much sense, now i plan to play the game, really nice idea, wish they make the third movie and another game, to actually be still made in DirectX 9. Jonny 1 point.
Pope points. What a load of boring bullshit. Constantly repeating, overwhelming number of opponents, fiddly micromanagement of teammates who are constantly walking in the players fire. And in addition to the shitty micromanagement you are confronted with a shitty UI.
The game survived about an hour on my harddrive. Even for free - it's not worth my time. I need some help. I got the game in a state where I could run it, but every time I try to start it, it tells me I can't because it's not detecting a CD-rom drive.
Storyline Edit. Paleontologist Kate Lloyd is invited by Dr. Sandor Halvorson to join his team who have found something extraordinary. Deep below the Antarctic ice, they have found an alien spacecraft that has been there for perhaps , years. Not far from where the craft landed, they find the remains of the occupant.
It's cut out of the ice and taken back to their camp but as the ice melts, the creature reanimates and not only begins to attack them but manages to infect them, with team members devolving into the alien creature. It's not human. Rated R for strong creature violence and gore, disturbing images, and language. Did you know Edit. Trivia The filmmakers used Kurt Russell height who is roughly between 5''11 as an estimate as to how big the sets would have to be to faithfully recreate the Norwegian camp as no blueprints existed from the John Carpenter movie.
Goofs at around 57 mins When Lars is guarding the helicopter pilots, he yells at them a line in Norwegian which the subtitles mistranslate as, "Don't move, demons". An accurate translation of the line would be, "Take it fucking easy".
Crazy credits SPOILER: There are a few short scenes during the first part of the end credits, which tie the ending of this film to the beginning of the film. Connections Featured in De wereld draait door: Episode 7. User reviews Review. Top review. Horror for a different age. Now now children, some people will have different opinions than you and just because it's different, doesn't make it wrong.
Having read the first couple of pages of reviews here and having just seen the film only quarter of an hour ago, I felt compelled to write something about this prequel to the 'The Thing'. It's fair to say that opinion is divided on the merits of this offering, but it's also fair to say that most opinions that lambast this film are from die-hard Carpenter fans who are woefully disappointed by what they have seen, and fair play to them.
No, it's not like the original movie. Go figure. It's nearly thirty years later. If you want to see the same film, go and rent it and then watch it twice.
Having seen the original movie maybe three or four times in the past thirty years I was fourteen when I will have first seen it in I was quite pleasantly surprised by the end of this prequel. True, it lacks some of the tension of the original and the acting from most, if not all, was below par. I remember the wonder of the special effects taking my breath away in the early eighties. This effort failed to bring me those same kind of delightful terrors.
However, this is not due to the realism or effort on the part of the film-makers. This is purely down to my experience of horror movies throughout the past thirty years. My expectations at 42 are not the same as that 14 year old boy and I am a grisled and wisened old movie cynic these days as opposed to a wide-eyed horror newbie.
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