The Thing (2011)

[Jeffbiscuits]

The cast of John Carpenter's The Thing watch the new movie.
http://www.liveforfilms.com/2011/10/...GXCV1M.twitter

[MikeyRix]

Originally Posted by Jeffbiscuits

The cast of John Carpenter's The Thing watch the new movie.
http://www.liveforfilms.com/2011/10/...GXCV1M.twitter

Haha, that was brilliant!

[Projectionist]

I'm going out on a ledge for my review. It will be shit

[RaveyDaveyGravy]

Originally Posted by Scruffy

but more often remakes deliver disappointment and taint the memory of the original.

I used to share this opinion, but now Im more philosophical about remakes.

Yes I agree that the chances of this new version getting even close to Carpenters 'original' are slim at best, and yes it will probably suck But I cant see how it can taint the original. It will surely make the original look even better!?

OK, so the teen audience will prefer this one over the original because its shinier on the surface with CG effects and has an American hottie shoe-horned in but fuck em, what do they know? It doesn't make them right.

Carpenter's Thing is a masterpiece. It will still be a masterpiece after the release of this one. Its not going anywhere. This doesn't replace it.

Does the new Halloween make the old one a worse film somehow. If anything it makes it even better for me.

[RaveyDaveyGravy]

p.s.


Norge

[Scruffy]

Originally Posted by RaveyDaveyGravy

I used to share this opinion, but now Im more philosophical about remakes.

What you're talking about could be apathy and acceptance disguised as philosophy.
You can't see how it can taint the original? If you want to be pedantic, it doesn't touch the original. But a shitty remake can cloud the way we view the original because forever after we have to clarify: "I mean the original...not the crappy remake". Whereas before you could talk about a classic movie by its name and everyone would know what you were talking about.

I don't see the need for remakes to cater to teen audiences any more than I see the need to remake a perfectly good foreign film because the American market is too lazy to read subtitles. These remakes exist, it doesn't mean we have to like them.

Does the new Halloween make the old one a worse film somehow. If anything it makes it even better for me.

It's nice you can look at it that way, but some of us don't need a shit version for comparison to remind us how good the original was.
Quite often its a moot point, because what we think of as the original is often a remake itself, or a similar take of an older film. (The Thing From Outer Space inspired Carpenter's The Thing.)
It's not remakes themselves that are the problem. It's the way so many of them are thoughtlessly made, badly cast and scripted and churned out for a quick safe buck. The effect, if it happens enough times, causes people to lower their standards and this is happening all over.