The Thing

[billh1963]

Originally Posted by GDNF2ET

I just saw the 1982 again last week...It looks like this movie is the prequel to the Thing..Remember the 82 version started off with 2 Swedes in a helo trying to shoot a Husky..The swedes discovered it..I also saw that the word prequel was on another trailer..

Norweigians discovered it.....

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by MarkRobinson

Probably more like Adrienne bar-pancake-boobs-baugh. She's aging ya know: time to choose a new hottie for this time period. (no offense...)

Hey now, as long as I don't look at a picture of her all old and wrinkled her ta-tas are still just like they were back then.

[techweenie]

The second 'Thing' film is closer to the source material, which was John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?" -- definitely my favorite Sci Fi Golden Age novella. It's perfect '50s paranoia: your peers are taken over by an alien personality (e.g. they become commies) and you're fighting to keep from being absorbed.

The first film version was just a space vampire movie, though well done. The second was better, but the special effects were way overdone, IMO.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by techweenie

: your peers are taken over by an alien personality (e.g. they become commies) and you're fighting to keep from being absorbed.
.

Why does that sound so familiar?

[techweenie]

the plot line was recycled in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

[KNS]

It seemed like the Norwegians, finding the Thing in the '82 version took the place of the Air Force guys from the original, had the USAF never killed the creature.

I wonder if the new one will actually be set in 1982, before the dog escapes to the US camp.

[Steve Carlton]

I think you're right. This new one has them drilling into the frozen alien vs it being the dog. Good way to go at it.