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John Carpenter's The Thing
10-21-2017, 07:04 PM
One of my favorite movies but I'm curious what the manosphere thinks. Is it a masculine film?
I bet if they were to remake it they'd give it the Ghostbusters treatment for sure.
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John Carpenter's The Thing
10-21-2017, 07:08 PM
It was in fact remade, in 2011.
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John Carpenter's The Thing
10-21-2017, 07:10 PM
Good film. It's from the era where horror films relied on suspense and mystery, not just shock value.
Kurt Russel and John Carpenter actually had a nice little run together. Escape From NY, Escape From LA, and Big Trouble in Little China are all awesome as well (and masculine).
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John Carpenter's The Thing
10-21-2017, 07:26 PM
Damn good movie.
Definitely one of the stand outs in the Horror genre during the 1980's.
I would say the 1982 Carpenter film is a guy movie. Absolutely. The 2011 prequel isn't. A surprise to no one, Hollywood brought in a female lead, but I wouldn't necessarily say it was as in your face, and obviously pushing a femnist agenda, as the remake of Ghostbusters obviously was trying to do and failed at.
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John Carpenter's The Thing
10-21-2017, 07:35 PM
It has a superb soundtrack, Morricone's best work from his later period, check out this track:
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John Carpenter's The Thing
10-21-2017, 08:25 PM
The original was just awesome. One of my favorite films of all time. I'm sure any remake will be changed into "The Thing That Cucks."
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John Carpenter's The Thing
10-21-2017, 08:37 PM
It's pretty great. The 1950s original isn't bad either. Or that PlayStation game released in the early 2000s.
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John Carpenter's The Thing
10-21-2017, 10:03 PM
Quote: (10-21-2017 08:37 PM)stugatz Wrote:
It's pretty great. The 1950s original isn't bad either. Or that PlayStation game released in the early 2000s.
I have the game (released in 2002) on PC (bought my copy in 2007 and had it ever since), but haven't really gotten around to playing it. Maybe I should watch the film first then play the game.
,,Я видел, куда падает солнце!
Оно уходит сквозь постель,
В глубокую щель!"
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John Carpenter's The Thing
10-21-2017, 10:46 PM
One of my favorite horror movies. All male cast so no romantic subplots just a simple but effective plot about paranoia and a sweet ass monster. Who is the monster, it could be anybody and luckily it wasn't able to spread. Although having the thing spread to a populated continent would be a sweet movie.
The creature inspired pretty much every monster in Resident Evil series as well.