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Forum: Movie Reviews 02-23-22
Replies: 84
John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By The Rodent
Yeah but hoomuns can survive with a small space...

Yeah but hoomuns can survive with a small space and a small fire, for quite a while.

Blaire cutting the power, Mac's reaction is... blow the base to holy-hell?
Does that make sense?

"We're...
Forum: Movie Reviews 02-23-22
Replies: 84
John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By The Rodent
Re: John Carpenter's The Thing

MacReady is a Thing.

Along with my previous posts about the various things Mac gets up to and says...

I'm just watching now... and I've spotted a new one.

"It cut the power"
"That's...
Forum: Movie Reviews 12-12-20
Replies: 84
John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By The Rodent
Dang, I never even realised :D My two posts...

Dang, I never even realised :D

My two posts are almost identical as well :laugh:
Weird how stuff gets forgotten then re-realised, and you think it's an original idea.
Forum: Movie Reviews 12-07-20
Replies: 84
John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By The Rodent
Re: John Carpenter's The Thing

Thread bump!

Sitting watching... something just came to my attention.
Might be this CoVid thing going around has made me paranoid.

The debate on the move after all these year is whether or not...
Forum: Movie Reviews 06-12-15
Replies: 84
John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By The Rodent
Re: John Carpenter's The Thing

I've just watched with the commentary on. Carpenter and Russell.


They couldn't decide if Mac was infected or not.
Forum: Movie Reviews 06-12-15
Replies: 84
John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By The Rodent
Re: John Carpenter's The Thing

Captain America: The First Avenger is a remake of the 1990 film and Man Of Steel is a remake of the 1978 Superman: The Movie as well too.


They're based on the same book... just because one was...
Forum: Movie Reviews 06-12-15
Replies: 84
John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By The Rodent
Re: John Carpenter's The Thing

Well, ok... LOTR is a remake too then.
Forum: Movie Reviews 06-12-15
Replies: 84
John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By The Rodent
Re: John Carpenter's The Thing

It's not a remake.


It's like saying the LOTR and Hobbit trilogies are remakes of the 1970s and 80s cartoons.
Forum: Movie Reviews 06-12-15
Replies: 84
John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By The Rodent
Re: John Carpenter's The Thing

I do hope that's a joke Gideon...
Forum: Movie Reviews 06-12-15
Replies: 84
John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By The Rodent
Re: John Carpenter's The Thing

Just sat watching...


53 minutes in, when Blair is being locked in the tool shed...


Mac takes a drink from the vodka bottle... and leaves it with Blair...


Could Mac have already been a...
Forum: Movie Reviews 06-10-15
Replies: 84
John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By The Rodent
Re: John Carpenter's The Thing

I’m taking my entire convo from the Shoutbox and reorganising it for here…


I reckon it was Blair who was hit first.
He spent a lot of time with the split-face body, even touching his...
Forum: Movie Reviews 01-15-13
Replies: 84
John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By The Rodent
Re: John Carpenter's The Thing

Just read up on the thread... I wouldn't class Carpenter's The Thing as a remake.

As I said in my own review of it, it's simply based on the same book that the 1951 film was.

If you class it...