Friday, January 21, 2012

The Thing- Not a terrible remake/prequel thing, but something isn't right about it in comparison to Carpenter's one (I'm a John Carpenter fan though). It is honestly scarier than the original, since the thing is much more attack prone and visual this time around, but you lose some of the paranoia, when the person turns into the creature after you suspect they are one.
SPOILER
I enjoyed the ending where Mary Elizabeth Winstead burns Joel Edgarton after realizing he was thingized, but honestly it shocked me that the filmmakers didn't find it more interesting to make her kill him, only to realize he was human and that she was just paranoid. I would have had him missing his earring instead of it being on the other side of his ear, so she would think he was killed, but he would protest it must have fallen out as he ran to catch up with her. She would burn him, only for her to realize his screams were that of a human. The film focuses on the shocked face of Mary Elizabeth Winstead in the snow, the real monster, mankind. Cut to black.
Now that's an ending.



- Jeff Bassin