Obvious post-theme
I feel like I should say something about The Thing remakaprequel and the constant re-usage of concepts in Hollywood. I can understand how hard it it to write something new, i've tried it myself- just look at the activity in this blog. Imagine if every word you typed was critized and picked apart by millions of people, thats a shitload of pressure.
But is the answer to fall back on older, proven ideas? Financially, yes. Creativily? fuck no.
Because even if you make an OK movie based on someone elses movie that is still just a carboncopy of something we have already seen before. This is why mainstream music and movies are all the same, its proven concepts proving their worth over and over again.
Change comes from the people that dare think outside the box and dip their tippytoes in uncertain waters. Of course everything i've written so far is blatantly obvious but i was just digressing from my original point.
Ask yourself, why was this movie made? The prequel that is. Did it need to be done? Did John Carpenter want it to be made? Did it even need to be fucking suggested?
No. People thought it was easy money to replace a few words in the original script, put in a talentless female lead, replace the animatronics with cheap cgi and then throw the dismembered remains of a masterpiece at a new generation. You even see the fucking face of a castmember get disfigured in the trailer revealing that he is the Thing, removing all doubt and suspense (which has been found to be good things to have in a horror movie).
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