The Thing (1982)

[Dr. Briggs]

The prequel will blow the dick of Carpenter's The Thing. They are going to use CGI and not puppets which will be awful. Why make the fucking movie and take away the scariness of not knowing what happened to the Norwegians? WHY???? Because people today demand backstory. They demand to know what happens behind the curtain. We lost our imaginations!!!!! We get movies like Halloween and Halloween II when we let other fucks think of backstory. They won't be able to capture the paranoia like Carpenter's, there is no subtext to the paranoia (because the 80s had the Cold War) and who the fuck cares about what the Norwegians find? GODDAMN IT!!!! Nothing new to add to the table.

If they do make this (probably) steaming pile of goat shit and if it (probably) bombs, I will refuse to ever associate it with Carpenter's or Hawks' masterpieces.

The more I hear the arguments against, the more I am persuaded that it's a bad idea XP. I think the whole paranoia angle doesn't need Cold War subtext to work and I think RZ's Halloween was OK by itself, but other than that I can see where you're coming from.

@Fang: Yep. Teaser poster is out and everything.