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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The Thing Review
Sorry I'm late on this review, but I have been busy with research papers and lesson plans for my classes, but this deserves a review. I saw The Thing with Justin on October 15, 2011. I really liked it!! I thought it was a great homage to John Carpenter's The Thing from 1982, with some differences. Basically, the plot is a group of scientists arrive in Antarctica and discover an alien life form. Things get chaotic and its a whole bunch of great old fashioned horror/sci-fi fun. The gorgeous and talented Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays Kate Lloyd, a graduate student at Columbia University (her field is paleontology). She is recruited because they need her to help them dig up this discovery in Antarctica. Even in a winter coat and ski hat Mary looks unbelievable. Haha!! I can't help it. Any chance I get to put over Mary, I'll do it. I've loved her ever since I saw Final Destination 3 with Tom Hubbard. Other notable cast members were Joel Edgerton (who was recently in the phenomenal movie Warrior) and Addewale Akinnuyoe-Agbaje (who was one of the guards hired to protect Imhotep in The Mummy/The Mummy Returns). The alien takes the carbon life form and copies its organic matter and is able to hide as a member of the crew and when you least expect it that alien sheds its skin and feeds off of you, fusing itself to you and basically doing many things resembling a scene straight from Alien (one of the greatest horror/sci-fi franchises ever) and actually a little bit of Predator thrown in (because of the way this creature can clone itself into another human-similar to a Predator's invisibility/radar feature)-not awesome dreadlock hair or serpent like heads unfortunately but it's still a pretty interesting looking creature nonetheless. I like how Kate discovers that the creature cannot copy inorganic matter such as teeth fillings (which was a very nice subplot) and led to each member of the crew being paranoid about what was going on. I love the final battle between Kate and The Thing as they did a great job of giving Mary several character traits similar to Ripley played by Sigourney Weaver in the aforementioned Aliens franchise. Kate goes nuts on the creature with flamethrowers and kicking its ass literally. All in all an entertaining movie that did a great job of paying homage to the original without changing too much. I give the movie a 3/5, but a very enjoyable 3/5. Mary Elizabeth Winstead hopefully gets some Oscar worthy roles down the line. She's phenomenal and a personal favorite actress of mine.
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