What a waste of my time!!!

Just so...so bad

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

This movie spits in the face of The Thing(1982), and is an absolute disgrace to the series. It has almost none of the clever set ups of the previous movie, and doesn't establish suspense anywhere close to what the first film did.It wasn't clear what was happening or who the thing might be in the previous movie, because you were only fed as much information as the characters had. In this movie, you have unnecessary pauses as characters react to situations, completely illogical responses to situations, and excessive showing of The Thing itself, killing it's value as a monster from another world. The more you see the thing, the less frightening it is, and even more so with CGI effects. The previous movie had some ridiculous animations at times, but it's the real deal what you see unfold. It's gruesome, and handmade. The CGI animations in this just look ridiculous, and it establishes similarly ridiculous death scenes. The characters seemingly stand there as they then get executed by the Thing. The characters in the previous film seemed considerably more helpless, and surprised by The Thing when it attacked. It was quick, and lethal. The death scenes in this one go on forever, as people stand around in shock with their mouths hanging open. I cannot believe no matter how horrible the sight, that people would just stand there with flamethrowers in hand, and just watch as people get devoured.I'll also add there's some gag worthy small talk flirting at the beginning of the movie(I'm most certainly not referring to the Norwegian joke at the very beginning), that I'm pretty certain no one asked for, EVER, in a Thing movie. Just what my suspenseful movies need, some pointless flirting. Not dogging on the female actors, they're fine, but the previously all male cast definitely kept those people more focused on the plot, and not a drugged Joel Edgerton mumbling some charm.This movie is laughably bad, but no where near the level of being enjoyable. It reveals some prequel information for The Thing universe, but somehow a movie released 29 years after the previous movie, couldn't hold a candle to that movie. Whoever created these scenes was clearly drunk, or had their child think these up. So stupid it's painful.

At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson. The Thing (2011) is nowhere near as good as Carpenter's The Thing of course but for a prequel and judging it on it's own it's quite fun and pretty interesting as a whole plus the acting was good but unfortunately the film relied more on CGI and the ending result did not look that scary but mostly cheap but still not a bad movie it's just that the cgi was really not all that good. (6/10)

If you loved the 1982 version, this does make for a good prequel. As others said, not as scary. The thing, as with Alien, are scary as crap if you put them on in like midnight. I will say, I think part of it is the music. Alien..had none, 1982 Thing had little. That sense of silence is crazy. That is one critique. A thing I do not like about movies in general now, is the herky jerky motion cameras . I think it is either to hide CGI flaws, or to make you feel like you are there. I am personally getting sick of movies that do that. Just show us it flat out. I mean, the herky jerky...well, I hated it in Saving private Ryan as well. Not just horror movies. prequels are so very hard to do though. Because, end of the day...you already know what happens. I felt this was done well. Not top notch, but done well. You did get the feel, when I first saw it, if this was a remake, then saw it as a prequel, and then I liked it more. however, in some comments, let us not forget, the 1982 had some star power, in Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, and the dud with the big eyebrows. And a few classic moments, like when busy eye brow, after the tests, was "I know this has been very difficult for all of you (as he stares at the flame thrower pointed at him) but I would appreciate it if you would LET ME OUT OF THIS F***ing chair!!!" Paraphrase. Or, where the druggie looked down the hall way and said "you have to be F***ing kidding me as one of the little things was running down the hallway. Another classic movie moment. But, that was iconic in my days. This movie, didn't have one of those moments. I think the star power has a lot to do with it. Chiles, the black guy in the 1982..he has been in so many movies. But he sold the part. key element in movies like this. You forget who they are as actors, and they are the characters. Heck, I almost forgot the 4 of them in the 1982 movie.In all, I would say, it is above average prequel, and a good movie. But, when going against a classic, no, doesn't measure up. Like asking "Return of the Jedi" to stand up to Star Wars, or Empire Strikes Back. It is good on its own, but..tie it into the other(s)...you will probably be let down.

'The Thing 2011' is the intended prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 movie of the same name. Despite many chances to see it, I have to admit I had never taken advantage of the opportunity. However It had come to my attention that this movie explains what happened before the arctic team had arrived to the snow station in the 82 version. Many fans of the original have stated that this movie doesn't live up to it's expectations. I may agree, but it doesn't mean to say that it isn't an enjoyable film. I would agree that it pales in comparison to it's predecessor. Though I still enjoyed it. Despite not seeing the original The film goes through the same motions. And there is an excessive use of cgi in the special effects department which was impressive. Very gory and bloody I might state. Not to say I have an issue with that. But it would have been fun to see some special effects that were not cgi. The film has some good pacing and performances were decent. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is quiet convincing. It was unfortunate that the characters were not developed enough so that we could empathise with them before they were killed off. The film doesn't have the same soul or atmosphere as the original. I couldn't feel the impending threat that was looming over them. Plus it wasn't explained at what moment any character was taken over by the alien. In general it is recommended to see if one has not seen the original. However I personally feel that this was only an excuse to update an old film for today's generation, because it had nothing new to offer.