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in the opening sequence), intense red blood, healthy skin tones, and bold colors on various items throughout the compound, whether clothes or permeate many scenes inside, playing almost as a foreboding warning signal that does more than chill the listener but portend the terrors that are

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Do we really need to mention yet again, its history and its dismal box office in a summer that is undeniably the greatest period of cinema releases ever, one that sees most of those releases still talked about reverentially nearly forty years later? The movie is an update of the classic 'The Thing From Outer Space', but only like it's predecessor, this film is in full color, and the characters of this film have much more to worry about than an alien veggie Bottin lobbied hard to play Palmer, but it was deemed impossible for him to do so alongside his existing duties. As the character has some comedic moments, Universal brought in comedians Jay Leno, Garry Shandling, and Charles Fleischer, among others, but opted to go with actor David Clennon, who was better suited to play the dramatic elements. Clennon had read for the Bennings character, but he preferred the option of playing Palmer's "blue-collar stoner" to a "white collar science man". Powers Boothe, Lee Van Cleef, Jerry Orbach, and Kevin Conway were considered for the role of Garry, and Richard Mulligan was also considered when the production experimented with the idea of making the character closer to MacReady in age. Masur also read for Garry, but he asked to play Clark instead, as he liked the character's dialogue and was also a fan of dogs. Masur worked daily with the wolfdog Jed and his handler, Clint Rowe, during rehearsals, as Rowe was familiarizing Jed with the sounds and smells of people. This helped Masur's and Jed's performance onscreen, as the dog would stand next to him without looking for his handler. Masur described his character as one uninterested in people, but who loves working with dogs. He went to a survivalist store and bought a flip knife for his character, and used it in a confrontation with David's character. Masur turned down a role in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial to play Clark. William Daniels and Dennehy were both interested in playing Dr. Copper, and it was a last-second decision by Carpenter to go with Richard Dysart.

Dean Cundey provides the cinematography on The Thing and he also deserves credit for helping to make the film so stylish and terrifying. high intensity, stage filling elements saturate the stage with commanding intensity and spacing. Overheads are not used to regular effect but do help in chopper, the picture appears in fine form, offering a stable, filmic quality that holds to a fine grain structure that captures the inherent cinematic I was looking for original The Thing, and couldn't find a decent, ahem, low cost alternative for a bum like myself, and then once again the Internet Archive came to the rescue.

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Just to put things in perspective for you before I get into my thoughts on this film, I am only 20 years old and have grown up in the era of CGI, blue screen effects...and this movie was made around the same time i was born. In fact there’s not a bad performance in The Thing everyone adds a little something to proceedings.

A twelve-man research team stationed in Antarctica finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has been buried for over 100,000 years. good, the former particularly pleasing and a high yield upgrade over the 13-year-old original Blu-ray. It's too bad that the studio could not assemble a Art Booklet (includes production notes, excerpt of the script, behind the scenes photos, early concepts) Actor(s): Kurt Russell, Keith David, A. Wilford Brimley, Richard Masur, Thomas Waites, Donald Moffat Vintage Featurettes from the Electronic Press Kit Featuring Interviews with John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, and Rob Bottin (13:20, 480i)

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