# The Thing remake: trailer out **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 21, 2011, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831 "2011-07-21T09:14:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/41 "2011-07-22T14:58:19Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Even before it was destroyed, Windows was unable to raise anybody on the radio. One of the best features of the [original trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbtUjskfyA0) is that it begins with the lonesome, static-y voice of Windows calling out for help over the airwaves…and ends with static-y dead air. I love that trailer. Fading out with, “We found something in the ice…we found something…” ---
**Author:** ![smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smoke)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/42 "2011-07-22T15:10:24Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I would like it if the film establishes a romantic relationship between the female lead, a bearded Norwegian, and his trusty dog, and ends on an upbeat note where they all survive and have a helicopter to get back to safety. Just because of the way that recontextures the opening of the original. Ooooooh! And then they could have the female lead die of an allergic reaction! ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/43 "2011-07-22T19:50:38Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > Alien Vs. Predators vs. The Thing? Then they could make a Predalien that’s really a thing. And then somehow assimilate a human. Where’s a hack director when we need one? > [@Spoke](#): > > In _space!!!_ You know, wasn’t that pretty much the point of the Alien vs. Predator franchise? Those two species plus Space Marines? And then they move the films to modern earth… ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/44 "2011-07-22T20:15:25Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > You know, wasn’t that pretty much the point of the Alien vs. Predator franchise? Beats me. To know that I would’ve had to watch them. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/45 "2011-07-22T20:19:35Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > Alien Vs. Predators vs. The Thing? Yeah, I called that in [post #9](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14046913&postcount=9). ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/46 "2011-07-22T20:37:39Z")
This may be a slight hijack, but here I go! There are only two things I didn’t like about The Thing: 1. The stupid UFO flying in at the very beginning. It’s a cheesy special effect that’s totally out of place, and serves as a spoiler, detracting slightly from the mysteries that unfold. 2. The computer prediction sequence–what is it basing that data on? And why is it presenting the data as if it had AI. Cut those two scenes and the movie would be perfect. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/47 "2011-07-22T20:42:02Z")
> [@Red\_Barchetta](#): > > This may be a slight hijack, but here I go! There are only two things I didn’t like about The Thing: > > 1. The stupid UFO flying in at the very beginning. It’s a cheesy special effect that’s totally out of place, and serves as a spoiler, detracting slightly from the mysteries that unfold. > > 2. The computer prediction sequence–what is it basing that data on? And why is it presenting the data as if it had AI. > > Cut those two scenes and the movie would be perfect. Are you talking about John Carpenter’s version? I don’t remember seeing a UFO. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/48 "2011-07-22T20:51:36Z")
It’s the first shot of the film. Check out the link **Tamerlane** posted above: it starts at 1:20, just as soon as the credits stop. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/49 "2011-07-22T21:10:02Z")
I remember listening to the commentary track years ago, about how they did the [title graphic](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai1T3KMRMpg#t=1m40s) after the UFO crash. Apparently, they had it cut out of some paper or something, with another sheet of paper or plastic some distance behind it, and a bright light behind that. Then they started the camera, and set fire to the barrier between the title cutout and the light so it burned away. Really cool visual. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/50 "2011-07-22T21:18:03Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > It’s the first shot of the film. Check out the link **Tamerlane** posted above: it starts at 1:20, just as soon as the credits stop. Wow. I totally forgot that. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/51 "2011-07-22T21:42:29Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Wow. I totally forgot that. Exactly. I did too until I watched it a few years later. It’s so forgettable, but also terrible. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/52 "2011-07-22T23:15:43Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Beats me. To know that I would’ve had to watch them. No, the whole franchise. The video games that were actually good, the comics, etc. Not those movies which are rumored to exist. Those completely took it out of space and into Antarctica or some crap (where have we heard that one?), where apparently there are alien pyramids. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/53 "2011-07-23T02:51:00Z")
Since I haven’t seen Carpenter’s movie in a number of years I went ahead and watched it tonight. I think it’s still a good movie but the special effects are horribly dated. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/54 "2011-07-23T05:35:51Z")
> [@beowulf573](#): > > “Hey Swedes!” > > “Jack, I think they’re Norwegian.” I can live with the misquote, but the name is Mac, not Jack. Short for McReady. One of my favorite movies, wart and all. . ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/55 "2011-07-23T05:39:25Z")
> [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](#): > > My favorite line is from Palmer when Norris’ head grows legs and tries to walk away: “You gotta be \*\*\*\*\*\* kidding.” You’re in good company. If I correctly remember the DVD commentary, Kurt Russell shares your appreciation for that moment. . ---
**Author:** ![beowulf573](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@beowulf573](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulf573)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831/56 "2011-07-23T13:17:24Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > I can live with the misquote, but the name is Mac, not Jack. Short for McReady. One of my favorite movies, wart and all. > > . _facepalm_ I even knew that. His last name is a few letters off from mine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-remake-trailer-out/589831.md?page=2)