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Slant's 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time (100 movies items)"Legend has it that The Thing from Another World was helmed not by its credited director, Christian Nyby, but by producer Howard Hawks. The film certainly provides ample evidence to suggest that such a covert switch occurred, as the its controlled atmosphere of dread and abundant rapid-fire repartee between the primary players seem to have been molded according to Hawks’s trademark template. Regardless, what remains most remarkable about the film is its continued ability to function as both a t"
Slant’s 100 Greatest Horror Films – 2018 Edition (100 movies items)"Though Howard Hawks’s frequent editor Christian Nyby received the directing credit, some historians believe Hawks actually directed large portions of The Thing from Another World—but maybe Nyby simply learned everything he knew from the master. After all, the film is in the mold of Only Angels Have Wings: a tight ensemble of flyboys and others rapidly firing off overlapping dialogue, providing wit and romance in between the action—here, the fallout from the discovery beneath a sheet of arc"
Movies I Watched In 2018!.
Movies Viewed in 2018 (361 movies items)"Classic sci-fi from Howard Hawkes as a team of scientists discover a giant spacecraft frozen in the Antartica, only for them to release the creature who starts to kill the crew one by one. This low-budget sci-fi still has plenty of creepy moments and fans of John Carpenter's remake will enjoy the similarities and yet enjoy it for how terrific this is. James Arness makes for a great alien."
Films that absolutely needed that remake. (10 movies items)"The original, while great, was not able to live up to the story from which it was derived. the 1982 sequel "The Thing" made up for its shortcomings and then some."
Watched in 2017
Moviewatcher122's 2016 Horrorfest (24 movies items)"October 1 "So few people can boast that they've lost a flying saucer and a man from Mars -all in the same day! Wonder what they'd have done to Columbus if he'd discovered America, and then mislaid it." Since I've never started off the month with a classic horror film, I decided to kick off this horrorfest with the original Thing. I really liked the whole atmosphere and setting this movie had and the characters are well-developed and there's a lot of interesting dialogue going around here. It"
Movies the giraffe watched in 2016: May (30 movies items)"First viewing - May 8th I picked this one up on the cheap recently, and have been curious about it ever since the first time I watched Carpenter's The Thing. And while this one doesn't hold a candle to Carpenter's version, for its time it's a really damn good movie. I appreciated the playful banter throughout, dug the characters, and found it thoughtful entertainment. It didn't quite cross my personal line of greatness, but I'm glad it's part of my collection so I can watch it again."
