The 80's The Thing is a sci-fi classic. But I don't know if it's a pity or luck, this classic B-level film has never had a follow-up series of works. Until the prequel came out in 2011.
Personally, I think that as a film alone, the quality of this work can be passed. With the blessing of the original classic IP, the story is relatively complete, but there are no surprises and no innovations. You can only see the rigid application of the previous story mode, including the creation of the monster, the dangerous deformation of the monster, the crisis of mistrust caused by the monster and the spread of the crisis, the conflict, the afterlife of the protagonist and the reversal. . . All the techniques used in the previous work, the structure of the story, are used again in this work intact.
But the problem is that this is a work of the monster series, you have to ask him according to the tonality of the monster, including the image of the monster, the way the conflict evolves, and the basic settings.
In addition, as a series of works, the success of the series also depends on the contribution to this IP series, whether it extends the world view, whether it has a perfect monster setting, or at least, as a prequel, at least the main film is fully rounded back.
Unfortunately, this work did not do any of it. This work seems to have applied the story structure of the original story and re-interpreted the story that happened in the original story. No innovation, no surprises, and no contribution to IP.
The monster design is completely rigid, lacking the bloody, CULT to crazy monster feeling in the original work, the monster shape of this work is completely a reckless and impatient monster. It lacks the pursuit of flesh and blood in the previous work. As for the world view, this work only reproduces the story that has been speculated in the original story (Norwegian team members discovered alien creatures and dug them out), and the origin of alien creatures, his purpose, and his growth function etc. , still no deep digging.
The worst is the ending. As the prequel to the main story, it is a basic requirement for the prequel to be able to complete the plot before the main story because the story that was not involved in it happened. But unfortunately, even this kind of question, this work is very rough. Most of the plot of the whole film does not involve echoes with the original story (I just found one, that is, the corpse that was burned to death in the open air when the monster first appeared, but the image of the corpse and the corpse found in the original story are still the same. There are discrepancies), and when the prequel plot was almost over, the main creator may have just remembered to connect with the main story, so he hurriedly gave a few still shots, echoing the main story, the task Even if it's done? !
WTF! ! A non-professional bizarre fan work shot by non-professional fans.
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