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Post by jmodlinc on Jul 13, 2011 8:44:41 GMT -5
“Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet.
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up.
When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.”fangoria.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5074:the-thing-one-sheet&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=167
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Post by francoamerican on Jul 13, 2011 8:51:57 GMT -5
Oh this sucks! Gee, us Americans can't deal with a base of Norwegians so let's rewrite the whole original premise in the Carpenter film and make it an international group of scientist so we can have Americans in the film. Pathetic.
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Post by francoamerican on Jul 13, 2011 8:54:33 GMT -5
Mary Elizabeth Winstead? Paleontologist? She's 25-26 years old in real life and she's playing a doctorate degree highly educated elite person in her field? Um, wouldn't you still be in school at this point?
I'll say it now, okay, even if this film doesn't suck we are talking BIG suspension of disbelief here! Denise Richards as a nuclear scientist in James Bond seems more real to me!
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Post by Scary Gary on Jul 13, 2011 13:51:30 GMT -5
Typical science PhD students graduate between 4 to 6 years after the bachelors degree. Some extraordinary students have been able to finish much quicker (Robert Woodward finished his PhD from MIT in Chemistry in a single year, for example). My guess is that she will be one of these young, exceptional grads with "the opportunity of a life-time". The other thing is that she could be playing a character older then she really is. A 26-year-old playing a 30-year-old isn't that far of a stretch. Lastly, in the science world, it is not uncommon for foreign experts to be brought in. PhD's are not generalized, they are highly specialized. There are some areas in science where there are only one or two experts in the world. If you need one of them, you cannot get hung up on nationality. Don't be surprised to find that she is selected because her PhD focus was some obscure topic that somehow relates to The Thing or where they find it. Sorry if this rant came off like a lecture. Somehow I seem to find myself on this damn soapbox every now and then.   |
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Post by francoamerican on Jul 13, 2011 14:10:09 GMT -5
Typical science PhD students graduate between 4 to 6 years after the bachelors degree. Some extraordinary students have been able to finish much quicker (Robert Woodward finished his PhD from MIT in Chemistry in a single year, for example). My guess is that she will be one of these young, exceptional grads with "the opportunity of a life-time". The other thing is that she could be playing a character older then she really is. A 26-year-old playing a 30-year-old isn't that far of a stretch. Lastly, in the science world, it is not uncommon for foreign experts to be brought in. PhD's are not generalized, they are highly specialized. There are some areas in science where there are only one or two experts in the world. If you need one of them, you cannot get hung up on nationality. Don't be surprised to find that she is selected because her PhD focus was some obscure topic that somehow relates to The Thing or where they find it. Sorry if this rant came off like a lecture. Somehow I seem to find myself on this damn soapbox every now and then. Hey, I'm a big a fan of the original 1982 Carpenter flick and the source material Who Goes There (my podcast episode 4 is of it), but I still will roll my eyes when I read this about the new movie. I do hope it is great but why not cast Uma Thurman or someone appropriate like that instead of Scott Pilgrim's girlfriend. Just my 2 cents. For the Norwegian camp and using some Americans ... just sounds cheesy to me. Okay, Gary, all your points are valid BUT let us just say you and I both can guess that the casting of Winstead was because Winstead is the hip "geek girl" right now and Hollywood demanded a cast starring American characters. Just guessing but ...  |
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Post by ilnino on Jul 13, 2011 16:34:12 GMT -5
Im willing to go with the American angle just for the plain simple reason is it was never going to be a subtitled film, I love my foriegn films but this is a film that is going to be released mostly for the american and uk audiences, so it needs that view point, like it or not.. they will obviously tie it into the original, whether they do it well is another thing all together.. It does have to end with that dog though or I may be angry |
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Post by francoamerican on Jul 13, 2011 22:06:09 GMT -5
Im willing to go with the American angle just for the plain simple reason is it was never going to be a subtitled film, I love my foriegn films but this is a film that is going to be released mostly for the american and uk audiences, so it needs that view point, like it or not.. they will obviously tie it into the original, whether they do it well is another thing all together.. It does have to end with that dog though or I may be angry Do that hunt for red october thing ... or maybe like the Cruise film Valkyrie ...  |
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