dudinax t1_iugxquu wrote on October 31, 2022 at 6:39 AM

Reply to comment by CMelody in The Thing (1982) -- the scene with MaReady checking on Blair in the cabin by darthvirgin

I didn't watch the whole thing. What turned me off was adding Americans to it. Seemed like an obvious sop to the US market and not something the movie really needed.

CMelody t1_iugyl6c wrote on October 31, 2022 at 6:52 AM

I would have been fine with an all Norwegian film, and you're right that it felt like pandering to the market to have it in English. The language barrier while they investigated the Norwegian camp added to the mystery of the Carpenter film.

I have only seen it once when it first came out so I could be remembering wrong, but it felt like a retread of the first film in structure, too. Maybe that is why the other redditor assumed it was a remake rather than prequel.