ITT: Movies that wouldn't be made the same way today
>all male cast
>not a single actor under the age of 30
No way will we ever see a movie, let alone a horror movie like this ever again. It's not even an SJW thing. A major Hollywood studio would just never make a movie with such a mature cast in the modern era.
Pretty sure Nauls was in his 20s
>>67022758
I assumed all the younger guys were early 30s. Anyway, I guess the point I'm making is they were all just normal guys. Not crazy ripped models with sub 10% body fat.
>>67022702
don't you love how calculated everything is regarding big Hollywood movies these days?
feels more like consuming a product than a movie
>>67022854
Whenever I watch older movies like The Thing, I just have a ton of respect for the work put into them. They were actually out there in British Columbia freezing their asses off in the snow, not on a big soundstage with a giant green screen backdrop.
>>67022839
I think Windows was probably in his 20s too, but I get your point and agree with you. It might avoid typical Hollywood casting if a modern John Carpenter equivalent made it, but I don't think we have anyone like that right now. It's not like The Thing was much of a mainstream release when it came out though, and Kurt Russell is pretty hunky.
OP here. Here's another perfect example.
Original Kyle Reese: Lean but muscular. Looks gaunt and haunted by the wars and actually looks like someone that lives on limited supplies
New Kyle Reese: Buff as fuck and extremely well fed despite coming from a post apocalyptic future where mankind has nearly been eliminated
>>67022920
Some of it was sound stages and back drops but as little as was possible.
The scene where they find the ship is a great matte painting by Albert Whitlock who made his name doing similar great work for people like Hitchcock.
It was a real mix of all the cutting edge and the old school special effects of the day.
Still by far my favourite 80s horror film and the lone testament to what can actually be achieved when a remake comes from a place of sincerity from people that actually care.
The film
>>67023390
beautiful poster
>>67023390
Well said. And yes, the matte painting work in the movie is gorgeous.
>>67023194
>New Kyle Reese
>>67023432
>tfw you will never see horror movie poster like this in your life
>>67022702
I love the shit out of The Thing. Is the prequel any good?
>>67023499
Kek. Alright, a generic Kyle Reese that thankfully won't be seen again because the movie bombed hard.
>>67023525
it's more or less the same type of movie, just inferior in every way
>>67022702
The Thing is horror kinò
Look at the Hateful 8. It's heavily influenced by The Thing, yes, but the cast is very much a mature group of (almost) only men. Also look at The Revenant's casting. I don't think it's fair to say that something like The Thing couldn't get made today.
Jaws is the same way. An older core cast and shot on location in the actual ocean. That decision resulted in a very long and difficult shoot, but the results were amazing.
>>67023656
Haven't seen Hateful 8 yet but fair enough.
>>67023566
Funny thing is it didn't. Made an OK amount like 500+ million, all things considered that wasn't bad.
The real kicker is the studio abandoned the whole trilogy idea because they still wanted more.
>yfw The Thing is remade again with an all female cast
A lot of people either forget or just don't know that The Thing was actually a flop when it first came out and was panned by critics. It wasn't until years later when people started realizing it's one of the greatest sci-fi/horror films ever made.
>>67023740
Yeah, I don't think critics appreciated the amazing practical effects at the time and found it too gross.
>>67023716
Remakes for cash grabbing only and forced diversity suck.
If they continued the story in a setting with an all female cast and maintained the horror, tension, and paranoia then I'd be the first in line to watch it.
>>67023584
I can't remember anything about it except that I was annoyed watching it, especially at the end
>>67023711
If you like The Thing you should definitely check it out. There's a ton of homage
>>67023716
That could be really erotic.
>>67023780
>they figure out who The Thing is because it's the only one out of the group's period sync
>Kill it early on
>they all then kill each other anyway because someone left a towel on the bathroom floor
I really couldn't see this getting made.
It amazes me the sjws haven't gone after South Park, not that Matt and Trey would care.
>>67023390
>The Thingx
>x
What did they mean by this?
Not exactly a movie, but a television special. A Christmas special directly attacking commercialism, a cast entirely of child actors, a jazz soundtrack by Vince Guaraldi, and a dramatic scene with a direct quote from the Bible. This was crazy as shit in 1965 but Schulz wanted it to happen, and it did. There will never be Christmas specials as good and genuine as they were in the 60s.
>>67023868
I don't remember the character's name, but in the movie one of them had a heart condition and at one point where it's either confirmed or highly likely that he's already been assimilated, he looks out the window while alone and shudders in what looks like pain; following that he has a heart attack.
That suggests to me that the Thing completely copies the entire physicality of the host, right down to defects and current processes.
>>67023716
The Thing porn parody when?
>>67022702
>A major Hollywood studio would just never make a movie with such a mature cast in the modern era.
To say nothing of the fact that the traditional special effects that were seen in this movie would simply never be done in a modern movie. Hence, the 2013 remake/prequel being a CGI disaster. I figured that was the point you were going to make with this post when I began reading it.
>>67023951
Good one. I would have never thought of this.
>>67024055
Yeah, pretty much the whole thing. The puppetry in the original was just incredible. I wonder if any of them are still around today.
>>67023716
Plot twist where the thing can only infect males
>>67022854
That's simply because the investments are much much larger now than they were even 25 years ago. Movies cost far more on average today so each film with a substantial budget needs to be marketed to the widest audience possible in order to guarantee a payoff.
i.e. films are shit now.
Reminder that in the thing prequel they had puppets and everything made for all the special effects, and at the last second Executives said fuck you and told them to scrap it and remake it all with CGI
>>67024113
I've heard rumors that the abominable spider head thing is still in a warehouse somewhere.
Apparently what happened with the 2013 movie was that many of the special effects were actually done practically but then "touched up" in the studio during post. And by touched up I mean washed over and ruined. Why it was done will forever escape me.
>>67024314
I have a fascination with old horror movie props. It sucks that everything gets thrown out or left in storage to rot somewhere when production ends.
>>67023716
Hollywood remakes are so dumb to me, they don't affect my view of the originals at all. it's like an Asylum ripoff, shit doesn't even register
>>67024372
You ever seen Mortal Kombat? There was this house nearby that had one of these statues in pic related that Reptile comes out of. They're enormous, they must be 7 or 8 eight feet in length and the arms six feet outstretched. It's been at this house ever since I was a kid, and I swore to myself when I had about 500 dollars in cash I would go over and offer it to whoever owned the house on the spot and take that statue out of there. Last few months that statue has disappeared. Made me sad as a mother fucker.
>>67024535
Damn, that's awesome. Did you ever get a chance to talk to the owner?
>>67024012
but it couldnt replicate the pacemaker nor peoples earings, dental implants etc
>>67024579
I went over to knock on the place three separate times and nobody ever seems to be home. There's no sign that shows the house is for sale, and the house itself looks rather decrepit in an otherwise decent neighborhood. I guess it's just some hermit living there who doesn't want to answer the door.
>>67024617
Why couldn't it just grow around them? It keeps its victims hairstyles and hair length, so it's not just plugging in a genetic formula and going from there. It's more like it's attacking each and every cell. Getting ripped apart by the Thing probably just increases the infection rate, which is why it does it instead of just dripping down onto someone's back. We saw how the individual cells of the Thing were able to conquer and remake other cells relatively quickly, but nothing about it destroying nonliving things.
>>67022702
Carpenter has always been a sort of a litmus test of sorts for me. Gf, friend, whatever, if you watch The Thing, and to a lesser extent, big trouble, assault on precinct 13, in the mouth of madness and you don't like them just from a simple "good entertainment" level, you're probably a shit person who's no fun. At the very least, you don't enjoy good movies.
The Thing is at the very top of the "if you don't like this, you probably suck" list though.
>>67025293
>big trouble, assault on precinct 13
those movies are genuinely shit, though
>>67025719
>big trouble
>shit
See, my litmus test rarely ever fails me.
>>67025293
I bet you're fun at parties
