"The Thing" still rocks

33 years later, it still rocks.

Even if the movie review Web site www.rogerebert.com called it a "geek show" at the time of its 1982 theatrical release. No, as you may guess, old Roger did not like John Carpenter's The Thing very much. He gave it two and a half our of his four-star system.

Last month, I endeavored something I thought that I would never do. I started to watch a few horror movies, and boy, I must tell you that I thought it was good.

To sum things up, I found Carpenter's way of finishing off (most of) the characters was very intelligent.

It definitely found a more creative, intense, and scary way of dealing with aliens by incorporating the mass, continuing sense of paranoia. I found that brilliant.

The best part was seeing the RJ MacReady character sit outside the destroyed camp with the Davis character, I think was his name. The overall cast was a little stereotypical, but the scares, jumps, and pacing made it all quite good.

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