I knew about The Thing but never had seen any of the movies until recently. Since The Thing (2011) prequel was coming out, in the mass of movie channels on DirecTV one was showing the 1982 movie in HD. So I recorded it and watched it on the bigger widescreen TV at night a couple of weeks ago, with my 15 year old boy.<\/p>\n
It was good.<\/p>\n
So yesterday we finally got to the theatre to see the new movie. (One thing about The Thing, we were going to go to a Regal theatre but with the movie only out for 2-weeks that very day, it wasn’t in their listings at all for Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon, Tues, that’s when I quit looking at their listings.) We saw it at AMC and I wasn’t too thrilled with having to do that because some of the movies we’ve seen have been there of late and not big enough screens and not loud enough (aka Transformers: Dark of the Moon) was terrible compared to what it could have been.<\/p>\n
So we get to the theatre, walk into the correct movie bay, and Wow! The screen is way bigger than what they showed Transformers on on July 18th! Plus it was LOUD! Awesome, wonderful!<\/p>\n
It was me and my son, plus another older couple. That’s who saw it. On Friday, October 28th. At that late morning $6 showing of The Thing 2011. It’s a great prequel, whoever thinks something else is just plainly not a sci-fi\/action\/horror fan and that’s fine.<\/p>\n
Not just being a great prequel, it stands alone, AND firmly, completely, TOTALLY ties itself to the previous movie wonderfully. So freaking AWESOME!<\/p>\n
Loved it. Love it. Love it. Love The Thing (though don’t want “THE THING” to come to my house, except for on Blu-Ray.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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