The Thing [Blu-ray] [4K UHD]

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He rewrote some already completed scenes to take place outdoors to be shot on location when principal photography moved to Stewart, British Columbia. As time has gone by, I’ve had occasion to wonder why all that firepower: A case of shotguns, several revolvers, the rifle and hand-grenades of the Norwegian expedition and TWO – not one, but TWO – flamethrowers.

good, the former particularly pleasing and a high yield upgrade over the 13-year-old original Blu-ray. Arrow, or Studio Canal that there will be), then this 3-disc SteelBook (along with Arrow's remastered release) remain the definitive packages.We will introduce you exclusively to Newpay finance products provided by NewDay Limited under this Introducer Appointed Representative arrangement. After watching a roughly assembled cut of filming to date, Carpenter was unhappy that the film seemed to feature too many scenes of men standing around talking.

So, while in isolation, the new track is perfectly fine and has some fun moments in the verticality of it, in comparison to the older tracks it sounds odd in places and in some cases a little lacking. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster. Lloyd oversaw the design and construction of all the sets, as there were no existing locations used in the film.Carpenter initially considered Bottin's description of his ideas as "too weird", and had him work with Ploog to sketch them instead.

He decides to take the lead and discover who’s who and his performance is exactly what the film needs. Bottin's crew also included mechanical aspect supervisor Dave Kelsey, make-up aspect coordinator Ken Diaz, moldmaker Gunnar Ferdinansen, and Bottin's longtime friend Margaret Beserra, who managed painting and hair work. The explosive destruction of the base required the camera assistants to stand inside the set with the explosives, which were activated remotely. Nauls was scripted to appear in the finale as a partly assimilated mass of tentacles, but in the film, he simply disappears. And finally, does the fact that its plot holes, of which the internet seems to have hundreds of sites dedicated to their fevered discussion, are embraced and celebrated rather than derided or criticised, and the fact that it gets away with doing terrible things to cinema’s last absolute untouchable – the dog – really need any further chatter?This is a stellar image, even with the significant number of shots that look slightly out of focus around the edges thanks to Carpenter’s use of anamorphic lenses, and certainly the best The Thing has looked in direct comparison to at least two of the film’s previous HD releases (the reviewer hasn’t seen the US Shout releases to compare against) by a long way.