Saw The Thing remake er... I mean "prequel".
Okay so it was a legitimate prequel, but it really did feel like a remake of Carpenter's movie, though I suppose part of that was inevitable given the setting of the film.
It's okay, though really it doesn't capture the paranoia feeling of the other movie, they kill way too many people so damn fast in the movie and while normally I don't mind seeing a blood bath of bodies, here it just doesn't work and the pacing of the film seems a bit rushed at times and then it drags towards the end because they killed just about everyone off too damn quickly.
I also thought it would've been better had everyone at the station had been Norwegian rather than having the clumsy explanation of having Americans at the base, would've simplified other things as well. I mean they could've still gotten over the audience language barrier thing like they do in most movies with non-English speakers: Just have them all speak English anyway and imply that they're all speaking they own language. Or if they wanted to get fancy they could've had them all speaking Norwegian and had the entire movie in subtitles.
Anyway like I said, it's okay, but Carpenter's movie was a lot better.
Okay so it was a legitimate prequel, but it really did feel like a remake of Carpenter's movie, though I suppose part of that was inevitable given the setting of the film.
It's okay, though really it doesn't capture the paranoia feeling of the other movie, they kill way too many people so damn fast in the movie and while normally I don't mind seeing a blood bath of bodies, here it just doesn't work and the pacing of the film seems a bit rushed at times and then it drags towards the end because they killed just about everyone off too damn quickly.
I also thought it would've been better had everyone at the station had been Norwegian rather than having the clumsy explanation of having Americans at the base, would've simplified other things as well. I mean they could've still gotten over the audience language barrier thing like they do in most movies with non-English speakers: Just have them all speak English anyway and imply that they're all speaking they own language. Or if they wanted to get fancy they could've had them all speaking Norwegian and had the entire movie in subtitles.
Anyway like I said, it's okay, but Carpenter's movie was a lot better.
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