Out of the Blue

[Sep 27, 2011, 10:10 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

How can this be? Today is Wilford Brimley's birthday, and the actor turns 77. If you asked me to guess, I would have said he was almost that old in The Thing, which came out in 1982.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Sep 27, 2011, 12:06

El Pit

Cutter wrote on Sep 27, 2011, 11:30:
The Thing was fantastic! They should have called the new movie The Thang or something else. I'm so sick of remakes. Are there no new stories left to tell?

It's NOT a remake. It's a prequel and deals with what happened to the Norwegians in their camp after they found the spaceship and its pilot. Remember? The (maybe) last two survivors from the Norwegian camp hunted the dog-thing to the US camp (beginning of "The Thing" (1982)).

By the way: how comes you like Carpenter's "Thing" if you don't like remakes? Carpenter's movie was a remake.

EDIT: Beamer beat me to it.




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	1.	Sep 27, 10:13	Re: Out of the Blue	nin
	2.	Sep 27, 10:21	Re: Out of the Blue	sir
	3.	Sep 27, 10:31	Re: Out of the Blue	Verno
	6.	Sep 27, 10:42	Re: Out of the Blue	InBlack
	7.	Sep 27, 10:45	Re: Out of the Blue	Beamer
	28.	Sep 28, 17:20	Re: Out of the Blue	Xymph
	29.	Sep 28, 17:38	Re: Out of the Blue	Beamer
	30.	Sep 28, 19:26	Re: Out of the Blue	Sepharo
	31.	Sep 29, 01:59	Re: Out of the Blue	Xymph
	32.	Sep 29, 02:04	Re: Out of the Blue	Sepharo
	33.	Sep 29, 17:55	Re: Out of the Blue	Xymph
	34.	Sep 29, 19:15	Re: Out of the Blue	Sepharo
	35.	Oct 1, 08:19	Re: Out of the Blue	Frans
	36.	Oct 1, 20:00	Re: Out of the Blue	Sepharo
	4.	Sep 27, 10:37	Re: Out of the Blue	Blue
	5.	Sep 27, 10:41	Re: Out of the Blue	El Pit
	8.	Sep 27, 10:50	Re: Out of the Blue	Verno
	9.	Sep 27, 10:54	Re: Out of the Blue	InBlack
	14.	Sep 27, 12:04	Re: Out of the Blue	Beamer
	21.	Sep 27, 14:10	Re: Out of the Blue	Ratty
	22.	Sep 27, 15:43	Re: Out of the Blue	Beamer
	10.	Sep 27, 11:22	Re: Out of the Blue	Verno
	11.	Sep 27, 11:30	Re: Out of the Blue	Cutter
	15.	Sep 27, 12:05	Re: Out of the Blue	Beamer
	17.	Sep 27, 12:21	Re: Out of the Blue	Verno
	18.	Sep 27, 12:42	Re: Out of the Blue	Beamer
>>	16.	Sep 27, 12:06	Re: Out of the Blue	El Pit
	20.	Sep 27, 13:46	Re: Out of the Blue	Cutter
	24.	Sep 27, 16:22	Re: Out of the Blue	sir
	25.	Sep 27, 22:51	Re: Out of the Blue	cappy
	26.	Sep 28, 00:47	Re: Out of the Blue	Sepharo
	27.	Sep 28, 08:59	Re: Out of the Blue	InBlack
	12.	Sep 27, 11:56	Re: Out of the Blue	Pigeon
	13.	Sep 27, 12:01	Re: Out of the Blue	Cutter
	19.	Sep 27, 12:43	Re: Out of the Blue	space captain
	23.	Sep 27, 15:44	Re: Out of the Blue	Cutter