The Thing about it

I enjoyed the 2011 prequel of THE THING and I'm a big fan of the original John Carpenter version. The movie did a pretty good job of linking all the puzzle pieces of the original with comparable tension and yet introduced it's own logic to dealing with the situation. It picked up pace fairly quickly and the writing felt very close to how the original movie moved. If there's any complaint I have it's that the monsters felt extremely CGI'd. The orignal movie benefitted from the monsters feeling visceral and creepy raw where as this prequel had nice monsters but they felt more like something from a video game.