I Don't Get The Hype

Rating: 6/10 (13 February 2015)

Simply put, I just don't get all the hype surrounding this movie. To me it seemed a lot like Alien (1979). The plot was similar with an seemingly dead alien species coming to life and killing off a crew. While the time period and setting were different they were still both in a harsh just as unrelenting environment. The movie wasn't bad but it just wasn't that great either. The creature effects weren't that impressive and seemed pretty typical of other films from in and around the era. It all looked a little aged and overdramatic but is better than most from the 80's. If you consider the drastic circumstances that the characters were in and their inability to trust a single solitary soul, they didn't seem as intense or rivaled as they should have been. It was slightly dull when the situation should have been full of excitement. I have seen a couple of John Carpenter directed films being Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and They Live (1988) and I think I enjoyed them more. The Thing was a much more well made movie and it wasn't as cheesy as the other two or full of stupid one-liners and laughable action. The serious mood to the movie was more fitting, but it failed to exhilarate or thrill me.