Finally!!--Realistic people in a Sci-Fi Flick!

Rating: Null/10 (27 September 2001)

Whenever I see a movie, I am extremely willing to suspend reality for 120 minutes, especially for Sci-Fi or Horror movies. But, please, do not insult my intelligence within that framework. To me, the biggest draw-back to most movies of this genre is that the characters were siphoned off the shallow end of the gene pool! For example, there are no lights in the house, my best friend just got sawed in half, so therefore we will all split up and look around with a pack of matches! (They deserve whatever fate awaits them!!) But this movie, "the Thing", absolutely impressed me in that the characters actually reacted as most REAL people would faced with an unknown terror. For me, no matter how far fetched and absurd the plot, as long as the characters remain as human as possible, then I become totally absorbed and fully entertained by the movie. "The Thing", to me, was the first movie of the "evil-alien" genre that showed me real people reacting as best as they could to an unknown terror. I did not have to stretch my imagination to fit these people into the story line.