See more ideas about practical effects, who goes there, ghost movies. The executives HATED the practical effects and had them replaced almost completely. My library The film is basically a beat for beat Remake of the 80’s version with all the bests elements removed and one of the worst offenders of this is the gutting of the practical effects in favour for CGI. If you’re interested, Amalgamated Dynamics have some fantastic images and videos from The Thing and their other projects (not least the classic Starship Troopers) over on their Facebook page – it’s well worth a look. They then added a new CGI Sander-Thing to fight, and concealed the Pilot-Thing behind a weird animation that looked like Tetris blocks to hide it in the shots they needed. A while back we featured a video talking about the practical effects used for the 2011 version of The Thing, and how those effects were scrapped for the CGI look you now see in the film.Everyone grabbed a pitchfork and went on a rant on how the good old days of practical effects will always trump all digital media and we all felt very proud of ourselves. 2011’s The Thing is available now on DVD. 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Upon finding John Carpenter's 1982 film The Thing, the two convinced Universal to create a prequel instead of a remake, as they felt that remaking Carpenter's film would be like "paint(ing) a moustache on the Mona Lisa". While it was in development we kept hearing that the effects would be practical [Rob Bottin’s groundbreaking practical effects are a hallmark of the 1982 The Thing… John Carpenter's The Thing received terrible reviews when it was released in 1982. Cinemamind on Dec 15, 2011 Personally, we prefer the animatronic pilot – but you can leave your thoughts in the comments. 2011âs remake of John Carpenterâs The Thing is one of the most tragic fuck-up stories in modern horror filmmaking. The executives HATED the practical effects and had them replaced almost completely. Nov 2, 2017 - Explore studioADI's board "The Thing [2011]" on Pinterest. If none of us make it, at least there'll be some kind of record. CRITICS HATED IT, TOO. They were horrifying. Fear, and lack of understanding of audience. Taking place before the events of the 1982 film, 2011's The Thing failed to make much of an impression. Continue Reading Below. I'm sorry this post is so long, so I'll end it with this: One scene in this film came close to emulating the feel of the Carpenter movie, and it's the scene where Edvard transforms and attacks everyone. Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.’s 2011 film, “The Thing,” follows a script by Eric Heisserer based on John W. Campbell, Jr.’s “Who Goes There?” The film is the third adaptation of Campbell’s novella, after Christian Nyby’s 1951 film, “The Thing from Another World,” and John Carpenter’s 1982 film, “The Thing.” After creating the Dawn of the Dead remake, producers Marc Abraham and Eric Newman began to look through the Universal Studios library to find new properties to work on. Over 30 years later, John Carpenter’s The Thing still stands up not only as a masterpiece of paranoia but also as the height of practical makeup and prosthetic effects. ‘The Thing’ from 1982 if considered to be one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time. I would love to see some of the behind the scenes featurettes and how they were able to pull off some of the shots. 2011âs The Thing is available now on DVD. In it, Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s character (and the audience) learns that the creature which attacked her Norwegian camp wasn’t the pilot of the spacecraft found earlier in the film, but a specimen which killed and imitated the craft’s original crew. ... not to mention the execution of complex and time-consuming practical effects scenes. It looked a bit like an 80s movie, actually, which for some people is really special, but perhaps not in 2010, 2011. The impetus for the project began when ADI were frustrated that their practical effects for The Thing , which tried to follow closely the ones featured in the original 1982 film , had been mostly digitally replaced with computer-generated imagery by order of the studio. The practical special effects are mind-blowing for a film from the early-80's. While it was technically a prequel, it felt more like a beat-for-beat remake. The studio also insisted on getting rid of the practical effect Pilot-Thing saying it wasn’t scary enough. The Thing 2011 is garbage. More Practical Effects from The Thing 2011 - The ... and Studio ADI have been regularly posting videos and images on various social media accounts that show off the practical effects … I am genuinely more unsettled and grossed out by Rob Bottin's creature effects in this film, which is a testament … To explain, the practical effects in the original, 1982 The Thing movie are largely considered some of the finest ever seen in a horror movie and as a byproduct of being real, tangible objects on set the actors could react to, still hold up even several decades later. They thought practical effects couldn’t compete with cutting edge CGI movies of the time. [talking into tape recorder] I'm gonna hide this tape when I'm finished. The funny thing is, I took a TON of photos in January and a decent amount in February, but I think I got overwhelmed with which content to post first and then it just… never happened. Making an actor fly or float or do Matrix-style … “The Thing from 1984 if considered to be one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time. Although the director suggested they “didn’t hold up”, we’re wondering if he’s being a little disingenuous – the practical effects displayed in the clip below look wonderfully gooey to us. Watch the full backstage video of the filmâs original, practical effects below, and judge for yourself which process would have made a better film. Here's a brief sample from an unused ending... “Well, the initial plan – slightly naïve, maybe – was to build everything practically,” director Matthias van Heijningen Jr told this very site in a 2012 interview about his prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing. When John Carpenter's The Thing premiered in 1982, its lifelike mutant creatures raised the bar on practical creature effects. The storm's been hitting us hard now for 48 hours. Devastated by the filmâs laziness, Time Out said, âthe predictably dull CGI underlines how far movie magic has regressed in the past couple of decades,â and most critics tended to agree. Already greeted with much criticism before it was even released, The Thing was neither a critical nor financial hit when it scuttled into cinemas back into 2011. The executives thought that the CGI would be more palatable to the 2011 general audiences. Released in 1982, John Carpenter's The Thing is today regarded as one of the best examples of sci-fi/horror in history, despite not being a hit at the time of its release. A behind-the-scenes look at the wonderful world of movies The Thing is a masterclass in directing, casting, acting, suspense, visceral body horror, terrific score from Ennio Morricone (who has been historically validated with his Oscar win for the Haterful 8 which featured a track from the Thing) and terrific practical effects. The 2011 prequel, not so much. Carpenter's movie was made on a $15 million budget which, adjusting for inflation, would be about $42 million in 2020. Unused practical FX footage emerges from 2011’s The Thing; News Unused practical FX footage emerges from 2011’s The Thing. Here, all subtlety is thrown out the window in favor of huge CGI monsters. Ever wondered what the pre-CG effects in 2011's The Thing … One of the scariest things of Carpenter's version is the practical effects of the "thing". This week, studioADI uploaded never-before-seen footage of their original horror sculptures, and itâs heart-wrenching to watch the systems behind what could have been a modern SFX classic. I have had this draft of my favorite Miss Candyfloss dress sitting here in my blog drafts for over a month now. Apollo 13 -- Weightlessness. The Thing suffers from what plagues many horror movies these days - underwritten characters and overwhelming CGI. So we enhanced it with CG.”. Those effects were overseen by Rob Bottin, in his early 20s at the time, and they would require so much work from the young FX wizard that he eventually landed in the hospital with exhaustion at the close of filming. 1. Although we won’t go into the relative merits of the film here (we’ve often said it’s not as a bad a movie as its 36 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes might suggest), we’ve often wondered what those originally shot practical effects would have looked like. Especially since practical effects have gotten even better over 30 years? The 2011 remake had a good budget ($38 million), but cashed it in on CGI effects, which hindered the film. Below, we get a rare look at this previously unseen alien pilot, which was replaced (if memory serves) by a computer-generated oddity made of rapidly-shifting cubes. Watch the full backstage video of the film’s original, practical effects below, and judge for yourself which process would have made a better film. Though film SFX collective studioADI produced hundreds of disturbing practical effects rigs and puppets for the new film, their entire workload was scrapped in a terrible, terrible last minute decision. 444 votes, 29 comments. 433k members in the Moviesinthemaking community. Eric Newman explained; "I'd be the first to say no one should ever try to do Jawsagain and I certainly wouldn't want to … "Thousands of years ago it crashes, and this thing... gets thrown out, or crawls out, and it ends up freezing in the ice.". Critics looked on the film just as unfavorably as fans when it was released … The 2011 prequel, not so much. I wonder if using gci for the final product was a studio decision or the directors decision. “Although we shot the film practically, at the end of the day, it didn’t hold up. However, probably the biggest reason why people don’t like it is, because of the terrible-looking CGI. All of their visuals were replaced in the film with flat-looking CGI, the film bombed both critically and at the box-office for overlooking what made Carpenterâs original a masterpiece, and the rest is horror history. The producers convinced Universal Studios to allow them to create a prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) instead of a remake, as they felt Carpenter's film was already perfect, so making a remake would be like "painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa". John Carpenter‘s remake of The Thing is one of the best sci-fi horror films ever made. It started with the work print. 2011's The Thing prequel originally used awesome practical effects to create its monsters, before changing them to bad CGI. The split-skull rubber masks toward the end of the video are incredible, and the real pyrotechnics at the end of the clip are almost heart-breaking to watch, especially if you recall how silly the CGI flames looked in the final film. As captured by Amalgamated Dynamics, the company who provided the numerous animatronic creatures for the film, the footage provides a glimpse of an alternate ending which, so far as we’re aware, has never been officially shown. The practical creature effects in The Thing are frankly astounding and *still* hold up, even in the world of omnipresent and omnipotent computer graphics. Ever wondered what the pre-CG effects in 2011's The Thing prequel may have looked like? However, probably the biggest reason why people don’t like it is, because of the terrible-looking CGI. The Thing (2011) is a prequel to the 80’s The Thing, set in the abandoned base Mac and the others look through. Share: These practical effects are top notch! It started with the work print. And be our Facebook chum here. Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. Prequel, it didn ’ t like it is, because of the Thing is available now on DVD sci-fi... 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