kaitlincg95

The Thing is one of my favorite movies, and my number one horror film. It's a classic.

Although I'd say the highlight of the film is special effects, this doesn't mean the story was neglected. Scary special effects backed up by an equally scary story make The Thing better than most horror films. I love the twists. It's a genuinely suspenseful and gripping scary movie.

The special effects are still amazing to this day. In fact, I find some of the scenes far scarier than anything CG. Really impressive stuff. I have to say nothing looks very cheesy at all, which is impressive for a movie made thirty (wow!) years ago.

Amazing movie.

This film blew me away. The acting was absolutely perfect; each character seemed so real, that at times it was easy to get very caught up in the story.

The story, though painful, is very moving. I don't think I've ever watched another movie that has made me cry so much. But is this bad? Not at all. If you plan on watching this, be careful: it can be triggering, and I'd recommend not watching it all in one night (I watched it in two). It can be very draining. I felt quite sad after I watched it.

Not many people have mentioned the great music. The guitar throughout the movie is very nice, suits the film well.

Highly recommended!

Aside from the violence, this movie was really boring to me. There is nothing that stands out. I think that it might be a well known movie just for the fact that it's based on two well known people. Surely it's not known for being a well made film.

Warren Beatty played a good glamorized Clyde Barrow. Not fantastic acting, but for at least a quarter of the movie he was amusing enough. Faye Dunaway, on the other hand, was kind of annoying. I only bring this up because I don't believe she was meant to be seen as obnoxious. (Not entirely, at least.) Her performance was mediocre.

As for the rest of the characters, and the rest of the movie, I don't have much to say. I was completely underwhelmed and bored. The violence may have been enough to keep people interested back in the 60's, but these days we're so used to violence in films, it's really nothing special.

After hearing that The Grey was a great movie, I was utterly disappointed, if not frustrated, by the time I finished watching.

I won't go into this too far because many reviews have already mentioned it, but the way the wolves acted was ridiculous. Completely unrealistic.

The first thing that really bothered me though was the fact that all of the survivors left the plane crash. Couldn't they have made a shelter out of the wreckage? Of course they could have.

Second thing that bothered me was Liam Neeson's character. Liam's character was suicidal at the beginning of the movie. If he'd been in a plane crash, I really don't think he would have tried so hard to survive. I mean what would the point have been? He had no family (as far as we could see) and he already wanted to die.

Other things that bothered me include: flat characters, inaccurate situations (um, hello, Liam Neeson surviving after 3 minutes in a freezing Alaskan river?), and the over-all bleakness of the movie. What was the point? I don't see one. It's hard to sympathize with Liam's cold, suicidal character; difficult to connect with him and really /want/ him to survive, thus making it almost pointless to watch and see how things turn out. This feeling's really reinforced when the movie ends on such a grim note. No feeling of satisfaction or closure, really. It was one of those moments where seconds before the film ends, you're saying: No, please don't end this way! Please! If it ends like I predict, this will be such a waste of time!

I give the film a 2 because at least the camera-work was alright.