**Part of my 2022 Sci-Fi Tuesdays**

The Thing 2011 has a fault way too many prequels suffer from, and that is that it answers questions that doesn't need answering. I had no need to really see that the Thing, from Carpenter's The Thing, was an alien. I gathered that from what happens in the movie. I didn't need to know what happened on the Norwegian base either, because that was certainly something my mind cooked up for itself while watching the original.

Anyway, The Thing 2011 is not really all that bad, but it's totally redundant. Not only did they use many of the same scenes as in the original, but they also managed to make the effects way worse. Twenty-nine years later and the effects looked horrendous compared to the practical effects in the original. Way to go guys...

This is actually only the second time I have seen the whole of this movie. I haven't touched this since I saw it in the cinema back in 2011, and now you know the reason.

This could have been a good movie, if they had called it something else, and rewritten some parts of the story to set it apart from Carpenters masterpiece. Then maybe some of us would have judged it less harshly. At least I know I would have...