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I think its really apples and oranges with the original and the remake - I love them both but, they are totally different in feel. The original is so slick and funny and confident, where Carpenter's is dark and sombre and pessimistic. Both really captured a different tone.
I read a funny thing from Carpenter about the remake in a book of interviews where JC said he knew he was screwed when ET came out like six months earlier and became such a huge blockbuster. JC claims that the failure of The Thing was what effectively ended his chance of being a major Hollywood director. Sad really. . . .
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