The Thing 2011 Remake

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 Sam Cheese wrote:

 dr_martinov wrote:

 Sam Cheese wrote:

Incorrect Dr M. 

As SFevers preeminent sci-fi pedant, I think you'll find "The Thing" is not a remake of "Thing From Another World". Both are films based on a short story called "Who Goes There" by John W Campbell.

<div style="text-align: left; : rgb251, 251, 253; ">Point taken (I'll read Wikipedia more carefully next time ). Even so, it means "The Thing (1982)" is the second film to be based upon the same story and to be known by the same title - the same criteria that have been applied within this thread to dub the most recent film a "remake".
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Nomenclature aside, I think SA14 said it best - it often depends on what film you've seen first. If you watch a remake (or the original after the remake) then you will always be comparing it to the other. I watched the more recent Dawn of the Dead first, for example, and didn't think the original was that good. I can completely understand people with the opposite viewing order having a different opinion.

Sadly, I didn't need to read Wikipedia to know about "Who Goes There". The useless sci-fi fact was already in my brain.

God help me.

It's good knowledge. Be a useful addition to any pub quiz team.  Dunno what my speciality would be... Red Dwarf and science, probably.