Why is The Thing 2011 a very good prequel to the one from 1982?

 

We all know that John Carpenter did a very good job with his movie is 1982, which was 38 years ago, the stars are now old or some them has past. The latest was Blair, himself from the image above ( The Thing). But also the co author of the great soundtrack that still gives me the chill, Ennio Morricone.

Leaving all this aside let's point out why is the movie from 2011 a very good prequel.

-Prequels are easier to do than sequels as you can't change the story.

-The sight from the Norvegian base was exactly the same

-they used old helicopter models to match the timeline

- At the end they actually used the first minutes from the original film, with Lars chasing the Dog Thing.

-actors was great

-CGI was good but they originally did it entirely with practical effects but it never got published until replace with CGI, only the woman who transformed was a puppet/animatronics.( God I love practical effects)

-Soundtrack was terrifying , they even used some of the old one

-Characters and death scenes and the positions of weapons and creatures was an exact match. Specially my favourite scene with the block of ice where the Thing was hold.

-Even though the cast was not as experimented as the original, the foreign actors are also very recognizable and good actors