March Double Bill: The Thing

[Circus Cranium]

This is one of my all time favorite films. I think the character development is great, and Kurt Russell will always be MacReady to me. My favorite scene is where he ties them all up and they test the blood. Palmer's tied to the couch and he starts to change...

I think Carpenter builds added tension in all his films by use of soundtrack. It's always that sort of simplistic double bass...........boom boom......boom boom.....boom boom.....

[Foxbat]

BTW, someone have seen the recent remake of Assault on Precinct 13 with Laurence Fishburne and Ethan Hawke

Not yet. I generally like Fishburne as an actor but I just can't get past the old 'why remake in the first place' question.

I think Carpenter builds added tension in all his films by use of soundtrack. It's always that sort of simplistic double bass...........boom boom......boom boom.....boom boom.....

Agreed. Carpenter is a man of many talents and generally does his own sondtrack. However, my favourite of his is the twanging bass on the slow 12 bar he uses in They Live.

[Circus Cranium]

Oh man, I forgot about that one.


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