the THING...from another world

[Dunners]

plot/story:an army base in alaska finds a UFO crashed and bring the inhabitant back to the base in a block of ice(which gets melted)and the giant evil alien that kills people has the same genetic structure..as a carrot. not believable( or understandable) but definitley an interesting take on an alien.

8/10

script: very, very BAD at times. Wouldnt use this piece of crap to pick up my worst enemies dog s**t bad.Its slow, its boring and the characters are so one dimensional that if you had them all standing togather in a line you could see right thru them.

4/10

Dialogue: I want to find where the screenwriter is buried, dig up his body and p**s on it. Every other line in this turd scipt is a pathetic joke in which the entire cast laughs at.

4/10

acting: Bad! bad, bad, bad, BAD! No one can act in this movie, its not so much acting as it is saying you lines blandly with either a smile or a serious look on your face. What I couldnt stand is the 'actor' that does the 'obsessed' scientist. Son of a big fat hairy b***h!( rosie o'donnel) this man ruined the entire move, he was twice as bland as everyone else( not an easy feat) mumbles and stares like a zombie! I want to dig up his grave burn his body and p**s on the ashes! I hated this f**ker evey scene, every line he was in was a groaner and every time he was on the screen I wanted to gouge out my eyes burn on my ears and castrate myself just in case I have a child who is as horrid as this stupid, inbred fornicating baboon!

1/10

editing: nothing clever done just....matching action( not a bad thing but this was the ONLY thing in the 50's)

4/10

efects: eh.... its the 50's. the things design was kinda cool as was how they tried to fight him off, but ultimately it becomes wasted( bad pun I know)

6/10

Music: bland, and forgetable. I mean it was there but I think it might have faded out ASAP to avoid shame.

3/10

pacing/intrigue: intrige and an even pace to keep you interested and excited? in this movie? HA! Another movie that can make a second feel like a month.

3/10

Directing: I dont think there was a director as much as there was someone saying 'be bland be boring" at the start of every scene.

3/10

fun factor: well its kind of fun to see an original alien movie but the dialogue,'pacing', and the 'acting' make this movie dirtier than a french prostitute covered in mud peddling sex for free on her day off.

4/10


37/100= an F, Yes this movie is from many generations ago but I wish it had stayed there.

still worth seeing if your drunk, stoned, insane, or just need some noise in your room so you parents wont hear you having sex.

[Conrad]

I'm - I'm getting some negative vibes here.  

You really didn't like this film, did you, Dunners?  

Golly gosh, if a 50's classic from the Howard Hawks stable only gets 37, what would Plan 9 score?  I guess you'd have to go into minus figures for "Battlefield Earth"

[Fearless Freep]

I prerfer Liz's review at And You Call Yourself A Scientist

[Neville]

The only thing I did not like about it was when they start saying the monster is a vegetable. It was moderately scary till then, but it has been a long time since I last looked into my dish with fear. Something similar happenned to me when I saw "Humanoids from the abyss". Of all things, they had to be mutated salmons. Ha!