<div dir="ltr"><div>...and talk about atmosphere....mated to the soundtrack (which demands the accoutrements necessary for quality reproduction) I can't think of anything which compares. In the final scene you are really sitting there with Kurt Russell and Keith David awaiting hypothermia's warm embrace.<br>
<br></div>love,<br>cfa <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Tom Beshear <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tbeshear@att.net" target="_blank">tbeshear@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>I saw The Thing when it came out and I remember some of the critics'
reaction -- it was absurd. Main of the mainstream critics were hostile to horror
and weren't willing to see it as other than a gorefest. It's Carpenter's
masterpiece. And technically, it has some of the best pre-CGI special effects
ever. And being real -- present in the material world -- they look better than
CGI, whose effects look weightless.</div>
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<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="against.the.dave@gmail.com" href="mailto:against.the.dave@gmail.com" target="_blank">Dave Monroe</a> </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>Cc:</b> <a title="pynchon-l@waste.org" href="mailto:pynchon-l@waste.org" target="_blank">pynchon -l</a> </div>
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<div>Pleased to see Carpenter's The Thing get its well deserved
propers.....can't begin to imagine what contemporary critics were
thinking...<br><br></div>I zealously recommend reading Who Goes There (1938),
to which Carpenter was remarkably faithful.<br><br></div>love,<br>cfa
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Dave Monroe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:against.the.dave@gmail.com" target="_blank">against.the.dave@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br><a href="http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-horror-films-contributors" target="_blank">http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-horror-films-contributors</a><br>-<br>Pynchon-l
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