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>>7759103
Carpenter's The Thing is an adaption of the book Who Goes There? which had been adapted to film in the past, this makes some people look at it as a remake, though it pretty much isn't. Carpenter's movie is far more faithful to the original book, as I understand.

The new movie from a couple of years back was touted as a prequel to Carpenter's movie, but in reality, it's pretty much just a rethread of that movie and thus is effectively a remake, because it does all of the same things. A bad remake, like so many others.
They made a lot of really cool practical effects for that movie (pic related is one of the actors showing off one of the Thing mutations from his character), but the studio were a bunch of wieners and told them to throw it out, so they could put in a bunch of very cheap CG. This obviously is a serious downgrade for a 'prequel' to a movie widely famed for its very high quality practical effects, but the movie would probably not have been good anyway just because it had good visuals and effects.

>>4492252
You know what the worst part about The Thing is?
They made a remake, a bad one, but not just that, a team put really phenomenal effort into building practical effect monsters and mutations and gore, really impressive stuff that would have looked excellent on set and in the right lighting.

What does the studio do? They tell them "No, people want CGI. It won't sell otherwise." and made them cut it and put in CGI, CGI which was really fucking bad.
Yes, remake a film that's remembered strongly for it's very convincing and impressive monsters and gore, made all with practical effects, and replace it with cutrate computer effects that would have made the SyFy channel cringe.
The remake bombed financially and critically.