>ruins the mystery in the opening shot
What did carpenter mean by this?
Ruins the mystery in the opening shot
Ryan Sullivan
Jose Brown
This part of the mystery is irrelevant.
Nicholas Rivera
>ruins the initial twist for all norwegian viewers
Jordan Robinson
This. What was the "thing"? Was that the alien itself or was that an expirement made by aliens gone wrong that killed the aliens and made them crash land on earth? Why did they create that thing? What went wrong? So many questions,
Aiden Ramirez
The point is there are scenes in the movie where they go to the crash site anyway, so the opening shot didn't need to exist, without the opening shot your asking yourself a thousand questions throughout the movie instead of those couple of questions you mentioned
Robert Brown
What mystery? There is no "mystery" in this movie to be ruined.
Joshua Brown
>ruins the twist in the trailer
Jackson Kelly
Imagine the movie without the opening scene, you're thinking to yourself what the fuck is actually happening instead of "oh it's just an alien lmao", the mystery is not knowing what is going on just like the characters don't know what's going on, it's better if the audience learns with them
Robert Butler
who cares about norweigian
Brody Lewis
They are our most important ally
Joseph Diaz
This was a studio decision, same with The Predator.
Elijah Stewart
They should make a prequel to the prequel were it shows that the thing wasn't in charge of the space ship, and the movie follows the thing breaking out on the alien spaceship and ending with the final alien alive crashing the ship on the south pole to strand the thing.
Blake Carter
>Imagine the movie without the opening scene, you're thinking to yourself what the fuck is actually happening
Are you stupid?
Blake Walker
i hate this
Daniel Garcia
Except you know that it's an alien right away, because the movie came out during the "extraterrestrial threat" wave, and was marketed as such.
Not to mention that it's literally a remake of "The thing from outer space".
Also, the moment they visit the Norwegian station the jig is up anyway. That little scene in the beginning makes no difference.
Jaxon Gonzalez
the mystery of its origin is solved pretty quickly, because as other user has said, it's not pertinent to the story
not like there are a lot of possible origins for it, its either an ayylmao, a biological experiment, or a ancient frozen terrestrial organism that somehow ended up frozen in antarctica before it consumed the whole world
in fact, one could argue that the ufo in the opening keeps you on the edge for how shit is going to go down, and since alien films up to that point were usually greys, greys in human disguises, or slasher monsters, the thing really subverts the expectations of the day
Juan Turner
You are a retard. This movie is based on a short story that directly tells it's an alien spaceship IN THE FIRST PAGES.
Nicholas Torres
What mystery?
Connor Reed
It serves to set the tone of the movie and what is all about. Go back to film school.
Dylan Torres
fucking faggot studio heads can't let us have one perfect 10/10 movie
Adam James
>see UFO
>assume standard spacefaring body-snatchers or martians with ray guns are going to show up
>turns out to be amorphous microbial hive mind or something, that can assimilate earth life and may or may not have even been the original pilot/crew of the ship
pretty genius actually