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| Topic | I'm watching old Siskel and Ebert reviews. Geez these guys were haters. |
| andri_g 03/29/24 12:25:29 AM #17: | Their complaint about Beetlejuice was they expected it to be The Money Pit with ghosts--the reason for their Ghostbusters knock-off comparisons. It was not that.
. It's like when Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) and Canby (New York Times) snubbed Carpenter's The Thing (1982) for being a terrible, gore-fest remake of Hawkes' The Thing from Another World (1951). What made it terrible for them was their expectations for the movie. Carpenter's movie was a new adaptation of Campbell's "Who Goes There" (1938) novella, not a remake of Hawkes' earlier adaptation of Campbell's novella. https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-thing-1982/critic-reviews/ tl;dr: They were disliking a sandwich for not being a hotdog. . Btw, anyone pointing to the burn-away opening title as proof that The Thing is a remake didn't realize that it was Universal, the film's distributor, not Carpenter, who made that title. https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-thing/ --- '~' ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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