Harbinger Down
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 1:46 pm
Synopsis:
Harbinger Down : The Thing :: Timothy Dalton : Sean Connery.
Review:
Back in 2011, the prequel for The Thing was released. The special effects company had lots of their physical effects replaced with CG. This pissed them off enough that they eventually made this thinly veiled ripoff to showcase that axed work.
Back in '82, a Russian lunar lander crashes back down to the Arctic and sits in the ice until thirty years pass. Bishop from Aliens has taken up crab fishing in the Bering. In one of the most nonsensical deals ever made in the history of crabbing, he agrees to take his granddaughter and her uni adviser along to track belugas. Guess what they find in the ice? Anyhow, here's where the first of many mistakes is made. John Carpenter just had the alien come out of nowhere. This movie clumsily tries to use a "cosmic radiation in space mutated some critter" excuse. Problem: the creature they pick is the tardigrade or waterbear, perhaps the only creature known to science that can withstand prolonged exposure to cosmic radiation in a shielded environment. Moving on...
The fun begins when Bishop's grandkid, spurred on by her professor being an asshole, decides to crack open the frozen cosmonaut's sealed biosuit and lets loose a carnivorous, shapeshifting organism that's able to mimic whatever DNA is feels like. From then on, you can guess how it goes.
Verdict:
If you walked into the Dollar Store and needed a generic version of The Thing, this is what you'd get. Crappy packaging, tastes like cardboard, and a texture like Styrofoam.
Harbinger Down : The Thing :: Timothy Dalton : Sean Connery.
Review:
Back in 2011, the prequel for The Thing was released. The special effects company had lots of their physical effects replaced with CG. This pissed them off enough that they eventually made this thinly veiled ripoff to showcase that axed work.
Back in '82, a Russian lunar lander crashes back down to the Arctic and sits in the ice until thirty years pass. Bishop from Aliens has taken up crab fishing in the Bering. In one of the most nonsensical deals ever made in the history of crabbing, he agrees to take his granddaughter and her uni adviser along to track belugas. Guess what they find in the ice? Anyhow, here's where the first of many mistakes is made. John Carpenter just had the alien come out of nowhere. This movie clumsily tries to use a "cosmic radiation in space mutated some critter" excuse. Problem: the creature they pick is the tardigrade or waterbear, perhaps the only creature known to science that can withstand prolonged exposure to cosmic radiation in a shielded environment. Moving on...
The fun begins when Bishop's grandkid, spurred on by her professor being an asshole, decides to crack open the frozen cosmonaut's sealed biosuit and lets loose a carnivorous, shapeshifting organism that's able to mimic whatever DNA is feels like. From then on, you can guess how it goes.
Verdict:
If you walked into the Dollar Store and needed a generic version of The Thing, this is what you'd get. Crappy packaging, tastes like cardboard, and a texture like Styrofoam.