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Originally Posted by Mad Melvin
What's wrong with the editing? The Thing is very well edited and paced in my opinion. The special effects are very good also, and still manage to impress me (excluding the stop motion). Carpenter has also managed to capture the sense of isolation and tension you would expect. I love the movie, even without nostalgic glasses on.
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Lots of awkward cuts and fades. Sometimes someone will say something to someone, and the camera will just hang on them...and nothing happens...oh right we need to fade out! Okay!
I remember one part where the black guy who wasn't on rollerblades was tied up with another dude, and the black guy is all "LET ME OUTTA HERE! COME ON!" Then it just cut right to the other guy being tied up by himself. Or another scene where one of the dudes asks the doctor something, and the doctor just says nothing, and there's a long pause of nothing, then the camera fades out. It leads to some unintentionally funny moments.
Lots of scenes were a lot funnier than they were supposed to be. I think the only time we jumped was when one dude's stomach grows a mouth and eats a guy's hands as he's about to use a defibrillator. But even after that we were laughing because that shit was so silly.
