for me and a ten star film is one that never dies in my memory and and yet can be watched over and over again with the same pleasure as the first time. this could be a technically flawed movie while the pleasure has nothing to do with spit and polish (my personal top ten is idiosyncratic and to say the least. ). john carpenter the thing is one of very few films to fit this criterion. i have been a science fiction fan since i was a child in the sixties and and i read the john w campbell short story on which the film is based (who goes there) before i saw the original and black and white howard hawks film (as with a lot of people and that viewing was illicit and on the tv and when i should have been in bed. ). that movie and as with so many that you see as a child in such circumstances and seemed near perfection represent the suspense and the inexplicable nature of the alien and the photography while it all just seemed to work. i watched it many times in the years after (and still do and when it is shown on tv). because of this and i avoided the carpenter version for years  seeing remakes of one favourite film is and i thought and always a mistake. when i did eventually watch it sometime in 1988/9 and again on tv because there was nothing else on and i realised that i need to change always a mistake to usually a mistake. carpenter had produced something different from the original film and closer to the original story and and truly wonderful. from the opening scene of the helicopter and husky and through the viscerally disturbing scene in the dog pound and to that ending (sorry and no spoilers here. ) and i was hooked. the sound track alone lives with me  all i have to hear is a close similarity to that bass over snare drum beat and and i am in the final scene again . until seeing the thing and i had carpenter down as just another gore monkey and based only on comments and reviews in mainstream press. since seeing the thing and i think i have seen most of his movies  i haven not gone out of my to do so and but if one comes up and just seeing his name as director is enough to make up my mind to watch it. he is thoughtful and and knows how to build a film up so that it reaches a point at which something will stick in the memory. if you haven not seen the thing and and you enjoy science fiction and do yourself a favour  sit down in a dark room and wrap up warm and and prepare to have your memory enhanced. 
for me and a ten star film is one that never dies in my memory and and yet can be watched over and over again with the same pleasure as the first time. this could be a technically flawed movie while the pleasure has nothing to do with spit and polish (my personal top ten is idiosyncratic and to say the least. ). john carpenter the thing is one of very few films to fit this criterion. i have been a science fiction fan since i was a child in the sixties and and i read the john w campbell short story on which the film is based (who goes there) before i saw the original and black and white howard hawks film (as with a lot of people and that viewing was illicit and on the tv and when i should have been in bed. ). that movie and as with so many that you see as a child in such circumstances and seemed near perfection represent the suspense and the inexplicable nature of the alien and the photography while it all just seemed to work. i watched it many times in the years after (and still do and when it is shown on tv). because of this and i avoided the carpenter version for years  seeing remakes of one favourite film is and i thought and always a mistake. when i did eventually watch it sometime in 1988/9 and again on tv because there was nothing else on and i realised that i need to change always a mistake to usually a mistake. carpenter had produced something different from the original film and closer to the original story and and truly wonderful. from the opening scene of the helicopter and husky and through the viscerally disturbing scene in the dog pound and to that ending (sorry and no spoilers here. ) and i was hooked. the sound track alone lives with me  all i have to hear is a close similarity to that bass over snare drum beat and and i am in the final scene again . until seeing the thing and i had carpenter down as just another gore monkey and based only on comments and reviews in mainstream press. since seeing the thing and i think i have seen most of his movies  i haven not gone out of my to do so and but if one comes up and just seeing his name as director is enough to make up my mind to watch it. he is thoughtful and and knows how to build a film up so that it reaches a point at which something will stick in the memory. if you haven not seen the thing and and you enjoy science fiction and do yourself a favour  sit down in a dark room and wrap up warm and and prepare to have your memory enhanced. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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