TRAILER: Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton Fight Something in The Thing
While the poster for the prequel/reboot of The Thing was pleasingly old school, the new trailer is old school in the worst way possible. Packed with jump scares, corny monster noises, and enough parkas to fill out a section at Eastern Mountain Sports, the new trailer seems like something Dimension might have cut together for Phantoms 2. Alas! Scott Pilgrim muse Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Animal Kingdom star Joel Edgerton, you deserve better.
OK, so: scary. But, also, kinda lame. It even seems to spoil more of the film than the trailer for Contagion, a difficult feat considering that one shows [REDACTED] dying a horrible, avian-flu death. On the plus side, MEW seems like a sturdy post-Neve Campbell horror heroine, and Edgerton's beard looks nice.
The Thing hits theaters on Oct. 14.
VERDICT: Getting colder.
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I kinda liked it. Ops.
I don't agree with you. It wasn't the best trailer I've ever seen, but it wasn't that bad either. And at the risk of offending the gods, I wasn't crazy about Mary Elizabeth Winstead. She looks like she's 20-years-old, which makes me wonder why she's been flown out to the Antarctica to see a 100 thousand-year-old relic. Did she answer the Regis and Kelly trivia question correctly or something?
Ah, I get it now. Someone's been reading the AV Club.
Oh Mary Elizabeth, I love you. You're classy and fun and sexy and have a nice singing voice(Death Proof), but honey child, what is it with you and horror remakes?
Not sure MEW "deserves better" after her lazy/pissy "I don't want to be here" performance in SCOTT PILGRIM. A better actress--like Alison Pill (who was right there! behind the drum kit!)--could've made that a really funny role.
Get her, THING!