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03
2013
Ol’ Blue Eyes Sings The Thing
OK, this has been around for a couple years and nobody told me? How the hell does that happen? Anyway, this is a brilliant song and a really strong Sinatra impression for a YouTube video and I would argue that it’s more entertaining than the last Thing remake. I mean, it has the awesome special effects from John Carpenter’s film and they still hold up today after 31 years which is more than I can say for the 2011 movie.
And while we’re on the subject of movies take a minute to check out our Genre Lit-Flicks list. We’re up to 178 genre books made into film and television shows so far. I suspect we’re still missing quite a few so maybe you can help us out? What movies can you think of that were based on genre novels that we don’t have?
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I’ve been fascinated by The Thing ever since watching this film analysis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SppG-I_Dhxw. I never would have thought a splatter-gore movie would have been so carefully thought out.
This is our 700th post on the WWEnd blog! It’s good to celebrate with a song.
Well, I made a bunch last time which except for L. Ron Hubbard have been ignored (what are you Scientologists? ho ho).
The most glaring omission is the first which spawned a bunch of sequels and remakes:
Pierre Boulle – Planet of the Apes
The Continuous Katherine Moretenhoe – filmed as Deathwatch
D. F. Jones – Colossus (Made as Colossus: The Forbin Project)
John Varley – Millenium
Roger Zelazny’s short story Damnation Alley, film of the same name.
Well, not ignored just not added yet – although we did get Planet of the Apes along with all the movies a couple weeks back. I just added Death Watch, Millennium, No Blade of Grass and Tripods season 1 and 2 to the list. The other ones you mentioned are mostly short stories so we’ll have to find collections that contain those shorts. Thanks for the suggestions!
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