[bogies4]

Just picked up the re-mastered (16x9) version of the Thing. Problem is that when I opened it, there was no insert. There is a pocket for one. Did some get lazy or what.

 

[barry v s]

Seems like an ever increasing trend for studios to save a few bucks. I will try and get it tomorrow if I can find it in this one-horse (Wal-Mart) town.

 

[TK Doom]

Me neither...not that I ever look at em...besides, $14.99, who cares?

 

[Sergei Esenin]

Someone has already asked about this. Apparently there's not meant to be a booklet insert. Why it would bother anyone that there isn't one, I'll never understand. I care about the disc, not a glorified title card.

 

[Gary McCoy]

The real book that goes along with this movie is a real page-turner short novel called "Who Goes There?" published in 1938 by John W. Campbell, Jr. (under the pen name Don A. Stuart):

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.hodder/whogoes.html


Aside from a slightly different ending, the John Carpenter film The Thing is a fairly exact adaption that uses the same characters and even entire lines of dialogue straight from the book.


If you are a fan of the movie, read the original story to gain even more appreciation. John W. Campbell, Jr. went on to edit the greatest SF magazine of all time, Astounding Science Fiction, which in turn created SF's "Golden Age" and spawned all those incredible SF "B" movies of the '50's and '60's.


It is kind of astounding that lines written in 1938 can be made into a great SF film 44 years later and are still recognized as quality work today, 22 years after the film was made and 66 years after the book was published.


Gary

 

[kal]

I also noticed the pocket on the sleeve for an insert, but no insert... My guess is they're simply using a blank sleeve style that already existed (with pocket) and painting on the various movie pictures, instead of redesigning a new sleeve without pocket just for this movie since this would obviously drive up the cost of the release.


Kal

 

[Glacier991]

How is the A/V quality of this disc?

 

[kal]

I found some screenshots and discussion on the quality of the re-release here:

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htfo...05#post2419805


(scroll about 1/2 way down the first page for a pretty good review with pictures).


Kal