The Thing (2011)

Which is a remake of the previous The Thing (1982). There was a prior 1951 movie, but it has little carryover to the 1982 version (thankfully).

The 80's movie had flamethrowers, guns, aliens, helicopters, norwegians, an Ennio Morricone soundtrack, lots of ice and no hollywood ending. The 2011 version will apparently have a soppy grad student; "At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson."

I hope she catches thrush, and I think this remake is going to stink.

I immediately thought about Swamp Thing (1982), which I enjoyed watching as a kid.

Female cast member equals automatic failure to reach the levels of awesome displayed by the great John Carpenter, a visionary whose uniquely flawless understanding of what makes a horror movie about a shapeshifting-via-genetic-transfer alien in an Antarctic research station good continues, to this day, serve me well in times of falling ill to the horror movie bug.

But I can't help feeling excited. What if they get it right? What if they explore the premise in ways we, only after seeing this new interpretation, acknowledge as the missing bit of force in a jab at perfection?

"The Thing" is still one of the great movies in that genre. I don't understand why they'd need to remake it.

No one remakes movies because they "need" to be remade. They remake them because they're cash cows.

I would say Carpenter's The Thing was much, much more than a cash cow (not to mention it wasn't all that popular upon release)...but then it's not strictly a remake, I know they're both based on the short story.