All hell breaks loose when the shapeshifting creature assimilates a dog in an attempt to escape. Attempting to remove it from the ice with thermite charges, they accidentally destroy the magnesium-hulled craft, but manage to recover a frozen alien creature, which the base physician Blair advocates reviving. It involved a group of Antarctic researchers who discover a spaceship frozen in ice for millions of years. gone much crazier in the 20 or so years between their stories.Where to start, but at the beginning “The Thing” first thawed as the novella “Who Goes There?”, written in 1938 by John W. With many of the same story beats as EFNY, and the addition of CGI, this sequel seems harder to ground in reality but makes up for it by leaning into its over the top elements. Jammed with Celebrity cameos, great sets, and detailed dystopian fiction world building this film is somehow wilder than the first and twice as ridiculous. Snake is apparently the only man in this new world skilled enough to surpass the plot’s many diverse challenges, including sewer surfing, hang gliding, gunplay, and basketball. When the president’s daughter aligns herself with a revolutionary leader stationed inside LA, the government must call upon the help of a legendary rebel by the name of Snake Plissken, played by Kurt Russell. Those who do not abide by this code are considered “morality offenders” and are shipped off to the prison colony of Los Angeles which has become surrounded by sea water due to a tsunami the president claims to have been sent by God. America has come to be led by a conservative zealot hellbent on enforcing his own codes of morality on the populous at large. A sequel to Carpenter’s 1981 thriller, Escape From New York, this film throws us into the “distant future” of Los Angeles in 2013.
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