Continuity mistake: In the 1982 movie, the alien ship is uncovered by the Norwegian scientists using thermite. (As seen on the films discovered by the Americans.) In the 2011 movie, it is uncovered when the Thing gets back into the ship and starts up the engines.
The Thing (2011)
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Directed by: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Starring: Joel Edgerton, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen, Ulrich Thomsen
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2011 saw the prequel to The Thing tackle the story about what happened to the Norwegian arctic camp populated by scientists who had originally discovered the spaceship-and the sole survivor. A larger team--including two women--face the shape-shifting, body-possessing horror in this less-suspenseful and more grotesque film that has the monster rampage and decimate the humans, filling in various gaps left as backstory in John Carpenter's original classic. Mary Elizabeth Winstead's plucky Paleontologist character Kate Lloyd tries her best to survive in a nod to the Last Girl trope and Alien's Ripley, but if you've seen The Thing, you know that things don't bode well for any of them. Imaginative SFX by the dynamic horror duo of Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr. bring the nastiness to life. See it and watch 1982's The Thing in either order-the idea of an unknown and murderous life-form attacking isolated and ill-prepared people remains the same.
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Trivia: Much of the ending was reshot, including a scene where the alien pilots within the spaceship were witnessed by Kate Lloyd dangling from some sort of tubes; the body of one was replaced post-production by an odd Tetris-like display.
Question: In the last part of the movie, how are they supposed to drive the snow vehicles? There is a scene before where they cut the wires of all the vehicles to disable them for the quarantine. Am I missing something?
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Chosen answer: By disabling the snow vehicles, they are making sure that the creature can't use them to escape from the quarantine zone. Since the creature can assimilate anybody, it would probably know how to use one.