The 2011 prequel to the 1982 film "The Thing" would've gotten 15-30 points higher on Metacritic if the director had used animatronic effects. Amirite?
Like many films of its era, The Thing used realistic- but slow- animatronic special effects to horrify its audience. In 2011, a prequel was made to this movie using extremely unrealistic, though quick-moving Computer Generated effects, frustrating critics and fans alike.
brrrhrrrhrrrhrrr the thing should have been about men touching penises and then it would have been crazysexycool and it would have won oscars and tonys
That is the whole reason why the 1982 film scared me when I first saw it.