The Thaw (2009)

junkboy · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:28 pm **Post subject:** The Thaw (2009)

The Thaw (2009)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235448/

Quote:

A research expedition to the Arctic discovers that a melting polar ice cap has released a deadly prehistoric parasite.

The Thaw   (USA 2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235448/
640x256|944 kbps
English|128 kbps
90min 
Notes:
nothing
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MrBlonde · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:33 pm **Post subject:** Re: The Thaw (2009)

huh? val kilmer? O_o looks disgusting though... ugh!

perfect.

Slayer · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:59 pm **Post subject:** Re: The Thaw (2009)

Wow, very original storyline! ... :wacky:

Truba · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:09 pm **Post subject:** Re: The Thaw (2009)

i think it could be good

:mrgreen:

today i was browsing the bloodydisgusting and memorise few titles... one of them is thaw :mrgreen:

MrBlonde · **Posted:** Sat Sep 26, 2009 2:14 pm **Post subject:** Re: The Thaw (2009)

pretty cool indeed, but it definitely needs a MUCH higher quality rip than THIS... :\

Dogg · **Posted:** Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:15 pm **Post subject:** Re: The Thaw (2009)

Thanks for sharing

MrBlonde · **Posted:** Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:00 pm **Post subject:** Re: The Thaw (2009)

i'm watching this one...

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...right about now. so far it looks just fine. and i still like the movie... a LOT.

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elchupacabra · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:14 pm **Post subject:** Re: The Thaw (2009)

Thank you. I'll take the mkv. :beerchug:

Mataesfola · **Posted:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:54 pm **Post subject:** Re: The Thaw (2009)

Dogg wrote:

Thanks for sharing

Could you please stop saying that? :suicide:

^Rogue^ · **Posted:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:08 pm **Post subject:** Re: The Thaw (2009)

MrBlonde wrote:

pretty cool indeed, but it definitely needs a MUCH higher quality rip than THIS... :\

Downloaded the DVD, not sure if it's untouched though since no NFO came with it. I may or may not rip this in the distant future. :wacky:

Geezus · **Posted:** Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:58 pm **Post subject:** Re: The Thaw (2009)

Blaeugh....

It starts out great but it quickly goes down hill.....
Val kilmer looked bored, though not anywhere near as I was. :moon:

one word:
forgettable.

Union.Simon.616 · **Posted:** Wed May 19, 2010 5:05 am **Post subject:** Re: The Thaw (2009)

Weak, weak, weak.

It's a gender- and race-diverse bunch of people, comprised of top grad students of an anonymous university, a rich confused rebel girl and a pilot/mechanic versus a bunch of prehistoric apocalyptic Canadian bugs in an "equal opportunity cheap X-Files episode rehash horror movie". In some field.

There's actually a couple more people including a native tracker/guide sort of a guy to even further the diversity, but since he dies off camera even before the actual movie begins, I guess he's not really important. So let's not talk about him.

Once the bugs hit the fan (although really, mostly they just seem to mindlessly and erratically fly around causing approximately as much damage as house flies), the little geniuses don't waste much time in dazzling us with some brilliant ideas showing exactly why they are such tops of their class. For example - since the guy has the bugs' eggs in his forearm, let's a)chop his arm off and then b)try to spray the already chopped-off arm with some no-name bug-spray (it doesn't work on them btw). It is only after that that they try and actually burn the bugs and their eggs off the arm. It does work, but it's a small consolation to the guy, who's already mutilated and is lying unconscious on the couch bleeding to death from the stump (he eventually dies even before he bleeds out, which isn't as unfortunate as you'd think, since his arm was also infected way above the stamp).

It is also only by accident that they stumble upon the previous crew's notebook with detailed information about the bugs, including some schematics, topology and probably some information about how to fight them (the last part we never find out; why? because they never bother checking - they quickly page through the notebook once or twice and then it is never mentioned again). Yes, they already know that the previous crew knew of the bugs and all died because of them, but why bother checking if they learnt anything about that catastrophic plague before they died? After all, who cares?

No real flow, the particular scenes look badly disjointed, as if nobody really bothered with trying to string them together. Not that it would save it, but maybe would detract from the horrible FXs that are almost on par with what you could do with an 8-bit computer and a little imagination.

Val looks old and I mean really OLD. But he still gets one of the top billings despite barely being in it. He acts like he's half-asleep or doped up, yet still is one of the liveliest people in this.

A weak 3/10 for me with at least 1 full point coming from the simple fact of having the Cancer Man in it (say what you want, for me he was the hero in X-Files), even though he's only there for a literal blink of an eye.

btw it might seem like nitpicking, but in fact there is some real difference between "bugs" (a common name for invertebrate) and vertebrates. In fact Wikipedia also has an interesting definition of "bugs", namely "bugs are dumb things that crawl fghiuhuidfngodfajioa", but let's not talk about that either. And while I only know of invertebrate parasites (the vertebrates usually are too big and have too complex systems to engage in parasitic relationships, excluding maybe my brother-in-law), I understand that vertebrate ones are part of the sf aspect of this movie.

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