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@rojobroko5979
Жыл бұрын
I still have no idea, maybe? Love this movie.
@thinkbeyond3457
Жыл бұрын
Sequal Xbox game was great! Worth a play for any gamer fans of the movie.
@parinthianquattropani9071
Жыл бұрын
I think the difference in condensation from McCready's breath compared with Childs' breath is suspicious. Childs internal temperature should be the same as McCready. Then again, it could just be that Childs was cold from wandering around aimlessly looking for Blair, if it's true... Either way, it's only a theory. I could be wrong.
@Chuck_EL
Жыл бұрын
As a diehard "The thing" movie fan everyone freaks out at the Norwegians attacking the dog and I just go "Just wait a bit ..."😂
@jean-mi1825
Жыл бұрын
@@parinthianquattropani9071 It is widely considered as fact, nowadays...
@n2011b
Жыл бұрын
So, timeline of this movie is about a week. The doctor isn't infected (or completely taken over) until they put him out in the shed for a few days. When he realizes he's infected he makes that noose to kill himself but doesn't get around to it before the thing finishes replacing him from the inside. The ship in the tunnel looks complicated but if you look close it's just an outer shell with no internals, so he had just gotten started on it a couple of days ago, and i think his monster form dug the tunnel. He got the tools from inside the shed they locked him in/from around the camp after he dug out, everyone was so busy suspecting each other they didn't notice what he was up to. He was destroying the radio equipment and going crazy because he realized that if that thing got to the mainland it would take over/destroy the world. He disabled their radios, vehicles, and killed all of the sled dogs to make sure they stayed isolated and the thing had no way to get away, but they thought he was just crazy and locked him up. He's ranting and raving because he doesn't trust anyone, but if you listen closely to his crazy babbling he explains what he's doing.
@kristianmingle
Жыл бұрын
This^^^
@fabianmonge6765
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, literally the Thing maybe had millions of shapes and some alien may have been bulldozer shaped x)
@lisamaitland157
Жыл бұрын
almost a week, 5days... Script says 5 days, 2 days of light, then 3 days of winter night. The blood bags being drained was just when perm night is coming for them= almost 48hrs. We have Fuchs being burned and Norris flipping out. Palmer releases Blair after he burns Fuchs. This release is for Blair to obtain the Generator, for the hover craft. Mac tells everyone: Last storm hits in 6hrs, which leaves only 18hrs left in real time before camp is destroyed. Blair was infected on nearly day 1.4, and dug that hole when the base equipment was still functional to remove tons of snow. He did not dig that locked in the shed, or we would have seen snow piles inside the shed on each visit out to Blair. Remember shed is bolted from the outside, so snow would stay inside if he dug that inside. Blair wrecking everything was to keep the humans from following him, and to hide that he stripped the parts almost a day ago. You see if Blair was human he would have seen the cat's and chopper were already stripped for parts. "no wrecking would be needed" Many believe he was infected during the dog autopsy, while some say in his room. Each version of this infection timeline, gives Blair enough time to complete his mission. The timeline Blair is placed in the shed, doesn't give him enough time and we would have seen snow piles inside the shed. Blairs shed time does give him time to build part of the craft, due to the hole and parts are already there. Last part no one notices, how did Mac get his over coat and bottle? On the second explosion in the distance you can see Mac's shack is intact, and safe from destruction. This is how he got his extra clothing and his drink, and this will be the reason he will survive. "Yes Childs is the Thing at the end, he is wearing different clothing then what he had at the Guard post he abandoned. Along with missing clothing on the wall of the doorway after he was attacked by Blair." Childs is wearing that missing clothing at the end, and is not tired from running around for 2hrs as he claims with a heavy flamethrower on his back. There is also a scene showing scuffle marks on the floor in the doorway, showing he had a struggle with something. Then he stumbles outside after the attack and the power goes out instantly from letting Blair in. Blair at this moment doesn't know his craft is compromised, and still removes the generator. Once he assimilates Gary his mission changes, and he goes in full attack. Assimilating Gary tells Blair Thing his craft is no longer there, and Mac plans to burn everything. This is my ideal how it happened based on the correct Time of 5days. Granted any ideal would work, because this movie leaves open interpretation for many spots. Truth be told, the space craft in the hole is a bad plot hole. This is how i rationalize it away, without removing the scene from the movie. Do i give Blair almost 4days to build that hole\stairs\ship, or do we only give him 20hrs? =nothing is functional as for equipment and the shed is bolted from the outside, nothing is coming in or going out. The act of Palmer releasing Blair, tells me the Thing has minor communication between each other. Poor Fuchs stumbling onto Palmer outside dropping Mac's torn clothing, just for it to be placed in Mac's furnace within that same time frame. Next scene showing Palmer in the rec room removing the flamethrower, just to put it back on. lol
@kevinburton3948
Жыл бұрын
The brilliance of the radio room destruction sequence is that Blair's motivation could go either way- Yes if he is human destroying the radio prevents the Thing from calling the outside World to come and rescue it... However if Blair is already a Thing at this point, destroying the radio also stops anyone still human from *warning* the World to *stay away* and quarantine the area indefinitely. Eventually "someone" would come looking to find out what happened which would give the Thing another chance of escape. But the radio room rampage has another motive- it gave a second Thing the opportunity to destroy the blood bags; Palmer is not present at all during the chaos.
@lisamaitland157
Жыл бұрын
@@kevinburton3948 At this point Blair's focus is his hover craft. Childs assimilation of knowledge is only of them going to give Him the test. It would only be when he assimilates Gary, that the creature knows of the crafts destruction. This would have been it's true time of wanting to freeze, but make sure Mac is assimilated. It doesn't care about Child's because it knows Childs is already the Thing. So becoming a huge massive Blair with the reptile part head, was it's play to go get Mac. Gary's Assimilation and maybe Nauls, also told the creature of the detonation device location. See i never believed Child's story, because of a 1 second cut when it showed him not at the door guarding anymore. There is a fast cut to the ground as the door is wide open. The snow on the ground is disturbed by what looks like 2 sets of boots\shoes on the ground. The sets are all entangled up like a struggle took place. Not to mention a white brown coat is now missing from the wall rack. Childs at the end is wearing this coat. "Remember his story?" he was in such a hurry to chase Blair, but found the time to remove his old coat and then the flamethrower to put a new one on. Then he tells Mac, he got lost and was running around for 2hrs. 2hrs with a heavy flamethrower on his back and he is not tired. We also get to see Childs stumble outside, as if he is under the transformation just before the power is removed. Childs at the end doesn't care to know what happen to everyone and he is now very trusting of Mac. The real Childs would have burnt Mac, and not drink from his bottle. Of all the people in this group, he didn't trust Mac the most. This was Child's greatest survival point, and at the end it's no longer present at all. Well that's my look on that tiny situation :)
@jean-mi1825
Жыл бұрын
Blair wasn't going "crazy". He just understood that the Thing wanted to get to civilisation and was prepared to sacrifice everybody, him included, to protect the world from it.
@ghostlyexe
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, that’s why he destroyed all of the computers and communication systems, so that the Thing couldn’t call for help and get to the rest of world
@mannylugz5872
Жыл бұрын
He was still human up to the point where he asks Mac to watch Clarke. He was already an alien when they visited him and he asks to be let inside.
@jean-mi1825
Жыл бұрын
@@mannylugz5872 Yes... He was probably assimilated right before trying to hang himself (you can see the rope behind him when they come to see him).
@JustAnotherAlex
Жыл бұрын
@Manny Lugz yup, because the real Blair wouldn't want to go back in
@ripum853
Жыл бұрын
@@JustAnotherAlex and we can assume that the real Blair was intending to hang himself, but turned before he could do it
@chauser400
Жыл бұрын
My favorite line from this movie is when Gary says, “ I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!”
@p0laris74yt8
Жыл бұрын
It’s great. My other one’s gotta be when they see the head crawling away and one of them goes “You gotta be shitting me.”
@p0laris74yt8
Жыл бұрын
I forgot about Mac’s reaction to the final form of the Thing. “Well, fuck you too!”
@geekgirl616
Жыл бұрын
@@p0laris74yt8 which is a great misdirect by the thing itself because at that point that guy is the thing
@eddhardy1054
Жыл бұрын
@@p0laris74yt8 That is cool...only it's "you've gotta be fucking kidding!"
@nicktroisi6347
Жыл бұрын
Mine too 😂😂😂
@LMarti13
11 ай бұрын
I've never seen anyone react to the dog transformation scene stoically before... also, "there's no plot" is a wild statement
@EleventhCubFan
Жыл бұрын
They really don’t make ‘em like this anymore. The practical effects in this are amazing!
@wolfman-up7dh
Жыл бұрын
It's a hard sell to general audiences, sadly. Even this movie bombed in the theaters.
@petboy5839
Жыл бұрын
@@wolfman-up7dhWhat are you talking about?
@spiral83
Жыл бұрын
true that
@jawsplayz
Жыл бұрын
@@petboy5839 from what I heard, when this movie was first released, it didn't do so well as it was way ahead of its time, even some people who went to see the movie and enjoyed it, were upset that it didn't do so great when it first released (I think it was due to critics? ), meanwhile today people are loving this movie ! (This is from what I heard at least! So take it with a grain of salt
@antoniolmartinez8426
Жыл бұрын
I saw this in the theater. It was incredible. Blair isn’t building a space craft, he’s building an aircraft cause he only needs to get somewhere populated. Great reaction
@wesleyprince3465
8 ай бұрын
Doesn't even have to be anywhere populated which makes it scarier. Literally just making it to the edge of Antarctica would be enough, penguins, fish, and leopard seals etc. Could easily spread from there across multiple species until stumbling across more humans eventually or even just infiltrating/contaminating our food chain.
@ajalvarez3111
3 ай бұрын
@@wesleyprince3465 Exactly right.
@ProfArmitage218
Жыл бұрын
This movie, and the 1951 version, were based on John W. Campbell's 1938 novella "Who Goes There?" In the story, McReady (Kurt Russell's character here) was described as a tall muscular man with skin, hair, and beard the color of bronze, leading to a fan theory that he was pulp hero Doc Savage using an alias.
@dropkick79
Жыл бұрын
That fire scene in the 1951 version is fucking insanity! You could not film that today or your production company would be put out of business.
@ajalvarez3111
3 ай бұрын
And Mac was the meteorologist in the novella. Not a pilot.
@Polymathically
Жыл бұрын
This is one of my all-time favorite movies. The special effects and music are great, but what really stand out are the tension and paranoia. You're right there with them, desperately looking for clues and watching everyone just in case they reveal something. Repeat viewings are interesting because some scenes come off completely differently when you know who's infected. One of the more subtle ones I noticed was during the standoff between Garry and Windows. Pay close attention to who is positioned where during the confrontation. Norris and Palmer - the only two present who are infected - are standing off to the side with Fuchs. _They were trying to isolate Fuchs while the rest of the group was distracted._ And though he's out of focus in the background, look at where Palmer is staring: _directly at Fuchs._ Some other tidbits: The film was shot in LA, Alaska, and British Columbia. It was actually really hot during production, so they had to refrigerate the set to make it realistic. When Mac and Copper reveal the corpse of the Thing they recovered from the Norwegian camp. Everyone is coughing and gagging for real, because the production team used smelly AB smoke fluid for the effects during the scene. The TV airing also came with brief character introductions. MacReady used to be a test pilot before getting into a confrontation with top management, then resigned and took the pilot job in Antarctica. Childs is an expert mechanic who used to work in the airline industry. Garry has a 30-year career in the army and became an officer. Clark is doing a study on the effects of extreme cold on animal behaviour. Palmer intends to open his own business as a mechanic after his work there is done. Norris is a geophysicist and was a professor at Cal Tech. Copper graduated from Harvard, trained at Massachusetts General Hospital, but an unknown personal tragedy caused him to leave and move his work to Antarctica. Bennings has been in the meteorology field long enough to be published many times. Blair is a microbiologist who specialized in cellular growth and laid the groundwork for genetic engineering, and Fuchs worked with him at the Rockefeller Foundation. There are dozens of other interesting details, so you should do some reading. I hope you watch the rest of Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy!
@richardjohnson9543
Жыл бұрын
The creature effects are still so awesome 40 years later! Keith David is Childs and yes he's had a long career both in live action and animation. The spider head scene is actually referenced in IT: Chapter Two
@shangc2781
Жыл бұрын
Keith David's most recent Horror film was a short but memorable appearance in Nope
@omegastar19
8 ай бұрын
This movie is actually one of Keith David’s first roles, and his first major role in a movie.
@monsterking1973
Жыл бұрын
Such a legendary movie the practical effects are still amazing to this day
@MrCarlBackhausen
Жыл бұрын
I love listening to you not understanding the story up until the kenel scene. Because so many of your questions up until then is actually answered in the beginning. The Norweigen scientist actually reveals a lot about the movies polt if you understand what he says. He warns them that it isn´t a dog and that it is some sort of "thing" and how they shouldn´t let it get close to them, that it is dangerous and that they are being idiots for endangering themselves. It is cool seeing how you didn´t understand it at all and being so confused, even though you just got pretty much the whole movie spoiled right in the beginning.
@danieldickson8591
Жыл бұрын
"Blair" wasn't building a space ship, just an aircraft to get it off Antarctica and into a populated area where it can propagate itself. Its human form wasn't an engineer, so it used memories from past hosts to build their kind of aircraft.
@disturbed1013
3 ай бұрын
In the novel he was building a spaceship.
@dnllrnt
Жыл бұрын
I showed this movie to my kids last Halloween and the part where Mac says, "Because when I left yesterday, I turned the lights off" my 12 year old shrieked "Oh shit!" It broke the tension in the house but they started losing their minds during the blood test scene.
@TheSnoopyEmu
11 ай бұрын
The guy in the helicopter at the beginning was not trained with guns at all, I believe he's actually a dog handler, he was just desperately trying to kill the dog before it found more people.
@jezykwkosmosie
Жыл бұрын
I love how in the beginning they are both "how you shoot so bad, how did you miss a dog with a grenade from a helicopter?". They are scientists from Norwegian base, not Rambos.
@BigSy19
Жыл бұрын
They made a prequel in 2011 named “The Thing” it shows you what happened at the other camp.
@rossmckenzie7629
Жыл бұрын
Rob Bottin who did 95% of the insane creature effects mysteriously disappeared from filmmaking. It is said that with the invention of CGI that he found his work just not relevant. But I would easily say he was top 3 for creature effects easily.
@tookiem7618
Жыл бұрын
They said all of their names multiple times throughout the movie. I think you both continually missed it because you were talking over some of the exposition.
@wesleyprince3465
8 ай бұрын
Tbf it took me watching it a good 3 times by myself to fully learn and memorize who's who.
@jasonmd2020
Жыл бұрын
There was another Thing movie from 2011. Turns out it wasn't a remake or a sequel, but it's revealed in the end credits that this was the story of the Norwegian camp, and leads directly into the original.
@martinboyle9163
Жыл бұрын
I would have loved to have seen the practical effects version.
@alyxgriffen5073
Жыл бұрын
It was a prequel. What made it weird was that they used CGI, so they could do "fancier" and *faster-acting* SFX than the 1982 one, so the prequel's Thing did stuff that the "later" (but much earlier filmed) Thing wasn't capable of. But even with (what was) top CGI effects, the 2012 prequel still didn't look as good as this 1982 original.
@Konoshy
Жыл бұрын
@@alyxgriffen5073 From what I've heard they wanted to do practical effects and even did for most if not all of the scenes while filming but the studio make them cover over the practical with CGI.
@reconsoldier135
Жыл бұрын
Best horror movie ever. Also the thirst for Kurt Russell is palpable
@kimberlyjeanne9456
8 ай бұрын
Snake Plissken is still my favorite 💕
@TerbInYourFace
Жыл бұрын
My absolute favorite title sequence ever. How it rips through the screen as if it were being assimilated and becomes, The Thing
@Wolvie181
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you guys got to watch John Carpenter's The Thing. It's one of my favorite sci-fi/horror movies. The practical effects still look great 40 years later. To me It's Carpenter's best film. The ending is still discussed among fans to this day.
@turningcaterpillarsintocar5465
Жыл бұрын
This is my FAVORITE horror movie, so glad you’re reacting to it.
@Snikerpiker1
Жыл бұрын
So you know the names are (in death reveal order): Lars - the Norweigan shooter Bennings - the guy who gets shot and dies first later on Fuchs - the glasses wearing scientist who burns himself Norris - the chubby technician who suffers a heart attack Copper - the doctor Clark - the dog caretaker Palmer - the technician and the shadowy figure at the start Windows - the radio guy Blair - the biologist Gary - the commander Nauls - the cook Childs and MacReady - the sole survivors (it was confirmed that Childs was human in the video game which is a sequel to the movie. He freezes to death)
@BLUNAProductions
Жыл бұрын
If you think about it, if it wasn’t for this movie, we would have never have Among Us
@puffguy
Жыл бұрын
I will die on this mountain 🏔John Carpenters THE THING, is the most well-written movie of all time 😎
@wesleyprince3465
8 ай бұрын
It's truly one of a kind because it's so well written WITHOUT being pretentious or reeking of self importance. (Which is a trap I feel alot of Kubrick's work falls into for example). But this movie, you can watch it one time as just an entertaining horror movie, or you can watch it 4 dozen times and analyze every other frame. It's equally as good either way
@thedrewyariexperience
Жыл бұрын
According to Keith David, John Carpenter told the actors to use their imagination as to what was happening. The actors saw the practical effects at the premier of the film.
@uktechnoob
Жыл бұрын
Your discussion at and about the ending was why the ending was done in this way as it was talked about a LOT. Also, there was a movie that came out later in 2011 and was a prequal which was about the Norwegian base and what happened to them and leaves exactly where this one starts and worth the watch. A sequel to this came out in the form of a game which involved a rescue team that goes to the outpost (and they find the recording that Kurt made in this one).
@shainewhite2781
Жыл бұрын
Portions of the Dog Kennel Sequence was done by Oscar Winning VFX company Stan Winston Studios, as Rob Bottin was hospitalized for exhaustion and a bleeding ulcer.
@Chuck_EL
Жыл бұрын
And he was 21 at the time too also he took over for Rick Baker to do the howling while Baker did an American werewolf of London
@mannylugz5872
Жыл бұрын
Imagine an apocalyptic movie about The Thing spreading all over the world.
@wesleyprince3465
8 ай бұрын
Wouldn't even take much is what makes it scary. Imagine it just makes it to the edge of Antarctica and assimilates a couple schools of fish. Soon the whole ocean would be taken over through various species' food chains and humanity wouldn't even be aware that anything nefarious was happening..meanwhile it'd be in our food/supply chain and we'd already be fucked.
@HowDyaYouLikeMeNow
8 ай бұрын
"Everybody who has seen this movie is judging us so hard now." Yep. Well, mostly the part where you thought Blaire was a possessed thing monster when he is clearly attempting to stop anybody from leaving. The previous scene where he is seeing the likelihood of somebody having been infected and then grabbing his gun should have made that obvious. 🙄
@Sandy-dd4le
Жыл бұрын
The pinball machine in the rec room is called Heat Wave. On the rear display is a thermometer, the idea of play is to score points raise the temperature of the thermometer, when it reaches the top, it blows. A fun bit of foreshadowing that only pinball fanatics get.
@brianwalley2131
11 ай бұрын
Blair wasn't infected when he went crazy. He went crazy because he realised the thing would infect the entire world if it ever got out of Antarctica, so the only choice was to destroy everybody and everything in the station
@disturbed1013
3 ай бұрын
He was in the novella. Who's to say he wasn't in the film? In "Who goes there?", he did it to get isolated so he could build the spaceship.
@matt_afact
Жыл бұрын
BTW you can hear Windows (podcaster) drop the keys when he sees Bennings being assimilated, giving the thing an opportunity to take them to sabotage the blood later. Also, many scientific groups in studies have military personnel for equipment and/or protection in remote areas. Carpenter has said that Mac was a chopper pilot in Vietnam.
@lkf8799
Жыл бұрын
I thought Blair destroyed everything to keep The Thing from spreading. But he definitely got infected by the time he built the ship.
@Chuck_EL
Жыл бұрын
And because the thing is a shape shifter it definitely used multiple limbs, heads, tendrils and tentacles to get parts and build that spaceship in a few days plus we know it's 10,000 years old at least according to Norris
@UrbanAnywhere
Жыл бұрын
Yeah thought that was pretty obvious. Not sure how the pair missed it. Probably busy telling jokes.
@HonkHonkler
Жыл бұрын
"Imitate" doesn't mean it's making a copy of you, it means it's literally imitating you in your own body.
@thomasgriffiths6758
Жыл бұрын
I really love Wilford Brimley even without a giant mustache.
@Chuck_EL
Жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: that scene where they run with an ax at Wilford was legit as Brimley was a marine and a boxer so he really pushed them back with Russell taking the ax to the table while Wilford held up the table that's some strength there Rip Wilford
@stevenbaumann8692
Жыл бұрын
How have you never seen this movie? Better late than never. It is a classic. The sequel is actually a prequel.
@barbastos
Жыл бұрын
And it sucks.
@dragon_ninja_2186
Жыл бұрын
We don’t talk about that sequel/prequel. It doesn’t exist and shouldn’t have been made in the first place!
@barbastos
Жыл бұрын
@@dragon_ninja_2186 couldn’t have said it better
@mrpickmanb
Жыл бұрын
Coy says it would work in CGI.. spoilers lol
@Theeplayboi
Жыл бұрын
@@dragon_ninja_2186it wasn’t completely bad but also if they watched it some of there questions would be answered
@k1productions87
Жыл бұрын
"They didn't say Childs one time" ... they said it MANY times, as you two were arguing over whether you heard Chils or Jiles, so not only was it said, but you to obviously heard it. Yet still forgot mere minutes later? My goodness LOL
@CiaoKnives
Жыл бұрын
Yes! Love this film. The alien threat drew me in and 80s Kurt Russell made me stay.
@dramakingnyc937
Жыл бұрын
... Roxy is friggin gorgeous ... Every year she gets better looking.
@roxystriar
Жыл бұрын
And soooo smart & humble
@dramakingnyc937
Жыл бұрын
@@roxystriar .... Well I didn't wanna overdue it because I'm sure you get hit with compliments everyday... But yes, that too... Being funny as well is the icing. 😘
@DMFX1
Жыл бұрын
@@dramakingnyc937 Being funny is the cake, being a babe is the icing.
@dramakingnyc937
Жыл бұрын
@@DMFX1 ... I stand corrected! 😂
@DrWatson4
Жыл бұрын
“Bleurgh” “Yes fuck you too” What a line 😂😂
@castlew4162
Жыл бұрын
Yes, you missed names of characters and other subtle stuff because you were distracted by your reaction commentary that went off-topic or just too much meandering. This film is best experienced with all your attention in a dark theater feeling the isolation, paranoia, tension, fear, etc. and trying to think of what was going on and what you'd do if you were there or one of those characters. The genius of this film is that even when it's over you're still on edge, and there is so much to go back to and debate who got taken over when; and what's going to happen next with the remaing two where possibly one of them is The Thing. Stuff is still being debated 40 years later: the sound of keys dropping, what coats are on the coat hooks, could another dog-thing be already treking to a neighboring base, how smart was The Thing to plant ripped clothing or foment distrust among the humans while deflecting suspicion of itself by pointing out the Norris spider head crawling away. BTW, the dog-thing was masterfully played by Jed the half-wolf dog actor. They were all smart guys - most were research scientists including Blair who ran the computer "simulation" of the assimilation of a being by The Thing. It overwhelms what its taking over converting the cells to a copy at a rate according to the amount of its mass it can get to what it is taking over. The result is The Thing with the combined mass of what organic material it assimilated. More dogs absorbed = larger creature with more morphing capabilities. When Blair-thing aborbs Garry and Nauls it now has the combined material to form the large roaring creature with long teeth and a lower dog's head appendage. Blair was not crazy when he destroyed the helicopter and cat controls, killed the remaining dogs, and was destroying the communication equipment. At that time he was explaining that it wants to be us (humans) and take over the entire planet of beings - he cannot let it get out of their camp to take over the world. He cannot trust that anyone else is not an imitation - he got that long before the others realized anyone and any number of them could be The Thing. When he was drugged and locked in the tool shed he was still human, but soon afterwards he was visited by Palmer or Norris and converted rather than absorbed to a separate humanoid Thing like them. After that there was over 6 hrs. before the storm was to hit, then the treking out in the storm, then the standoff with the dynamite, then the first session of testing of the blood, then the battle with Palmer-Thing, then more testing; and then they went to give Blair the test. Blair was in the TOOL SHED which included a welding set that was used to hollow out the tunnel and make space for the workshop. The building of the craft was ongoing and Palmer and/or Norris could have helped with the gathering of parts or construction. Also, the 3 Things could have morphed to allow it to do stuff faster or phyically more powerfully. The craft was not a spaceship, but just transportation to "anywhere but here" using the knowedge it aborbed from the aliens, Blair, and other humans. The ending is another puzzle for the audience to figure out, and Roxy nailed it IMO that both Childs and MacReady cannot be The Thing or they'd give each other the "we got this now" look; and that Childs is probably The Thing and MacReady is playing it cool before he can form an effective attack on Childs-Thing. Yes, it is the duty of a surviving human to torch the other guy incase he is The Thing - that was Mac's whole reasoning to burn down the place and destroy The Thing so it cannot just freeze and then attack the rescue team that would arrive in the Antarctic Spring.
@tonywilliams6294
4 ай бұрын
We always thought it was Childs... all the signs pointed to him but he is proven human in death in the game. It's really messed up. Although, I really just consider the game a possible outcome.
@Classicalsin484
Жыл бұрын
The ending the biggest key to have an idea who might be the Thing is watch their breath in the air while talking. Only MacReady's breath is visible because he is a human Childs has no breath... so subtle but so good. truly a classic.
@vincegamer
Жыл бұрын
Watch more carefully. Both have breath vapor, just hard to see due to lighting angles
@rsrt6910
Жыл бұрын
Also watch the Bennings-Thing exhaled vapor when it screamed just before Mac torched it.
@bulma12345678910
Жыл бұрын
@@rsrt6910 Yeah I don't agree with the breath thing either. They're shown to be perfect imitations with human organs and since the Norris thing has a heart attack, these organs actually function so the imitations would breathe normally. I don't like the 'whiskey bottle is actually a molotov cocktail' theory either because I think the Childs thing would be smart enough to know humans don't drink gasoline or kerosene. Besides if you wanna point to the whiskey bottle isn't it way more likely that Mac is infected and is deliberately trying to get Childs, or maybe he's testing to see if the Childs thing is discrete enough to avoid sharing fluids like they've been so careful about? Maybe Childs doesn't give a fuck either way, the ambiguity makes it great.
@paulferguson5550
3 ай бұрын
For me, it was the alcohol test that Mac gave Childs! Mac knew Childs wasn't a drinker! And afterwards, you can see him smirk! That's when I knew...
@mutanthybrid3466
Жыл бұрын
First thing people say, "Those guys are bad shots." Try shooting a small moving target from a vibrating, swaying, moving object and see how you do, then say that.
@RCTPatriot75
Жыл бұрын
It's super easy to hit a small moving target while hanging out the side of a helicopter.
@HonkHonkler
Жыл бұрын
Blaire is destroying everything either because Blaire is the smartest, already assimilated and _The Thing_ is playing the role of Blaire REALLY well to avoid suspension from the others. Making the others think he's just crazy and trying to PREVENT _The Thing_ from getting out. Or the latter Blaire isn't infected there yet and knows they can't escape or _The Thing_ also possibly escapes to assimilate the rest of humanity.
@AndyMatts44
8 ай бұрын
I think you probably have a very unrealistic idea of how easy/hard it is to shoot something. In this case you have distance, a moving target, the shooter is not set and is not only moving at however many mph a helicopter goes, but is serving back and forth. And, finally, that's probably a research scientist trying to shoot it, so experience or expertise is also not a given. And when Blair flips out and you're wondering if he's infected or going nuts, you need to listen to what he's ranting about - "You think that thing wants to be an animal? It wants to be us! No one gets out of here....." How did he get the tools? Mac: "I don't want him in my shed. We'll put him in the tool shed."
@americaz378
Жыл бұрын
Yes, you should most definitely watch The Fly. Another 80's classic. Great reaction!
@shainewhite2781
Жыл бұрын
34:50, this explosion almost killed Kurt Russell, a piece of shrapnel was 10 inches from his Head!
@joeyloucks912
Жыл бұрын
Y'all should look into The Apocalypse Trilogy that includes this film along with Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness by John Carpenter. Fascinating storytelling and filmmaking
@PlasteredDragon
Жыл бұрын
@37:28 - After Blair was locked alone in the tool shed it was a lot easier for the Thing to get to him -- it takes a few minutes to fully assimilate somebody so the Thing attacks when they are alone and isolated. At this point Blair is infected, the moment he was infected he began working on a way to escape Antarctica -- there's almost nobody on the whole continent, the Thing wants to get to populated areas so it can infect as many organisms as possible -- this is how it reproduces. The other thing you may have noticed is that the thing can pretty much look like anything it wants, it just grows extra arms or claws or whatever it needs as it needs them. Once Blair was infected he could work much faster than any man. In the short story this is based on, when the characters go to the tool shed to check on Blair he has like sixteen tentacles and is rapidly building some sort of machine. This is how Blair (once he became a Thing) was able to make so much progress in a short time. He *wasn't* infected when he destroyed the helicopters and the radio room. Blair was trying to prevent the Thing from escaping Antarctica... he took the computations he did on his computer very seriously. If the organism escapes to populated areas, that's the end of the world. He was *trying* to isolate them -- to make sure the Thing could not escape.
@Shlankyman545
11 ай бұрын
These two Bostonians have some bad takes with this movie, jeez.
@shainewhite2781
Жыл бұрын
33:45, the blood test scene was on Bravo's 100: Scariest Movie Moments.
@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto
11 ай бұрын
I disagree, Blair imo wasn't assimilated untill after he freaked out and they locked him in the toolshed. I'd say both this film and Phantasm require more than 1 viewing to really grasp the gravity of everything happening, who is who, when and where they were. He's destroying everything to keep The Thing trapped with them off the mainland to prevent an apocalypse, or he's trapping everyone without communication to warn. It really can go both ways, genius of this film, but I choose he's trapping The Thing to prevent mainland escape.
@luckystallone4194
Жыл бұрын
This watch is like watching a movie with my parents. Constantly missing the plot..... Damn it you guys just said everyone's judging you and here I am judging you. Thanks for watching a great movie!
@JollyJeff
Жыл бұрын
This movie bombed when it came out and the critics HATED it but later on, they came around and admitted that they were wrong. I saw the day it came out and it was awesome on the big screen!
@sca88
Жыл бұрын
No one has thing inside them. They just are the Thing.
@Vulcanerd
Жыл бұрын
I appreciated Roxy's Bledsoe, Drew joke XD
@dljprogun
Жыл бұрын
2:37 Det er ingen hund! 2:57 Shooting a moving dog sized target when you are in a moving chopper is a really hard thing to do. 3:21 Det er ingen hund! 42:37 Outside shots were British Columbia and Alaska. Inside was sets in Toronto and Los Angeles. 46:38 It eats your brain and then knows what you know, 100,000 it ate the brain of the alien. 48:18 No. MacReady's cloths were fine and Childs was not the thing. Childs had MacReady alone with no witnesses the perfect prey for the thing. If Childs was the thing what was stopping him from killing MacReady? Nothing. (Also the thing can't get Childs, he's got freinds on the other side.) You should watch The Thing (2011)
@rainman3164
11 ай бұрын
Blair (Wilford Brimley) was never crazy. He just realized what was going on before everybody else did. He knew they had to keep themselves isolated to keep the thing from reaching civilization. If that happened, the entire planet would be doomed.
@michaelsuk6440
Жыл бұрын
Before filming the movie, Carpenter had them all live together on the set (in northern Canada) for two months. This developed their characters before filming.
@flytothesky8286
Жыл бұрын
So in this movie the character take a roll like Garry is the leader on this researcher, macgready is US pilot helicopter ,dr copper and dr Blair is sciencetist, fusch is assistant scientist ,Nauls is chef, Clark is pet lover, childs is mechanic, Palmer is US co pilot and mechanic, bennings is meteorologist, Norris is archeology, and windows radio operator
@Zeus1701E
Жыл бұрын
There was a series of graphic novels that continued the story. The books was about MacReady chasing and fighting The Thing all the way through South America and finally ended in a northern fishing village. The Thing had assimilated so many people by now that it finally developed human emotions and was last seen taking the form of a fish and swimming off to find peace. MacReady survived.
@antonyeastham4564
Жыл бұрын
Wow, that sounds awful, the kind of awful that gets made all too often nowadays.
@modemsymphony9387
Жыл бұрын
I think that part of the dog/Thing mass escaped through the kennel ceiling. As soon as it escapes the kennel it’s the first “Thing” to start working on the spaceship. There were at least 3 other separate “Thing”s walking around camp in human form; Blair, Palmer, and Norris. So you could have a large alien burrowing around camp and 3 guys up top collecting parts.
@jeremyintime7212
Жыл бұрын
Now I need these twos reaction to the 2011 version so they can see the drastic differences between them
@Manx36
Жыл бұрын
2011 is the prequel to this one, it explains where the dog came from
@jeremyintime7212
Жыл бұрын
@@Manx36 Yeah I know I didn't want to say that in the comment and spoil it for them
@MCHunterGaming-iw2yk
Жыл бұрын
To me what makes this movie epic is the fact that all characters are smart and make decisions based on a realistic perspective. Not just running all around tripping at one another getting killed because they are idiots. The suspence of not knowing which one is infected is a perfect way to make someone doubt others mistakingly
@blastradius9136
Жыл бұрын
Both the Doc ( Richard Dysart) and Childs (Keith David) were voice actors in HBO's Spawn Animated Series. Richard played Cogliostro and Keith as Spawn.
@willem8820
Жыл бұрын
Keith david the legendary Arbiter
@roachmojo
Жыл бұрын
Love the appreciation you two show for this classic. I saw this with my best friend opening night, both seniors in HS. We were stunned lol... 😂😬
@Hellohellonada
Жыл бұрын
John Carpenter remains my favorite director to this day. This movie and Big Trouble in Little China are in my top 5
@tracerjames51
Жыл бұрын
So insane that the guy who made the effects, Rob Bottin, was only 19 when he did this
@samfisher6606
Жыл бұрын
Doesn't Roxy having not seen The Thing go back to Collider Live?
@51tetra69
Жыл бұрын
“The Thing” is suspicion, mistrust, and paranoia personified! It is the story of desperate men, isolated and hopelessly trapped in the middle of nowhere, caught up in a terrifying life-and-death battle with an inhuman enemy, in which the fate of the entire world hangs in the balance. What would you do?
@robbyerob
Жыл бұрын
I visited LA during the filming for this movie and got to see the Set at the Movie Studio when I visited.
@CaesiusX
Жыл бұрын
26:39 _"Could it be Kurt?"_ _"He's too big a movie star."_ A few think, at least by the end, that it was Kurt. Many think it is Childs at the end, given he doesn't appear to have steamy breath. 🤷🏼♂️ Blair saw the computer projections indicating how quickly it would take over the world once it got out. So, he destroyed their means of communication and escape. They were a research team. Easy to miss the sign at the start. *EDIT:* Blair didn't build a spaceship, per se. Just a craft that would get the Thing to l civilization. It helped that they locked him in the toolshed. And that it can take the form of whatever it has taken the form of in the past. Which could easily be something with multiple limbs. Thus, making the building go a lot quicker.
@jamesmoyner7499
Жыл бұрын
I prefer the original film version The Thing From Another World it may look a little campy, but I find it more exciting than this one.
@k3n12ock
Жыл бұрын
KNEW IT!!!! Knew that Coy and Roxy would say to not harm to doggo, until... LOL
@Aishakenya824
Жыл бұрын
Boston takeover! Let’s go!!! 🎉🎉🎉
@Thomas-VA
6 ай бұрын
your right, every generation either someone says today's music sucks, but usually it's their parents or grandparents saying it, but there are gems to be found in each, in retrospect
@jeffehren
Жыл бұрын
YES! Blair was probably infected when he was doing the autopsies. One film theory about the end (which I think was discredited) is that the "alcohol" was actually gasoline used to blow up the camp and Childs is the alien because he doesn't taste the difference. It's an awesome film!
@tboards71
Жыл бұрын
Watch The Thing from 2011, because that is the prequel. It explains what happens to the NORD team. Very under appreciated movie.
@ObserveThis
Жыл бұрын
Great pick and great video! Keep it up Reel Rejects!
@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto
11 ай бұрын
No, there is certainly plot in this film and characters, they see eachother's names near anytime someone is addressed. I know this is reactor commentary but often crucial or character identity dialogue is being talked over. So, I highly recommend both of you watch it again on your own time or live, but do watch it again. This film is beyond the gore and special effects. Beyond the effects, this film is brilliantly crafted, it's a genius film
@CoopyKat
Жыл бұрын
It's fun watching you both react to this movie for the first time. I first saw it on television (VERY cut of course) and the beginning part, shooting at the dog made me think WHAT IS THIS and WHY am I watching it?? But of course, I loved it....then I saw it uncut years later and loved it more. The scene with the head coming off the body, down to the floor and growing tentacles was all cut from TV, along with a lot of other scenes! The spaceship being built under the tool shed-- I just figured it was an ALIEN - super-intelligent life form that traveled through space - so it had the ability to build it super fast. Remember what MacReady said, "it's from outer space, it's different from us"! Plus we did see Blair stealing parts from the helicopter even before he was locked in the tool shed.
@charlesstipes3726
Жыл бұрын
the whole discussion about if they did a thing today and Im like "They did..the prequel " :)
@GrimlockGuy34
Жыл бұрын
At the end the music picks up again because childs is the thing. Mac was making molotovs and had filled the bottle with gasoline. When childs drank it (b/c the thing wouldnt know) mac chuckles and the music starts
@kristianmingle
Жыл бұрын
Jennifer Coolidge should be everyone’s favorite woman from Boston. ❤
@nateisler3
Жыл бұрын
Entire time Blaire was left unattended in the shed he was already assimilated into the thing and started working on a ship.
@mattlawson4727
Жыл бұрын
awesome cast, awesome movie, still stands above any monster thriller to this day, John Carpenters best movie
@joetyrant4713
3 ай бұрын
My theory is that Macready was infected at the blood test scene after Palmers infected blood shot up and onto his hand. Who would handle the potential hostile blood without protective equipment? That blood clearly had sentience and could have found its way into Macready. He keeps his role as the leader to misdirect the humans and later on when Childs appears with the flamethrower, he de escalates and convinces Childs to chill out with him. This is where he infects Childs with the bottle and laughs that he won. He also deleted the Blair thing because the Macready thing probably felt the Blair thing would ruin his perfect cover and also didn't want the Blair thing to absorb him into its mass.
@thinkbeyond3457
Жыл бұрын
Russel did try out for Han Solo👍
@Fatalerror094
Жыл бұрын
37:04 We can infer how long Blair was in the tool shed given what MacReady said about the coming storm when He gave His "I know I'm human" speech which happened shortly after Blair had been locked up. MacReady tells the men, "there's a storm hitting us in six hours". The next time We see Mac He is making His tape, He says; "-the storm been hitting us hard for 48 hours". So, up to that point in the movie Blair has been locked in the tool shed for at least 54 hours (2 days and 6 hours). More time passes, about 18 hours and 45 minutes (3:30 AM to 10:15 PM) for a total of 72 hours and 45 minutes (3 days and 45 minutes) that We know that Blair was still in the tool shed (the last time Mac talked to Him through the door), (though He/It would have been able to come and go as It pleased, if He was The Thing for part or all of the time It was "lock in").
@Zombu47
Жыл бұрын
@35:50 One of the things that is so crazy about KZitem's policy on censorship is that because they don't have clear cut rules for what is and isn't acceptable, where basic television in the 90s was less censored than how creators are kind of being forced to water down all content for fear of losing their livelihoods.
@dgefive
6 ай бұрын
Is it me or does anyone else find it weird that Coy; in the beginning of the movie is surprised a guy in a moving helicopter can’t hit a fast moving target?
@GYG-uv3ol
Жыл бұрын
27:48 The outpost they're stationed at is a research facility.
@creativitycell
Жыл бұрын
These two talked so much, like a lot of yakkety yak tubers they missed one of the movies most classic lines! I wont write it, why shud I? Shame, as its pretty funny too! 😂
@tookiem7618
Жыл бұрын
They missed a ton because they talked waayy too much. And I can't believe how much they struggled with what was happening.
@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto
11 ай бұрын
12 men: • MacReady pilot • Palmer pilot THING • Childs engineer • Copper physician • Blair Biologist THING • Fuchs biologist • Norris geologist THING • Nauls chef/cook • Bennings geographer THING • Garry Security • Windows Communication • Clark Dog handler/sled musher The ambiguous ending is Mac and Childs could both be human, both be The Thing, or one of them. The point is we do not know but we do know paranoia and distrust lives on as they freeze to death. They say their names numerous times in this film, almost everytime someone is addressed they say their names.
@ewaldvonkleist6834
Жыл бұрын
It Imitates so well that it inherited Norris's arteriosclerosis. He actually had a heart attack. It reacted violently to the electrical shocks of the defibrillator and broke its cover. Being unconscious, it could not consciously control the response of the body to the electrocution.
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