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One of the better discussions regarding the Thing is what its actually able to absorb during assimilation, biology only, or can it also absorb knowledge and memories? If the latter is true then that would explain an attempt to build another ship in the first movie to get off the planet, if the former is true then is the Thing actually a highly intelligent being??
@@gilharrison8696 NO ,IT WAS ORIGINALLY JUST A PRIMITIVE ORGANISM LIKE A MOLD OR FLATHEAD WORM THAT WHEN FED PIECES OF OTHER FLATHEAD WORMS WOULD ABSORB AND AQUIRE MEMORIES,KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS OF THE HOST OR HOSTS THAT IT HAD ASSIMILATED ABSORBED AND CONSUMED THE ORIGINAL ORGANISM OR CREATURE WAS A VERY PRIMITIVE LIFEFORM A BASIC SINGLE CELLED ORGANISM THAT WAS PROBABLY LIKE AN AMOEBA SINCE IT WAS A JUST PRIMITIVE ORGANISM IT HAD NO REAL INTELLIGENCE JUST BASIC SURVIVAL SKILLS I HAD NO CULTURE, KNOWLEDGE,OR TECHNOLOGY BUT IT WOULD ABSORB ALL THE HOST VICTIMS SKILLS,KNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDING THIEF,PESONALITY AND TRAITS AND JUST A MIMIC IT ABSORBS THE MEMORIES,KNOWLEDGE ,TRAITS OF THE HOSTS THAT IS ABSORBED
I don't believe it is "The Things" space ship. I think it belongs to the last thing that The Thing assimilated. If it had this technology it wouldn't need to be purely parasitic.
I think it's generally accepted that you're right - the implication in the story is much too strong. We're obviously supposed to read the UFO as crashing/making a forced landing - and, later, I'd say obviously supposed to conclude that the Thing was the cause of that, all along: freezing itself stiff in the ice while making one of its usual attempts to distance itself from the chaos and destruction it brought into everyone's life. Silly Thing.
Gotta love falling from those 1000 foot drops that lead onto metal floors, only to give you a little mark on your head and a sleepy time for as long as the script needs
Yeah falling directly into the engine bay, the vents pivot so air or w/e can get into the ignition chamber? And you have a door leading into the bridge?
The fact that they swapped out the special effects for CGI at the end still absolutely breaks my heart. Mind you the original is my favorite horror film and I dont even LIKE watching horror films.
When I read that for the first time after watching this movie I absolutely lost all respect for the film makers. Why the F did they feel the need to abandon all of the beautiful practical effects done by the special effects crew in favor of fake looking CGI at the least minute during post production will always escape me. Especially when you look at the 1982 movie and how flawless and realistic the practical effects were, you can’t help but think how much more superior they are in comparison to the mess we got in this film. That’s the reason why this movie is almost never seen or brought up. The producers and film makers made a enormous mistake on that end.
@@CephlonMayngrum I objectively hold them in high regards for being able to generate fear, anxiety, and panic and despair in its viewers through a Film maker and crew's ability to make it happen on a visceral level, I hold high regard for folks who can go back for it and want more, I just cant handle the emotions that come from it, doesnt mean the films or the genre is bad, I hold the John Carpenter's film to a very high standard considering I couldnt sleep properly for a few weeks as well as developed a potent fear of huskies, what Carpenter set out to do he achieved it in spades in me, I just cant function without proper amounts of sleep in my day to day which is why I dont enjoy watching horror movies especially good ones, doesnt mean I wont give respect where its due.
Once you know that originally there was an alien carcass instead of that weird tetris-like hologram, Kate's reaction makes more sense. She looks both enthralled and somewhat disturbed looking at what it once was a different life form, while also keeping her distance from it. Besides, there's no need to use a lantern to take a closer look at a hologram that is already brighter.
I believe there was a great movie being made at one point. The crew was very talented and made lots of practical effects that somehow got squandered by the studio.. there's an interesting video about it on RUclips
It wasn't like that originally, but the executive people thought they should put it in. Just like they had mostly practical effects in the beginning but then replaced them all with CGI because executives thought it would be cooler.
It did for either one if these 3 reasons: 1. The thing is mostly an animalistic being so it naturally growls. 2. The thing got mad for he to intrude the ship and foiling it's plan. 3. The thing recognize her as it got mad because she's the only smartest human it encounter and it has exposing it so it will not let her expose it again
The weird sci-fi thing seen at 3:50 was originally the hung corpses of the alien pilots of the space ship. It was implied that the pilots took their own lives rather than being seized by the impostor(the thing). It was replaced with the CGI squares during post production. Can’t remember the reason.
It was because of the damn test audience saying that they didn’t like the alien hanging itself so that’s why the writers replaced it with that glowing cgi bullshittery
@@luisvelez1952 ambush attack maybe? Carter was confused and desperated to find Kate and it just attacked him from behind, grabbed his face and it's all done with the assimilation
Its good that they origins of the space ship a mystery in this film. How're we supposed to know what its "mission" was, or for that matter, who or what built it? Did the Thing build it? Doubtful-but we don't know. My preferred "theory" is that the builders of that ship had the bad luck to encounter these monsters somewhere, and there was a struggle on board-which the crew lost-and then the survivor, i.e. a monster, couldn't manage the controls, so the ship crashes, and with nothing to eat, the Thing crawls out, and gets frozen. The ones who built the saucer would be a race of technological beings, and perhaps just developed the technology to start exploring beyond their own solar system, right here in our own galaxy, the milkyway. We have no clue as to what they may have actually looked like, as they are long gone. But the thing in the ice-that is probably its true form.
It would be interesting if its true form was just cellular also don't know if I'm reading it right, but in the prequel I think they may have thawed out whatever the alien might have looked like while it was hosted by the thing. I don't know, however if you haven't read the comics. They also do a good job on giving you more without ruining the mystery of what exactly the thing is.
Haven't read the comics, but I did watch all three movie versions-i.e. the Howard Hawks, the John Carpenter, and the Danish director who's name I don't care to try and spell. I have seen all three several times, and I decided that my favorites are the first, and the third. The 2011 prequel, in my view, was the best of the three, in terms of story, realism, and special effects. To me, it is the story of a small group of scientists and riggers stumbling on the "find" of all time-i.e. that ship, and the apparent "survivor" nearby. But instead of letting the rest of the world in on it, these complacent people, led by that impossible, and arrogant Halvorsen, decide to claim "ownership" of these items, only to realize how truly out of their depth they are in, as a nightmare quickly envelopes them.
You are partially correct. The crew of the ship were collecting specimens of lifeforms, and stumbled on Thing. However The Thing has no true form. Which, IMHO, every film about Thing, should be named The Thing. Just plain 'The Thing'. If it has an original form it is likely to be a retrovirus, or a single cell. All it does is record prey's genetic information and cell structure, then mimics the cell. Cell by cell. Either slow and subtle like cancer, or fast and violent. When a complex multicellular organism is mimicked, The Thing has ability to express any part of genetic code of any lufeform it has mimicked. That maybe just an uncontrolled defense mechanism. Thing expresses general body plan and morphology of a desired lifeform out of organs of other unrelated lifeforms The Thing mimicked. The Thing could be a type of biological weapon, but could also be an adaptive mechanism to allow the organism to live in any biosphere it finds itself in. The Thing may not be a weapon or invasive organism at all, at least not intentionally. It could be a biological tool to collect lifeforms across galaxy, without having to actually transport a given species. The Thing record's lifeform's DNA, down to mannerisms, intelligence , and even memories. To be reformed by whatever beings created The Thing . This method allows collection of nearly unlimited amount of species from all domains and biospheres.
DNA? Genetic codes? Retroviruses? Recording genetic information? You guys are "wonking out" on a sci-fi horror show about people accidentally setting free a monster that they know absolutely nothing about. And the "crew" of that ship? We, the audience, know nothing about that ship, other than that it came from outer space. Its crew we know even less about-maybe it was the thing outside in the ice, maybe it wasnt. But the prequel worked for me because it is a story about a group of people that stumble upon a flying saucer, and an apparent occupant of that saucer. They find out the hard way that that occupant is deadly. And outside of a cursory examination of blood by Kate, they know nothing of any "biology" that their visitor has, although Kate's observations with a microscope are a source of concern to her, which increase as other disconcerting events in the camp turn Kate's concern into genuine alarm. The prequel didn't explaine everything to us, but left consistent clues. Now, for those who say, "...but the 82' movie showed this...or that the Thing could do that in the 82' film...". Well, no. Aside from clearly demonstrating the prequel aspect of the 2011 movie with two, or three scenes, the writers and directors of the newer film had licence to make up anything they wanted, with its own story. And in my opinion, it was a better story than the one in the 82' movie. And I also liked the special effects better in the 2011 movie.
The movie was based on the "Who goes there?" story. In the story there are no other Aliens apart of the Thing, it was very smart and was fabricating itself all kinds of high-tech stuff. So the Thing WAS the pilot, and crashed for unknown reasons (maybe ran out of fuel, who knows). I repeat, the Thing was INSANELY smart in the story, and the human team (which was significantly larger) wanted to expose it by talking about science, but finally understood that it won't be possible, because the Thing will not reveal its superhuman knowledge, but will reveal only what humans know.
It's actually a different species of aliens that the ship belongs to. A zoologist type species who went planet to planet collecting animals. The thing had posed as an animal then escaped started to assimilate the crew but one alien was able to put the ship on a crash course before it got assimilated. The reason the thing is able to start building it's own is because any creature assimilated and in it's relatively whole size has all the knowledge of previously assimilated species. I forget how I found this out but it was going to be in the prequel but they cut it out because it messed with the theme. What's awesome though is that there's no telling just how intelligent the thing is or how old. Hopefully it's the only one. Also any smaller part of the thing that breaks away such as blood, arm-spider and such only have the most basic of instinctual behavior.
It would be a great comic but probably un filmable. If test audiences cant handle a dead pilot for 10 seconds they couldnt handle a film on non alien species.
@@satxguy71 Interesting. It reminds me of the windows 95 display when you run the defrag pattern. I've heard of experiments where scientists use blocks of material and light beams to store computer data.
I like the sound of wake up spaceship. I can say one thing, this film would have been in no way inferior to the original "The Thing" if the stupid bosses of studio had not interfered in filming process. It was they who rejected most of animatronic effects and said to put in place of the Pilot ridiculous, incomprehensible and cheap computer animation. Unfortunately, Matthijs van Heijningen is not Carpenter, he did not have enough influence to defend his offspring. Within the limits of possibilities available to him, he did everything he could.
@@zerodarkthirty1045 This is the animation that Pilot was replaced with. Since the Pilot was canceled at the last minute, the special effects artists were forced to find a solution under tight time constraints. They couldn't come up with anything better than this animation. I believe that in the story it was supposed to be something like a main computer from which The Thing could control the ship.
@@zerodarkthirty1045 You're right. At the very least, the 2011 film explained the reasons why radio communications were lost on the entire continent. If you remember, in the original movie, Windows was never able to contact anyone. The reason was just in the alien ship, it blocked the radio. Unfortunately, this fact was also removed from the 2011 script at the insistence of the producers. The director and writers did a fantastic job on the details, but the studio threw their work in the trash.
I find it hard for this ship and the thing to be compatible. Like many comments here I’m siding with the ship last crew being assimilated while in flight hence it crashed as none of the thing knew how to fly it. The thing creature and the way they act are too clumsy to have built such a sophisticated ship.
The thing takes everything about you including your memories and experiences so if don't think it was a matter of it didn't know how to fly but either the conflict between the pilot and the thing crashed the ship or the ship knew the thing wasn't the pilot and crashed itself
That’s actually what happened, in the original cut of the movie instead of the weird CGI color in the ship, It was going to be alien crew hanging, that killed them selves because they did not want the thing to take control of that
Of them, But of course the studio interfered and had them change it because they thought it would confuse the audience, the entire movie was tampered with by the studio I wish we would’ve gotten a directors cut of the movie
I literally just watched John Carpenter's The Thing for the first time and based on clips of this prequel, I feel like I already understand The Thing better than the people who made this movie. The thing should be a suspenceful horror movie about the paranoia of not knowing who to trust, not a generic action movie about an overpowered rampaging monster. Not to mention how great the practical effects were in the original compared to this abysmal CGI
It was meant to be much more practical effects heavy and much of it was shot but the feeble brains in the poo-dios demanded many scenes be much more reliant on Crap Generic Imagery. They even shot a scene of the crashing ship's crew all done practical only for it to be cut. There were genuinely talented people involved wasted by untalented hacks. It could have been a worthy complement to the beloved 80s cult classic. There are a few signs in the finished film.
It had plenty of chances where alien could've easily infect her by just touching her skin in the maze by detaching its alien parts or when hitting on face or penetrating her shoe foot while grabbing her out of the maze. But the lady must survive😸
Actually according to the script, she died in the end regardless of the thing's actions, she most likely choose to kill herself by freezing to death in fear of being infected to protect humanity.
The part where the thing drags and then lets her go is still so dumb, it's pure protagonist plot armour, the thing needs living tissue and in *every single instance* up until now it just instantly started absorbing/assimilating living things it attached itself to if it was in a manner like her getting dragged. It makes no sense at all that it would just not have instantly "eaten" her or thrown itself on top to assimilate iwth a larger surface area, isntead it does this dumb "Oh look I'm a movei monster I go back after getting you and ROAR and stand tall ain't scary" thing.
Yeah no consistency at all. Either THE THING was trying to do PREDATOR and play with its victim for a while because its victim earned respect. Or, this is just bad writing at all.
The book implies it's a means of getting to a place of high population density (e.g., McMurdo Station), not a spaceship. The characters speculate Blair wouldn't have the necessary resources to make it work as a spaceship.
Knowing it was on a planet teeming with life, the Thing would not want to leave the Earth but get to a warmer climate where life was abundant. In fact, I imagine that it probably would just get to the Antarctic coast and drop into the ocean where if it could absorb a single fish, it could begin an exponential "infection" of every single ocean on the Earth's surface and easily continue onto the continents.
@@thudthud5423 that would actually be a cool movie idea, a Apocalypse started by the thing where the entire planet is filled with the thing and you can’t trust anybody
So an interesting design. Louvers open, and there is a direct access to critical interior spaces of the vessel. This design is way different then 1982, somewhat 'StarWarsy' heavily gribbled matte painting. Which should have been retained and recreated for this film. The 3D 'Tetris' navigation computer, which replaced animatronic but dead pilot is ehh. Pilot should have been left in. In fact the interior should have been filled with ice. The scene from 1982 film, with Norwegians forming a circle followed by thermite, which damages the ship should have been filmed.
To be fair, it's a spaceship. Can't be riding a ship in space that'll just freeze over from just being exposed to cold, which is what space is. We don't even know if the aliens breath oxygen. Having the openings directly connect to the interior of the ship was weird, but it probably wasn't needed to be open during space travel anyway. And I guess it would explain how the thing got into the alien's ship in the first place while they parked in another planet.
@@Wheres_my_Dragonator Space is not cold. Cold implies temperature of a medium. On Earth tho mediums are air and water. Space is a near vacuum. There is no medium to measure and moderate cooling of spacecraft. Cooling spacecraft is a large program , as all heat has to be radiated away as black body radiation. Space mean temperature is measured in Kelvin of Cosmic Microwave Background. Liquid water exposed to vacuum of space will not freeze. It will boil away into vapor. The nano water droplets of vapor will freeze, meaning they will cool down, via blackbody, to same temperature as Cosmic Microwave Background at given location in space.
If the prequel concentrated more on the origins of "the thing" and it's spaceship it would have made the film a lot better and much more different than the 1981 original 😒
That would ruin it because it destroys the suspense...Fear of the unknown is the best way to go. These days everyone wants a breakdown which is so unnecessary.
@@yani2499 I agree, I was for the pilot thing now Sander-thing plus the hologram-thing, keeping the mystery makes it scarier, its just people are too nit picky and need to calm down.
Isn't the whole point of the Thing is that we don't know like anything about it at all? That's like why it has that name is for that reason. The mystery is half of why its so spooky. Explaining its whole origin back story would ruin that lmao
I disagree. The problem I found with the movie was more so that the thing makes some rather stupid decisions that contradict what it's supposed to do. It can disassemble itself into smaller minions, reassemble itself into larger entities, and yet in this showdown, it only grabs Kate by the foot so she can throw a bomb at it. It doesn't think to spit out the bomb, and it didn't think to maybe send out smaller things after Kate when she was hiding. The issue of the film, while it appreciate it's dedication to continuity and consistency for the original film, is that the thing itself is a little too "hollywood monster" trope, and some of the characters have odd scenes that seem out of character (not relevant to them being a thing), or are stupid for the sake of artificial stakes. Exploring the ship, or the things origins would remove the vague mystery that makes it interesting, with all the implied information we have.
Which we could see the original cut of this sequence, what had the mummified remains of the original pilot and had the MC going up against an assimilated pilot.
Very good movie, but there is a very big hole in the story. In the 1982 film we can see that MacReady's group found the Norwegian files where it can be seen that they mark the area where the UFO fell and dynamite the area to discover the ship. This does not happen in the sequel.
They made it seem like she fell at least 6 stories down and miraculously survived... Now that's major plot armor for a lead character as I've ever seen lol
Hey buddy fun fact, the Director of the movie revealed what happened to the main character at the end of the movie, after killing her partner/the thing she kill’s herself by sitting out in the cold because she was terrified that she was infected and could spreed it
Like in Alien, that spaceship crashed on earth because of the thing, then escaped the spaceship it froze. Spaceship alien crew were the first victims of that thing
We can't be even sure if they it's "first victims" Think about it: The thing might be a collected sample of an alien parasitic lifeform from another planet that has assimilated other creatures on it's planet but then the alien pilots/explorers grab the samples and then aboard their ship, it got free and assimilated the crew.
It's very likely that Kate is infected, since the thing also had contact with her. I am curious to know if in a sequence a rescue team would find it and become infected, after all, according to the first film, even if the host freezes to death, the alien's cells remain active (see the 2-headed corpse from the 1980s film).
What I love about the ship is how alien it truly is. Everyone is all "They're in the engine room." How do you know that? How do we know this thing has an "engine" at all? The multicolored column could be ANYTHING and when I say ANYTHING I mean it might not be something we can comprehend. Just because the things in the end look and sound like thrusters or jets doesn't mean they are.
Can someone explain to me why the guy would help the girl survive the attack when the guy was already assimilated at that point in the movie? THE THING competes with itself or something?
He didn't do anything.. by the time he came into the room, the thing already had the bomb in its mouth. He needed a few minutes to assess if anybody else was around or what was going on, and by the time the thing exploded
It didn't help at all, just watch and shouted Kate's name. The real Carter would have fire up the flamethrower upon arrival, this thing didn't do so because it is afraid of fire.
The things plan consists of either escaping the planet on the ship or escaping the artic and infecting the earths population, via rescue team. It wanted the girl to think they as humans won and stopped the thing. Assimilated Carter saw an opportunity to try to play human in disguise one last time, but Kate saw through it immediately since it put his earring in the wrong ear after being assimilated.
The ship is also in Star Trek the Next generation name of the episode is (will always have Paris) They didn't have the CGI for the show but it's the same same room. 😁 Dimensional travel
The design of that spaceship is t even in the same realm as the thing.. especially that peaceful little holgraphic Tetris display... The thing hijacked this ship
There is no way something this primal and focused on survival worked together and built an interplanetary spaceship like this. It is like a rabid beast
The spaceship belongs to other high intelligent species, whose The crew and the pilot got assimiliated by the thing that escaped, and the Ship crash landed on earth
The Original movie is love for not only being overall aextremely good movie but it’s amazing practical effects, The studio didn’t want to use practical effects and use CGI instead which made everyone hate the movie
@@a_waff1es_0pinion76 Yeah, that's it. But I don't agree with them. The effects are good, and sadly we don't do practical effects anymore. The expertise and system is no longer there. That's one of several reasons why they should not be trying to remake 80's classic horror.
@@storiesreadaloud5635 I think the movie doesn’t deserve the hate and I think it’s overall a good movie I can kind of understand why people are mad but I think it’s way too overheated
Why not? It's alien technology obviously far ahead of our sorry primitive state of technological advancement. We have a hard time putting something in Earth's orbit.
1982 film: The crew was reasonably intelligent and realistic. The creature was cunning and didn't "thing out" unless it was discovered or threatened. The plot was driven by the suspense of not knowing who the creature might be, and the feeling of isolation from being cut off with no communication or transportation. And, of course, the creature effects were amazing. 2011 film: The 'scientists' are pretty dumb and most were just disposable bodies. The monster "things out" and exposes itself for no apparent reason on at least 3 separate occasions. The plot was pretty weak with no real depth. The tension of not knowing who the monster is lasted all of 5 minutes - replaced by big loud monster chases and jump scares. And the CGI and creature design were pretty bad. If the 1982 film is a 10, the 2011 version is about a 4. Ok, maybe a 5... just for the way it ties into the other movie.
Fun fact the CGI power supply wasn’t originally supposed to be there it was going to be the original pilot of the ship and the Thing was an alien that escaped captivity and turn into the form of the pilot but was changed because of screen viewers was confused of why the alien was there
I never understand why sci-fi movies continually ask people to accept that the inside of alien ship wouldn't even have a sign or some displays - and not even a single flat surface to put anything down on. How are they travelling across interstellar space and they can't even put down a mug of coffee equivalent somewhere?....
I think you are overlooking the idea that an "Alien ship", must be built in a way that makes for us as humans to understand it. "Alien", means alien. Something so different that it's difficult to comprehend how it works, and why it works. If it was that easy to figure it out, it would'nt be all that strange, or the life forms on such a thing. Fear of the strange and unknown and all that.
@@tommargarites2811 I agree in general, but Alien as in an interstellar space ship isn’t synonymous with us having completely no idea what is going on inside it, it has clear thrusters/afterburners for its propulsion system, some kind of large ventilation system and many internal navigable corridors, there’s not exactly a reason it can’t have some form of telemetry display or control consoles around, unless you are going with the idea of making it as “alien” and mysterious as possible like you said of course, which in all honesty I do really like, but I also like when the architecture of an alien ship design hits closer to home too, it gives you the idea that we really aren’t that unique and special in the universe even though we can be so far apart it’s incomprehensible, I find that creepy and scary in its own way also.
Rules for alien spaceships : 1. Must have linear hallways perfectly sized for average humans because thats the galactic standard. 2. Complex wall architecture full of artful shapes and details because art is vital for every spaceship. 3. Designed for artifical gravity with clearly defined roof and floor because thats the galactic standard. 4. Centralized control room, because thats the galactic standard. 5. Huge overall interior space filled with absolutely nothing because of reasons. So uninspired, so boring, so limited within human expectations. The same in almost every movie.
As someone who is a great admirer of John Carpenter's The Thing I've come to the conclusion that the thing itself's true form is that of a microorganisms. I've probably watched this movie well over a thousand times. Love the soundtrack. I'm sad the movie wasn't longer or had a decent prequel or sequel.
Why can The Thing mimic human behaviour and speech after it's assimilated someone but once it 'branches' out and exposes itself it no longer speaks? Does it changing form remove the necessary parts required for speech or does it just choose not to speak anymore once it's been found out? I mean, how creepy would it be when it's chasing you down, you close a door in its face then all of a sudden its human face bursts through yelling "Hereeee's JOHNNY!"
My "theory" about that is that when the host becames a "thing" (when the body horror starts) it loose it's inteligence (through some extent) and act more like a predator.
@@liquid880 Fair enough, but does it not retain knowledge from each individual host? Going on that, maybe it's possible that it's able to grasp the full intellect, knowledge and memory for 'X' amount of time before returning back to it's origins and only maintaining a portion of the previous knowledge, memory etc.
I think that the thing might grow intelligence based on what its doing like when mimicking people it probably leaves some of the person's brain alone. I think when it was threatened and stuck in the shack it probably grew the parts of an aliens brain it needed to build a space ship. So it could probably still mimic a voice it just doesn't need to
@@disappointedbananas2365 It does speak. Norris, Blair and Palmer were all things that spoke. I believe it just needs time to assimilate a person's personality/memory, which is why Bennings could only howl at them before they burned him, because his transformation wasn't complete.
I quietly thanked this movie’s production for the scene where the distraught woman chances upon the ship’s computer (or whatever the strange multicolor cylinder with all the busy Lego pieces mixing and matching is) A producer could’ve refused to pay for it because it “didn’t move the plot forward” or some such. It provided me with an unprecedented moment of wonder at alien technology. We’ve all seen plenty of alien tech in movies but this is a bit hypnotic and fascinating, considering (as one other commenter pointed out) It probably wasn’t Thing tech but that of one of its previous victims elsewhere in the galaxy. Us Earthlings don’t know the half of what’s going on out there and this makes you ponder….until the Thing sneaks up and eats you.
05:20 The thing could have effortlessly devoured her at that moment. Precisely one of the most dangerous abilities of this creature is to be able to alter its structure, generate tentacles and divide into smaller entities.
If this was the old one, even detaching itself would have a real long time, remember how long it took for the head to get detached from the body during defibrillation scene. They made the arms detaching look easy in the new one, but need not always be the case
And this movie probably would’ve been as good as the original if the studio did not interfere, The original version of this movie was probably going to be completely different if the studio didn’t interfere
What I dislike is that the Thing goes from imitating a human including speaking and everything, to acting like a mindless snarling monster that can't communicate. A lot of reboots and sequels ruin what made the originals great by showing the creature too much. It kills the tension and mystery.
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One of the better discussions regarding the Thing is what its actually able to absorb during assimilation, biology only, or can it also absorb knowledge and memories? If the latter is true then that would explain an attempt to build another ship in the first movie to get off the planet, if the former is true then is the Thing actually a highly intelligent being??
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NO ,IT WAS ORIGINALLY JUST A PRIMITIVE ORGANISM LIKE A MOLD OR FLATHEAD WORM THAT WHEN FED PIECES OF OTHER FLATHEAD WORMS WOULD ABSORB AND AQUIRE MEMORIES,KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS OF THE HOST OR HOSTS THAT IT HAD ASSIMILATED ABSORBED AND CONSUMED THE ORIGINAL ORGANISM OR CREATURE WAS A VERY PRIMITIVE LIFEFORM A BASIC SINGLE CELLED ORGANISM THAT WAS PROBABLY LIKE AN AMOEBA
SINCE IT WAS A JUST PRIMITIVE ORGANISM IT HAD NO REAL INTELLIGENCE JUST BASIC SURVIVAL SKILLS I HAD NO CULTURE,
KNOWLEDGE,OR TECHNOLOGY BUT IT WOULD ABSORB ALL THE HOST VICTIMS SKILLS,KNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDING THIEF,PESONALITY AND TRAITS AND JUST A MIMIC IT ABSORBS THE MEMORIES,KNOWLEDGE ,TRAITS OF THE HOSTS THAT IS ABSORBED
YO HOW DID THEY RECORD THIS SOUND AT 4:43
I don't believe it is "The Things" space ship. I think it belongs to the last thing that The Thing assimilated. If it had this technology it wouldn't need to be purely parasitic.
I think it's generally accepted that you're right - the implication in the story is much too strong. We're obviously supposed to read the UFO as crashing/making a forced landing - and, later, I'd say obviously supposed to conclude that the Thing was the cause of that, all along: freezing itself stiff in the ice while making one of its usual attempts to distance itself from the chaos and destruction it brought into everyone's life. Silly Thing.
I agree, everything would be copied, nothing from the original species
Similar to the flood in Halo.
U guys know that alien collect specimens from other planets but wut happen to the other specimens they collect from the other planets
Those alien were pilots collecting specimens from planets to study but the thing managed to get out and affected one and killed the rest of them
Gotta love falling from those 1000 foot drops that lead onto metal floors, only to give you a little mark on your head and a sleepy time for as long as the script needs
Yeah falling directly into the engine bay, the vents pivot so air or w/e can get into the ignition chamber? And you have a door leading into the bridge?
I was just about to comment the same thing.
Yep. The human body isn’t built to hold up to a fall like that
I believe it was more of sliding down a steep incline.
Gotta love a movie about aliens from another planet because it was already reality at that point.
The fact that they swapped out the special effects for CGI at the end still absolutely breaks my heart. Mind you the original is my favorite horror film and I dont even LIKE watching horror films.
I feel you buddy. It's sad.
When I read that for the first time after watching this movie I absolutely lost all respect for the film makers. Why the F did they feel the need to abandon all of the beautiful practical effects done by the special effects crew in favor of fake looking CGI at the least minute during post production will always escape me. Especially when you look at the 1982 movie and how flawless and realistic the practical effects were, you can’t help but think how much more superior they are in comparison to the mess we got in this film. That’s the reason why this movie is almost never seen or brought up. The producers and film makers made a enormous mistake on that end.
If it's your favorite horror film but u don't like horror films doesn't seem like you put the film in high regards.
@@CephlonMayngrum I objectively hold them in high regards for being able to generate fear, anxiety, and panic and despair in its viewers through a Film maker and crew's ability to make it happen on a visceral level, I hold high regard for folks who can go back for it and want more, I just cant handle the emotions that come from it, doesnt mean the films or the genre is bad, I hold the John Carpenter's film to a very high standard considering I couldnt sleep properly for a few weeks as well as developed a potent fear of huskies, what Carpenter set out to do he achieved it in spades in me, I just cant function without proper amounts of sleep in my day to day which is why I dont enjoy watching horror movies especially good ones, doesnt mean I wont give respect where its due.
favorite is an adjective only used when comparing things that you like
Once you know that originally there was an alien carcass instead of that weird tetris-like hologram, Kate's reaction makes more sense. She looks both enthralled and somewhat disturbed looking at what it once was a different life form, while also keeping her distance from it. Besides, there's no need to use a lantern to take a closer look at a hologram that is already brighter.
I believe there was a great movie being made at one point. The crew was very talented and made lots of practical effects that somehow got squandered by the studio.. there's an interesting video about it on RUclips
I can't stop laughing at the fact that The Thing chose to growl at Kate while STILL having Sander's face LOL
It wasn't like that originally, but the executive people thought they should put it in. Just like they had mostly practical effects in the beginning but then replaced them all with CGI because executives thought it would be cooler.
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In a nutshell the executive is stupid and lack of imagination but full of greed and money. Noted
They haven't fully replace practical effects. It's a mix of cgi and practical. CGI was a extension of practical effects. @@helpIthinkmylegsaregone
It did for either one if these 3 reasons:
1. The thing is mostly an animalistic being so it naturally growls.
2. The thing got mad for he to intrude the ship and foiling it's plan.
3. The thing recognize her as it got mad because she's the only smartest human it encounter and it has exposing it so it will not let her expose it again
@@finlandguy427 4. The studio made them add it.
The weird sci-fi thing seen at 3:50 was originally the hung corpses of the alien pilots of the space ship. It was implied that the pilots took their own lives rather than being seized by the impostor(the thing). It was replaced with the CGI squares during post production. Can’t remember the reason.
You can find set photos if you look up The thing 2011 alien pilot.
Damn, I wish they had kept that.
@@gordonfreeman8109 the movie had a shot ton of it changed by the studio did the Director and writers dirty, the Director deserves a Director cut
@@gordonfreeman8109 because the Director and the writers wanted to use practical effects but the studio would not let them
It was because of the damn test audience saying that they didn’t like the alien hanging itself so that’s why the writers replaced it with that glowing cgi bullshittery
It's scary to think that Carter died somewhere offscreen on that ship. He was human when they entered the spaceship.
I agree
Haha ikr
It looks ridiculous. How did Carter got infected if he still have his flamethrower with fuel loaded?
@@luisvelez1952 ambush attack maybe? Carter was confused and desperated to find Kate and it just attacked him from behind, grabbed his face and it's all done with the assimilation
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This part of the film is so dark. The theatre should give the audience night vision devices.
Man, wouldn't that be awesome, though.
This is a TON of movies now. A lot of fight sequences take place during scenes where you can BARELY see.
Its good that they origins of the space ship a mystery in this film. How're we supposed to know what its "mission" was, or for that matter, who or what built it? Did the Thing build it? Doubtful-but we don't know. My preferred "theory" is that the builders of that ship had the bad luck to encounter these monsters somewhere, and there was a struggle on board-which the crew lost-and then the survivor, i.e. a monster, couldn't manage the controls, so the ship crashes, and with nothing to eat, the Thing crawls out, and gets frozen. The ones who built the saucer would be a race of technological beings, and perhaps just developed the technology to start exploring beyond their own solar system, right here in our own galaxy, the milkyway. We have no clue as to what they may have actually looked like, as they are long gone. But the thing in the ice-that is probably its true form.
It would be interesting if its true form was just cellular also don't know if I'm reading it right, but in the prequel I think they may have thawed out whatever the alien might have looked like while it was hosted by the thing. I don't know, however if you haven't read the comics. They also do a good job on giving you more without ruining the mystery of what exactly the thing is.
Haven't read the comics, but I did watch all three movie versions-i.e. the Howard Hawks, the John Carpenter, and the Danish director who's name I don't care to try and spell. I have seen all three several times, and I decided that my favorites are the first, and the third. The 2011 prequel, in my view, was the best of the three, in terms of story, realism, and special effects. To me, it is the story of a small group of scientists and riggers stumbling on the "find" of all time-i.e. that ship, and the apparent "survivor" nearby. But instead of letting the rest of the world in on it, these complacent people, led by that impossible, and arrogant Halvorsen, decide to claim "ownership" of these items, only to realize how truly out of their depth they are in, as a nightmare quickly envelopes them.
You are partially correct. The crew of the ship were collecting specimens of lifeforms, and stumbled on Thing. However The Thing has no true form. Which, IMHO, every film about Thing, should be named The Thing. Just plain 'The Thing'. If it has an original form it is likely to be a retrovirus, or a single cell. All it does is record prey's genetic information and cell structure, then mimics the cell. Cell by cell. Either slow and subtle like cancer, or fast and violent. When a complex multicellular organism is mimicked, The Thing has ability to express any part of genetic code of any lufeform it has mimicked. That maybe just an uncontrolled defense mechanism. Thing expresses general body plan and morphology of a desired lifeform out of organs of other unrelated lifeforms The Thing mimicked. The Thing could be a type of biological weapon, but could also be an adaptive mechanism to allow the organism to live in any biosphere it finds itself in. The Thing may not be a weapon or invasive organism at all, at least not intentionally. It could be a biological tool to collect lifeforms across galaxy, without having to actually transport a given species. The Thing record's lifeform's DNA, down to mannerisms, intelligence , and even memories. To be reformed by whatever beings created The Thing . This method allows collection of nearly unlimited amount of species from all domains and biospheres.
DNA? Genetic codes? Retroviruses? Recording genetic information? You guys are "wonking out" on a sci-fi horror show about people accidentally setting free a monster that they know absolutely nothing about. And the "crew" of that ship? We, the audience, know nothing about that ship, other than that it came from outer space. Its crew we know even less about-maybe it was the thing outside in the ice, maybe it wasnt. But the prequel worked for me because it is a story about a group of people that stumble upon a flying saucer, and an apparent occupant of that saucer. They find out the hard way that that occupant is deadly. And outside of a cursory examination of blood by Kate, they know nothing of any "biology" that their visitor has, although Kate's observations with a microscope are a source of concern to her, which increase as other disconcerting events in the camp turn Kate's concern into genuine alarm. The prequel didn't explaine everything to us, but left consistent clues. Now, for those who say, "...but the 82' movie showed this...or that the Thing could do that in the 82' film...". Well, no. Aside from clearly demonstrating the prequel aspect of the 2011 movie with two, or three scenes, the writers and directors of the newer film had licence to make up anything they wanted, with its own story. And in my opinion, it was a better story than the one in the 82' movie. And I also liked the special effects better in the 2011 movie.
The movie was based on the "Who goes there?" story. In the story there are no other Aliens apart of the Thing, it was very smart and was fabricating itself all kinds of high-tech stuff. So the Thing WAS the pilot, and crashed for unknown reasons (maybe ran out of fuel, who knows). I repeat, the Thing was INSANELY smart in the story, and the human team (which was significantly larger) wanted to expose it by talking about science, but finally understood that it won't be possible, because the Thing will not reveal its superhuman knowledge, but will reveal only what humans know.
It's actually a different species of aliens that the ship belongs to. A zoologist type species who went planet to planet collecting animals. The thing had posed as an animal then escaped started to assimilate the crew but one alien was able to put the ship on a crash course before it got assimilated. The reason the thing is able to start building it's own is because any creature assimilated and in it's relatively whole size has all the knowledge of previously assimilated species. I forget how I found this out but it was going to be in the prequel but they cut it out because it messed with the theme. What's awesome though is that there's no telling just how intelligent the thing is or how old. Hopefully it's the only one. Also any smaller part of the thing that breaks away such as blood, arm-spider and such only have the most basic of instinctual behavior.
Nice explanation 👍
@@lucaswarnke3668 yes it is
For something oh-so intelligent it certainly is quite stupid in some scenes.
@@ExceedProduction kinda like humans
I’d love a prequel to the prequel, following the Thing on its journey and how it landed on earth up until it’s found at the beginning of the 2011 film
It would be a great comic but probably un filmable. If test audiences cant handle a dead pilot for 10 seconds they couldnt handle a film on non alien species.
0:25 man that sound is so good. The spaceship powering up
i love that the thing was trying to cough up the grenade
ive always been intrigued with that strange machine of glowing moving blocks. I assume it's some sort of computer.
Just some goofy - but quite clever - attempt to cover up yet another fantastic puppet that they didn't use.
I would think it's some sort of interactive control panel to pilot the spacecraft.
@@satxguy71 Interesting. It reminds me of the windows 95 display when you run the defrag pattern.
I've heard of experiments where scientists use blocks of material and light beams to store computer data.
Quantum computer for interstellar navigation... it's an old model, you should see what the new ones we have look like 👽
Minecraft is lunching.
I liked how the Thing had ambushed Kate, made her think that it had left, while it was just standing behind the corner
Hide & Seek Champ!
The plot armor is strong with this one! How do you survive being the only target of the THING at a distance of 5 feet?
@@worsethanhitlerpt.2539 very thick, Kate was supposed to got assimilated.
@@ezhno7137 yep, I agree
3:17 Distress beacon sound from "Sunshine"
Thought I recognized that sound from somewhere
Isn't it awesome that even aliens love to play with Legos? 😁
the tetris legos are cool but there was supposed to be a carcas of an alien pilot hanging in that spot
I like the sound of wake up spaceship.
I can say one thing, this film would have been in no way inferior to the original "The Thing" if the stupid bosses of studio had not interfered in filming process. It was they who rejected most of animatronic effects and said to put in place of the Pilot ridiculous, incomprehensible and cheap computer animation. Unfortunately, Matthijs van Heijningen is not Carpenter, he did not have enough influence to defend his offspring. Within the limits of possibilities available to him, he did everything he could.
At 3.30 what is that yellow and blue capsule she's looking at
@@zerodarkthirty1045 This is the animation that Pilot was replaced with. Since the Pilot was canceled at the last minute, the special effects artists were forced to find a solution under tight time constraints. They couldn't come up with anything better than this animation. I believe that in the story it was supposed to be something like a main computer from which The Thing could control the ship.
@@yuriistetsenko5948 thank you for replying..I just wish it had been explained more as both movies left hanging details
@@zerodarkthirty1045 You're right. At the very least, the 2011 film explained the reasons why radio communications were lost on the entire continent. If you remember, in the original movie, Windows was never able to contact anyone. The reason was just in the alien ship, it blocked the radio. Unfortunately, this fact was also removed from the 2011 script at the insistence of the producers. The director and writers did a fantastic job on the details, but the studio threw their work in the trash.
@@yuriistetsenko5948 it definitely needs another film to explain everything..bit like prometheus lots need explain on that
I find it hard for this ship and the thing to be compatible. Like many comments here I’m siding with the ship last crew being assimilated while in flight hence it crashed as none of the thing knew how to fly it. The thing creature and the way they act are too clumsy to have built such a sophisticated ship.
The thing takes everything about you including your memories and experiences so if don't think it was a matter of it didn't know how to fly but either the conflict between the pilot and the thing crashed the ship or the ship knew the thing wasn't the pilot and crashed itself
That’s actually what happened, in the original cut of the movie instead of the weird CGI color in the ship, It was going to be alien crew hanging, that killed them selves because they did not want the thing to take control of that
Of them, But of course the studio interfered and had them change it because they thought it would confuse the audience, the entire movie was tampered with by the studio I wish we would’ve gotten a directors cut of the movie
Because the sad part is the Director and writer and everybody else making the movie wanted to use practical effects, but the studio would not let them
Maybe the Thing assimilated the original owners of the spaceship but the ship did not accept the assimilation, hence the crash.
Thats what happened the alien who drive the spaceship got infected and crashed on earth.
I literally just watched John Carpenter's The Thing for the first time and based on clips of this prequel, I feel like I already understand The Thing better than the people who made this movie. The thing should be a suspenceful horror movie about the paranoia of not knowing who to trust, not a generic action movie about an overpowered rampaging monster. Not to mention how great the practical effects were in the original compared to this abysmal CGI
Another committee made load of claptrap that shows that they had no appreciation of what the creature was about.
Hit the nail on the head
This is what happens when movies are created by executives instead of storytellers.
I think it was that though. I rate both movies as classics.
It was meant to be much more practical effects heavy and much of it was shot but the feeble brains in the poo-dios demanded many scenes be much more reliant on Crap Generic Imagery. They even shot a scene of the crashing ship's crew all done practical only for it to be cut. There were genuinely talented people involved wasted by untalented hacks. It could have been a worthy complement to the beloved 80s cult classic. There are a few signs in the finished film.
It had plenty of chances where alien could've easily infect her by just touching her skin in the maze by detaching its alien parts or when hitting on face or penetrating her shoe foot while grabbing her out of the maze.
But the lady must survive😸
I heard the thing’s intelligence correlates by how big it is. Maybe it couldn’t afford to spare any parts so it could fly the ship? Idk.
The whole single-cell infection has kinda been debunked. The creature has to kill and then assimilate to copy you.
Actually according to the script, she died in the end regardless of the thing's actions, she most likely choose to kill herself by freezing to death in fear of being infected to protect humanity.
cant make a movie where the cops show up or the army shows up and engages The Terminator or w/e in any meaningful way either :P
oh god, your type is also here
4:42 that Virgina head creeps me out at night.
The part where the thing drags and then lets her go is still so dumb, it's pure protagonist plot armour, the thing needs living tissue and in *every single instance* up until now it just instantly started absorbing/assimilating living things it attached itself to if it was in a manner like her getting dragged.
It makes no sense at all that it would just not have instantly "eaten" her or thrown itself on top to assimilate iwth a larger surface area, isntead it does this dumb "Oh look I'm a movei monster I go back after getting you and ROAR and stand tall ain't scary" thing.
Yeah no consistency at all. Either THE THING was trying to do PREDATOR and play with its victim for a while because its victim earned respect.
Or, this is just bad writing at all.
You guys need to just learn to enjoy a movie and not over analyze everything. It’s a lot more fun
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Finally after 30 years of waiting we can have a look inside.
That alien spaceship have a cool design👍
In the original film, the thing does build a scaled down version of the spaceship
The book implies it's a means of getting to a place of high population density (e.g., McMurdo Station), not a spaceship. The characters speculate Blair wouldn't have the necessary resources to make it work as a spaceship.
Knowing it was on a planet teeming with life, the Thing would not want to leave the Earth but get to a warmer climate where life was abundant. In fact, I imagine that it probably would just get to the Antarctic coast and drop into the ocean where if it could absorb a single fish, it could begin an exponential "infection" of every single ocean on the Earth's surface and easily continue onto the continents.
@@thudthud5423 that would actually be a cool movie idea, a Apocalypse started by the thing where the entire planet is filled with the thing and you can’t trust anybody
@@thudthud5423 That would actually be a cool movie or TV show idea
So an interesting design. Louvers open, and there is a direct access to critical interior spaces of the vessel. This design is way different then 1982, somewhat 'StarWarsy' heavily gribbled matte painting. Which should have been retained and recreated for this film. The 3D 'Tetris' navigation computer, which replaced animatronic but dead pilot is ehh. Pilot should have been left in. In fact the interior should have been filled with ice. The scene from 1982 film, with Norwegians forming a circle followed by thermite, which damages the ship should have been filmed.
Checkout the video-game Crysis; the art-style for the alien technology in that game - influenced this film greatly.
To be fair, it's a spaceship. Can't be riding a ship in space that'll just freeze over from just being exposed to cold, which is what space is. We don't even know if the aliens breath oxygen.
Having the openings directly connect to the interior of the ship was weird, but it probably wasn't needed to be open during space travel anyway. And I guess it would explain how the thing got into the alien's ship in the first place while they parked in another planet.
@@Wheres_my_Dragonator Space is not cold. Cold implies temperature of a medium. On Earth tho mediums are air and water. Space is a near vacuum. There is no medium to measure and moderate cooling of spacecraft. Cooling spacecraft is a large program , as all heat has to be radiated away as black body radiation. Space mean temperature is measured in Kelvin of Cosmic Microwave Background. Liquid water exposed to vacuum of space will not freeze. It will boil away into vapor. The nano water droplets of vapor will freeze, meaning they will cool down, via blackbody, to same temperature as Cosmic Microwave Background at given location in space.
I liked this prequel very much.
Me too!!!
If the prequel concentrated more on the origins of "the thing" and it's spaceship it would have made the film a lot better and much more different than the 1981 original 😒
That would ruin it because it destroys the suspense...Fear of the unknown is the best way to go. These days everyone wants a breakdown which is so unnecessary.
@@yani2499 I agree, I was for the pilot thing now Sander-thing plus the hologram-thing, keeping the mystery makes it scarier, its just people are too nit picky and need to calm down.
Telling the origins wouldn't be better. It will always make you speculate not knowing exactly what happened.
Isn't the whole point of the Thing is that we don't know like anything about it at all? That's like why it has that name is for that reason. The mystery is half of why its so spooky. Explaining its whole origin back story would ruin that lmao
I disagree. The problem I found with the movie was more so that the thing makes some rather stupid decisions that contradict what it's supposed to do.
It can disassemble itself into smaller minions, reassemble itself into larger entities, and yet in this showdown, it only grabs Kate by the foot so she can throw a bomb at it.
It doesn't think to spit out the bomb, and it didn't think to maybe send out smaller things after Kate when she was hiding.
The issue of the film, while it appreciate it's dedication to continuity and consistency for the original film, is that the thing itself is a little too "hollywood monster" trope, and some of the characters have odd scenes that seem out of character (not relevant to them being a thing), or are stupid for the sake of artificial stakes.
Exploring the ship, or the things origins would remove the vague mystery that makes it interesting, with all the implied information we have.
Which we could see the original cut of this sequence, what had the mummified remains of the original pilot and had the MC going up against an assimilated pilot.
3:31 the tetris stuff here looks cool and mesmerizing but the dead alien pilot would be cooler
Very good movie, but there is a very big hole in the story. In the 1982 film we can see that MacReady's group found the Norwegian files where it can be seen that they mark the area where the UFO fell and dynamite the area to discover the ship. This does not happen in the sequel.
Sadly their excuse was “dynamite wouldn’t have uncovered that spaceship like that”
3:18 pretty sure that's the distress call sound effect of the Icarus I from Sunshine
That pixeled tower of light was cool. I think it's the ship's computer.
Yes
They made it seem like she fell at least 6 stories down and miraculously survived... Now that's major plot armor for a lead character as I've ever seen lol
Hey buddy fun fact, the Director of the movie revealed what happened to the main character at the end of the movie, after killing her partner/the thing she kill’s herself by sitting out in the cold because she was terrified that she was infected and could spreed it
@@a_waff1es_0pinion76 never knew that.
This film succeeds in elevating the 1982 movie to greater heights.
Like the Star Wars prequels.
Like in Alien, that spaceship crashed on earth because of the thing, then escaped the spaceship it froze. Spaceship alien crew were the first victims of that thing
Yup there was a cool scene that would of shown the dead crew in the ship but the studio made the Director/writers take it out
We can't be even sure if they it's "first victims"
Think about it: The thing might be a collected sample of an alien parasitic lifeform from another planet that has assimilated other creatures on it's planet but then the alien pilots/explorers grab the samples and then aboard their ship, it got free and assimilated the crew.
Bro that puller of Pixals 😂
I love the soundtrack from the original 'Thing'.
Especially: Love Theme From The Thing.
Ennio Morricone ! 🙂
This scene always cracks me up. Amateur hour in the visual effects department.
In the original version the cube pillar was supposed to be a dead pilot of the aircraft. For some reason they put a bunch of cgi cubes over him.
Because the studio interfered
Would love a 3rd film of this. Maybe where it came from. Or how ut go here. Something like that
No, the Alien franchise did this and completely ruined it...PLZ NO!
Aliens: We make large-enough-to-fit-a-person ventilation shafts too!
Humans: * aggressive Shia Lebeouf clapping *
I love the sound design so much 💯
We didn't see much of this spaceship but what we saw I think was pretty cool.
I really like the unique ummm glowing? intereface thingy in the cockpit
I like Mysteries, i enjoyed the space jockey from Alien for a very long time.
I would love a well-executed "next installment" of this series. It is a fantastic premise for a movie.
wow. pretty intense.
The melody of the alien computer is the same as the distress call in the movie "Sunshine".
I wish they would make more “ the thing movies this is my favorite movie the “1982” version but the prequel was ok
3:17 the same sound - sos signal - like in Sunshine (2007)
Very good cut scenes The thing(2011).Fan.😂😂😂😂😂
It's very likely that Kate is infected, since the thing also had contact with her. I am curious to know if in a sequence a rescue team would find it and become infected, after all, according to the first film, even if the host freezes to death, the alien's cells remain active (see the 2-headed corpse from the 1980s film).
Kate is probably infected and frozen halfway through the Carpenter film.
When did Carter get infected?
@@virgogaming6488According to the script she died after the movie so The Thing won.
The ship was so high tech one grenade destroyed it
The grenade must have hitten a weak spot lol
It damaged the main computer which shut it down.
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What I love about the ship is how alien it truly is. Everyone is all "They're in the engine room." How do you know that? How do we know this thing has an "engine" at all? The multicolored column could be ANYTHING and when I say ANYTHING I mean it might not be something we can comprehend. Just because the things in the end look and sound like thrusters or jets doesn't mean they are.
Thanks for all this clips,i like all this movies,when i have 18 years i see all this movies,The thing by example
Its not the Thing's spaceship...it is of another species that was infected and crashed on earth.
Can someone explain to me why the guy would help the girl survive the attack when the guy was already assimilated at that point in the movie? THE THING competes with itself or something?
He didn't do anything.. by the time he came into the room, the thing already had the bomb in its mouth. He needed a few minutes to assess if anybody else was around or what was going on, and by the time the thing exploded
It didn't help at all, just watch and shouted Kate's name. The real Carter would have fire up the flamethrower upon arrival, this thing didn't do so because it is afraid of fire.
The things plan consists of either escaping the planet on the ship or escaping the artic and infecting the earths population, via rescue team. It wanted the girl to think they as humans won and stopped the thing. Assimilated Carter saw an opportunity to try to play human in disguise one last time, but Kate saw through it immediately since it put his earring in the wrong ear after being assimilated.
The ship is also in Star Trek the Next generation name of the episode is (will always have Paris) They didn't have the CGI for the show but it's the same same room. 😁 Dimensional travel
The design of that spaceship is t even in the same realm as the thing.. especially that peaceful little holgraphic Tetris display... The thing hijacked this ship
It seems like control panel and the sound it makes is sos
There is no way something this primal and focused on survival worked together and built an interplanetary spaceship like this. It is like a rabid beast
The spaceship belongs to other high intelligent species, whose The crew and the pilot got assimiliated by the thing that escaped, and the Ship crash landed on earth
Aw, damn! The Thing got Tormund Giantsbane too! 😛
I had to get a flashlight to see it.
Sorry not sorry Jane bye bye as I am running away lol 😂😂😂
I watched this alone on a night shift and thoroughly enjoyed it. Don't get the hate at all.
The Original movie is love for not only being overall aextremely good movie but it’s amazing practical effects, The studio didn’t want to use practical effects and use CGI instead which made everyone hate the movie
@@a_waff1es_0pinion76 Yeah, that's it. But I don't agree with them. The effects are good, and sadly we don't do practical effects anymore. The expertise and system is no longer there. That's one of several reasons why they should not be trying to remake 80's classic horror.
@@storiesreadaloud5635 agree
@@a_waff1es_0pinion76I love this movie, the fanboys are too emotional. If they hate the movie so much why they are here? Definition of haters
@@storiesreadaloud5635 I think the movie doesn’t deserve the hate and I think it’s overall a good movie I can kind of understand why people are mad but I think it’s way too overheated
100,000 years old, and it's still works like new.
Its the universe lol
Why not? It's alien technology obviously far ahead of our sorry primitive state of technological advancement. We have a hard time putting something in Earth's orbit.
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I like to think the '51, '82, and 2011 Thing is the same story.
1982 film: The crew was reasonably intelligent and realistic. The creature was cunning and didn't "thing out" unless it was discovered or threatened. The plot was driven by the suspense of not knowing who the creature might be, and the feeling of isolation from being cut off with no communication or transportation. And, of course, the creature effects were amazing.
2011 film: The 'scientists' are pretty dumb and most were just disposable bodies. The monster "things out" and exposes itself for no apparent reason on at least 3 separate occasions. The plot was pretty weak with no real depth. The tension of not knowing who the monster is lasted all of 5 minutes - replaced by big loud monster chases and jump scares. And the CGI and creature design were pretty bad.
If the 1982 film is a 10, the 2011 version is about a 4. Ok, maybe a 5... just for the way it ties into the other movie.
Fun fact the CGI power supply wasn’t originally supposed to be there it was going to be the original pilot of the ship and the Thing was an alien that escaped captivity and turn into the form of the pilot but was changed because of screen viewers was confused of why the alien was there
I never understand why sci-fi movies continually ask people to accept that the inside of alien ship wouldn't even have a sign or some displays - and not even a single flat surface to put anything down on.
How are they travelling across interstellar space and they can't even put down a mug of coffee equivalent somewhere?....
Damn, youve changed my outlook on Sci fi with that 😄
Rollerblades and scooters dont have shelving or baskets.
Why?
Bulky, not needed for short jaunts, ergonomics...
I think you are overlooking the idea that an "Alien ship", must be built in a way that makes for us as humans to understand it. "Alien", means alien. Something so different that it's difficult to comprehend how it works, and why it works. If it was that easy to figure it out, it would'nt be all that strange, or the life forms on such a thing. Fear of the strange and unknown and all that.
@@tommargarites2811 I agree in general, but Alien as in an interstellar space ship isn’t synonymous with us having completely no idea what is going on inside it, it has clear thrusters/afterburners for its propulsion system, some kind of large ventilation system and many internal navigable corridors, there’s not exactly a reason it can’t have some form of telemetry display or control consoles around, unless you are going with the idea of making it as “alien” and mysterious as possible like you said of course, which in all honesty I do really like, but I also like when the architecture of an alien ship design hits closer to home too, it gives you the idea that we really aren’t that unique and special in the universe even though we can be so far apart it’s incomprehensible, I find that creepy and scary in its own way also.
@@DoktrDub Interesting take, I can see that.
Rules for alien spaceships : 1. Must have linear hallways perfectly sized for average humans because thats the galactic standard. 2. Complex wall architecture full of artful shapes and details because art is vital for every spaceship. 3. Designed for artifical gravity with clearly defined roof and floor because thats the galactic standard. 4. Centralized control room, because thats the galactic standard. 5. Huge overall interior space filled with absolutely nothing because of reasons. So uninspired, so boring, so limited within human expectations. The same in almost every movie.
Couldn't have said it better.
Well do the scene again and break every of this rules, we’ll see how u manage to do it
Yes!
Remember all the CGI that made the 1982 version so great? Yeah, me neither😂😂😂
I hated the thing that they dug up, I always imagined it as a 10ft humanoid creature like the tyrant in RE, it would have been more terrifying.
As someone who is a great admirer of John Carpenter's The Thing I've come to the conclusion that the thing itself's true form is that of a microorganisms. I've probably watched this movie well over a thousand times. Love the soundtrack.
I'm sad the movie wasn't longer or had a decent prequel or sequel.
Why can The Thing mimic human behaviour and speech after it's assimilated someone but once it 'branches' out and exposes itself it no longer speaks? Does it changing form remove the necessary parts required for speech or does it just choose not to speak anymore once it's been found out? I mean, how creepy would it be when it's chasing you down, you close a door in its face then all of a sudden its human face bursts through yelling "Hereeee's JOHNNY!"
My "theory" about that is that when the host becames a "thing" (when the body horror starts) it loose it's inteligence (through some extent) and act more like a predator.
@@liquid880 Fair enough, but does it not retain knowledge from each individual host? Going on that, maybe it's possible that it's able to grasp the full intellect, knowledge and memory for 'X' amount of time before returning back to it's origins and only maintaining a portion of the previous knowledge, memory etc.
Probably it deformed the vocal cords and started speaking in growls
I think that the thing might grow intelligence based on what its doing like when mimicking people it probably leaves some of the person's brain alone. I think when it was threatened and stuck in the shack it probably grew the parts of an aliens brain it needed to build a space ship. So it could probably still mimic a voice it just doesn't need to
@@disappointedbananas2365 It does speak. Norris, Blair and Palmer were all things that spoke. I believe it just needs time to assimilate a person's personality/memory, which is why Bennings could only howl at them before they burned him, because his transformation wasn't complete.
4:43 4:45 I already have an idea of what the next mimicry monster will be like
Kate falls 500 feet and gets up without even a limp
Can't see too dark
I give this movie a D+ at best
The sound around 3:30 is the distress beacon from Sunshine
I quietly thanked this movie’s production for the scene where the distraught woman chances upon the ship’s computer (or whatever the strange multicolor cylinder with all the busy Lego pieces mixing and matching is) A producer could’ve refused to pay for it because it “didn’t move the plot forward” or some such. It provided me with an unprecedented moment of wonder at alien technology. We’ve all seen plenty of alien tech in movies but this is a bit hypnotic and fascinating, considering (as one other commenter pointed out) It probably wasn’t Thing tech but that of one of its previous victims elsewhere in the galaxy. Us Earthlings don’t know the half of what’s going on out there and this makes you ponder….until the Thing sneaks up and eats you.
Is this film 1982 the thing's remastered one or its a prequel/sequel of 1982 one ?
THING when it is still sleepy and didn't drink its coffee...
The lore of the Thing is endless....... needs to happen without the CGI overload
Agree, wish the studio never interfered
05:20 The thing could have effortlessly devoured her at that moment. Precisely one of the most dangerous abilities of this creature is to be able to alter its structure, generate tentacles and divide into smaller entities.
Fun fact, Zack Snyder based his designs on this particular space ship!!
Dude, if this was the old one, it would have just detached a piece and got her. Wtf
haha good point.
If this was the old one, even detaching itself would have a real long time, remember how long it took for the head to get detached from the body during defibrillation scene. They made the arms detaching look easy in the new one, but need not always be the case
I hope whoever's moronic idea it was to replace this movie's practical effects with CGI doesn't have work anymore involving film production.
how bad do you want the CGI to look?
YES
What if this "thing" actually exists ..makes you wonder why Antarctica cannot be accessed anymore..what are they hiding ?
bullshit, the thing can create more insects from itself and get Kate
I still like the 50s version best.
What?
@@millyeleven9969 Huh? "The Thing from Another World" 1951.
that was a bit basic....
That spaceship looked more like an old torque converter. 😂
Throwing a grenade into monster mouth. So unique.
Some masterpieces do not need to be reborn..
It’s not being reborn this is technically a prequel
And this movie probably would’ve been as good as the original if the studio did not interfere, The original version of this movie was probably going to be completely different if the studio didn’t interfere
Listen to the audio story The things,it's the movie but from the things point of view
What I dislike is that the Thing goes from imitating a human including speaking and everything, to acting like a mindless snarling monster that can't communicate. A lot of reboots and sequels ruin what made the originals great by showing the creature too much. It kills the tension and mystery.