I just love how they set up the sore loser aspect to MacReady so that his endgame plan doesn't seem crazy at all. I mean, it is the logical plan, but most people would have a little more trepidation about it.
@@Tom-Mac1975 That's just headcanon though, every fan theory disambiguating the ending has been denied. Honestly, just accept that you're not supposed to know, that's the perfect ending to the movie anyway. You're not supposed to 'solve' it.
@@wcookiv I have heard that Carpenter is working on sequel. I guess we'll find out. Where would Mac have gotten a fresh bottle of Jim Beam from after he blew up the entire camp?
At the start of the film, on first viewing: "Why are they shooting at the poor dog?" Every subsequent view of the film" "AAAH! KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT!" 😱
Uh, that would probably be because it was no longer a dog as it was when she first saw it, it was a dangerous bizarre alien transforming. Not sure why so many people can't wrap their heads around this simple observation.
This is one of the very rare movies that has and always will be amazing every time someone watches it. It never loses its suspense or level of intensity.
Jeb (the real name of the wolf/husky who played the Thing/husky at the start) is undeniably the greatest animal actor of all time. Watch it a second time and you can't help but read his various expressions: "So... the humans have returned"; "Yes, it's a charred monster corpse. Why - what are you suggesting?"; "Found one. Now hold still, human. This won't hurt a bit..."
@@SurvivorBri Quite right. Sorry for the typo. Perhaps I thought of b for 'best'. Or perhaps my fingers are too cold and the memory of seeing this at age 4 is wreaking havoc with my brain.
If you didn't realize Blair was a hero. He destroyed everything after he realized he couldn't let the thing get back to civilization. He literally saved the world. He was only turned afterwards when he was left by himself in the shed. One of the things got to him. Also its implied another good group of aliens were piloting and somehow another type of alien, the bad alien ,the thing got loose and killed everyone causing the ship to crash in the beginning.
I always wonder about when he turned because there's also a point during the autopsy where he's poking the thing with that big q-tip thing and then taps it on his mouth. So I wonder if the Thing gets to him later or manages to take him over slowly because he got a small part of it inside his mouth (or its just a mistake on the actor's part)
@@michaelragnarsson3476 this is one of the things confirmed not to be true. The director said it was just the actor's real life habit ,which I also do, and taps his mouth with the end of the pencil. He was himself the whole time till they got to him in the shed. If you noticed in one of the hallway scenes when everybody is arguing and talking, don't know if they did it on purpose but all the infected are on one side and all the non infected on another.
@@two-bearshigh-fiving9293 yes after he was turned in the shed. He tried to build the craft because there's no way out of there because Blair destroyed everything.
@@michaelragnarsson3476 From what little we see of the actual infections in progress, the Thing doesn't seem to work like that. Infection doesn't seem to be like a contagious virus-- it seems like a violent affair in which the victims are literally assaulted and absorbed. Otherwise Bennings probably would've gotten infected when the Dog-Thing was licking him, and we know that he ends up getting absorbed much later in the movie. Stands to reason that Blair was attacked while he was in the shed-- probably by either Norris-Thing or Palmer-Thing.
Interesting Facts: n the prequel to “The Thing”, they were able to identify people who had been imitated because the Things were only able to replicate organic matter and were therefore unable to duplicate inorganic matter, which meant that items such as pins inserted to hold together broken bones and fillings in your teeth would be missing in people that had been taken over. That would obviously be the case for anyone like Norris that had a pacemaker as well. They were thus able to identify who was a Thing and who was not by checking for fillings, etc… When the Thing imitates someone, it perfectly duplicates every cell with such precision than it actually retains the memories, knowledge, and personality of the individual it copies. Norris (the guy who’s chest bursts open, chopping off the doctor’s hands with its bear-trap teeth) had a bad heart, and likely a peacemaker. When the Thing took him over and perfectly imitated him, it also faithfully recreated his heart defect, but not his pacemaker, which eventually caused Norris to suffer a heart attack for real during a high-stress moment. The Thing would have been happy to hide itself in a presumably “dead” body, but it couldn’t tolerate the electro-shocks from the defibrillator and was thus forced to reveal itself. Of course, the amazing scene where Norris’ head separates from his burning body, slides onto the floor, and pulls itself away, transforming into a crab/spider with his upside-down head as its body, and tries to crawl away unnoticed, is an iconic moment! (Incidentally, at the beginning of the movie, the spaceship was flying erratically because the crew was desperately trying to fight off the Things that were aboard their vessel and causing havoc. That’s why the spaceship attempted to make an emergency landing on the nearest planet and ended up crash landing in the Antarctic. Only one of the Things as survived the crash and made it out of the ship alive, only to freeze in the ice.)
Completely agree.Rob Bottin was a practical effects genius.It’s still hard to believe that this film came out in 1982,and was panned by critics.The same critics that panned the Blues Brothers in 1980 and Bladerunner which also came out in 1982.Since then all three films have been reappraised as classics.Apparently the criticism that John Carpenter got towards The Thing hurt him deeply.For me John Carpenter’s a genius and it just shows us that it’s about what the audience thinks and not what the critics think.There’s been talk of a follow up movie of the rescue team finding Child’s and Macready and the events that happen afterwards.I hope it happens.
They were right on time. Small groups of artists and problem solvers worked on movies to one up each other to bring to life special effects. There were fanzine magazines that covered as much as they could of their abilities. This was before the internet.
I have rarely seen a horror movie since this one that had special practical effects this amazing. I am afraid that it is nearly a lost art form and most studios will default to CGI now.
@@DerekHarrison-d5dYeah. It's unbeleivable. That Kids movie ET took this amazing movies thunder. Ín my book it's top 3 sci-fi horror. And borderline lovecraftian horror.
The irony of this movie 42 years later is that, if they made this today with all the technology and cgi that Hollywood loves and overuses way too much, it wouldn't even look half as good as the old time practical effects. Also, it's a crime the husky did not win an Oscar. Top 5 actor of all time.
Exactly what happened with the prequel/remake done in 2011 They intended to use the same practical effects then erased the puppets and prosthetics to replace them with CGI The result: everything looked fake and it aged like raw milk
@@axlm.808 From what i read back then, the producers / director were stepped over by the studio. They wanted to do everything practical, but told to use more CGI than they wanted. But since it's a movie nobody needed, because it's the same things happening just in another camp, and we now how it has to end otherwise it would fuck up the continuity, it's not even worth getting annoyed about. It is rightfully forgotten.
Fun fact, the dog used in the movie was part wolf and occasionally it would go into "wild mode" meaning it would growl at the cast and even his trainer. The trainer said just stay still it gets it out of it's system. Another fun fact, the TNT at the end was real. Kurt Russel almost held on do it a little bit too long. One second more and Kurt may have died.
"Why does this computer have such a sensual voice?" The computer is played by Catwoman's 1990s voice actress, Adrienne Barbeau, who was married to Carpenter at the time. 10 years later, Barbeau would be a regular cast member on *Batman: The Animated Series.*
The thing is FreeBSD. FreeBSD is used by many IT companies such as IBM, Nokia, Juniper Networks, and NetApp to build their products. Certain parts of Apple's Mac OS X operating system are based on FreeBSD. So it's the "Thing" infecting everything and going unnoticed.
I don't understand how most people watching and reacting to this movie don't see how sus the dog is. It doesn't bark, wag it's tail, pant or any dog like habits it's eerily silent just watching everyone. Even when I saw this as a kid I realized something was off about that dog.
It always seems like people forget that Clarke was charging after him with a scalpel in his hand when he gets killed. "Clarke wasn't the thing, so yeah he's a murderer now, that's something he's gonna have to live with". Him not being the thing doesn't really matter anymore once you're charging someone in an attempt to stab them
I also love how Blair tells him to "Watch Clarke," and we hear him repeat it right after so we know it got into his head. He was subconsciously primed to consider Clarke a threat at all times, so in the middle of a tense standoff, when Clarke rushed him he just acted on instinct. There are so many amazing details in the movie that you don't pick up on the first time you watch it.
Clarke was possibly immune to the thing, he was in contact with the dog for ages at the start, no infection. The thing wanted him gone the manual way as he couldn't be taken over. Just a theory. @@wcookiv
The Prince Of Darkness The Faculty The scary part if this movie is.... If the alien can imitate me perfectly, how would I know I'm not me anymore until I start splitting into tentacles and teeth? Can the alien copy every part of me and STILL let my consciousness stay until it wants to take control? And then just shut me off? Or do I stay in my body like a passenger in a car...and just have to watch a feel all of the skin splitting? Could I be the alien right now and still think I'm human? When do I realize I'm infected? Does it get smarter as it become bigger? The blood hides from fire based on Instinct, if it's a hand does it then have enough processing power to fight instead of just flee?
You are right. And CGI lacks a lot of other things too. In my opinion the light on objects is still off - its often looks artificial in comparison to real models. And when it comes to movements, the movements are to effordless (partially because what you said about: no weight). But also the lack of viscosity and other things. And there is another thing: Because people who build real models did it in much more time than 3d-artists, the modelbuilders had much more time while they were building the models. Time is important to overthink ideas , to polish ideas. I am an artist myself (i draw - and often it needs months until a drawing is finished - one single idea can need hundreds of sketchs before). I dont say 3d-artists dont make sketchs, and dont take their time. But: because it needs less time, the finished product is much more the ''raw'' idea. It maybe looks fancy - but in comparison the model builders idea feels much more creative - because it took him more time - and in that time, the idea became more than a ''raw'' idea ''waiting to beome finished. So the human (time-)scale on creativity is important ... and movie makers forgot that. And as we found out: physics is always more than CGI. And thats the reason why CGI should only help , and not replace real model building. Thats why Terminator 2 still feels good. Thats why Jurassic Park feels good. Thats why Abyss feels good. Its why Titanic feels good. But already in Gladiator things begin to go south. Already in Gladiator the Collosseum looks odd (we accept it, because the story is good ... but its the first sign that movie industry got more lazy and trusted CGI to much). To be precise : there are movies where trashy CGI makes sense (B-Movies like Lexx ) ... But in every other cases, movie makers should stick with good old model making artists and other real visual effects. Its still much better.
Only if you don't do it properly. Which most movies sadly don't. The issue is that back in the 90's when CGI was taking off, filmmakers and animators were more focused on making things as believable as possible. Nowadays the attitude has changed. It's all about glamor, action and energy. It's about going as crazy as you can, and as a result, it comes off more cartoonish. CGI is overused, meaning the efforts of animators is spread thin. And it's often rushed by studios to meet a deadline.
@@chaoticiannunez2419 I didnt see fully CGI-effect ''done properly''. Actually ''two minute papers'' makes always videos about how ''another puzzle-piece of reality is now sucessfully imitated by CGI'' ... that is very telling. It tells: that we are still not there - even with ''done properly'' , to let look CGI like real. And i dont start with facial animation. The most ''properly done'' CGI with face animation is still very Uncanny Valley. Maybe not all people can see it, when its ''done properly'' - but i see it. And it seems nearsightedcyclopes also sees it. On other parts i agree with you - that CGI is more and more hasted to meed a deadline. But i see another big problem, barely adressed by anyone: CGI-artists arent really artists. They are technicians. They know their stuff. They know software. They know all the nodes, bezier curves, polygon-tools etc ... Artists on the other hand are mostly the opposite: they barely know technical stuff - but have the artistic vision and idea. Thats the problem. Back in the days when it was done with real models, there were truly artists on that , like H. Giger ... because a lot of it was traditional art with clay, painting (also matpainting for backgrounds etc). 3d-'artists' nowadays arent hired for: what they can paint or build with clay. They are hired for how well they know their softwares. Sure, they can make fancy dragons, and what not. But they usually lack that edge - so that viewers are blown away by the artistic mind. They are usually only blown away from how ''epic'' an 3d-artists makes it look. Like in lord of the rings. ''Just do it epicly big, and its good enough'' ... Or with Avatar. Thats not art. But its probably enough for the audience nowadays - because they dont know older stuff. The few who know it - like seen in reaction-videos like these are blown away from the artistic mind behind those real models.
@@PygmalionFaciebat Well, obviously it depends on what you use it for. I'm of the opinion that CGI should be used when all other techniques fall short. Like if it's impractical to build a large enough set, or model. If the suit or animatronic doesn't move they way it needs to, then you need CGI. If you can do it practically, if you can build it, you should. But "should" and "would" are two different things aren't they? Because unfortunately a lot of studios and filmmakers don't seem to think this way anymore. It's the Assembly Line Effect of the Movie Business. As for that "artist'' point. I can't speak for that. I've never met a CG animator. I just know a lot goes into it. I'm sure plenty are dissatisfied with plenty of stuff about their work, proud for others. But you might be on to something though. If you look at at earlier uses of CGI different disciplines were involved. Jurassic Park for instance. Phil Tippet and his crew of Stop Motion animators had to help the CG animators give the dinosaurs the right amount of weight. Tippett had them do exercises in order to get a grasp of the character's movement and mindset. Godzilla from 1998 is another example, no matter what you think of the film itself, a lot of time went into figuring out how Godzilla in his new design would move. They even experimented slightly with early uses for MoCap. the first Godzilla film to do so. But in later movies, it seems that much thought or care isn't put into it. So, I think that's a problem that could be addressed by teaching CGI animators to think more artistically. To better grasp physicality. But l'm not trying to justify the overuse of CGI, God no. I love model work. I mean you can't beat real. As for the "Uncanny Valley" yeah, I don't think faces are something CGI could really nail, outside of maybe De-aging, but even then you can get...mixed results (cough, The Irishman)
"How are you that bad of a shot?" I love when people who have clearly never shot a gun say this. You have ANY idea how insanely tough of a shot it would be to hit a sprinting dog while you're in a helicopter?? lol
Especially when the Shooter is (Likely) NOT very experienced at Marksmanship even using a fixed bench/rest! Once you're moving, it's a WHOLE nother challenge! :-)
yeah, seriously. i've never even held a gun but it's pretty obvious to me how hard it would be to shoot a small moving target from a moving helicopter, lol.
When I was in the Navy I would help the Gunners Mates with Fam Fires (we would "train" the petty officers how to use a gun and shoot...most of them couldn't load a handgun) and afterwards, we got to play with all the on-board weapons (M-16'a, M-60, .45's, Granades, etc.). We would throw garbage over the aft end and shoot it with the rifles...that was a trick because the ship is moving all over the place, water in the face and the target bouncing around on the waves. Generally we would have to walk the firing out to the target and then lock on as we both rocked and rolled. It ain't easy.
@@JacksonDiddles I learned how to shoot M-16s,M-4s,Mark-19s,M-203 with grenade launcher ( fired with live grenades ) 50 Cal and M249.Used all these weapons on 4 deployments to go fight in Iraq ( I volunteered for all 4 tours,also did 2 tours back-to back ) with Texas Guard infantry units.I wanted all that-SMOKE !!! LOL. I was bored working 2 full time civilian jobs,so since I was already in the Texas Guard all I needed were orders to Iraq.So off I went. LOL. During these 4 tours I arrested & detained countless Iraqee citizens/insurgents,kicked in countless doors on home/apt raids,had plenty of fire-fights-some lasting 3/4 hrs,seen plenty of car bombs & human bombs too.The human bombs didn't last long tho-LOL. As far as shooting a dog from a moving chopper,you have to have that chopper moving ahead of that dog,then lead that dog into your shot,shooting a little ahead of the dog.Then it's good night-LASSIE. LOL.
I do consider "The Thing" as John Carpenter's horror masterpiece despite the negative publicity back in '82 because the movie, which we all know that it's very violent and dark, came out a few weeks after "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", which was a more family-friendly film.
It would have been different if only they had released the director's cut of E.T., which ends with the family getting abducted and dissected by E.T. and his gang.
I saw this as a 15 year old in 1982.. I went with a mate of mine, we were expecting maybe some kinda lurching "dude-in-a-suit" monster at best.. after the kennel scene we glanced at each other like "wtf did we just see??" We rode our pushies back home, going on no-stop about it, probably shell-shocked now I think of it! 40 years later - still holds up .. bring back practical effects!
I've watched 25 plus reactions to this iconic sci-fi horror movie and yours is the first time i've seen anyone blur out the incredible, ground breaking practical effects, a key element in the presentation. I still made it nearly halfway through.
Mentioned early in the film, 'Chariots of the Gods' is a real book written by Erich von Daniken. Also, the sequel to this movie is a video game for PS2.
The game was also available for PC. Ran on a Pentium II and was rated M (for obvious reasons). I have it with the printed strategy guide, but never finished it.
John Carpenter has directed some of the best films ever like Halloween, The Thing, Christine, In The Mouth Of Madness, Escape From L.A., Escape From New York, The Fog, Big Trouble In Little China, Starman, Dark Star, Prince Of Darkness, Assault On Precinct 13, They Live, and so much more highly acclaimed and respected films throughout his career as a celebrated filmmaker over the years.
@@juanausensi499 no but it needs to be seen to balance out all the good stuff he's done. But also have you never heard "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it"?
@@juanausensi499 as do I, as everyone should. Still, it's like whenever anyone brings up the topic of this movie, I'll also tell that story of John and Guillermo Del Toro having dinner.
Based on John Campbell's short story, "Who Goes There?" Loved your expressive reactions, and your comments afterwards were insightful and spot-on. "Blair's" spaceship was intended to get the thing onto the mainland, and they got it just in time.
This is one of my favorite horror movies of all time! I like one particular theory about the ending. In the beginning of the movie, MacReady loses a game of chess to the computer, and breaks it with a beer. At the end of the movie, he hands "Childs" a beer bottle. The theory states that this is symbolic of him loosing to "The Thing". Childs has been assimilated, and now he is giving The Thing a beer, the same way he "gave" it to the computer after loosing their match.
I've read that Mac isn't drinking alcohol but gasoline and when he gives it to Childs, Child smiles and enjoys it but Mac knows that it's not alcohol so he knows that Childs is the Thing because it doesn't know what gasoline/alcohol tastes like. Either way, love how the movie just leaves everything up to interpretation, best horror movie ever.
@@pvanukoff Why would he be carrying a bottle of alcohol on him at this point of the story ? What he was carrying was a leftover molotov cocktail they had prepared in order to destroy the Thing, and it contained gasoline.
@@FantasticMrFrog He was clearly bringing it to his mouth to take a drink before Childs showed up. There's literally nothing to support the idea that it was a molotov. There is however, plenty to support the idea that it was just whiskey, which he was drinking throughout the movie. It makes more sense he was just drinking because he was pretty sure he was going to freeze to death anyway.
27:12 "I don't think the Norwegians took it this far." Well, fun fact at this point: The scenes in the Norwegian camp were actually shot in the American camp after it was blown up. So yes, the Norwegians DID go that far.
I remember watching this in times square BEFORE DISNEY TOOK OVER, WHEN THEATER EXPERIENCE WAS LIKE FOR REAL.The theater reactions to the transformations scene were nuts, especially the chest scene, walking head scene, and the whole tied up test scene.Unforgettable movie!
We humans never stand a chance if this actually happens and an alien imitates a dog! I have seen someone who SPEAKS NORWEGIAN and understood all the warnings the guy was giving and STILL said "Ahwww, the puppy is so cute. Im glad he didn't get hurt" 🤯🤣
Uh, that would probably be because it was no longer a dog as it was when she first saw it, it was a dangerous bizarre alien transforming. Not sure why so many people can't wrap their heads around this simple observation.
...she said that after he shot the Norwegian in the face. So she meant she was glad the Norwegians didn't hurt "the dog" as they were warning that's not what it is. Hope that clears it up for you.
After the last flight leaves Antarctica's Mc Murdo station, the caretaker crew remaining gather for a double feature: John Carpenter's The Thing, and Kubrick's version of The Shining. Great movies to begin over six months of isolation.
There is also a prequel for this movie that explains what was going on in the Norwegian camp - but sadly it has been wrongly marketed in many countries as a remake and therefore not gotten good reviews. Its also called "the thing" but from 2011
The practical effects in this movie are off the chart, and it is legendary for it. Even after all these years, even KNOWING what's going to happen, it still captures and holds your attention. Always a treat seeing folks experience it that 'First time!' :-)
The effects are still amazing in this film, made even more amazing when you realise Rob Bottin was only 22 and this was his first major film as lead effects artist. As a result, whenever Carpenter went to him with ideas, Bottin would just enthusiastically say “Yeah! Let’s do that!’ without any idea HOW to do that. He worked so hard on this film, sometimes just sleeping under his work bench so he could start work as soon as he woke up, that he was hospitalised for exhaustion when filming wrapped.
Among Us? Hell, just listen to its theme tune. The computer has a senual voice because she was John Carpenter's girlfriend. Fun fact: Other than the game show contestant, she's the only female character in the movie. Ah Yes. The Late 70s-Early 80s Everything Computer; when no one knew how computers worked so movies could pretend they could do anything Jed the wolfdog was indeed a Hollywood star; he played White Fang twice and the wolf in The Journey of Natty Gann.
doing that kind of statistical computing on a computer in 1982 was not unheard of, the magical thing they did was just the interface where he could ask questions as if it was running chatgpt :)
23:16 by the way, that was a REAL stick of dynamite thrown by actual Kurt Russell. The blast was so hard he was instantly thrown against the wall of the building and had a concussion from it.
I always love seeing people reaction to the ending. For such a paranoia filled movie, ending it without full answer is the perfect way to finish it off.
Every time that MacReady had his back to an open door I was like nope. If I were in that situation I would never sit facing away from an open door. I can't even do it irl without feeling spooked.
My horror movie fan mom took me to see this movie in the theater when I was 10 years old. I spent most of the movie literally under my seat. For the longest time I thought my dogs were going to split in half. That being said, it is now my favorite horror movie of all time and I've seen it easily over 200 times. The end is perfect because it allows us to share in the paranoia. Not really knowing of either if them were the thing.
I like to think that the infected person has no idea they're infected. All their cells have been replaced by copies, so they're technically still the same person, but with an extra passenger.
I've never thought that theory held up given all the things the imitations are doing (not to mention the memory of having been attacked). They are planting evidence, breaking into blood banks, building spaceships, looking suspicious when they are about to be revealed by the hot needle test. I think they know very well and are playing a waiting game.
The imitations probably know, because it would be hard to explain to yourself why you are, for example, sabotaging the blood bags for no reason. But the people of the crew don't know if they should know, that's why Windows is so nervous at the blood test. They are exhausted and terrified so they don't have the advantage of hindsight.
They certainly know because they ARE "things". There is no infected person; they are "there" in the same way your clothes on a doll or dummy model is actually you. That person is entirely physically gone. Each and every cell replaced by the cells of "the thing". The things clearly are well aware of what they are doing and work strategically, they know what they're doing.
Never fails.... "No, don't shoot the dog!" then ten minutes later, "kill it! Kill it with fire!" 🤣 Absolute masterpiece of a movie. I have seen one cut of this movie, on TV only, never seen a reference to it anywhere else... The end is the morning after McReady and Childs scene... from a hilltop, The camp is burnt out and leveled, still some smoke rising... and, a dog trots up to the top of the hill... stops... looks back over the burnt out camp... and then trots away. I never looked at a husky the same way!
They did a semi sequel video game for this movie. If I remember it correctly it was a squad based game for PS2 & OG Xbox that required you to earn the trust of your other teammates and how things turned out was determined by how much trust you had built with everyone. Last year it was announced that they were doing a remaster for modern gaming systems & PC. As for the movie fun fact Special FX artist Rob Bottin was splitting time between 2 productions at the time and would regularly sleep on a couch on set due to how overworked he was.
You may find this interesting: this movie is actually a remake of a 1951 movie called "The Thing from Another World". Furthermore, there was prequel to this movie made in 2011 called, strangely enough, "The Thing. It is worth a look. And, in my opinion, blowing the thing up is a really bad move: you end up turning one big problem into a whole lot of little problems that can get bigger; burning is your only best option and, even then, it needs to be burned right down to ash. 👍👍👍
Wilford Brimley w/o his signature mustache - wow. I grew up on his Quaker Oats commercials. He slayed it in this movie! RIP Wilford... Also, nice to see a young Keith David (the stepdad in There's Something About Mary) as well as various voices for Rick & Morty (US President, Reverse Giraffe) 😆
@@SunlessNick Same The intentional or unintentional editing of that scene makes the screaming appear to come from Palmer, whose mouth is not even moving.. it's horrifying, the reveal
"Look at him he's Such a sweet boy." Here we go again, it never disappoints 🤣🤣🤣 Some trivia: The guy who designed all "the thing" forms, Rob Bottin, was only 21 years old at that time and he exhausted himself so much by work on the movie that he ended in hospital. For the demolished Norwegian camp was actually used the US base after the explosions. The scene in Norwegian base was shot last.Internet is full of theories whether MacReady, Childs or both are humans or one of them is the thing. Authors of these theories bring both good and bad arguments for it. The intention of the creators was precisely to leave people in uncertainty about it and they promised they will never reveal the truth.
The guy who played Childs was actor Keith David, who many might remember from John Carpenter's "They Live" (another one I recommend) but also as the voice actor for Dr. Facilier in Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" (2009) and the Black Cat in "Coraline" (2009).
My favorite line was "It's weird and pissed off" I read that they saved the burning of the camp for the last thing they shot so they could actually destroy the set so it looked real.
"I don't know what the hell's in there but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is!" Is, just for me, the most iconic movie line in history. It's criminal how under-referenced it is.
After watching about 30 other reactors react to this movie, this is the first time I've come across someone who felt they actually had to blur the amazing prosthetic effects! I realize RUclips can be fickle about what they censor, but they do NOT have a problem with THIS stuff!
One of the really nifty things this movie pulls off is that, the Norwegian who was willing to risk hitting the guy in his attempt to shoot the “dog” at the beginning, who you thought was crazy, you later realize that he was all TOO sane and was completely justified, even at the risk of shooting an innocent; he was trying to save the world. Same with Blair: he didn’t lose his mind-he just realized they were all gonna die, were really dead already, and that he had to do whatever it took to try to be sure the Thing couldn’t get out of there, for the sake of the whole human race. This is indeed one of the all-time great horror films-top 3 all-time for me. But probably not quite the *absolute* best. 😊 If you haven’t seen it, I recommend you watch The Shining, the late great Stanley Kubrick’s attempt to make the greatest horror film ever.
I was halfway through Tarantino's _The Hateful Eight_ last night...and realized it's a tribute film to _The Thing_ ! Buncha guys trapped. Extreme cold. Someone's not what they seem. Morricone did both soundtracks. Kurt Russell. Quentin even used specific music from _The Thing's_ score.
My late father and I consider this the best horror movie ever made. We both recommended it to anyone looking for a horror movie worth watching. It is John Carpenter's best work. The practical effects were stunning when it came out and still hold up. It is an adaptation of a 1938 book, "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell. This movie is considered closer to the source material than an earlier movie adaptation, "The Thing from Another World" (1951). Fun Trivia: John Carpenter had "The Thing from Another World" playing on a television in the movie "Halloween" (1978).
The novella this movie is based on is called “Who Goes There?”, by John W. Campbell Jr., and it’s absolutely great! I recommend reading it! But if you’re not going to, spoilers for the ending of that story below. SPOILERS In the end of the novella, they think they’ve killed all of the things (without blowing up their camp), but then they see an albatross fly overhead, and the question is whether the thing may have infested a bird (probably from the shack where they had imprisoned the one scientist for awhile) before they got it all… in which case the world is doomed.
Great Reaction 👍👍👍 There were two different of Mac's shirts,so the Thing was planting them around the area to spread doubt about Mac, who was it's most dangerous enemy. Thing Blair was building a air cushion hovercraft to fly to the coast. I doubt you could build a spaceship out of helicopter and tractor parts. I think both Childs and Mac were human at the end, because the sore loser Mac chuckled at the end, which means he thinks he's killed the Thing and has won.
You're right about the practical effects. For me, this this movie has the best practical effects, follow by Total Recall...the same guy did both movies. So everyone thought Dr. Blair was a danger and might be the thing when he starts breaking sh*t, but at that point Dr. Blair realizes what the thing is trying to do and is trying to destroy any method it has of doing it. Later when he calms down and "feels better now," it's because he's been taken over at that point. You're very right...this is definitely Among Us the live action 😂 But it's such an incredible movie all around. Glad you finally got around to seeing it! Just curious, who do you think is the Thing at the end? I always find that discussion interesting and fun.
This film actually got panned by the critics and also, there was a certain film with an alien that wanted to go home that came out the same year which was the biggest blockbuster film of that year bur I'm glad the thing gets its recognition now as the horror masterpiece it is.
There’s a few fun facts about the movie and one of them was about the artist that made the creatures worked so hard for over a year that they were hospitalized for exhaustion and probably something else that I’m forgetting, but definitely worth investigating in. It takes more than a monster to make a good movie which is where the movie shines is the story and how the monster plays a role in the paranoia
John Carpenter, fan of H.P. Lovecraft, paid tribute to the horror writer for filming the best movie in all his carrier, turned into a cult movie over the years and regarded in time as one of the best horror movies ever made. No matter how time pass, it will continues giving chills to the people forever. A true nightmare-maker. And The Thing (2011) is a very worthy prequel.
Although greatly changed, "The Thing" is a remake/reboot of "The Thing from Another World" (1951). Both are based on John W. Campbell Jr's 1938 novella "Who Goes There?" Before Carpenter made "The Thing," "The Thing from Another World" was one of the movies being watched on the TV in "Halloween."
I'm no expert on sled dogs, but I know that there are several types of scenarios where working dogs aren't doted on like pets. Their human interaction is limited to feeding, grooming, and working. It helps them stay focused on their jobs.
Fun fact- in "Halloween", the boy Jame Lee Curtis is babysitting on Halloween night is watching the original 1950s version of "The Thing" on TV; Carpenter was obviously a fan 😄 .
Also, the movie in 2011 (also called “The Thing”) is a prequel that outlines when the thing was discovered by the noerwegians and ends with the dog-thing escaping and the Norwegians trying to shoot it like the beginning of this movie
Great reaction. This is one of my favorite movies. I had an opportunity to see it in the movie theater. My twin brother and I were only 15 when this came out, so my mom had to take us to the theater to watch it because it was Rated R. I already knew what to expect because the Starlog magazine showed the comic version of the story. I love the ending because it leaves you wondering. This is great because the entire movie was about wondering who is the thing. However, I learned that John Carpenter made a point to show that McReady had his breath visible in the cold, but Childs did not, implying that Childs was the thing at the end. Thank you for this reaction.
I'm a Swede myself and I always think it's funny when Kurt Russell mistakes Norwegians for Swedes XD ;P Yep, Carpenter made Christine, he also made Escape From New York, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, Prince of Darkness and In The Mouth of Madness. Plus two guilty pleasures of mine - Body Bags and Vampires. Recommend them all for a reaction =)
The first film was "adapted" from a story called Who Goes There by John W Campbell - Carpenter's film is vastly closer to the story (although the story ends with a more conclusive victory for the humans).
Paranoia is the root of the story here. As gruesome as it is the distrust and fear of the unknown is overwhelming in this movie. This is a great example of why young people shouldn't sneer at pre-CGI movies.
This is the movie that started me on reaction content, which is what lead to you being one of my all time favourite reacters. It's my favourite horror movie of all time, the effects and the paranoia and the mystery are just as good as the day it released, they're just timeless.
John Carpenter's The Thing is an all time film it's one of the best Sci Fi horror suspense films ever made , with definitely some of the best creature design and practical effects ever used. The 2011 Thing is very good itself and very worthwhile if you enjoyed John Carpenter's.
Carpenter claims that even he doesn't know if and who the Thing is at the end. But if you really pay attention... the end HEAVILY suggests an answer. 😊
If I saw a helicopter chasing and shooting at a Husky, my first question would be: "What do THEY know that I don't." There's the popular theory that, according to the movie's cinematographer, Dean Cundey, Childs is the thing, because of the lighting used in the final moments. You can see MacReady with a light reflected in his eyes, but Childs doesn't have it. Also, when Childs takes a drink from MacReady's bottle, that ominous music suddenly kicks in. And does anyone actually believe Childs' bogus excuse about chasing after Blair and getting lost?
Childs was a Thing. In the last scene you can see Kurt Russell's breath, but with Keith David there is nothing. Also, it was kerosene in that bottle, not whiskey, and Childs drank it with no expression. This was stated by the director years later in an interview.
I thought that the alien's complete disregard for the lifeforms it imitates, that they're all "grist to the mill" of it's survival, was one of the main tenets of Carpenter's dramatic concept for the film.
One of my favorite movies ever. I especially love the music for this movie. If you ever get the chance, read the short story this movie is based on, Who Goes There? The author is John W. Campbell and he wrote it back in the 1930's. It was first made into a film in 1951. While the 1951 film(which I have seen) is a classic, the 1982 film is more faithful to the story. There is also a 2011 film, also called The Thing, which is a prequel to the 1982 film. It's not as good as the 1982 film, but it was interesting in how they tied the two films together. It also starred one of my favorite film stars, Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Another great movie John Carpenter directed with Kurt Russell was 1981's Escape From New York.
Trivia: the original movie, The Thing From Another World, had James Arness in a costume as the Thing. He later went on to star as Matt Dillon on the TV show Gunsmoke for many years. His brother, Peter Graves, starred as the original leader of the team in the Mission Impossible TV series and also played Captain Oveur in Airplane!
Nah - when one person goes after a dog with a grenade and a rifle in a helicopter they're probably nuts. When two people both decide to do it together? They must have a damn good reason.
One of my two favorite John Carpenter movies. I love this movie. The other one is Big Trouble in Little China. Kurt Russell and Kieth “Goliath” David are excellent in this movie. The scene that is like a bear trap is one of my favorite scenes.
Reactor being upset about the dog being shot at in the beginning is certified The Thing classic.
Except Centane; she speaks Norwegian.
@@parallaxnick637 Or people that have seen a few horror movies before. We know things aren't always as they seem.
That's the horror. It initially plays on your emotions
and everyone pointing it out in every reaction is also a classic
It's like every girl ever watching the movie is always goes: "Don't dare hurt the cute doggo!".
As usual "don't hurt the puppy" (twenty minutes later) "KILL IT WITH FIRE!!" 🤣🤣🤣
The animal is the Alien though.
classic zoomer Thing reaction. I'm just glad she recognized that this came before Imposter.
Every time too
My mom said the same 😭
@@biguy617 Well look at you Mr Observant!
Fun fact regarding the chess game: the computer actually lost the game but declared itself winner. She did cheat to win.
I just love how they set up the sore loser aspect to MacReady so that his endgame plan doesn't seem crazy at all. I mean, it is the logical plan, but most people would have a little more trepidation about it.
@@wcookiv I can't help but think, though, he destroyed one of the few fun things they could do down there!
@@derekeno-l8n Lol if it wasn't for The Thing maybe Mac would have been the real villain.
@@Tom-Mac1975 That's just headcanon though, every fan theory disambiguating the ending has been denied. Honestly, just accept that you're not supposed to know, that's the perfect ending to the movie anyway. You're not supposed to 'solve' it.
@@wcookiv I have heard that Carpenter is working on sequel. I guess we'll find out. Where would Mac have gotten a fresh bottle of Jim Beam from after he blew up the entire camp?
I love the anger at the guy shooting at the dog in the beginning only to be like “kill em, don’t ask questions” later, haha
Safe to say that if this movie was for real, she'd be the first to go, lol.
@@renwulf1695 my girlfriend did the EXACT same thing, very funny!
This is why animal lovers would be the first one's to die or get everyone killed in an apocalypse lol.
At the start of the film, on first viewing:
"Why are they shooting at the poor dog?"
Every subsequent view of the film"
"AAAH! KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT!" 😱
Uh, that would probably be because it was no longer a dog as it was when she first saw it, it was a dangerous bizarre alien transforming. Not sure why so many people can't wrap their heads around this simple observation.
This is one of the very rare movies that has and always will be amazing every time someone watches it. It never loses its suspense or level of intensity.
"Aww what a cute puppy!"
(Two minutes later)
"GET THE FLAMETHROWER!!!"
Jeb (the real name of the wolf/husky who played the Thing/husky at the start) is undeniably the greatest animal actor of all time. Watch it a second time and you can't help but read his various expressions: "So... the humans have returned"; "Yes, it's a charred monster corpse. Why - what are you suggesting?"; "Found one. Now hold still, human. This won't hurt a bit..."
Jed, not Jeb.
Bart the bear doesn't agree
@@SurvivorBri Quite right. Sorry for the typo. Perhaps I thought of b for 'best'. Or perhaps my fingers are too cold and the memory of seeing this at age 4 is wreaking havoc with my brain.
Half Wolf / Half Malamute* hybrid, to be specific
@@FilthTribeFTP Makes sense. They're both strong pack animals but Malamutes also crave occasional private time, i.e. The Thing.
If you didn't realize Blair was a hero. He destroyed everything after he realized he couldn't let the thing get back to civilization. He literally saved the world. He was only turned afterwards when he was left by himself in the shed. One of the things got to him.
Also its implied another good group of aliens were piloting and somehow another type of alien, the bad alien ,the thing got loose and killed everyone causing the ship to crash in the beginning.
I always wonder about when he turned because there's also a point during the autopsy where he's poking the thing with that big q-tip thing and then taps it on his mouth. So I wonder if the Thing gets to him later or manages to take him over slowly because he got a small part of it inside his mouth (or its just a mistake on the actor's part)
@@michaelragnarsson3476 this is one of the things confirmed not to be true. The director said it was just the actor's real life habit ,which I also do, and taps his mouth with the end of the pencil.
He was himself the whole time till they got to him in the shed. If you noticed in one of the hallway scenes when everybody is arguing and talking, don't know if they did it on purpose but all the infected are on one side and all the non infected on another.
Blair built the alien ship with all the parts he broke
@@two-bearshigh-fiving9293 yes after he was turned in the shed. He tried to build the craft because there's no way out of there because Blair destroyed everything.
@@michaelragnarsson3476 From what little we see of the actual infections in progress, the Thing doesn't seem to work like that. Infection doesn't seem to be like a contagious virus-- it seems like a violent affair in which the victims are literally assaulted and absorbed. Otherwise Bennings probably would've gotten infected when the Dog-Thing was licking him, and we know that he ends up getting absorbed much later in the movie. Stands to reason that Blair was attacked while he was in the shed-- probably by either Norris-Thing or Palmer-Thing.
Interesting Facts:
n the prequel to “The Thing”, they were able to identify people who had been imitated because the Things were only able to replicate organic matter and were therefore unable to duplicate inorganic matter, which meant that items such as pins inserted to hold together broken bones and fillings in your teeth would be missing in people that had been taken over. That would obviously be the case for anyone like Norris that had a pacemaker as well. They were thus able to identify who was a Thing and who was not by checking for fillings, etc…
When the Thing imitates someone, it perfectly duplicates every cell with such precision than it actually retains the memories, knowledge, and personality of the individual it copies. Norris (the guy who’s chest bursts open, chopping off the doctor’s hands with its bear-trap teeth) had a bad heart, and likely a peacemaker. When the Thing took him over and perfectly imitated him, it also faithfully recreated his heart defect, but not his pacemaker, which eventually caused Norris to suffer a heart attack for real during a high-stress moment. The Thing would have been happy to hide itself in a presumably “dead” body, but it couldn’t tolerate the electro-shocks from the defibrillator and was thus forced to reveal itself. Of course, the amazing scene where Norris’ head separates from his burning body, slides onto the floor, and pulls itself away, transforming into a crab/spider with his upside-down head as its body, and tries to crawl away unnoticed, is an iconic moment! (Incidentally, at the beginning of the movie, the spaceship was flying erratically because the crew was desperately trying to fight off the Things that were aboard their vessel and causing havoc. That’s why the spaceship attempted to make an emergency landing on the nearest planet and ended up crash landing in the Antarctic. Only one of the Things as survived the crash and made it out of the ship alive, only to freeze in the ice.)
The special and practical effects used in this movie was way ahead of its time, its top notch even 40-something years later!
Completely agree.Rob Bottin was a practical effects genius.It’s still hard to believe that this film came out in 1982,and was panned by critics.The same critics that panned the Blues Brothers in 1980 and Bladerunner which also came out in 1982.Since then all three films have been reappraised as classics.Apparently the criticism that John Carpenter got towards The Thing hurt him deeply.For me John Carpenter’s a genius and it just shows us that it’s about what the audience thinks and not what the critics think.There’s been talk of a follow up movie of the rescue team finding Child’s and Macready and the events that happen afterwards.I hope it happens.
They were right on time. Small groups of artists and problem solvers worked on movies to one up each other to bring to life special effects. There were fanzine magazines that covered as much as they could of their abilities. This was before the internet.
I have rarely seen a horror movie since this one that had special practical effects this amazing. I am afraid that it is nearly a lost art form and most studios will default to CGI now.
@@DerekHarrison-d5dYeah. It's unbeleivable.
That Kids movie ET took this amazing movies thunder.
Ín my book it's top 3 sci-fi horror.
And borderline lovecraftian horror.
The irony of this movie 42 years later is that, if they made this today with all the technology and cgi that Hollywood loves and overuses way too much, it wouldn't even look half as good as the old time practical effects. Also, it's a crime the husky did not win an Oscar. Top 5 actor of all time.
The Husky was the VIP of the film.
The thing (2011) proves you correct. They used CGI for the effects and it looks terrible.
Exactly what happened with the prequel/remake done in 2011
They intended to use the same practical effects then erased the puppets and prosthetics to replace them with CGI
The result: everything looked fake and it aged like raw milk
@@axlm.808 From what i read back then, the producers / director were stepped over by the studio. They wanted to do everything practical, but told to use more CGI than they wanted.
But since it's a movie nobody needed, because it's the same things happening just in another camp, and we now how it has to end otherwise it would fuck up the continuity, it's not even worth getting annoyed about. It is rightfully forgotten.
@@Styxswimmer I was so uninterested that I didn't even know they did that. 😂
Fun fact, the dog used in the movie was part wolf and occasionally it would go into "wild mode" meaning it would growl at the cast and even his trainer. The trainer said just stay still it gets it out of it's system.
Another fun fact, the TNT at the end was real. Kurt Russel almost held on do it a little bit too long. One second more and Kurt may have died.
"Why does this computer have such a sensual voice?" The computer is played by Catwoman's 1990s voice actress, Adrienne Barbeau, who was married to Carpenter at the time. 10 years later, Barbeau would be a regular cast member on *Batman: The Animated Series.*
The Bennings Scream: one of the best screams in cinema, ever.
With his A.I. generated hands.
@@kris5465 Those horrible fucking claws!
There is a theory, that you can hear actually every creature, that the Thing ever copied all together!
@@kris5465 His hands were one of the worst practical effects in an otherwise outstanding film.
@@kazuhiramiller1996 I recall my old boss suggesting that to me when we were discussing the film!
The trend of no one suspecting the dog except like that one reactor that spoke Norwegian continues.
Centane
@J4ME5_ thank you. I honestly forgot who it was i just remembered it happened
Right? Everyone I've seen react to this movie is all " aww wook at the wittle puppy!"
@@TheLukenater like, it is a cute dog, but like...why does everyone assume the Norwegians are just being dicks and shooting it just to shoot it.
@@williamrosmer8381 she's great
We had Mac, and we had Windows. I guess The Thing was Linux. :)
The Chess Wizard was Linux
considering that it was evil I would say that The Thing was Solaris
Poor Windows got killed for no other reason than that Windows stopped responding.
@@salthcreative5540 He was updating, so he had to restart, regardless of whatever else was going on. :)
The thing is FreeBSD. FreeBSD is used by many IT companies such as IBM, Nokia, Juniper Networks, and NetApp to build their products. Certain parts of Apple's Mac OS X operating system are based on FreeBSD. So it's the "Thing" infecting everything and going unnoticed.
I don't understand how most people watching and reacting to this movie don't see how sus the dog is. It doesn't bark, wag it's tail, pant or any dog like habits it's eerily silent just watching everyone. Even when I saw this as a kid I realized something was off about that dog.
Rob Bottin was the special effects designer for this film, at 22 years old
After production wrapped he was hospitalized due to exhaustion
He lived under his workbench at the set, according to the commentary track on the DVD, from what I recall. Dedication!
It always seems like people forget that Clarke was charging after him with a scalpel in his hand when he gets killed. "Clarke wasn't the thing, so yeah he's a murderer now, that's something he's gonna have to live with". Him not being the thing doesn't really matter anymore once you're charging someone in an attempt to stab them
Childs conveniently left that part out and accused him of being a murderer.
Even when self defense is justified you should never feel no regret at all for killing.
I also love how Blair tells him to "Watch Clarke," and we hear him repeat it right after so we know it got into his head. He was subconsciously primed to consider Clarke a threat at all times, so in the middle of a tense standoff, when Clarke rushed him he just acted on instinct.
There are so many amazing details in the movie that you don't pick up on the first time you watch it.
Clarke was possibly immune to the thing, he was in contact with the dog for ages at the start, no infection. The thing wanted him gone the manual way as he couldn't be taken over. Just a theory. @@wcookiv
Also, this was right after she said they should kill Mac or leave him outside to die because she thought he MIGHT be the thing when he wasn't! 😂
The Prince Of Darkness
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The scary part if this movie is....
If the alien can imitate me perfectly, how would I know I'm not me anymore until I start splitting into tentacles and teeth?
Can the alien copy every part of me and STILL let my consciousness stay until it wants to take control? And then just shut me off? Or do I stay in my body like a passenger in a car...and just have to watch a feel all of the skin splitting?
Could I be the alien right now and still think I'm human? When do I realize I'm infected?
Does it get smarter as it become bigger?
The blood hides from fire based on Instinct, if it's a hand does it then have enough processing power to fight instead of just flee?
The Thing is still a masterpiece today.
The one thing CGI lacks is weight. That is why CGI often gives you that Uncanny Valley feel.
You are right. And CGI lacks a lot of other things too. In my opinion the light on objects is still off - its often looks artificial in comparison to real models. And when it comes to movements, the movements are to effordless (partially because what you said about: no weight). But also the lack of viscosity and other things.
And there is another thing:
Because people who build real models did it in much more time than 3d-artists, the modelbuilders had much more time while they were building the models. Time is important to overthink ideas , to polish ideas.
I am an artist myself (i draw - and often it needs months until a drawing is finished - one single idea can need hundreds of sketchs before).
I dont say 3d-artists dont make sketchs, and dont take their time. But: because it needs less time, the finished product is much more the ''raw'' idea. It maybe looks fancy - but in comparison the model builders idea feels much more creative - because it took him more time - and in that time, the idea became more than a ''raw'' idea ''waiting to beome finished.
So the human (time-)scale on creativity is important ... and movie makers forgot that.
And as we found out: physics is always more than CGI.
And thats the reason why CGI should only help , and not replace real model building. Thats why Terminator 2 still feels good. Thats why Jurassic Park feels good. Thats why Abyss feels good. Its why Titanic feels good.
But already in Gladiator things begin to go south. Already in Gladiator the Collosseum looks odd (we accept it, because the story is good ... but its the first sign that movie industry got more lazy and trusted CGI to much).
To be precise : there are movies where trashy CGI makes sense (B-Movies like Lexx ) ... But in every other cases, movie makers should stick with good old model making artists and other real visual effects. Its still much better.
Only if you don't do it properly. Which most movies sadly don't. The issue is that back in the 90's when CGI was taking off, filmmakers and animators were more focused on making things as believable as possible. Nowadays the attitude has changed. It's all about glamor, action and energy. It's about going as crazy as you can, and as a result, it comes off more cartoonish. CGI is overused, meaning the efforts of animators is spread thin. And it's often rushed by studios to meet a deadline.
@@chaoticiannunez2419 I didnt see fully CGI-effect ''done properly''. Actually ''two minute papers'' makes always videos about how ''another puzzle-piece of reality is now sucessfully imitated by CGI'' ... that is very telling. It tells: that we are still not there - even with ''done properly'' , to let look CGI like real. And i dont start with facial animation. The most ''properly done'' CGI with face animation is still very Uncanny Valley. Maybe not all people can see it, when its ''done properly'' - but i see it. And it seems nearsightedcyclopes also sees it.
On other parts i agree with you - that CGI is more and more hasted to meed a deadline.
But i see another big problem, barely adressed by anyone:
CGI-artists arent really artists. They are technicians. They know their stuff. They know software. They know all the nodes, bezier curves, polygon-tools etc ...
Artists on the other hand are mostly the opposite: they barely know technical stuff - but have the artistic vision and idea.
Thats the problem.
Back in the days when it was done with real models, there were truly artists on that , like H. Giger ... because a lot of it was traditional art with clay, painting (also matpainting for backgrounds etc).
3d-'artists' nowadays arent hired for: what they can paint or build with clay.
They are hired for how well they know their softwares. Sure, they can make fancy dragons, and what not. But they usually lack that edge - so that viewers are blown away by the artistic mind. They are usually only blown away from how ''epic'' an 3d-artists makes it look. Like in lord of the rings. ''Just do it epicly big, and its good enough'' ... Or with Avatar. Thats not art. But its probably enough for the audience nowadays - because they dont know older stuff.
The few who know it - like seen in reaction-videos like these are blown away from the artistic mind behind those real models.
@@PygmalionFaciebat Well, obviously it depends on what you use it for. I'm of the opinion that CGI should be used when all other techniques fall short. Like if it's impractical to build a large enough set, or model. If the suit or animatronic doesn't move they way it needs to, then you need CGI. If you can do it practically, if you can build it, you should. But "should" and "would" are two different things aren't they?
Because unfortunately a lot of studios and filmmakers don't seem to think this way anymore. It's the Assembly Line Effect of the Movie Business.
As for that "artist'' point. I can't speak for that. I've never met a CG animator. I just know a lot goes into it. I'm sure plenty are dissatisfied with plenty of stuff about their work, proud for others.
But you might be on to something though. If you look at at earlier uses of CGI different disciplines were involved. Jurassic Park for instance. Phil Tippet and his crew of Stop Motion animators had to help the CG animators give the dinosaurs the right amount of weight. Tippett had them do exercises in order to get a grasp of the character's movement and mindset. Godzilla from 1998 is another example, no matter what you think of the film itself, a lot of time went into figuring out how Godzilla in his new design would move. They even experimented slightly with early uses for MoCap. the first Godzilla film to do so.
But in later movies, it seems that much thought or care isn't put into it.
So, I think that's a problem that could be addressed by teaching CGI animators to think more artistically. To better grasp physicality.
But l'm not trying to justify the overuse of CGI, God no. I love model work. I mean you can't beat real. As for the "Uncanny Valley" yeah, I don't think faces are something CGI could really nail, outside of maybe De-aging, but even then you can get...mixed results (cough, The Irishman)
"How are you that bad of a shot?" I love when people who have clearly never shot a gun say this. You have ANY idea how insanely tough of a shot it would be to hit a sprinting dog while you're in a helicopter?? lol
In a helicopter? He was barely hanging on. (I know what you meant)
Especially when the Shooter is (Likely) NOT very experienced at Marksmanship even using a fixed bench/rest!
Once you're moving, it's a WHOLE nother challenge!
:-)
yeah, seriously. i've never even held a gun but it's pretty obvious to me how hard it would be to shoot a small moving target from a moving helicopter, lol.
When I was in the Navy I would help the Gunners Mates with Fam Fires (we would "train" the petty officers how to use a gun and shoot...most of them couldn't load a handgun) and afterwards, we got to play with all the on-board weapons (M-16'a, M-60, .45's, Granades, etc.). We would throw garbage over the aft end and shoot it with the rifles...that was a trick because the ship is moving all over the place, water in the face and the target bouncing around on the waves. Generally we would have to walk the firing out to the target and then lock on as we both rocked and rolled. It ain't easy.
@@JacksonDiddles I learned how to shoot M-16s,M-4s,Mark-19s,M-203 with grenade launcher ( fired with live grenades ) 50 Cal and M249.Used all these weapons on 4 deployments to go fight in Iraq ( I volunteered for all 4 tours,also did 2 tours back-to back ) with Texas Guard infantry units.I wanted all that-SMOKE !!! LOL. I was bored working 2 full time civilian jobs,so since I was already in the Texas Guard all I needed were orders to Iraq.So off I went. LOL. During these 4 tours I arrested & detained countless Iraqee citizens/insurgents,kicked in countless doors on home/apt raids,had plenty of fire-fights-some lasting 3/4 hrs,seen plenty of car bombs & human bombs too.The human bombs didn't last long tho-LOL. As far as shooting a dog from a moving chopper,you have to have that chopper moving ahead of that dog,then lead that dog into your shot,shooting a little ahead of the dog.Then it's good night-LASSIE. LOL.
I do consider "The Thing" as John Carpenter's horror masterpiece despite the negative publicity back in '82 because the movie, which we all know that it's very violent and dark, came out a few weeks after "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", which was a more family-friendly film.
It would have been different if only they had released the director's cut of E.T., which ends with the family getting abducted and dissected by E.T. and his gang.
@@ZXSPEX Interesting - and fits Spielberg's personality much better. Certainly he's one of the great directors but he also has issues.
The Thing is a body horror/cosmic horror classic. I'm glad you liked it. I saw it as a teenager back in the 80s and it scared the shit out of me haha.
I saw this as a 15 year old in 1982.. I went with a mate of mine, we were expecting maybe some kinda lurching "dude-in-a-suit" monster at best.. after the kennel scene we glanced at each other like "wtf did we just see??" We rode our pushies back home, going on no-stop about it, probably shell-shocked now I think of it! 40 years later - still holds up .. bring back practical effects!
I've watched 25 plus reactions to this iconic sci-fi horror movie and yours is the first time i've seen anyone blur out the incredible, ground breaking practical effects, a key element in the presentation. I still made it nearly halfway through.
Mentioned early in the film, 'Chariots of the Gods' is a real book written by Erich von Daniken.
Also, the sequel to this movie is a video game for PS2.
The game was also available for PC. Ran on a Pentium II and was rated M (for obvious reasons). I have it with the printed strategy guide, but never finished it.
John Carpenter has directed some of the best films ever like Halloween, The Thing, Christine, In The Mouth Of Madness, Escape From L.A., Escape From New York, The Fog, Big Trouble In Little China, Starman, Dark Star, Prince Of Darkness, Assault On Precinct 13, They Live, and so much more highly acclaimed and respected films throughout his career as a celebrated filmmaker over the years.
Hey you forgot Ghosts of Mars 😅
@@mikethemotormouth We all should forget Ghost of Mars...
@@juanausensi499 no but it needs to be seen to balance out all the good stuff he's done. But also have you never heard "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it"?
@@mikethemotormouth Don't worry, i think John Carpenter is awesome. A single movie isn't going to change that.
@@juanausensi499 as do I, as everyone should. Still, it's like whenever anyone brings up the topic of this movie, I'll also tell that story of John and Guillermo Del Toro having dinner.
Based on John Campbell's short story, "Who Goes There?" Loved your expressive reactions, and your comments afterwards were insightful and spot-on. "Blair's" spaceship was intended to get the thing onto the mainland, and they got it just in time.
This is one of my favorite horror movies of all time!
I like one particular theory about the ending. In the beginning of the movie, MacReady loses a game of chess to the computer, and breaks it with a beer. At the end of the movie, he hands "Childs" a beer bottle. The theory states that this is symbolic of him loosing to "The Thing". Childs has been assimilated, and now he is giving The Thing a beer, the same way he "gave" it to the computer after loosing their match.
I've read that Mac isn't drinking alcohol but gasoline and when he gives it to Childs, Child smiles and enjoys it but Mac knows that it's not alcohol so he knows that Childs is the Thing because it doesn't know what gasoline/alcohol tastes like. Either way, love how the movie just leaves everything up to interpretation, best horror movie ever.
@@TheLegendOfOblivion There is literally nothing in the movie that supports that theory. Why would Mac be drinking gasoline?
@@pvanukoff To root out the Thing obviously. As I said just a theory.
@@pvanukoff Why would he be carrying a bottle of alcohol on him at this point of the story ? What he was carrying was a leftover molotov cocktail they had prepared in order to destroy the Thing, and it contained gasoline.
@@FantasticMrFrog He was clearly bringing it to his mouth to take a drink before Childs showed up. There's literally nothing to support the idea that it was a molotov. There is however, plenty to support the idea that it was just whiskey, which he was drinking throughout the movie. It makes more sense he was just drinking because he was pretty sure he was going to freeze to death anyway.
27:12 "I don't think the Norwegians took it this far." Well, fun fact at this point: The scenes in the Norwegian camp were actually shot in the American camp after it was blown up. So yes, the Norwegians DID go that far.
I remember watching this in times square BEFORE DISNEY TOOK OVER, WHEN THEATER EXPERIENCE WAS LIKE FOR REAL.The theater reactions to the transformations scene were nuts, especially the chest scene, walking head scene, and the whole tied up test scene.Unforgettable movie!
We humans never stand a chance if this actually happens and an alien imitates a dog! I have seen someone who SPEAKS NORWEGIAN and understood all the warnings the guy was giving and STILL said "Ahwww, the puppy is so cute. Im glad he didn't get hurt" 🤯🤣
Uh, that would probably be because it was no longer a dog as it was when she first saw it, it was a dangerous bizarre alien transforming. Not sure why so many people can't wrap their heads around this simple observation.
@d4mdcykey huh? I don't know know your meaning...
...she said that after he shot the Norwegian in the face. So she meant she was glad the Norwegians didn't hurt "the dog" as they were warning that's not what it is. Hope that clears it up for you.
After the last flight leaves Antarctica's Mc Murdo station, the caretaker crew remaining gather for a double feature:
John Carpenter's The Thing, and Kubrick's version of The Shining. Great movies to begin over six months of isolation.
There is also a prequel for this movie that explains what was going on in the Norwegian camp - but sadly it has been wrongly marketed in many countries as a remake and therefore not gotten good reviews. Its also called "the thing" but from 2011
The practical effects in this movie are off the chart, and it is legendary for it.
Even after all these years, even KNOWING what's going to happen, it still captures and holds your attention.
Always a treat seeing folks experience it that 'First time!' :-)
I love practical effects.
Pre-digital, pre-CGI, all practical SFX. This movie is the masterclass and pinnacle of the artform.
absolutely GREAT practical effects, one of my top 10 movies of all time, SO HAPPY to watch you watch it.
The effects are still amazing in this film, made even more amazing when you realise Rob Bottin was only 22 and this was his first major film as lead effects artist. As a result, whenever Carpenter went to him with ideas, Bottin would just enthusiastically say “Yeah! Let’s do that!’ without any idea HOW to do that. He worked so hard on this film, sometimes just sleeping under his work bench so he could start work as soon as he woke up, that he was hospitalised for exhaustion when filming wrapped.
Among Us? Hell, just listen to its theme tune.
The computer has a senual voice because she was John Carpenter's girlfriend. Fun fact: Other than the game show contestant, she's the only female character in the movie.
Ah Yes. The Late 70s-Early 80s Everything Computer; when no one knew how computers worked so movies could pretend they could do anything
Jed the wolfdog was indeed a Hollywood star; he played White Fang twice and the wolf in The Journey of Natty Gann.
doing that kind of statistical computing on a computer in 1982 was not unheard of, the magical thing they did was just the interface where he could ask questions as if it was running chatgpt :)
23:16 by the way, that was a REAL stick of dynamite thrown by actual Kurt Russell. The blast was so hard he was instantly thrown against the wall of the building and had a concussion from it.
I always love seeing people reaction to the ending. For such a paranoia filled movie, ending it without full answer is the perfect way to finish it off.
Every time that MacReady had his back to an open door I was like nope. If I were in that situation I would never sit facing away from an open door. I can't even do it irl without feeling spooked.
My horror movie fan mom took me to see this movie in the theater when I was 10 years old. I spent most of the movie literally under my seat. For the longest time I thought my dogs were going to split in half. That being said, it is now my favorite horror movie of all time and I've seen it easily over 200 times. The end is perfect because it allows us to share in the paranoia. Not really knowing of either if them were the thing.
You were 10 yrs old! what is wrong with your mom?? 😅
@@Corusame Exactly. I was born in 1973. The Thing was released in June of 82, so really, I was 9.
Vicky : please don't shoot the dog
Also Vicky : how are you that bad of a shot
I like to think that the infected person has no idea they're infected. All their cells have been replaced by copies, so they're technically still the same person, but with an extra passenger.
I've never thought that theory held up given all the things the imitations are doing (not to mention the memory of having been attacked). They are planting evidence, breaking into blood banks, building spaceships, looking suspicious when they are about to be revealed by the hot needle test. I think they know very well and are playing a waiting game.
The imitations probably know, because it would be hard to explain to yourself why you are, for example, sabotaging the blood bags for no reason.
But the people of the crew don't know if they should know, that's why Windows is so nervous at the blood test. They are exhausted and terrified so they don't have the advantage of hindsight.
They certainly know because they ARE "things". There is no infected person; they are "there" in the same way your clothes on a doll or dummy model is actually you. That person is entirely physically gone. Each and every cell replaced by the cells of "the thing". The things clearly are well aware of what they are doing and work strategically, they know what they're doing.
Never fails.... "No, don't shoot the dog!" then ten minutes later, "kill it! Kill it with fire!" 🤣
Absolute masterpiece of a movie.
I have seen one cut of this movie, on TV only, never seen a reference to it anywhere else... The end is the morning after McReady and Childs scene... from a hilltop, The camp is burnt out and leveled, still some smoke rising... and, a dog trots up to the top of the hill... stops... looks back over the burnt out camp... and then trots away. I never looked at a husky the same way!
That place is much drier than the Arctic. It isn't always snowing like that. And you won't find polar bears or Santa's workshop.
They did a semi sequel video game for this movie. If I remember it correctly it was a squad based game for PS2 & OG Xbox that required you to earn the trust of your other teammates and how things turned out was determined by how much trust you had built with everyone. Last year it was announced that they were doing a remaster for modern gaming systems & PC.
As for the movie fun fact Special FX artist Rob Bottin was splitting time between 2 productions at the time and would regularly sleep on a couch on set due to how overworked he was.
Looks forward to that remaster, it was a really good game imo
You went from "don't kill the cute doggy" to "murder anyone sus" almost immediately.
The chills and goosebumps you're experiencing are symptoms of "cryo-empathy."
Which is a term I just made up. 😁
You may find this interesting: this movie is actually a remake of a 1951 movie called "The Thing from Another World". Furthermore, there was prequel to this movie made in 2011 called, strangely enough, "The Thing. It is worth a look.
And, in my opinion, blowing the thing up is a really bad move: you end up turning one big problem into a whole lot of little problems that can get bigger; burning is your only best option and, even then, it needs to be burned right down to ash.
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Everybody loves the doggie. Everybody loves the monkey. (Raiders)
And that’s how they get ya!
Wilford Brimley w/o his signature mustache - wow. I grew up on his Quaker Oats commercials. He slayed it in this movie! RIP Wilford...
Also, nice to see a young Keith David (the stepdad in There's Something About Mary) as well as various voices for Rick & Morty (US President, Reverse Giraffe) 😆
Whenever I see someone reacting to 'The Thing', I jump right to the defibrillator scene. It's always gold.
Palmer's blood for me, but for much the same reason.
@@SunlessNick Same
The intentional or unintentional editing of that scene makes the screaming appear to come from Palmer, whose mouth is not even moving.. it's horrifying, the reveal
There is a prequel, The Thing (2011) which ties in perfectly to this one and shows what the Norwegians went through. It's also closer to the book.
"Look at him he's Such a sweet boy." Here we go again, it never disappoints 🤣🤣🤣
Some trivia: The guy who designed all "the thing" forms, Rob Bottin, was only 21 years old at that time and he exhausted himself so much by work on the movie that he ended in hospital.
For the demolished Norwegian camp was actually used the US base after the explosions. The scene in Norwegian base was shot last.Internet is full of theories whether MacReady, Childs or both are humans or one of them is the thing. Authors of these theories bring both good and bad arguments for it. The intention of the creators was precisely to leave people in uncertainty about it and they promised they will never reveal the truth.
Vkunia: "Don't you dare hurt that cute little dog!!"
Me: _[Waits for Kennel scene]_
The guy who played Childs was actor Keith David, who many might remember from John Carpenter's "They Live" (another one I recommend) but also as the voice actor for Dr. Facilier in Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" (2009) and the Black Cat in "Coraline" (2009).
My favorite line was "It's weird and pissed off" I read that they saved the burning of the camp for the last thing they shot so they could actually destroy the set so it looked real.
"I don't know what the hell's in there but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is!" Is, just for me, the most iconic movie line in history. It's criminal how under-referenced it is.
Actually, after they blew up and burned the camp, they reused it for filming some of the Norwegian camp scenes.
After watching about 30 other reactors react to this movie, this is the first time I've come across someone who felt they actually had to blur the amazing prosthetic effects! I realize RUclips can be fickle about what they censor, but they do NOT have a problem with THIS stuff!
One of the really nifty things this movie pulls off is that, the Norwegian who was willing to risk hitting the guy in his attempt to shoot the “dog” at the beginning, who you thought was crazy, you later realize that he was all TOO sane and was completely justified, even at the risk of shooting an innocent; he was trying to save the world. Same with Blair: he didn’t lose his mind-he just realized they were all gonna die, were really dead already, and that he had to do whatever it took to try to be sure the Thing couldn’t get out of there, for the sake of the whole human race.
This is indeed one of the all-time great horror films-top 3 all-time for me. But probably not quite the *absolute* best. 😊
If you haven’t seen it, I recommend you watch The Shining, the late great Stanley Kubrick’s attempt to make the greatest horror film ever.
The Thing is so cool, the effects still hold up incredibly
I was halfway through Tarantino's _The Hateful Eight_ last night...and realized it's a tribute film to _The Thing_ !
Buncha guys trapped.
Extreme cold.
Someone's not what they seem.
Morricone did both soundtracks.
Kurt Russell.
Quentin even used specific music from _The Thing's_ score.
Tarantino got the cast to watch “The Thing” in preparation for shooting for exactly these reasons.
@PinstripeShirt I could see Kurt Russell telling Tarantino, "I know how this one ends..."
(Palmer's line to Childs re _Let's Make a Deal_ 🤣)
2:54 "O, look how afraid he was!"
Theater dog doing a few wags with the tail, 'cause treat is coming.
My late father and I consider this the best horror movie ever made. We both recommended it to anyone looking for a horror movie worth watching.
It is John Carpenter's best work. The practical effects were stunning when it came out and still hold up. It is an adaptation of a 1938 book, "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell. This movie is considered closer to the source material than an earlier movie adaptation, "The Thing from Another World" (1951).
Fun Trivia: John Carpenter had "The Thing from Another World" playing on a television in the movie "Halloween" (1978).
This is an absolute classic. Plus, the husky at the beginning is so cute!
The novella this movie is based on is called “Who Goes There?”, by John W. Campbell Jr., and it’s absolutely great! I recommend reading it! But if you’re not going to, spoilers for the ending of that story below.
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In the end of the novella, they think they’ve killed all of the things (without blowing up their camp), but then they see an albatross fly overhead, and the question is whether the thing may have infested a bird (probably from the shack where they had imprisoned the one scientist for awhile) before they got it all… in which case the world is doomed.
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There were two different of Mac's shirts,so the Thing was planting them around the area to spread doubt about Mac, who was it's most dangerous enemy.
Thing Blair was building a air cushion hovercraft to fly to the coast. I doubt you could build a spaceship out of helicopter and tractor parts.
I think both Childs and Mac were human at the end, because the sore loser Mac chuckled at the end, which means he thinks he's killed the Thing and has won.
Probably the best practical effects in a horror movie... ever. CGI can't hold a candle to this.
This movie was amazing. The practical sfx, the mystery, the horror. It's fantastic.
The Thing 1982 has a 2011 made prequel and a few comic book sequels and a video game that is being remastered this year.
You're right about the practical effects. For me, this this movie has the best practical effects, follow by Total Recall...the same guy did both movies.
So everyone thought Dr. Blair was a danger and might be the thing when he starts breaking sh*t, but at that point Dr. Blair realizes what the thing is trying to do and is trying to destroy any method it has of doing it. Later when he calms down and "feels better now," it's because he's been taken over at that point.
You're very right...this is definitely Among Us the live action 😂 But it's such an incredible movie all around. Glad you finally got around to seeing it!
Just curious, who do you think is the Thing at the end? I always find that discussion interesting and fun.
This film actually got panned by the critics and also, there was a certain film with an alien that wanted to go home that came out the same year which was the biggest blockbuster film of that year bur I'm glad the thing gets its recognition now as the horror masterpiece it is.
There’s a few fun facts about the movie and one of them was about the artist that made the creatures worked so hard for over a year that they were hospitalized for exhaustion and probably something else that I’m forgetting, but definitely worth investigating in. It takes more than a monster to make a good movie which is where the movie shines is the story and how the monster plays a role in the paranoia
At the real research stations, this is the first film that all the newbies get to see...
John Carpenter, fan of H.P. Lovecraft, paid tribute to the horror writer for filming the best movie in all his carrier, turned into a cult movie over the years and regarded in time as one of the best horror movies ever made. No matter how time pass, it will continues giving chills to the people forever. A true nightmare-maker. And The Thing (2011) is a very worthy prequel.
Although greatly changed, "The Thing" is a remake/reboot of "The Thing from Another World" (1951). Both are based on John W. Campbell Jr's 1938 novella "Who Goes There?" Before Carpenter made "The Thing," "The Thing from Another World" was one of the movies being watched on the TV in "Halloween."
So, Copper was actually a double amputee. That's how the defibrillator scene was done. And top marks on the arm prosthetics
I'm no expert on sled dogs, but I know that there are several types of scenarios where working dogs aren't doted on like pets. Their human interaction is limited to feeding, grooming, and working. It helps them stay focused on their jobs.
Fun fact- in "Halloween", the boy Jame Lee Curtis is babysitting on Halloween night is watching the original 1950s version of "The Thing" on TV; Carpenter was obviously a fan 😄 .
Also, the movie in 2011 (also called “The Thing”) is a prequel that outlines when the thing was discovered by the noerwegians and ends with the dog-thing escaping and the Norwegians trying to shoot it like the beginning of this movie
Great reaction. This is one of my favorite movies. I had an opportunity to see it in the movie theater. My twin brother and I were only 15 when this came out, so my mom had to take us to the theater to watch it because it was Rated R. I already knew what to expect because the Starlog magazine showed the comic version of the story. I love the ending because it leaves you wondering. This is great because the entire movie was about wondering who is the thing. However, I learned that John Carpenter made a point to show that McReady had his breath visible in the cold, but Childs did not, implying that Childs was the thing at the end. Thank you for this reaction.
You can remove the question mark from your video title.
I'm a Swede myself and I always think it's funny when Kurt Russell mistakes Norwegians for Swedes XD ;P
Yep, Carpenter made Christine, he also made Escape From New York, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, Prince of Darkness and In The Mouth of Madness. Plus two guilty pleasures of mine - Body Bags and Vampires. Recommend them all for a reaction =)
There was the orig movie called " The Thing From Another World " in 1951. This is a remake and after this is the prequel.
The first film was "adapted" from a story called Who Goes There by John W Campbell - Carpenter's film is vastly closer to the story (although the story ends with a more conclusive victory for the humans).
Paranoia is the root of the story here. As gruesome as it is the distrust and fear of the unknown is overwhelming in this movie. This is a great example of why young people shouldn't sneer at pre-CGI movies.
This is the movie that started me on reaction content, which is what lead to you being one of my all time favourite reacters.
It's my favourite horror movie of all time, the effects and the paranoia and the mystery are just as good as the day it released, they're just timeless.
John Carpenter's The Thing is an all time film it's one of the best Sci Fi horror suspense films ever made , with definitely some of the best creature design and practical effects ever used.
The 2011 Thing is very good itself and very worthwhile if you enjoyed John Carpenter's.
Carpenter claims that even he doesn't know if and who the Thing is at the end. But if you really pay attention... the end HEAVILY suggests an answer. 😊
If I saw a helicopter chasing and shooting at a Husky, my first question would be: "What do THEY know that I don't."
There's the popular theory that, according to the movie's cinematographer, Dean Cundey, Childs is the thing, because of the lighting used in the final moments. You can see MacReady with a light reflected in his eyes, but Childs doesn't have it. Also, when Childs takes a drink from MacReady's bottle, that ominous music suddenly kicks in. And does anyone actually believe Childs' bogus excuse about chasing after Blair and getting lost?
In the comic book follow up, it is revealed that, at the end, neither of them were The Thing.
Childs was a Thing. In the last scene you can see Kurt Russell's breath, but with Keith David there is nothing. Also, it was kerosene in that bottle, not whiskey, and Childs drank it with no expression. This was stated by the director years later in an interview.
I thought that the alien's complete disregard for the lifeforms it imitates, that they're all "grist to the mill" of it's survival, was one of the main tenets of Carpenter's dramatic concept for the film.
One of my favorite movies ever. I especially love the music for this movie. If you ever get the chance, read the short story this movie is based on, Who Goes There? The author is John W. Campbell and he wrote it back in the 1930's. It was first made into a film in 1951. While the 1951 film(which I have seen) is a classic, the 1982 film is more faithful to the story. There is also a 2011 film, also called The Thing, which is a prequel to the 1982 film. It's not as good as the 1982 film, but it was interesting in how they tied the two films together. It also starred one of my favorite film stars, Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Another great movie John Carpenter directed with Kurt Russell was 1981's Escape From New York.
Trivia: the original movie, The Thing From Another World, had James Arness in a costume as the Thing. He later went on to star as Matt Dillon on the TV show Gunsmoke for many years. His brother, Peter Graves, starred as the original leader of the team in the Mission Impossible TV series and also played Captain Oveur in Airplane!
Nah - when one person goes after a dog with a grenade and a rifle in a helicopter they're probably nuts. When two people both decide to do it together? They must have a damn good reason.
This comment made me bust out laughing. The idea of a lone crazy guy trying to kill a dog with a grenade is so absurd.
One of my two favorite John Carpenter movies. I love this movie. The other one is Big Trouble in Little China. Kurt Russell and Kieth “Goliath” David are excellent in this movie. The scene that is like a bear trap is one of my favorite scenes.