*THE THING* (1982) REACTION!! FIRST TIME WATCHING
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This movie is still effective and still one of the scariest movies ever to me from childhood to adulthood. A true masterpiece
This movie made my skin crawl lol
scary? nah, the birds from hitchcock is scarier, but it will forever be one of the ickiest, nastiest, most gross videos ever (i mean this in a positive way). The effects are really brilliant.
@@anashiedler6926 "the birds" scarier. no way!
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Mannnn I must of seen this flick 10x and never saw the beginning with the spaceship until yall reaction but who that alien was drunk flying that shit 😂😅
100 years from now, Rob Bottins practical effects will still be masterful when people see it
IKR? It's been over 40 years since I first saw it and it's still fresh!
Dude was a mad genius, almost drove himself insane making this!
It would be impossible to recreate this impact with CGI. SFX should be reevaluated.
Rob Bottin also played Kane in The Fog.
@@thesilverhedgehog I overworked himself so much he had a breakdown. He was sleeping at the office and working round the clock for months.
Came here for the: "Aw, don't hurt the puppers."
Stayed for the: "KILL IT WITH FIRE!"
"Aw man, they're really trying to get that dog 🥺"
12 minutes 20 seconds later:
"Shoot it! Shoot it in the mouth!!!"
😂😂😂😂
Every video of ‘First time watching The Thing’ gets those reactions in that order 😂😂😂
The special effects in this movie were SO well done, they're still grossing out people 40 years later.
CGI allows for some real spectacles, but well-done practical effects are in a league of their own. If you see something horrific and gross that they managed to make with cheap, unassuming materials that speaks to major creativity. I mean, the blood in Psycho’s shower scene is chocolate syrup.
Blair wasnt an alien the whole time. He was a sitting duck out there in the shed and the thing got to him after he tied the noose but before he could hang himself.
Actually Blair got himself infected by accident in a dumb way. When he poked the Thing corpse on the autopsy table with the pen he then put it in his mouth to bite on it so he slowly got infected overtime without the Thing going to the shed.
@@TimNewmanGamingI think the creators said this was just an oversight/continuity error and doesn’t relate to his infection at all.
Noose was a red herring. Blair got infected from examining the "corpses".
@@vladyvhv9579 dude no he didn’t 😂 Blair’s insane rampage could’ve only happened from a human, no alien would want to risk not being able to escape Antarctica, a SMART HUMAN would have the foresight to destroy the whole camp so NOTHING can escape. If he got infected when you say he did, then he pulled off the worlds dumbest move as an alien, and the script is way too smart for that. This has been proven time over and time over again
@@TimNewmanGaming Both you and Vlad are absolutely incorrect. You can see the shadow of the pencil between the eraser and the carcass move slightly with a quality copy of the movie. The eraser NEVER touches the carcass. Technically there IS a continuity error when Blair is opening the flesh section over the composite dog 'skull' where Wilford accidently makes flesh-to-polyurethane contact, but nobody ever seems to even notice that.
One of the points you might have missed is that the Thing is indeed intelligent- EXTREMELY intelligent. It's not just a mindless beast, it's intelligent enough to try and rebuild its spaceship from scraps. It's also smart enough to not reveal itself unless it gets cornered and doesn't have a choice but to try and fight
It wasn't trying to rebuild its space ship. It was building a sort of "rocket sled" to get to the ocean. From there, just fall into the water and assimilate the entire food chain.
It wasn’t its spaceship to begin with. It was the ship of a spacefaring species the thing imitated to get to Earth in the first place. It doesn’t just retain the form of organisms it previously infected, but their knowledge as well.
This is the kind of movie you have to watch more than once to pick up on all the clues. You have to count how many of The Thing there are at any time. “Each piece is a separate animal”. Blair made the noose, but it was The Thing asking to “Come back inside”. The Thing has no “true form”. It’s a shape shifter (from a single cell).
Yes. When they first put Blair in the shed, he was aggressive and extremely paranoid. When Mack goes back to check on him later he is apologetic and begging to be allowed to come back inside, but he clearly has a noose hanging close by. He clearly intended to kill himself before the thing could take him over, but it got to him before he could do it. By the time Mack checks on him, he is an alien.
Imagine that when the thing assimilates with you, it's actually only unpleasant while it's happening because afterwards you are exactly the same you always were but you know what it's like to travel through space and remember other worlds and even what it's like to be a dog. 😂😂
@@johns1625it deletes you to become you, it literally just copies you.
One of the all time great science fiction/horror films. I love how everybody’s always wanting the dude at the beginning of the movie not to shoot at the dog, completely unaware of what’s to come lol…
By the climax of the movie we wanted that husky gone!! ASAP 🤣
I always wonder if he had shot the Husky would it have mattered. The Thing is a shapeshifter so who knows were its real vital organs are inside.
@@technofilejr3401 The intention was to burn it. Remember the other guy dropped the explosive and unintentionally killed himself. They learned like the American team that was the best way of killing it.
@@technofilejr3401 I always believed the Norwegian guy was hitting the dog-thing but the bullets were ineffective.
I watched a reaction by a Norwegian woman and she understood what they guy from the helicopter was saying. He was screaming "Get away from it! It's not a dog! Get away!"...now that is attention to details. Also, @eddhardy1054 I believe the same thing.
“Nobody.. nobody trusts anybody now.. and we’re all very tired.” Is one of the best horror movie lines ever written.
The 2011 The Thing is actually a prequel! Shows what went down at the Norwegian camp
Underrated prequel if you ask me!
@@wisenige Agreed. Yeah it's a bummer that they use cgi instead of practical but it is still a great movie. Because the title is the same I think people misunderstood and thought it was a remake instead of a prequel and didnt give it a chance.
@@TheNyquilDriver what’s crazy is they filmed most of the movie with the practical effects, and then the stupid studio decided CGI was best smh.
Yes I was gonna comment this!
@@wisenige One of the greatest movie sins IMO. The amount of hard work that went into those effects was staggering, all for some executive to arbitrarily just order that it be covered up.
It’s not just that there isn’t enough room for everyone on the helicopter, the helicopter wouldn’t be able to take them far enough to get somewhere safe. They would just be stuck out in the cold in the middle of nowhere, freezing to death.
That dog is crazy well trained. Just sits there, staring.
Dog deserved an Oscar
@@Dai.Natreacts I can tell you that its real name was Jed and that it was half Husky and half wold.
Jed the wolf-dog also starred in the White Fang movie.
@@brandonflorida1092Half malamute and half wolf, not husky, to be precise.
I love that you laughed at the "tied to this fucking couch!" part.
Kurt has been a working actor and non crazy, since childhood. Big as a kid and teen actor, and his first big adult movie, Used Cars, was a riot!
I didn't realize that was one of his movies. I saw it many years ago, and yeah, it was fun to watch. I'll have to rewatch it sometime.
@@vladyvhv9579 the killer of it? Go through the credits....it's like a who's who of every big director writer producer etc., person that has been, since the mid 80s! It's crazy! And that's gotta be why it's so good!
I love the reactions to this film! Especially the first couple of scenes, initially everyone's response is, ''Why are they trying to shoot the dog?!'' A couple of scenes later, everyone is shouting, ''Shoot the dog! Shoot the dog!'' Lol!
More like "Burn it!!!!".
I never understood that! Even as a kid seeing it in the theater, it was OBVIOUS that something is wrong with the dog! You don’t get in a helicopter and chase down a “dog” just to shoot it!
The fact about whatever or not if Childs is the thing will most likely forever be a mystery. There are some evidences points to him being the thing and some not.
The scene where Childs was standing guard and MacReady tells him that he's going to Blair, there was a blue coat hanging in the background, similar to the one Childs is wearing. In the scene where MacReady and the others is burning the building down, the coat is gone. Earlier in the movie, MacReady realized that the thing ripped through a person's clothes when it takes him over and more likely Blair/thing took over Childs, ripping through his coat in the process and when Childs became the thing, he ditched the torned coat and took the other one.
The ending scene where MacReady and Childs share one final drink. Chances are that it wasn't wine MacReady gave Childs but gasoline since he was using molotov cocktails earlier to test him. If he was human, he would spit it out. If he was the thing, he would drank because he wouldn't have no taste buds and MacReady was probably saying to himself "ain't this a b***h" when he chuckled.
Around 2002 or 2003, the thing video game came out on Xbox and PlayStation 2 where you played as a captain of a special forces team send in to investigate the ruined and burned facility and while exploring the burned down facility, you'll discover Child's body, frozen to death, hinting that he wasn't the thing but not sure if this is canon.
We were hoping the “thing” was finally dead!! Ambiguous endings give us the creeps sometimes lol
MacReady was sitting down going to drink himself to death in the cold. The bottle was alcohol not a molotov. He didn't know Childs was still alive to have a test ready. They were both human.
@@christianc.2664 yeah but chances are that the bottle was Molotov. Chances are that MacReady was going to commit suicide by drinking Molotov because he figured that he would been frozen to death long before rescue came because it was so cold. Until Childs came back he decided to secretly test him by giving him the bottle to drink.
@@adrianharrell87 drinking a molotov to kill himself when he can drink himself to sleep and die of exposure? nah man that narrative is a stretch. Especially since we know he loves to drink throughout the movie.
@@christianc.2664 guess I see your point now thinking about it.
It never fails. "Not the dog!" 😂
Interesting Facts: Norris (the guy who’s chest bursts open, chopping off the doctor’s hands with its bear-trap teeth) had a bad heart, and when the Thing took him over and perfectly imitated him, it also faithfully recreated his heart defect, 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. (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.)
"Ugh Son.. UGGHH SON!!" 😆😆💀
No se si se dieron cuanta. Pero el hombre negro que sale al final tomando de la botella es la "La cosa" ya que el otro tipo le dio un cóctel molotov y no alcohol
Whether Mac or Childs are the Thing at the end has been being debated by experts and movie watchers for decades. Personally, I believe neither Childs nor Mac are the Thing. In which case, they probably froze to death. In any case, great reaction. Glad I found your channel.🙂 Also, the 2011 Thing is not a remake, but a prequel. It tells the story of the Norwegian camp.
It's two ways:
1)It can kill, absorb and then imitate. Which us the fast way.
2) It can infect, and then the proccess is done cell by cell on smaller and slower scale.
3:40 The J&B Scotch label and green bottle is such a trope that you begin to admire filmmakers that use it even in hindsight. It's like an homage.
Correction, my favorite couple
The Thing 2011 is not a remake but a prequel that shows what happened to Norwegian station, how the group (American, French, British & Norwegian) found it and all hell broke loose
Keeping you guessing is the whole point of the film. It's what hooks you in.
Outstanding reaction, you guys. I saw it when it hit theaters in 1982 with my best friend, both of us seniors in HS. Scared the crap out of us haha!! it really has stood the test of time with those special effects. Subbed so you can react to more John Carpenter films. Dude is a brilliant filmmaker. The remake is actually a prequel! 👊
The practical effects of this horror film are timeless. Great reaction! 👍🏿
Thank you!!!
Carpenter said only he knows who the alien is at the end and he will never tell.
He's also said that even he doesn't know. Either way, not telling really helps fuel the legacy of the movie and keeps the mystery alive. Carpenter knows that. We all know that. And we'd all be fine if he never tells us, in the even that he does know. Cause we like the mystery.
I remember I played the games and read the comics of what happened after this movie, if you noticed at the end when childs speaks there is hardly any signs of his breath while macready’s breath is very visible. In the comics childs is the alien and a whole new crew finds them and it goes to a military base. You got to read it it’s very well written
Iv watched so damn many but this reaction was one of the best I really enjoyed this
The part where you said it felt like it was missing something was actually a good catch. There is a scene where Kurt Russell and Nauls go to the shack and see the roof torn off and Nauls finding the Macready name tag that was cut from the movie.
Its actually pretty easy tell about when Blair was infected. Pay attention to his dialogue the 2 times hes shown in the shed. His attitude is quite different
The Thing originally came out in the 50’s in black and white and was way different as far as the alien goes.
Ooooh now this is the reaction I've been waiting for 😈😈😈
Enjoy!
kurt russell started as a child actor. he appeared in a "gilligan's island" episode as a jungle boy. and in an episode of "lost in space." among many other 60s tv shows. he went into hokey disney films in the 1970s. his "break out" film was in a 1979 comedy film titled "used cars" where he played completely against his squeeky clean type. its a hilarious film. check it out. also, in 1979 he played elvis in a tv movie and provided elvis' voice in "forrest gump" (1994).
following "used cars" he went into his bearded, long hair period, my favorite period of his, where he filmed "escape from new york" (1981) and "the thing." both are john carpenter films. he then became an established box-office star and made many films. some real good. others not so good.
"the thing" is a remake of "The Thing from Another World" (1951) which ain't so good as its just a "man-in-a-monster-suit" film. but the 1982 version is one of my favorite films but i can't really explain why. i just love it. (i have a lot of favorite films, though.)
for another GREAT remake of a classic sci-fi horror film watch "the invasion of the body snatchers" (1979). in this case the original (1956) is REAL GOOD too! thanks for the video.
you slowed the audio down and made everything sound creepy.
It doesnt just absorb ot digest them. It also gets all the memories ans manurisims. There are no trick questions and the girl next you could be a Thing and you would never know
This is a very good Movie..It's an older movie but the special effects are better than most movies out today. Great Great Reactions Y'all👍🏾💯👍🏾
Thank you!!
One of the best practical effect movies ever made! And that ambiguous ending! Love it. Personally, I feel Childs was a Thing when he showed up at the end. A little contingency that Blair left just in case his fight with the survivors didn't go as planned. Great reaction y'all
Thank you!! We were hoping that child’s wasn’t the thing but this makes us think he’s definitely the thing
Nah, he's human. It makes it even more tragic.
@@Dai.Natreacts
It depends on the content of the bottle. Was it booze or a leftover Molotov cocktail ?
@@kurtbarlow9402nah definitely booze, Mac was drinking it..I Believe they're both human. More poetic, 2 men dying in paranoia, but ultimately saving the entire world.
They didn't remake this film. They filmed a prequel and gave it the same name as this movie. It's set in the Norwegian camp.
13:00 Always gets a reaction 💯🤣👽
The crew did amazing with the practical effects!
Hello! I love seeing you, greetings from Mexico City, I don't know English very well but I am translating this message, take care of yourselves! I love you 💕
Hi love you too!! Thank you for the support!! If you speak spanish you can type it out! Nat speak spanish!
Over the last 40 plus years, I've had many discussions with people, over this movie. I've also watched many reviews from those in the business, such as Siskel and Ebert. To this day every person has a different theory about who, if any humans, made it at out alive to then feeze from snow. My belief- both who were left were aliens, by the end. An alien that advanced could easily trick tests.
Even in our FB groups we try hard for the ending, John Carpenter said awhile ago he will never reveal who survives & to this day he kept his promise. That's what makes this excellent film so much fun👾🛸
80s practical effects were 🔥. Checkout out The Fly (1986), An American Werewolf in London (1981), and the blob (1988)
I remember watching this movie for the first time long ago still wanted to get me off all time thank you guys
Thank you for watching!!
I went to see this movie in the theater when it came out. All of my friends went to see E.T at the time because it was getting all of the publicity. The theater was only half full and the people there were all gasping and hollering at the dog and stomach scenes. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and everyone on the theater for some reason started clapping. I think we all had a really good time. The special effects are top tier and still hold up today. After telling my friends about this movie, we all went the next weekend to see it. I enjoyed it just as much the second time.
Supposedly the video game sequel is canon. In it, it shows that Childs died of exposure a human and MacReady actually survives.
In my top 3, it's so fun to see folks discover The Thing with fresh eyes.
If only the crew knew the crazy pilot was saying before he was killed, it would have saved them a lot of bloodshed and heartache: He was saying in Norwegian: ""Get the hell away! It's not a dog! It's imitating a dog! It's not real! Get away, idiots!" Those who lived in Norway or spoke the language had the plot spoiled immediately.
Something that no one could ever guess on the first viewing is obvious only after seeing this movie 50-60 times.
There's no path to follow for the Thing's infection. There's no point at which anyone could have known anything was wrong until it was too late.
They never say who got infected first, or who destroyed the blood, and it seems like it couldn't have been any of them. You never figure out WHEN Blair got taken over, and even at the beginning, when the dog walked into the room with the mystery man sitting there in silhouette, there's no way to know WHO that was, which was intentional -- John Carpenter got one of the crew members to sit in for that shot. It's never clear in any of the details how it all happened, so when you watch it again and again and again, you're still never close to feeling like the situation might conceivably have been manageable. It wouldn't. So subsequent viewings are still a little unsettling......
Blair wasn't the alien all along. It happened when he was locked in. As to how people get duplicated (NOT infected) the film showed you how twice before.
49:07 At the very end of this movie , you see a Husky running away from the base. That’s to let us know that one of the Things got away.
No one ever notices how Blair is elbowdeep the alien during the autopsy. Thats the most likely when he was contaminated. He was wearing gloves but watch what he was doing with his pencil too. It didnt overtake him immediately so you dont know what was him or the alien. You think hes trying to keep them from leaving but its a misdirect so he can be secluded from the others on purpose.
4:45 -- the Norwegian spells out the plot at this point, but I've only seen one reactor fluent in Norwegian, so of course it's not really a spoiler for most of us. :D
Blair’s crazy moment was not from being the thing, that was a genuine human reaction of pure fear of the situation. At some point, Palmer, Norris, or Palmer and Norris came out to infect Blair. He was very much in the know in the beginning act, it sets up our entire view and definition of the alien.
just an fyi, the noise it was making in the dog kennel is common here in south louisiana. we hear it a lot.
Just in general- The 1980’s were Wild!
All carpenter movies should be watched! Specially Assault on precinct 13, escape from New York, escape from LA, Starman, Big Trouble in little CHINA, they Live, The Fog, Eyes of Laura Mars, Prince of Darkness, and others. Carpenter resented Spielberg for ET AND it took all the money and awards. But Carpenter had the last laugh! Because this movie is much better! Carpenter made his own alien love story with Starman! Carpenter also is the master of the minimalist creepy theme music! Kurt did 4 movies with carpenter! He even did an early TV Elvis movie, for John! This is one of the 3 most important sci-fi movies ever made. Plus Alien and Bladerunner, which are all related, by actors, and some other technicalities. Also the brilliance here is, when the thing busts out, it comes out of u anywhere, any size, shape, etc. The dog trainer should have won an Oscar and the special effects guy should have won an Oscar! He was a twenty one year old college student!😮😮😮. Pro tip, carpenter is still thinking about a sequel! But there's still a massive tie in here with Alien, predator Bladerunner this , and a movie with Kurt Russell called, Soldier! They are related by the beings called Engineers, for Aliens, Terminator, predator, Bladerunner this, and a movie with Kurt Russell movie called, Soldier. Common companies, technology, Replicants, synthetic humans, beings that Engineers created, and even writers and producers!
And this is why, prosthetic, robotics, special/ effects, practical effects, are way better than CGI! The three main corporations... Cyberdyne (Terminator) Weyland Corp (alien) and Tyrell Corp (Bladerunner) all did cross work for each other, and also shared some employees!😮
Kurt better have kept the hat!
Also the total brilliance here is, once u have been infected, even from just a scratch, u have no idea when u are being taken over! One of the absolute must watch Carpenter films u must watch! Along with Starman, escape from New York, escape from LA, Big Trouble in little CHINA, assault on precinct 13. Go with those, and his Halloween stuff, Eyes of Laura Mars, They Live, The Fog, Christine, In the mouth of madness, prince of darkness, memoirs of an invisible man, vampires! There are critics who say this is Carpenter's version of Communism Socialism, etc , and how it takes over countries, much as a film in the 50s by the same name, i think...the special effects guy here went on to do some great movies!
Palmer or fat guy got to Blair. His door was unlocked from the outs
The first rule of science fiction/horror from Frankenstein on down- scientists gonna science. Of course the Americans had to carry the Thing back to their basecamp for examination, just like the Norwegians had to dig it out of the ice in the first place. If not for such decisions there wouldn't be any movies like The Thing, Alien, The Terminator or all the others. Great reaction, new to the channel and I subbed, thanks. Btw I don't think Blair was a Thing all along- I think somebody went out to the tool shed and thinged him there. Why else would the outer locked door be open? The ice tunneling Blair Thing didn't need it open. I'm guessing it was whoever Fuchs chased into the night and who entered MacReady's shack to steal his name tagged longjohns, tellingly leaving the lights on inside. Don't know who that was tho, maybe Palmer or could've been Norris, who we know for sure were both things.
It wasn't a remake, it was a prequel. In other words, what happened at the Norwegian base.
There's a magazine called Fangoria that was all about horror and effects and movie reviews. This was like the biggest movie of the year for the magazine. I still have some of the issues.
I always have to wonder if they couldn't have communicated with it if they just stopped freaking out for half a second.
One of the very few American movies that never disappoints. Every one is "Don't shoot the dog!" in the beginning and 40 minutes later "Kill the dog!!! Kill it with fire!!!"
Blair wasn't the alien the whole time. Blair was finally the alien. Maybe the alien, in the form of one of the guys, came out to him and told him, "Hey we've voted to let you come back," then struck as soon as it got close.
I think once they showed the hangmen's noose in the background, he had been turned.
@@technofilejr3401 Quite probably.
do you guys think he was really hearing noises ? and was it the thing making the noises?
@@Dai.Natreacts I know the line you're referring to and I have no idea what caused any such noises. I never tried to analyze that line.
@@Dai.NatreactsI think probably he was hearing the Thing (unless he was already turned, and was lying), but it's impossible to know. The uncertainty and paranoia is perfect.
People always trip about how these guys were so eager to investigate things, go to the other camp, bring back something weird, etc., but the reason they were there in Antarctica in the first place was for scientific research, and anything that was a problem at a nearby camp might end up being a problem for THEM. It's not like a normal horror movie where someone's walking down the street and they wander into a slaughterhouse because they're dumb. These guys all had specific jobs, which you can see in some versions of the credits.........
raison d'etre
Blair was human until they locked him in the tool shed. After that the Thing just waited for it's chance to stroll out there and change him cuz it knew he was stuck out there. That's an easy meal and it erased Blair, who was probably it's most dangerous enemy outside of MacReady 😵😵
Blair said mumtiple.times he heard this is out there while he was locked up oit there. Blair wasn't originally infected. Until likely the last night when thw alien went to gt him
Childs was the thing if you go back he says he doesn’t drink in earlier parts of the movie. Mac tested him by offering a drink and Childs failed he was the thing but both the thing and mac froze because neither had the energy to fight.
I always wait for viewers to notice that there are two characters named Mac and Windows.
ONE OF THE GREATEST SCI-FI HORROR MOVIES EVER!!
Oh snap! It’s Ice Spice and Freddie Gibbs ,nah but for real dope reaction to both of you you earned a new subscriber,peace
The music makes rhis film. Its awesome
I think why the Norwegian's dialogue wasn't subtitled because it's putting the viewer in the moment. If you were there, you wouldn't know what they were saying either. We're not supposed to know. Love the reaction
According to Carpenter, Blair wasn't an alien when he was destroying the radio room. At some point after they put him out in the shed he was turned, and able to use his larger form to clear out the tunnel and quickly build the spaceship. There's a lot of debate over whether or not Norris or Palmer turned him, or whether he was being slowly infected after touching the pencil to his lips at the autopsy, but since Carpenter says the latter was just an unexpected little moment by Wilford Brimley, not something that was planned, it was likely the former. Either Norris or Palmer got him while he was isolated.
The Antarctic research station maintained a team of huskies because a dog sled team is the most efficient way to travel through snow and ice over a perpetually frozen landscape.
For something a little different, check out Airplane which was made in 1980. (check out the trailer!)
Yes, it was a PG13 movie LMAO.
Mcready was the one infecting people with the liquor bottle the entire movie
I own the 1st ed of the book that this story originated from. John W. Campbell wrote the original story "Who Goes There." Shasta. 1948. The cynically funny part is that the owner of the book got a rejection letter thar he saved when Campbell was an editor.
You guys are cool. Subbed. This is my favorite movie of all time.
Why thank you! glad you enjoyed our reaction!!
"Stop! Leave dog alone!"
Anyone who's seen the film before: 👀
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Kurt Russel is best know for his role as Snake Pliskin in Escape from New York. "Snake Pliskin....I thought you were dead."
Just a heads up, you don't need to change the sound speed. Copyright law allows you to critique a movie if you are doing is as you are, in bits and pieces. Just be sure to not include any music, as that is RUclips's policy to block any of that. But, reviewing a movie is fine. I'm not 100% sure how long each segment can be, but a few seconds here and there will suffice.
10:27 Probably smells better than my neighbors cooking.
28:20 He chose them because Blair told MacCready to "watch Clark" Blair asked Clark, "how long were you alone with that dog?" Garry and Doc are the only two people who had the key to the blood. Doc thought up the experiment, so Garry is most suspect. But, MacCready is taking no chances. Basically, they are the most sus.
36:51 I cut my thumb a few times, not even that deep. And let me tell you, that doesn't stop bleeding. You'd be surprised how much blood comes out of a cut to your thumb. So, this is totally fake.
39:49 They got infected because they let that dog wander around the camp for a few days unattended. Remember when it went into the room and the shadow of somebody turned around?
41:02 Remember the dog creature the busted its way through the ceiling of the dog kennel. They never found it or burnt it. Most likely that is what got Blair.
47:44 At the end, MacCready has a bottle of Jim Beam. He offers it to Childs and Childs drinks from it without a thought. If you were worried that MacCready was infected, you wouldn't drink out of the same bottle as him......unless, Child was already infected and therefore it didn't matter if he drank from the same bottle or not.
"Alien" was released in 1979.
Those bottles MacReady had were filled with gasoline or kerosine....he gave one to Childs and he drank it at the end and didn't even flinch...that's the giveaway.
Wouldn't a perfect imitation know the difference tho?
When the Thing assimilates someone it makes a perfect copy. The best example being it unwittingly inheriting and imitating Norris's poor heart condition after it takes him over.
Gasoline and Kerosene are both poisonous if consumed. If Childs was a Thing, it would know right away, perceive MacReady was trying to harm it, then immediately attack .
I’ve always been baffled at the opening scene when the helicopter would fly by the dog when trying to shoot it,it can hover right over it and have a better shot but it flies by like an airplane 🙄
The downwash would kick up so much snow both the pilot and gunner would be blind resulting in the pilot losing control and crashing the helicopter.
@@rsrt6910 he’s just gotta fly higher. I’ve been in helicopters thousands of times and a lot of them in snow,it ain’t as bad as you think.
@@Whateva67 Hovering in a featureless field of white is a lot harder than you think, you have to deal with spacial disorientation and on a Bell Jetranger/Longranger the downwash can extend over a hundred feet. If the snow is powder you'll kick up enough to blind yourself. Far safer to stay above ground effect and above in ETL and shoot a normal approach. That being said, the movie was shot in Juno Alaska and it's likely the snow was shallow enough to be blown off whatever surface was under it... the real Antarctica is miles deep.
@@rsrt6910 The point I’m trying to make is that they did it just to be dramatic for the movie,it looks more exciting if they’re whizzing by the dog and missing their shots😊
@@Whateva67 Given the nature of the Dog-Thing, it's likely they hit it several times but the wounds did little more than slow it a bit.
The one from 2011 is like a prequel showing what happened to the Norwegian team.
it's the greatest horror movie of all time in my opinion hands down and I'm 53 and trust me I've seen thousands of horror movies of all genres in my life
It’s crazy how it’s held up as being so scary and creepy after so many years!!
Another classic.
You guys will like Escape From NY. Same director and had Kurt Russel again and Issac Hayes
My favorite horror movie of all time. I first saw a bit of this when I was just eight years old. It was the dog scene and, needless to say, it absolutely freaked me out. I saw it again when I was fifteen and I've probably watched it well over a hundred times. John Carpenter gave us so many great movies, including two bonafide classics: this and Halloween.
The "remake" is actually a prequel that tells the story of the Norwegian camp. I don't think it's as bad as most say, but it does have a lot of not so good CGI.
Fantastic reaction ❤😊I just love this film😊
Thank you so much 😁 We enjoyed this!!
51:28 Can you imagine having a story you wrote in 1948 be made into a movie 1951, then 1982, then...
The Norwegians actually went and made the prequel
I always thought that the "thing" was most likely not the aliens species that built and navigated the ship that crashed in the ice. I think that it hitched a ride on the alien ship and took over that alien species as it does everything else. That's probably why the ship crashed to earth in the first place. The "Thing" is more of a primitive, parasitic life form. I can't imagine it would be the kind of species that would be technically proficient enough to build and navigate intergalactic space ships.
I absolutely think it is, it clearly showed very high intelligence
@@lucianaromulus1408 being clever on a very basic survival level is different than being intelligent enough to build a intergalactic space ship. What kind of form would it even take while traveling through space? This life form is more like a conscious disease than a species that builds and navigates advanced technology. It most likely hitched a ride with another species who did build the ship, took over the crew causing them to crash the ship on earth, and then froze in the ice and waited for another species to come along and pick it up. There is evidence that it may retain some of the technical knowledge of past species it absorbed. The thing that looked like Blaire put together a makeshift craft to escape. This probably means that not only does it retain some memory of the forms it absorbs, but possibly it's technical expertise as well.
@@cullenarthur8879 if it can gather intelligence from every lifeform it inhabits, I'd say that's VERY intelligent, maybe the most intelligent species POSSIBLE
@@lucianaromulus1408 I would say that is more like mimicking intelligence. Think of a situation similar to the one at the station with the men, but with an alien species on a spaceship. That is most likely what happened. This space traveling alien species probably accidentally picked this mimicking life form up somewhere, was slowly infiltrated and taken over as their journey through space continued, and the last survivor ditches on the nearest planet (earth) as it tries to fight off the invasive infiltrator. The ship crashes in ice, and the "thing" freezes in the ice while it waits for another species to come along. This seems the most likely scenario. It probably hitchhikes throughout the cosmos, mimicking other species and using their technology. This species probably does not build it's own technology, but uses the technology of species it mimicks.
@@cullenarthur8879 either or scenario is possible. I just assumed it WAS the species running the aircraft and simply had an emergency landing. We don't have actual evidence either way. I've heard theories that the Thing was a prisoner on transport and escaped. Anything is possible.
THIS MOVIE SCARES ME SO MUCH I HAVE SEEN IT WHEN I WAS ELEVEN YEARS OLD
This is one of my favorite movies.
“The Thing” is suspicion, mistrust, and paranoia personified! It is the story of desperate men, isolated and hopelessly trapped in the middle of nowhere, caught up in a terrifying life-and-death battle with an inhuman enemy, in which the fate of the entire world hangs in the balance. What would you do?
If you want to see what happened at the Norwegian camp, you should watch the 2011 prequel.
The film got us out of our cinema seats a few times in 1982. A really good John Carpenter just like The Fog, The Rattlesnake and a few others. Like the previous speaker, I recommend the 1951 template “The Thing from Another World”. A film in b/w,but good films don't need a lot of blood and RGB but rather a coherent concept and 1951 has this in particular.
By the way, the whole thing was without any CGI.
What do you think of the idea that Blair was already infected and used his "killing spree" to be separated so that he could then build the missile in peace and alone?
After viewing this movie we actually thought maybe he did strategically try to get isolation from the crew!!
You guys were lucky to view this movie during the 80’s, I’m sure this movie left a scar on all of its viewers back in the day. Lol
@@Dai.Natreacts The nice thing is that there were a lot of good films in the 50 - 80 years that you didn't forget after a minute.
Blair wasn't infected until the shed. Isolating himself wouldn't have helped the Thing at all. The short story has his character infected in the shed as well.
ET came out a couple of weeks before this which is why it didn't do high numbers at the box office