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AcidGlow the movie i can watch but the game scared me too much
AcidGlow Eeh, I still find the Flood scarier.
The Flood from Halo? I find film effects scarier than video games. I can't remember one video game that really grossed me out.
there are 2 crawlers 1 in is from that movie or a game 2 crawler from shadow warrior 2
AcidGlow If you look at art work of the Flood and look at the Lore and Jenkins (who was actually ALIVE after Infection trying to do ANYTHING to get himself killed) and the unnatural movements and body structures of the infected. The games can only portray so much, comics and art however can go A LONG way in portraying the body horror of the Flood.
The “Thing” is, in my opinion, the best sci-fi horror movie ever made.
Dune is equally good
One of the best alien movie
Personally, I believe that it's original, natural form is a single celled organism. It just assimilated its way into complexity and intelligence.
sure it does
Or a colony of single celled organisms.
if this complex, intelligent, single-celled shit exists as a whole, purely as a complexity of this shit, then I'm disappointed in how boring it looks, even though we don't know what it originally looked like after it left the ship and froze! One thing is certain, he can build ships, but he can't talk, he only attacks (...). Another option is alien weapons, but placed on the ship, on autopilot, I doubt it. It's a shame that he gets into such mutations and can't retain his original appearance, unless he's just such an uninteresting piece of shit but has the intelligence to build a spaceship. Incredible!
Personally theory of mine has always been that the original alien crew on the ship had found The Thing somewhere and took it for study, or it mimicked one of their crew, which then took them out resulting in the ship crashing on Earth.
I believe so too!!
TheIcelandicBoy That was my theory too! I guess it had no original form.
TheIcelandicBoy listen to the Things explains it was his ship
TheIcelandicBoy I like it!
Yea, something like alien.
Pratical effects were the best, specially at the 90s 80s.
I agree. 😀
WilliamDsk i agree some ofbthe puppets and stuff like the original starwars was so good
WilliamDsk but some CG is amazing, people too often blame the technique but not the person who used it, so.
Correct use- Dawn of the planet of the apes, very believable and you almost forgot it was CG with how Good it was used along with actors mocap especially Serkis, you could see his acting in the believable cg. Just all around great. There are even better but i was very impressed with this one.
Bad use- Alien Covenant, it was garbage the yellow space suit part in the beginning was very cringey and i have seen much better cg used in similar scenes and the movie went downhill from there and the cg never improved. It was honestly spy kids movie quality.
My point is even practical effects can fail if whoever is in charge screws it. Example. The AvP:R movie with the predator and xeno combo, it had good practical effects but the guys in charge chose to not listen to their crew members and the final thing came out so dark it ruined the movie and any practical effects were ruined and hard to.
Technique is not the blame it is those who use it.
I meant like Jurassic Park movies, the latest one just looses if compared to the Dinosaurs used in the first 3 movies. They looked way more realistic back then, in my opinion.
RaginCanadian1997 CGI looks decent as a tool to create environment but it is impossible to create convinging CGI humans or humanoids. Even in movies like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes you can instantly tell that the creatures were created by CGI.
One of the scariest movies of all time. I was really sensitive to what was happening with the dogs.
Cooldude 22 oh no no no dont care about your own race getting killed care about some fucking dogs getting killed.
Cooldude 22 That scene really fucked me up, especially when seeing one of the dogs trying to bite through the fence to escape. Uuuuugh, nope! Terrifying example of “show, don’t tell.”
Yes the doggie scene upset me too.
Be quiet "Cocklor 08". Don't try to bring species into it.
@@sus4644 some people prefer the company of dogs to people. Like yourself some people are assholes. Dogs aren't.
They're the original necromorphs
It is*
Far Beyond weren't there multiple creatures?
Technically yes. But they are all just "The Thing", essential each single cell is a thing of its own and it has its own intelligence and instincts. The larger the thing the more intelligent it is, the smaller the less. But in all, they are all the same organism.
Also what I think as the original flood inspiration beside of the xenomorphs
No, necromorphs are human corpses mutated by a frequency emitted from an alien artifact, they can be killed by just shooting off thier head a limbs, and they'd stay dead
I've always thought that the creature's original form is some kind of insect-like creature. Notice how every time it needs to defend itself or get away, it'll grow insect-like legs and eyeballs in order to escape! And I do agree that the alien isn't just a dumb mindless animal. It's incredibly intelligent! It was building a UFO from raw materials found around the camp near the ending of the 1982 movie. McReady evens says "It's a smart S.O.B." when he stumbles upon the unfinished space craft!
I'm sure as hell glad this thing doesn't exist.
It probably does somewhere
universe is a big place, or if not somewhere, at some time, time is long
TheTallMan35
How do you know?
...wait,perhaps you're the THING making sure that the rest of us are less vigilant.
Go look up Slime Mold on wikipedia... Than tell me you're sure Things don't exist... ;P
It might be in antarctica right now, under thousands of years of ice like in the movie. If not the thing, there are probably very many interesting things down there. That's just on our planet, the universe is massive.
Thanks for covering one of the best sci-fi horror movies around.
they should make telltale game "the thing"
This is the exact idea I was thinking and it would be absolutely amazing.
thatd be dope, but i think that company fell apart
@@adamjensen1831 RIP telltale
Possibly the most overpowered entity in movies history, and the scariest one, just a touch, a single cell, and it's done.
Almost impossible to kill once it started to spread, can assimilate every living thing, can mutate in an instant, super intelligent, a complete nightmare.
fire and ice elementals: AM I A JOKE TO YOU
I mean if a single cell enters your body shouldnt your immune system be ale to fight the cell, learn what it is and then proceed to be able to have a better chance of taking down the thing's cell
@@leeroyjenkins4456 no, the thing mimicks your own cells
@@idioticlight i mean so do alot of viruses so that they can get past your system tho arguably none do it aswell as the thing does so i see your point
The thing is a micro-organism that imitates other living cells... it is driven by instinct only (on individual basis) and in larger colony's it has a sort of rudimentary hive mind (behaves like an animal, is smart enough to know to reform into earlier imitations that had useful functions) but as for sentience, it is only imitating sentience by accident (it re-creates the host perfectly from the tiniest cells up, including neural pathways, and so the imitation with retain all the memories etc of the original and even believe they are the original unless they remember being attacked and infected in the moments before death).
In order to say, pilot a ship, the thing would need to instinctively reform the pilot organism (re-imitate it), allowing the pilot imitation to attempt to fly a ship and return home. The thing would not be capable of remembering such things without imitating the neural pathways of previous victims, hence why it behaves like a mindless monster when not in imitation form.
The thing organism likely doesn't survive very long on an individual thing cell basis, and Oxygen etc could be killing cells over time, so the surface of thing creatures might not be infectious to touch (many characters came into contact with thing remains and slime etc without any apparent infection) so that could also be what drives the thing (IIRC it was called cloud virus in the game) to spread as fast as possible (to keep regaining biomass as the larger colonies would be protected by the cells on the surface).
So, the Thing is in one mode of behavior(itself) when reacting and another when imitating i.e. that of the host. I like that, makes sense.
@@hib32 basically yeah. in the films and game when characters 'thinged out' they behaved like animals, not very smart, but when in imitation mode they behaved as themselves: intelligent sentient people trying to survive.
even the blood in the petri dish behaved like mindless animal when burnt and tried to hide instead of sneking up on characters to infect them
Basically a disturbing version of Ditto
Wait Ditto isn't disturbing?
Han Lockhart Pokémon
@@Mailed-Knight no, ditto is horrifying
There is a short story called the things, is a versión of the original movie but from the point of view of the creature, it's an alíen from an advanced civilization with the propose of improve and intégrate all other life forms in the universe, scared and angry the thing just want to complete the mission survive and improve.
Eduardo S. el autocorrector te pone los acentos?
So like a fucked up Braniac
Eh that diminishes the horror I feel.
Eduardo S., dude that sucks.
It was written very well actually considering it was trying to capture
the thought process of a hive-mind organism and invert the original
story by describing the horror The Thing felt. To The Thing, organisms
capable of independent thought terrified and confused it, thus, the
humans are referred to as "The Things". Give it a go, it's good!
the 1982 jonh carpenter...Best. Film. Ever. Period
ive always wondered, What would happen if The Thing were to try to assimilate a Xenomorph? i bet it would be burned by the acidic blood of the xenomorph.
+Unlimated_luck 1. Xenomorphs are silicon based, it wouldn't be able to imitate it.
Are Xenomorphs silicon based? Or do they just incorporate it in their make up? After all they are the "perfect organism". Why not take the best of both worlds
Acid would probably stop the Thing from assimilation
The Thought Criminal
says who?
The thing assimilates everything my buddies
I always assumed it was basically a shoggoth, a slave species (created to adapt to whatever work environment) that had escaped and fled in the saucer from it's home world. If it was a brutalised escaped slave, it would certainly account for it's hostile nature to all it encounters.
Favorite answer so far. Way to tie LoveCraft in there too
Very interesting and extremely intriguing Lovecraft reference.
I think that's certainly how John Carpenter imagined the Thing to be. I think the author of the original short story (don't remember his name) wasn't that impressed by Lovecraft but borrowed the whole Antartica setting. The 1950s thing was just some humanoid creature (stuntman in a suit).
What if it is, the crash simply knocked it out of the caverns, and it was never even on the ship?
The space ship probably belonged to another form of intelligent alien which was infected by the thing, resulting in the ship crashing into earth! The book "The things" is very interesting! Though not written by John himself, it is an awesome insight into how the thing operates on a cellular, personal, instinctual level and even possibly the things situational logic.
It's the very definition of a Shoggoth from Lovecraft's mythos
One of my favorite the original one still holds up for how old it is gave me night terrors for awhile when I watched this in the 90s
The original short story was named "Who Goes There ?" and surprisingly the John Carpenter remake was actually much closer to this short story then the original 1950's movie was, no it was not a living carrot or any other vegetable ;)
I still enjoyed the 1950 movie, though John Carpenter's is a masterpeice.
John Mijo They didn't have anything close to the fx tech to truly adapt the novel in 1950 whatever & that film is the definitive 1st, major sci fi/horror film & it influenced generations of filmmakers & without there would be no 1982 The Thing or Alien franchise & countless others
Its 161 pages, I guess its kinda short
Apparently, the ability to mimic was essential for The Thing's survival on whatever world it evolved on. You don't just randomly evolve the ability to shape shift. Evolution happens in response to environmental pressures, which implies that there were even WORSE things on its homeworld that preyed on it.
This is definitely one of my favorite sci-fi/horror movies. Great video.
The thing is the only 80's,90's movies that still can scare in modern day
another goodjob of explaining tings to the audience acid i truly respect you and you can even make tings even scarier btw i am gonna sub now
Introduce the Thing to the Alien and Predator universe? It would be the end of both. Even at the end of the original movie it was never revealed if they had actually killed it. They both suspected one another of possibly being the Thing. I do not see any way to kill it without making absolutely sure you destroy ever tiny trace of it. Even a speck of blood could be the Thing.
The Thing can't handle acid or anything that destroys cells the predators also wear rings on their dreads so any predator not wearing deads would be put to a plasmary death.
Only if the Thing were to restrict itself to taking over those two Species. There are many other things the Thing can consume that can take on either one of them easily as seen in the Comics and Novels though. It wouldn't have to eat them specifically.
How to beat the thing
step 1: lure it on a necron tombworld.
Step 2: make sure to check all the personell. I mean every single motherfucker.
step 3: Watch how the thing gets vaporized by concentrated gauss fire.
Psychoangel how to tell a nerd living in mommy's basement. Wait for them to talk about Warhammer 40K as if it is something to be impressed hy
+Livingchutoy Good way around it, also we are all talking about nerdy stuff why single out the 40K fans? It's an odd prejudence.
Person: Those C'thulu creatures all look disturbing.
The Thing: Hold my beer...
Thanks again and I hope to see everyone again and again
I think that The Thing is more threatening than Giger's xenomorph
Abner Cestari And that's saying a lot, cause xenomorphs are pretty scary too. Just be happy none of these creatures exist lol
Far more, yeah, not even close, The Thing is absolutely nasty.
@Han Lockhart Wants a person is assimilated they are dead, ever cell in a persons body has been attacked and assimilated leaving only thing cells that are just imitating the persons cells its perfectly replicated for stealth and infiltration
@@informationyes That depends IMO. In the case of a fast assimilation, you are probably right, the person dies pretty quickly. On the other hand, the Norris Thing kind of suggests that he didn't even know he was infected. It may have been possible he was slowly infected, cell by cell being replaced, and was alive up until the heart attack. Think of it this way, If you replace your cells one at a time with a perfect copy, are you the same person years from now? That's actually how the human body already works to some extent. I understand the Thing does it much quicker but most cells in the human body could easily be replaced and it wouldn't matter to your consciousness. The Thing could even leave your neurons perfectly intact and just manipulate you like cordyceps does to ants- giving you desires you wouldn't normally have.
I think it is entirely possible to be infected and become the Thing without even knowing it. You may even be completely aware while being transformed. It may also depend on the individual and how they were assimilated, it seems from Palmer that Palmer knew he was the Thing, this may be a more viable strategy for the Thing in some cases (but not necessarily all).
I remember when I was 10 (2011). My dad showed me this movie (the newer one) and after I watched it I was so scared to sleep for a couple months 😂😂
I was scared shitless too. Alien didn't phase me one bit cause it's amazing but in the end the Xenomorph is just another dumb killing machine. The Thing however, blew my mind, cause it's something unimaginable for a young kid. And the more i thought about it, the scarier it got. That's why i like the movie. Both the creature and the plot are sooooooo well constructed, there are no apparent plot holes, just an amazingly designed mistery.
Marsel Žižanović I know right!
I watched the old one back when I was younger. My dad thought it would be a great idea at the time to show me the movie because I had gotten the game that was based off of it. Long story short we got rid of the game because I couldn't sleep for months after the movie.
You definitely should watch the 80s version. Way more realistic!
I watch this movie when i was 12/11 damn! These movie Made Hyper paranoid,i even doesn't belive my entire family/friend are human anymore...
you do a great job on all your videos by the way
One of my all time favorite movies. It is great to get some back story on the creature. I also love your alien and predator stuff as well.. I can't wait for the next Predator movie..
This has one of the most interesting ideas and almost is one of the best answers to a key question about the thing’s motives and behavior in the film, the suggestion that the thing's cells are in a constant state of dying.
This clearly answers the haste in how the thing is motivated to attack outright when it otherwise would seem totally unnecessary if the thing could just use time to it's advantage. Why wouldn't it just do all it's dirty work in the microscopic world? It would take far longer, but it would be at far less risk. But, if the the thing is basically dying too quickly compared to it's progress, it clearly lays out why it needs to be far more aggressive.
It also makes perfect sense that this was probably an issue that we not only need in-film clarification/validation, but it stands to reason this is taking place, because how else would the bulk of cells get it's new energy to survive, it's new food? Well, it's probably basically "eating itself" and needing to rid itself of dead matter waste, not necessarily actual cells (since it can change what a cell even actually is) but just unusable inert plasma or something.
Heck, it probably even burned through energy/cellular usefulness/life when morphing and aggressive. It might even probably be not nearly as useful as we'd think for it to eat in the same way humans/animals do while in the form of that particular being; it might not be the level of consumption it requires.
Not only that, it also seems to add credence to the idea that the thing is simply a biological weapon. Looking at all sides of everything we know about the thing, all the compasses point towards this, it's the only answer that really makes sense. Even being alien to Earthly evolution, it doesn't make sense that this evolved at all, it's too destructive to it's own environment, too "purposeful", too one-track-minded... it just doesn't make sense that it's something that evolved and makes total sense that this is something meant to be released upon an enemy to wipe them out. And the fact that it burn itself out once it's destroyed it's enemy makes even MORE sense that it's a weapon, so the one who delivered it can move into the area later after it's finished and gone.
Anyway, that has been one of the loose ends I've taken a great interest for a long time with other fans of film/story analysis over The Thing, "why did it need to brutally attack at all ever?" Because if it didn't, it would expire. It didn't have the luxury of unlimited time. Anyway, super interesting new thing to mull over.
Pun intended.
The first time I watched this movie I was eating and got sick now I can just watch it Easily but it still gives me chills down my back
Yess i agree those fx was indeed incridible those days .
I avent seen this movie in a long time but I always just figured it was something that crashed here, gotten stuck in the ice, then was woken up by the other research team.
I never really assumed it was trying to assimilate the whole planet so much as it was just trying to defend itself. I remember Dr. Blair (who I think was infected the whole time and kinda held some kind of mastermind type connection to the other infected pieces) was trying to build a spaceship so it could get away.
Every action the creature took seemed more like self preservation and it's entire emotional posture seemed like one of fear and desperation. It acted like a creature that was trapped and was just trying to get away.
when childs torches the thing after its meal on the dogs is by far the best most repugnant mutation. when the eye opens up and the ball of dog tongues lashes out. grotesque.
Pissed off cabbage,cit.
Video is great! Makes me wonder what the hell would the thing's planet be like
This movie, the creature, the music all disturbed me like no other. I'm so serious when I say that.
Special effects are amazing wish they did this with newer movies, it’s horrifying when they use those types of special effects before cgi became the norm
Good movies always keep the interested discussing it. This is a good movie.
Great video carlos🖒to this day the creature is horrifying in so many ways could u imagine the thing taking over? Oooooo man!😲 in the 82' thing the opening scene shows a craft heading toward earth if i remember correctly
Hey AcidGlow, you should read the short story The Things. It I the original movie but from the alien's perspective. A very interesting read and I actually felt some sympathy for the creature aftetwards.
- Who did the Thing!?
- The... Thing?
- *THE THING! THE THING!*
One of the most creative and scary Things out there.. see what I did there!?! ..... so thankful that we have not found anything like or close to this..
I think the Thing is an extraterrestrial parasitic organisim(s) that needs a host to survive, it could be a fungus or a bacteria, I also think that the big spaceship found in the snow belong to other beigns and the Thing used them to find new life. Blair-Thing was making a mini version of the spaceship to be able to escape, thus showing is an intelligent form of life.
As a fan of John Carpenter movies like "Halloween", I found the Thing to be extremely ahead of it's time. I enjoyed watching it and it horrorfied me.
Great video :)
Nice comment bro
Kothoga creature from "The Relic" next please, always wanted to know more, that thing terrorized my dreams as a child
One of the greatest creatures every created.
3:00 pfft, I'm sorry but, this thing just looks funny
' *aaaaaaaah* ' X,D
It seems to some things in common with Species from the Species Franchise.
I would like to see a Predator versus Thing movie :)
John Carpenter's The Thing is without a doubt one of the greatest horror movies of all time.
Incredible fx in this film
It does remind me of a Shoggoth from Lovecraft's stories
I always wondered about the intelligence and purpose. It had to be intelligent, it was building an escape craft in the movie after all. It just seemed odd that it didn't try to communicate. Since it took on the memories of those it "infected", it should have known that scientists might want to learn from it rather than kill it.
IMHO, The Thing was by far the scariest, most unique, and most suspenseful creature ever to be created. Truly a masterpiece!
And scary too 😖
I love Acid Glow. Such a great content creator. 👍👍👍
I agree btw, cgi has become overly used and the brain knows it's fake. Practical effects were gritty and real. With cgi, it never really feels like you're seeing anything different, it all looks the same eventually.
Could you explain the cult from the movie The Void?
Some of the best effects in film today.
It was also speculated that like an illness, those infected by the Thing may not always be aware of it at the time. The Thing could hide the condition from its host, or blot out the memory of being overtaken depending on the severity of the infection at the time - ie, if the host was consumed completely or infected through a mild blood contamination. So in the scene when dude-o was testing blood in the original, the characters were in mild suspense due in fact that they were not totally sure if they were who they thought they were. You 're not always aware of the infection until it's too late.
What means if you are aware that there could be an infection around then you´d have to thoroughly check everybody in the facinity and incenirate every infected... Well the empire would be a good choice to handle that
whats the things perspective and goals do you have any input to shar for that ,A commenter said there is a story called the things lets take a look at it.
Make more reviews acid
maybe the thing doesn't have a "original form" and without any hosts it's just a blob of biomass with no features. then once it gets a host it starts putting features on.
Awww the thing just has a thing for you because it loves you and wants to become one with you... in fact it loves you so much that it cannot live without you! 👾💔
Listen to the. “The Things” on perspective of the thing who is very intelligent and claimed to be an ambassador and the owner of the ship
I was always intrigued by how in John Carpenter's film the footage they found was from the 50's flick, The Thing From Another World, and that's kinda what they went off of with their own visual spin, but then the prequel comes along to tie loose elements closer the 80's film, but never recreates the 50's movie scene from the found footage...
Aside from the Thing being essentially Frankensteins monster, the pseudo science in the 50's flick was way more interesting than the cheap retread of John C's paranoia elements in the 2011 prequel.
The most terrifying form of alien life form.
Could you talk about the book it's based off of? It's called who goes there
I forgot The Thing 2011 was a prequel, I vaguely remember watching the
movie, just saw a clip of the girl torching the Thing on RUclips
So what happened to the girl that survived?
Presumably, she didn’t survive, and perhaps froze to death. At any rate, any information she would have been able to pass on to the American crew didn’t get relayed.
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I took my two nephews aged 3 & 5 and my sister, their Mother, to see The Thing when it first came out. We sat in the second row....things went fairly normal until Copper used the defibrillator on Norris and Norris' chest caved in! the three year old screamed and Mom had to move with him to the back row, while the older nephew slowly crept closer and closer to me and when Norris' head separated and grew legs he was sitting in my lap......lol. that was the power of the special effects!
the thing is one of my favorite movie monsters along with pumpkinhead and werewolves :3
the crazy and scary thing is that. this type of creature CAN exist in this universe....
Acid, we don't talk about eternal vows, we don't consider it part of the continuity, it makes the prequel look like a master piece in comparison, but at least you know it exists, and that's what makes it even worse.
Do Jack Ferriman from the 2002 film Ghost Ship.
The 1982 film also had sequels, which was the The Thing RPG, the comics then there was the PS2 game
it was an incredible & facinating creature with brilliant survival characteristic, aggression & accumulated knowledge. if it ever communicated instead of just assimilating think of what we could come to know its knowledge would excellerated us as a species
Seen the movies so many times still amazing need to get it on blu ray one day didn't really like the prequel one though
Kinda wish we could’ve gotten a movie about it hitting the main land
I actually enjoyed the prequel but the CGI pissed me off. Can't beat the Speical effects to the original.Would love a proper sequel but wouldn't have the suspense.
Dude, Norris did not have a weak heart. Anyone with a heart condition would more than likely not be cleared for a long term assignment in Antarctica, especially not during winter. It was never once mentioned that Norris had any heart condition in the original John Carpenter movie, nor has Carpenter ever mentioned Norris having any health issues. The idea that Norris suffered a "heart condition" comes from theorists who noticed that Norris was experiencing chest pains prior to his transformation into The Thing, but Norris was not shown to have any chest pains earlier in the film. The reason for Norris' chest pains is actually explained during Macready's conversation with Fuchs in the lab shortly before Fuchs' disappearance. Fuchs suggests to Macready that since one single particle of The Thing is capable of infecting an entire organism that everyone in the group should all "prepare their own meals,' and "only eat out of cans." This is not a throwaway line, this line suggests that Norris was possibly infected by unknowingly ingesting part of The Thing and that it was growing inside of him while he was unaware, and the chest pains were a result of that.
This making me remember the execute virus in resident evil 4d.
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The parasites from the anime parasyte took influence form this by the way .
It looks good to me too 😊
Those effect were ground breaking for it's time. However, that movie gave me nightmares and got my brother in trouble for taking me to see a scary movie. My parents found out from me having a nightmare while I slept, (with them of course.)
The creature is a complete mystery but is evidently potentially devastating to life on Earth as we know.
It is the worst nightmare to ever arrive from space and safely contained in the ice until human folly released the time bomb that needn't have ever bothered us if we weren't so stupid.
That's why I love this movie and it's concepts. An utter nightmare we were fortunate enough to be spared from until we advanced enough to unleash it onto ourselves.
its surely some microbial organism..or possibly some "octopus" like create who can "mimick"
What comic is that from at 2:19 with the female?
Between scary, disturbing and confusing...
It's a parasite that has eaten the true aliens who drived the ship. So the orginal shape of this creature and its previous hosts before it falled on earth is not identifiable for us.
I love the movie. Carpenter a genius.
I always assumed that it was an intelligent cell matrix that used virus like tendrils to attack and absorb cells. Once in control of the cell it could mutate it at will, as well as absorbing its "memory".
I have wondered how such a seemingly monstrous creature could create and fly a spaceship to Earth.
Explain how you know about the pilot and why it had the thing in the ship. I always assumed that the thing was the pilot of the ship.
It doesn't have to be each part of the creature's body is an individual. Rather it should be said it has no central area for anything. It has no set brain or other organs needed to live. It can imitate such but does not require such to survive. So if any part is detached from the main body the detached part becomes an individual. But only after it detaches. Until then it is just a part of the larger organism. It acts very much like a large simple organism then a large complex one. It is easy to make the mistake to believe it is more complex then it is since it can mimic with such fidelity. But the mimicry is just a survival trait. It does not do so with intelligence unless the organisms it is trying to copy are such. And even then it makes mistakes. It doesn't seem to understand what the memories it is using really mean until it has had some chance to gain experience with the mimicry. Part of what made it so dangerous was the time limit those dealing with the creature were under. Given time the Thing would surely out itself unless it had been mimicking humans for quite awhile. It would do something that would seem bizarre, perhaps more then once. Maybe making sense in context to the specific being it was mimicking but not quite right for the group dynamic. Humans are social creatures. The Thing is not. It would do something that would reveal itself as alien if put in a position where it had to keep up the act for extended periods of time if it did not have experience with how humans act with each other normally.
The fact that people STILL talk about this movie shows how truly great it is. The practical effects are beyond anything today, simply because they are REAL... the actors had to work with them etc, it's a shame the remake of 2011 never went ahead with their practical effects. Oh well.
I love south parks the thing skit. To see who has lice
I like the theory that it's effectively an alien medical device, programmed to absorb biomass to be used in repairing and treating its creators.
What if the Alien saga and the thing could be interconnected by the black goo from Prometheus?