we'll do you last !

@@6955beniegn This is pure nonsense! Doesn’t prove a thing!

​@@JarodRebuck i was citing quotes from the flick that resonate with me, no hidden agenda here, i dont know what the thing is, and i keep it that, just like i saw in 1980's cinema, it shrouds the whole flick in mystery and inexplicable force throughout. 'Alien' had similar themes of paranoia dread.

@@6955beniegn I’m quoting the movie also; same scene.

@@JarodRebuck" I thought you would feel that way Garry, you were the only one who could have got to that blood, We'll do you last" And then then things just went batshit crazy.

Listen to their other commentaries. They always have a great time

@@JonahAGoldstein I definitely want to!

YES!!! it's hilarious 😂😂😂

The big trouble in little china one is amazing. You can feel the love and respect they have for each other.

Amen to that, absolutely EPIC film.

1997?

@@tanner_uncut i think that’s when they did this commentary

@@jimaco0312I think it was 1995, he said ‘13 years later’

Or maybe joints? …. 😎

​@@theroamer2355Probably not because they both have far more than half a brain left. I don't mean to be too aggressive but I don't think I've ever met a stoner who wasn't a complete hopeless mess.

Carpenter is an old school smoker. Smokes during every interview. Doesn’t give a fuck lol.

Yep That wolf-dog really was able to convey a sense of dread with his cautious manner. It sounds funny talking about a dog's acting ability, but he was perfect in his scenes.

YA ITS THAT WOLF IN HIM. NOT KNOWING THAT AND, THINKING HE IS A HUSKEY (SO NOT TYPICAL DIG BEHAVIOR ) IS WHAT SOLD IT. GREAT ANIMAL!

FWIW, he wasn't a Husky, but a wolf/dog hybrid, specifically a wolf/Malamute.

morguelily yep, mostly because of his wolf like behaviour. If dogs could get oscars he should have two 😂

@@jimaco0312 "If dogs could get Oscars" I hope I live long enough to see that rule changed.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH 🛋️!!! 😂

The greatest actor and director collaboration of all time. They have chemistry and they always have the most entertaining audio commentaries.

The cool version OF them? Seeing as they were BEFORE Burton and Joanny Derp. Ok.

Joe Kerr a man with holes in his shoes should be careful when crossing a swap.

Joany Derp? That's hilarious.

LMAO!

Either that or the Exorcist, in terms of legendary horror movies they're both at the very top.

Yes

Certainly among the all time greats.

We shall see...........

Maybe Shining

Agree completely. It was solely because of the E.T. comparison. Ironically, I don’t think E.T. aged nearly as well seeing as how I’ve seen it once, never feeling the need to revisit. At the same time, I pop in The Thing annually if not more so. Carpenter said he was a bit surprised by the critical response, but was completely taken aback that even horror fans seemingly abandoned the film at the box office. Boy has he been vindicated. It’s his best film. Something must have been in the water back in the day. I don’t know what the hell people were thinking.

@@davidechavez-valdez6967 I grew up at that time and the general feeling of critics was that the film was unbalanced towards the effects. Also that the emotional range of the film was very narrowly focused. It was about 5 years ahead of its time in terms of gore. 'Pyscho' received a similar response on its release. I read the Lancaster draft of the script at Outpost 31 website and it was more conventional horror/thriller for the scenes with the creature, especially the final confrontation. The problem I have with the extended creature scenes in the film is that they go on so long that they start to create logic issues. Why does Palmer/Thing only attack Windows? Why do the three tied to the couch not get any blood/alien slime on them? When the Norris/spider head scuttles out of the infirmary, the characters should see it earlier, because it is leaving through the door they had been standing near shortly before and their line of sight shouldn't be impaired.

Numinous20111 the palmer thing seemed to only attacked windows because he was confronting it, and he’s startled response gave it the best opportunity to attack.

@@jimaco0312 Palmer concentrates on Windows and does nothing about Mac. Mac flamethrower malfunctioning from being dropped on the floor is the only thing that prevents Palmer from being incinerated quickly. Palmer is then disposed of by Mac. It's really bad strategy. Palmer doesn't even give Mac multiple contaminated humans to contend with.

You know, the fact that they were willing to give their own lives to destroy the thing rather than find a way to get out the station is really what it should have been looked. I'm more of the opinion that they did triumph against the thing but both died the next morning when the fire stopped.

Snap !!

I’ve done the exact same thing..... so odd...

Did that last night!! 😆🖖

Me too

Found this and now I’m doing it

TheAxeGrinder an excellent score

TheAxeGrinder bullshit it's one of my favorites! Unbelievable.

The Razzie Awards: Spewing honesty and integrity since never!

It was a great score but honestly, John Carpenter could have done it himself, it resembles his own scores that much.

did you know that the very same man received an Oscar for "The hateful 8".... which reused some of "The Thing" ost (which was nominated for a Razzie)? how f-ed up is that ? :D

Kurt Russel is always hilarious in his commentaries. Check out Used Cars and Escape from New York

@@mmyers6441 I don't doubt it. He clearly isn't totally full of himself the way too many actors are these days.

@@mmyers6441 'Big Trouble in Little China' commentary is also great fun with John Carpenter and Kurt Russell !

@@DavyDredd14 youre right! 👍

I have yet to hear a bad comment from anybody who ever worked with him And this guy worked with a LOT of people

brimleys backstory was even better. he came up with the idea that he was a Russian spy! lol

Him being a Vietnam vet makes a lot of sense now considering his mannerisms, dialogue, and actions throughout the film.

Agreed.

Same here!

Same!

Jeez, what an experience.

That is a remarkable experience

Great story.

The boy, what was his name?

You sound really f racist bro , honestly I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near you or your family, virtue signalling woke pos

Daniel Coy and yes

@@danielcoy4938 so what's your pick?

Exactly. Love Childs. At this point is he a thing or just an asshole

mac TOLD him if blair comes back alone BURN HIM. So he's probably doing just that. Blair got out through his tunnel, ran back and opened the door and covered the boards. He left the door open to confuse them. He snuck into the base and distracted childs, then Childs left his post to look around and blair opened the coatroom door AGAIN as a distraction but hid back in that other room (he likes to leave doors open to confuse and the other door he's probably hiding behind). Child's POV - he hears the snow blowing in or the door open - and comes back and looks 4 ways (hallway, generator, coatroom and other room - where blair would have got him) and chooses the open door. The POV shot is HIS not blair's. If he'd have gone into the other room blair would have got him pop up style like garry from behind the door. If he'd have gone to generator blair would have got him. If he'd have gone down the hallway, blair would have turned off the generator and then got him. Instead, he runs out (imo the dog should have ran off in the end. I like that and re-cut my own to include it. I think childs saw the dog) either cuz something got his attention OR he just fell for the open door ploy like mac, gary and nauhls did and blair snuck down to the generator. Childs got lost in the storm in the dark and with no goggles until the fire lit his way. Mac and childs sit down - it's only them left and each are armed. Childs isn't the thing cuz he says but may or may not be and not even he knows...they share a drink and mac realizes if childs isn't infected he may be now due to the sharing of the drink (which only he and fuchs knew about)... HE laughs because he's an ALCOHOLIC (we've seen it throughout the movie) and is gonna drink from the bottle. So either they die in the cold or the thing will win... Cheating bitch. The dog would have brought the movie full circle but this brings the kurt russell character full circle - right back to when we first see him alone playing chess.

His cover story is very out of character. Earlier in the movie, he wanted to leave Mac outside, not open the door. I don't think he'd be running outside after Blair. There are a few other things that point to it too, but the breath/coat theories are debunked.

@@kelvincasing5265 But then again, if childs was the thing why isn't he attacking Mac? Mac is unarmed&weak

@@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக் maybe he is going to attack him as soon as the end credits starts rolling...

Smokers laugh

Reminds me of how Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt fought to keep the Box in a Head Scene

@@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக் Yes It's great that they stuck to their guns and saw to it that "Se7en" retained its dark ending. Too few directors have the guts to do that sort of thing these days.

@@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக் I think you mean head in a box .

It was a bit of a cop out to me. All this stuff happens and that's it? Macready could have at least died in the cold after killing the Thing. That would have been perfect, the Thing being dead but at the end of the day Mac couldn't escape.

@@sethbuscus It's a foregone conclusion that MacReady doesn't survive. Showing his death would have done nothing to advance the story.

Can we fix it?

it's cause they're going so hard for international markets from this point forward and they realized John couldn't really give two sh.ts about them unless they liked the story he wanted to tell coincidentally.

Part of the reason we didn’t get to see Blair’s attack on Nauls at the end and a longer fight between Blair and Mac was because of the budget.

@@qweqqweq2090 have any of you seen john carpenters vampires or ghost of mars? i love him as a director but you cant blame studios...

That’s interesting, I just saw the tail end recently on TV and noticed Nauls just disappeared. Thought that was intentional to make it eerie.

John Carpenter is “Gentile”. That is why he did not get many big budget projects.

escape from new york as their dvd commentary

correct. anybody who doesn't get this is not paying attention (charles hallahan, i'm looking at you).

Probably to make it more ambiguos or paranoid even though it's very evident that thing imitations know what's going on. People get so confused because this alien is REALLY good at copying every organic detail, mannerism and disease, to the point they think the host dies once the thing reveals itself.

Not exactly.. there's no determine time rate for infection as it relates to death or complete takeover, quite possible of intermediate stage of infection where portion of the thing so small hasn't completely taking over The Host or develop the sense of immediate fight or flight defense so it temporary state of ignorance of infection is quite possible

@@johnscott6481 okay, so you don't understand this process at all. the thing REPLACES you. it's not really an "infection". it breaks you down, digests, and absorbs your properties. that's why you see a half digested dog lying on the floor of the kennel after the men discover it.

Think about it this way: if you get infected slowly, say, from food consomption, and the thing's cells slowly begin assimilating your cells until they've taken you over completely, BUT they keep up the act the whole way through... would you realize you were infected? If the thing is doing a perfect simulation of a given person, does the simulation have complete awareness of its alien nature? Think of it like a method actor that gets so involved in their role they forget who they really are for a bit. I imagine the best way for the thing to act highly believable is for the imitations to temporarily believe they are human.

Absolutely.

I think so too, and I love multiple films he's made. The Thing is his magnum opus though.

@@w1nch3ster1 love watching it with the commentary with just John and Kurt. So good

Halloween would be his 1st the fog 2nd and the thing 3rd!

Yeah, that's how director's commentary works

+antonio banderas You're welcome

That's why I'm a physical media whore ;-). PS Love your Avatar! That film is extraordinary.

One of my favourite films man, love Come and See so much

That is why you don't do digital. That is the reason why I still buy physical media.

Yeah keep things physical man,and cash keep cash relevant though I fear its to late on

i read that they did film it but it was cut because a test audience laughed at it

Yeah, fuck you too! ;)

Et is a good movie too.

The films can't be compared but The thing deserved more success back then

Critics only like three hour movies, about The Holocaust.