@@electricfishfan7159 Oppressive is a good description, this is one of the most 'atmospheric' movies I've seen.

Common trait of most classic movies. They're relatively simple and focused.

If Stephen King wrote this, it wouldve had: a human bully, a team member with psychic ability the Thing wouldve been an "elemental demon" it wouldve taken place in a lighthouse in Derry, Maine where the team is cut off due to a hurricane and flooding.

@@zarreff that kind of sounds like john carpenter’s the fog

@@zarreff it would also have flashbacks to when they all hung out as kids

Wow, that's yet another thing in this movie I've never noticed before

Add to that the pretty vague but very interesting links between Russell's drinking after losing chess and handing Childs a drink when they are together at the end (when Childs could be a Thing). An excellent amount of mystery for the film, great movie

Another interesting thing, the chess computer did cheat as the move it made was impossible. Not sure if that was intentional or not but interesting still

Deep

I'd call that more like major reaching than anything. Nothing to show a person is a sore loser other than blowing up a base. No other reason to blow it up at all. Especially not any interdimensional overpowering body snathers. Nope. Nothing at all.

dethcon5002 and when it heard Kurt Russel fried it, The Thing began killing everyone off. Good lore, 10/10.

Hah! You made me spit out my water.

And it was wrong Because it’s a cheating bitch

it's a well known fact that alien shapeshifters have a weakness for blended whiskey...

I watched it tonight. I thought it WAS a heartbeat. I didn't notice ANY of the music besides those little beats and I didn't even realize that it was music.

Why can I not read more. Send help.

What does it mean if my heartbeat exactly matches up to the theme?

I actually just noticed this when hearing it in this review and actually focusing on it for probably the only time. John Carpenter is the fucking man.

What's really funny is that there's a very similar music used in some of the TOS episodes...

That's why I'm on the Prometheus hate train. We don't do it to feel popular, Ridley Scott fans, we just ride that train because that biologist character was so goddamn stupid.

Great example, mate, of where things happen because the writer/director/producer/whoever wanted to see them happen, and so contrived events to get there, rather than allowing the characters to make reasonable decisions given their knowledge of the situation.

Jimmy De'Souza I think you could put some of those down to shock or a lack of understanding of the situation. I don't expect the characters to make the perfect decision every time, just a reasonable one given what they are going through.

I feel like some of that could be attributed more to the shock and exhaustion of the characters. The Norwegians also had been through some shit so it makes sense for them to be irrational.

So does he scream "the dog is a monster" in english for the norwegian dub?

Norwegians dont dub. Most speak english, the rest use subtitles

Guts we dont dub movies in the nordic countries. Atleast not in normal movies. Mostly only childrens movies.

We don't dub, that's a German thing. Actually, the reason we Scandinavians all know English may be linked to that fact. Sadly they dub kids material now...

Øystein A. The simpsons movie in swedish still haunts me till this day

Would you do that for the '89 lineup?

@@Takeshi357 The Last Crusade, Ghostbusters II and Batman one Saturday then Lethal Weapon II, The Abyss, and Uncle Buck another Saturday. Also probably try to fit License to Kill in there somewhere as well.

@@habadasheryjones Also UHF, Back to the Future part 2, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Weekend at Bernie's... ...and if you're really bored, Friday the 13th part 8 and Star Trek 5.

Except the Blade Runner in theaters was the voice over, happy ending one

@@StubbsX88 You mean the voice over that Harrison Ford tried his best to botch on purpose and the studio put it in anyway? As ham as it is, 99% of the movie is still in that cut of the film. I'll take seeing the theatrical version on the big screen as long aa I get to double bill it with The Thing. I'd prefer the Final cut but it's not like I had the choice in '82.

Lil' Connor Peterson so the groups working in the harshest possible conditions would get new unproven and potentially unreliable equipment? Makes sense to me!

Endoscopes are at least 1,940 years old.

...I mean, okay, but I think it's probably the script and the story and so on that "killed" it for most people, not the minutiae of hand tools.

@@MegaZeta Wasnt even the effect that killed the 2011 one. Like they showed in the video. The Thing is more like a wild animal and doesnt really care much most of the time if it is sneaky or not. (I wanted to like it to the Xenomorph but that is also more sneaky then the 2011 Thing)

​@daskampffredchen9242 it's more confrontational in the prequel because it's never been around humans before, it has no idea what we are capable of (thinking wise) therefore it starts to opt for stealth and secrecy as much as it can in the original

Turbo Button Absolutely, I never consciously picked up on that (which is the point)

wonderguardstalker Yeah that's the only scene it works for. Even later in the film when the Blaire thing kills Gary you can clearly see a glint in its eyes.

new video when?

Turbo Button I told my friends about that after they watched it for the first time and they immediately wanted to see it again

Vanilla Sky did something similar in the close-up of Tom Cruise's face as he dies at the end, you can see his eye light slowly fade away, spooky

VERY cool

And I always make remarks about THe hOrsEy SauCe when I go to arby's!

Update from the future. We are still saying Very Cool

I thought he would have been more famous for everyone spouting off his line of "Don't ask questions. Just consume product and get excited for next product."

@@sirquaffler542 Me personally, I believe it broke new ground. Edit: Which is very cool

No.

well it was released in Northern Hemisphere summer, which is Southern Hemisphere winter (aka where Antarctica is) so they did do this in a certain sense

Brilliantly put

Agreed, though I think the point they mean is about people forgetting that there is no answer to that question (who if anyone is a Thing at the end of the movie). You can have a pet theory, but there is no actual answer.

I mean, thats exactly what they said tho "the fact that the paranoia is still there means that it worked" they just take it a step further and restate what carpenter himself has said about the scene: he intentionally made it ambigous. You'll never truly find out who if anyone was the thing, and its on purpose. Theres enough hints that could go either way but not enough to fully prove anything. The fact that peole still talk about it means it worked, sure, but the point was never to really figure out who is or isnt the thing. The paranoia was the point. People who make the theories have to take them with a grain if salt because the dierctor himself has said the answer is ambigous

@@eldenlean5221 Exactly. It's fun to come up with theories and follow their logic. It's the people who thing they know as a fact...well, they're doing it wrong.

@@Ocrilat yeah I just rewatched it yesterday and its amazing how well executed that ambiguity is. Its brilliant how its set up so that you have equally good reasons to believe one or none of them are the thing.

But I wanted that prequel. And it was made by true fans of the original. Very awesome effort ruined by the suits who replaced much of the awesome practical effects with CGI. I'll admit that the ending was a little weak, though.

@@jna6246Learning that they created ACTUAL practical props for the scenes of The Thing for that prequel movie, including that scene were you see the guy start getting assimilated, was depressing. I don’t understand why higher ups dont realize that practical effects will look better and hold up for YEARS. CGI effects look extremely dated within a couple years while practical effects stand the test of time

@@jna6246 The practical effects were great but a lot of problem arent caused by the effects. It was pretty much a campy monster movie in Antarctica

@@daskampffredchen9242 Just rewatched the prequel. I noticed the CGI the worst when it jumps through the ceiling. It really lacked the subtlety of the original. The female lead is too prominent in being the only thinking character while everyone else is either antagonistic or doesn't have much to do. They don't develop the other characters and there are too many of them, so when they get killed off a bunch at a time, you just don't care. I did feel like it got better at being creepy later in the movie and closer to the original. Having the female character survive felt kind of empty. I realized after that there didn't seem to be too much stupidity from the characters, so there's that. The movie feels too clean and modern for being a setting based in the 80's. They should have shot it in film to give it that vibe. My only other major gripe is that it was a remake instead of being a well crafted prequel with a more original script. I suppose the nature of the problem is this prequel did not need to be made. Just from how the Norwegian camp is discovered this scenario clearly played out somehow, but that is best left to the imagination. Seeing it played out just feels repetitive and it's boxed in to the things we already know about the monster and 80's Thing.

What about a prequel movie ABOUT the Chess Wizard???

José Hunter yes

It's Jay and "The Thing Jay"

It's actually Jay and Susan

Shipping jay jay. Fuck Plinkett.

@@Woopywomp I thought he already did

SerMattzio I agree that the sequence of events you stated is correct, but I want to point out that the Thing perfectly copies its victims including skills and memories, so the Thing would know about the purpose of a noose, and it wouldn’t confuse Palmer with Blair. I think the noose might be an attempt to convince the rest to take him back into the base (to stop him from killing himself).

@@omegastar19 Well, the characters _say_ it perfectly imitates other life forms but that's their best guess at the time. I'm not sure the consciousness itself is perfectly imitated. Note Palmer is half-listening to his headphones during the argument over the blood bank. He looks very confused and dazed, staring into space as if he's trying really hard to understand what he's listening to, but he no longer understands the concept of music. Any human would of course know immediately what the headphones are. The suicide-risk ruse is interesting and equally plausible IMO, though I would expect the Thing to try and show off some depression symptoms instead of cheerfulness if it was actually doing this. Also interesting to note that at no point (IIRC!) do we see Things using sophisticated human combat tactics. Palmer at one point picks up a flamethrower but he never attempts to actually use it. They stick to using their natural hard-coded ambush and imitation strategy, almost as though they do not copy all of their host's memories or mentally adapt in the same way humans do.

No offense, but _The Thing_ would suck if scenes like that one were as unambiguous as you seem to think they are.

@@MegaZeta I think its a possible valid interpretation of the scenes using clues provided by the story/shots. Weirdly hostile reaction to a fan opinion and equating it to their directorial debut/fanfic of The Thing. You both like The Thing so shut up. lmao

I agree he wasn’t infected or fullly infected when he was isolated. But his pencil did hover (touch) the thing during his investigation. The shot leaves it ambiguous. He then touches the pencil to his lips.

True. Must feel good. The money would have been nice though of course.

@@theeternalnow6506 they wrote him a fact check every time they remade one of his movies. he's doing fine making music with his sons.

@@namelesswalaby True, but The Thing flopped hard in its day, commercially and critically, and it wasn't particularly profitable for him either, so he was actually pretty bitter about all that for a long while. There was some other director, or a writer, who had lunch with him back in maybe the 80s or 90s, and the wanted to mention how much he loved The Thing and what an excellent movie it was, and how Carpenter should be so proud of it, but Carpenter kind of just dismissed that praise because it bombed, he felt that it didn't really mean much. I can only imagine that it must have felt extremely cathartic and vindicating that the movie gradually grew to be rightfully recognized as the masterpiece that it actually is, especially with how everyone else on the film crew really put their best effort in too.

Mostly the critics are right.

nah critics are conceited shitheads about those genres.

It's always the movies that affect you in some way that makes or breaks it for critics. When it came to these films, the content of them disturbed people so much that they just wrote it off as 'shock value', which is stupid. It's like what Stephen King said about The Shining. "This is a movie made to hurt people," or something. If the movie succeeds at what it's aiming for, then that's a good thing! Movies that invoke real emotion in the viewer are good, damn it! 'Mainstream critics' are just pretentious jerkoffs that don't actually appreciate films they watch. Art direction, scores, shot composition, it doesn't matter to them. But that's what you should expect from the mainstream itself.

It's because horror is a very niche appeal. A lot of people don't like feeling scared or disturbed, so they pan movies that are actually scary while praising movies that are labeled 'horror' even if they actually aren't. The recent trend of horror movies over the past decade has been much more horrifying in how it's happened than any of the movies themselves.

@Bobby Peru To be fair, all you need to do is watch BOTW to kind of understand why. Horror and action are really open to exploitation, so I can kind of understand why critics might think this movie is just trying to capitalize on shock value and gore effects. They saw those, which are typical of exploitative b-movies, and made assumptions about the intent of the director rather than judging the film on it's own merits. But you know what happens when you assume...

Bravo lol

I was just thinking that lol

Oh yeah. It was on TV every year around October. "La Cosa". My mom liked watching all this horror movies when I was little but she never let me watch them.

- a dude afraid of everything, especially anything with a darker skin tone.

@@aerthreepwood8021 well he definitely didn't want to know any black people

@@aerthreepwood8021 he wasn't scared of black people he just didn't like them

@@tastycookiechip He would also rant to his half Jewish wife about Jewish people, in which she would have to remind him he shouldn't disparage his own wife's race. lmao And his cat's name means he might not be afraid of black people, but he didn't mind using a popular slur for them.

Whatever buddy, Junji Ito did it better...

moniek And The Thing is pretty creepy too! 😉

Andrew K - why shouldn't every comment mention Rich Evans?

Truth!

yea the more I watch Rich Evens, he get creepier XD

Michael Mercy Couldn't be said any better. Every bit of The Thing is thoroughly unsettling and visually nothing short of breathtaking.

lol...that was funny, ahgodamit...yeah, my first legal booze was a bottle of scotch because I saw some actor drinking it in a movie

Smirnoff is more pronounced in this film

Just the noise it makes alone is truly terrifying.

That grating painful scream always makes me think of Body Snatchers too

Clemps! What a pleasant surprise.

Nice!

First Plague and now you.

The Thing analysis when?

Shouldn't you be playing Octopath right now?

PlagueOfGripes draw some thing lewds

Woah, never thought I'd see you here plague

thanks daddy gripes! is there any new creppy trivia about farm animals that you can share with us?

But how strong is the Thing, Plague?

Red Sparrow Not stronger than Paige

Made-up story.

To be honest I think my first viewing of this was similar, the helicopter shooting the dog is where I first came into the movie.

@@5K1ZZ same, I have a bad habit of skipping production company logos so I just skipped to the opening credits, that spaceship scene is only a few seconds so I didn't even know I'd missed anything until rewatching it with friends.

Hey same thing sci fi channel used to be amazing with there film picks

@@MegaZeta sounds a bit specific to be made up

Drew Maria Yea. Very true. Travesty. He's said it in an interview. He even says this is his own favorite movie he made. He was never the same after the reviews and Box office performance. I don't understand Universal Studio's opened it so close to E.T., another Universal movie?? Bad decision and dumb critics..

@@joeymerk3706 fox did the same thing with big trouble in little china. releasing it a week after aliens of all films killed any momentum that film could’ve had

@@joeymerk3706 It must feel vindicating for him to see the movie become recognized as the actual masterpiece that it is. Back in its day, it just got shit, but today, The Thing is known as one of the best horror movies ever made.

No.

INSTANT TRAAASSHH

@@MegaZeta Yes.

IT BROKE NEW GROUND!!

Very cool

Agreed, that scene when the lights dim and the door smashes open to reveal the creature's silhouette is masterfully done and the flames sequence looks so dangerous, but they seem to pull it off with utter ease.

Nice to see you here, Sonny Jim!

As a kid of the 70's the '51 version was one of my favorite movies - then I saw the remake as a teenager in '82 and was blown away.

Yep. I think that's the scene where they're all in a dark room waiting for it to come through the door, and suddenly it swings open and they throw gasoline on it. This scene is surprisingly effective even today, and I can only imagine the effect it had on the early 50s audience! Considering what was available back in the early 50s, they did a fantastic job on that movie.

I think that 'man on fire' scene was a stunt first.

Ben Phillips what movie is that?

Enya Rodriguez The Thing. Jay even said it right before the scene.

Can someone timestamp the exact moment that the baby gets stabbed in the head and walks away in the film, I must’ve missed it. Guess it must only be in the director’s cut🤔

"Didn't even need a bandage!" x 2

I saw this comment out of context.

If you watch the film alongside John Carpenter's commentary track, he says that the wide shots of that dog were fake plastic replicas, while the close-ups were an actual trained canine.

The dog was a half wolf/half husky hybrid named "Jed." He had a bunch of film experience, the most notable other role was "White Fang" in 1991 where an older Jed co-starred. I had heard that when Jed was on set of The Thing (they may mention it in the special features doc of the movie), the cast and crew had to be down to the bare minimum people, because as with most hybrid wolf dogs, they tend to be unpredictable and they didn't want to spook him, which I think only added to the eerie performance Jed gave in the movie. In closing, I think I know too much about a dog that passed away in 1995.

I dont remember where I read/heard it, but the cast said that it was like the dog exactly knew what to do on set, which is kinda worrying:P

I totally agree, you can just see intelligence in its eyes, it's very strange

For real, the dog felt like it had the autonomy of a highly intelligent creature, probably the best animal acting I’ve ever seen

@@digitalwayfarer7404 I suppose you might think that if your reaction to seeing pussy is to run away screaming. 😂😂😂 Not sure why you admitted that about yourself! 😂😂😂

digital wayfarer maybe a metaphor for a dominant woman--a maneater perhaps...?

unlimited J&B...

@@PeacefulJoint actually think it holds the record for the largest all male film cast. Not 100% sure 🤔

@@Jack_Stafford Nobody is going to mistake this dude. Hes clearly a flaming homosexual.

ancient122 He looks like Eminem if Eminem were white. Wait...

Mom's spaghetti?

Jay has powerfull conections

that's his cousin, skittlizzles

Steven Delaney Nobody gives Ennio Morricone a razzie!

Holy shit, you're suggesting the Razzies shouldn't be taken seriously? Holy shit, what a Eureka moment. Holy. Shit.

Stanley Kubrick was nominated for a Razzie their first year for The Shining. Was there a movie in the '80s critics DID like?

The Razzies are a fucking joke, they've made so many ridiculous nominations that I can't even be bothered to list them all.

@@thecheese4960 nope, greatest horror movie of all time my friend, that’s all there is to it

my theory; it boils down to framerate. film had it relatively low, so the true nature of practicals never stuck out. now that everything is cgi and nothing is practical, ultrahigh fps and clarity actually works against stuff like this. it stands the fuck out.

It is more than just framerate, it is also the lighting and actors reacting or beeing surprised by some effects that are actually happening in front of them. Don't get me wrong, there is great cgi around nowadays, but if it's done wrong it just has a totally diffrent kind of eeriness than any practical effect. Bad cgi is just scarily laughable, while even bad practical effects can cause some real dread and fright, even if it's not a horror flick 😅

@@intergalacticspacecanoe4659 movies still don't play at higher than 24 fps what are you on about

I think we can all agree that the VFX in Dune are pretty goddamn amazing.

what movie was he talking about, I'm curious?

Interview regarding the 2011 prequel.

Oh of course, duh. I remember watching a really good video on all the practical effects that got changed after the producers shot that idea down...

"We got a group of about fifty people from the same area with similar interests and they're going to dictate the future of your film for thousands of others. Don't worry it's foolproof." Test screenings are an awful concept.

Questionable Object a lot of test screening are done in Vegas, entirely to get a diverse group of people because people from all over the country come to visit the strip. Test screenings still ruin artistic visions, but they do attempt to get a representative group of people for the American population.

Also most of the time cgi things somehow manage to look like they dont have mass. Sometimes they over animate/over physics simulate and that just ruins it. Its a really fine line. The worst parts are when cgi has to interact with real things and its almost always obvious that cgi is a slave to real objects or actors motions. "You may not have noticed this, but your brain did."

A buddy of mine lend me his un-cut version and I made the mistake to watch it at night, while I was alone in the house. That night and the following nights I couldn't really sleep......My mind always thought that there is a weird dog monster sticking in the corner, reaching out for me. And when RLM showed parts of the dog transformation scene I felt this awful sickening punch in the gut. The effects are probably the best of it's genre. It still leaves me reeling every time to the point where I want to close my eyes. The images of this movie just burns into your mind. This is far away from modern jump-scares horror movies.

Unless it's unintentional. CGI Leia in Rouge One made me recoil in horror, no joke.

You know what's really weird? Is that this could actually happen. Now that's scary.

The Thing produces perfect imitations so that doesn't make much sense. In all honesty Blair-Thing left it there probably for pity so he could be taken back inside.

@@elansleazebaganno I mean, we don't know that. The characters *think* it can make perfect imitations, but that's never actually proven.

@@vorbo01 The Norris imitation literally had a heart attack because the real Norris had a weak heart. If the imitations weren't perfect, even by a little, a close friend of the victim could probably identify that their friend was being imitated, or at the very least that something was up

WIll do.

"These fucking prequels can fuck off!"

Nothing against Colin, but I kinda would have liked to see Mike on this one. He has said before he isn't a big John Carpenter fan so it might have been interesting to see him reviewing the best Carpenter film with that bias in place.

I ship 'em.

Was he that knowledgeable Russian sailor who had some friends in the industry?

readordiefanatic I think the critics didn't actualy watch the movie

I disagree, i can easily see them making it to the kennel scene, and feeling pranked almost. This movie was a quantum leap in gross-out scares

My mum & dad rented this film & bought in some pizza to eat while they watched, to this day my mum tells me she regretted buying that pizza. It was completely unlike anything they'd seen.

Zerofightervi Tell your mom to grow up. Pineapple can be on a fucking pizza.

I just only now watched the movie. And for some background I love Alien, and The Thing really hits the same notes. But in the end The Thing never felt tense or extreme. I liked how all hints to solve the movie were subtle, but in the end I could never get tense on the movie. After Blair goes crazy, firstly as a wise move to destroy comms so no-one finds the Thing, but after Windows drops the keys and it's clear the blood was destroyed by a replacement Blair all tension was lost for me. After that I could only enjoy the scenery and sets that fueled my sense of adventure, and the satisfying practical effects making for some praise worthy gore, the plot was still lost. It felt pointless to see the people suffer through when their chances of survival are 0.

You're not surprised, you just wanted to use this channel's popularity to boost your banal opinion

Absolutely. The scene where they catch Bennings half-transformed, and he opens his mouth to just scream still gets me every time.

@@MegaZeta What?????

@@MegaZeta Bruh what planet are you living on?

@@epochpilot9404 I found that so unsettling even though it was the least grotesque scene with “the thing” I grabbed my bf’s arm and said “nope, don’t like that, I’m out!” And then I had my eyes glued to the tv the whole movie.

the best part of intellectual theft is when it doesn't exist, since Morricone composed the score for the film.

The menu music from The Thing DVD is in hateful 8 as well and it gives me flash backs to falling asleep to the DVD at age 15 and having it play all night. That shit is not good to wake up to.

I agree, the pacing, the editing, the cinematography. I love this movie.

A lot of films nail either the creative, gross-out effects or the suspense, but none combine both better than this one.

Alien is a remake of a film called It The Terror From Beyond Space.

Scarface

luigi ventroni REMEMBER SCARFACE!?

Also, the new version of suspria is actually good... like the thing, it was critically booed, and I have a feeling it may go on to be well liked. It's a completely different movie, beat wise, which is exactly what a remake should be, but it also kept to the spirit of the original well. They did it on re:view later and I know Jay likes it more than the original film.

@@lawrencescales9864 Yeah Suspiria is a very interesting one for me. I didn't even know there was an original until an hour or so before I saw it I was just interested in it and I remember not knowing how to feel after I watched it. I admired the filmmaking and thought very highly of some aspects but it wasn't until a little while later when it finally settled in how much I truly loved it. It's an incredible movie that I don't blame people for not enjoying due to the nature of it but I hope it gets the recognition it deserves in the future.

Which is exactly what John says on date night.

ThePitofSidLord It's so big! And has a red spot on it!

How could you ignore it? It's enormous

I legit thought he may have died when I saw this upload. Had to frantically check Twitter.

Patrick Boyda how about Kung Fury ?

Then ,They Live, basically anything Carpenter did in the 80's was awesome.

I think this movie gets better through time as well. The fact that all characters behave rationally is a major plus and the effects only get better through time as well. Like Colin said, your brain doesn't even have the time to process what horrifying stuff you're seeing before something even more disgusting happens. It looks absolutely great as well.

It was not a huge hit, but it was definitely not a flop. It made money.

It's not your fave horror movie.

I liked when he threw the dynamite at The Thing and said, "hail to the king, baby." John Carpenter is the king of coining catch phrases.

DrJuice1 Well then, _I guess it's not~_

Well it made money eventually, but it had a 15 million dollar production budget and 19 million dollar box office take, so once you take out the theaters' cuts plus the ad budget it definitely lost money at least initially.

agreed, but the original is still better

Klaus Kinski was the perfect casting choice for the remake, but Max Schreck was - and is still to this day - iconic. The fact that fans can have a clear favorite, but totally understand how anyone could favor the other is a testament to the quality of both films!

how about ben hur from 1959

There are definitely two camps as to which one is better. I prefer the remake, which is rather daft, since the original is a groundbreaking landmark in cinema (despite Gustave von Wangenheim's hammy acting), and without it, the remake wouldn't exist, but the remake (for me, at least) is an objectively better film, but I think it boils down to whether you like your horror straight up or more folk/fairytale.

Not daft at all. Like I said, its easy for anyone to see how either could be anyone's favorite!

They're good effects, but no, not really.

Mega Zeta bro wtf are you doing😭 I respect the troll game but you are literally commenting on every single post bro get outta moms basement, get a job or hobby or a girlfriend, something bruh Jesus

@@Lucky-sh1dm I know right. It's hilarious.

Thingu is amazingly well made.

Ha! Thank you for introducing this to me 😂

I MENTIONED IT FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good for you, I don't read all comments.

I dunno, The Spoony One's video review of it always made me stay way clear of it. It's not that bad then?

Forsete Spoony overdid it, it is hillarious review and some points are spot on, but it's not bad as he is making it to be... It's actually pretty good in my opinion, you should give it a try.

I played it over a weekend, was a fine game that actually managed to build up some paranoia.

I think it would be perfect with a sophisticated dance number in the middle of the film. But as it is...it's a good film (one of my favourite films)

Tales from the Hood

Couldn't agree more everything was perfect!

The Shining?

The Thing or the Shining is the choice I will never be able to make.

Lol, I was born a the same time, but The Thing is first horror movie I ever watched, way before grade school. I believe my dad had left the tv on starz/encore and passed out while I stayed up.

I'll admit I didn't watch a whole lot of horror movies from the time, but I remember the few I did watch were like gross-out/gore shit like the Hills Have Eyes remake from that time and 30 Days of Night

Cornelius Augustus Von Meyerbeer III thank you!

Christian Nyby to be exact. I suspect there were some sour grapes over the fact that John Carpenter's The Thing was actually a better adaptation of the novella. Not to mention that Carpenter actually 100% helmed his 1982 version.

TheLonelyGoomba it's a okay movie. Not amazing but definitely not awful

The effects were awful.

You know, I'd forgot they'd even done a Thing prequel/premake. But looking at the scenes here, the movie would have sucked dingo balls even if there'd been no CGI.

The first two thirds is pretty good. The fact that it was made by fans of the 1982 film who did their best to recreate the sets and look of the film was great. The ending was weak and the CGI was mostly disappointing, but it doesn't try to retcon ANYTHING from the Carpenter film, so it doesn't break anything or detract from it at all.

no one who is actually a fan of carpenter's Thing ever said to themselves "gee, i wonder how the dog got infected, i wish someone would spell it out for me with some shitty production value!" literally no one ever. it's such an insulting, pointless, unwanted waste of resources... if you admire the classic so much, just make a fucking sequel or a standalone.

I would love to have someone hunt down those critics and see what they have to say about those baffling posts.

@@psychosociety7910 I wish someone would hunt down their emails and post them here so we can all spam them to death about how shit they are at their jobs.

@@jbsquare3672 They're literally all dead you moron

@@psychosociety7910 They all have been fucking dead for many years

Critics are paid to promote or demote a movie. They are hired goons for the corrupt movie industry

I completely agree. For a solid year after it was released, ET was a cultural phenomenon. There were so many tie-ins with product placement, and follow on advertising, that the character of ET became something of an actual celebrity. I feel like the masses were so horrified by the audacity of "The Thing" to be so blatantly bleak and nihilistic, that they just recoiled from it. It was simply too ugly to look at. As a child of those times, and a huge fan of "The Thing", I can honestly say that this movie would have been FAR better received, and probably gotten the recognition it deserved, had ET never existed.

Mass-audience film is a _product_ of culture, and usually trails shocking innovation in other parts of it by a few years, not the other way around. There is absolutely no way that _E.T._ did what you think it did. What it did was speak to a preexisting appeal as mediated by advertising and marketing.

And here we are now, The Thing is a horror classic and E.T. has faded into the background.

@@mittycommitspizzatime92 Couldn't have said that better. Love The Thing and love E.T. but sometimes hold a grudge that one is being talked about and not the other.

In the '70s movies were auteur-driven and reflected the societal feelings of malaise and paranoia. In the '80s, people went to heartwarming family blockbusters, snorted cocaine, and voted for Ronald Reagan. Twice.

What are you talking about. As an italian, it is pronounced Morri-con-e, with the e pronounced like in "end" and the double r it is pronounced like actually saying r two times in a row.

Shut the fuck up, nerd

That's practical effects by Rob Bottin for ya.