It wasn't tho, got overlayed with cg

Perfect example of how cgi and studio interference can hinder a film

PAIN awesome you mean.

Must have hurt for him to see what they done to his work

@@pablito8756 oof, I guess so. but also during the making of it he was probably just enjoying living his dream job

Such laziness.

Lucky-Ebola-Chan I agree also is it me or do the legs look like the Arachnids from Starship Troopers?

Personally, I think the reason why the Thing's mutations look asymmetrical is because those are mutation of the imitation. When the Thing tries to imitate an organism, the only way to know if it's the real deal or the alien is not by look. Here, I assume because the creature assimilated must have been pretty powerful by looks of it, the Thing didn't needed to mutate so to protect itself, or at the very least, the Thing wasn't given time to mutate and retaliate, thus giving the Thing no other option but to escape. The creature that the Thing imitated when arriving on Earth clearly is more capable than the humans and other dogs that it met with. Leading to my point, when we see Palmer Thing, Blair Thing, Norris Thing and the Dog Thing, they are not always asymmetrical. Tl;Dr: The Thing is always symmetrical unless it fails to completely imitate an organism (i.e. Bennings Thing) or is threatened and/or given time to mutate. At the very least, that's my theory.

You can actually see it in the movie.

@@notramesses4790 The shots of the creature in film are too quick and don't show enough to know exactly what you're looking at most of the time when you do see it!...which is the main reason of my original comment...I'd like to see the full model of the creature used for the film...unlike the movie which had scenes that were too quick and only showed parts of the creature.

@@theonemasterwarhero well as far as i know they had to work with the animatronic quickly so it wouldn't malfunction or break.

@@notramesses4790 That I can believe...its still fantastic that they made the effort to use puppets with light CGI...cause they look the most real than just using full/abusing CGI like most modern movies.

@@theonemasterwarhero agreed.

But think about it, if it assimilated and imitates everything, wouldn't the world still be the same? Maybe a few humans and animal less, but nonetheless same?

+Qin ShiHuang 秦始皇 That really depends on how perfect the imitations are. Everything could still look the same but act like chickens or salamanders.

Tyler Villarreal It's a philosophical question, not a physiological one.

It would clearly be left as a world with a biodiversity simply comprised of one species, The Thing, but all meanwhile imitating the life it would have assimilated in it's rampage. Let's take a alternate timeline to explain: if The Thing did succeed in killing MacReady, fly off on the junkyard spaceship and conquer the world, everything would, eventually be, completely comprised of one species, but simply imitating all life seen and discovered on Earth. Although to be honest, that would take so freakishly long that some native species could possibly evolve to fight against The Thing. Now here's the thing: we don't know if the creatures can transmit itself through sexual means or, in any case, can bear any offspring in result of activity. We don't know if the creature can also assimilate plant matter, since it rips through clothes when infesting someone. The probability is it cannot: it needs animals to spread and assimilate. What could happen is that our dear planet Earth would be, one day, completely covered by one single species that would imitate everything in the exception of plants. Eventually, to not die off starvation, life would be rewritten by The Thing and act as, not a paradox of biological evolution, but as a catalyst for the restart of life on Earth. Some would instant evolve to continue perhaps a herbivorous life, such as a cow-Thing, meanwhile the cougar-Thing would pursue it's original carnivorous life by attacking the cow-Thing, but each launching an assault with their shape shifting abilities. I know they would attack each other because there is evidence that some Things can willfully, or perhaps mistakenly, sacrifice other more evident incantations of Things to allow their very own survival. On the human side, it's another story. But considering that the Blair-Thing was able to make a ship out of planks of wood and ripped helicopter parts, it could be very bad for all life in the galaxy: 1) Humanity could become united by a singularity of the species under the influence of the Thing and start building ships towards other worlds; or 2) Thing-infected humanity decays into feral-like pockets of 'human' population that continues our legacy of war, but now with our knowledge of weaponry and warfare combined with their shapeshifting abilities. In other words, paradoxically, the world itself wouldn't change much: life on Earth would be, but only at the cellular level. The 6 billion years of evolution that led up to now would be 'modified' with The Thing and continue to proceed in a new cycle of evolution.

Peusterokos1 So basically, the thing would kill every lifeform on Earth, and potentially, the other aliens that exist in it's universe before filling the ecological niches which the once-pure organisms took. Seems plausible.

Simon Farrell no. Not at all. This looks similar to it, but not exactly like the pilot.

They are most likely amorphous, and have no “true form”, aside from Their cells.

i think this is just the assimilated version of the alien that was piloting he space ship that was attacked by the thing cell meaning this isnt the true form of the thing just another life form its taken over and killed.

No, again different design.

The Thing was the pilot.

No idea, but I love it. I think at the end of some videos, it says who it's made from.

Milwaukee Jon Not necessarily. That very well could have been just another life form The Thing imitated.

DirtySouthJR true

+DirtySouthJR yep it is open to interpretation, was that The Thing's ship or was it another creature it had assimilated the form from? That is why The Thing is like The Alien IMHO, in the awesomeness of their collective grotesque body horrors lol Invasive and freaky, both monsters!

well the thing has no "true" form the closest thing to a true form would be some kind of bacteria the alien in the iceblock was one of its victims haha

no the thing is a parasite, it's basically whatever it infects, think of the thing as a really intelligent virus

Jay Charles what’s GD?

I'm pretty sure the Necromorphs were inspired by The Thing

warguy233 and event horizon

Fox Mulder- I disagree. The director tried to use similar special effects as Carpenter’s movie, but the morons at the studio overrode him in favor of CGI.

Wat?

It was buried in ice that was over 100 thousand years old.

@@martinharris5017 lol they couldn't of possibly known that with a just a handful of people making guesses and assumptions. that's it.

@@trooperg1234 "lol" Its in the script that it came from another world thousands of years ago. That's it.

@@martinharris5017 You probably should explain yourself what you mean, it is in the script, rather than randomly saying it.

@@trooperg1234 IT IS IN THE SCRIPT, THE SCREENPLAY. BASED ON THE BOOK. UNRANDOMLY! Is that a sufficient clarification or would you prefer it in Mandarin?

I doubt the 3 eyed blue-skinned humanoid described by Campbell would have translated well to screen though.

@@martinharris5017 It wasn't a humanoid at all--but they certainly could have tried.