So true. Like,nobody thinks it's weird that they are going to all that trouble to kill a single dog? I mean he'll, even just letting a dog loose in the middle of nowhere would probably be a death sentence after enough time, but chasing them down in a helicopter definitely says that the dog is dangerous in more ways than one
@@lucassmith1886 I used to get similarly frustrated, but it's just a post-COVID pet obsession age we live in. People treat dogs like children and so in their eyes emotionally a dog can never be evil. I grew up viewing dogs like animals that we domesticated, but that's all they are - animals. So to me seeing grown men on a heli desperately trying to shoot a dog triggers a warning bell that something must be off about it. Would they be saying the same thing if it was a fox running off? Probably not. Also how do you start watching a film knowing that it's about an alien, and at no point it crosses your mind that dog might be one?? Basically I'm still annoyed but just let go of it. Besides, the whole reason Carpenter put the dog and started the movie off that way was precisely to provoke the "nooo not my pupper doggo" reaction because he knows how people view pets as person's best friend.
@@rainiwakura2430 I've never been a dog person and I want I saw the guy shooting at the dog, it didn't take me long to suspect that it was somehow associated with the "Thing" either as host or as the "Thing" itself. I don't like that fad of people calling themselves the parents of a pet because that lead them to treat their pet (usually a dog) as something it is not and they often develop behaviorial problems because they're trained as kids instead as dogs.
Every single thing Blair did before he was confined to the shack made perfect sense if your goal was to stop the thing from reaching civilization. They filmed an alternate ending with a clear resolution just in case audiences couldn't accept this ending, but they didn't need it.
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Here is a list of some of the best movies ever made. Possibly, you might try one sometime. "Contact," "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951 NOT the 2008 remake), “The Dead Zone,” "Deja Vu," "Forbidden Planet," "Frequency," "Gandhi," "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," "The Green Mile," "Highlander," "Miracle on 34th Street (1947 NOT the remake)," "North by Northwest," The Pink Panther," "Psycho," "Rio Bravo," "Some Like it Hot," "The Time Machine (1960 version)," "2001: A Space Odyssey (hard to understand without reading the book)"
Door was opened from the outside, so blare was turned by someone going out there. The cave had no exit. Also, people overlook the fact that film covers like 7 days. Blare was out there for like 3-4 days by himself. When Mac made the tape that he hid, it had been 4 days since the dog arrived at that point. Also in those 6-7 days they was getting basically no sleep.
Carpenter himself has stated this is an "apocalyptic" film. There are cellular remains of the Thing at both the Norwegian and American camps. ...and that whole giant spaceship is still just sittin' there... When the rescue teams arrive, the world ends. Whether Mac and/or Childs is infected is irrelevant, and Carpenter left it ambiguous very purposefully.
I agree that their final identity is irrelevant. It was established that freezing does not work, and burning save full cremation does not work; if every piece can infect and be viable, then exploding would likely not work either. The base was also littered with charred and ice-preserved thing bodies. The base is destroyed with most of the evidence, and there are 2 openly visibly preserved corpses, so nothing is immediately suspicious and can be autopsied as usual, and the base remains explored without too much suspicion. The thing's victory condition is that it must ensure that only intact human bodies are found, at least initially. Preferably, the thing wearing one of them, but it is not needed. Based on this, the last humans' actions are essentially helping the thing fool the rescue team. The situation could have been thwarted (not stopped) by torching or exploding each other, thus indicating to the rescue team that something so severe happened here that self-immolation/explosion was the only option. What is even worse than MacReady's actions can be logically justified without too much issue whether he was a human or a thing. In the book, this is based on the creature's telepathic abilities, so it is not unreasonable that the pieces could communicate even if it was not telepathy. If we abstract it away, it was basically a chess game where there were pawn sacrifices (on both sides) and maybe even promotions (from suspicious to trusted)
I always assumed that the noose was a sign that Blair was infected. He was OK when he destroyed the equipment to keep the thing from escaping, and was going to hang himself. Thus the noose. But he turned before he could kill himself. An interesting discussion between cast and director was whether someone infected would know it. This was never resolved. And I'm not sure they ever decided what happens after the film ends.
I think The Thing knows full well that it is The Thing. All it's doing is imitating the mannerisms of its victim. We've seen what assimilation looks like - it's bloody & brutal. The thing knows.
Watching "The Thing" is a fond childhood memory for me. John Carpenter is one of my favorite directors, and "Assault on Precinct 13" is the movie by him that I like the most.
I love that Lucy figured out that the dog was the Thing almost straight away. She also figured that Blair might be infected, and that he had stolen parts of the helicopter. Brilliant. Nauls finding MacReady's torn shirt shows that the Thing was trying to frame him. Fuchs found a torn shirt with Mac's name on it, but burnt it when he burned himself. If Mac WERE infected, it would only have happened once, so the second shirt had to have been a set-up. John Carpenter made Kurt Russell smoke at the end to accentuate his breath at the end. Childs is not breathing. Plus, MacReady was throwing molatov cocktails. What is in the bottle that he gave to Childs? Mac DOESN'T drink from it, but he does smile when Childs drinks from it. Diplomacy with the Thing would rely on it having human sensibilities. However, it must be smart, because it was building a spaceship from the pieces of a helicopter.
The Thing is literally mixing and matching intelligences from other species it imitated. It can call them up at will. The Thing calls up an alien intelligence (in the body of Blair) that is capable of building the spaceship.
The template for this film is the film "The Thing from Another World" from 1951. The older film also deals with the question "who or what is this thing". Then you also know why the “thing” was able to survive for over 100,000 years. A first-class film with first-class actors in b/w. This is a great benefit to the old film. The film here had significantly more special effects and shows the effects on the psyche of those affected. From the year 1982 when the film was released, it had cult status among us fans (I'm 62 years old). This continues to this day. The 1951 film as well. For me the films are almost equal.
"the thing" is in the genre of movie known as "body horror" -- where the focus is on (usually) human victims suffering any form of mutilation or dismemberment or degradation. other examples are "frankenstein", "the fly", "hellraiser", "alien", "the mist", "saw" and any movie featuring hannibal lecter.
Nice reaction. Everybody falls for the dog at the beginning. Then chaos in ensues. Also no animals were injured while filming. They're all practical effects with Mechanical Animals
I'm glad you saw that movie poster because the tagline on another one was "Man is the warmest place to hide", which kinda gives it away a little bit. Also, the flower looking thing that rips out of the dog was actually made of multiple dog tongues and rows of dog teeth. Also, when Mac and Blair (the doc) first leave in the helicopter Kurt Russell was actually flying it during the take off. He had finished his heli pilot training the same year and wanted to do the take off himself. Oh, and 27000 hours is 1125 days or 3 years & 1 month. Great reaction as always. 👍 Much love from the UK. ❤🤙
Lucy's frustration with the way the movie ended was funny. Daniel is 100% correct here; the ending was intentional. It's what makes the movie the cult classic it has become, even 40 years after.
I don’t think that Blair was infected at the time he was sabotaging the helicopter-otherwise, he would have left it intact and used it to fly to another base after infecting one of the pilots. However, he was left alone in the shack for a few days (there are several time skips in the film that aren’t clearly communicated). At any point, a Thing could have gone out to the shack and infected Blair-possibly by giving him contaminated food or water. Once turned, Blair would be a shapeshifter with superhuman strength. This would make breaking out of the shack to collect parts for the UFO easy.
The rope proved that Blair had become a Thing. If he had put it up and changed his mind, he would have taken it down again. But if he put it up and then changed into a Thing, the Thing might not understand the significance well enough to take it down. A calm, collected Blair says he's better and they should let him out...but the rope is still right there, and he doesn't seem aware of it.
Two scenes with Garry... makes me feel soo sad when he says "But Mac, he was my friend." And I've always loved his sudden shout bout being "tied to the fakkin couch!"
I kinda love that it was Palmerthing who was like 'You gotta be fucking kidding.' Makes it seem like he was saying 'you're a fucking idiot' towards the other Thing.
At the beginning when you see the dog enter the room with the shadow on the wall. "Wait why didn't you show it" it's because they didn't want to show WHO, so the viewer is suspicious of all. I've heard it was just a film crew member that provided the shadow, to make sure nobody would guess who it was. When Childs says Clark was human so MAC committed murder. Always irritates me. Just a moment before Childs was basically cool murdering MAC when they thought he was the Thing, before he got inside and got his hands on dynamite. Keep him locked out to die and whatnot.
38:10...It's already been established that Windows is nervous as f*ck so when Palmer-Thing confronts him he's literally paralysed with fear. We can't all be as brave as you mate.
Good call on the dog being The thing at the start. If you happen to speak Norweigan, the the whole plot is explained by the Norweigans chasing the dog at the start of the movie
40:24 Blair can't use the chopper because he was not assimilated by Palmer, Blair was infected by the Dog first which only has knowledge of the Engineer and pilot of the large craft. Now Palmer could have tried to make a run for it, if he stripped down the chopper to be a large Fuel tank.
@@calanor4130 that's not definitive is my point. there is no established "minimal amount" of the thing cells to takeover an organism. it's just as likely that Palmer or Norris infected him in the shed.
Mac said he was hiding the tape he recorded about what was going on, hopefully it didn't get destroyed as well. There actually, besides some comics, was a video game that was a sequel to this movie. I never got to play it though. Allegedly it was meant to give you the paranoia and suspicions of everyone as you played it, that the movie did. I love the open ending of this, as well as the possibility that evil wins, at the time I first saw this, I hadn't seen many movies that did this. Usually the good guys always have to win.
I love how she was trying to talk herself out of it being a horror movie at the start. hahaha. Little did you know, you were going to watch the best practical horror effects ever made.
Everybody talks about how terrible of a shot the guy in the helicopter is, but hitting a small, running target from that distance while you're leaning out the side of a helicopter that's also moving has to be incredibly difficult. I'm imagining trying to hit a stationary target under similar conditions (assuming the helicopter is flying past and not just hovering), and that honestly doesn't seem like the easiest thing either.
Yes! Thank you for that. In "Flyboys" the hero kills the villain in air-to-air combat with a handgun. I wanted to throw my drink at the screen. You can NOT hit a target so easily and certainly not with a handgun. It was tried. It failed.
As far as someone being a good shooter or not…I was active duty US Army for 21 years..one year US Army Rifle Team…a year in Korea in the DMZ..leading patrols every 3 days as a scout..(Platoon Sergeant)…a year and a half as Battalion Ammo NCO..TESTED a new tank for a year and a half…the shooter would have been better off putting 25mm rounds down range..and you always lead your target..went to Vietnam…two things…I’ve been around weapons of all caliber..early on if they knew and had access…a tactical nuke would have fixed the deadly problem…this was in color…the 1951 version of The Thing was just as scary…and there were some survivors…and lastly …some people are too pretty for this kind of work…was going to say…maybe it’s the eyes…or a combination of eyes and voice…who knows?
Brilliant reaction as ever, it is one of my top 3 movies of all time. I watched it at cinema when it came out and was blown away, The practical special effects were unique and years ahead of its time they didn't age for 20 years. If you watch the Terminator which came out at same time you will see how far ahead they were!!! I was surprised Lucy didn't pick up on something I did as I left the cinema. The two people that were the only people with the keys to the blood bank were both NOT the Thing!!! so how was it unlocked there has been many theories online but it was something I always wondered. I also was so disappointed at the time that they never did a follow up movie.
This movie reminds of another Sci-fi movie: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1979) starring Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy and Jeff Goldblum, certainly recommended.
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Yes. You're right. I'm just guessing. But I will say why I think so. Because this ship the monster was building was too weak for space travel. Too much hand-made. Too small too. But yeah, also maybe UFO spaceship gauges are irrelevant because maybe flying saucers don't follow the same principle as humans space vehicles. But in the same time It's possible that the Thing want to get out from Earth becau se it has taken too much stress from its contact with Earthlings and it wants to get away from our small, blue (and disgusting ,according to the understandings of the Thing ) planet. But as far as I know the ship that the monster came to earth with at the beginning of the movie was not his ship. It was a ship invaded by him that crashed because the original crew was destroyed by the monster.
I read that the Norwegian camp scenes were shot after the U.S. base was burned at the end, meaning the director ( John Carpenter ) used the burned set. Brilliant.
Bearing in mind what we later know about the Dog-Thing I think the bloke in the helicopter probably is hitting the D-T but the bullets are having no affect.
Thank you so much for doing this and since we are one month from October The Thing (1982) directed by John Carpenter is my number 1 favorite Halloween movie because it scared me and disturbed me no other Halloween movie has ever come close to disturbing me as The Thing (1982) directed by John Carpenter as well:).
The poster on the wall behind Mac during the blood testing scene reads "They Aren't Labelled, Chum". A reference for WWII GI soldiers to beware "infected" women! You don't know who's got it and who hasn't.
There is a prequel. I actually enjoyed it. Lots of people hate it. I always say, if I like something, I want more of it. And The Thing is prolly in my top five favorite movies ever. They actually made it with physical special effects, but the studio made them enhance with cgi which was a big bummer. A little enhancement would maybe been fine but they really over did it in spots. Despite this I don't think the cgi was really that bad, though it can be obvious in spots. I just really appreciated the fact they went thru this original film and sought to explain all the things Topper and Mac found at the Norg base. In fact when I watched behind the scenes and they explicitly stated this, I liked the prequel even more. The only thing that I didn't like as much is sometimes the Thing in scenes looks a bit too insectoid, when I think it should have been more amorphous. People are free to disagree with me about the prequel, of course.
Im so sorry, but in this case I do have to disagree xD I thought it was a very, very meh movie let's say. Watched it once and never bothered to rewatch it since I found it a bit pointless tbh. But that was my experience with it of course!
Good one, D&L! This is such a fun movie! It was a trip seeing this in a crowded theater back in the day. You should have heard the screams, LOL. Thanks for sharing it.
Bit of trivia--the Norwegians at the beginning of the movie pretty much give the entire movie away, if you speak Norwegian. They're trying to warn the Americans about the dog-monster-thing. 😀 When I was younger, I disliked the ambiguity of the ending, but these days I've come to like it. The real enemy was never the Thing--the real enemy was paranoia. In the end, it didn't matter who was or wasn't the thing; mistrust, fear, the breakdown of basic humanity--the real enemy, the Thing's ability to turn people against each other, already won. In the end, who was what just didn't matter. Having said that, in my opinion, neither are the Thing. There's no reason for the Thing to not leap onto the other one right then and there. No one else is around, so it doesn't have to hide; it had no problem leaping at people when alone as it didn't care about hiding in that circumstance. Further, it had no reason to keep a human around, as it already displayed the intelligence and ability to manipulate its environment enough to cobble together a bloody space ship. No need to hide, no need for humans; again, I find it more likely that neither are the Thing. Incidentally, I'm with Daniel regarding the Thing's intelligence. It was clearly _leagues_ smarter than humans. It was building a _space ship,_ which showed technical capability, ration, logic, planning, foresight--that it was a slobbering blood-monster has no bearing on its intelligence, any more than your hair color does for yours. Further, it was capable of perfect mimicry, and more than just appearance. Think about all the little details--cadence to voice, habits and uirks, bearing, mien--all these little things that are impossible for another human being to replicate perfectly. Plus, it was capable of holding conversations, so however you want to say it figured out how to understand the language in the first place, being able to hold conversations shows intelligence, attention, ration, consideration--there's a reason humans want to believe that only humans are capable of actual language. Communication, sharing ideas and concepts via _sounds_ made from the _mouth,_ is incredibly difficult, so we want to think we're the only ones who figured it out. It's always dangerous to try applying human standards to something that isn't human. There's the old saying about not judging a book by its cover, and this is the perfect example of that adage. Further incidentally, I'm with Lucy about animals. I don't really take that kind of thing well, either, but this being a fictional movie, I can more or less go with it. As for horror movies, one franchise I always recommend is the _Puppet Master_ series. It's insane. 😄 The first two movies are sort of serious, though filled with ludicrous deaths and fountains of blood. The rest of the franchise stopped trying to be any kinds of serious and leapt into the absurd with open arms. I _love_ that franchise. 😁 🏳🌈🖖
The Thing is definitely inteligent right? Or at the very least as inteligent as its hosts. I wonder if it can accumulate knowledge from different subjects 🤔 Never seen any Puppet Master movies, tbh I had never heard of it!! Why am I still still surprised with the ammount of things I AM unaware of xD
Oh, you've gone in the deep dive.😁 The thing was based on the novella: "Who Goes There." And Rob Bottin did much of the Thing's effects spec on Norris spider-head from "The Thing" remake (1982) which you were watching now. John Carpenter did a great job with casting, scripting, cinematography, photography, lighting. This is one of Carpenter's best films. And after so many years I finally figured out who the thing really was.😁 I recommend more Carpenter movies. Watch everything on Carpenter. You won't regret it. But if you want you watch Carpenter "body bags". This one is a great one. Also "Escape from LA" is his. Or "Big Trouble in Little China." Every single one of them is with Kurt Russell (McReady). Without body bags. And simply because you mentioned: "The Fifth Element". I was 9 years old when it was announced here that my countryman had participated in making effects for "5 element". I will never forget how my heart sank and I didn't want to go to school and I watched "The Fifth Element" all day. But for me, The Fifth Element movie has always gone side by side with Lost in Space. For their time, these two films were "almost for teenagers". The youth movies of the time. Movies that you can relax and enjoy without taking on too much stress during the process. It's funny how there are no equivalents these days. But Bruce Willis never takes parts in bullshit, so The Fifth Element is for a serious audience. Not mediocre teen crap like AVP. So yes, I recommend both. Great reaction. Nice to watch.
By the way, I love your open discussion at the end of each movie. That discussion is amazing. And it shows your concern or lack of interest (both are normal). But I assure you (at least the girl), you watched the Thing, but you didn't see the Nothing😁, because this movie is full of doors that a person misses all the time without even knowing that there are doors there. So the question is not only open-ended. But also filling the action itself. One must look repeatedly and carefully: "look at it carefully, but look at it closely"to see. But a viewer must also know where to look to see. By the way, in the game based on the movie, your character has a "fear counter" so at the end of the game your broach scale is always red, which means your character is almost crazy because of fear and everywhere he sees the thing monsters. So you don't rush to waste your last ammo in this game because very often you see hallucinations born of your broken mind instead of real monsters, but your bullets are wasted for real.
By the way (for the third or fourth time), you had good suggestions for action if you were in a movie. 😁That was the point. So a movie has got you. Which is great. Because in FB there is often a Christmas card that pops up around the Christmas holidays. And on this card are McCriddy and the rest of the team standing on the snowy background of their base in Antarctica, and the text under the photo reads: "We miss you. We wish you were here." Now if you see this card for this year's Christmas Holidays (and all other Christmases from here on out) you will know what it means and its message.
@@ptthatswhatshesaid That's weird. UA-cam seems to be rejecting some of my comments. I had explained the meaning of FB. FB is a Fan Base. But it also means Face Book - social network. But UA-cam seems to delete comments containing references (links or names of pages and platforms). That's why this time I misspelled the name of Face Book in the hope that UA-cam will not delete this comment of mine as well. So yes. This is the meaning of the abbreviation FB. 😁 So the next time you come across the Christmas Card Thing on FB, you'll know its meaning! Cheers and channel success! nice to watch.😎
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Hell, I'm not sure why UA-cam is deleting my replies. FB means for social network FB. And it also means a fan base. So the next time you see the "The Thing Christmas Card" you will know its meaning.
The difference between norwegians and the swedish is pretty much the same as between the portuguese dnd the spanish, except that norwegian and swedish languages are closer and more muhually understandable between speakers. Norwegians dont like to be mistaken for swedish the same portuguese dont like being confused with spanish but in both cases they are also good neighbours and friend nations.
Yes, I kinda guesses it would be along those lines xD but had no idea that their languages were more mutually understandable than portuguese-spanish 🤔 interesting
If you want to know what happened to MacReady and Chiles, you have to play The Thing on Playstation 2. It's aknowledged by John Carpenter and it's an official sequel to the movie. 😉
The Thing / Prince of dakness / In the mouth of madness are calles "Apocalypse trilogy, meaning humanity dies in the end, whether McReady or Childs or both are contaminated, the Thing will win
What’s the difference between Norway and Sweden? What’s the difference between Portugal and Spain? Different languages, different allegiances during Ww2, different topography, different diets, etc.
when the film ends , we have no idea if mac and childes are huuman , but then we also dont know what happened to the creature that escaped through the dog kennel roof , we never see blair die or gary and nauls ! the place could be crawling with things ! a lot of people think mac was one at the end , but if you watch carefully you can see the steam from his breath as he talks to childes , yet we see not breath from childes ! the film leaves you wondering who might be infected , and everyone forgets about the missing people !
@@josephmummerth yes, of course, its just that all the other things also exhaled steam. I think it was just a question of a shot werevthe steam just wasn't noticeable tbh. I do think Childs is a thing by the end of the movie though!
For Lucy's next gore fix I'd recommend Re-animator (1985), a true classic of the genre. And also how about Dead Alive (Braindead) (1992), she can see what Peter Jackson what doing before his Lord of the Rings trilogy. A hint, it was very different.
So glad you enjoyed this amazing film, it's one of my favourite Sci-Fi horror films, and the practical effects are just so well done, this film along with Star Wars got me interested in how they do special effects, the guy who did the effects in this film is Rob Bottin, he was the apprentice of Rick Baker both are amazing artists in their own right, and have worked on some of the best horrors films of all time, Also would love to see Lucy's reactions to such films as Hellraiser 1987, The Evil Dead 1981, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974, Re-Animator 1985, The Exorcist 1973, Dog Soldiers 2002, and The Descent 2005, anyway looking forward to your Fifth Element reaction should be a lot of fun.
Hey Mark ! Lucy here 🙏 I’m not a fan of horror, as you guys know, but we will react to some of your suggestions! Can’t say I’m much pleased about it though 🤣 Xx Lucy
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Hi Lucy and yes I know you are not keen on horror films, but I think you will be impressed with the effects in these films, and if you get into slasher films for me the best franchise ever made was always, A Nightmare on Elm street films they will always have a special place in my heart as they were the very first slashers films I saw as a young teenager.
I think both Mac and Childs are human at the end because if Blair took over Childs we wouldn't have seen Blair still dressed the same as he was in the toolshed, when he kills Garry. The monster at the end is known as the Blair Monster and it's meant to have Blair's features., not Garry's BTW. Are you going to watch the prequel, which has it's moments, poor CGI aside?
In my opinion, that computer is underestimating how fast the world's life would be taken over if the thing got out into the open ocean and then land masses. Exponential growth over the earth at a rapid pace. Nothing could stop it. My estimate would be a single month or perhaps two, and the most insane horrific chaos imaginable. It could take the forms of animals from earth, such as birds or cockroaches, or it could form whatever variations of any of the cosmic creatures it's come across before earth, monstrous tiny things coming in under your door or crawling in through air ducts. It would take over all plant life. The grass and weeds under your feet could be the thing, ready to grow limbs and crawl quickly up your pants.
@@BattleAngelFan99 Maybe for people to come out of shelters and holdouts could add more time, of course its a movie either way, but government bunkers and such. And if they were smart about how bad it was maybe they would nuke some places and just take nuclear winter.
Neither of you are listening to the movie in stereo. 😢 I'd humbly suggest you don't share a set of earbuds. Your ears are missing stuff! Better to listen with external speakers if you can't get two sets of earbuds. Not a criticism-- i just want you guys get the full experience when you watch new movies. 😁
Thank you. This movie, along with "Prince of Darkness" (1987), and "In the Mouth of Madness" (1994) both of which are worth viewing, form the director John Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy. I would like to suggest that you watch Mr. Carpenter's second movie "Assault on Precinct 13" (1976), it was shot on a low budget but features many of the director's flourishes, and is often brought up in film school as an example of his work and what can be achieved on a low budget.
i see you didn't catch that windows dropped the keys when he ran from the room ... so at that point anyone could have gotten to the blood the first assimilated was palmer the guy with the jean jacket vest and if you are interested they have a sequel in comic book form ... do not watch the prequel ... it was just bad
I think Norris is the first one assimilated as we see Palmer and Childs watching videos and, if Palmer had been taken over, he would have assimilated Childs then (and Childs is still human when we get to the blood tests). Palmer gets assimilated off screen.
Great reaction. Wanna see what happened at the Norwegian Camp? Check out the prequel. (The Thing, 2011) The effects are not as good, but a very entertaining and compelling film nonetheless. Gratitude.
Props for realizing that dog was infected early on despite initial bit of sympathy. It's not a big club you guys entered.
So true. Like,nobody thinks it's weird that they are going to all that trouble to kill a single dog? I mean he'll, even just letting a dog loose in the middle of nowhere would probably be a death sentence after enough time, but chasing them down in a helicopter definitely says that the dog is dangerous in more ways than one
@@lucassmith1886 I used to get similarly frustrated, but it's just a post-COVID pet obsession age we live in. People treat dogs like children and so in their eyes emotionally a dog can never be evil. I grew up viewing dogs like animals that we domesticated, but that's all they are - animals. So to me seeing grown men on a heli desperately trying to shoot a dog triggers a warning bell that something must be off about it. Would they be saying the same thing if it was a fox running off? Probably not. Also how do you start watching a film knowing that it's about an alien, and at no point it crosses your mind that dog might be one?? Basically I'm still annoyed but just let go of it.
Besides, the whole reason Carpenter put the dog and started the movie off that way was precisely to provoke the "nooo not my pupper doggo" reaction because he knows how people view pets as person's best friend.
@@rainiwakura2430 well said! And I totally agree
One problem is that a helicopter couldn’t outrun a dog.
@@rainiwakura2430 I've never been a dog person and I want I saw the guy shooting at the dog, it didn't take me long to suspect that it was somehow associated with the "Thing" either as host or as the "Thing" itself. I don't like that fad of people calling themselves the parents of a pet because that lead them to treat their pet (usually a dog) as something it is not and they often develop behaviorial problems because they're trained as kids instead as dogs.
Every single thing Blair did before he was confined to the shack made perfect sense if your goal was to stop the thing from reaching civilization.
They filmed an alternate ending with a clear resolution just in case audiences couldn't accept this ending, but they didn't need it.
What exactly was the clear resolution ending? 🤔
@@ptthatswhatshesaid I didn't see it myself, but as best I recall what I heard, McCready has been rescued and is sitting in some office somewhere.
@@brandonflorida1092 hmmm this ending is much more interesting and get people talking!
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Here is a list of some of the best movies ever made. Possibly, you might try one sometime.
"Contact,"
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951 NOT the 2008 remake),
“The Dead Zone,”
"Deja Vu,"
"Forbidden Planet,"
"Frequency,"
"Gandhi,"
"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,"
"The Green Mile,"
"Highlander,"
"Miracle on 34th Street (1947 NOT the remake),"
"North by Northwest,"
The Pink Panther,"
"Psycho,"
"Rio Bravo,"
"Some Like it Hot,"
"The Time Machine (1960 version),"
"2001: A Space Odyssey (hard to understand without reading the book)"
Door was opened from the outside, so blare was turned by someone going out there. The cave had no exit. Also, people overlook the fact that film covers like 7 days. Blare was out there for like 3-4 days by himself. When Mac made the tape that he hid, it had been 4 days since the dog arrived at that point. Also in those 6-7 days they was getting basically no sleep.
Clark DID try to turn on the light to the kennel before opening it. They show him stop to flick the switch, but nothing happened.
Carpenter himself has stated this is an "apocalyptic" film.
There are cellular remains of the Thing at both the Norwegian and American camps.
...and that whole giant spaceship is still just sittin' there...
When the rescue teams arrive, the world ends.
Whether Mac and/or Childs is infected is irrelevant, and Carpenter left it ambiguous very purposefully.
Yeah, we are doomed 😱
And the burned one was still alive. The rescue team will arrive to find Palmer complaining that Mac ruined his jacket or something LOL
I agree that their final identity is irrelevant.
It was established that freezing does not work, and burning save full cremation does not work; if every piece can infect and be viable, then exploding would likely not work either. The base was also littered with charred and ice-preserved thing bodies. The base is destroyed with most of the evidence, and there are 2 openly visibly preserved corpses, so nothing is immediately suspicious and can be autopsied as usual, and the base remains explored without too much suspicion.
The thing's victory condition is that it must ensure that only intact human bodies are found, at least initially. Preferably, the thing wearing one of them, but it is not needed. Based on this, the last humans' actions are essentially helping the thing fool the rescue team.
The situation could have been thwarted (not stopped) by torching or exploding each other, thus indicating to the rescue team that something so severe happened here that self-immolation/explosion was the only option.
What is even worse than MacReady's actions can be logically justified without too much issue whether he was a human or a thing.
In the book, this is based on the creature's telepathic abilities, so it is not unreasonable that the pieces could communicate even if it was not telepathy. If we abstract it away, it was basically a chess game where there were pawn sacrifices (on both sides) and maybe even promotions (from suspicious to trusted)
I always assumed that the noose was a sign that Blair was infected. He was OK when he destroyed the equipment to keep the thing from escaping, and was going to hang himself. Thus the noose. But he turned before he could kill himself. An interesting discussion between cast and director was whether someone infected would know it. This was never resolved. And I'm not sure they ever decided what happens after the film ends.
I think The Thing knows full well that it is The Thing. All it's doing is imitating the mannerisms of its victim. We've seen what assimilation looks like - it's bloody & brutal. The thing knows.
That or Blair DID kill himself, but the Thing can still transform recently dead life forms.
Watching "The Thing" is a fond childhood memory for me. John Carpenter is one of my favorite directors, and "Assault on Precinct 13" is the movie by him that I like the most.
I've seen that movie as a kid as well. I had two weeks of nightmares. They don't make scary movies like that any more, everything is weak as hell :(.
Still haven't seen that one yet!
Precinct 13 is way underrated. It's not mentioned very often when naming Carpenter's movies.
the "flower" was made of dog tongues and teeth
Disturbingly creative... 😬😬👌🏻
I love that Lucy figured out that the dog was the Thing almost straight away.
She also figured that Blair might be infected, and that he had stolen parts of the helicopter.
Brilliant.
Nauls finding MacReady's torn shirt shows that the Thing was trying to frame him. Fuchs found a torn shirt with Mac's name on it, but burnt it when he burned himself. If Mac WERE infected, it would only have happened once, so the second shirt had to have been a set-up.
John Carpenter made Kurt Russell smoke at the end to accentuate his breath at the end. Childs is not breathing.
Plus, MacReady was throwing molatov cocktails. What is in the bottle that he gave to Childs? Mac DOESN'T drink from it, but he does smile when Childs drinks from it.
Diplomacy with the Thing would rely on it having human sensibilities.
However, it must be smart, because it was building a spaceship from the pieces of a helicopter.
The Thing is literally mixing and matching intelligences from other species it imitated. It can call them up at will. The Thing calls up an alien intelligence (in the body of Blair) that is capable of building the spaceship.
The template for this film is the film "The Thing from Another World" from 1951. The older film also deals with the question "who or what is this thing".
Then you also know why the “thing” was able to survive for over 100,000 years. A first-class film with first-class actors in b/w. This is a great benefit to the old film.
The film here had significantly more special effects and shows the effects on the psyche of those affected. From the year 1982 when the film was released, it had cult status among us fans (I'm 62 years old). This continues to this day. The 1951 film as well. For me the films are almost equal.
"the thing" is in the genre of movie known as "body horror" -- where the focus is on (usually) human victims suffering any form of mutilation or dismemberment or degradation. other examples are "frankenstein", "the fly", "hellraiser", "alien", "the mist", "saw" and any movie featuring hannibal lecter.
It is, in my opinion, one of the most disgusting forms of horror 😬😬 very impactfull
Nice reaction. Everybody falls for the dog at the beginning. Then chaos in ensues. Also no animals were injured while filming. They're all practical effects with Mechanical Animals
She didn't really fall for it, I mean yeah she didn;t want the dog to get shot but she also connected there may be something wrong with it.
I'm glad you saw that movie poster because the tagline on another one was "Man is the warmest place to hide", which kinda gives it away a little bit. Also, the flower looking thing that rips out of the dog was actually made of multiple dog tongues and rows of dog teeth. Also, when Mac and Blair (the doc) first leave in the helicopter Kurt Russell was actually flying it during the take off. He had finished his heli pilot training the same year and wanted to do the take off himself. Oh, and 27000 hours is 1125 days or 3 years & 1 month. Great reaction as always. 👍 Much love from the UK. ❤🤙
Cheers for the time conversion - always meant to work that out in days/years.
@@Paul_1971 Only took me 40 years from first seeing it to actually remember to finally convert it. 😁
@@giggitygiggity8391 😆
Thank you !
I had no idea how they’ve built the flower thing, but sounds gross!
Thank you for watching ☺️
Xx Lucy
Lucy's frustration with the way the movie ended was funny. Daniel is 100% correct here; the ending was intentional. It's what makes the movie the cult classic it has become, even 40 years after.
Yes! Everyone still talks about it! xD
I don’t think that Blair was infected at the time he was sabotaging the helicopter-otherwise, he would have left it intact and used it to fly to another base after infecting one of the pilots.
However, he was left alone in the shack for a few days (there are several time skips in the film that aren’t clearly communicated).
At any point, a Thing could have gone out to the shack and infected Blair-possibly by giving him contaminated food or water.
Once turned, Blair would be a shapeshifter with superhuman strength. This would make breaking out of the shack to collect parts for the UFO easy.
No one will ever no for sure when he was infected. I personally think it was very early on tbh
The rope proved that Blair had become a Thing. If he had put it up and changed his mind, he would have taken it down again. But if he put it up and then changed into a Thing, the Thing might not understand the significance well enough to take it down. A calm, collected Blair says he's better and they should let him out...but the rope is still right there, and he doesn't seem aware of it.
Edification: 27,000 hours / 24 = 1,125 days. (Time for the Thing to take over the world.)
Two scenes with Garry... makes me feel soo sad when he says "But Mac, he was my friend." And I've always loved his sudden shout bout being "tied to the fakkin couch!"
Love both moments too!
I kinda love that it was Palmerthing who was like 'You gotta be fucking kidding.' Makes it seem like he was saying 'you're a fucking idiot' towards the other Thing.
@@MySerpentine 😂😂
My computer beat me at chess, but I beat it at kick boxing.
Same 🤣
My dad “replaced” one once, by throwing it from a 2nd floor. He said “the window was open…”
* true story * 🤣
Xx Lucy
At the beginning when you see the dog enter the room with the shadow on the wall. "Wait why didn't you show it" it's because they didn't want to show WHO, so the viewer is suspicious of all. I've heard it was just a film crew member that provided the shadow, to make sure nobody would guess who it was.
When Childs says Clark was human so MAC committed murder. Always irritates me. Just a moment before Childs was basically cool murdering MAC when they thought he was the Thing, before he got inside and got his hands on dynamite. Keep him locked out to die and whatnot.
But I kinda apreciate normal characters that have normal human flaws, like hipocrisy xD
38:10...It's already been established that Windows is nervous as f*ck so when Palmer-Thing confronts him he's literally paralysed with fear. We can't all be as brave as you mate.
😂😂 the typical scream at the screen as if you would do better 🤦🏻♂️
Check out the movies Halloween(1978), Tremors(1990), and Creepshow(1982).
Recall that Macready used a microphone to discuss a tape and described the events. This is his legacy for posterity, and with it a warning.
Funny thing is, if the alien acted as a *symbiote*, everyone would line up for the effective immortality merging with it offered.
I always wonder what would've happened if they tried to talk to it, just like he did . . .
We don't exactly know what it actually WANTS 🤔
Good call on the dog being The thing at the start. If you happen to speak Norweigan, the the whole plot is explained by the Norweigans chasing the dog at the start of the movie
If only they had someone that spoke norwegian in the group or if the guy knew how to speak english 😅
The advantages of leaving the end open without knowing what happens is that it keeps you guessing and leaves the story open for a sequel.
40:24 Blair can't use the chopper because he was not assimilated by Palmer, Blair was infected by the Dog first which only has knowledge of the Engineer and pilot of the large craft. Now Palmer could have tried to make a run for it, if he stripped down the chopper to be a large Fuel tank.
where are you getting Blair being infected by the dog? There is nothing in the movie that indicates who infected him definitively.
@@rainiwakura2430 During the autopsy of the "dog", Blair poked the Thing with the end of his pen, and then put the pen to his lips.
@@calanor4130 that's not definitive is my point. there is no established "minimal amount" of the thing cells to takeover an organism. it's just as likely that Palmer or Norris infected him in the shed.
Mac said he was hiding the tape he recorded about what was going on, hopefully it didn't get destroyed as well.
There actually, besides some comics, was a video game that was a sequel to this movie. I never got to play it though. Allegedly it was meant to give you the paranoia and suspicions of everyone as you played it, that the movie did.
I love the open ending of this, as well as the possibility that evil wins, at the time I first saw this, I hadn't seen many movies that did this. Usually the good guys always have to win.
Unforgetable, One of those movies that I never get bored of rewatching!
That was Blair's face on the main creature at the end.
The flower that comes out of the dog thing is made up of dog tongues and teeth to show it uses every part of it's host...
Lovely... 😬
The prequel from 2011 is a worthy watch, even though it has excessive CGI.
Wasn't very impressed with that one tbh 😅
So this took place in June since it was the first week of 'their' winter.
I love how she was trying to talk herself out of it being a horror movie at the start. hahaha. Little did you know, you were going to watch the best practical horror effects ever made.
Everybody talks about how terrible of a shot the guy in the helicopter is, but hitting a small, running target from that distance while you're leaning out the side of a helicopter that's also moving has to be incredibly difficult. I'm imagining trying to hit a stationary target under similar conditions (assuming the helicopter is flying past and not just hovering), and that honestly doesn't seem like the easiest thing either.
Tbh yeah, true
Yes! Thank you for that. In "Flyboys" the hero kills the villain in air-to-air combat with a handgun. I wanted to throw my drink at the screen. You can NOT hit a target so easily and certainly not with a handgun. It was tried. It failed.
@@harryrabbit2870 OMG that sounds so cartoony...
As far as someone being a good shooter or not…I was active duty US Army for 21 years..one year US Army Rifle Team…a year in Korea in the DMZ..leading patrols every 3 days as a scout..(Platoon Sergeant)…a year and a half as Battalion Ammo NCO..TESTED a new tank for a year and a half…the shooter would have been better off putting 25mm rounds down range..and you always lead your target..went to Vietnam…two things…I’ve been around weapons of all caliber..early on if they knew and had access…a tactical nuke would have fixed the deadly problem…this was in color…the 1951 version of The Thing was just as scary…and there were some survivors…and lastly …some people are too pretty for this kind of work…was going to say…maybe it’s the eyes…or a combination of eyes and voice…who knows?
Brilliant reaction as ever, it is one of my top 3 movies of all time. I watched it at cinema when it came out and was blown away, The practical special effects were unique and years ahead of its time they didn't age for 20 years. If you watch the Terminator which came out at same time you will see how far ahead they were!!! I was surprised Lucy didn't pick up on something I did as I left the cinema. The two people that were the only people with the keys to the blood bank were both NOT the Thing!!! so how was it unlocked there has been many theories online but it was something I always wondered. I also was so disappointed at the time that they never did a follow up movie.
There are so many details that can spark discussions and its one of those movies that are very rewatchables 👌🏻
This movie reminds of another Sci-fi movie: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1979) starring Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy and Jeff Goldblum, certainly recommended.
That is one that I've never watched but that I really want to!
I do not believe that by building his ship the creature wanted to fly out into space. I believe it would have gone straight to civilization.
Again, like most things in this movie, we can only guess!
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Yes. You're right. I'm just guessing. But I will say why I think so. Because this ship the monster was building was too weak for space travel. Too much hand-made. Too small too.
But yeah, also maybe UFO spaceship gauges are irrelevant because maybe flying saucers don't follow the same principle as humans space vehicles.
But in the same time It's possible that the Thing want to get out from Earth becau se it has taken too much stress from its contact with Earthlings and it wants to get away from our small, blue (and disgusting ,according to the understandings of the Thing ) planet.
But as far as I know the ship that the monster came to earth with at the beginning of the movie was not his ship. It was a ship invaded by him that crashed because the original crew was destroyed by the monster.
@@stanimirgeorgiev.87 It having invaded that spaceship makes a lot of sense! Ultimately I like that we don't know much ☺️ more mysterious
They did exactly what the Norwegians did at their camp.
I read that the Norwegian camp scenes were shot after the U.S. base was burned at the end, meaning the director ( John Carpenter ) used the burned set. Brilliant.
@@harryrabbit2870 Indeed!
3 years =26280 hours!
Bearing in mind what we later know about the Dog-Thing I think the bloke in the helicopter probably is hitting the D-T but the bullets are having no affect.
Personally I think he is just missing the shots xD but yeah, that would be possible I guess
a scifi horror film that is considered a masterpiece , based on the novella ,who goes there , by john w campbell ! the story was written in 1938
Thank you so much for doing this and since we are one month from October The Thing (1982) directed by John Carpenter is my number 1 favorite Halloween movie because it scared me and disturbed me no other Halloween movie has ever come close to disturbing me as The Thing (1982) directed by John Carpenter as well:).
It can be scary yes !
Thank you !
Xx Lucy
The poster on the wall behind Mac during the blood testing scene reads "They Aren't Labelled, Chum". A reference for WWII GI soldiers to beware "infected" women! You don't know who's got it and who hasn't.
52:20 - it's likely not a space ship, just some kind of aerial vehicle that could get the Thing to civilisation.
Maybe... We just can't be sure xD
There is a prequel. I actually enjoyed it. Lots of people hate it. I always say, if I like something, I want more of it. And The Thing is prolly in my top five favorite movies ever.
They actually made it with physical special effects, but the studio made them enhance with cgi which was a big bummer. A little enhancement would maybe been fine but they really over did it in spots. Despite this I don't think the cgi was really that bad, though it can be obvious in spots.
I just really appreciated the fact they went thru this original film and sought to explain all the things Topper and Mac found at the Norg base. In fact when I watched behind the scenes and they explicitly stated this, I liked the prequel even more.
The only thing that I didn't like as much is sometimes the Thing in scenes looks a bit too insectoid, when I think it should have been more amorphous.
People are free to disagree with me about the prequel, of course.
Im so sorry, but in this case I do have to disagree xD I thought it was a very, very meh movie let's say. Watched it once and never bothered to rewatch it since I found it a bit pointless tbh. But that was my experience with it of course!
There's a prequel set at the Norwegian camp. You get to see who all those people were
Nope, CGI trash
Yeah.. Sweden, Norway... It's the same place. Just like Brazil and Argentina. ;)
Ahahah I bet, its just like us here, Portugal and Spain = same place 😂
21:35 27,000 divided by 24 is 1,125 days, or 3.082 years.
16:25...Clarke does try to turn on the light but it's not working.
Good one, D&L! This is such a fun movie! It was a trip seeing this in a crowded theater back in the day. You should have heard the screams, LOL. Thanks for sharing it.
I bet it must have been a really great experience yeah!!
Thank you so much ☺️ we had a lot of fun
Bit of trivia--the Norwegians at the beginning of the movie pretty much give the entire movie away, if you speak Norwegian. They're trying to warn the Americans about the dog-monster-thing. 😀
When I was younger, I disliked the ambiguity of the ending, but these days I've come to like it. The real enemy was never the Thing--the real enemy was paranoia. In the end, it didn't matter who was or wasn't the thing; mistrust, fear, the breakdown of basic humanity--the real enemy, the Thing's ability to turn people against each other, already won. In the end, who was what just didn't matter.
Having said that, in my opinion, neither are the Thing. There's no reason for the Thing to not leap onto the other one right then and there. No one else is around, so it doesn't have to hide; it had no problem leaping at people when alone as it didn't care about hiding in that circumstance. Further, it had no reason to keep a human around, as it already displayed the intelligence and ability to manipulate its environment enough to cobble together a bloody space ship. No need to hide, no need for humans; again, I find it more likely that neither are the Thing.
Incidentally, I'm with Daniel regarding the Thing's intelligence. It was clearly _leagues_ smarter than humans. It was building a _space ship,_ which showed technical capability, ration, logic, planning, foresight--that it was a slobbering blood-monster has no bearing on its intelligence, any more than your hair color does for yours. Further, it was capable of perfect mimicry, and more than just appearance. Think about all the little details--cadence to voice, habits and uirks, bearing, mien--all these little things that are impossible for another human being to replicate perfectly.
Plus, it was capable of holding conversations, so however you want to say it figured out how to understand the language in the first place, being able to hold conversations shows intelligence, attention, ration, consideration--there's a reason humans want to believe that only humans are capable of actual language. Communication, sharing ideas and concepts via _sounds_ made from the _mouth,_ is incredibly difficult, so we want to think we're the only ones who figured it out.
It's always dangerous to try applying human standards to something that isn't human. There's the old saying about not judging a book by its cover, and this is the perfect example of that adage.
Further incidentally, I'm with Lucy about animals. I don't really take that kind of thing well, either, but this being a fictional movie, I can more or less go with it.
As for horror movies, one franchise I always recommend is the _Puppet Master_ series. It's insane. 😄 The first two movies are sort of serious, though filled with ludicrous deaths and fountains of blood. The rest of the franchise stopped trying to be any kinds of serious and leapt into the absurd with open arms. I _love_ that franchise. 😁
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The Thing is definitely inteligent right? Or at the very least as inteligent as its hosts. I wonder if it can accumulate knowledge from different subjects 🤔
Never seen any Puppet Master movies, tbh I had never heard of it!! Why am I still still surprised with the ammount of things I AM unaware of xD
For 1982, the FX were pretty darn good.
Just another "Why would someone shoot the dog" start 🤣
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One of the greatest films ever.
Can't disagree!
Oh, you've gone in the deep dive.😁
The thing was based on the novella: "Who Goes There."
And Rob Bottin did much of the Thing's effects spec on Norris spider-head from "The Thing" remake (1982) which you were watching now. John Carpenter did a great job with casting, scripting, cinematography, photography, lighting. This is one of Carpenter's best films. And after so many years I finally figured out who the thing really was.😁
I recommend more Carpenter movies. Watch everything on Carpenter. You won't regret it. But if you want you watch Carpenter "body bags". This one is a great one. Also "Escape from LA" is his. Or "Big Trouble in Little China." Every single one of them is with Kurt Russell (McReady). Without body bags.
And simply because you mentioned: "The Fifth Element". I was 9 years old when it was announced here that my countryman had participated in making effects for "5 element". I will never forget how my heart sank and I didn't want to go to school and I watched "The Fifth Element" all day. But for me, The Fifth Element movie has always gone side by side with Lost in Space. For their time, these two films were "almost for teenagers". The youth movies of the time. Movies that you can relax and enjoy without taking on too much stress during the process. It's funny how there are no equivalents these days. But Bruce Willis never takes parts in bullshit, so The Fifth Element is for a serious audience. Not mediocre teen crap like AVP. So yes, I recommend both.
Great reaction. Nice to watch.
By the way, I love your open discussion at the end of each movie. That discussion is amazing. And it shows your concern or lack of interest (both are normal). But I assure you (at least the girl), you watched the Thing, but you didn't see the Nothing😁, because this movie is full of doors that a person misses all the time without even knowing that there are doors there. So the question is not only open-ended. But also filling the action itself. One must look repeatedly and carefully: "look at it carefully, but look at it closely"to see. But a viewer must also know where to look to see.
By the way, in the game based on the movie, your character has a "fear counter" so at the end of the game your broach scale is always red, which means your character is almost crazy because of fear and everywhere he sees the thing monsters. So you don't rush to waste your last ammo in this game because very often you see hallucinations born of your broken mind instead of real monsters, but your bullets are wasted for real.
By the way (for the third or fourth time), you had good suggestions for action if you were in a movie. 😁That was the point. So a movie has got you. Which is great. Because in FB there is often a Christmas card that pops up around the Christmas holidays. And on this card are McCriddy and the rest of the team standing on the snowy background of their base in Antarctica, and the text under the photo reads: "We miss you. We wish you were here."
Now if you see this card for this year's Christmas Holidays (and all other Christmases from here on out) you will know what it means and its message.
Thank you very much ☺️ we are very glad you enjoyed
Would love to try that game out 😜
(Im sorry, what does FB means? 😅 Not familiar with it)
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That's weird. UA-cam seems to be rejecting some of my comments. I had explained the meaning of FB. FB is a Fan Base. But it also means Face Book - social network. But UA-cam seems to delete comments containing references (links or names of pages and platforms). That's why this time I misspelled the name of Face Book in the hope that UA-cam will not delete this comment of mine as well. So yes. This is the meaning of the abbreviation FB. 😁
So the next time you come across the Christmas Card Thing on FB, you'll know its meaning!
Cheers and channel success! nice to watch.😎
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Hell, I'm not sure why UA-cam is deleting my replies. FB means for social network FB. And it also means a fan base. So the next time you see the "The Thing Christmas Card" you will know its meaning.
The difference between norwegians and the swedish is pretty much the same as between the portuguese dnd the spanish, except that norwegian and swedish languages are closer and more muhually understandable between speakers. Norwegians dont like to be mistaken for swedish the same portuguese dont like being confused with spanish but in both cases they are also good neighbours and friend nations.
Yes, I kinda guesses it would be along those lines xD but had no idea that their languages were more mutually understandable than portuguese-spanish 🤔 interesting
Also watch The Fifth Element!
And Hudson Hawk !
If you want to know what happened to MacReady and Chiles, you have to play The Thing on Playstation 2. It's aknowledged by John Carpenter and it's an official sequel to the movie. 😉
Yes, people have been referencing that, does sound interesting 🤔
Great reaction !!!
Thank you ! 🙏
I just knew she'd love this movie
Of course! 😜
The Thing / Prince of dakness / In the mouth of madness are calles "Apocalypse trilogy, meaning humanity dies in the end, whether McReady or Childs or both are contaminated, the Thing will win
Depressing!... and scary
What’s the difference between Norway and Sweden? What’s the difference between Portugal and Spain? Different languages, different allegiances during Ww2, different topography, different diets, etc.
when the film ends , we have no idea if mac and childes are huuman , but then we also dont know what happened to the creature that escaped through the dog kennel roof , we never see blair die or gary and nauls ! the place could be crawling with things ! a lot of people think mac was one at the end , but if you watch carefully you can see the steam from his breath as he talks to childes , yet we see not breath from childes ! the film leaves you wondering who might be infected , and everyone forgets about the missing people !
I completely agree with the missing people!!
But the steam angle doesn't really make sense for me
@@ptthatswhatshesaid exhale outside in freezing weather ,you get what looks like steam !
@@josephmummerth yes, of course, its just that all the other things also exhaled steam. I think it was just a question of a shot werevthe steam just wasn't noticeable tbh.
I do think Childs is a thing by the end of the movie though!
@@ptthatswhatshesaid ,oddly , a lot of people think it`s macready , carpenter says he knows , but wont tell ! lol
For Lucy's next gore fix I'd recommend Re-animator (1985), a true classic of the genre. And also how about Dead Alive (Braindead) (1992), she can see what Peter Jackson what doing before his Lord of the Rings trilogy. A hint, it was very different.
I have no idea what both movies are, but if it’s gore then I’m up to it 😬
Gonna check with Daniel for your suggestions to be on a poll soon
Xx Lucy
16:30 The biggest lie told in history.
😂😂😅
So glad you enjoyed this amazing film, it's one of my favourite Sci-Fi horror films, and the practical effects are just so well done, this film along with Star Wars got me interested in how they do special effects, the guy who did the effects in this film is Rob Bottin, he was the apprentice of Rick Baker both are amazing artists in their own right, and have worked on some of the best horrors films of all time,
Also would love to see Lucy's reactions to such films as Hellraiser 1987, The Evil Dead 1981, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974, Re-Animator 1985, The Exorcist 1973, Dog Soldiers 2002, and The Descent 2005, anyway looking forward to your Fifth Element reaction should be a lot of fun.
Hey Mark !
Lucy here 🙏
I’m not a fan of horror, as you guys know, but we will react to some of your suggestions!
Can’t say I’m much pleased about it though 🤣
Xx Lucy
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Hi Lucy and yes I know you are not keen on horror films, but I think you will be impressed with the effects in these films, and if you get into slasher films for me the best franchise ever made was always, A Nightmare on Elm street films they will always have a special place in my heart as they were the very first slashers films I saw as a young teenager.
@@MarkLloyd72 Hey there (Daniel here)
Those must be pretty good, I loved the first one, but it is also the only one I ever saw 😬
@@ptthatswhatshesaid For me they are, hopefully you and Lucy will like them as well.
Definitely watch the 5th Element
I thought yall already watched this. lol but yea, classic. 👌🏿 Definitely watch the 5th Element. & congratulations on being engaged. 😎🌴🌙
Thank you ! ☺️
I’m very excited for the 5th element ! It will come eventually
Xx Lucy
Guys definitely watch The Fifth Element, it's a wild wild trip. 😉😊
...and Hudson Hawk! Ifs even wilder ride.
We will react to it soon ! Xx Lucy
@@DVDhoarder That is very true
Humans getting rekt is all good but not the poor puppies... 🤣🤦♂
What can I say 😅🤣
Xx Lucy
You need all the answers but life isn't like that...also the whole film is about paranoia and ambiguity so the ending is perfect 🥰
Well, can’t argue with that point .. 😅
xx Lucy
Definitely watch the 5th element
Love The Thing, both versions! Your reactions are great! I hope you guys watch the 5th element too it's such a fun movie!
There's 3 versions 😂
@@JES408 I did not know about the 1951 version until now lol. That's too old for my taste tho lol.
@@TheHa2s lol fair enough 😂
Thank you ! We will react to the 5th element soon, I’m so curious, everyone recommends it !
Xx Lucy
Definitely watch Fifth Element
I think both Mac and Childs are human at the end because if Blair took over Childs we wouldn't have seen Blair still dressed the same as he was in the toolshed, when he kills Garry. The monster at the end is known as the Blair Monster and it's meant to have Blair's features., not Garry's BTW. Are you going to watch the prequel, which has it's moments, poor CGI aside?
Not saying no to the prequel, but at least not for now I think
Animals being killed makes one ill, but people being killed does not…
27000 / 24 = 1125 days / 365 = roughly 3 years.
Y’all should watch Eight Legged Freaks next
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I would love for you to watch the Fifth Element. You will love it too.
She would probably have a good time I bet :p
10:01 yes , werewolves ❤️ you need to react some werewolf movies. Dog Soldiers... or mayby Bad Moon 🐺
I’ve never seen either, I’m not sure it’s my kind of thing, but would love to check it out !
Xx Lucy
27,000 Hours is 1,125 Days or 3.08 years.
In my opinion, that computer is underestimating how fast the world's life would be taken over if the thing got out into the open ocean and then land masses. Exponential growth over the earth at a rapid pace. Nothing could stop it. My estimate would be a single month or perhaps two, and the most insane horrific chaos imaginable. It could take the forms of animals from earth, such as birds or cockroaches, or it could form whatever variations of any of the cosmic creatures it's come across before earth, monstrous tiny things coming in under your door or crawling in through air ducts. It would take over all plant life. The grass and weeds under your feet could be the thing, ready to grow limbs and crawl quickly up your pants.
@@BattleAngelFan99 Maybe for people to come out of shelters and holdouts could add more time, of course its a movie either way, but government bunkers and such. And if they were smart about how bad it was maybe they would nuke some places and just take nuclear winter.
Still a bigger amount of time than I would think
Incredible outfit!!! Those earrings!
Thank you!
Im so proud that you notice, I love a bit of “drama” on my outfits 👀!
Xx Lucy
Neither of you are listening to the movie in stereo. 😢 I'd humbly suggest you don't share a set of earbuds. Your ears are missing stuff! Better to listen with external speakers if you can't get two sets of earbuds. Not a criticism-- i just want you guys get the full experience when you watch new movies. 😁
Us too! First we need to get a new TV that accepts 2 sets of earbuds in the first place 😫
a great movie I think you and your "psycho" girlfriend will like and should do a reaction to is Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Interesting, that one I don't think I've ever seen before
Rob Bottin baby!
There are actually several "Blob" movies. :)
Oh really?! Need to check that out!
Thank you.
This movie, along with "Prince of Darkness" (1987), and "In the Mouth of Madness" (1994) both of which are worth viewing, form the director John Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy. I would like to suggest that you watch Mr. Carpenter's second movie "Assault on Precinct 13" (1976), it was shot on a low budget but features many of the director's flourishes, and is often brought up in film school as an example of his work and what can be achieved on a low budget.
Love this movie, simple with no side plots
And still leaves EVERYONE arguing with each other about what happened and when things happened. And a lot of things shrouded in mystery xD
The only answers you'll find is the prequel about what happened at the Norwegian camp 😂
Which are no answers at all 😂
Rob Bottin and Stan Winston genius😊😮🎉❤
Worked very, very hard indeed!
i see you didn't catch that windows dropped the keys when he ran from the room ... so at that point anyone could have gotten to the blood the first assimilated was palmer the guy with the jean jacket vest and if you are interested they have a sequel in comic book form ... do not watch the prequel ... it was just bad
I think Norris is the first one assimilated as we see Palmer and Childs watching videos and, if Palmer had been taken over, he would have assimilated Childs then (and Childs is still human when we get to the blood tests). Palmer gets assimilated off screen.
Did watch the prequel and yeah, wasn't that good 😅
I didn't notice Windows dropping the keys!
The first one I do think was Norris tbh
@@WayneCoston-kj1go palmer was first then norris then blair
@@WayneCoston-kj1go the cut scene with the dog in the beginning
Bravo.
not a fun watch if you spoil everything, let her watch it alone and get a chance to enjoy it fully
54:31 "It's building a f'cking spaceship!" lol I wouldn't bother with the 2011 "prequel", it sucks and doesn't even follow the logic of original.
Seen it, not a big fan of it...
Dont you understand? Windows crashed.
😂😂😂🤦🏻♂️
Great reaction. Wanna see what happened at the Norwegian Camp? Check out the prequel. (The Thing, 2011) The effects are not as good, but a very entertaining and compelling film nonetheless. Gratitude.
Way too underrated prequel 👍
Thank you very much 🤗
Lucy you so pretty! That is all ❤😊
Aww, thank you 🙏 🥹
Xx Lucy
Love your reaction. Please react to A time to to kill
Thank you! ☺️
watch martyrs from 2008😀
I've heard that one is quite hard core 😬