Your comment at 29:08 that, _"It's like this disturbing little buffet. A Golden Corral of disgusting imagery and phobias."_ is such a brilliantly unique and precise description.
@@VictorLugosi ugh “watch it properly”. No need to be a twat. I’ve seen this movie a hundred times. Blair gets infected with the pencil. But, it’s not an instant process, we see the assimilation and transformation process interrupted multiple times. Also Blair only is infected by a small piece, so we can assume the process would take significantly longer. When he kills the dogs, destroys the radio equipment and helicopter he’s making sure the thing can’t spread beyond the base. Some people argue he was a thing and making sure the rest of the crew was trapped with him, but what sense does that make? Why would he draw attention to himself at all? Nobody suspected him or how bad the situation was at that point and he surely could have infected several members of the team if he just played it smoothly. More damning to the theory that he was infected that early; the noose. Why would a thing go through the pantomime of tying a noose to kill itself? The last thing Blair was trying to do before he turned was kill himself. Maybe he even did but then turned. In summary, Blair saved the world by ensuring the thing had no options to leave the base.
@@marcusgrimmm hmm interesting, I didn’t know that. Still, there were other opportunities for him to be infected after that. Honestly, I wouldn’t have gone on that rant had the dude not told me to “watch it properly” lol I took offense to that.
The guy trying to shoot the "dog" at the beginning was yelling "Get the hell away! It's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! GET AWAY, YOU IDIOTS!" If any of the main characters spoke Norwegian, the whole situation might've been avoided
I dated a Norwegian girl for a while, and we watched this movie together. When she translated that during the film, it added another layer. She was really cute too.
You don't realize how cutting edge the special effects were in this film. Way before CGI came onto the scene it was up to special effects artists to make or break a film like this. Tom Savani was at the top of his game in the 80s. I use to love going to the magazine section and reading Fangoria magazines while mom shopped. If we had the extra money and my grades were good she would buy me one. Good memories.
@@motodork Sorry I worded that the way I did. I can see why you thought I was saying Savani did the effects for the movie. That wasn't my intention; I just haphazardly skipped right to him being great and my experience as a kid. Sorry about that.
Rob Bottin's work in this movie was just extraordinary. I'm also a fan of Rick Baker's work in An American Werewolf in London- STILL my favorite werewolf transformation of all time! =)
@@agirlnamedmichael1670 yes! I used to bend my hand and act as if it were growing, lol. I was such a weird little fucker. Wolfen was another good one; not as big in the special effects dept. but a great movie none the less.
Someone I follow online mentioned that a friend hadn't seen the Thing and she recommended it with the description of "It's about a group of men who adopt a dog and it changes their lives forever." I mean, she's not wrong... I recommend the Princess Bride, an absolute must-watch. Also Imagine Me & You, because I like it (though I'd be surprised if anyone else watching your videos has seen it).
@@justinecooper9575 love how every reaction on here is "dont shoot the dog" and then when the dog starts to split its face and shape shift "kill it!!!! kill it!!!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
The creature effects are still terrifying to me to this day. It just shows what doing things practically instead of CGI can do to up the scariness of a decent monster.
16:24 he destroyed all contact with the outside world, transportation, radios, dogs, used for sledding. he saw on the computer what would happen if the "Thing" manages to reach civilization, and how fast it would infect everything it touched. so he did what he thought he had to do stop it. glad you watched this horror classic! the original came out in 1956, called "The Thing from another Planet". great reaction! 👍
It's ironic that the Blair-thing starts using the helicopter parts to try to make a vehicle to escape. I think in the book of the movie, it was actually an anti gravity machine, because the Blair-thing had all the knowledge from the originally infected alien pilots.
"My vocabulary is not equipped for this." @ 21:54 had me rolling lol Always love watching reactions to this one. Nobody ever has any idea what they're getting into lol
I saw this in the Theater in 1982 when I was 12 years old with family & friends. Many People walked-out during the dog massacre. But this movie is like a fine wine that gets better with time. It's more popular today than it was in the 1980s. This is now the Gold Standard of all Horror Movies. It holds it's own after 42 years. These Special Effects are better than anything that has been made since. But even had the visuals not been as good the raw suspense and music would still carry this movie.
Interesting Facts: Norris is clearly exhibiting chest pain and all of the classic signs of a heart attack and cardiac arrest before he collapses. When the Thing imitates someone, it perfectly duplicates every cell with such precision than it actually retains the memories, knowledge, and personality of the individual it copies. Norris (the guy who’s chest bursts open, chopping off the doctor’s hands with its bear-trap teeth) had a bad heart, and likely a peacemaker. When the Thing took him over and perfectly imitated him, it also faithfully recreated his heart defect, but not his pacemaker, which eventually caused Norris to suffer a heart attack for real during a high-stress moment. The Thing would have been happy to hide itself in a presumably “dead” body, but it couldn’t tolerate the electro-shocks from the defibrillator and was thus forced to reveal itself. Of course, the amazing scene where Norris’ head separates from his burning body, slides onto the floor, and pulls itself away, transforming into a crab/spider with his upside-down head as its body, and tries to crawl away unnoticed, is an iconic moment! (Incidentally, at the beginning of the movie, the spaceship was flying erratically because the crew was desperately trying to fight off the Things that were aboard their vessel and causing havoc. That’s why the spaceship attempted to make an emergency landing on the nearest planet and ended up crash landing in the Antarctic. Only one of the Things as survived the crash and made it out of the ship alive, only to freeze in the ice.) In the prequel to “The Thing”, they were able to identify people who had been imitated because the Things were only able to replicate organic matter and were therefore unable to duplicate inorganic matter, which meant that items such as pins inserted to hold together broken bones and fillings in your teeth would be missing in people that had been taken over. That would obviously be the case for anyone like Norris that had a pacemaker as well. They were thus able to identify who was a Thing and who was not by checking for fillings, etc…
Whimsory, when I started watching you on 2/3/23, your subscription level was 11.2k. Now you’re over 20k. That’s incredible growth! Keep it up - your reactions are very enjoyable. Thanks.
This was a remake of a film from 1951 titled “The Thing from another World.” It was cutting edge and very scary in its day. John Carpenter wanted to remake it with more modern effects that would allow them to be more faithful to the original story that it was based on. Also, my sister was in the Navy and did a summer in Antarctica so this science station was actually pretty accurate and well done. Good video and thanks for watching this. It’s a favorite of mine too.
Interestingly, the 1951 movie does have a girl, and the "love story," kind of, that Whimsory was asking for. But both that movie and this one are based on a short story titled "Who Goes There?" from 1938. However, this movie is much closer to that story than the earlier one.
It's kind of super carrot. In "The Thing from Another World" is one of my favourite movie scenes. It's classic. The aviators spend 10 minutes hammering away shoring up the door so it can't be opened into the corridor where the aviators are waiting. They wait and wait and when the supper carrot arrives, the barred door actually opens into the room and all their efforts are in vain.
7:53 "Would be weird to not have internet though, you had to just watch the same stuff over and over." Me, rewatching this video for the 4th or 5th time since it was uploaded: Uhh...yeah...thank god for the internet. 😅
According to supporting material that spaceship is not the ship of the "thing" itself. The ship is from a hapless alien who landed on another planet, and the "thing" attacked the crew and took it over. There was a struggle to stop it, and that's why the ship crashed.
One theory. Another is that the ship was ditched on a then-uninhabited world. Also, tons of permutations on the exact nature of what was going on. From your hapless variant, to ideas that they knew what the Things were, but underestimated them, to the idea that the Things were engineered by whoever owned the ship. Or that the Thing stole the ship, and the ship ended up with some sort of mechanical problem that resulted in loss of control near enough to Earth.
It's nice to see someone as young as yourself appreciate the good qualities that some old school classics have to offer. Your wide-eyed enthusiasm is infectious - thank you for making watching old (to me) movies fun again!
@@paulbarnes2752 Yes, I was explaining to my daughter about having to look through microfilms for this school paper I was writing. She asked why I didn’t use the internet. The look on her face after explaining it didn’t exist at that time was priceless.
@videoteamone True but cgi been around since the 70s it was just used to add little things and removing wires chains stuff like that even the thing had minimal cg used to enhance Rob’s perfect effects and the Stan Winston dog scene effects which were also good
Thank you for saying that Blair was the real hero of the movie! So many people get caught up in his wild rampage and his eventual takeover by the Thing, and they forget that he was the first to figure out what a threat it truly poses to all life on the planet. I'm glad you watched this one - it's in my top 5, and your reaction was just great. Someone else mentioned Big Trouble in Little China, being another one of several John Carpenter/Kurt Russell hits, and I highly recommend it as well. Don't worry, no phobia buffet in that one :D
The man could have gone about things differently, though. If he got the crew together and laid it all out for them, he'd have allies, drastically increasing the chances that they successfully prevent the Thing from spreading. How did he expect his choice to turn out? Step 1: smash the shit out of everything; shoot at my companions. Step 2: ??? Where do you go from there?
Big Trouble In Little China, is to uniqueness, as the Thing is to horror. A truly one-off slice of fun. Please put it on your list, it will be fun to see a reaction to this.
You said you wondered what it must've been like to see it in a theater - well I saw it when I was a young teen and the whole theater was freaked out! It was among the scariest movies I remember seeing in my youth. As you said, it was a horror buffet, a little something for everyone. Good job watching it!
Great reaction kiddo. You remind me a lot of my granddaughter. You got caught up in one of the main themes of this movie and didn't realize it....the paranoia. Isolated, no help, don't know who is who and distrust of everyone and...thing?..There was some character development but like you said with this much ensemble there was not much time to develop all of them. My take on the ending: Neither Mac nor Childs were infected. Mac gave Childs a drink as a test, alcohol kills cells. Childs taking the drink with no reaction proved he was not the thing.
I've only seen one reaction video for this movie where the person watching said "there's something off about that dog". Everyone else says "what a cute dog, why are they shooting at it", it soon becomes very clear the Norwegians had the right idea. This is my favourite horror movie, it's a masterclass in fear and paranoia with practical effects that still look good 40 years later.
Was watching Centane react to this a while back. She's Norwegian or something and could actually understand what the two men were saying. I was like "Cheater!!" lol. So it wasn't as surprising to her when it did end up being a bad doggie, though I think the effects did still take her by surprise when that's revealed.
@@mattschliemann9683 I've heard the Norwegian guy was saying something like "you idiots, that's not a dog". The dog transformation scene was created by Stan Winston when Rob Bottin was busy. He asked to be uncredited so he didn't take any of the attention away from Mr Bottin's work.
I was 10 when I saw this and knew that the dog was the monster because no one shoots a damn dog from a helicopter that desperately. Norwegians and everyone understanding Swedish knew what he said about the dog back in the day too. "It's not a dog, it changes".
Blair accidentally infected himself. When he is dissecting it he taps it with his pencil. Then just minute or so later he touches the end of the pencil to his lips as he is thinking.
@@barreloffun10By John Carpenter himself on the commentary track. Brimbley did unconsciously while his was character was thinking. Was just a minor mistake, but also works well to make the audience wonder if he was infected there or if it even would infect him. Being that the tool shed was opened from the outside, we can determine Blair was assimilated after he was placed there.
I recommend the sci Fi comedy movie called The 5th Element with Bruce Willis. Or the movie called Galaxy Quest, you will love those sci Fi emotional roller coasters.
"I would live in Antarctica if there was a Walmart there" may be one of my favourite lines in any reaction, ever. I love the irony in your post-editing thoughts when you said "if I have to look at this scene one more time", which meant you had to edit it in one more time. :)
Blair was absolutely taken over by The Thing when he's smashing up the radio equipment and screaming about how has to stop the alien. Notice he doesn't have his yellow shirt on. The movie makes a big deal about explaining that The Thing rips through your clothes when it takes you over. He got taken shortly after he left his office with a gun. Best place for it to hide when you think about it. Who would you *least* suspect of being an alien than the guy who seems the most determined to stop the alien? The Thing doesn't care about the radio. Damn thing doesn't work anyway. So it's more useful for parts for its mini spaceship that it's building. Same reason it smashed the helicopter. It also knows someone will come eventually. It's waited over a hundred thousand years for someone to come, it doesn't mind a few more months.
This film has my all-time favorite practical effects sequence. The shot of the head sprouting crab legs to scuttle away and everything that led up to that point beginning with the CPR.
The CPR scene still gives me the creeps 40 years later. I only quite recently discovered they used a man who lost his arms in an industrial accident for the arm chomping scene.
@@RevStickleback They were prosthetics glued onto an amputee. Today with movie magic that could probably be fixed, but with practical effects there were limitations. I just switch my brain off (so to speak) when I watch movies and just enjoy them.
When I worked for Carpenter he was directing a movie that went straight to video! It was based on a book that I loved called Watchers (Dean Koontz) so in the nineties I rented the video, didn't find my face and the movie was very good and stuck to the book story. The first Watchers movie is unwatchable so the same company hired John to do it right, which he effin did. Straight to video. I feel ya, John. Watchers 2, which is actually Watchers told right. Rob Bottin, the make-up and prop guy, collapsed from exhaustion working on The Thing. John is a natural born director, he never shouts, never micro-hovers, never acts like a director acts, whatever that is.
I'm subbing, despite no longer really watching reactions because UA-cam is doing its level best to make them unwatchable. But you're smart and fun. I enjoyed this and your reaction to "Good Will Hunting".
The thing has to be the best movie monster ever created. It can be anything or anyone. Being an alien who knows what shape it could take. Top of the list for horror imo. This or maybe the shining. Really enjoy your reactions. This was a pleasure to watch you react to one of my favorites.
My father sat down and watched this with me on HBO when I was ten. He spent the whole movie jump scaring the hell out of me. Fav movie to this day, even talked about our watching this movie in his eulogy.
You can't get it wrong with this mix, the cutest sweetest girl with the grossest "thing" 😂. Loved your reaction to this Kurt Russell classic. Keep them coming 👍🏻💯😎.
The Exorcist (Directors cut) ...if you dare. Nominated for 17 Academy Awards winning two. First horror movie ever nominated for Best Picture. Was originally rated X, but was negotiated to an R rating. If you are under 18, you may want to consult with your parents before watching. A true classic that raised the standard for the future of the horror genre.
I wouldn't choose the Director's Cut for the fact that it breaks the horror out of the bedroom, which was better left contained pretty much in that one setting. It encapsulated the war between good and evil that takes place.
All kinds of wrong here: (1) Watch the Theatrical Cut -- subtlety. (2) 10 nominations (3) There was no MPAA negotiation; even the church thought it was an important film to put out uncensored. (4) Don't trust your parents' taste; it's probably in their asses.
Here are two films nobody else is reacting to (except one channel). Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson. (Redford enjoyed the film location so much he bought property there and hence the Sundance film festival). Second film is "Little Big Man" with Dustin Hoffman. Best description of this is a 19th. Century Forest Gump. Meaning he has all this history happening around him. Anyway, enjoy.
I'm annoyingly constantly urging reactors to watch "Jerimiah Johnson" (and maybe know/only know of the one instance). One of the best western adventures on film. In the '70s I once took some mescaline and saw a double feature of "Little Big Man" and "A Man called Horse"...when we came out of the theater we expected to see dirt...
Found you down the UA-cam rabbit hole and, 12 mins in, I'm subscribing! I don't know why but, watching you watch this movie feels like I'm watching it with you more so than any reaction video I've ever seen. Once I'm done with this, I'm going to atch every video you have!
@@Whimsory so happy to have made your day! Always nice to know you're not useless! I honestly can't wait for more content now that I have seen everything. I love your enthusiasm!
I am new here and I am really enjoying your stuff! I watch a few reaction channels, but nobody appreciates filmmaking the way you do...I love how you research the making of the films, the actors, the filmmakers, etc...and give a wonderfully insightful and informed critique at the end...nobody else does that! Keep up the great work! Also, if you like this one, may I suggest the 70's version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, and Leonard Nimoy? It is a classic and deals with some of the same themes...anyway, take care...thanks for the great reactions!
Stumbled across ur channel and stopped because…. The Thing! My mom shared with me all her favorite movies of the ‘50’s, ‘60’s and ‘70’s and I got to share with her my favorite movies of the ‘80’s and ‘90’s before she died. I learned that just because something is old doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant. I absolutely LOVE that you’re open to these cinematic experiences as I was and that you genuinely seem to appreciate them as I did. I really had a wonderful time watching ur reactions to one of my favorite movies that yes, I made my mom watch and yes, she loved it too. Thanks 🙏
The Thing always knows it's The Thing. It just acts to survive. It can take the form of any creature it's absorbed on the countless planets it's been on.
Another John Carpenter film worth checking out is "Starman" with Karen Allen and Jeff Bridges. It makes for a very emotional companion piece about alien life, to "The Thing". John Carpenter's scores are iconic, and while he has seemingly retired from filmmaking, he's still making music.
did you know the practical effects guys worked so hard up to complete exhaustion. I think those are some of the best practical effects ever done. The king of a golden era.
Kurt Russel has been acting since he was 12 years old in 1963. He's been with actress Goldie Hawn for 40 years and most of their kids act. Hollywood royalty. John Carpenter is a celebrated independent sci-fi filmmaker who often writers, directs, produces, edits, and does the music for his movies, which rarely made money.
You've only reacted to 4 movies so far, but they've been good choices for reaction videos (I specified "for reaction videos" because some great movies don't make good reactions while some terrible movies make great reactions), and you have an appealing on screen personality, so I subscribed. Keep up the good work.
When I saw this in the theater back in the day, half the people got up and left in the middle of the "gross-out" scenes. Nobody had seen anything like this at the time. I loved it. And I usually don't like gore, but this was so outlandish it was entertaining.
I came across your Monty Python reaction the day you posted it thanks to You Tube's algorithm. I've really enjoyed all of your videos so far and I'm looking forward to what you have each week. Hello from Colorado.
Great reaction. I loved the moment of clarity when, after having made fun of the movie's title, and then fumbling for a name for the creature, you realized why it is called "The Thing". I hope you're keeping the original recordings in case you ever start a Patreon for full-length watch-alongs.
John Carpenter is the director of the original Halloween (1978), as well as Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Fog (1980), Escape From New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983), Starman (1984), Big Trouble In Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987), They Live (1988), and In The Mouth of Madness (1995). Kurt Russell starred in Escape From New York, The Thing, and Big Trouble In Little China.
Don't apologize for your stutter. It works for your delivery 👍 I wouldn't have thought twice about it if you hadn't mentioned it. I definitely trip over my words when I'm trying to piece something together on the fly
"Filming lasted roughly twelve weeks, beginning in August 1981, and took place on refrigerated sets in Los Angeles as well as in Juneau, Alaska, and Stewart, British Columbia."
I love the ambiguous and bleak ending. Even if Childs and McReary are not The Thing, they're most likely going to die anyway. I think there's a comic book sequel to this (and a videogame?) but I love how this ends and I don't feel the need to know more because not knowing makes it scarier. Great reaction! Can't wait for the next one. I hope you do more horror movies, I highly recommend The Witch (2015), in my opinion that's the best horror movie of all time and I've watched lots of horror movies.
Childs & Mac would have both been Vietnam vets. Why would Mac specifically call for Childs to bring the flamethrower to the dog kennel? You call the guy with military trigger discipline and experience burning people alive, not the teenage, roller-skating cook or the nerd who got a college deferral. Childs wouldn't have been snuck up on by Blair, and he wouldn't have hesitated to roast him.
this is a classic and even though it's old and some parts look cheesy by today's standards, it holds up really well overall. the monster effects were incredibly groundbreaking. that one scene where the Bennings-Thing is caught by the group and howls.. that's such a disturbing and chilling sequence. it was mostly just acting but it's probably my favorite scene in the movie
I'll go so far as to say there's arguably only 1 cheesy special effect in the entire film - the opening shot with the spaceship. Beyond that, everything else holds up to today's standards and for some of us, the practical effects outshine much of today's CGI. Even the explosions were well done and the man on fire shots were great too.
ok ok i actually agree that "cheesy" isn't the right word haha. maybe a little "dated?" fyi i'm the first person to stand up and sing the praises of this movie and the fx; which i actually heard were so good that people working in practical effects today STILL couldn't recreate them fully. and are still upheld as legendary in that field. so yeah don't get me wrong lol. (and i agree that there's lots of cheesy CGI in the newer remake. it's just a shame that those kinds of fx are what younger people are used to, so it's often jarring for them to see fx like this in older movies)
I just wanna plug the original "Rocky" (1976), it's #211 on IMDB I believe. It's so much more than just a sports movie, that's really just the setting.
"Couldn't they come up with a better name than The Thing?"
Less than 10 minutes later; "I don't even know what to call that." 😂
Ah, that sweet "don't hurt the puppy!" to "kill it with fire!" progression of The Thing. Never fails to deliver.
The "Thing" is the proof why CGI will never be as good as practical effects
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Your comment at 29:08 that, _"It's like this disturbing little buffet. A Golden Corral of disgusting imagery and phobias."_ is such a brilliantly unique and precise description.
Can I get a movie poster with just this quote at the bottom? 😆🦠
I'd PAY to watch her review "A Serbian Film" - good luck cutting it for youtube though, roflmao!
@@dokidaddy1056 No.. just no. Even if the author intended it to be a parody, it's still way out there. The field isn't even on the horizon from there.
I lived in Atlanta when this movie came out. And a new dinner theater opened up near me an they were showing this movie! LOL
Funny I just read it as she said it.
My dad was stationed in Antarctica in 1973 at McMurdo station. They filmed this in rural British Columbia
0:34 Whimsory: "That's like calling your movie "The person" or "The place". Who does that?"
John Grisham starts writing ...
FINALLY someone who recognizes that Blair is the true hero. Man saved the world.
we dont know that, maybe child or mac were infected, maybe the thing won and some recue unit came to antartica and brought the frozen thing with them
Except he isn’t.. watch it properly..
@@VictorLugosi ugh “watch it properly”. No need to be a twat. I’ve seen this movie a hundred times. Blair gets infected with the pencil. But, it’s not an instant process, we see the assimilation and transformation process interrupted multiple times. Also Blair only is infected by a small piece, so we can assume the process would take significantly longer. When he kills the dogs, destroys the radio equipment and helicopter he’s making sure the thing can’t spread beyond the base. Some people argue he was a thing and making sure the rest of the crew was trapped with him, but what sense does that make? Why would he draw attention to himself at all? Nobody suspected him or how bad the situation was at that point and he surely could have infected several members of the team if he just played it smoothly. More damning to the theory that he was infected that early; the noose. Why would a thing go through the pantomime of tying a noose to kill itself? The last thing Blair was trying to do before he turned was kill himself. Maybe he even did but then turned. In summary, Blair saved the world by ensuring the thing had no options to leave the base.
@@derekdecker555 Actually Carpenter himself said that Blair wasn't infected by the pencil.
@@marcusgrimmm hmm interesting, I didn’t know that. Still, there were other opportunities for him to be infected after that. Honestly, I wouldn’t have gone on that rant had the dude not told me to “watch it properly” lol I took offense to that.
The guy trying to shoot the "dog" at the beginning was yelling "Get the hell away! It's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! GET AWAY, YOU IDIOTS!"
If any of the main characters spoke Norwegian, the whole situation might've been avoided
Nah they probably would've assumed the guy was crazy
I dated a Norwegian girl for a while, and we watched this movie together. When she translated that during the film, it added another layer. She was really cute too.
"It doesn't seem like a horror movie to me yet." Add this to the list for why this is such a great movie.
In my opinion, this is the greatest horror/suspense movie ever made.
I love it, it has tension, paranoia, great practical effects
Agreed
No lies told
You do realize it's a remake of sorts? The original was also very cool. This was a masterpiece though!
It gets better each time I see a new reaction ❤
Always with first watchers “aww don’t hurt the dog” 20 mins later “fire! Fire! Set it on fire!”😂😂
You don't realize how cutting edge the special effects were in this film. Way before CGI came onto the scene it was up to special effects artists to make or break a film like this. Tom Savani was at the top of his game in the 80s. I use to love going to the magazine section and reading Fangoria magazines while mom shopped. If we had the extra money and my grades were good she would buy me one. Good memories.
Rob Bottin was the effects master for this film.
@@motodork Sorry I worded that the way I did. I can see why you thought I was saying Savani did the effects for the movie. That wasn't my intention; I just haphazardly skipped right to him being great and my experience as a kid. Sorry about that.
@@clarenceworley3714 no worries at all.
Rob Bottin's work in this movie was just extraordinary. I'm also a fan of Rick Baker's work in An American Werewolf in London- STILL my favorite werewolf transformation of all time! =)
@@agirlnamedmichael1670 yes! I used to bend my hand and act as if it were growing, lol. I was such a weird little fucker. Wolfen was another good one; not as big in the special effects dept. but a great movie none the less.
"I don't have the vocabulary for this"....yeah, that's probably the most accurate description for seeing this movie for the first time, lol.
"what is that?? I don't even know what to call that??"
Everyone watching: "it's a ... THING!!"
Someone I follow online mentioned that a friend hadn't seen the Thing and she recommended it with the description of "It's about a group of men who adopt a dog and it changes their lives forever." I mean, she's not wrong...
I recommend the Princess Bride, an absolute must-watch. Also Imagine Me & You, because I like it (though I'd be surprised if anyone else watching your videos has seen it).
That's kind of like what I say about "Nobody"; "It's a heart warming story about the importance of family."
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I'll take Misleading Film Synopses for $500, Alex.
@@justinecooper9575 love how every reaction on here is "dont shoot the dog" and then when the dog starts to split its face and shape shift "kill it!!!! kill it!!!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Chuck_EL So true!
Revisiting this thread and this comment makes think of how fun it would be to see horrific films described in the most family friendly, innocent ways.
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Thank you so much!!☺️
'The heck is that?!' sums up this movie perfectly.
The creature effects are still terrifying to me to this day. It just shows what doing things practically instead of CGI can do to up the scariness of a decent monster.
16:24 he destroyed all contact with the outside world, transportation, radios, dogs, used for sledding. he saw on the computer what would happen if the "Thing" manages to reach civilization, and how fast it would infect everything it touched. so he did what he thought he had to do stop it. glad you watched this horror classic! the original came out in 1956, called "The Thing from another Planet". great reaction! 👍
It's ironic that the Blair-thing starts using the helicopter parts to try to make a vehicle to escape. I think in the book of the movie, it was actually an anti gravity machine, because the Blair-thing had all the knowledge from the originally infected alien pilots.
31:08 sorry, i didn't wait until the end and didn't realize you pointed that out in your recap. 😅
Based on a novella and radio play called Who Goes There by John W Campbell who's audio book is also free on UA-cam
@@Fred-vy1hmthe novella that came out in the 30’s. The original film came out in the 50s, and this movie in the 80s.
Is the original black & white?
I love your videos, thanks!
"My vocabulary is not equipped for this." @ 21:54 had me rolling lol Always love watching reactions to this one. Nobody ever has any idea what they're getting into lol
When the stutter is adorable, its just not even a thing to think of :)
I saw this in the Theater in 1982 when I was 12 years old with family & friends. Many People walked-out during the dog massacre. But this movie is like a fine wine that gets better with time. It's more popular today than it was in the 1980s. This is now the Gold Standard of all Horror Movies. It holds it's own after 42 years. These Special Effects are better than anything that has been made since. But even had the visuals not been as good the raw suspense and music would still carry this movie.
"My vocabulary is not equipped for this!" Best. Comment. Ever! Thanks.
"It just keeps getting worse". LMAO!
Interesting Facts:
Norris is clearly exhibiting chest pain and all of the classic signs of a heart attack and cardiac arrest before he collapses.
When the Thing imitates someone, it perfectly duplicates every cell with such precision than it actually retains the memories, knowledge, and personality of the individual it copies. Norris (the guy who’s chest bursts open, chopping off the doctor’s hands with its bear-trap teeth) had a bad heart, and likely a peacemaker. When the Thing took him over and perfectly imitated him, it also faithfully recreated his heart defect, but not his pacemaker, which eventually caused Norris to suffer a heart attack for real during a high-stress moment. The Thing would have been happy to hide itself in a presumably “dead” body, but it couldn’t tolerate the electro-shocks from the defibrillator and was thus forced to reveal itself. Of course, the amazing scene where Norris’ head separates from his burning body, slides onto the floor, and pulls itself away, transforming into a crab/spider with his upside-down head as its body, and tries to crawl away unnoticed, is an iconic moment! (Incidentally, at the beginning of the movie, the spaceship was flying erratically because the crew was desperately trying to fight off the Things that were aboard their vessel and causing havoc. That’s why the spaceship attempted to make an emergency landing on the nearest planet and ended up crash landing in the Antarctic. Only one of the Things as survived the crash and made it out of the ship alive, only to freeze in the ice.)
In the prequel to “The Thing”, they were able to identify people who had been imitated because the Things were only able to replicate organic matter and were therefore unable to duplicate inorganic matter, which meant that items such as pins inserted to hold together broken bones and fillings in your teeth would be missing in people that had been taken over. That would obviously be the case for anyone like Norris that had a pacemaker as well. They were thus able to identify who was a Thing and who was not by checking for fillings, etc…
Love the fact that Whimsory is genuinely traumatized by this classic 😂. Now, that's reacting.
Starts with "It will leave a lasting impression" and ends with "I'm scared for life". Truth in advertising.
Whimsory, when I started watching you on 2/3/23, your subscription level was 11.2k. Now you’re over 20k. That’s incredible growth! Keep it up - your reactions are very enjoyable. Thanks.
I know! It's so crazy! ☺️ Thank you for the kind words!
"You can't have naked feet."
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This was a remake of a film from 1951 titled “The Thing from another World.” It was cutting edge and very scary in its day. John Carpenter wanted to remake it with more modern effects that would allow them to be more faithful to the original story that it was based on. Also, my sister was in the Navy and did a summer in Antarctica so this science station was actually pretty accurate and well done. Good video and thanks for watching this. It’s a favorite of mine too.
Interestingly, the 1951 movie does have a girl, and the "love story," kind of, that Whimsory was asking for. But both that movie and this one are based on a short story titled "Who Goes There?" from 1938. However, this movie is much closer to that story than the earlier one.
more modern effexts,ie plastercein lol
It's not a remake. It's a different, more faithful adaptation of the source material.
It's kind of super carrot.
In "The Thing from Another World" is one of my favourite movie scenes. It's classic. The aviators spend 10 minutes hammering away shoring up the door so it can't be opened into the corridor where the aviators are waiting. They wait and wait and when the supper carrot arrives, the barred door actually opens into the room and all their efforts are in vain.
I like the 'this is where the thumbnail pic comes from' :)
Congratulations on selecting one of the greatest science fiction horror movies. Thank you for sharing your reaction to it.
7:53 "Would be weird to not have internet though, you had to just watch the same stuff over and over."
Me, rewatching this video for the 4th or 5th time since it was uploaded: Uhh...yeah...thank god for the internet. 😅
If you liked Kurt Russell in this, "Big Trouble in Little China" could be a good follow up!
Have you accepted your lord and savior Lo Pan?
It's all in the reflexes...
Seconding this! Great movie!
..And the other Russell/Carpenter collaboration of the triad "Escape from New York"
Or Guardinas of the Galaxy 2 ;)
According to supporting material that spaceship is not the ship of the "thing" itself. The ship is from a hapless alien who landed on another planet, and the "thing" attacked the crew and took it over. There was a struggle to stop it, and that's why the ship crashed.
One theory. Another is that the ship was ditched on a then-uninhabited world. Also, tons of permutations on the exact nature of what was going on. From your hapless variant, to ideas that they knew what the Things were, but underestimated them, to the idea that the Things were engineered by whoever owned the ship. Or that the Thing stole the ship, and the ship ended up with some sort of mechanical problem that resulted in loss of control near enough to Earth.
"Kurt Russel. I think I know who that is. I think my Mom thought he was cute back in the day."
Damn I'm old.
I need to go hug my dinosaur now.
It's nice to see someone as young as yourself appreciate the good qualities that some old school classics have to offer. Your wide-eyed enthusiasm is infectious - thank you for making watching old (to me) movies fun again!
'Old-school classic?' Old school would be the '30s, '40s, maybe the '50s....
@@normcummings1967 Actually, to many younger folks anything prior to cgi is considered old school.
@@videoteamone To a teenager today, 1982 is positively prehistoric. No Internet or cell phones? Unthinkable.
@@paulbarnes2752 Yes, I was explaining to my daughter about having to look through microfilms for this school paper I was writing. She asked why I didn’t use the internet. The look on her face after explaining it didn’t exist at that time was priceless.
@videoteamone True but cgi been around since the 70s it was just used to add little things and removing wires chains stuff like that even the thing had minimal cg used to enhance Rob’s perfect effects and the Stan Winston dog scene effects which were also good
Thank you for saying that Blair was the real hero of the movie! So many people get caught up in his wild rampage and his eventual takeover by the Thing, and they forget that he was the first to figure out what a threat it truly poses to all life on the planet. I'm glad you watched this one - it's in my top 5, and your reaction was just great.
Someone else mentioned Big Trouble in Little China, being another one of several John Carpenter/Kurt Russell hits, and I highly recommend it as well. Don't worry, no phobia buffet in that one :D
The man could have gone about things differently, though. If he got the crew together and laid it all out for them, he'd have allies, drastically increasing the chances that they successfully prevent the Thing from spreading. How did he expect his choice to turn out? Step 1: smash the shit out of everything; shoot at my companions. Step 2: ??? Where do you go from there?
Big Trouble In Little China, is to uniqueness, as the Thing is to horror.
A truly one-off slice of fun.
Please put it on your list, it will be fun to see a reaction to this.
I have made so many people watch Big Trouble in Little China because it's such a fun and weird movie.
"There is no word for that..." EXACTLY. Now your initial question about the title is answered 😂
You said you wondered what it must've been like to see it in a theater - well I saw it when I was a young teen and the whole theater was freaked out! It was among the scariest movies I remember seeing in my youth. As you said, it was a horror buffet, a little something for everyone. Good job watching it!
Great reaction kiddo. You remind me a lot of my granddaughter. You got caught up in one of the main themes of this movie and didn't realize it....the paranoia. Isolated, no help, don't know who is who and distrust of everyone and...thing?..There was some character development but like you said with this much ensemble there was not much time to develop all of them. My take on the ending: Neither Mac nor Childs were infected. Mac gave Childs a drink as a test, alcohol kills cells. Childs taking the drink with no reaction proved he was not the thing.
I've only seen one reaction video for this movie where the person watching said "there's something off about that dog". Everyone else says "what a cute dog, why are they shooting at it", it soon becomes very clear the Norwegians had the right idea. This is my favourite horror movie, it's a masterclass in fear and paranoia with practical effects that still look good 40 years later.
I'm always yelling back at the reactors, "IT'S A BAD DOGGIE!!"
Was watching Centane react to this a while back. She's Norwegian or something and could actually understand what the two men were saying. I was like "Cheater!!" lol. So it wasn't as surprising to her when it did end up being a bad doggie, though I think the effects did still take her by surprise when that's revealed.
@@mattschliemann9683 I've heard the Norwegian guy was saying something like "you idiots, that's not a dog". The dog transformation scene was created by Stan Winston when Rob Bottin was busy. He asked to be uncredited so he didn't take any of the attention away from Mr Bottin's work.
Makes me glad he hour rewarded with the Aliens project. What a good guy.
I was 10 when I saw this and knew that the dog was the monster because no one shoots a damn dog from a helicopter that desperately. Norwegians and everyone understanding Swedish knew what he said about the dog back in the day too. "It's not a dog, it changes".
Blair accidentally infected himself. When he is dissecting it he taps it with his pencil. Then just minute or so later he touches the end of the pencil to his lips as he is thinking.
That theory has been debunked though
@@jacobsheber6803 When? By whom?
@@barreloffun10 look up the video by Zack cherry. He explains it. I would send a link but I don't know how
@@barreloffun10By John Carpenter himself on the commentary track. Brimbley did unconsciously while his was character was thinking. Was just a minor mistake, but also works well to make the audience wonder if he was infected there or if it even would infect him. Being that the tool shed was opened from the outside, we can determine Blair was assimilated after he was placed there.
"My vocabulary is not equipped for this!" This may be the funniest, most accurate response to that scene I've ever seen . 👍
I recommend the sci Fi comedy movie called The 5th Element with Bruce Willis. Or the movie called Galaxy Quest, you will love those sci Fi emotional roller coasters.
"I would live in Antarctica if there was a Walmart there" may be one of my favourite lines in any reaction, ever.
I love the irony in your post-editing thoughts when you said "if I have to look at this scene one more time", which meant you had to edit it in one more time. :)
You're totally right about this! And thank you so much😊
Blair was absolutely taken over by The Thing when he's smashing up the radio equipment and screaming about how has to stop the alien. Notice he doesn't have his yellow shirt on. The movie makes a big deal about explaining that The Thing rips through your clothes when it takes you over. He got taken shortly after he left his office with a gun. Best place for it to hide when you think about it. Who would you *least* suspect of being an alien than the guy who seems the most determined to stop the alien? The Thing doesn't care about the radio. Damn thing doesn't work anyway. So it's more useful for parts for its mini spaceship that it's building. Same reason it smashed the helicopter. It also knows someone will come eventually. It's waited over a hundred thousand years for someone to come, it doesn't mind a few more months.
This film has my all-time favorite practical effects sequence. The shot of the head sprouting crab legs to scuttle away and everything that led up to that point beginning with the CPR.
The CPR scene still gives me the creeps 40 years later. I only quite recently discovered they used a man who lost his arms in an industrial accident for the arm chomping scene.
The Alien Queen in Aliens is my all time favourite practical effects sequence but Spiderhead is the creepiest practical effects sequence.
That took so long that some of the people from Universal visited to which they were greeted by a half naked Charles Hallahan 🤣🤣
The CPR scene annoys me. His arms get bitten, but they snap off about 6 inches above where the bite was, which makes no sense.
@@RevStickleback They were prosthetics glued onto an amputee. Today with movie magic that could probably be fixed, but with practical effects there were limitations. I just switch my brain off (so to speak) when I watch movies and just enjoy them.
There's nothing quite like the realism brought to a movie that has top notch practical effects.
When I worked for Carpenter he was directing a movie that went straight to video! It was based on a book that I loved called Watchers (Dean Koontz) so in the nineties I rented the video, didn't find my face and the movie was very good and stuck to the book story. The first Watchers movie is unwatchable so the same company hired John to do it right, which he effin did. Straight to video. I feel ya, John. Watchers 2, which is actually Watchers told right. Rob Bottin, the make-up and prop guy, collapsed from exhaustion working on The Thing. John is a natural born director, he never shouts, never micro-hovers, never acts like a director acts, whatever that is.
I'm subbing, despite no longer really watching reactions because UA-cam is doing its level best to make them unwatchable. But you're smart and fun. I enjoyed this and your reaction to "Good Will Hunting".
Great reaction. Something many people miss is the very end, last seen. Re-watch it and notice how you can see McCready's breath but Not Chiles'.
The thing has to be the best movie monster ever created. It can be anything or anyone. Being an alien who knows what shape it could take. Top of the list for horror imo. This or maybe the shining.
Really enjoy your reactions. This was a pleasure to watch you react to one of my favorites.
My father sat down and watched this with me on HBO when I was ten. He spent the whole movie jump scaring the hell out of me. Fav movie to this day, even talked about our watching this movie in his eulogy.
"A buffet of phobias"! I love it.
literally every reaction "omg!! why is he shooting the poor dog?!?"
5 minutes later "OH GOD! SHOOT THE DOG! SHOOT THE DOG!!"
You can't get it wrong with this mix, the cutest sweetest girl with the grossest "thing" 😂. Loved your reaction to this Kurt Russell classic. Keep them coming 👍🏻💯😎.
The Exorcist (Directors cut) ...if you dare. Nominated for 17 Academy Awards winning two. First horror movie ever nominated for Best Picture. Was originally rated X, but was negotiated to an R rating. If you are under 18, you may want to consult with your parents before watching. A true classic that raised the standard for the future of the horror genre.
It was nominated for 10, not 17. The most nominated films have been All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land, all of which were nominated for 14.
@TJ Daniels Yeah, I was gonna say. 17 just sounds absurd but 10 is still very impressive, especially for the genre AND for the Era.
I wouldn't choose the Director's Cut for the fact that it breaks the horror out of the bedroom, which was better left contained pretty much in that one setting. It encapsulated the war between good and evil that takes place.
ABSOLUTELY !!!😎
All kinds of wrong here:
(1) Watch the Theatrical Cut -- subtlety.
(2) 10 nominations
(3) There was no MPAA negotiation; even the church thought it was an important film to put out uncensored.
(4) Don't trust your parents' taste; it's probably in their asses.
Here are two films nobody else is reacting to (except one channel). Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson. (Redford enjoyed the film location so much he bought property there and hence the Sundance film festival). Second film is "Little Big Man" with Dustin Hoffman. Best description of this is a 19th. Century Forest Gump. Meaning he has all this history happening around him. Anyway, enjoy.
I'm annoyingly constantly urging reactors to watch "Jerimiah Johnson" (and maybe know/only know of the one instance). One of the best western adventures on film.
In the '70s I once took some mescaline and saw a double feature of "Little Big Man" and "A Man called Horse"...when we came out of the theater we expected to see dirt...
Found you down the UA-cam rabbit hole and, 12 mins in, I'm subscribing! I don't know why but, watching you watch this movie feels like I'm watching it with you more so than any reaction video I've ever seen. Once I'm done with this, I'm going to atch every video you have!
This made my day! 🤗 Thank you so much!
@@Whimsory so happy to have made your day! Always nice to know you're not useless! I honestly can't wait for more content now that I have seen everything. I love your enthusiasm!
The emotional arc of every "The Thing" reactor: "Don't shoot the doggo!!!"........90 minutes later....... "They should have just shot the doggo."
they are basically Clark in the beginning
I am new here and I am really enjoying your stuff! I watch a few reaction channels, but nobody appreciates filmmaking the way you do...I love how you research the making of the films, the actors, the filmmakers, etc...and give a wonderfully insightful and informed critique at the end...nobody else does that! Keep up the great work! Also, if you like this one, may I suggest the 70's version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, and Leonard Nimoy? It is a classic and deals with some of the same themes...anyway, take care...thanks for the great reactions!
"My vocabulary is not equipped for this." - Whimsory 2023
Stumbled across ur channel and stopped because…. The Thing! My mom shared with me all her favorite movies of the ‘50’s, ‘60’s and ‘70’s and I got to share with her my favorite movies of the ‘80’s and ‘90’s before she died. I learned that just because something is old doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant. I absolutely LOVE that you’re open to these cinematic experiences as I was and that you genuinely seem to appreciate them as I did. I really had a wonderful time watching ur reactions to one of my favorite movies that yes, I made my mom watch and yes, she loved it too. Thanks 🙏
I always liked that the Norwegian guy was basically a spoiler for the movie right at the beginning... if you happen to speak Norwegian. 😄
"Oh, don't shoot the dog!" And so it begins....
"My vocabulary is not equipped for this" - 🤣
You are a hoot! Keep up the good work, your reactions are very entertaining 😂😂
The Thing always knows it's The Thing. It just acts to survive. It can take the form of any creature it's absorbed on the countless planets it's been on.
Another John Carpenter film worth checking out is "Starman" with Karen Allen and Jeff Bridges. It makes for a very emotional companion piece about alien life, to "The Thing". John Carpenter's scores are iconic, and while he has seemingly retired from filmmaking, he's still making music.
did you know the practical effects guys worked so hard up to complete exhaustion. I think those are some of the best practical effects ever done. The king of a golden era.
Kurt Russel has been acting since he was 12 years old in 1963. He's been with actress Goldie Hawn for 40 years and most of their kids act. Hollywood royalty.
John Carpenter is a celebrated independent sci-fi filmmaker who often writers, directs, produces, edits, and does the music for his movies, which rarely made money.
Might I suggest Big Trouble Little China. Easily my favorite Kurt Russell movie (this is #2) - It's 80s action at it's finest!
You've only reacted to 4 movies so far, but they've been good choices for reaction videos (I specified "for reaction videos" because some great movies don't make good reactions while some terrible movies make great reactions), and you have an appealing on screen personality, so I subscribed. Keep up the good work.
You have a bubbly personality, a different perspective, and a cute face. You definitely need more subscribers.
Big Trouble in Little China, keeping with a Kurt Russel theme.
I'm back just to watch your "exploding dog" expression! Lol classic! Have a good one, kiddo!
When I saw this in the theater back in the day, half the people got up and left in the middle of the "gross-out" scenes. Nobody had seen anything like this at the time. I loved it. And I usually don't like gore, but this was so outlandish it was entertaining.
Wow! I am honored and appreciative for the shout out! This is a first for me! Thank you so much!!!
Lol I never thought of listing the phobias. That was brilliant!
I DID have fun, thank you!
That cut to the thumbnail though...🔥💪
I came across your Monty Python reaction the day you posted it thanks to You Tube's algorithm. I've really enjoyed all of your videos so far and I'm looking forward to what you have each week. Hello from Colorado.
When you showed your thumbnail face side by side I said to myself, I gotta subscribe!! Bravo!! Great reaction!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The Norwegian trying to shoot the dog was screaming "That's no dog! It's a monster!"
There is a prequel with the Norwegians.
Great reaction. I loved the moment of clarity when, after having made fun of the movie's title, and then fumbling for a name for the creature, you realized why it is called "The Thing".
I hope you're keeping the original recordings in case you ever start a Patreon for full-length watch-alongs.
This is the most endearing reaction I've seen lol
John Carpenter is the director of the original Halloween (1978), as well as Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Fog (1980), Escape From New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983), Starman (1984), Big Trouble In Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987), They Live (1988), and In The Mouth of Madness (1995). Kurt Russell starred in Escape From New York, The Thing, and Big Trouble In Little China.
@Whimsory you should start watching some Carpenter movies ...the list above is perfect
Love your reaction, especially "I've got a baad feeling about this" knew right where you were coming from before you said Star Wars :)
Don't apologize for your stutter. It works for your delivery 👍 I wouldn't have thought twice about it if you hadn't mentioned it. I definitely trip over my words when I'm trying to piece something together on the fly
Great reaction! Also, you do very good after talk with your notes and all... keep it up. You'll be big!
Great reaction, I enjoyed watching your reaction of the film more than I did the film itself.
Wishing you all the success in the world- ♥︎
"Filming lasted roughly twelve weeks, beginning in August 1981, and took place on refrigerated sets in Los Angeles as well as in Juneau, Alaska, and Stewart, British Columbia."
I love the ambiguous and bleak ending. Even if Childs and McReary are not The Thing, they're most likely going to die anyway.
I think there's a comic book sequel to this (and a videogame?) but I love how this ends and I don't feel the need to know more because not knowing makes it scarier.
Great reaction! Can't wait for the next one. I hope you do more horror movies, I highly recommend The Witch (2015), in my opinion that's the best horror movie of all time and I've watched lots of horror movies.
Childs & Mac would have both been Vietnam vets. Why would Mac specifically call for Childs to bring the flamethrower to the dog kennel? You call the guy with military trigger discipline and experience burning people alive, not the teenage, roller-skating cook or the nerd who got a college deferral. Childs wouldn't have been snuck up on by Blair, and he wouldn't have hesitated to roast him.
yes there is a video game it is sort of cannon john carpenter nodded to it being right.
Dark horse did the comic book series, the game was on PS2
The thumbnail capture insert is cool.
this is a classic and even though it's old and some parts look cheesy by today's standards, it holds up really well overall. the monster effects were incredibly groundbreaking. that one scene where the Bennings-Thing is caught by the group and howls.. that's such a disturbing and chilling sequence. it was mostly just acting but it's probably my favorite scene in the movie
I'll go so far as to say there's arguably only 1 cheesy special effect in the entire film - the opening shot with the spaceship. Beyond that, everything else holds up to today's standards and for some of us, the practical effects outshine much of today's CGI. Even the explosions were well done and the man on fire shots were great too.
What in this looks "cheesy" by today's standards? Never heard a bad word said about the FX in this film, or the film itself.. except from Roger Ebert
Cheesy? Watch the CGI prequel to see what cheesy is. Today's standards.
ok ok i actually agree that "cheesy" isn't the right word haha. maybe a little "dated?" fyi i'm the first person to stand up and sing the praises of this movie and the fx; which i actually heard were so good that people working in practical effects today STILL couldn't recreate them fully. and are still upheld as legendary in that field. so yeah don't get me wrong lol. (and i agree that there's lots of cheesy CGI in the newer remake. it's just a shame that those kinds of fx are what younger people are used to, so it's often jarring for them to see fx like this in older movies)
You thought it "was a good movie", you "thought it was well-done". This means we can be friends, Whimsory!
I just wanna plug the original "Rocky" (1976), it's #211 on IMDB I believe. It's so much more than just a sports movie, that's really just the setting.
When movies were movies... Your reactions were so entertaining...