Ladies, if a movie makes you talk about it for a long time after it's over, it means that the movie got you. Also, there are lots of details to take into account, for example Childs' coat, it is blue when Macready's group goes to see Blair and then it is almost white in the final scene. Finally, you are both beautiful, but seeing your faces when Norris's stomach opened was a delight.
Fun Facts: - Actors Keith David[Childs] and Kurt Russell [MacReady] have both stated for the fan questions and interviews that both of them weren’t the thing/alien creature - Kurt Russell debunked the fans theories about child’s being the alien, Kurt shook his head “no” and says “that him and John Carpenter have worked on the ending of that movie together a long time,” because it was a horror movie -- but to see what the movie was about, which was paranoia, they didn't know if they knew who they were.” - John Carpenter even said the video game was canon to the movie and Childs was human, and in the comics Both Child’s and MacReady were human and fought the alien creature in 3 comic issues, they were actually saved by a rescue team and continued to fight [The Thing].
Interesting. That was also my theory. The whole movie is about paranoia and "Don't trust anyone" and destruction. In other words: the stupidity of humanity. So it makes sense, that both are human. Their death at the end is the irony of a story about paranoia.
I always used to think that a clear indication of Childs being the thing is him willingly swigging the booze that was in MacReady's mouth only seconds earlier. I wondered if MacReady was testing him. But the writing's so good, as Childs is the kind of erratic guy who might drink it without thinking.
"both stated for the fan questions and interviews that both of them weren’t the thing/alien creature" - That's what I would say too if I were the Thing.
But did The Thing do a chess move ?? did it put it`s cells in the booze intended for Mac but Childs drank it instead.... also was the shadow that pasted Fuchs a doppelganger of Mac wearing Mac`s clothing to lure/infect Fuchs(drops flair and dies)..
The clothes in the kitchen. I love how John did that. Nauls for the most part is being ignored during this, but the clothes definitely mean there's two things at this point.
27:21 That is the first clue that this is no longer Blair. The real Blair was probably going to end it all. But one of The Things got to him first. A normal human being wouldn’t leave that noose sitting there in plain sight b/c they would know it looks crazy. The other characters are sitting there talking to BlairThing and just think “Wow this guy is crazy. We are definitely not letting him come back inside.”
The thing may have left the noose intentionally. Blair was actually exactly where it wanted to be, isolated where he could work on the ship unobserved for a few days.
19:01 - you can hear Windows drop the keys that he got from Garry (they mention this earlier in that same scene how Windows has to get the keys back to Garry). The same keys that the thing uses to get to the blood later on. It also explains why Windows panics and runs for the shotgun when everyone is accusing everyone about who had the keys last, because he realizes that eventually people will figure out he had the keys last. I love the subtle touches in this movie.
Windows may have had the keys last, but that may or may not be why he ran to the gun cabinet. It's true that Windows dropped the keys - in terror, when he walked in on an assimilation, but then he immediately went and got help, then was with everyone else while Bennings was burned. Equally plausible explanation: Windows was just innately more terrified and more distrustful than the others, and rightly so: Windows is fairly low in the social hierarchy there, to begin with: Gary momentarily tortures Windows by turning up his headphone volume - he didn't have to do that. Blair speaks harshly to Windows about not being able to reach outside help, when that's likely beyond Windows's control. Palmer-Thing picks on Windows, but is acting like Palmer, so it's plausible that the real Palmer also would have. Windows wears sunglasses indoors, indicating a desire to escape/isolate/tune out. Windows started off feeling that no one had his back, even before the creature appeared, and that vulnerability was dialed up to eleven during the 'someone got to the blood!' moment.
One of the most common questions people have is whether a Thing knows it's a Thing. The answer is yes, because it doesn't infect people or inhabit their body, it essentially just eats them and forms its own cells to mimic them. During the process it must be able to absorb their memories so that it knows everything they knew, that's why it's impossible to tell if someone's been replaced just by observing behavior.
Well, now yall gotta finish the 80s remake trilogy The Fly 1986 and my favorite creature feature The Blob 1988. If you enjoyed the practical FX in this one, you'll enjoy those. 😊
It absorbs you, memories and all. There are no trick questions. Your friend right next to you could be the thing, and you would never know. And also, when it assimilates you, you die. Gone forever.
Because he DOESN'T know if either of them is a Thing. It wasn't something he wrote, talked or even thought about. He left it ambiguous on purpose to maintain a level of tension at the end. That's the point. NO ONE (including John Carpenter) knows if the Thing is dead at the end.
Agreed. There's a short here with Kurt explaining the ending. They write and even film dozens of possibilities. In the end Kurt tells John, it ends how it ends, it is what it is. He says, it's just like his line, let's wait around here for a while, see what happens...
I've watched a lot of reactions to this movie and the two of you have caught on to what's happening much, much better than most people do. Great reaction! The only thing I disagree about is that someone can be the Thing and not know it. It's an imitation, not an illness. It knows what it is.
Very nice reaction, I really like it, it's a pretty honest reaction, nothing overstated or overreacted, and most of your comments where really on point, very well done. Instant sub.
Yeah. One of the weirdest things about current mindsets (as exemplified by a lot of reactors) is when people get really upset about an animal being hurt in a film, even if 1) in real life they still go to MacDonalds etc 2) the film is full of glorious murder scenes etc. Just strikes me as odd! But Jyn and Ryl are more chill.
@@mikefoster6018I'm a HUGE bleeding heart for animals, but I'd be suspicious if someone was that determined to kill an animal lol I'd assume some sort of infection
@@mikefoster6018 Well, a dog isn't "just an animal" it is usually a beloved pet. Many people think of their dog as a companion, so for many, shooting at a dog is unsettling.
40:41 It took me a couple of times watching this to realize that sure The Thing is a monster to us. But it’s actually an intelligent being or it can absorb intelligence from the various beings it mimics. When it turns all monstrous like this I think it’s partly because it’s in the middle of transforming. But I also think it is trying to scare the crap out of the people at the base. Being terrifying is can be an effective survival tool as it definitely makes other lifeforms stay the heck away. The 2011 movie is a prequel to this movie. In it you get to see what happened at the Norwegian base before the American base. Also I could have sworn I saw a version of this movie in which after the credits we see another snow dog running away from the American base. It stops looks back at the burning base and continues on.
You are correct - the dog running away scene was an old edit for broadcast TV in the 80's. That version cut most of the gore and incorporated the use of narration at the beginning and end. After the final scene with MacReady and Childs it cuts to daylight with smoke rising above the camp as a huskie runs away with a final VO: "Who knows what has come from the galaxy? Who knows what evil lurks in the skies beyond God? Watch those around you for who knows what today, tonight or tomorrow will bring."
They said the purpose of the Thing- to infect the whole world, anyway it can. The ending for me: they killed the Thing. To do it, they had to burn the place down, knowing they would die too. So they might as well share the last of the whiskey. That makes sense, right?
Great Reaction! Most reactor's just miss those subtle music cue's and don't pick up on something being wrong with the dog until the kennel scene. Very astute!
@orionlt1028 IF Childs was a Thing, it wouldn't go talk to MacReady and IF I did, Thing Childs has M2 Nepalm Flamethrower, Mac has been such a problem Thing would just knock him off not attempting assimilation. I can make many arguments that Childs is a man, and a Thing.
@@haystackbill6187 oh I understand. Just after 30 years watching it, I lean on Childs is not a Thing. MacReady is armed with a Colt Mark 3 Trooper .357 Magnum which is useless on The Thing. MacReady is unarmed and exhausted. As I said, I do not think Thing wants to assimilate MacReady and I think the same is true for Fuchs, I think Blair Thing burned Fuchs or Fuchs accidentally set himself on fire during confrontation. Mac being useless, the Thing strategy would either be do NOT make contact and go to sleep on other side of camp, and if it makes Contact which Childs does, just throw flaming nepalm out if it, Mac is too much a risk and wild card to either not see him on fire and not making contact at all. Since this is last Thing, I do not think it would risk incineration from MacReady. I think Childs and MacReady are both human and are both about to freeze to death.
The way the Thing takes over, is it attacks you and melds with you, at the DNA level until you are completely taken over. The two-face creature you saw, was actually two bodies. One was a person who was the thing, the other a normal person. The thing-person melded with the normal but they were killed in the middle of the melding. This is shown in the 2014 prequel to The Thing.
@@lucianaromulus1408 The prequel is crap. It shows how horrible CGI is for showing biological creatures. And all the male characters were indistinguishable from each other because they all looked the same.
@17:00 That’s a good point that’s always bugged me a little (although I’m no scientist). In an interview I saw recently, John Carpenter pointed out that the computer animation of the cells was incorrect and misleading. In it we see The Thing cell consuming a host cell… but if it is a creature that mimics other organisms it would have consumed it and then SPLIT in two in order to REPLICATE the cell. So that was a good call on your part for noticing that small technical goof that goes unnoticed by just about everyone who’s not a microbiologist. 🤓👍
The 2011 The Thing is actually a prequel. It tells the story of the Norwegian Research station that discovered the Thing! A bit of trivia too, if you understood Norwegian at the beginning, you would understand they were saying "get away, that's not a dog!" etc
All carpenter movies should be watched! Specially Assault on precinct 13, escape from New York, escape from LA, Starman, Big Trouble in little CHINA, they Live, The Fog, Eyes of Laura Mars, Prince of Darkness, and others. Carpenter resented Spielberg for ET AND it took all the money and awards. But Carpenter had the last laugh! Because this movie is much better! Carpenter made his own alien love story with Starman! Carpenter also is the master of the minimalist creepy theme music! Kurt did 4 movies with carpenter! He even did an early TV Elvis movie, for John! This is one of the 3 most important sci-fi movies ever made. Plus Alien and Bladerunner, which are all related, by actors, and some other technicalities. Also the brilliance here is, when the thing busts out, it comes out of u anywhere, any size, shape, etc. The dog trainer should have won an Oscar and the special effects guy should have won an Oscar! He was a twenty one year old college student!😮😮😮. Pro tip, carpenter is still thinking about a sequel! But there's still a massive tie in here with Alien, predator Bladerunner this , and a movie with Kurt Russell called, Soldier! They are related by the beings called Engineers, for Aliens, Terminator, predator, Bladerunner this, and a movie with Kurt Russell movie called, Soldier. Common companies, technology, Replicants, synthetic humans, beings that Engineers created, and even writers and producers! And this is why, prosthetic, robotics, special/ effects, practical effects, are way better than CGI! The three main corporations... Cyberdyne (Terminator) Weyland Corp (alien) and Tyrell Corp (Bladerunner) all did cross work for each other, and also shared some employees!😮 Kurt better have kept the hat! Also the total brilliance here is, once u have been infected, even from just a scratch, u have no idea when u are being taken over! One of the absolute must watch Carpenter films u must watch! Along with Starman, escape from New York, escape from LA, Big Trouble in little CHINA, assault on precinct 13. Go with those, and his Halloween stuff, Eyes of Laura Mars, They Live, The Fog, Christine, In the mouth of madness, prince of darkness, memoirs of an invisible man, vampires! There are critics who say this is Carpenter's version of Communism Socialism, etc , and how it takes over countries, much as a film in the 50s by the same name, i think...
Great reaction! If you think about it, they found the thing's crashed ship, then later found that it was building a new ship. It could have just been trying to leave and these guys got in it's way!
That was definitely not a ship for space travel. Probably for reaching more populated areas, and I really doubt that was the things ship in the beginning. More than likely an unwanted guest they were not aware of
I really like your reactions, especially the long rambling chats you have at the end, where you quite often end up talking about a completely different movie to the one you've just watched 😂😂
I seen a lot of people react to this movie and comment on the missing shots in the beginning. The guy has slit goggles on. those goggles would make it very difficult to get your eyes in the right place to use the scope on that rifle.
lol that and do you have any fucking idea how hard it is to hit a moving target while you're in a helicopter? Not only is your x and y coordinates constantly shifting, you have the z axis + gravity/bullet drop and windage. Add to that the slitted goggles AND that the guy shooting was not a shooter, but a norwegian scientists/handy man. That rifle was probably not even sighted in. The only gripe i have is the grenade scene. Like I get it, its snowy and icy and everything is slippery, you're on adrenaline and operating on very little sleep. But even then, I feel like if you fumble a grenade, you RUN AWAY, not run towards it. No matter how sleep deprived you are.
Good point. MY theory is that the Norwegian DID hit the dog, perhaps several time, and the dog-Thing being a... well... Thing, it just slowed it down a little and that was it.
An excellent film. The template for “The Thing” is highly recommended. The name of this film is "The Thing from Another World" by Howard Hawks b/w from 1951. The focus here is not mainly on special effects but on the question "what is this thing". An extraordinary film for its time. By the way, the lady on the right (Ryl?) was one of the very few people who asked herself very, very early on whether the dog was really just a dog. The 2011 film is set in the Norwegian camp when the Norwegians "free" the spaceship and "The Thing" from the ice, unknowingly setting the catastrophe in motion. The end of the film is the escape of "The Thing" in dog form towards the US research station and the pursuit by the helicopter. The Norwegian camp is in ruins at this point.
My favorite horror movie. I cant think of a worse scenario to find yourself in. Youre battling an intelligent enemy, you dont know if its malicious or simply trying to survive, if it touches you...youre dead, its almost impossible to detect, it can only be killed with fire/acid and if it gets to water or transportation its not just the end of humans but THE ENTIRE WORLD. Every Winter when the wind howls i think of this movie. It inspired me to get a flamethrower cause...you never know 😅
I just watched your reaction, I’ll subscribe 😊Thank you, you are the first one to mention that Mac was defending himself when he shot Clarke.You are the first I have heard noticing that
Blair was infected right in front of your faces. During the autopsy he touched the thing with a pencil. Then he absent mindedly touched the pencil eraser to his lips. A few cells got in. He was human until some point after they locked him up outside. He was going to hang himself but it replicated enough to take him over by the last time Mac talked to him. It can take you over in two forms. A few cells at a time or the more aggressive when it's a large mass. It just grabs you and absorbs the person's body which still take at least a few minutes.
That was already debunked by other youtubers, Blair never touches the thing with the pencil just gets very close to it. Go watch the videos, his infection isn't until he's brought food by Palmer (who by then was already a thing) etc when he's already locked away. Learn your movies buddy.
There's a lot of uncertainty as to when different people were infected, and taken over. For instance: when Blair wrecks the chopper, the tractor and the radio room - are those the actions of the real Blair, who is semi-crazy, but still heroically acting to ••prevent an escape•• by the others, and prevent a contamination of the rest of the world? Or, are these the actions of Blair-Thing, who is acting to ••prevent a WARNING•• from reaching the outside world, so that rescue teams or military strikes won't interfere with it when it's time to move on to new targets? Was human-Blair merely 'out of it' when they locked him in the tool shed? Or, was it already Blair-Thing, who ••acted•• crazy so that the others would lock him in the tool shed, and then leave him alone so that he could tunnel out and work on the escape craft? ...Did the dog-thing infect Norris first, who then infected Palmer? Or was it the other way around?
@@YokaiSteve Yeah sure and according to youtube Wendy had the psychotic break and Jack was normal. By the way the producer absolutely ruled that out that Blair was infected after he was locked up
@@tranya327 The dog infected Palmer but could have also infected Norris. We know that by the shadow. The hair is too bushy to be anyone but Palmer or Windows. And the producer said Blair was infected early on before getting locked up. But that doesn't mean he wasn't still human when they put him in there.
Saw this for the first time when I was 19 and that shit had me jumping like you too lol. I think in the ending the transformation in the end that look like a dinosaur head is the actual thing itself.
My stepdad rented it when I was 3 and decided to watch it while we were eating spaghetti. Needless to say, he couldn't eat while I had seconds and finished the movie. lol.
The purpose was to keep them busy while the thing was building tge soace ship to go off the planet. In the novella this is based on ("Who goes there?" By John Campbell, 1938), that's what happened. The Blair-thing was in the shed for a week, building the spaceship. It almost finished when they found it. Good reaction. You came to some vey good conclusions along the way 👍 Also, the thing exposes itself when it's being attacked. With tge Norris-thing, it was the shock from the difibrillator. With the Palmer-thing, it was exposed thanks to the blood test, so it knew it will be killed. The dog in the beginning did it queitly with the man who was in the room (the shadow). It was quiet with Garry. As long as it can, it does it quietly.
Blair turned into the thing when he was locked in the shack. It was locked from the outside. So whomever was the thing (Norris or Palmer) got into the shack and attacked Blair. It happened between when Blair was locked up, and when he said he was alright again and wanted to be let out.
@@YokaiSteve No, i'm watching the MOVIE. If they wanted to explain it as being the food, they would have put it in the movie. Either way, the point is they infected him in that timeframe.
@@YokaiSteve Oh really? Pray tell, if you watched this movie in the cinema in 1982, how would you have known the infection was in the food? In retrospect everything can be invented. Like people do all the time with The Shining. There was no indication whatsoever that the infection was in the food. As a matter of fact, Fuchs even suggested IN THE MOVIE to only eat out of cans and to make your own meals. Forgot about that? The movie literally SUGGESTS that the food cannot be contaminated.
3:31 "is the dog the alien or something?" -ryl i really think the spaceship at the beginning makes the dog super suspicious. most people see a spaceship and people trying to kill a dog and put it together. and of course, the music seals the deal. 🙂
One of the greatest movies ever made… this movie is awesome in theatres. I saw it at a special showing a few years back… the crowd clapped and cheered at the end! CLASSIC
The opening credits where The Thing burns onto the screen is how the original 1950s The Thing started - burning the words The Thing onto the screen. You should watch the 1950s original and the 2011 prequel, both very good.
This is one part of Carpenter's so called "Apocalypse Trilogy" of "The Thing", "Prince of Darkness", and "In the Mouths of Madness". He never intended it as such, but people named them that as they all deal with serious existensal threats to the human race, and the odds don't look good.
"Prince Of Darkness" is much less known, but it has a lot of slow-burn tension and suspense along with a couple of cool sci-fi concepts. It also has Alice Cooper as the creepy guy and Donald Pleasence (Dr. Loomis in Halloween) on the side of "good".
37:44 almost no other reactor gets this! The Thing has dozens, if not hundreds of forms. It's not unreasonable to think it has one that can burrow or melt ice, and that it has one that can rapidly construct items. A cool bit of foreshadowing that everyone misses is the pinball machine in the rec room. It's called Heat Wave. There's a thermometer on the rear display, the idea of play is to score points to raise the temperature of the thermometer, when it reaches the top, it blows up. You kinda have to be a pinball fanatic to get it though.
Find the original movie from the 1950,s with James Arness as the Thing, when they show the men in a circle around the space ship in the ice that's from the 1953 movie.
The 80s was a great decade for movies, and I saw The Thing opening night with my best friend. We were both HS seniors in 1982. Scared us half to death! 😆 Great reactions, girls.I want to see you guy watch more classic 80s horror/sci-fi films! Subbed. 😁
Monsters, aliens, zombies.. if I had to be trapped with anyone facing ‘things’ out there, it would be cool headed Jyn & Ryl. Chill, unfazed and unafraid of whatever. You ladies are awesome! I love the smiles and smarts. 🥰
There was sequel comic that says that neither of them were things but the thing did survive and they had work with a submarine crew that rescued them to stop the thing.
All carpenter movies MUST be watched! Particularly assault on precinct 13, starman, big trouble in little china, escape from New York, escape from LA, and all others. He did 5 movies with kurt😢. He was pissed at Spielberg for a long time because et came out, got all the money and press. But john had the last laugh, because this has gone on forever, recognized as a sci-fi horror suspense classic, of all time! Boy Kurt met Elvis as a kid, then did a movie with him, then did Carpenter's first TV movie about him, then did 3000 miles to Graceland, then his voice in Forrest Gump! This, Alien and Bladerunner, are why special effects practical effects are far better than CGI! The dog should have won a Oscar! The trainer should have won a Oscar! The suspense building in this is palpable! The music was done by spaghetti Western extraordinaire, ennio morricone! But the little 5 note synth stuff, done by carpenter, and he's the master of that type of movie music! Think of the music of Halloween and assault on precinct 13! Pro tip, he's still thinking of a sequel!😮. The thing is, u don't know even if ur infected, until the organism decides to openly take u over! And if there is a sequel, 1 of the last 2, has to be the thing! 😮😮😮😮 The thing half eating Windows maybe the greatest scene ever! All i wanna know is, did kurt keep the greatest ever hat, in movies?!?!😅. And NOBODY, does in camera scene parallax shots, like carpenter!
36:02 I know you Ladies have been through a lot, while watching this film, but I'm so pleased you laughed at my favorite line of the movie. 😊I first saw The Thing when I was nine or ten years old and found it such an amazing experience. ❣
The end is designed to feed the audience's paranoia, and does so perfectly. The film itself is about paranoia and not knowing, and the audience ourselves/themselves are also feeling the same paranoia throughout the film. The audience are each effectively a character of the film, not able to act in it but we are experiencing exactly what the film's characters are in their heads. With the ending you carry that feeling with you and it leaves you pondering the outcome, and here we are over 40 years later still talking about it and debating it. Thanks for the video.
One of the best endings in movies hands down 😁 AWESOME show there ladies 👏 👏 👏 wait till yall find out who it was MacReady or Childs?? Keep up the wonderful work🎃
Loved your reaction,..at the end, when Blair transforms,..and its the dogs, and him,..remember when he was doing the autopsy of the dog/thing carcass,..he while he was explaining what had happened, maybe absent-mindedly after touching his eraser pencil to the carcass and then touching his bottom lip with the same eraser pencil,..that's when he contracted, remember it just takes some small amount, few cells,..the dog DNA was on that eraser,..maybe thats why it looked the way it did when it came down to Blair,..knew when it came to the Doc getting his arms chewed off while doing cpr, that that would be pretty shocking for you, and yeah dont think Norris knew he was a thing, its like when we get the flu, or something, it infects like a disease,,..but I think Palmer knew he was a thing,..it's that shrug, and goofy look he has when they're about to test the blood, like, "oh well, the jig.is up, they're gonna find out its me", you know, it wasn't that guilty look windows had, and he was in the clear!,..so glad you watched this incredible movie,..and yes the paranoia was the premise,..it's just not the type of paranoia you'd have about a normal human killer,..few movies, just for the mystery of it,..Eye See You, Whiteout, and an old one, 10 Little Indians,..all with people trapped in an isolated place with a human killer on the loose,..the first has Sylvester Stallone in it,..for another who's human, who's not, The Hidden is a good one,..lot of action, and funny,..Bad Moon has a dog in it, protecting a family from something horrible,..do keep going,..ya'll are awesome,..Godspeed, Peace ✌
The Thing is cold blooded which is how it survived frozen in the ice, if you go back and look at the last conversation between Childs and McCready, look closely at their breath.
The Thing is NOT cold blooded or it wouldn't be able to survive for even a minute in Antarctica. Also, if you're talking about the vapour stuff, the point is irrelevant because we already know a Thing exhales warm moist breath because the Bennings-Thing did when it screamed right before Mac torched it.
10:22--There were 2 girl scientists in the 2011 prequel at the norway camp, but only 1 survived ..She tried to kill the dog, but missed..she could only wait for the rescue choppers--took 24 hours to reach her--A good heart start for the "dog"..huskies can run forever in the snow. While being med-evacuated in one, she briefed the other pilots via radio, who took off after it. (CGI of that film couldn't match the awesome and gory FX in this original) But no, ladies, there's never been a sequel, don't know why??
1. The Norwegian killed himself so The Thing couldn't get to him. 2. The ultimate hand grenade throwing FAIL 🙄🙄 3. You have to realize that this movie came out long before CGI so there was some very creative practical effects showcased here. 4. Mac's not a murderer. Clark was attacking him with the scalpel. It was self defense. 5. Of everything that went down the part that got me the most was when Blair was dragging Gary by the face. 6. Their fate is left up to the audience. Maybe it's best they all die. 7. They're re-making this sans Carpenter and Russell. 8. Another Russell/Carpenter product you need to first time/share with us is "Escape from New York".
36:11 "...tied to this f**king couch!" 😆 i love that line, and i'm always disappointed if the reactor doesn't laugh. "Tied to This Couch" remix ua-cam.com/video/b_1ajOkgN5c/v-deo.htmlsi=j6Td0NwT_XuWyHs6
They weren't all the thing. Childs amd MacReady, were human who died from the cold..It was fun seeing it on the big screen when it originally came out .Xx
About six years ago I saw an awesome synth music gig in London, England, and the main keyboardist was the director of this movie - John Carpenter. Was rad. It was on Halloween, so I had a werewolf mask on. John's living a cool life. If you liked the paranoia and weird alien anatomy stuff of this movie, try the brilliant 1978 version of Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers.
This was the first ever horror film I saw when I was a child, VHS video recorders had just came out way back in the 1980s. Movies today just do not compare to classics like this.
For a movie thats about 'not knowing', its a perfect ending.
In my opinion, this movie has the greatest practical effects ever made for a horror film.
Ladies, if a movie makes you talk about it for a long time after it's over, it means that the movie got you.
Also, there are lots of details to take into account, for example Childs' coat, it is blue when Macready's group goes to see Blair and then it is almost white in the final scene. Finally, you are both beautiful, but seeing your faces when Norris's stomach opened was a delight.
"He took the gun, so I guess he's in charge now..." 🤣🤣🤣
Look at Mac. He's the captain now 😉
I always love it when reactors laugh at the tied to the couch part.
Fun Facts:
- Actors Keith David[Childs] and Kurt Russell [MacReady] have both stated for the fan questions and interviews that both of them weren’t the thing/alien creature
- Kurt Russell debunked the fans theories about child’s being the alien, Kurt shook his head “no” and says “that him and John Carpenter have worked on the ending of that movie together a long time,” because it was a horror movie -- but to see what the movie was about, which was paranoia, they didn't know if they knew who they were.”
- John Carpenter even said the video game was canon to the movie and Childs was human, and in the comics Both Child’s and MacReady were human and fought the alien creature in 3 comic issues, they were actually saved by a rescue team and continued to fight [The Thing].
Interesting. That was also my theory. The whole movie is about paranoia and "Don't trust anyone" and destruction.
In other words: the stupidity of humanity. So it makes sense, that both are human. Their death at the end is the
irony of a story about paranoia.
@@atggarden5251the stupidity of humanity??? Hahaha, ok
I always used to think that a clear indication of Childs being the thing is him willingly swigging the booze that was in MacReady's mouth only seconds earlier. I wondered if MacReady was testing him. But the writing's so good, as Childs is the kind of erratic guy who might drink it without thinking.
"both stated for the fan questions and interviews that both of them weren’t the thing/alien creature"
- That's what I would say too if I were the Thing.
But did The Thing do a chess move ?? did it put it`s cells in the booze intended for Mac but Childs drank it instead.... also was the shadow that pasted Fuchs a doppelganger of Mac wearing Mac`s clothing to lure/infect Fuchs(drops flair and dies)..
28:42 "well then we're wrong."
i always thought was a cold line.
Windows had the keys, you hear them drop when he ran away from bennings getting assimilated
7:50 "they're more chill than us." -ryl 🥶
i don't know about that. you two are the most laid back reactors ever i've seen.
I don't mind it. Keep it real ladies and don't be "Fake" reactors like many other channels!
The clothes in the kitchen. I love how John did that. Nauls for the most part is being ignored during this, but the clothes definitely mean there's two things at this point.
27:21 That is the first clue that this is no longer Blair. The real Blair was probably going to end it all. But one of The Things got to him first. A normal human being wouldn’t leave that noose sitting there in plain sight b/c they would know it looks crazy.
The other characters are sitting there talking to BlairThing and just think “Wow this guy is crazy. We are definitely not letting him come back inside.”
Yeah when macready goes there and asks him if he seen fuchs, begging to come back inside, he's definitely a thing at that point.
The thing may have left the noose intentionally. Blair was actually exactly where it wanted to be, isolated where he could work on the ship unobserved for a few days.
19:01 - you can hear Windows drop the keys that he got from Garry (they mention this earlier in that same scene how Windows has to get the keys back to Garry). The same keys that the thing uses to get to the blood later on.
It also explains why Windows panics and runs for the shotgun when everyone is accusing everyone about who had the keys last, because he realizes that eventually people will figure out he had the keys last. I love the subtle touches in this movie.
Windows may have had the keys last, but that may or may not be why he ran to the gun cabinet. It's true that Windows dropped the keys - in terror, when he walked in on an assimilation, but then he immediately went and got help, then was with everyone else while Bennings was burned. Equally plausible explanation: Windows was just innately more terrified and more distrustful than the others, and rightly so: Windows is fairly low in the social hierarchy there, to begin with: Gary momentarily tortures Windows by turning up his headphone volume - he didn't have to do that. Blair speaks harshly to Windows about not being able to reach outside help, when that's likely beyond Windows's control. Palmer-Thing picks on Windows, but is acting like Palmer, so it's plausible that the real Palmer also would have. Windows wears sunglasses indoors, indicating a desire to escape/isolate/tune out. Windows started off feeling that no one had his back, even before the creature appeared, and that vulnerability was dialed up to eleven during the 'someone got to the blood!' moment.
One of the most common questions people have is whether a Thing knows it's a Thing. The answer is yes, because it doesn't infect people or inhabit their body, it essentially just eats them and forms its own cells to mimic them. During the process it must be able to absorb their memories so that it knows everything they knew, that's why it's impossible to tell if someone's been replaced just by observing behavior.
It's still the creepiest line ever that genuinely scares me. How long were you alone with that dog?
That's when I got sucked right into this film.
Well, now yall gotta finish the 80s remake trilogy The Fly 1986 and my favorite creature feature The Blob 1988. If you enjoyed the practical FX in this one, you'll enjoy those. 😊
Yes, both great movies! 🪰🫂
It absorbs you, memories and all. There are no trick questions. Your friend right next to you could be the thing, and you would never know. And also, when it assimilates you, you die. Gone forever.
They used an actual double amputee with no arms to film the chest/mouth bite scene so that it would appear more realistic.
The people who made the game Among Us were inspired by this movie, thats why there is this similarity
LOL! When the thing came out of that blood, you guy's reaction was hilarious.
LMAO John Carpenter still holds it over everyone that he's the only one who knows if either of them were The Thing. its awesome
Because he DOESN'T know if either of them is a Thing.
It wasn't something he wrote, talked or even thought about.
He left it ambiguous on purpose to maintain a level of tension at the end.
That's the point. NO ONE (including John Carpenter) knows if the Thing is dead at the end.
Agreed. There's a short here with Kurt explaining the ending. They write and even film dozens of possibilities. In the end Kurt tells John, it ends how it ends, it is what it is. He says, it's just like his line, let's wait around here for a while, see what happens...
5:19 "he's cute though. right now." -jyn
not for long. 😬
The creature isn't possessing the host, it's replicating the host. First it consumes the host, then replicates the host.
I've watched a lot of reactions to this movie and the two of you have caught on to what's happening much, much better than most people do. Great reaction!
The only thing I disagree about is that someone can be the Thing and not know it. It's an imitation, not an illness. It knows what it is.
Exactly. You are dead when it copies you lol
@@lucianaromulus1408 Yup.
Very nice reaction, I really like it, it's a pretty honest reaction, nothing overstated or overreacted, and most of your comments where really on point, very well done. Instant sub.
You're one of the very few people that react to "The Thing" that actually started thinking quickly that there might be something wrong with the dog.
Yeah. One of the weirdest things about current mindsets (as exemplified by a lot of reactors) is when people get really upset about an animal being hurt in a film, even if 1) in real life they still go to MacDonalds etc 2) the film is full of glorious murder scenes etc. Just strikes me as odd! But Jyn and Ryl are more chill.
@@mikefoster6018I'm a HUGE bleeding heart for animals, but I'd be suspicious if someone was that determined to kill an animal lol I'd assume some sort of infection
@@mikefoster6018 Well, a dog isn't "just an animal" it is usually a beloved pet. Many people think of their dog as a companion, so for many, shooting at a dog is unsettling.
@@lucianaromulus1408 Most would assume that someone trying to kill a dog is insane
@@krisdoggett483 That's why I literally didn't say it's "just an animal". Be a bit more careful with quotation marks.
40:41 It took me a couple of times watching this to realize that sure The Thing is a monster to us. But it’s actually an intelligent being or it can absorb intelligence from the various beings it mimics.
When it turns all monstrous like this I think it’s partly because it’s in the middle of transforming. But I also think it is trying to scare the crap out of the people at the base. Being terrifying is can be an effective survival tool as it definitely makes other lifeforms stay the heck away.
The 2011 movie is a prequel to this movie. In it you get to see what happened at the Norwegian base before the American base.
Also I could have sworn I saw a version of this movie in which after the credits we see another snow dog running away from the American base. It stops looks back at the burning base and continues on.
You are correct - the dog running away scene was an old edit for broadcast TV in the 80's. That version cut most of the gore and incorporated the use of narration at the beginning and end. After the final scene with MacReady and Childs it cuts to daylight with smoke rising above the camp as a huskie runs away with a final VO: "Who knows what has come from the galaxy? Who knows what evil lurks in the skies beyond God? Watch those around you for who knows what today, tonight or tomorrow will bring."
They said the purpose of the Thing- to infect the whole world, anyway it can. The ending for me: they killed the Thing. To do it, they had to burn the place down, knowing they would die too. So they might as well share the last of the whiskey. That makes sense, right?
Great Reaction! Most reactor's just miss those subtle music cue's and don't pick up on something being wrong with the dog until the kennel scene. Very astute!
the thing theme starts playing at the end with Childs picking up the drink
I thought the same!
@orionlt1028 IF Childs was a Thing, it wouldn't go talk to MacReady and IF I did, Thing Childs has M2 Nepalm Flamethrower, Mac has been such a problem Thing would just knock him off not attempting assimilation. I can make many arguments that Childs is a man, and a Thing.
@imafriendofsarahconnor9823 Yeah, I don't understand why people think he's The Thing.
@@haystackbill6187 oh I understand. Just after 30 years watching it, I lean on Childs is not a Thing. MacReady is armed with a Colt Mark 3 Trooper .357 Magnum which is useless on The Thing. MacReady is unarmed and exhausted. As I said, I do not think Thing wants to assimilate MacReady and I think the same is true for Fuchs, I think Blair Thing burned Fuchs or Fuchs accidentally set himself on fire during confrontation. Mac being useless, the Thing strategy would either be do NOT make contact and go to sleep on other side of camp, and if it makes Contact which Childs does, just throw flaming nepalm out if it, Mac is too much a risk and wild card to either not see him on fire and not making contact at all. Since this is last Thing, I do not think it would risk incineration from MacReady.
I think Childs and MacReady are both human and are both about to freeze to death.
The way the Thing takes over, is it attacks you and melds with you, at the DNA level until you are completely taken over.
The two-face creature you saw, was actually two bodies. One was a person who was the thing, the other a normal person. The thing-person melded with the normal but they were killed in the middle of the melding.
This is shown in the 2014 prequel to The Thing.
Let's pretend the prequel doesn't exist. Carpenter didn't approve of it anyway 😂
@@lucianaromulus1408
The prequel is crap. It shows how horrible CGI is for showing biological creatures.
And all the male characters were indistinguishable from each other because they all looked the same.
This film may well be the pinnacle of both cosmic horror and the use of practical effects. Horror doesn't get much better than this.
@17:00
That’s a good point that’s always bugged me a little (although I’m no scientist). In an interview I saw recently, John Carpenter pointed out that the computer animation of the cells was incorrect and misleading. In it we see The Thing cell consuming a host cell… but if it is a creature that mimics other organisms it would have consumed it and then SPLIT in two in order to REPLICATE the cell. So that was a good call on your part for noticing that small technical goof that goes unnoticed by just about everyone who’s not a microbiologist. 🤓👍
That part has always bugged me, but the movie is so good I give it a pass most of the time.
32:12 "so fast, right?"
indeed. fastest man on the continent.
A childhood favorite of mine. So happy to see you two watch this film.
"That's a lame-ass alien!" 😆😅🤣😂 Good reaction, ladies! 👍🏻
The purpose of life is to multiply and spread out. Life is its own justification
The 2011 The Thing is actually a prequel. It tells the story of the Norwegian Research station that discovered the Thing!
A bit of trivia too, if you understood Norwegian at the beginning, you would understand they were saying "get away, that's not a dog!" etc
- and 'it's a devil-dog, Get away, idiot!'
All carpenter movies should be watched! Specially Assault on precinct 13, escape from New York, escape from LA, Starman, Big Trouble in little CHINA, they Live, The Fog, Eyes of Laura Mars, Prince of Darkness, and others. Carpenter resented Spielberg for ET AND it took all the money and awards. But Carpenter had the last laugh! Because this movie is much better! Carpenter made his own alien love story with Starman! Carpenter also is the master of the minimalist creepy theme music! Kurt did 4 movies with carpenter! He even did an early TV Elvis movie, for John! This is one of the 3 most important sci-fi movies ever made. Plus Alien and Bladerunner, which are all related, by actors, and some other technicalities. Also the brilliance here is, when the thing busts out, it comes out of u anywhere, any size, shape, etc. The dog trainer should have won an Oscar and the special effects guy should have won an Oscar! He was a twenty one year old college student!😮😮😮. Pro tip, carpenter is still thinking about a sequel! But there's still a massive tie in here with Alien, predator Bladerunner this , and a movie with Kurt Russell called, Soldier! They are related by the beings called Engineers, for Aliens, Terminator, predator, Bladerunner this, and a movie with Kurt Russell movie called, Soldier. Common companies, technology, Replicants, synthetic humans, beings that Engineers created, and even writers and producers!
And this is why, prosthetic, robotics, special/ effects, practical effects, are way better than CGI! The three main corporations... Cyberdyne (Terminator) Weyland Corp (alien) and Tyrell Corp (Bladerunner) all did cross work for each other, and also shared some employees!😮
Kurt better have kept the hat!
Also the total brilliance here is, once u have been infected, even from just a scratch, u have no idea when u are being taken over! One of the absolute must watch Carpenter films u must watch! Along with Starman, escape from New York, escape from LA, Big Trouble in little CHINA, assault on precinct 13. Go with those, and his Halloween stuff, Eyes of Laura Mars, They Live, The Fog, Christine, In the mouth of madness, prince of darkness, memoirs of an invisible man, vampires! There are critics who say this is Carpenter's version of Communism Socialism, etc , and how it takes over countries, much as a film in the 50s by the same name, i think...
Norris with the heart trouble. He was gone long ago, that was the thing the entire time.
Great reaction! If you think about it, they found the thing's crashed ship, then later found that it was building a new ship. It could have just been trying to leave and these guys got in it's way!
That was definitely not a ship for space travel. Probably for reaching more populated areas, and I really doubt that was the things ship in the beginning. More than likely an unwanted guest they were not aware of
The little ship was probably just to leave Antarctica or reach McMurdo
I really like your reactions, especially the long rambling chats you have at the end, where you quite often end up talking about a completely different movie to the one you've just watched 😂😂
Dwl Lol 😂
I seen a lot of people react to this movie and comment on the missing shots in the beginning. The guy has slit goggles on. those goggles would make it very difficult to get your eyes in the right place to use the scope on that rifle.
Its also a scientist, not a hunter.
lol that and do you have any fucking idea how hard it is to hit a moving target while you're in a helicopter? Not only is your x and y coordinates constantly shifting, you have the z axis + gravity/bullet drop and windage.
Add to that the slitted goggles AND that the guy shooting was not a shooter, but a norwegian scientists/handy man. That rifle was probably not even sighted in.
The only gripe i have is the grenade scene. Like I get it, its snowy and icy and everything is slippery, you're on adrenaline and operating on very little sleep. But even then, I feel like if you fumble a grenade, you RUN AWAY, not run towards it. No matter how sleep deprived you are.
I always assumed the Norwegian's shots were actually hitting the dog but because it was a Thing they were having no real affect.
@@eddhardy1054 hmmm... interesting take.
Good point.
MY theory is that the Norwegian DID hit the dog, perhaps several time, and the dog-Thing being a... well... Thing, it just slowed it down a little and that was it.
An excellent film. The template for “The Thing” is highly recommended. The name of this film is "The Thing from Another World" by Howard Hawks b/w from 1951. The focus here is not mainly on special effects but on the question "what is this thing". An extraordinary film for its time.
By the way, the lady on the right (Ryl?) was one of the very few people who asked herself very, very early on whether the dog was really just a dog.
The 2011 film is set in the Norwegian camp when the Norwegians "free" the spaceship and "The Thing" from the ice, unknowingly setting the catastrophe in motion. The end of the film is the escape of "The Thing" in dog form towards the US research station and the pursuit by the helicopter.
The Norwegian camp is in ruins at this point.
I like watching your channel. Ive seen so many movies but its fun to see you ladies watch them for the first time.
Director's Cut "The Abyss" by James Cameron for ocean aliens.
My favorite horror movie. I cant think of a worse scenario to find yourself in. Youre battling an intelligent enemy, you dont know if its malicious or simply trying to survive, if it touches you...youre dead, its almost impossible to detect, it can only be killed with fire/acid and if it gets to water or transportation its not just the end of humans but THE ENTIRE WORLD. Every Winter when the wind howls i think of this movie. It inspired me to get a flamethrower cause...you never know 😅
I just watched your reaction, I’ll subscribe 😊Thank you, you are the first one to mention that Mac was defending himself when he shot Clarke.You are the first I have heard
noticing that
Blair was infected right in front of your faces. During the autopsy he touched the thing with a pencil. Then he absent mindedly touched the pencil eraser to his lips. A few cells got in. He was human until some point after they locked him up outside. He was going to hang himself but it replicated enough to take him over by the last time Mac talked to him. It can take you over in two forms. A few cells at a time or the more aggressive when it's a large mass. It just grabs you and absorbs the person's body which still take at least a few minutes.
That was already debunked by other youtubers, Blair never touches the thing with the pencil just gets very close to it. Go watch the videos, his infection isn't until he's brought food by Palmer (who by then was already a thing) etc when he's already locked away. Learn your movies buddy.
There's a lot of uncertainty as to when different people were infected, and taken over. For instance: when Blair wrecks the chopper, the tractor and the radio room - are those the actions of the real Blair, who is semi-crazy, but still heroically acting to ••prevent an escape•• by the others, and prevent a contamination of the rest of the world? Or, are these the actions of Blair-Thing, who is acting to ••prevent a WARNING•• from reaching the outside world, so that rescue teams or military strikes won't interfere with it when it's time to move on to new targets? Was human-Blair merely 'out of it' when they locked him in the tool shed? Or, was it already Blair-Thing, who ••acted•• crazy so that the others would lock him in the tool shed, and then leave him alone so that he could tunnel out and work on the escape craft? ...Did the dog-thing infect Norris first, who then infected Palmer? Or was it the other way around?
@@YokaiSteve Yeah sure and according to youtube Wendy had the psychotic break and Jack was normal. By the way the producer absolutely ruled that out that Blair was infected after he was locked up
@@tranya327 The dog infected Palmer but could have also infected Norris. We know that by the shadow. The hair is too bushy to be anyone but Palmer or Windows. And the producer said Blair was infected early on before getting locked up. But that doesn't mean he wasn't still human when they put him in there.
My intuition agrees with you, both on Blair being infected early, and on the dog infecting Palmer first.@@rumbledumpthumpershaker6735
Its a parlor game. You don't know who is / who isn't / when / etc. Lots of online theories.
Saw this for the first time when I was 19 and that shit had me jumping like you too lol. I think in the ending the transformation in the end that look like a dinosaur head is the actual thing itself.
My stepdad rented it when I was 3 and decided to watch it while we were eating spaghetti. Needless to say, he couldn't eat while I had seconds and finished the movie. lol.
The purpose was to keep them busy while the thing was building tge soace ship to go off the planet. In the novella this is based on ("Who goes there?" By John Campbell, 1938), that's what happened. The Blair-thing was in the shed for a week, building the spaceship. It almost finished when they found it.
Good reaction. You came to some vey good conclusions along the way 👍 Also, the thing exposes itself when it's being attacked. With tge Norris-thing, it was the shock from the difibrillator. With the Palmer-thing, it was exposed thanks to the blood test, so it knew it will be killed. The dog in the beginning did it queitly with the man who was in the room (the shadow). It was quiet with Garry. As long as it can, it does it quietly.
Blair turned into the thing when he was locked in the shack. It was locked from the outside. So whomever was the thing (Norris or Palmer) got into the shack and attacked Blair.
It happened between when Blair was locked up, and when he said he was alright again and wanted to be let out.
Nobody attacked Blair, it was subtle infection during their visit to bring him food. Go watch the informative videos.
@@YokaiSteve
No, i'm watching the MOVIE. If they wanted to explain it as being the food, they would have put it in the movie.
Either way, the point is they infected him in that timeframe.
@@murrayroodbaard207 Hardly, you're so narrow minded.
@@YokaiSteve
Oh really?
Pray tell, if you watched this movie in the cinema in 1982, how would you have known the infection was in the food?
In retrospect everything can be invented. Like people do all the time with The Shining.
There was no indication whatsoever that the infection was in the food.
As a matter of fact, Fuchs even suggested IN THE MOVIE to only eat out of cans and to make your own meals.
Forgot about that?
The movie literally SUGGESTS that the food cannot be contaminated.
Goated movie. I didn't watch it for so long cause it looked so old and dated at first glance. But now I can't stop thinking of who's the imposter
Great reaction!
3:31 "is the dog the alien or something?" -ryl
i really think the spaceship at the beginning makes the dog super suspicious. most people see a spaceship and people trying to kill a dog and put it together.
and of course, the music seals the deal. 🙂
One of the greatest movies ever made… this movie is awesome in theatres. I saw it at a special showing a few years back… the crowd clapped and cheered at the end!
CLASSIC
The opening credits where The Thing burns onto the screen is how the original 1950s The Thing started - burning the words The Thing onto the screen. You should watch the 1950s original and the 2011 prequel, both very good.
Great score composed by Ennio Morricone, John Carpenter and Alan Howarth.
This is one part of Carpenter's so called "Apocalypse Trilogy" of "The Thing", "Prince of Darkness", and "In the Mouths of Madness". He never intended it as such, but people named them that as they all deal with serious existensal threats to the human race, and the odds don't look good.
And this is by far the best of them.
"Prince Of Darkness" is much less known, but it has a lot of slow-burn tension and suspense along with a couple of cool sci-fi concepts. It also has Alice Cooper as the creepy guy and Donald Pleasence (Dr. Loomis in Halloween) on the side of "good".
@@castlew4162 You can't go wrong with Alice Cooper
37:44 almost no other reactor gets this!
The Thing has dozens, if not hundreds of forms. It's not unreasonable to think it has one that can burrow or melt ice, and that it has one that can rapidly construct items.
A cool bit of foreshadowing that everyone misses is the pinball machine in the rec room. It's called Heat Wave. There's a thermometer on the rear display, the idea of play is to score points to raise the temperature of the thermometer, when it reaches the top, it blows up. You kinda have to be a pinball fanatic to get it though.
If it could fly in a cold atmosphere, the whole movie (both movies) does not happen.
@@stevetheduck1425 hmm, depends if you think it's a spaceship, or a ground craft I guess. I've always tended towards it being a ground craft.
If you want underwater aliens, check out The Abyss. Be sure it is the extended edition. It matters.
Find the original movie from the 1950,s with James Arness as the Thing, when they show the men in a circle around the space ship in the ice that's from the 1953 movie.
33:40 blood test. great reaction.
The 80s was a great decade for movies, and I saw The Thing opening night with my best friend. We were both HS seniors in 1982. Scared us half to death! 😆 Great reactions, girls.I want to see you guy watch more classic 80s horror/sci-fi films! Subbed. 😁
Monsters, aliens, zombies.. if I had to be trapped with anyone facing ‘things’ out there, it would be cool headed Jyn & Ryl. Chill, unfazed and unafraid of whatever. You ladies are awesome! I love the smiles and smarts. 🥰
There was sequel comic that says that neither of them were things but the thing did survive and they had work with a submarine crew that rescued them to stop the thing.
Very nice film😊😅😮😂❤
The 2011 film is about what happened earlier and ends with The dog (something) running away 👍👍😉😉
Other movies with this premise were 1950s The Blob, 1970s Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
All carpenter movies MUST be watched! Particularly assault on precinct 13, starman, big trouble in little china, escape from New York, escape from LA, and all others. He did 5 movies with kurt😢. He was pissed at Spielberg for a long time because et came out, got all the money and press. But john had the last laugh, because this has gone on forever, recognized as a sci-fi horror suspense classic, of all time! Boy Kurt met Elvis as a kid, then did a movie with him, then did Carpenter's first TV movie about him, then did 3000 miles to Graceland, then his voice in Forrest Gump! This, Alien and Bladerunner, are why special effects practical effects are far better than CGI! The dog should have won a Oscar! The trainer should have won a Oscar! The suspense building in this is palpable! The music was done by spaghetti Western extraordinaire, ennio morricone! But the little 5 note synth stuff, done by carpenter, and he's the master of that type of movie music! Think of the music of Halloween and assault on precinct 13! Pro tip, he's still thinking of a sequel!😮. The thing is, u don't know even if ur infected, until the organism decides to openly take u over! And if there is a sequel, 1 of the last 2, has to be the thing! 😮😮😮😮
The thing half eating Windows maybe the greatest scene ever! All i wanna know is, did kurt keep the greatest ever hat, in movies?!?!😅. And NOBODY, does in camera scene parallax shots, like carpenter!
Imo, one of the greatest endings in movie history (another favorite of mine is ''An American Werewolf in London'')!
"Christine" (1983) by Stephen king & John Carpenter. Great movie & insane story. CAN you react this movie. Thanks 🎉🎉
46:00 The Thing from 2011 is the PREQUEL (the story of the norwegians).
I always wonder if the Thing isn't just as scared and confused as everyone else is. It would fit the theme of paranoia being dangerous.
Back on The Thing homeworld this Thing is probably a shy librarian who knits sweaters for poor less fortunate Thing kids. 😂😂
It just wants to go home and everyone be trying to burn it.
@@technofilejr3401 😂😂😂👍🏻
The other movie from 2011 is a prequel movie. It shows what happened to the other camp where the dog came from.
36:02 I know you Ladies have been through a lot, while watching this film, but I'm so pleased you laughed at my favorite line of the movie. 😊I first saw The Thing when I was nine or ten years old and found it such an amazing experience. ❣
The end is designed to feed the audience's paranoia, and does so perfectly. The film itself is about paranoia and not knowing, and the audience ourselves/themselves are also feeling the same paranoia throughout the film. The audience are each effectively a character of the film, not able to act in it but we are experiencing exactly what the film's characters are in their heads. With the ending you carry that feeling with you and it leaves you pondering the outcome, and here we are over 40 years later still talking about it and debating it. Thanks for the video.
Cool practical affects
One of the best endings in movies hands down 😁 AWESOME show there ladies 👏 👏 👏 wait till yall find out who it was MacReady or Childs?? Keep up the wonderful work🎃
Loved your reaction,..at the end, when Blair transforms,..and its the dogs, and him,..remember when he was doing the autopsy of the dog/thing carcass,..he while he was explaining what had happened, maybe absent-mindedly after touching his eraser pencil to the carcass and then touching his bottom lip with the same eraser pencil,..that's when he contracted, remember it just takes some small amount, few cells,..the dog DNA was on that eraser,..maybe thats why it looked the way it did when it came down to Blair,..knew when it came to the Doc getting his arms chewed off while doing cpr, that that would be pretty shocking for you, and yeah dont think Norris knew he was a thing, its like when we get the flu, or something, it infects like a disease,,..but I think Palmer knew he was a thing,..it's that shrug, and goofy look he has when they're about to test the blood, like, "oh well, the jig.is up, they're gonna find out its me", you know, it wasn't that guilty look windows had, and he was in the clear!,..so glad you watched this incredible movie,..and yes the paranoia was the premise,..it's just not the type of paranoia you'd have about a normal human killer,..few movies, just for the mystery of it,..Eye See You, Whiteout, and an old one, 10 Little Indians,..all with people trapped in an isolated place with a human killer on the loose,..the first has Sylvester Stallone in it,..for another who's human, who's not, The Hidden is a good one,..lot of action, and funny,..Bad Moon has a dog in it, protecting a family from something horrible,..do keep going,..ya'll are awesome,..Godspeed, Peace ✌
"Ramen noodles" lol 😅
There's a prequel set at the Norwegian base. Also, if you understand Norwegian, they give away the whole thing before they die.
Thing-Palmer definitely the main one who sabotaged most stuff and caused the most damage.
The Thing is cold blooded which is how it survived frozen in the ice, if you go back and look at the last conversation between Childs and McCready, look closely at their breath.
The Thing is NOT cold blooded or it wouldn't be able to survive for even a minute in Antarctica.
Also, if you're talking about the vapour stuff, the point is irrelevant because we already know a Thing exhales warm moist breath because the Bennings-Thing did when it screamed right before Mac torched it.
10:22--There were 2 girl scientists in the 2011 prequel at the norway camp, but only 1 survived ..She tried to kill the dog, but missed..she could only wait for the rescue choppers--took 24 hours to reach her--A good heart start for the "dog"..huskies can run forever in the snow. While being med-evacuated in one, she briefed the other pilots via radio, who took off after it. (CGI of that film couldn't match the awesome and gory FX in this original) But no, ladies, there's never been a sequel, don't know why??
The prequel movie made in 2011 is about what happened to the Norwegians. It's pretty good, even though the special effects aren't as good
Regarding Independence Day: cos humans would never use up all the resources and leave a dead planet behind them would we…..
1. The Norwegian killed himself so The Thing couldn't get to him.
2. The ultimate hand grenade throwing FAIL 🙄🙄
3. You have to realize that this movie came out long before CGI so there was some very creative practical effects showcased here.
4. Mac's not a murderer. Clark was attacking him with the scalpel. It was self defense.
5. Of everything that went down the part that got me the most was when Blair was dragging Gary by the face.
6. Their fate is left up to the audience. Maybe it's best they all die.
7. They're re-making this sans Carpenter and Russell.
8. Another Russell/Carpenter product you need to first time/share with us is "Escape from New York".
Another perfect react You Tube won't let me thumbs up.
36:11 "...tied to this f**king couch!" 😆
i love that line, and i'm always disappointed if the reactor doesn't laugh.
"Tied to This Couch" remix ua-cam.com/video/b_1ajOkgN5c/v-deo.htmlsi=j6Td0NwT_XuWyHs6
A true classic! 😊
Great movies have endings that make you think about the movie after the credits roll
Watch their breaths at the end.
They weren't all the thing. Childs amd MacReady, were human who died from the cold..It was fun seeing it on the big screen when it originally came out
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About six years ago I saw an awesome synth music gig in London, England, and the main keyboardist was the director of this movie - John Carpenter. Was rad. It was on Halloween, so I had a werewolf mask on. John's living a cool life.
If you liked the paranoia and weird alien anatomy stuff of this movie, try the brilliant 1978 version of Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers.
My dad let me watch this when I was 8 years old. Great job dad! Still scared to this day.
10:01 maybe that’s why they act so quickly & rationally? 😂
When I saw that you girls associated the thing with ramen noodles, I subscribed
All the things have dog DNA available from the start, so bits of dog will manifest themselves when the Thing needs them.
This was the first ever horror film I saw when I was a child, VHS video recorders had just came out way back in the 1980s. Movies today just do not compare to classics like this.