Okay, retroactively watching this, having seen Karl with his right arm fully covered in tattoos in almost every video, I kinda had a mini heart attack when I was reminded of the fact that the Thing can't replicate body modifications.
@@antoinebronk2251tattoos become incorporated into the DNA in the mitochondria of each cell in that deeper layer of your skin. That's why they don't shed off in a month or so and disappear.
"He's the president from Rick & Morty." He's also the freakin' Arbiter in the Halo series, and... and... man, *so many other characters.* It's *not* all you need to know about Keith David. The guy's a legend!
The story of the guy who decided CGI instead of practical reminds me of a story about when Michelangelo was making the statue David. Apparently, one of the people who was responsible for commissioning him to make the statue showed up and complained that the nose was too big. The issue was, he was standing somewhere where the perspective was screwy, instead of below the statue like a normal viewer. So Michelangelo moved him to the right spot and said "Okay, tell me when it's right." He then picked up his chisel and a handful of dust, and pretended to chip away at the nose until the guy said it looked good.
Another cool detail left out of the film was that MacReady is a Vietnam veteran. In the DVD commentary Kurt Russel and John Carpenter talked about MacReadys military background as a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War which would explain his alcoholism and how he was so comfortable using a flamethrower in the film. I believe it's brought up in the comic continuation of The Thing but it would have been cool if Carpenter wrote in a little comment by one of the other characters referencing MacReadys time in the war.
The molotov theory made me think of that scene more.... Maybe MacReady is smiling because he knows Childs isn't infected and the Thing is dead. Because alchohol is technically a toxin and kills cells. "every little piece was an individual animal with a built-in desire to protect its own life" This awareness of this fact also could have made him sure that he himself wasn't infected as he was wasted all the time.
@@bravado2809I agree, I don't think the ending was supposed to explain anything other than, there could be more. The 82 film can serve as a stand alone movie, but also, should the success ask for a sequel, then we would have had an official answer. But that's history.
The bottles used to make molotov cocktails were plain unlabeled bottles. But the bottle that MacReady has at the end of the movie is clearly a bottle of Scotch, label and all. It's also the bottle of Scotch that MacReady drinks from throughout the movie, so he isn't going to waste it even to kill a killer from outer space.
fun fact macready was written as a Vietnam war veteran with PTSD explaining most of his actions when he took charge to him it was very similar to the Vietnam jungles where due to guerrilla warfare you can never tell who's an enemy and who's civilian until it's to late much like how you can't tell who's a thing and who's human until it's too late and also explains his constant drinking because a common coping mechanism for soldiers with PTSD seems to be alcohol at least back then so when you realize he was written as a Vietnam vet with PTSD his actions make complete sense he drinks to cope with the pain of the war and how he actually fights and acts is actually because he's seen a similar situation where friends and enemies look completely the same and you won't know who's the enemy until they attack and now that he's reliving that on a much more terrifying and disasterous scale he immediately knows how to deal with the threat even if all he knows is that they can perfectly mimic its prey
@@MarcillaSmith I mean the part in regards to his excessive drinking and how he immediately took charge and made as many good calls as he needed which did actually save some lives like the blood test where only one person died in a case where many people could have died is a theory but behind the scenes it was clearly expressed that Macready is a Vietnam veteran with PTSD it was always talked about when writing the character but was never really mentioned in the movie
@@ghostface1529 Right. I'm just saying that I've been thinking about what is the underlying psychological appeal to the narrative - what goes beyond "it's a good story, well told" that speaks to people. I'm not saying anything so radical as "Macready dreamed the whole thing," and I think a case can be made for the fear around AIDS (and any number of other things), but the idea that the thing is a manifestation of PTSD - particularly related to the guerrilla warfare of Vietnam - really connects the movie to the cultural zeitgeist around its release.
@@MarcillaSmith you’re not wrong about the std theory in the blood test scene in the background you can actually see a poster about STDs with the tagline of they aren’t labeled in the beginning of the scene as a clever joke or allusion to the fact that someone in the group is a thing and they won’t exactly tell you it
@@ghostface1529 THANK YOU! I could not figure out what that poster was, so you've solved that mystery for me, and YES that definitely ties into both the thing and STD's/AIDS. ... and now I'm picturing (/trying not to picture) a campy Queer-cinema remake...
The original Thing is my favourite film. When production got delayed they didn’t just sit on it, they went through and layed out the continuity of the scenes making for very little mistakes. It’s near flawless. If there is one thing I love about the prequel though it is that it establishes the metal rejections. So because Childs has his earring on in the final scene it should mean he is real. Also the xbox game is technically the sequel continuation of the story, and childs is found frozen to death in that same spot if i recall.
Nogarda Gaming Wasnt it that if the Thing recreates the body, it doesnt have the mods, but if a person gets infected they do because it's the original body taken over by the Thing's cells?
Also, there was a trick in filming to let you know who was a Thing if you knew what to look for. Every human in the story in every scene has a "gleam" of light in their eyes, the Things do not. This was intentional.
@@matts1166 Yeah that's debunked, several points in the film after palmer is proven to be infected he has eye gleams, it just wasn't during that shot where he's revealed for dramatic effect.
Kurt Russell is just being quiet and absorbing all of the info he’s hearing about “the thing”. He’s keeping it hidden because he doesn’t want “the thing” to know what he knows because it could use it against him. “The Thing” is very vulnerable out in the open because it’s very slow at assimilating it’s victims. So it makes sense that it would prefer more of a follower position, and not the leader. Everyone’s eyes are on MacReady because “The Thing” was framing him as itself, and since he’s the leader: “all eyes on him”.
i love The Thing (original) so goddamn much, but i gotta admit, the idea of MacReady starting the movie super-antisocial and drunk could have really enhanced the paranoia of who could be a thing, how reliable Mac really was and really made them turning on Mac more intense.
If you think having an alcoholic pilot is bad, my friend is a trained medic who can only remeber how to perform medical procedures whilst wasted as fuck. Think about that, an EMT who can only BE an EMT if he downs a bottle of whiskey before hand.
It’s a perfect movie, like Citizen Kane. The story is gripping, the special effects are second to none, the acting is superb, and the suspense is intense. It’s more than a horror film. It’s a defining film.
The Thing was one of the first horror films I watched, which was special because my parents used to be super strict. Saw it when I was about 12 (9 years ago). It wasn't very scary, but damn are those effects awesome and memorable. I was amazed when the prequel managed to get the models so accurate considering they were made 30 years apart... though I know a lot of people hate that prequel. Anyone have any opinions on it? I thought it was really good but I do wish they'd stuck more to puppets and animatronic models than CGI.
Mamamew TheRani the directors of the prequel actually did sime stunning practical effects only for the studio to go over their heads and cover most of those effects with shite cgi
I felt like there were to many characters in the prequal. i never counted them but on repeat viewings i find my self thinking who is that ive never seen him before
@Mamamew TheRani Six months later: My first reaction to the prequel was that the scientists looked way too young. They were the age of college students. In the interest of Artistic License, I reconciled that it was remotely possible that some kids right out of college could have been recruited. However, people that young and inexperienced would never have been put in charge of such an undertaking. The next thing about the film was, of course, the use of CGI; which was jarring for someone who had already seen the John Carpenter version. By the end of the film, however, I had become impressed with the attention to detail, and how the people who made the prequel seemed to have made it as sort-of a love letter to John Carpenter's movie. I was especially impressed with how well they re-created the first scene of the John Carpenter movie as the final scene of the prequel, so if you watch the two movies back-to-back, the transition is seamless.
6:50 I'm not convinced by the theory that the Thing couldn't taste a Molotov cocktail, I mean Blair the Biologist during the dissection explicitly states it has perfectly replicated every organ, that said I do still think that scene does indicate Childs to be a Thing. Earlier in the film they discuss getting infected from a single particle so they suggest preparing their own food, Childs seems perfectly fine drinking the bottle after MacReady, so he seems to no longer give a shit about getting infected
Love your videos! Keep it up. There is one thing though. The 1982 "The Thing" is a remake of the original "The Thing From Another World" from 1951. The 1982 version is much more faithful to "Who Goes There", the story on which it was based.
You can definitely see hints of this original characterization in the movie, especially early on! I recall hearing in an interview with Carpenter that the idea was MacReady was a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War, so because of his experiences there, he was (pardon the pun) alienated from the rest of the team there because few, if any, of them had served in 'Nam. So he was less "abusive" than just...well isolated. It seems ironic he's their lifeline to other camps and the outside world. I can see why they changed him up a bit though, but I'd argue that core character concept is still intact!
So I watched the movie being 19 years old (like a couple of months ago) and it was freaking terrifying. Practical effects are the shit, I barely watched the entire movie. And I usually don't get scared of horror movies. They did an amazing job 👌
This is my favorite horror movie ever!, and it was released a whole decade before I was born. That just goes to show how much creepier/scarier practical effects monsters are compared to CGI monsters.
I haven't played Halo, but the prop for RoboCop was built on a real Barrett m82 .50 caliber rifle. Guessing the creators of Halo also based their design on the Barrett?
While pointing out that both Rob Bottin and Stan Winston worked on the Thing's designs, the guy in this vid mentions that Rob Bottin designed the Robocop suit but didn't mention that Stan Winston designed the villain robot in Robocop 2.
I'm so old that Keith David is known as "the president in Rick and Morty," and not "the secondary main character voice actor from one of the most successful and popular games ever made of all time."
I'm decently young compared to you guys and I LOVE The Thing. The Thing (John Carpenters), Jeepers Creepers 1, and The Evil Dead are easily the best horror movies in my opinion.
I don't think you get the point of something being ambiguous; its ambiguous so that people *can* make theories about it. telling people to "leave it ambiguous, arseholes" sucks all the fun out of it.
is it weird how my dad who's seen the 1982 movie plenty of times actually believes the 2011 movie is a complete reboot and has nothing to do with the original even though the key points of the first movie show up at the ending of the 2011 one specifically the thing corpse the corpse with the straight razor the axe in the wall and even the secret scene which shows Lars dressed up exactly like we see in the original movie gun and all and the chopper and the dog thing playing out almost exactly like the original movie showed
If you watch this on your phone from a short distance away (about a metre), the photo of Kurt Russell over Karl's left shoulder turns into Barry Chuckle
I just realised I haven't seen this video, so ~8min in, when karl mentions the thing not being able to replicate tattoos... and now he has a sleeve, it genuinely freaked me out for a second, then i realised this was recorded before he had the sleeve done.
Nobody ever talks about the original original. The Thing from Another World (1951), while not as watchable with 2018 eyes, was still pretty good. The whole movie takes place in an Arctic military base in Alaska (working simultaneously for research and as a base for early nuclear weapons detection) and has pacing similar to a lot of way old sci-fi films where the majority is focused on the characters and research and the latter half is dealing with human hubris... Except it's not hubris so much as The Thing is a metaphor for communism. At the time people were really worried about communism spreading... Revolution was brewing in China at the time and it did have it's supporters before the infamous Red Scare. It's a fascinating historical perspective dehumanizing the communist movements, but with Stalin in power, I guess it's a little bit deserved.
John Carpenter's _The Thing_ is one of my top favorite films, and I've watched it dozens of times. Literally not until my most recent viewing, though, did I notice that MacReady isn't the 100%-confident '80s action star that I'd always seen him as. I mean, I'd noticed his reliance on alcohol, of course, but beyond that, there are a ton of quick little bits where he very subtly shows on his face that though he's keeping up his "Fearless He-Man Leader" act for the other guys on the base, he's actually internally extremely unconfident. I always thought he just found the science being done on the base uninteresting and not worth his time, beyond the piloting, but this time I realized that comparing himself to the smarter, better-educated scientists gives him self-esteem issues that he desperately wants to hide (and he's almost 100% successful at doing so). I never really understood the part when he rewinds and tapes over the bit in his final report where he says that nobody trusts anybody anymore. On this viewing, though, it fit in with MacReady's obsession to avoid showing weakness. Even in a final report that'll almost certainly only be heard after his death, if ever, he doesn't want people to think he might not be 100% coping. The part where MacReady gives a scientist the dumbass advice to just "Trust in the Lord" now fits in better, too, with my new understanding of MacReady as a guy who isn't as smart or confident as he pretends to be (see also his baseless accusation of cheating and destructive sore losership when he can't beat his chess program). So before viewing your vid, I wondered whether _this_ was the side of R.J. MacReady you were going to talk about that we never get to see. Based on the thumbnail, though, I expected you to talk more about his alcoholism.
Lol, this mug is green inside and looks like a portal in Karl's belly with texts and some photos of famous guys in it. So I'll rewatch to giggle about it throughout the whole (a bit more giggling as a preview) THING
I know that in real life, when new researchers take up a stint at the british antarctic station, they all watch the thing on that first night there (the one with kurt russel). so I thought that was kind of office humour funny.
I loved the prequel, hated the cgi, but overlooked it because I loved the little Easter eggs that they placed in it referring to the original, like the hatchet in the wall that you see in the original, loved that idea, really the only thing I liked about it now that I think about it haha
Everyone and their mother is playing Among Us I literally cannot play that game because halfway through I almost always quit to go watch The Thing or get kicked because I keep quoting The Thing
I don't know if anybody else noticed that the inside of his mug is green in just a way that the green screen thought that it was a green screen and you can see the words and pictures in the mug
the whole thing about CGI is I can agree with it to an extent. when there is good CGI no one can tell and practically every movie from the past 10 uses it to an extent. Like now a days if a movie has a car chase, its most likely CGI or all the cars around them are CGI. CGI can be very realistic if done right and computers can do that will metal and plastic. but with people... up close shots of CGI people with actual people on scene is not doing it right as we come to the issue known as the "uncanny valley" and we just aren't there yet, but if give it a few years.
Subscribed after watching your "That Time a Millionaire Tried to Pay People with Exposure (The TH-cam Monetisation Change)". Plus we have the same first name, *The* *correct* *spelling* .
The Thing is probably the closest we are going to get to Lovecraftian horror done right in cinema, of course there are probably some movies out there that do it well that I've never heard of. Haven't seen From Beyond or the Color Out of Space movie, but I'd figure if they were any good they would have some sort of critical acclaim.
A few points about the Thing and the theories: 1. The theory about the clothes that Childs was wearing was based off of the original movie and its lighting which was severely orange-y. On the hd release you can see that it's actually the frost on his coat. Also the thing about his breath is that since he's closer to the fire, the draft is getting to him and is warming him up. 2. There's actually a series of comics that was published after the movie, with the first one being called "The thing from another world", the second one "Climate of fear", and lastly "Eternal vows". l don't know how canon they are but in the first one we are explicitly shown and told that both Childs and MacReady were human.
whats the matter with studios?? it's like they think the people they hired to make the films are totally incompetent sometimes. that effect looked great even out of frame and i only saw a few short seconds of it
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I'm pretty sure I've drunkenly declared, "I am not a thing" in bars on various occasions.
Hmmm...
give me some of your blood.
11jerans I’ll get the hot needle
got some flameys on standby
Okay, retroactively watching this, having seen Karl with his right arm fully covered in tattoos in almost every video, I kinda had a mini heart attack when I was reminded of the fact that the Thing can't replicate body modifications.
Same
@@antoinebronk2251tattoos become incorporated into the DNA in the mitochondria of each cell in that deeper layer of your skin. That's why they don't shed off in a month or so and disappear.
"He's the president from Rick & Morty."
He's also the freakin' Arbiter in the Halo series, and... and... man, *so many other characters.* It's *not* all you need to know about Keith David. The guy's a legend!
He voiced HBO’s Spawn too🤘
Ramirez!
And Sergeant Foley
Spawn.
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The story of the guy who decided CGI instead of practical reminds me of a story about when Michelangelo was making the statue David. Apparently, one of the people who was responsible for commissioning him to make the statue showed up and complained that the nose was too big. The issue was, he was standing somewhere where the perspective was screwy, instead of below the statue like a normal viewer. So Michelangelo moved him to the right spot and said "Okay, tell me when it's right." He then picked up his chisel and a handful of dust, and pretended to chip away at the nose until the guy said it looked good.
Another cool detail left out of the film was that MacReady is a Vietnam veteran. In the DVD commentary Kurt Russel and John Carpenter talked about MacReadys military background as a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War which would explain his alcoholism and how he was so comfortable using a flamethrower in the film. I believe it's brought up in the comic continuation of The Thing but it would have been cool if Carpenter wrote in a little comment by one of the other characters referencing MacReadys time in the war.
The molotov theory made me think of that scene more.... Maybe MacReady is smiling because he knows Childs isn't infected and the Thing is dead. Because alchohol is technically a toxin and kills cells. "every little piece was an individual animal with a built-in desire to protect its own life" This awareness of this fact also could have made him sure that he himself wasn't infected as he was wasted all the time.
I'll have to debunk this John carpenter the director said himself one of them is the thing.
@@IWearShades Well no director in history hasn't lied or changed their minds to keep their fans on their toes right? Lol
@@IWearShades I'll have to debunk this god said himself that it is supposed to be entirely ambiguous.
@@bravado2809I agree, I don't think the ending was supposed to explain anything other than, there could be more. The 82 film can serve as a stand alone movie, but also, should the success ask for a sequel, then we would have had an official answer. But that's history.
The bottles used to make molotov cocktails were plain unlabeled bottles. But the bottle that MacReady has at the end of the movie is clearly a bottle of Scotch, label and all.
It's also the bottle of Scotch that MacReady drinks from throughout the movie, so he isn't going to waste it even to kill a killer from outer space.
karl puts the fun in functioning alchoholic
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Your name is great “EMO” advertising for WMG. It’s a nice list of pop punk bands with a alt rap pop duo thrown in
umm wow i never thought some person on youtube would analyse some kids emo username but wow.
Emo trash, go back to your own country libtard
Panic! At the chemical piløt fallout
Fun fact... none of these bands are actually emo... all of them are related via alt/pop punk and being on WMG
Karl, your a self admitted Halo nut and you didn't bring up the fact that Kieth David was also the Arbiter?
For real!
He was also Captain Anderson in Mass Effect!
*You're
@@lovipoekimo176 Did you just try grammar Nazi a 5 month old comment? 😂
They honestly can't help themselves.
fun fact macready was written as a Vietnam war veteran with PTSD explaining most of his actions when he took charge to him it was very similar to the Vietnam jungles where due to guerrilla warfare you can never tell who's an enemy and who's civilian until it's to late much like how you can't tell who's a thing and who's human until it's too late and also explains his constant drinking because a common coping mechanism for soldiers with PTSD seems to be alcohol at least back then so when you realize he was written as a Vietnam vet with PTSD his actions make complete sense he drinks to cope with the pain of the war and how he actually fights and acts is actually because he's seen a similar situation where friends and enemies look completely the same and you won't know who's the enemy until they attack and now that he's reliving that on a much more terrifying and disasterous scale he immediately knows how to deal with the threat even if all he knows is that they can perfectly mimic its prey
That makes the most sense of any theory I've heard about the film. TY for sharing.
@@MarcillaSmith I mean the part in regards to his excessive drinking and how he immediately took charge and made as many good calls as he needed which did actually save some lives like the blood test where only one person died in a case where many people could have died is a theory but behind the scenes it was clearly expressed that Macready is a Vietnam veteran with PTSD it was always talked about when writing the character but was never really mentioned in the movie
@@ghostface1529 Right. I'm just saying that I've been thinking about what is the underlying psychological appeal to the narrative - what goes beyond "it's a good story, well told" that speaks to people. I'm not saying anything so radical as "Macready dreamed the whole thing," and I think a case can be made for the fear around AIDS (and any number of other things), but the idea that the thing is a manifestation of PTSD - particularly related to the guerrilla warfare of Vietnam - really connects the movie to the cultural zeitgeist around its release.
@@MarcillaSmith you’re not wrong about the std theory in the blood test scene in the background you can actually see a poster about STDs with the tagline of they aren’t labeled in the beginning of the scene as a clever joke or allusion to the fact that someone in the group is a thing and they won’t exactly tell you it
@@ghostface1529 THANK YOU! I could not figure out what that poster was, so you've solved that mystery for me, and YES that definitely ties into both the thing and STD's/AIDS.
... and now I'm picturing (/trying not to picture) a campy Queer-cinema remake...
The score to The Thing is one of the greatest horror soundtracks in film history. It should be recognized on the same level as Jaws or Alien.
The original Thing is my favourite film. When production got delayed they didn’t just sit on it, they went through and layed out the continuity of the scenes making for very little mistakes. It’s near flawless. If there is one thing I love about the prequel though it is that it establishes the metal rejections. So because Childs has his earring on in the final scene it should mean he is real. Also the xbox game is technically the sequel continuation of the story, and childs is found frozen to death in that same spot if i recall.
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Wasnt it that if the Thing recreates the body, it doesnt have the mods, but if a person gets infected they do because it's the original body taken over by the Thing's cells?
@@turidrowned nah, it couldn't, that's how the gal knew her buddy was the thing (because he put his earring on the wrong ear)
Also, there was a trick in filming to let you know who was a Thing if you knew what to look for. Every human in the story in every scene has a "gleam" of light in their eyes, the Things do not. This was intentional.
Matt S that theory was debunked 20 times over
@@matts1166 Yeah that's debunked, several points in the film after palmer is proven to be infected he has eye gleams, it just wasn't during that shot where he's revealed for dramatic effect.
Kurt Russel is a national treasure
He sure is. Big Trouble In Little China, Stargate, Used Cars and Tombstone were all solid hits.
and going by his age, it wont be long before he is buried treasure.
BHALT0S so is Nick cage or Johnny depp going to dig him up first?
lol.
@@Panzer4F2 dont forget Bone Tomahawk
Keith David is the vice president in Saints row 4
Kurt Russell is just being quiet and absorbing all of the info he’s hearing about “the thing”. He’s keeping it hidden because he doesn’t want “the thing” to know what he knows because it could use it against him. “The Thing” is very vulnerable out in the open because it’s very slow at assimilating it’s victims. So it makes sense that it would prefer more of a follower position, and not the leader. Everyone’s eyes are on MacReady because “The Thing” was framing him as itself, and since he’s the leader: “all eyes on him”.
i love The Thing (original) so goddamn much, but i gotta admit, the idea of MacReady starting the movie super-antisocial and drunk could have really enhanced the paranoia of who could be a thing, how reliable Mac really was and really made them turning on Mac more intense.
If you think having an alcoholic pilot is bad, my friend is a trained medic who can only remeber how to perform medical procedures whilst wasted as fuck.
Think about that, an EMT who can only BE an EMT if he downs a bottle of whiskey before hand.
Na, he has a dissociation due to ptsd and needs to get sober slowly but smoothly
It’s a perfect movie, like Citizen Kane. The story is gripping, the special effects are second to none, the acting is superb, and the suspense is intense. It’s more than a horror film. It’s a defining film.
Keith David is probably the only person with two first names that you can trust
No kidding
The Thing was one of the first horror films I watched, which was special because my parents used to be super strict. Saw it when I was about 12 (9 years ago). It wasn't very scary, but damn are those effects awesome and memorable. I was amazed when the prequel managed to get the models so accurate considering they were made 30 years apart... though I know a lot of people hate that prequel. Anyone have any opinions on it? I thought it was really good but I do wish they'd stuck more to puppets and animatronic models than CGI.
Mamamew TheRani the directors of the prequel actually did sime stunning practical effects only for the studio to go over their heads and cover most of those effects with shite cgi
I felt like there were to many characters in the prequal. i never counted them but on repeat viewings i find my self thinking who is that ive never seen him before
@Mamamew TheRani
Six months later:
My first reaction to the prequel was that the scientists looked way too young. They were the age of college students. In the interest of Artistic License, I reconciled that it was remotely possible that some kids right out of college could have been recruited. However, people that young and inexperienced would never have been put in charge of such an undertaking.
The next thing about the film was, of course, the use of CGI; which was jarring for someone who had already seen the John Carpenter version.
By the end of the film, however, I had become impressed with the attention to detail, and how the people who made the prequel seemed to have made it as sort-of a love letter to John Carpenter's movie. I was especially impressed with how well they re-created the first scene of the John Carpenter movie as the final scene of the prequel, so if you watch the two movies back-to-back, the transition is seamless.
@@chronic_johnson_a.r.a.b I feel the prequel was very check list like. They needed all the block buster tropes.
6:50 I'm not convinced by the theory that the Thing couldn't taste a Molotov cocktail, I mean Blair the Biologist during the dissection explicitly states it has perfectly replicated every organ, that said I do still think that scene does indicate Childs to be a Thing.
Earlier in the film they discuss getting infected from a single particle so they suggest preparing their own food, Childs seems perfectly fine drinking the bottle after MacReady, so he seems to no longer give a shit about getting infected
He might not give a shit because he's going to die, anyway.
Yeah I agree. I thought at first it was a sign he is giving in to death regardless of infection status.
I think I'll watch The Thing thanks to this.
Love your videos! Keep it up. There is one thing though. The 1982 "The Thing" is a remake of the original "The Thing From Another World" from 1951. The 1982 version is much more faithful to "Who Goes There", the story on which it was based.
The thing from another world was a giant walking space vegetable if i remember correctly. I love old B movies.
Keith David is a fantastic actor! Funny too! His role in Men At Work is stellar!
You can definitely see hints of this original characterization in the movie, especially early on! I recall hearing in an interview with Carpenter that the idea was MacReady was a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War, so because of his experiences there, he was (pardon the pun) alienated from the rest of the team there because few, if any, of them had served in 'Nam. So he was less "abusive" than just...well isolated. It seems ironic he's their lifeline to other camps and the outside world. I can see why they changed him up a bit though, but I'd argue that core character concept is still intact!
So I watched the movie being 19 years old (like a couple of months ago) and it was freaking terrifying. Practical effects are the shit, I barely watched the entire movie. And I usually don't get scared of horror movies. They did an amazing job 👌
This is my favorite horror movie ever!, and it was released a whole decade before I was born. That just goes to show how much creepier/scarier practical effects monsters are compared to CGI monsters.
I never knew my Vice President was in the Thing. Learn something new every day.
Keith David is allways the best! From they live to disneys gargoyles. He always kills any role he's in.
Keith David is the Vice President from Saints Row IV and is Boss
Gunnar Power I fucking knew I head his name from something outher then rick and morty
He was also Goliath in Disney's Gargoyles. And was in the classics, they live and dead presidents
He is also the god damn Arbiter
he's Captain Anderson in Mass Effect :)
HE'S SPAWN! How did y'all miss that?
David is also vice president in Saints Row 4 and Capitan Anderson in Mass Effect series
OMG HIS CUP MESSES WITH THE GREEN SCREEN. Karl, I think you know your mission.
If at this point you knew about the tattoo....
When i see your video, i automatically hit the like button because i KNOW im going to love the next 8-20 minutes of my life.
That cup is magical
Fun Fact: Keith David voices Captain Anderson in Mass Effect
Childs.
Childsren
a gobble of childers
Kidlings
veteran children
Infestation
One person did survive the prequel though. That woman called Kate who escaped to the Russian camp I think.
Surely the most important thing to ask about Keith David is that the Frank or the Beans?
my image of karl as the guy with the arm tattoos makes finding these out of order amazing,
Keith David was also in saints row as Julius in 1 and 2 and himself in 4.
Keith David Vice President it made me smile when playing it
Keith David also was the Voice of Todd MacFarlane's animated Spawn and voice of Final Fantasy Dissida's Chaos.
loved that not his shirt this time but his god damn MUG of all things messed up the green screen
This confirms the rumors: Brad is secretly Karl's loving caregiver.
Thank you for that end rant we need way more practical effects and cgi when absolutely necessary and in a case like this not at all
Speaking of Robocop has anyone ever noticed the super powered rifle in the first movie looks the same as the sniper rifle in Halo?
I haven't played Halo, but the prop for RoboCop was built on a real Barrett m82 .50 caliber rifle. Guessing the creators of Halo also based their design on the Barrett?
While pointing out that both Rob Bottin and Stan Winston worked on the Thing's designs, the guy in this vid mentions that Rob Bottin designed the Robocop suit but didn't mention that Stan Winston designed the villain robot in Robocop 2.
I'm so old that Keith David is known as "the president in Rick and Morty," and not "the secondary main character voice actor from one of the most successful and popular games ever made of all time."
I'm decently young compared to you guys and I LOVE The Thing. The Thing (John Carpenters), Jeepers Creepers 1, and The Evil Dead are easily the best horror movies in my opinion.
Ive seen the original but never the prequel. I should go looking for it and watch them back to back
I don't think you get the point of something being ambiguous; its ambiguous so that people *can* make theories about it. telling people to "leave it ambiguous, arseholes" sucks all the fun out of it.
Children will know Keith David as the voice of Gary from spongebob in the episode where he gets a translation collar. That is awesome.
Stumbled upon your channel today...Love it! You guys are awesome! :)
is it weird how my dad who's seen the 1982 movie plenty of times actually believes the 2011 movie is a complete reboot and has nothing to do with the original even though the key points of the first movie show up at the ending of the 2011 one specifically the thing corpse the corpse with the straight razor the axe in the wall and even the secret scene which shows Lars dressed up exactly like we see in the original movie gun and all and the chopper and the dog thing playing out almost exactly like the original movie showed
If you look on the inside of the cup you can see words from the green screen on it.
If you watch this on your phone from a short distance away (about a metre), the photo of Kurt Russell over Karl's left shoulder turns into Barry Chuckle
Bailey Penny I thought that was who it was 😂
Apperently the inside of your cup is green, lol
I like that the inside of the mug was green and used part of the background.
I have been meaning to watch this for years
Brad almost had Karl's head in frame the entire time. I'm proud of you Brad.
"The only people that get to see them are lovers, doctors and Brad."
seeing the practical effects here made me go watch it before spoilers
I love how the cup perfectly matches the green of the background.
I just realised I haven't seen this video, so ~8min in, when karl mentions the thing not being able to replicate tattoos... and now he has a sleeve, it genuinely freaked me out for a second, then i realised this was recorded before he had the sleeve done.
It is always nice to know that the second movie chronologically is in the works, and Carpenter is connected.
I had to rewatch this before watching The Thing again.
I’ve been binge watching this channel for a week or so. I love it.
Nobody ever talks about the original original. The Thing from Another World (1951), while not as watchable with 2018 eyes, was still pretty good. The whole movie takes place in an Arctic military base in Alaska (working simultaneously for research and as a base for early nuclear weapons detection) and has pacing similar to a lot of way old sci-fi films where the majority is focused on the characters and research and the latter half is dealing with human hubris... Except it's not hubris so much as The Thing is a metaphor for communism.
At the time people were really worried about communism spreading... Revolution was brewing in China at the time and it did have it's supporters before the infamous Red Scare. It's a fascinating historical perspective dehumanizing the communist movements, but with Stalin in power, I guess it's a little bit deserved.
But... The Thing and The Thing from Another World have literally to do with eachother. So no. It's not the og og.
@Sparkling Cyanide what?
I’ve been planning to watch The Thing for ages. So I might as well do it now before I watch this video.
Love this channel
Look at the drink 😁
i love how the inside of the mug is blending with the green screen
John Carpenter's _The Thing_ is one of my top favorite films, and I've watched it dozens of times. Literally not until my most recent viewing, though, did I notice that MacReady isn't the 100%-confident '80s action star that I'd always seen him as. I mean, I'd noticed his reliance on alcohol, of course, but beyond that, there are a ton of quick little bits where he very subtly shows on his face that though he's keeping up his "Fearless He-Man Leader" act for the other guys on the base, he's actually internally extremely unconfident.
I always thought he just found the science being done on the base uninteresting and not worth his time, beyond the piloting, but this time I realized that comparing himself to the smarter, better-educated scientists gives him self-esteem issues that he desperately wants to hide (and he's almost 100% successful at doing so).
I never really understood the part when he rewinds and tapes over the bit in his final report where he says that nobody trusts anybody anymore. On this viewing, though, it fit in with MacReady's obsession to avoid showing weakness. Even in a final report that'll almost certainly only be heard after his death, if ever, he doesn't want people to think he might not be 100% coping.
The part where MacReady gives a scientist the dumbass advice to just "Trust in the Lord" now fits in better, too, with my new understanding of MacReady as a guy who isn't as smart or confident as he pretends to be (see also his baseless accusation of cheating and destructive sore losership when he can't beat his chess program).
So before viewing your vid, I wondered whether _this_ was the side of R.J. MacReady you were going to talk about that we never get to see. Based on the thumbnail, though, I expected you to talk more about his alcoholism.
Keith David wants to know how in the hell you got the beans above the frank?
wow good pull
Lol, this mug is green inside and looks like a portal in Karl's belly with texts and some photos of famous guys in it. So I'll rewatch to giggle about it throughout the whole (a bit more giggling as a preview) THING
Thanks for that ,Karl!
The Thing is my favorite movie of all time!
love the thing. 1st dvd i ever bought
he's also Julius from saints row
X and Y left, one of whom may be The Thing. X has a weapon, Y does not. Y hands X a bottle of "comradely" whisky. Go figure.
I know that in real life, when new researchers take up a stint at the british antarctic station, they all watch the thing on that first night there (the one with kurt russel). so I thought that was kind of office humour funny.
The fact that ive spent 5 hours binge watching your vids tells me that this is GREAT FUCKING CONTENT
The ending rant is the very reason I didn't like it. Also, there was a set of comics set after the events of the first movie, they are pretty good.
I loved the prequel, hated the cgi, but overlooked it because I loved the little Easter eggs that they placed in it referring to the original, like the hatchet in the wall that you see in the original, loved that idea, really the only thing I liked about it now that I think about it haha
Fun fact: keith david is also the voice of spawn in the animated series
Everyone and their mother is playing Among Us I literally cannot play that game because halfway through I almost always quit to go watch The Thing or get kicked because I keep quoting The Thing
Love you guys ☺️❤️
I don't know if anybody else noticed that the inside of his mug is green in just a way that the green screen thought that it was a green screen and you can see the words and pictures in the mug
the whole thing about CGI is I can agree with it to an extent. when there is good CGI no one can tell and practically every movie from the past 10 uses it to an extent. Like now a days if a movie has a car chase, its most likely CGI or all the cars around them are CGI. CGI can be very realistic if done right and computers can do that will metal and plastic. but with people... up close shots of CGI people with actual people on scene is not doing it right as we come to the issue known as the "uncanny valley" and we just aren't there yet, but if give it a few years.
You could do a video about the manufacturing process of blankets and i'd still find it interesting.
I just finished watching this movie and I couldn't stop thinking about among us
Subscribed after watching your "That Time a Millionaire Tried to Pay People with Exposure (The TH-cam Monetisation Change)". Plus we have the same first name, *The* *correct* *spelling* .
The Thing is probably the closest we are going to get to Lovecraftian horror done right in cinema, of course there are probably some movies out there that do it well that I've never heard of. Haven't seen From Beyond or the Color Out of Space movie, but I'd figure if they were any good they would have some sort of critical acclaim.
"ol plastic patty"
You missed an opportunity to reference Cold Ethyl by Alice Cooper.
Keith Davis is also the Arbiter in Halo and i think thats pretty important
If I'm ever in Sheffield I would like to buy you a pint, Karl.
Keith David is also Sgt. Foley from COD MW2, and the Arbiter from Halo
I'm 31 and have never seen this film. It's not just the younger folks. Doesn't stop me from enjoying this video tho.
This Channel needs more subs that deserve it
A few points about the Thing and the theories:
1. The theory about the clothes that Childs was wearing was based off of the original movie and its lighting which was severely orange-y. On the hd release you can see that it's actually the frost on his coat. Also the thing about his breath is that since he's closer to the fire, the draft is getting to him and is warming him up.
2. There's actually a series of comics that was published after the movie, with the first one being called "The thing from another world", the second one "Climate of fear", and lastly "Eternal vows". l don't know how canon they are but in the first one we are explicitly shown and told that both Childs and MacReady were human.
Thanks for explaining what "The Thing" is
-the children
Great video really enjoyed it!
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this video made me buy the film again, no idea where I put it but I love the thing.
whats the matter with studios?? it's like they think the people they hired to make the films are totally incompetent sometimes. that effect looked great even out of frame and i only saw a few short seconds of it
Or through some miracle they make a decent movie unmolested one of those morons puts out a dreadful trailer that puts anyone who it's aimed at off
Now I know how karl becomes so intelligent, he drinks his information. 😉.