Uncovering An Alien Spacecraft (Opening Scene) | The Thing (1982) | Fear

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  • After going through some old footage, MacReady (Kurt Russell) and his team uncover a crashed alien ship that's been buried in the ice for a 100,000 years.
    From The Thing (1982): A research team finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and is starting to hunt them down. Things take a sinister turn when they realise that the creature can take the shape of its victims.
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  • @aplleyva
    @aplleyva 3 ปีที่แล้ว +380

    I just realized that McCready refers the the other scientific team as "Norwegians" and Not "Swedes" as He had been joking earlier in the film meaning He's taking this whole situation a lot more seriously.

    • @beachchaos1863
      @beachchaos1863 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      nice catch!

    • @Mrz-sb1hw
      @Mrz-sb1hw ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm going to catch " the thing" make a deal with it , to have comic books model statues and a record deal.

    • @MrBelles104
      @MrBelles104 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Or it's cause he didn't know and was corrected the first time.

    • @Guitarninjaruy
      @Guitarninjaruy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@MrBelles104 back in the day they teached geography in school, oh how things changed

    • @MrBelles104
      @MrBelles104 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Guitarninjaruy "Asking Americans to name another country"

  • @ConspiracistLizardMan
    @ConspiracistLizardMan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1077

    What I like most about this scene is that Norris is already infected. So in fact, it’s the alien who says that the ship has been buried for at least 100.000 years under the ice.

    • @heathenpride7931
      @heathenpride7931 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      Pretty sure it’s Palmer not Norris.

    • @wcw2793
      @wcw2793 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      I never thought of that until now 😳

    • @theredblurb132
      @theredblurb132 4 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      Using the knowledge of Norris's mind and the other Norwegians to make a better guess. Doesn't even react when it comes across the spot it froze in for all those years.

    • @StekliCujo
      @StekliCujo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      Infected isn`t the same as assimilated.

    • @rickyandreou
      @rickyandreou 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      It's not established that Norris is already infected during this scene. It very well could have happened later off screen.

  • @thebattlecrow
    @thebattlecrow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    I just noticed this little detail: Norris smiles when he's looking at the spaceship. This movie just gets creepier with every watch

    • @rfkwouldvebeenaok1008
      @rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You think it's because he's a thing or just general scientific interest?

    • @Bullet-Tooth-Tony-
      @Bullet-Tooth-Tony- ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 He was a thing

    • @hotaimbat
      @hotaimbat ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- we don't know for sure

    • @jamesfrench7299
      @jamesfrench7299 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The mystery shadow in the room where the dog thing entered was the closest likeness to Norris. He's the thing here.

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      He was indeed the thing, and sense the thing assimilate the memories of its victims the Norris-Thing probably flashback when he was one of the alien pilots and thought to himself, yep, we never made it home. My theory I guess

  • @melissaking6019
    @melissaking6019 ปีที่แล้ว +322

    It's brilliant that we never really see the alien's natural state. It's been planet hopping, absorbing and destroying everything it contacts for who knows how long. The horror, paranoia, dread and sense of the apocalyptic in this film are dazzling. Carpenter's masterpiece.

    • @pyropulseIXXI
      @pyropulseIXXI ปีที่แล้ว

      This isn't the 'thing's spacecraft, you oaf. The Thing was onboard this craft and likely assimilated the aliens on board, which is what caused this spacecraft to crash on Earth in the first place. The opening scene is literally the saucer flying out of control, highly suggestive that the 'thing' was assimilating and causing havoc to the aliens that were piloting/onboard this spacecraft

    • @rossroys
      @rossroys ปีที่แล้ว +12

      What if it not even it ship but did a "alien" type of deal and killed the ship original crew

    • @Darkstalker212
      @Darkstalker212 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      ​@@rossroys The Thing killed the original crew.. that's how the ship crashed landed to earth 200,000 years ago 😅
      The Aliens eventually captured it and it'd broken free from it's imprisonment and attacked the crew 😂

    • @fernandomarrufocortes5137
      @fernandomarrufocortes5137 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Body Snatchers VS The Thing!!! Who... or What wins?????

    • @kadmii
      @kadmii 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      possibly not, Norris started having pain in his chest later in the film (which I assume is the Thing taking over from the inside slowly)

  • @user-wt9fo5sx5s
    @user-wt9fo5sx5s หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    1982. Brings back good memories. I saw the movie being listed in the local paper. ( they did that back then) Didn't know what to expect. Stood outside the theatre in 20 below with a friend and smoked a couple of reefers. Was just blown away by the special effects. Very new and special back then. Kurt Russell and the rest of the cast were just awesome. Great movie. I loved the eighties.

    • @LoneLee2022
      @LoneLee2022 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I saw it on HBO. Blew me away. Once was enough.

  • @mattgerrish908
    @mattgerrish908 4 ปีที่แล้ว +602

    One question that still Burns in my mind is if that is the actual ship from the Thing's species, or is it the ship belonging to another species that it absorbed before it landed on Earth?

    • @Cyrax4d
      @Cyrax4d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +218

      Matt Gerrish another species. The intro you can tell the pilot got infected because it crash landed on Earth

    • @Turrican60
      @Turrican60 4 ปีที่แล้ว +180

      @@Cyrax4d Yes, it may well be the case that the pilot was infected. Superficially at least, one can certainly draw that conclusion. Nevertheless, we can't be absolutely sure since it isn't made clear to the viewer, therefore it's ambiguous in nature. For all we know, the pilot may have had the equivalent of a heart attack or seizure, whilst The Thing was merely a biological specimen that had been collected and stored aboard the ship....then it got an unexpected opportunity to escape after the crash. Alternatively, The Thing may simply have been piloting its own craft...but a malfunction suddenly developed and it had to crash-land on Earth. There are many potential explanations that one could theorise, but the answer will always remain the same: *we don't know.*

    • @Cyrax4d
      @Cyrax4d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Turrican60 it only makes since that the thing killed the pilot cuz Blair wanted to make a ufo which copied the hosts mind.

    • @Kehwanna
      @Kehwanna 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I like to think the Thing was a type of parasite that gains a bit of intelligence from its host and infected the intelligent alien crew when they explored some planet. Possibly the Thing commandeered the saucer and knew about life being on Earth, therefore crashing it on Earth in a failed attempt to land here.

    • @caneloex5897
      @caneloex5897 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Matt Gerrish I wonder that the alien species was in the ufo and I wished they showed what was insude

  • @colinclayton8042
    @colinclayton8042 4 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    This is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. It shows you how the crew realized the gravity of what they had done.

  • @wcw2793
    @wcw2793 4 ปีที่แล้ว +349

    It’s sad that this film is probably the closest thing to At The Mountains of Madness that we’ll get.

    • @waltersobchak4565
      @waltersobchak4565 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      I agree but you gotta admit this was a hell of a story. HP Lovecraft would've loved this movie and pigged out on Popcorn and Soda like the rest of us. Lol

    • @klttrll
      @klttrll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      The closest THING

    • @wcw2793
      @wcw2793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@waltersobchak4565 That he would! The alien in this film is pretty much the Shoggoth from his story.

    • @wcw2793
      @wcw2793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@klttrll Lol I see what you did there.

    • @kerianhalcyon2769
      @kerianhalcyon2769 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yet.

  • @Eragarev
    @Eragarev 5 ปีที่แล้ว +163

    I think I read that they didn't film going into the ship because they didn't want to ripoff Alien too much.

    • @anthill-2sadler708
      @anthill-2sadler708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Makes. Some kinda. Sense. . .

    • @jkorshak
      @jkorshak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Budget was also a consideration.

    • @endermanwithalowercasee
      @endermanwithalowercasee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      The prequel shows that was a valid decision lol

    • @Jotkah26
      @Jotkah26 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nearly the same story.

    • @vaultboy4710
      @vaultboy4710 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I think it makes sense that a group of 3 men wouldn't just waltz into an ancient alien spacecraft.
      I don't think anyone in their right mind would.

  • @bub777
    @bub777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    The thing that I found bone chilling is that the ship looks like a drawing here. Yet the characters are seen walking around and on it. I'm impressed by that kind of effect!

    • @humanafterallTF2
      @humanafterallTF2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I believe alien movies used this trick too. But funniest thing is that even halo2 on original xbox used painting backgrounds, common in early video games.

    • @CollectorChronicles
      @CollectorChronicles 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think they used this trick in old old movies too

    • @pyropulseIXXI
      @pyropulseIXXI ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It is called a *Matte painting,* and lots of movies used to use these, such as the OG _Star Wars._

    • @pyropulseIXXI
      @pyropulseIXXI ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @dxhangover They aren't looking at a greenscreen. The set exists normally, and you have stuff near the camera of which the matte painting is literally painted on; it is all set up such that the perspective illusion makes it seem like the matte painting is the background, whilst it is really super close to the camera, and the people on set are further away, but look closer. You don't use greenscreen anywhere to do this effect.

    • @pyropulseIXXI
      @pyropulseIXXI ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@humanafterallTF2 Matte paintings, while similar, are way different than a painted background in video games. And virtually all video games have 'painted backgrounds,' even to this day. Do you not know what a 'skybox' is? Basically the same thing

  • @zejaguar
    @zejaguar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    When I first saw this movie back in the 80s, I had no idea what was coming. I was shocked . It was a thrill too. The special effects were amazing. Good acting too.

  • @funkydozer
    @funkydozer หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The way they got the sunlight to pass over the matte painting of the ship was an extra mile they didn’t have to go, but they did it anyway. This film is a work of art.

  • @richardlangdon712
    @richardlangdon712 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This movie is the epitome of what a good science fiction movie should be. From the story, script, actors, direction, suspense, special effects, etc., it had everything.

  • @NewNicator
    @NewNicator 3 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    Just realised until now that Copper has a piercing on his right nostril, and wears it all the way up to his death. If he was the thing, then it wouldn’t have been able to replicate the metal ring and would have discarded it. Little details like that is why I love the movie.

    • @warrioroflight6872
      @warrioroflight6872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Well, the inorganic material thing was established in the prequel, so technically, it doesn't necessarily apply here. Although this movie does make clear that a Thing creature does need to find clothes because it can't make some out of its own body, an earring isn't that hard for an assimilated life-form to pick up after being infected and putting back in for the sake of the disguise.
      Fillings, on the other hand, are different because you can't just take them out or put them in at will like you can with the earring.

    • @richards9407
      @richards9407 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@warrioroflight6872 I don't think the thing would have fitted the earing itself. It's very difficult even with a mirror and there would be no piercing tool. It's possible that another thing could have done it for him though. Then there's always the question about needle phobias. Things were quite prone to that I understand. They didn't like spiders either.

    • @johnspence8141
      @johnspence8141 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      except the metal rejection thing was a new introduction by the prequel and was not in the writing anywhere for this movie.

    • @pancytryna9378
      @pancytryna9378 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@richards9407
      It's very difficult unless you are an organism that can just move it's cells around, and then it's easy

    • @ajdoyle9559
      @ajdoyle9559 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@richards9407 : Why don't things like spiders ?

  • @VCYT
    @VCYT 6 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    Albert Whitlock did the UFO painting. He was from England an also did star trek scenes in the 1960s + many movies, an won awards. see 2:20

    • @jasonhagar1758
      @jasonhagar1758 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Nice. It definitely looked like the same style as Star Trek TMP. I've always loved it, has a unique quality to it.

    • @VCYT
      @VCYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jasonhagar1758 I think he also won an Oscar.

    • @jimaco0312
      @jimaco0312 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      VC YT he certainly did an incredible job, its really hard to tell it’s a painting.

    • @RonnieMcNutt_Mindblowing
      @RonnieMcNutt_Mindblowing 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@VCYT your profile pic explains...

  • @brucewayne7838
    @brucewayne7838 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    all these years later and it is still a fantastic scifi/horror movie. one of carpenters finest !.

  • @russellthompson9271
    @russellthompson9271 5 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    Fantastic scene. Visually stunning. Love the 80's!

    • @agent_taquero0079
      @agent_taquero0079 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Rocky, Alien, Predator, Rambo, Terminator, Star Wars, etc. Lots of actual good blockbusters

    • @aplleyva
      @aplleyva 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Probably my favorite scene of the movie. Love this piece of the soundtrack from Ennio Morrrcone, RIP

    • @lieshtmeiser5542
      @lieshtmeiser5542 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If CGI was possible for this scene, it wouldve ruined it.

    • @anthill-2sadler708
      @anthill-2sadler708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      To. Da. Maxx

  • @SirKolass
    @SirKolass 6 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Good effects for an old movie though

  • @chrisschumacher8553
    @chrisschumacher8553 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    I can just imagine them getting back to the base. "What did the insides look like?" "We didn't go inside." "Couldn't you find a hatch?" "No, there was a hatch, and it was open, we just didn't go inside." "WTF?"

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      They should’ve brought more men to explore the craft.

    • @re1010
      @re1010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@joethekinghawk7514 they couldnt because they only had a small aircraft. Plus, this was a last minute investigation.

    • @desertweasel6965
      @desertweasel6965 ปีที่แล้ว

      They didn't go inside, because it had been blown up when the Swedes found it. They went inside and what they saw caused them to want to blow it up. Then, they found the thing buried outside the ship frozen and they took it back and after killing most of the swedes, the thing became a dog to escape and find more people.

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@re1010 true

    • @vaultboy4710
      @vaultboy4710 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      You're telling me you'd come across an ancient alien spacecraft and walk willy nilly into it? Something that has to be indestructible to our standards since it's capable of interstellar travel, and is far beyond our knowledge despite it being probably older than our species. I'd just assume whatever is in and on there isn't designed for me, and could lead me to getting killed or worse just approaching it.

  • @satireisnotdead5804
    @satireisnotdead5804 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Norris-Thing's just there for the nostalgia

  • @Z3AL316
    @Z3AL316 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    3:14 look at Norris’s face, he was long gone by this point

    • @byrondean
      @byrondean 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      He's remembering the good ole days when he brutally assimilated the original alien pilots and made them crash land on Earth thousands of years ago. 😂😂😂

  • @JohnMartin-oh6bf
    @JohnMartin-oh6bf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Brilliant storyline....carpenter smashes the boundaries of time and space with an alien craft that’s ancient,yet way ahead of our time in tech terms.
    And an alien that’s hardly subject to time at all...still very much alive after all this time.
    100,000 years old at least!...so it could be well over a quarter of a million for its suggestiveness.

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 ปีที่แล้ว

      So are you suggesting that the alien craft been in the ice much longer?

    • @JohnMartin-oh6bf
      @JohnMartin-oh6bf ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@joethekinghawk7514 norris said it ‘id say the ice it’s buried in is a 100,000 years old…..at least!’.

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JohnMartin-oh6bf yep, he was guessing.

    • @JohnMartin-oh6bf
      @JohnMartin-oh6bf ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@joethekinghawk7514 a conservative estimate

    • @vaultboy4710
      @vaultboy4710 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@joethekinghawk7514He was the geologist on their team, he would've had the best guess out of anyone.

  • @peccatumDei
    @peccatumDei 6 ปีที่แล้ว +309

    I am such a geek. I'd like a movie where they explore the ship, figure out it's tech, etc.

    • @PositiveOnly00
      @PositiveOnly00 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      closest thing tho that would be the preqeul you get an inside look of it and a better and closer look at it.

    • @velveetaslingshot
      @velveetaslingshot 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Hell yeah! I always wished that they made an extended cut with an extra hour of them getting it out of the ice.

    • @VCYT
      @VCYT 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      An after 2 weeks exploring it, they find Trumps tax returns in a box.

    • @joevines3428
      @joevines3428 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I'm such a geek I think about the Thing universe, and if it crashed into Antarctica, The safest thing to do is nuke Antarctica, even if The world floods it would be the only option, it would only take one cell getting exposed to the outside world, before everything is fucked, and also how many other worlds has the Thing assimilated, is it still present on multiple worlds?

    • @natesmodelsdoodles5403
      @natesmodelsdoodles5403 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that makes two of us.

  • @TheChrisofe
    @TheChrisofe 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    This is a fabulous film and has stood the test of time.

  • @PureNRG2
    @PureNRG2 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    It’s little touches like Russell’s hat that help make this a classic😂

  • @konstantinoskaragiannis1596
    @konstantinoskaragiannis1596 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    "The Thing"(1982) is a horror sci-fi movie masterpiece!This is one of the 5 best horror sci-fi movies of all time for sure!

    • @agent_mc
      @agent_mc หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It was great

    • @LoneLee2022
      @LoneLee2022 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It is for sure.

  • @kextrz
    @kextrz ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Ennio Morricone music here is enough to give nightmares to anybody for a few nights.
    This movie could have ended right there, and yet be nearly as effective.

  • @calebhorton4701
    @calebhorton4701 6 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    I think it’s interesting to note that one of the men who goes with Mac (we don’t know for sure which) is a Thing by this point.

    • @EntertainmentFan11
      @EntertainmentFan11 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Caleb Horton Norris? Not at this point.

    • @calebhorton4701
      @calebhorton4701 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      PowerRangersFan Norris or Palmer, but it is indeed one of them.

    • @wontletmeaimwillnotletmefu1684
      @wontletmeaimwillnotletmefu1684 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The 3rd man is Garry.

    • @calebhorton4701
      @calebhorton4701 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      The third man is Palmer. It's kinda hard to tell, but is indeed him.

    • @DAV1979
      @DAV1979 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      MacReady isthe pilot. Also, it would not be in the thing's best interest to crash the helicopter if its goal is to assimilate everyone and then assimilate the rescue crews.

  • @paulcrosby7419
    @paulcrosby7419 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    3:26 “MANNIX! GIVE ME MY PISTOL!!!”

    • @SuperMovieLvr933
      @SuperMovieLvr933 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think it actually works better in The Hateful Eight. Although this movie is fantastic.

    • @Cyrax4d
      @Cyrax4d 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Paul Crosby 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @AdiCool88
      @AdiCool88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "GIIIIIVE IT'CHEEEAAAAHH!!"

  • @chrisdonahue524
    @chrisdonahue524 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "Well, the backscatter effect's been bringing things up from way down around here for a long time. I'd say... I'd say the ice it's buried in is 100,000 years old, at least."
    "And those Norwegians blew it up..."

  • @Bates1960
    @Bates1960 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Thing will always be my personal favorite and one of the best Sci-Fi horror monster movies ever made. My favorite scene where they discovered The Thing's spaceship.

  • @kaiwent3978
    @kaiwent3978 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    0:36 Me and the boys practicing social distancing at the crash sight.

    • @meathead6155
      @meathead6155 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Naw, they are trying to measure the size how big of the ship silly.

  • @TheBic4
    @TheBic4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The fact they don’t go inside despite the hatch being open kills me. They didn’t even discuss going In.

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It make sense that they didn’t go inside at that particular moment, for Pete sakes this alien craft have been in the ice for thousands of years, God only knows what is awaiting them inside there.

    • @luisvelez1952
      @luisvelez1952 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This movie is like Alien 1978

  • @haleloi3018
    @haleloi3018 6 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Y did they not enter the ship? would have found many interesting things I bet. I'd risk it.

    • @Eragarev
      @Eragarev 6 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      I think I read that Carpenter didn't want this movie to seem too much like Alien, so they scrapped exploring the ship.

    • @lee.as.in.l.e.e.7394
      @lee.as.in.l.e.e.7394 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Joseph Wagner maybe it’s more intriguing to let the audience have their own interpretations of what could be inside the UFO

    • @Obe_Qwaet
      @Obe_Qwaet 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      If we saw the interior of the spaceship we would have essentially had an idea as to how the creature "truly" is, rather than it being ambiguous. For all intents and purposes it is perfect in how we didn't see it.
      Because for all we know, the spaceship is _not_ the "original" parasites vehicle, only something that it assimilated and ended up crashing on world. The Thing is akin to not just a space parasite but a space cancer. Imagine something so alien that its alien to other aliens (who are beyond us intellectually on a massive scale).
      It would just undermine everything and make it a gimmick, something the sequel failed to realize and cheapened the whole aspect of what the Thing even was. It wasn't for us to know, nor for us to care, only to be feared.

    • @sr.alligator7569
      @sr.alligator7569 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      They were going to explore more of the ship in the prequel, have the concept be like the Norwegian camp but in space. And the alien pilots would have collected different life forms, Xenomorphs, The Thing, etc.

    • @PandemoniumPirateRadio
      @PandemoniumPirateRadio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Obe_Qwaet Excellent comment.
      I like this interpretation that the craft is not even a ship made by the parasite.
      Though isn't there a scene where one of the men who have been infected is building a ship? 🤔
      That kind of ruins that idea.

  • @joevines3428
    @joevines3428 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    What happens when a "Thing" has assimilated a eco system/world? Does everything look normal, like imitation animals living out the originals lives? Or is there a reason to hide?

    • @Turrican60
      @Turrican60 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Finn MacCool And how do you *know* that "everything dies"? Do you have irrefutable proof, or did John Carpenter personally tell you? Don't present guesswork as some sort of 'fact' when it's nothing of the sort.

    • @emiliomaresca4781
      @emiliomaresca4781 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Turrican60 because there Is nothing that suggest a different kind of nature except for the predator. So there Is no evidence of homeostasis :)

    • @gavriloprincipgaming7857
      @gavriloprincipgaming7857 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      My guess is that “The Thing” evolved similar to how viruses evolved here, Needing hosts. Probably some poor alien race went to a half thingified planet and that’s how it started an interstellar war campaign.

    • @emiliomaresca4781
      @emiliomaresca4781 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@gavriloprincipgaming7857 that's a very good assumption. This would make the movie concept even creepier, considering that the thing from outer space would a be an irrational entity driven by animal instincts, even when It struggle with alien technology. It's just applying schemes 💀

    • @jahpunk7092
      @jahpunk7092 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      perhaps they look the same but have New habits and gadgets previously unknown. Perhaps they have cell phones and are constantly checking the either of the internet like its an oracle

  • @DwainDwight
    @DwainDwight 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    in my top 100 al time. edge of seat. simply outstanding. this & Alien. superb.

  • @jeffreywright2294
    @jeffreywright2294 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    RIP Richard, Donald, A Wilford , and Charles Thanks fellas 🙏

  • @jamesfrank3213
    @jamesfrank3213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    In hindsight, upon discovering the UFO wreckage, if I was Mac I'd fly to next closest camp and be transmitting on the radio constantly trying to get a hold of someone. Given you'd already found the camp destroyed, dead crew, and the situation with the dog, it is vitally important to start talking anyway possible. This would be something I'd discussed with our own camp first. If we find something of significance, given our lack of radio comms, we will continue onward to nearest reachable site and report our findings to begin spreading word. I think the Norwegians mistake was they tried to keep their find too quiet. Not faulting the movie, just what I would do today.

    • @Turrican60
      @Turrican60 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Zipgun TV ...yes, AND for fear of compromising our entertainment!

    • @thetooginator153
      @thetooginator153 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      James Frank - I think Windows said that there wasn’t another camp for a thousand miles, which is beyond the range of a helicopter. Windows was also transmitting night and day trying to reach someone.
      This movie did a pretty good job of limiting the options of the station. It also limited the options of The Thing - at least for a while.

    • @jamesfrank3213
      @jamesfrank3213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@thetooginator153 the Norwegian camp sent their helicopter to a base for kerosene restocking, so they were within range.

    • @Demowan
      @Demowan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Imagine the consequences : every country would want to get a grasp of the find of the millenium. They would NOT listen to warnings, collect samples, making it easier for the Thing to infect the whole wide world. Actually, if it was only for the Thing itself, maybe Humanity would have a tiny chance of survival : quarantined in Antarctica, condemned to freeze in a state of eternal hibernation, the organism could (probably) never leave the continent. But if you take human greed into account, you know we're doomed. From the moment the Thing was taken out of the ice, it had already won.

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And you would run the risk of getting the Thing back to civilization which wouldn't be good at all.

  • @Elitesolider1023
    @Elitesolider1023 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I still wonder to this day is the thing artificially made by another species just like how the enigners made the xenomorphs or is it actually a natural born species?

    • @Jack_Pepsi
      @Jack_Pepsi ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One of my personal theories is that it's an alien pathogen that got out of control and adapted to consume any species by "becoming" it

  • @hagengilbert8102
    @hagengilbert8102 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Actual footage showing and explaining exactly what happened “we can’t learn anything from this!”
    Uh, what?
    Was he already assimilated at this point?

  • @evm6177
    @evm6177 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Oh I love watching this like a TH-cam time travel episodical.. Just switched here from the 2011 Prequel discovery scene. 🍷

  • @bakdpotato143
    @bakdpotato143 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2:42
    What an amazing shot.

  • @cas447
    @cas447 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    0:08 I guess they were watching The Thing 2011 prequel. 😆

    • @agent_mc
      @agent_mc หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No crappy cgi in this version lol

  • @Masloboytsev
    @Masloboytsev 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Millennium Falcon, is that you?!

    • @igk5845
      @igk5845 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Василий Маслобойцев thought the same

    • @Masloboytsev
      @Masloboytsev 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Chewie, we're home!"

    • @satireisnotdead5804
      @satireisnotdead5804 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't tell it managed to get to the Star Wars galaxy as well (that would be a better movie than the sequel trilogy tbf)

  • @Treyway2455
    @Treyway2455 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This scene Also has my favorite score in the movie

  • @Vejur9000
    @Vejur9000 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One of the greatest, and scariest movies of all time, features one of the greatest and scariest movie monsters of all time. Yet here’s the scariest thing of it all.
    The Thing isn’t about a creature from outer space.
    The Thing is about the end of the world.

    • @weirdshibainu
      @weirdshibainu 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      No. The Thing is about how humans behave toward one another when confronted with something unknown.

  • @talkaboutwacky
    @talkaboutwacky ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I thought it was such an awesome idea that the aliens flying the ship were transporting the Thing possibly to some penal colony but it escaped and took over the ship and caused the crash. Even other alien civilizations knew the danger of the Thing

    • @susiduo3438
      @susiduo3438 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A penal colony for something like this ?.....YOU serve 100 000 years in prison !!!!..... Oh come on.

  • @OCDtea
    @OCDtea 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    3:00 this music was reused in The Hateful Eight (which kinda was Tarantino's version of THE THING)

    • @atcred3
      @atcred3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      he did that as a shout out to Mcready fans..since Kurt Russell was in both films👍😉👍

    • @lukakrtinic1192
      @lukakrtinic1192 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yeah,Enio Morricone did the music for both movies

    • @giuffre714
      @giuffre714 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@atcred3
      And both had him trapped in a snow storm with people he wasn't sure were who they claimed to be😀

    • @johnspence8141
      @johnspence8141 ปีที่แล้ว

      he reused it because Morricone couldn't do the score in the timeline Tarantino wanted. It was not an homage to kurt russell, it was because Morricone couldn't get it done...and it is soooo out of place in that movie.

  • @luthermcgee3767
    @luthermcgee3767 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I like McCready's hat. Reminds me of Yosemite Sam 😆 😆.

  • @ohiovr
    @ohiovr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    All that permafrost melting. Hope whatever is down there isn't pissed off..

  • @doomguydemonkiller
    @doomguydemonkiller ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Kurt Russell’s hat steals the scene.

  • @TravellerTinker
    @TravellerTinker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I wonder what the planet where it came from looks like

  • @masterm537
    @masterm537 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    3:00 fun fact. that part of the background theme was used in the hateful eight.

    • @giuffre714
      @giuffre714 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And both had Kurt Russell trapped in a snow storm with people he wasn't sure they were who the claimed to be😀

    • @masterm537
      @masterm537 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@giuffre714 yeah🤣🤣

    • @AgentMaryland
      @AgentMaryland 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And was plagiarized in Gundam 0083 to great effect.

  • @nelsonvzaks9186
    @nelsonvzaks9186 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you to these guys for freezing their asses off in that weather to make this masterpiece.

  • @norbertrivera
    @norbertrivera ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Incredible that this great movie was a box office failure

  • @KurtisDexterWard
    @KurtisDexterWard 6 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    It's not a UFO but more a ULO no? I mean Unidentified Lying Object. Don't get mad I'm kidding! ^^
    Edit: Oh, I guessed! It's an Unidentified Frozen Object.

  • @onlythewise1
    @onlythewise1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    super cool movie, first movie was the best but this second one so good with special effects and actors so good one of my favorites

  • @LoneLee2022
    @LoneLee2022 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was one of the scariest movies I ever saw. I saw it once, that was enough.

  • @flaechenbrand
    @flaechenbrand 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They are very happy that they found the ship. Who is the other person that flies wirth MacReady and Norris? Maybe these are the three guys from the cover of the Soundtrack LP.

  • @ThehulkGreen
    @ThehulkGreen ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Cinematic gold.

  • @leonardoramirez4057
    @leonardoramirez4057 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    one of my favorite movies

    • @ecstasy5317
      @ecstasy5317 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now showing up in 4k Blu ray.....👍

  • @luisvelez1952
    @luisvelez1952 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Keep this in mind that the Norwegians made the greatest scientific discovery inhuman history and the technology that they uncovered will keep the finest minds busy for decades 🚀

  • @biggs10able
    @biggs10able 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wearing a bomber jacket in the Antarctic- why not flip flops as well 😂

  • @cadror26
    @cadror26 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    When Norris was talking about a backscatter effect, was that just for how the word sounds, or did it actually mean something?

    • @zody14
      @zody14 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Backscatter in physics is the reflection of waves, particles, or signals back to the direction from which they came.

    • @zody14
      @zody14 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cadror26 Honestly, I wouldn't know. I just assumed you need an answer to what the Backscatter effect was.

    • @JacobGrim
      @JacobGrim ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The older ice is probably rising to the surface while the top ice is being worn away by wind and weather, that's my guess

  • @heavleezilla9911
    @heavleezilla9911 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Whose is with McReady (Kurt Russle) and Norris (Charles Hallahan) when they go to the thing ship!!!!!!! Please EXPLORE!!!!!!!!!

    • @KobaLenk
      @KobaLenk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Then Norris would have assimilated MacReady

    • @samaelcoral7297
      @samaelcoral7297 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Palmer

    • @fighterx9840
      @fighterx9840 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@samaelcoral7297 at first I thought it was Bennings

  • @robertparks7233
    @robertparks7233 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You gotta be fuckin kidding me!classic,top to bottom.the direction,acting,and those freaking effects.rob bottom I believe. Rp

  • @jody6851
    @jody6851 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This version of The Thing I understand is closer to the book with the alien being shape-shifting rather than a defined humanoid as in the 1951 version, which I suppose at the time Hollywood decided would be more comprehensible to a 1951 audience. But I still enjoy the 1951 version the best, especially when I watched it repeatedly on local NY City TV station Channel 9 WOR's "Million Dollar Movie" as a young child, filmed in film noire black and white rather than color, which made it that much spookier and not dependent on fancy CGI and more on overall atmospherics, power of suggestion, cinematography, and good old dramatic tension. Side note that the alien monster was played by James Arness who went on to build an entire acting career synonymous with Marshal Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke."

  • @dripalien4529
    @dripalien4529 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's hard to believe that they are aliens, I didn't expect aliens to look this Hella ugly.

  • @JARVART94
    @JARVART94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The music in this scene can also be heard in the final chapter of the hateful eight

    • @giuffre714
      @giuffre714 ปีที่แล้ว

      And both have Kurt Russell trapped in a snow storm with people he's not sure are who they claim to be😀

  • @HariHaran-cb9om
    @HariHaran-cb9om 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Blow your mind and music

  • @flaechenbrand
    @flaechenbrand 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    In the book „Who goes there?“ Blair is building an atomic-powered Anti-Gravity Device, nearly bringing it to perfection.
    Norris talks about the backscatter effect in the video: signals, waves and particles that travel back to its origin. They travel non-linear.
    An anti-gravity device would (in theory) be able to travel faster than light by contracting space in front and expanding space behind it.
    This means that such an object could appear „out of thin air“. For example in Antarctica, but people would think they discovered something that was buried there for thousands of years.

  • @haleloi3018
    @haleloi3018 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I often wonder, is this movie a leaked story as a few have been? I heard for years of some "Thing" found in cold places; Alaska, and esp much about Antarctica where Admiral Byrd had an area cordoned off for years when he found something buried...is this it?

    • @Turrican60
      @Turrican60 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      No, this is not 'it'. The Thing is based on a famous science fiction novel written by John W. Campbell...it's not real, ffs.

  • @anthill-2sadler708
    @anthill-2sadler708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The. Opening. Scene stands. Out. In. My. Mind . . the. Ship. Spirling. Down. In2. The. Atmosphere . .

  • @jamesloucks2562
    @jamesloucks2562 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    One plot hole I'd say this movie had is even after EVERYTHING they find, the destroyed base, the dead monsters, the block of ice that something came out of, the fucking ALIEN SPACECRAFT! not one of them..not a SINGLE one of them thinks back to why the Norwegians were chasing and trying to kill a stray dog from their camp. It NEVER crosses their minds after ALL this evidence what those Norwegians..who's base was found destroyed with dead aliens burned outside.....were doing chasing and shooting at a fucking dog.
    that would have been the FIRST thing I thought of given all this evidence. "after all this, why were they trying to kill a dog?"

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 ปีที่แล้ว

      Common sense isn’t common anymore have you heard 4 years later.

    • @counterfeit1148
      @counterfeit1148 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't think it would have been necessary to have any of the characters point out that connection between the Norwegians trying to kill the dog after it tried to kill all of Americans' dogs

  • @patriciaburlow8469
    @patriciaburlow8469 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You think that guy might be a tad cold in that little coat? 😂😂😂

  • @428dragpak
    @428dragpak 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Whats going to come out is that this movie is actually based on a alien ship which WAS found in the ice

  • @lawrencejohnson3259
    @lawrencejohnson3259 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Damn good film. I got to put this on my fall watchlist.

  • @eduardomeiger
    @eduardomeiger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Morricone's soundtrack?

  • @Treyway2455
    @Treyway2455 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I like the scale of how big this ship was

    • @weirdshibainu
      @weirdshibainu 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yeah, but kinda weird how there's only one "Thing" for a ship it's size, then it builds a very small ship to escape the base.

    • @Treyway2455
      @Treyway2455 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@weirdshibainu that's because the ship the thing was on wasn't it's ship it was Another alien species ship that is why the ship crashed to earth an alien tried to escape the thing but it got assimilated and lost control of the ship that's why it crashed on Earth and that is why the alien ship is so big

    • @weirdshibainu
      @weirdshibainu 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Treyway2455 Where was that mentioned?

    • @Treyway2455
      @Treyway2455 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@weirdshibainu the comics and the novel they are all Cannon

  • @eat_ze_bugs
    @eat_ze_bugs ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Well according to Bob Lazar some spaceships were discovered from archeological digs.

  • @petebanham4916
    @petebanham4916 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The brilliance of this film, the way Carpenter produced it, is that it will keep throwing up questions that have different answers depending on what you believe…

  • @KiuLang
    @KiuLang 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    the best and worst thing about this scene is they never enter the saucer, leaving the viewer to wonder so much... mystery kills you 😂

  • @NoName-dn8nv
    @NoName-dn8nv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    wtf kinda hat is that? is it on backwards and sideways? how can he get through doorways? is it so tall it would interfere with the helicopter blades? did it strike fear into alien? was he formerly a gold miner and just never gave up the hat look after hitting mother lode?

  • @drnkinirish
    @drnkinirish 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Why didn't the Norris-thing absorb Mac or Doc on this little outing? He was alone and in close proximity with them. Unless he hadn't been infected yet. And as a side question: what's the significance of the light change/freezing at 2:44 of this clip?

    • @sarajohnson6855
      @sarajohnson6855 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I can only assume he doesn't assimilate Mac and the Doc during their outing due to the fact he doesn't have access to spare clothes to have them change into. The Norris thing only went with them to keep up with normal Norris activities.

  • @HariHaran-cb9om
    @HariHaran-cb9om 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Scenes of music

  • @CollectorChronicles
    @CollectorChronicles หลายเดือนก่อน

    I always thought the hat was a nice touch. Back in the turn of the century that was an actual popular cowboy hat unlike what you see in modern westerns movies. I think it’s called a “Montana Peak” or something.

  • @thurmanbaseballfuriesleade4302
    @thurmanbaseballfuriesleade4302 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    100,000 years in the ice🥶

  • @charleswest6372
    @charleswest6372 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonder how many ships are buried around earth like this...underwater too.

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 ปีที่แล้ว

      Spooky indeed

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The earth is large, very large, and we miss more things then we actually know.

  • @ikaikamaleko8370
    @ikaikamaleko8370 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This scared me straight as a kid lol.

  • @MichaelGonthier-s1p
    @MichaelGonthier-s1p 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Yeah. The prequel origins movie answers alot of questions...

  • @jeffreywright2294
    @jeffreywright2294 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome movie 🎥!

  • @krugmeister7301
    @krugmeister7301 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I felt that PALMER was already in contact with the Dog...Then Norris..

  • @jimaco0312
    @jimaco0312 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The soundtrack in this scene was used again in the hateful eight

    • @giuffre714
      @giuffre714 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And both had Kurt Russell trapped in a snow storm with people he wasn't sure were who they claimed to be 😀

  • @jonwmeyer11
    @jonwmeyer11 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Maybe someone can answer this for me. In this scene at 2:20 we see them looking over the space ship buried in the ice. In the 2011 version, it's in an ice cave. If the prequel is supposed to be the exact events right before, what happened to the ice cave? The ceiling?

  • @WarfareGamer
    @WarfareGamer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Half a mile dewey"

  • @oomahuntressprotectress848
    @oomahuntressprotectress848 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    that was a return from a getaway holiday

  • @modeljetjuggernaut4864
    @modeljetjuggernaut4864 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wish it would've shown them going inside.... I mean who wouldn't?

    • @modeljetjuggernaut4864
      @modeljetjuggernaut4864 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Stahlhelm Model. 1940 Fd. Gr. ah... good call

    • @Obe_Qwaet
      @Obe_Qwaet 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think not going in (beyond it being a constraint of the producers) was a smart move. If we saw what the interior looked like it would have just cheapened the experience. The whole aspect of the thing being what it is, is that its a parasitic cancer. It's something so alien that it's alien to aliens. It's left up to ambiguity but you could surmise that this entity is able to replicate and assimilate and become someone else without them knowing.
      It literally has all of your memories, DNA, neural pathways, everything, for all intents and purposes it IS you if you become assimilated, like a program on an operating system. You are able to run and function normally until the OS/parasite decides "no" and does something else and takes over. Going into the ship would make no difference and just be a gimmick, because ....who is to say the spaceship is the parasites vehicle in the first place.
      It could easily just have been another assimilated species that the parasite took over.

    • @tmcm2278
      @tmcm2278 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Obe Qwaet
      If it belongs to a crew that the Thing assimilated, then how does it cheapen the experience if they explore it?

    • @garybiggs9010
      @garybiggs9010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They are dealing w/a crisis at their base and probably need to get back before the weather turns worse. They found out what they needed to know. A ship that large would take a crew of men and a day to explore.

    • @modeljetjuggernaut4864
      @modeljetjuggernaut4864 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Obe_Qwaet great explanation. Also, the saucer containing another 'assimilated species' by the parasite was all the more evident by the erratic way it was falling into Earth at the beginning 😁 such a great fliick

  • @MagicNash89
    @MagicNash89 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thats an awesome looking spacecraft

  • @Eba-chan_mechanism
    @Eba-chan_mechanism 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    3:10
    ??「シーマ…獅子身中の虫め!」

    • @AgentMaryland
      @AgentMaryland 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      “If you weren’t a part of that rotten Federation, you wouldn’t have suffered so much.”

  • @chrisdonahue524
    @chrisdonahue524 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I always assumed the interior of the ship was choked with solid ice up to the hatch hence why no one went in.