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The Thing (1982) Movie Reaction! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2020
- John Carpenter's The Thing was a great film, especially for lovers of horror/thriller films. The Practical Effects were brilliant and although I had some caveats, I thoroughly enjoyed the film overall!
Hey guys, I'm Shaneel (Shan). Welcome to the channel!
My reaction to The Thing (1982) for the first time. Hope you enjoy the video!
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A couple pieces of trivia:
That dog was a half wolf-half huskey named Jeb. that's why the dog seemed "off" and dangerous. He had two trainers with him on set at all times to make sure he didn't spook and rip someones throat out.
At the beginning, if you understood Norwegian, the guy screaming at the Americans was telling them it wasn't a dog, it was an imitation and to get away from it you idiots.
It was filmed in Alaska in winter and they refrigerated the soundstage so the actors look like they're freezing because they are.
And finally, I think someone may have said it already, when they blew up the camp wasn't THE last day of filming, they came back the next morning and used the remains to film the Norwegian camp scenes.
Jed, one'uv the best dog actors in the biz, is/was a Wolf-Alaskan Malamute hybrid... we own a couple Alaskan Malamutes 'cuz I saw this film when I was young. 8)>
Some of the outdoor scenes were filmed in British Columbia as well.
Cool trivia about the Norwegian camp scenes. Thanks.
Yes you are correct on all of these points........this is one of the best movies ever made........and was so under-rated for a long time until it found a real audience through television and then video rentals!
I saw somewhere that John Carpenter didn't actually use much of Morricone's score, and made most of the music himself. at least the music that's just one tone over and over
One of the greatest sci-fi movies ever. John Carpenter is the man
same age as e.t. the practical effects are amazing
The practical effects were made by a young Rob Bottin in his early 20'ies that made up a lot of the techniques on the fly working 7 days a week for 56 weeks straight. By the end of the filming he was hospitalized with exhaustion, pneumonia, and a bleeding ulcer
I didn't know he passed away. That's sad... I got introduced to his music when I went to see Metallica live. Watched them live twice and both times they start their performance with 'Ecstasy of Gold'. I later got to find out that it was originally written for The Good, The Bad, The Ugly! What a legend!
@@ShanWatchesMovies Yeah, ennio died a few months ago. I edited my comment with some other info since I heard you knew about Morricone making the music
@@QuayNemSorr I love trivia!
@@ShanWatchesMovies So I reckoned ;-)
@@QuayNemSorr thank you 😂
This movie’s lack of success was just a matter of timing, in my view. It was released only two weeks after E.T. and audiences were more in the mood for friendly aliens, rather than a hostile alien. It was also seen as an allegory for AIDS, a disease that wasn’t well understood in 1982.
They mistook this movie as an Aids allegory? They really did misunderstand Aids back then XD
America was also in the midst of a recession, which left the country in an already nihilistic mood that left its people in a mindset where it was far too easy to reject movies with even the slightest of nihilistic tones in favor of embracing happier movies like E.T.
That ending is perfect in my mind. We all want an ending wrapped up perfectly with a bow on it because that helps satisfy our mind. But a truly terrifying ending is one where you *THINK* they killed the Thing...but did they? And considering the threat it poses to all of humanity as a whole if it manages to get out of Antarctica...if either of Mac or Childs are not who they say they are, then we're all boned. But if they are, then they sit there and slowly die by freezing to death having given everything to protect the world from this threat.
Is Childs the Thing? Some folks think there are several visual clues in that final scene that prove he is.
That is a great way of looking at it! Very optimistic! We have to consider the fact that the thing can remain frozen for longs periods of time, which means if Mac or Childs was the Thing at the end, it would just attack the search and rescue team when they come looking. So it's either dead or humanity was doomed! Interesting stuff! I can see why it has a big fan following.
John Carpenter denies these fan theories. Especially the breath one, because you can clearly see everyone's breath in every shot now that we're not watching these films on vhs tapes anymore.
@@dosnostalgic He still maintains that the ending is ambiguous though and that is what is the important take away.
One of my favourite theories is that Mac handed Childs one of his Molotov cocktails, not alcohol, which is why he chuckled when Child's took a sip, because the thing wouldn't know the difference, as if Mac was thinking "I got you ya bastard" , however it does look like Mac is about to take a sip himself, but still a cheeky little one to ponder.
Seriously ambiguous endings always stay with me, like body snatchers. A true haunting, my first watch I was like no don't kill the dog!! Now that I know, BURN IT!
Hollywood told Carpenter that he couldn't make the movie unless he added a woman to the cast, he agreed just to get it green lit and then made the movie how he wanted anyway.
Unfortunately they placed it head to head with E.T. which is why it didn't do as well as it should have in theaters.
"That was definitely not normal." Your powers of observation and description are only rivaled by your skill with understatement. Best. Leo.
Your sarcasm never fails to amuse me Leo 😂
@@ShanWatchesMovies Thank you. It's my default setting. Best. Leo.
"He seems like a good dog."
The problem this movie had was that it came out at the same time as E.T. And people were a little freaked out by how dark this movie was, compared to E.T.
Pretty much. People were in love with friendly aliens and this movie freaked them out and they stayed away in droves.
ET is family friendly Alien. The Thing is not
1982 I was ten yrs of age my mom took me to see this movie. I remember afterwards we got home and I barricaded myself in my room I didn't trust my mom. Best monster movie ever hands down John carpenter is a true master of cinema.
I was an adult when I saw this at the cinema. I can't imagine taking a 10 year old to it.
The Thing is the first film in Carpenter calls his "Apocalypse Trilogy", which begins with The Thing (1982) and continues with Prince of Dakness (1987) and concludes with In the Mouth of Madness (1994). Although the films are not connected the all deal with a great threat to the existance mankind.
By the way, all of this is based on a short story called 'Who Goes There', written by John W Campbell in the 1930's. This story ripples through The Thing, Alien, Predator, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and so on.
And "The Thing" was a b&w horror movie. Same setting, but the alien was just a blood-drinking, humanoid plant.
Reading below, I guess that title was "The Thing from Another World"
Recently the original, expanded text of that story was found and published as 'Frozen Hell'.
Oh man, you gotta watch his original Halloween (1978).
I haven't watched it yet thank goodness! Adding it to the list!
Good 'character' film to react to? 1992s Glengarry Glen Ross.
That "Norwegian footage" of them trying to free something from the ice is actually from the original movie The Thing from Another World. Shot in a parking lot, by the way. Best. Leo.
Thank you for this lovely bit of trivia! I'll probably end up watching the Original!
@@ShanWatchesMovies It's well worth it. So are most of the 1950's era films. They did a hell of a lot with good actors and a few room sets.
Look at the old Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce released between 1939 and 1946.
@@douglascampbell9809 I think there are great things and ideas in the original. Only thing they should of done was keep hiding the monster. Fabulous fire scenes with great multiple stunt men in flames. Another very good movie that inspired John Carpenter is The Trollenberg Terror great atmosphere...again if they had never revealed the monster it would have been awesome. I love those old Basil Rathbone movies too...I just love the atmospheres they created on those Universal sets. I like Basil & Nigel so much I listened to all of their podcasts (Sherlock Holmes Radio Shows) on youtube😀
The sounds the Thing makes also sound like they are from the 50's movie.
No, it is not. It's just made to look that way.
The 2011 prequel, also named The Thing, shows what happened in the Norwegian camp. They really took great care to match the details of what you see here in the camp, the ax in the door, the holes, it shows how all that happened, up until the dog escaped.
And, they came up with something that proves Childs is not the Thing.
John Carpenter best film and also the best Horror Remake of all time.
One of the great classics of cinema. That ending is absolutely perfect. They are both tired and neither trust each other any more.
Everyones recommended a bunch of Carpenter classics, but I can't stop by without recommending In The Mouth Of Madness. Its a trip, and Sam Neil (who you might remember as Grant from Jurassic Park) is starring!
Another really great, yet underrated Carpenter gem!
Among the best endings of any movie I've seen.
If you don't have it on your list you need to add Blade Runner (1982) and it's follow up Blade Runner 2049.
Both are fantastic.
love this movie!!
it was really enjoyable! 1st comment!
If your interested in watching the 2011 "THE THING" Movie then it is actually a Prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter Movie.
It takes place 3 days before it and it is the story of what happened at the Norwegian Base.
The Prequel is Directed by "Matthijs van Heijningen Jr." and the Music in it is done by "Marco Beltrami". It stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton.
I should warn you though that it has really Really REALLY bad CGI in it.
They originally also did go the practical effects route when they made the Prequel but supposedly (I don't know if any of this next part is actually true, it is just something that I had heard), after they finished filming the Prequel and it went into post-production, The Studio (for some unknown reason) didn't like the practical effects in it and so late into post-production, the Studio went behind the Director's back and had almost all of the practical effects in the Prequel get covered over with CGI. Apparently, both the Prequel's Director and the guys that did the practical effects for it never even found out that the Studio did that until they actually saw the Movie and it's Premiere.
Having said that though, I myself really don't let bad CGI in a Movie really ruin it overall for me and overall, I actually like the 2011 "THE THING" Movie. Heck, I even own it on DVD.
"He seems like a good dog!"😂😂😂
A really good drama to watch is "Twelve Angry Men". Made in 1957, starring Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb, among others. You'll be glad you did. I guarantee it.
I had to watch it on a course I did on film analytics. Fantastic film! and the tension building was beyond excellent!
I always describe The Thing (1982) to people who haven't seen it as, Twelve Angry Men (1957) meets Alien.
John carpenter has said of the ending that one of the two survivors is a thing. But he never said who it was during a interview. I suspect it was child’s.
Did he actually say that ? I'm only wondering because I thought he said the video game and one comic was canon and it was revealed they were both human but I could be getting that wrong.
There are various theories about this film. One I find particularly satisfying is the gasoline theory. It says the bottle Kurt Russell gives to Childs at the end is a Molotov cocktail. Russell's laugh is his realization that the Thing would not know the difference between gasoline and whiskey. Regardless of the theory's veracity, I love that the film engenders such discussions.
I can see why this film has such a dedicated fandom! So much theory crafting!
Great theory by the way. Didn't Mac take a swing of the bottle before handing it to Childs? If it were gasoline, didn't Mac just kill himself too? Okay I need to rewatch the ending a couple of more times lol
@@ShanWatchesMovies I don't think so. It has been a while since I've seen The Thing. In the movieclip, Russell doesn't take a swig. He may have done it before this clip starts though. th-cam.com/video/GA4Ozqt7338/w-d-xo.html In any event, I think that masterful tracking shot of the empty front room (when Childs is gone) suggests he's become the thing. If you want to go farther down the rabbit hole, try and make out the color of his coat in the last shots. If the thing got him, it would have needed to grab a new coat. Unfortunately, the lighting of the last scene makes it a difficult task.
@@scottybelle9 holy crap! A rabbit hole indeed!
John Carpenter denies that theory, and specifically says that there were *no* hints given on purpose.
That theory doesn't make sense.
Mac had just taken a swing (or was going to), on the off chance that Childs would show up at that exact moment, so he could "test" him, on another off chance that a thing wouldn't know what gasoline tasted like???
Mac had a blanket that he didn't have with him before. Far, far, far more likely that he retrieved a bottle of J&B from his shack when he got the blanket so he could get drunk and pass out and not suffer when he froze to death in the Antarctic winter.
God I love this movie... One of the best things is that you can piece together things about the characters, the Thing & who's who from repeat viewings. It's actually much better thought out that it seems on the 1st viewing.
There was a video game in the early 2000s which Carpenter said was a canon follow-up to this movie (though a lot of long-time fans refuse to acknowledge it). In that game, Childs is found frozen to death, meaning he was human, and and MacReady is rescued and medical testing proves that he's human. Lot's of speculation and in-depth analysis has people believing that either Mac, Childs, or both were infected, though.
Personally, I believe in following what Carpenter said about the game being a canon follow-up.
Interesting fact: The burnt destroyed set at the end was then used as the destroyed Norwegian camp in the beginning!
Also, a great movie to react to would by Steven Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun", a truly stunning film with masterful acting from it's star in his first movie role!
No. Boring a""movie
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 , is another great remake featuring Donald Sutherland,
Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy, and Veronica Cartwright - who played in Alien
Great Reaction. Got to do the other Russell/Carpenter teamup Big Trouble in Little China.
I haven't watched it but heard of this film while I was growing up! Off to the list it goes!
Thank you for the recommendation btw
Mega Reacts Absolutely! One of my favorite 80’s movies. So goofy & awesome🤣
@@ShanWatchesMovies Big Trouble in Little China. 11/10 movie 🐙🏴😺
9:20, it's still alive on a cellular level.
I just loved the tone "I-know-that-is-not-real" with a hint of panic! :)
They used the destroyed American base set as the destroyed Norwegian base set. The cut with commentary is great and gives a LOT of info. Highly recommend watching it. This is one of my all time favorite movies. Robb Bottin's special effects are top of the field as you saw. The man is a wizard.
Fun fact: The final scene they shot was not the destruction of the US Camp. The final scenes that were shot were when Mac and the Doc were at the Norwegian Camp. They used the destroyed US Camp as the ruined Norwegian Camp
The carrot-man from the original really let himself go lol
Well, to be fair, James Arness was a lot older by then.
Antarcticans love this movie; it's shown twice annually at the Amundsen-Scott station, once to mark the beginning of winter, and once to mark the Midwinter solstice.
Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Shawshank Redemption, Goodfellas, The Usual Suspects, The Silence of the Lambs are all excellent character driven dramas
About the music in this: Morricone is credited as the composer, but he and Carpenter were never really able to get their schedules worked out, so Morricone basically just wrote a bunch of scratch tracks for them to use. Carpenter ended up writing the majority of the music himself, but credited Morricone, probably for contractual reasons (or just to get him a paycheck or something...) So most of the music that Morricone wrote went unused...
... UNTIL Quentin Tarantino used a bunch of it for The Hateful 8. So a bunch of the music in Hateful 8 is actually The Thing soundtrack.
Another - not plothole, but I don't know what you call it
Why is the helicopter swooping like a plane over the dog? Helicopters can hover. It should have been able to hover right above the dog, slam it down with the downdraft and shoot it clean.
Another classic that still holds up. I love the initial mystery of alien's motive as well as the open ending -- it works as is and could serve a sequel but doesn't blatantly advertise one. Have you seen End of Watch or Narc? Both do a solid job of combining a character study with a crime/action film.
Thank you for your comment as always Lara! And yes, it absolutely still holds up! I haven't watched Marc, you're the 3rd person to recommend this film in the comments! I'm definitely going to have to check it out!
This was literally the first film done by the SFX artist Rob Botine. He literally worked himself sick to get the effects right.
To the questions: what is the thing, where it came from and all of that lore side of thing. I guess we get enough clue to know about it. The nihilism that is strongly present in the themes of the film hint toward the answer of "anything that crossed the path of the thing either got absorbed or barely killed it", when you know it's powers and how it operates, it's so "infectious" (even tho it's not an infection) that it probably absorbed any lifeform in the galaxy, or has either barely started to. The place of origin of the thing could be anywhere in space, really, but the monster, when the action of the film happens, may have been else the first of it's kind, one in a million, or just the last survivors of this specie. What is also terrifying in the film, it the plausibility of such a monster, it's not totally impossible for a colony of anicellular organisms to act to imitate normal pluricellular specimens and even steal their dna "blueprints". The whole conept is not explained, doesn't exist but could theorically exist and that gives shivers in the spine.
Lore idea for a sequel set in 2019/2020: The Thing starts absorbing key people in human civilization, but it's impatient and wants to speed up the process. So it infiltrates the medical world, develops and spreads an infectious disease and then starts developing a vaccine, but secretly the vaccine contains cells from the Thing. Hundreds of millions of unsuspecting people get injected, they all become the Thing and start absorbing the remaining humans and other life forms on Earth. The End.
@@Bonez0r time estimated before all humans are infected in 2020: 2 weeks
Its scary to think what if something like this actually exists somewhere out there in the universe. Let's hope it's friendly if it exists lol
Another of my all-time favorite films. One of John Carpenter's best films.
The practical effects, the story, acting and Carpenter's score = Perfection!!!!!
I really liked Wilford Brimley's performance as 'Blair' in this Movie.
Unfortunately, He actually passed away earlier this year back in August.
He was a Really Great Actor! :(
The best eyebrows in the reaction game! New sub, keep up these great classics; love your insights
Thanks for reacting to this all. time classic film! A couple of points and facts for you:
1. The Thing was not using Blair's scientific knowledge to construct that circular craft, it has technological knowledge far beyond human knowledge since had absorbed/been part of the crew of the spaceship that crashed eons ago.
2. Fun fact about the set which they blew up. They used the blown up set to represent the Norwegian camp when they visited that earlier in the film.
3. This movie reveals itself a lot more on a second viewing, and you begin to understand all sorts of clues about Palmer and what he's doing during the film, in addition to Blair.
4. The ending of the film is not ambiguous if you pay attention to all the clues. Childs is the Thing. He says he saw Blair out in the snow and went after him, yet seconds after he left, the power was cut off from Blair removing the generator in the generator room, so Childs was lying about seeing Blair. When MacReady offered his drink to Childs, MacReady smiles to himself, because he knows then that Childs is the Thing. He knows that if Childs was human and wasn't sure of MacReady, he would never drink from a bottle MacReady just drank from. However, as the Thing, Childs wants to drink from it because he wants to share the drink with MacReady and infect him. This is how Norris got infected from the stomach first, by ingesting something that Palmer must have infected.
Thank you for a wonderfully detailed comment!
1. Yes! I finally got that, another comment pointed it out.
2. I had no idea!
3. Yes I had a feeling about that. Just based on the fandom surrounding this film. So many theories and reading into the tiniest details. Makes me appreciate it even more.
4. Very interesting theory! I read in another comment that the drink that Mac hands Childs is actually kerosene or gasoline since Mac realized that Childs was the Thing!
Discussions like this make me love films like this even more!
John Carpenter explicitly denies that theory.
@@ShanWatchesMovies Well, there's no proof on that bit about kerosene, that just sounds like fan conjecture. I'm just talking about what John Carpenter actually shows you in the movie.
@@dosnostalgic Show me, please.
@@Bawookles Well, I couldn't find any online right now, but I've been to his Q&A (and a music concert that was awesome, but that's beside the point) and someone asked the question. He specifically answered about the clues "There's no clues. All you've read is bullshit."
If you want additional quotes by the producer, Keith David, and Kurt Russel, here they are with citations: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93887/ending-of-john-carpenters-the-thing
Fun Topic. John Carpenter is a composer also, and composed music for pretty much all of his films. He isn't a great composer, but the simplicity of his music always works. Escape from New York "dum dum ... dumdum" Halloween "dum.....dum......dum" I was stunned on watching this, that Enio Morricone was the composer for this...., but still Carpenter insisted on "dum dum" "dum dum" lol What the hell..., it works so well.
And who could forget his epic track in They Live? "Dum dum... dum dum... dum."
Read the short story, "Who goes there?"The movie REALLY follows the short story VERY well.
What makes Mac such a great protagonist is that he uses both brain and brawn - and he never runs out of Determination. Whoever said, back in 1982, that this movie has a "nihilistic" tone was an idiot. If anything, it's the exact opposite. It's an illustration of the indomitable human will to survive and prevail against a cunning adversary.
TH-cam suggests Shan Watches "The Thing" Me = Get in there!!
I saw this in the theater back in the 80s many times. It's a great movie. Glad you reviewed it!
This marks the first time a John Carpenter film did not have a soundtrack created by John Carpenter ennio morricone shows perfectly That Bass beat you here is meant to emulate a cardiogram the machine you see when someone's hooked up in their heartbeat ECG tracing across the screen I thought it was genius
Trivia: the guy who did the SFX for Thing was Rob Bottin. He played Blake in another Carpenter film "The Fog". He also did the effects for Robocop, Total Recall and other films.
Speaking of Kurt Russell
Tombstone is a great movie starring him as Wyatt Earp (western)
red ruM I think Tombstone would make for a great reaction. I believe one person has reacted to it, but I can’t remember who atm.
Edit: It was the Blind Wave guys🙂
I haven't seen the film! Googling it asap! thank you!
An often overlooked movie with Kurt is Soldier. He plays the main character but only says 104 words throughout the movie. An almost silent performance relying only on his facial expressions. One of my favorite action movies.
@@susanmaggiora4800 I absolutely love Val Kilmer's Acting Performance in "TOMBSTONE".
He was Great in it as 'Doc Holliday'.
@@ttanza4004 His best performance in his career. He was robbed of the oscar.
This film is absolute genius in all regards, from writing, acting, directing, special effects, editing, and musical score. It has almost no peers in the science fiction horror genre. There are very few films as good and none better. It's a absolute masterpiece.
A little behind the scenes fact for you. The part where the Thing bites off Doc's arms was done by using a man who really didn't have any arms, and they added prostatic arms to him to achieve the affect.
Ennio Morricone did a GREAT job with the Music for this Movie.
Unfortunately, He actually passed away earlier this year back in July. :(
That ending has left decades of theories - this is my all time favorite horror movie
My fav “ monster “ movie of all time. The 2011 remake wasn’t quite as good, but it’s a prequel that answers a lot of questions.
A movie in a world of no tropes...
A film with no stereotypes..
No "Final Girl ",
Or teenager's..
One if the best aspects of the movie is that the Thing never bothers to try to communicate with the humans. It's truly alien because it's motives are unknowable.
The Thing may not know how to communicate - when it lands on a world, it becomes everything alive on that world so what would be the point in communicating; it one world-wide creature. It may exchange communication with other units directly by genetic material exchange, no need for vocal communication. The Thing may have come to earth on a mission of mercy by its standards; to bring peace to Earth.
@@gordondavis6168 interesting take though I doubt it lol. Wouldn't it be wild to be able to capture The Thing, put it in a room it can't escape or hurt anyone and try to get it to talk ! I'd have so many questions. I've always wondered if it was simply just trying to survive or had malicious intents.
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If you look through the scenes of the Thing's actions, it does seem it isn't malicious: when it attacks the dogs it's seemingly trying to eat them, and we eat animals too (I mean, not like that, but if that's how it eats it can't really help that), and we don't know what that "flesh flower" it sprouts right before it was burned was actually for. We don't know how Fuchs died, Bennings didn't try to hurt anyone even after being discovered, Norris-thing might have bitten off Doc's arms because he was killing it and then neither part of it really did anything, Palmer-thing didn't attack MacReady and only went for Windows when the guy was an instant from firing a flamethrower at it...Blair-thing does attack Garry, but then tries to stop MacReady detonating the explosives and then just kind of stands there in front of him as if it's hoping the threatening display will be enough (granted, this is because the final battle was cut right down due to a combination of budget, time, Bottin's illness and Carpenter not liking the stop-motion version they managed to shoot).
Great reaction. Another Carpenter movie I recommend is They Live.
Thanx again and keep up the good work.
Thank YOU for watching :)
I'll haven't watched They Live before but I'll surely be looking it up!
THEY LIVE is one of the most important Sci-Fi films ever made.
LEGENDARY fight in the alley!
Ah, so many good Carpenter movies from back in the day. _Big Trouble in Little China_ (1986), _Prince of Darkness_ (1987), _Assault on Precinct 13_ (1976), and my favorite: _In the Mouth of Madness_ (1995).
Yeah, "They Live" is pretty awesome. Piper and David were awesome in that film.
I watch a lot of reaction videos, and this was one of the best I've seen. Most people who do them are just casual fans of film, but you plainly understand a lot about the art and you bring that knowledge to your watching. Good stuff, and I just subscribed.
You did a great job with this video, I love it and "The Thing" has always been one of my top 3 movies. Cool observation about the lighting growing darker as the film progresses and many of your other observations. A+
Kurt Russell has been in tons of good movies. I'll recommend "Overboard", "The Hateful Eight", "Death Proof" and "Bone Tomahawk".
Great react! Love this movie.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the encouragement!
This is the third reaction I’ve seen of yours, and all three have been tonight. I have enjoyed your reactions and insight. Keep it up!
No, the pilot is NOT the one who blows up.
The guy who blows up is the same guy who was shooting the gun while the chopper was flying.
It is the PILOT that speaks and gets killed by Gary.
The 80s had many well known sci fi classics, including Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, as well as the Back to the Future movies, Aliens, Predator, Blade Runner, etc. The was a lot of trash on the market at the time, too. But some of the lesser-viewed films that I think hold up include this film, They Live, David Lynch's Dune, The Fly with Jeff Goldblum, The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2), Cocoon and Inner Space. If you haven't seen any of those, maybe worth putting on a poll. Thanks for your reactions. Love the channel!
When the Thing was first released in 1982 It was meet with horrible reveiws, film magazine Cinefantastique called it "instant junk", "a wretched excess", and proposed as the most-hated film of all time. Today it is considered as one of the best science fiction and horror films ever made.One of the reasons for it's initial negative reviews is because it was released at the same time as ET The Extraterrestial which presented a more positive take on alien visitation
Can you imagine being in 2020, and having the joy of watching the The Thing for the first time, not knowing ANYTHING about it?
I enjoyed it's great effects in the original theater run.
I love the reaction. Your able to breakdown what your watching while still commentating. Earned my sub!!!! Keep it up
“That’s something I’ve never seen before”......” I can’t believe it’s not CGI”......”and I can’t believe it’s getting away from them!!”...
😆😆😆
Absolutely love your reaction.
John Carpenter likes minimal scoring so it doesn't distract from the scene. In films like Escape from New York, it's really just Carpenter on his synth. He didn't use all of Morricone's score. Quentin Tarantino put it in his film The Hateful Eight.
So glad you liked it, Shan. John Carpenter’s filmography is really terrific. “Halloween” and “They Live” are two to add to your watch list. Both fantastic. Lots more to look into as well.
Thank you, as usual :) I haven't watched either but They Live has been recommended at least 4 or 5 times on these comments so I'll check that out for sure!
After they blew up the set, it became the Norwegian base.
Also, note that Childs did not have any cold breath when he speaks. He’s the Thing.
I've watched the dvd of this movie about 30-40 times. It grows on you, and every time you watch it, and you see something you missed.
Great rection video, very enjoyable. It helps that this is my favourite horror of all time. There's a definite thrill watching someone else enjoying it for the first time!
Thank you so much for your kind words!
It is known the dog was so well trained it unnerved the other dogs while filming. Haha. If you look closely, I think Blair was got when he touched that eraser to his mouth..
You mentioned wanting to see a thriller/character study and it immediately brought to mind a film called DEATH TRAP. Released in 1982, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve. It is a thriller based on a stage play. You might like it.
You need more subscribers man.
Thank you so much, I'll take that as a compliment :)
Most people here probably don't know that 'Palmer', played by David Clennon, went on to play one of the best villains in Television as Advertising Exec Miles Drentel in "Thirtysomething."
I enjoyed your video. I liked how in depth you were at the end.
When you said "I know that's not real" it sounded, to me at least, like you were trying to convince yourself. Love that
The ending, most people don't tend to notice, that Child's hasn't got any hot breath as he breathes. Also there's a PS2/XB360 sequel to this that reveals who "survived"/was the thing.
Such a great movie. Yes the effects are great but it's the acting, suspense/atmosphere, paranoia, direction and script that really make it so good.
I thoroughly enjoyed the film. Wonder how good the prequel is!
@@ShanWatchesMovies it's not bad but not as good as this one.
@@ShanWatchesMovies It's okay. They basically mimicked the first movie scene by scene. I personally was put off by how they insisted on explaining all the wtf things in the Norwegian camp because it took away the wtf atmosphere of the Carpenter film... also they cgi'd the crap out of it with, what looked like to me, video game effects.
No dumb, wooden Cage-like quips.
If you didn't read the credits, you would almost think John Carpenter also did the music, since it has his "sound." Apparently, he worked with Ennio Morricone a lot on the music, so I believe his influence is felt fairly heavily.
Matte paintings by the legendary Albert Whitlock. He's done better but just go with it. Best. Leo.
Still very well done. maybe if it were shot differently, it would look better!
If there was an Oscar for best dog/wolf performance out there, I tell you. FYI, the Norwegian camp scenes were filmed after they blew up the American outpost, it was the same set. One of my favorite movies.
I really like your videos! Excellent, level-headed reactions with solid analysis. Subbed. Keep it up!
Kurt Russell was a fantastic actor his entire life. He's a Disney actor. He stared in a lot of teenage Disney films, two of those movies he played the same character.
A couple of things (hah!) :
1) humans always have a light glinting in their eyes. Things don't. It was a choice by the cinematagropher. When you rewatch you can use it to figure out whose who. Including that ending scene.
2) if you pay really close attention you can figure out how the blood was sabotaged and who probably did it.
That, and several other, theories are all false.
John Carpenter admitted he purposely left the ending ambiguous. There is no answer to who, if anyone, is a thing.
if you want a funny, lighthearted action film but continue with John Carpenter, then Big Trouble In Little China is the perfect choice. It's basically a classic 70's-80's-style kung-fu movie...as told from the viewpoint of the comic relief sidekick. It's hilarious, amazingly quotable and has some darn good fight choreography.
The destruction of the American station was not the last shots in fact... that destroyed set became the Norwegian camp that they visit in the beginning of the film.
You gotta see They Live (1988), also by Carpenter
Blair didn't have the knowledge to build a spaceship, that was from alien knowledge from one of the many aliens it consumed before it reached earth.
Yep, Blair dont know how build space ship, but Thing do.
Really enjoyed your reaction, good commentary and a nice knowledge of film making, you know your stuff
Thank you so much 😃I really appriciate it!
Blair was the first absorbed, the communications room attack was the thing making sure no transmissions are sent out, or Blair’s last moments before it overcame him, like if your infected but slowly cell by cell becomeing the thing, how could you know?
The Thing would have wanted transmissions to go out. Have someone come and rescue them.
This is my favorite movie ever, One of those movies you wish you could forget just to re experience it with fresh eyes. Thanks for posting, seeing someone else watch it is the closest I can get to that.
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My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it
Great stuff, sir. John Carpenter is one of my favorite directories, and I hope you'll see more of his films in the future.
Thank you so much as usual! I've gotten a ton of other John Carpenter film recommendations in the comments, I'll definitely watch more of his films for sure. He has such a distinctive style that you can pick it out of a line up like Tarantino or Fincher or Scorsese. Very unique!