Is this the worst situation a horror main character has ever been placed in?
He’s literally fighting to save all life on Earth.
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Is this the worst situation a horror main character has ever been placed in?
yeah that'd really suck
In movies yes but not all of media.
Isaac from Dead Space is literally in the exact same situation except he starts millions of miles away from Earth.
Arent the reapers from mass effect out to kill all intelligent life in the galaxy? I think that one ups.
haven't played ME but in Dead Space all living matter gets converted into zombie planets so all life in that universe is doomed
Reapers are not there to kill intelligent life specifically just like a lawnmower isn't there to kill grass specifically just hedge the lawn so to speak.. They collect and condense it to birth a new reaper and then the cycle repeats. They're each a gestalt consciousness of their era. I forget how long it takes, but basically, they just upend the status quo every few million years or something to give other dumbshit animals a chance to evolve for the next reaper conciousness.
so the "blue ending" isn't that bad?
Not him but the blue ending is basically you falling for a ruse. You make the exact same error the illusive man falls for and ultimately die in the process of sending them away for that cycle.
They're still coming back next cycle. It's a delay tactic at best.
Good explanation Anon
The Brethren moons are far worse than the reapers.
They literally just consumer organic life and spread from galaxy to galaxy by shooting the markers off towards planets which may have intelligent life.
The reapers just want to prevent technology from destroying the universe by preventing a species from going to far
>out to kill all intelligent life in the galaxy?
Well you'd be safe.
Ah yes, the Reapers. We've dismissed that claim
The most out there element of Mass Effect was how mankind managed to become an interstellar civilization despite canonically being 99% ethnically ambiguous brown mystery meat. I'm supposed to believe Brazil x10 was supposed to get off of Earth and somehow thrive? No way in heck
Well humanity actually didn't do shit besides go to Mars, they found Prothean ruins and discovered Mass Effect fields.
is that turian shitter giving me the finger
In both these settings the MC has either magic bullshit or tech bullshit, in mass effects case both. Macready has dynamite and a flamethrower and a party of morons.
They spare races that aren't technologically enough advanced.
If the ship were on a course to Earth, then the millions of miles would make it really easy to avoid any danger. Altering the ship's course even by a few inches either left, right, up, or down would cause it to miss the Earth by thousands or even millions of miles.
Like, if the game gives you booster rocket boots or whatever, just climb onto the front of it and thrust against it for a few hours.
It's not what's on the ship that's the issue. It's an inevitable outcome. Dead Space is one of the most bleak fricking settings in fiction.
Just crash an rkv into those moons. Easy.
Not really. He can see his enemy. It's not pretending to be his friend
>boring shooting galleries where the player stops the universe ending threat by shooting the thing
Boring, stupid.
I know this is bait but humanity is fricked in DS, you fail. You have no comprehensible way of stopping the threat, you were fricked from the start.
Isaac fails in Dead Space 3, earth and the solar system get fricked by the necromorph threat, that's literally the ending of the series.
Mass Effect 3 is the stupid one, yes.
is the remake kino? original spooked me good
It's an expensive graphics mod with extra normified cinematic style. Better graphics, worse everything else.
Also woke (lots of blackwash, non binary bathrooms, uglified women...)
Not worth it
>Also woke (lots of blackwash, non binary bathrooms, uglified women...)
I hate israelites so much it's unreal
confirmed moron
they remade the entire game, all the weapons got rebalanced, kinesis has been updated to 2's system so it can be used in combat now, same with the zero-g, even the maps have been changed to make the areas link together (with the tram now a way to speed up backtracking, which is actually a thing you can do now since there's new side missions)
but yes, there is some awkward lesbian shit shoved in there for no reason
basically stop being a fricking hivemind moron and just pirate the game you fricking dipshit
don't we all
>awkward lesbian shit
Kendra is lesbian now?
>SECURITY AND TRANS
It has pointless wokewashing and Isaac talks for some reason. A few gameplay "improvements" but why bother if it has to come at the cost of the original vision?
The original still holds up and is better in many regards.
It has good gameplay and it really isn’t as ”woke” as most people make it out to be. That being said, it is 60$ and that’s pretty steep for a game that’s literally just a shinier DS1 with a couple new cutscenes and a new costume or two. You’re not exactly getting HG/SS or REmake 2. I say either wait until it gets on sale or just hold off on buying it for a while. However if you have spare money lying around and aren’t really using it for anything big or important, go for it I suppose.
i'll wait for the fitgirl repack
Frick off. He goeas around in an Iron Man suit killing immortal undeads and he even survived a planetary collision.
>tie necromorph to generator
>use it to shoot lasers at more necromorphs
>problem solved
I think Invasion of the Body Snatchers is worse cus it's basically if the Thing won and reached the mainland.
>First time playing baby's Resident Evil 4
Frick off.
>baby’s resident evil
I wonder which character has suffered the worst in any piece of media.
Good question.
Miles O'Brien
Spiderman
>Loses parents
>Father figure
>Gf, a couple times
>Friends, over and over
>Loses his powers several times
>Loses his race a couple of time
>Hero job takes most of his student future
>Shit normal job
>Despite everthing he keeps fighting the bad guys
He's the best tragic hero
You are fricking moronic if you think this is the worst any fictional chafacter has ever suffered.
Wow, they got that far in S2?
I've only read the manga. I'm behind but I thought the anime wasn't near the story of the early explorers.
The anime has caught up to like 95% of the manga content.
Any that goes to Hell.
the chick from demonophobia had it pretty bad
yeah, along with some of the literallywho voices on some of the prerecorded messages, and in typical ea fashion it's super unnatural and shoehorned in because they really gotta have that garbage in the game
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream was pretty much the author going as far as possible to win that argument
Jazz
I Have No vegana And I Must Dilate
Jazz is pretty justed
you have to care about things to suffer
I’ve seen this face so many times what is it from
Firepunch. Very good manga about suffering. This is his cope face
Thank you for not Boku No Pico-ing me
DS3 isn't canon
Flood honestly scares me more
>only takes 1 spore to infect
>infection through pods is as rapid as it is violent
>body twisted and contorted into horrid forms
>can feel the Flood peeling your consciousness away layer by layer until nothing's left
>everything you know belongs to the hivemind now
>a small infection can take a city in a matter of minutes
>a continent in days
>worlds in a week
>that small infection in New Mombasa was dealt with by glassing half of Africa
>the more biomass it accumulates the more intelligent it becomes
KEYES
JACOB
CAPTAIN
SERVICE NUMBER
knowing all planets are harvest points for undead planet sized zombies is dreadful indeed. The lore for how each planet becomes one of these is fantastic, even if the media can be hit or miss. 3 is not nearly as bad as its reputation as long as you know what you are getting into from the start. 1 and 2 are classics nonetheless.
2 is the better game, 1 is the better story.
Hey frickhead, this is Cinemaphile not Cinemaphile. If you want to talk about your latest piece of garbage for children take it somewhere else.
God I want the Dead Space movie directed by John Carpenter.
Well he said he did like DS3 so there’s that.
I want it less now.
Why?
DS3 was garbage. But still, I'll give him a pass on that. It's John Carpenter.
I wouldn't mind Ridley Scott version
have a nice day
One of the few times the “as 80’s thing” actually works out, thank you anon.
i'm the main character of life and i'm in a situation with phonegays nonstop
>you must browse a "safe for WORK" board from your BATTLESTATION in your MOMS BASEMENT.
this excerpt I'm fighting desktopgays
based. PCucks will never know the joys of shitting while shitposting
I'm clean, Mac.
>He’s literally fighting to save all life on Earth.
we don't know that. I don't think genocide was it's motivation. you literally just made that up
It was building a ship to fly to civilization.
That doesn't prove your point though. Maybe it just wanted to go home. The Thing never says "OH ONCE I GET THIS SHIP ONLINE, YOUR WORLD WILL END MUAHAHAHA" or anything like that. Those dudes just speculated that it wanted to kill everyone and take over their forms. Nobody knows what, if anything, it wanted beyond building a UFO
Ackshually that comically small Marvin the Martian alien ship would have broken up in our atmosphere and surely the thing knew that as it had already crashed(we saw it so inb4). Thus it was flying to civilization. Thoroughly deboonked your misunderstood canon
The Thing was capable of intelligent thought and still refused to communicate, while killing everything it could.
Assuming general malevolence is perfectly logical.
>Assuming general malevolence is perfectly logical.
yeah, but assuming it had global genocide in mind as it's endgame isn't
It is. The Thing attempts to assimilate as many of the dogs as it can when it was left alone with them. It stands to reason it would do the same on a much larger scale
So it's just gonna spend the rest of it's life chasing down every dog and bird and squirrel on the planet? That seems like more work than anyone would want to do
>That seems like more work than anyone would want to do
You're applying human logic to an alien.
Please stop being american for 5 fricking minutes and use your brain.
It works on a hive mind like the borg. It is possible that the UFO and alien in the beginning crashing into Earth is of another species the Thing assimilated, and it goes from planet to planet
>it goes from planet to planet
so which is it then? is he going planet to planet or staying on Earth to wipe us all out?
It probably stays on earth becasue he can't leave.
Us being wiped out is the inevitable consequence, even if the thing doesn't actually have any malevolent intent. It's just what it does
What if he was just trying to go to NASA and hijack a spaceship
Well he should have been more inconspicuous about it tbh instead of all those murders and shapeshifting gore
>what if he just did want to go to Broadway and get rich?
Please limit your hypothesis tho what's actually on screen
The dogs instinctively knew something was off about it and could have blown its cover
>The Thing was capable of intelligent thought and still refused to communicate, while killing everything it could.
You don't know that. The Thing could just be good at mimicking human communication without understanding what it's doing. Like letting the brain run on autopilot when it needs to disguise itself, only taking control when it wants to get up to mischief.
it's definitely intelligent anon, moreso than humies. it is perfectly capable of holding a conversation and does so dozens of times throughout the movie, if you are keeping track of who is infected. also builds an aircraft directly from memory if you needed more convincing.
What I'm saying is the Thing is actually running the Palmer.Exe subroutine when it needs to perfectly imitate Palmer's personality. That doesn't mean it has an understanding of the conversations. If The Thing knew how to communicate then it wouldn't even need to transform at any point. It could have just turned into a benevolent alien and negotiated peace, then taken over the world at its own leasure.
The whole point of the story is that it is getting better and better at mimicing throughout, until it's able to so fully copy people that it and they don't know anymore if they're the thing.
>Source: My ass
The Thing imitates perfectly from the beginning.
Wasn't the Thing a prisoner on that ship? Why do I remember there being another species that were the pilots while the Thing was under lock and key.
Nothing about The Thing suggests that it has the ability for evil. The Thing doesn't taunt its prey nor does it intentionally attempt to prolong the suffering of any of its victims. As far as we're aware it could just be an animal following the basic instructions of life: eat and reproduce.
The weirdest part and something I like about the story is that it seemed like the longer it was alive, the smarter it got. But if it was threatened or harmed, then it split into many new, hostile and stupid organisms. Like Norris was a thing for most of the movie, and he was generally pretty peaceful, even refusing to take command of the group when he could have destroyed them. It was only his human heart condition that did him in, then when his body died, it split into new creatures that attacked everyone. So I feel like the creature would just generally want to leave everyone alone, but can't help what its parts do when it gets attacked.
It's very animalistic, they just transform when they're backed into a corner.
Sure, but how does it act when it's pretending to be a person? There are multiple times during the movie where you can observe someone who has obviously been transformed, and they aren't perfectly right. They have unusual behavior and you can tell they are trying to play a part. Like I mentioned, Norris was nominated as leader, but he had already been absorbed and he knew that he couldn't play the part, so he said "sorry fellas, I'm not up to it". And Palmer did similar stuff. Then Blair did too when he asked to be released. He acted very different, which was a sign.
It has the capability to act differently when playing a human versus playing an animal or when it is immediately attacked and needs to break into multiple pieces.
>And Palmer did similar stuff.
Palmer acted normal-er once absorbed.
Which is not Palmer, Palmer is a weirdo.
Palmer was canonically a thing in this scene smoking with Childs where he acted normal. But later, he primarily acted like an antagonist, trying to stir things up and point fingers at others such as Windows. When he couldn't think what to do, he tried looking at Norris-thing for answers, and Norris-thing looked at him similarly.
Are you sure Palmer is already gone here?
Btw this means Childs is infected? He tested negative, maybe because at the time of the test not enough time passed and he had a low "thing-cells count"...
Love this movie.
Yes, that scene is after the initial shadow on the wall scene with the dog entering the room, which looks like either Norris or Palmer, but was revealed to be Palmer by the film makers. I still feel like the "only a few cells needed to absorb" was wrong and just a theory, and it needed to go full bore with tentacles ripping through clothes to take over someone.
>I still feel like the "only a few cells needed to absorb" was wrong and just a theory,
you are probably right.
I still always thought the shadow was Norris.
This guy makes a very good point on Palmer being second, regardless of what the authors remember.
The funny part is that he uses that exact scene to show that Palmer has been assimilated by that point kek. Either Palmer or Norris, they both are the first ones gone
In the very least he convinced me about Child along with this anon.
From what I gather the more mass is put together the smarter it gets, like it doesn't actually know what brain matter is for or something until it puts a whole bunch of it into one spot. The big mass at the end of the original film was a warform type that was lying dormant whilst the other smaller organisms fed it captives. The second film had an exceptionally intelligent victim in the lead science guy also.
Maybe more intelligent assimilations get tasked with individual goals or outcomes?
Like, the dogs were obviously not capable of high level infiltration, but the humanoid-forms were. Effectively the thing had to choose between lethality (with the doggos) and subterfuge (with the humies). Short term it wanted to infect everyone and take over the base, but when MacReady pulled the plug on that it basically went apeshit.
>The big mass at the end of the original film was a warform type that was lying dormant whilst the other smaller organisms fed it captives
The big mass was Blair, 90% chance Nauls, 100% chance Gary, and also had dog parts because the camp had part of the Kennel-thing detaching and fleeing, and this one rejoined at the end (this is why is able to manifest a dog-like appendage).
BTW for some reason almost none noticed the Kennel thing losing a part, which flees upstairs. Maybe not even Ager in his mega autism noticed. Rewatch the scene.
Ye. It was a war form. It didn't know how to deal with MacReady so it basically laid a trap for him.
The movie states that the ufo wasn't powerful enough to reach space. He would have used it to leave Antarctica.
Maybe it didn't care about invading/exterminating, but that is what would have happend
Curious. Why did it keep killing people?
i mean... you're sleeping and some unknown frick drills you. wouldn't you be pissed off?
same with the space jokey in prometheus.
Please don't compare the thing to that dogshit movie, even as a joke
never crossed my mind
Thank you, anon. You are the best
My bet is that it was after enough usable biomass to be able to fix its ship or build another.
its not its motivation it could be a very likely outcome of its survival
the thing doesnt have the type of intelligence you're implying, all it does is lie in wait to predate biomass while 'slaveminding' other organisms so it can blend in. It's a essentially just a very complicated micro-organism and it would absolutely continue to spread until all of earth was consumed.
Also in Who Goes There? it has psychic powers and is pretty blatantly evil or at least appears so.
This wrong though?
It literally was building a ship in the movie. Rewatch it your moron.
When they locked the dude in the shed they came back to find a ship it had been building
It could of just consumed one guy, and build the ship in secret. But instead it did that while also fricking around and finding out.
dumbass redditspacer.
it had absorbed the aliens and it just dug the spaceship out as a solution to the problem it had ie being stuck in isolated from the group and without food. That is evidence it doesn't have intelligence, any of the other things could have done the spaceship plan at any time but none of them were in a situation where it was required because they still had people to eat.
Not to mention the things dont cooperate with each other or use guns or weapons or poison etc, this is even explicitly explained by mac and the blood scene as fundamental to the nature of the thing. The only apparent evidence to the contrary is the ploy with mac's garments and that's explained by it actually being a slaved human behavior or even just one of the other people like childs who were butthurt about mac taking charge and suspicious of him.
The ship is to go to the mainland you fricking moron.
Why didn't the thing just use the fricking helicopter instead? why did it need to built the fricking saucer instead
conformism is a mental disease equal to the brainlet zogbots menace
>Why didn't the thing just use the fricking helicopter instead? why did it need to built the fricking saucer instead
Because pre-infection Blair destroyed the copters during his meltdown.
Crazy Blair was normal, but scared because he felt overwhelmed by the consequences of what could happen.
Also, reading your answer to the other anon: get a fricking grip.
>Because pre-infection Blair destroyed the copters during his meltdown.
Why didn't the thing just repair them instead of building literal spacecraft?
Also reading your answer to my answer to another anon: touch grass
Like seriously guys your lack of judgment sometimes is debilitating
Why can you think outside the box? Moreover that there are actual bread crambs in the movie that supports this theory while the big bad alien world assimilition was just Blair's paranoia
You fricking moron. Not everything that is broken can be repaired and more importantly those are OUTSIDE and can be seen, or seen missing.
I can see by the way you post that you are a dunning-kruger-type cretin that thinks he's oh so smart while you are an arrogant midwit with contrarian and schizo takes.
>Like seriously guys your lack of judgment sometimes is debilitating
You are not as smart as you think. You lack basic common sense, anon.
>crambs
And fricking learn to write you stupid frick.
>ya not smart
>me smart!
anything besides vicious insinuations, hillbilly?
*throws you onto a bunsen burner*
you shouldn't be in charge of anything I would literally assassinate you.
MAC GET THE FLAMETHROWER!
If I remember right in the short story that the movie is based off of they talk about it infecting an albatross and trying to fly to mainland to infect the rest of civilization.
>Le listened to The Things audiobook.
I always thought it would make a good horror TV show if the thing somehow escaped to the mainland.
It would just be a horror show where humanity has already completely lost and is now just getting mass-murdered by a being that can be everywhere and everything.
> he's literally fighting to save all the inhabitants of some other planet
czechmate OP
forgot pic
Was Blair a thing by the time he asks to be let out? The contradiction between the noose and his behavior suggests it, but youd think the Thing would have absorbed enough context of the nonsense significance to know to take it down.
No he probably wasn't, the thing probably would've preferred to be alone. Palmer was probably the first to get turned, but Norris was the first one to be infected. The thing dog licks his face in the beginning and that probably caused him to be slowly taken over resulting in his heart attack when Mac breaks it.
>The thing dog licks his face in the beginning
Maybe but I thought the assumption was that the Thing actually needs to get inside somebody and get a ton of biomass in the process. Otherwise it could just have hidden as the dog and slowly infected everyone through contact without revealing itself. I always assumed the scene where the thing-dog walks into Norris (or whoever it was) room was to show that it was about to attack and assimilate that person.
If you listen to The Thing commentary, John Carpenter said the shadow you see on the wall is neither the actor that plays Norris or the actor that plays Palmer. He said he intentionally picked someone else (I believe a sound guy) that kind of looked like them both to trick the audience.
>The alien was literally building a spaceship to fly off to another galaxy and leave this bumblefrick planet
>le epic whitey hero strands him on planet earth for no good reason
macready is the moron villain
welcome to earf
>spaceship to fly off to another galaxy and leave this bumblefrick planet
you haven't seen the movie, zoomzoom
The movie doesnt explain what it wants to do, nor does it imply anything about its motivations
I think the fact that it purposely deceives and brutally kills several people is a pretty big implication of its motivations.
No, but it explains that the ufo wan't capable of leaving earth, therefore the thing was going to use it to leave Antarctica and reach populated continents
>therefore the thing was going to use it to leave Antarctica and reach populated continents
Not necessarily. It could just have rebuilt the UFO to leave the planet. It's never indicated that its intent is to spread globally. In the case of the movie, it's seeming that it spreads as a survival mechanism in THAT situation.
If we don't know, and we don't know, we just need to watch what he does during the movie.He spreads as much as possible, methodically, at evry opportunity.
All the onther conjectures are worthless becasue they are basically "you don't know, maybe he just wanted to go to starbucks"
is there any other horror movie where the stakes are this high? i'd say the invasion of the body snatchers, and they certainly seem more effective compared to the Thing. even if the thing landed in san francisco, i feel the military would have an easier time dealing with it compared to a silent invasion
Is it possible the aliens were telling the truth in Body Snatchers and people were genuinely living a life of bliss after turning?
no, it was just alien propaganda
I'm not buying that. Maybe they had a point.
They were a parasitic nomadic alien plant-based (or plant-like or something) life form. They were deceptive as plants are deceptive in order to catch living prey. Check out a documentary.
These things were only interest in conquest.
Cool it with the anti-poditic remarks
Yeah, but that creature with your face and your thoughts who act like you won't be you.
Good luck with your bliss
Proof?
they are monstrous "robotic" copies not quantum soul transfer etc
Your clone isn't you. Or, better, he IS you, but you aren't him
The pods. Did you even watch it?
It’s not even the same being. Their human selves are destroyed.
The fact the mannequin they used broke apart so easily kinda ruins it tbh
I think Nauls, Gary, and Fuchs had the most disappointing deaths. Fuchs is off screen and mysterious, seemingly killing himself? Same with Nauls being off screen and Blair is suddenly a ninja assassin able to silently take out Nauls and Gary one by one when they're supposed to be hyper vigilant and working as a team.
Fuchs got chased outside and before the thing cornered him, he immolated himself. Ending with nauls/gary was supposed to be more complicated but they had to cut it
The Thing isn't really lovecraftian. It's broadly like some of HPL's stories like color out of space but it's not really got the grandiosity of the "lovecraftian" genre.
>The Thing isn't really lovecraftian
There's some huge Mountains of Madness influence on the original novella and Carpenter film
mostly just the setting
This was far worse, your entire reality is fricked
This and The Thing are the best Lovecraftian movies to exist that aren't directly based off Lovecraft's fiction.
Re-Animator and From Beyond are probably the next best two (yes they're cheesy and not very good but who cares yeah).
what about prince of darkness?
Occult 2009.
Kneel.
dagon
>that aren't directly based off Lovecraft's fiction
he isn't fighting for earth, he's fighting the alien because it tried to frame him, he's fighting for pure spite which is way more based than some generic hero
>Is this the worst situation a horror main character has ever been placed in?
No.
try again
Post the Vocroo someone.
>still lost in the end
grimm
>Nobody ITT read the short story from The Thing's perspective
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
Lorelets
I’ve tried to read this three times, and every time I get bored and give up
>reading audio book
I read the entire thing once in a burner class while our fat ethnic mystery meat TA was lecturing us on White privilege
>muh lore
who cares
>Getting raped by the Thing
>But it turns into the hottest woman you can think of
Yes/No?
no cause it would just bite your penis off and then kill you very slowly and painfully until your consciousness was completely destroyed and replaced with its own and a rudimentary copy of your own. I would burn it with a flamethrower.
>go down to eat your cutie GF out
>turns out it’s a thing monster
>get assimilated by thing vegana & fused together
I dig it
>Mac returns to camp from exploring the Swedish camp
>He goes up to his shack to get drunk and bang his inflatable girlfriend
>He drops his gear and sinks into his chair for a moment's rest
>Suddenly the inflatable doll arises and moves towards him
>The Thing has assimilated it and misunderstood that it isn't a real woman
there's a manga that's about the thing being the MC's gf
>manga
I am aware. Japs sure enjoy their body horror.
>Your incomprehensible abomination is now a redditor
Frick off with this story.
yeah i did. stop lying.
i also read "who goes there?"
>Is this the worst situation a horror main character has ever been placed in?
no. can't think of anything worse than I have no mouth and I must scream.
>I have no mouth and I must scream.
torture porn made by a deranged israelite
The thing is.....with global warming it doesn't even matter. At some point the environment will be warm enough for the creature to thrive in our ecosystem.
He saves humanity maybe two to three hundred years
In reality the movie is about the inevitability of entropy. You can fight the chaos all you want but eventually the universe will be consumed by the very Thing that created it.
In the end, all turns to darkness and death
that point humanity has spaceships and is gone from planet lol
>The thing is.....with global warming it doesn't even matter.
(You)
Just ten more years.
He’s literally not. The alien wanted to leave, Mac should have helped it finish building a ufo and told it to frick off.
Lil bro, the alien sees humanity as a chaotic force that needs to be tamed, it's entire purpose of being is to personally uplift entities into a higher being of perfect consciousness. It's elaborated much more in the novel, but yeah maybe it just wanted to leave earth in its Somalia tier ufo
I’m not your bro, pal.
Maybe it was going to bring back more The Things.
Explain why it felt the need to assimilate all of the huskies in the kennel then? I could understand switching from a dog to a human but at that scene the audience is explicitly shown the alien is going to kill everything even by it’s total nature. It needed to get torched
>be asleep for a million years
>wake up to some hippy that wants to frizzle your shizzle with a flamethrower
The fricking alien just wanted to fly out what are you bumbling about moron?
Like just think about it what the frick does a thing that have crossed light years of space, can literally shapeshift into anything it want, has hyper intelligence that can built spacecrafts, want from some dumb ape that can't even win fricking chess wizard computer
It literally built a fricking saucer to run off from this shithole lol
the ship wouldn't have been able to leave Earth like another anon said, it was going to infiltrate civilization.
Then why didn't it fell on it and not in Antarctica from the start?
bro the ship was on fire, I don't think it had any control over it.
How can people be this fricking stupid and not get The Thing of all things
Read "The Things" by Peter Watts it's an interesting story told from a pov of the thing and it's motivations
>if humans are so smart and have such an advanced civilisation, why would they want to cut down this bit of rainforest?
>*gets turned into grazing land for mcdonalds*
Assimilating our biosphere might be trivial and insignificant to The Thing, doesn't mean it wouldn't do it.
The Thing is like a disease, it wants to replicate so humanity is the natural target if it's on earth, not just fly away to another world to do it elsewhere
contrarianism is a mental disease equal to the troony menace
as are warm weather hysterics a form of death cultists
Those guys were just fighting to save themselves. Pic related was the only one fighting to save Earth.
>don't explain yourself
>just start trashing shit
why
Same problem with the Norwegians trying to shoot at and blow up the American base without any explanation. People act more sensibly in the Thing than other horror movies but if they acted too sensibly we wouldn't have a movie
>wasting trashing-time and momentum on talking
>without any explanation
>"Se til helvete og kom dere vekk. Det er ikke en bikkje, det er en slags ting! Den imiterer en bikkje, det er ikke virkelig! Kom dere vekk, idioter!"
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>Blair is the typical Lovecraft character driven insane by the stuff he knew and ultimately killed by the creature
>McCready is the typical Hollywood character who knew as well as Blair and fell into the paranoia just as much yet driven to kill the creature no matter the cost
What a great movie
Just be glad you're not Anna.
I don't want to stay out here anymore. I want to come back inside The Thing thread, Cinemaphile.
This
The scale of it gets pretty grim. The entire universe is a nightmare ruin of endless fighting that never stops right up until it collapses and the only hopeful note is sending information forward into a possible new universe. Humans don't even get into a position to understand it in any detail before they're almost entirely wiped out. And by that time, space has been collapsed into three dimensions and the speed of light is 300k. They can only get the vaguest idea of what the unruined universe was like by analogy and never directly experience anything close to it.
I'VE SEEN THINGS YOU PEOPLE WONT BELIEVE
SOON YOUR PLANET WILL VANISH
IVE SEEN THE FUTURE YOU PEOPLE WONT THINK
SOON YOUR PLANET WILL BE PUNISHED
Is this movie out? I was gonna pirate it but google says it was never released.
>pirate it
have a nice day. Support content creators
I am. EA killed visceral, so I won't support more killing.
how was this guy able to pilot a helicopter competently, deal with base politics, and eliminate the greatest threat to mankind having been awake for 48 hours and constantly drinking whiskey?
It was a different time
Men used to be men
Ripley in Alien 3 had it worse
She had one inside, and knew full well what's going to happen to her, and with humanity later
It's not an action packed quest, but the moral implication and strength of character needed to sacrifice herself was greater, I think, that solely "fighting clearly big and evil monster"
Basically Among Us but with gore
>Soulless company appeals to diversity and then gets completely fricked by the Marker
It's funny when you look at it that way
Frick them for changing Hammond's death.
How does he die now, bro?
He hallucinates a necromorph as one of the crewmen from the beginning, gets wounded, snaps out of it, and then pushes it (and himself) into the engine core you get from the crashed military ship near the end of the game. He also looks completely different (like a fricking subhuman, I'm serious). You know how the RIGs make that flatline sound when the wearer dies? Well his still does despite getting atomized. It's moronic.
>Is this the worst situation a horror main character has ever been placed in?
>He’s literally fighting to save all life on Earth.
As someone who pretty much only watches horror movies there are so many horror movies with that plot device
Jesus a fricking scifi horror videogame? Can these fricks leave ANYTHING unspoiled?
>removing content to stay relevant
did they remove anything significant?
No, the chatbots have been reposting the same screenshot of a bathroom for weeks.
Anyone who is captured by the Drukhari, meets Slaanesh, or is on a planet fighting Tyranids after the Empire forgets about them and stops sending supplies and reinforcements.
Because 40K makes everything worse.
Is there any EU shit about the Thing and it's home planet or any other stories about the species? I don't care if it's bad
>I don't care if it's bad
Peter Watts, author of Blindsight, wrote a short story from the perspective of The Thing.
I can't imagine its very bad. Watts is big shit.
Yeah I read that and it's good but it doesn't expand the lore, it's just the movie from another point of view
Well here it do if anyone else wants to.
Haven't read it personally. I don't like fanfiction even from real authors.
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
mom has had a hard life
You can say that about a lot of villains
fighting to save all life is basically claiming that all lives matter, that's racist cancel this chud
>Are you thinging what I'm thinging?!
>leftist cucks even simp for murderous alien parasites
lmao, but he was just trying to go home right?
what's in the movie that proves otherwise, which can't be disproven by other behavior in the movie?
>being born and having to like in Britain
MacReady doesn't have shit on this guy
>we will never see the unseen room
>The Thing managed to get The Shining-tier story speculation where people drew the map of the facility to gauge on who's doing what in any given time in the movie's timeline.
You love to see it. You know you've made it when your movie manage to get that level of scrutiny and fan theories.
God to bad, granpa John
It's still won't redeem your Ghosts of mars
>making shit like this for a movie
Is this what lack of sex does to a man?
i have a first edition who goes there? (1948) with a literally perfect dust jacket. Check the art.
my bad bdidnt mean for it to be flipped
What's the robot doing there?
I'll tell you what he's not doing.
Faking the funk on a fresh nasty dunk.
Don't remember any robot in the story.
I like to imagine the ending is The Thing begrudgingly admitting to MacReady that he's been bested.
same, but it's also more clever to me if it was never a malicious creature in the first place, just that it couldn't trust humans, and they weren't gonna trust it. So they could have left each other alone and been fine, but it wasn't gonna happen
If you managed to trap a Thing would you be able to have a conversation with it and learn what it wants?
Does the Thing ever address what it is to anyone? I feel like it just pretends until it’s backed into a corner and goes monster mode
Without a molecular forcefield it would be quite difficult. A glass box maybe, but it would still need to be able to breathe, so there'd be an aperture somewhere for it to try and escape.
Whenever it'd been caught in the open it would just shit it's pants and piss itself.
How could you be sure it is sincere and not an imitation of conversation?
As far as i know from behind the scenes the thing wasn't the initial intelligent alien pilot, the thing just got somehow on that ship and assimilated the pilot. Thing initial form was supposed to be more like a virus or plant
I enjoy the speculation that the pilot deliberately aimed the shop towards the poles whilst it struggled against the assimilation process.
Childs was falling asleep at his post and was later shown missing from where he was supposed to be. Plus another jacket missing from the wall that was there earlier. Pretty obvious that he was taken over by Blair
So, how come it tried to assimilate multiple doggos at once but only tried to assimilate the humoos one at a time.
It was cornered with the dogs, which is the only reason it lashed out. And it did literally the same thing when cornered with the humans, such as with Norris and Palmer lashing out.
Why are depressive "there are no happy endings and everyone is fricked" scifi stories so paradoxically comfy?
Narrative cohesion. If it had ended with MacReady flying off into the sunset there would have been tonal whiplash.
>keep ritualistically sacrificing japanese schoolgirls or end all life on earth
>decides to end all life on earth
I hate this movie so much.
Why?
Because of the absolutely sophomoric "dude I know what cliches are I'm so intelligent lol" concept that doesn't actually add or create anything of value and only serves as insincere mental masturbation for the creator.
That's fair I guess. I just like horror movies, so I liked it because of the display of general horror conventions.
I think a lot of people feel similarly, if I ever make my own vidya all the characters are going to speak like seething school shooters.
I agree, but the remake is still good. But I do agree with
for the most part. Unless you love Dead Space, I'd wait for it to come on sale... But I do want to see them redo Dead Space 2. Or maybe I just need to replay it.
FRICK OFF TROON Black folk
I never used the pulse rifle in the old one. Just plasma cutter, line gun... And honestly I can't recall what else.
You forgot the ultimate weapon of action games:
The fricking boot
Best thing since Duke Nukem 3D
I didn't forget. I stomp every body to pieces.
going through with just the plasma cutter is the best
that's so fricking moronic
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His lack of sleep is what bothered me. He was very sleep deprived
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