So.. We DO watch this every time its cold or it rains out right?

So..
We DO watch this every time its cold or it rains out right?

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  1. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    doesn't matter as long as we watch it at night

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      shit man i watch this movie all the time no matter the weather

      You got any other equivalents except maybe alien? I watched it recently.
      Why is it so hard to make a good monster movie nowadays?
      Its literally
      >setting
      >likeable cast
      >mystery
      >gore
      >good monster

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        cast
        I feel like they constantly fail at this part now. Like take Prometheus, even with it's crazy amount of stupid shit in the mystery, people could have liked the movie if the characters had been enjoyable. Instead every single one of them was obnoxious, easily to hate, and enjoyable to see killed off. Thing Remake also did a terrible job casting likeable people.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          One of the few films with no actresses

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Oh there's an actress alright, and she took care of the whole crew

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              As long as they lazily wipe it off on their pants between turns, all good. Don't trust Windows to operate the inflator in a timely fashion, though.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >likeable cast
        Impossible.
        >gore/good monster
        All CGI.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Dog soldiers

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Starship Trooper 2

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        check out The Vast of Night. It was like a sub million budget movie that came out during pandemic.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Seconding this. Wasn't perfect, but did such a terrific job of building up the likeable main characters and the spooky atmosphere.

  2. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    shit man i watch this movie all the time no matter the weather

  3. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It's been airing on Pluto lately, now that I'm older I know who all the actors are now and can say that Keith David is kino

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Mac wants a WHAT?!

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        That's what he said, now move!

  4. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Who'd be the best roomie?

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Palmer seems like he'd have been a good roommate before he got thingified

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Palmer would be an unbearable DUDE WEED LMAO commie bastard.
        MacCready, Childs and Windows would be the only good roommates

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Fuchs seemed ok. A chill, smart guy who just keeps to himself.

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          You might like MacCready, but he's the type who would not want a roommate.

          Everyone seemed to dislike Palmer except for Childs who tolerated him, and everyone seemed uneasy with Childs except for Palmer.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      One of the only guys who everyone seemed fine with was Norris, and I suspect that the dog actually may have gotten him first partially for that reason.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        No, in general I have an annual screening when it's miserably fricking cold outside and there's a good foot plus of snow on the ground. Late January is the ideal time. I didn't watch it this past winter because winter never really came. Also I've seen it plenty, twice in the theater even.

        The whole scene where Garry corners Windows and Mac assumes command is great. Windows is trapped in the frame by himself while Garry holds a gun on him, mostly outside the frame. Garry wheels on the others, lowers tension and Childs tries for it while Clark shows what a terrible bigot he is by keeping him from it at knifepoint. Then Mac does this VERY SMOOTH little turn and takes the gun for himself while the other actors are acting, it's a nice bit of stagecraft that no one ever notices. I think Norris-thing declines at this point because he sort of intuits that his ticker is going all weird and also he doesn't want to draw attention to himself.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >VERY SMOOTH little turn and takes the gun for himself
          Damn, never caught that. Was always busy watching the other actors. Very slick.
          Also when they're doing the improvised blood test, they're very careless. Windows takes a sample from Nauls, gets his blood all over his fingers, then just wipes it off on his clothing somewhere. He then just wipes off the bloody scalpel on his pants and cuts himself for his sample.
          No gloves used or proper decontamination between taking multiple samples.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >Also when they're doing the improvised blood test, they're very careless.
            Yeah, I get that they were low on supplies and very tired and not thinking all that clearly by that point, but their method was really sloppy.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            The film was not intended as an allegory for AIDS, but the disease started pretty much at the exact same time that the movie came out so once people started revisiting it the comparison became inevitable because it's just too obvious. It's right there. A bunch of guys are spreading a deadly disease and the big question is who's got it. ALSO, there's a bit propaganda poster right behind Mac in the scene you're talking about. It's a nice looking lady and the caption is THEY AREN'T LABELED, CHUM! It was an anti-VD WWII poster, She had VD, a sexual disease of some sort. She can look normal and still have some horrible disease that she might give to you.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Completing the thought, people were very easy-going about blood contamination 30-50 years ago (as shown in the crude "cleaning" of the x-acto knife, a simple squib gag which people find one of the nastiest to watch in the entire film), the gay disease is the thing that changed the culture on that one in basic industrial safety training (just assume it's tainted and then clean it up), the medical establishment, daily life, etc.

            Oddly, in the original short story, there's a scene toward the end where once they identify someone as a Thing, they... just attack the guy more or less with their bare hands and light weapons, and this is enough to dispatch each instance. Somehow the cellular basis of of the organism goes sideways in the original story. It's the Carpenter film specifically that makes the single cell which gets out like the opening of Pandora's Box.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I like that one comment from a few threads ago where they said the Thing spared Clark because he was nice to it lol. Obviously baloney, but a funny thought. (if anything it saw him as a useful idiot or a low value target).

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Clark is the absolute bottom b***h of the entire camp, but no one really worries about it much. There's no women around so the men don't really fight with each other (under normal circumstances), like all all-male societies they spontaneously organize themselves into a fairly cohesive little unit where everyone has their job and things generally work. Russell noted on the commentary track that on the back half of the shoot like the last script girl or whatever left the set because she was about to give birth and from then on it was a total sausage fest. Russell said it was nice in a way because nobody was trying to puff themselves up, the actors and crew also simply did their jobs and wrapped.

  5. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I watch it from time to time just to ogle at young Kurt Russell

  6. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Does it bother anyone else how The Thing's cover art has little or nothing to do with anything in the movie? It gives the impression that there will be a creature shining a blinding light out of its face or helmet. Who came up with that?

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Nope, I love it. It's the normal familiar comfortable outfit they all wear of thick hooded coat, pants and gloves, yet now their long time friends are completely unknown and untrustworthy. They don't know who that person is anymore, and the figure approaching them could be a hostile alien from outer space in disguise. Far better than the usual bullshit where they give away all the surprises and best moments on the poster

  7. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It ain't Fuchs

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      hey wait a minute wait a minute man. i wanna come back inside dont ya understand?

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >gets so angry that they won't let him back inside that he breaks out and kills them all

  8. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      top-downslop
      I want a proper The Thing game in the vein of Alien: Isolation

  9. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    First goddamn week of winter is actually late June in Antarctica.

  10. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    i don't wanna watch it too much and it loses it's power

  11. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    every halloween, along with the rest of the apocalypse trilogy baby

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >along with the rest of the apocalypse trilogy baby
      Based as frick
      Prince of Darkness never gets enough love 🙁

  12. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I've seen it once and probably never again because its a quaint but forgettable B horror movie that reddit for some reason decided was an all time great.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      awful opinion and of course its a frogposter

  13. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I never really understood why Mac gave Childs the petrol at the ending.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      what petrol? you're talking nonsense. unless you are trying to say that mac was seconds away from drinking petrol himself.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Mac was the thing at the end that is why he went away from the fire(after he burnt the camp down), to freeze.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >seconds away from drinking petrol himself
        hey why not, he's freezing to death anyway

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Mac was the thing at the end that is why he went away from the fire(after he burnt the camp down), to freeze.

      Pretty sure these are bad theories that have been debunked.

  14. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I liked Garry. I wish he didn't died

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      He knew you gentleman have been through a lot.

  15. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I watch it every December. Pairs well with Alien.

  16. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Deleted scene?

  17. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >let's just warm things up
    >burns the whole camp down
    >moves away from the heat source(s)
    Mac was in fact, the thing

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Any human would move away from the fires enough not to get burned, but they clearly stayed close enough to keep safely warm for as long as possible.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        they both looked really, really cold though. the kind of cold where ice was forming on them.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Antarctica is really fricking cold. Any moisture on you at night will turn to ice very quickly.

          Childs was slightly closer to a heat source than Mac, going by how much of their breath you could see in the air.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            they probably should have got closer to the fires that mac lit then

  18. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    yes

  19. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    still haven't seen it. i don't like horror (it's boring and pointless) and i feel like the thing will just be boring and pointless.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      It's just a great monster movie, even if you don't like horror. It's probably the best movie about paranoia I've ever seen.

      It's really interesting to see smart characters make bad decisions that they reasoned were correct at the time. It also holds up really well to repeat viewing. You catch something new every time.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      YEAH WELL FRICK YOU TOO

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        SKREEEEEE

  20. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    never seen it

  21. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder that

    >When Norris, Mac and Palmer go to the alien spaceship, only Norris is infected
    >If both Palmer and Norris were infected, they would have attacked MacReady
    >In only Norris was infected, he wouldn't have attacked MacReady down at the spaceship because Palmer would have seen it and flown away
    >if only Palmer was infected, he'd leave Norris and Macready down at the ship fly away to the coast
    >videogame confirmed canon

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Correct. You are a "Norris was infected first" man of integrity just like me. I like to think that Palmer would simply have tried for the next base in the chopper by himself, LIKE THE DOG DID.

      But even this isn't definitive. The final nail in the coffin for "Palmer went first" people is that PALMER AND CHILDS SHARE A JOINT IN THEIR BEDROOM. Saliva and a cell or three can easily be swapped here. And they're in their jammies besides, alone. The perfect time to strike, and yet Childs remains human.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        palmer was first and everyone forgot about the vial of blood clark drew from the dog. not to mention the billions of palmer thing now frozen after being blown up.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Clark didn't draw blood, he GAVE a sedative to the surviving dog. Which was all for nothing since Blair axe'd the dog anyway

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >he GAVE a sedative to the surviving dog
            what?

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              Other guy is right, that's what's going on in the scene. I forget the exact line but there's visual/dialogue info which confirms it. Also it's two (conceivably infected!) dogs at that point, not just one. When Clark opens the gate two dogs burst out.

              In total there's dog-thing, and the six dogs on-base, so seven beings. There is a medium establishing shot showing the entire kennel as Clark turns the lights out.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                When the dogs burst out, the dog-thing is just attacking and starting to assimilate dogs. Which it fails to do, as Blair notices during the autopsy.

                After the attack the dogs are given a sedative and Blair starts pressing Clarke about "how long were you alone with that dog". Reminder that there isn't an infected dog after that, Blair kills them.

                So… who was the thing at the end?

                According to Carpenter, they both are human but it's still inconclusive. The video game is confirmed csnon and it has childs frozen body in the shack and MacReady mysteriously alive and flying a helicopter

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Yes, but there's a beat of a few seconds where it's dark and we don't really know what's going on AND THE THING IS SPRAYING THING-SHIT ALL OVER THE PLACE. One poor hecking doggo gets hosed good, and it's all over the entire kennel. We certainly cannot rule out contamination.

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              >Blair axe'd the dog anyway
              I didn't see that version

              Clarke gave a sedative, he didn't take blood. After Blair locks himself in the radio room and goes nuts, Childs runs to the group and says that "Blair killed the dogs", which visibly shocked Clarke as he runs to the kennel. We are now shown Clarke and the dead dog (with an axe on it).

              Are you moronic?

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                >Childs runs to the group and says that "Blair killed the dogs"
                so that confirms childs was the thing. there was no blood(on his axe) or gunshots(from the pistol he had) heard confirming blair killed anything at all.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                It doesn't. There's more than one axe lmao. Go check the movie again, you can literally see the axe still up on the dog carcass. Do it.

                Childs is canonically non-infected

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                >Childs is canonically non-infected
                if childs isn't infected why did he want to kill blair so badly(or infect him), only second to Mac?
                so that definitely confirms childs killed the dogs.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                And why would he kill the dog instead of infecting? Seriously, are you baiting me or just stupid? Check 54:35 in the movie, you can see the axe.

                I'm gonna say it for the 4th time. Childs is canonically non-infected, as confirmed by Carpenter.

                Yes, but there's a beat of a few seconds where it's dark and we don't really know what's going on AND THE THING IS SPRAYING THING-SHIT ALL OVER THE PLACE. One poor hecking doggo gets hosed good, and it's all over the entire kennel. We certainly cannot rule out contamination.

                The sprayed goo is acid, as evidenced by the severely burnt dog that is briefly down bring pulled in towards the dog-thing.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Read

                It doesn't. There's more than one axe lmao. Go check the movie again, you can literally see the axe still up on the dog carcass. Do it.

                Childs is canonically non-infected

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                yeah childs used the other axe, killed the dogs and told everyone blair did.
                child confirmed infected.
                the thing knew that after getting the alpha male(s) it needed to get the "smart" people.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Ah, you're just baiting, alright

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                blair was having a natural reaction to learning the earth was doomed. childs thing took advantage of his madness, which resulted in getting him (blair) isolated, and ultimately infected so it could make transport. it's pretty elementary stuff really.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                blair was having a natural reaction to learning the earth was doomed. childs thing took advantage of his madness, which resulted in getting him (blair) isolated, and ultimately infected so it could make transport. it's pretty elementary stuff really.

                >He got most of the chopper and the tractor. He's killed the rest of the dogs.
                This is what Childs says. Blair was the only one away from the group long enough to do all of that. Childs also puts himself in harm's way and almost gets shot by Blair. Childs is not infected.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >Blair axe'd the dog anyway
            I didn't see that version

  22. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    So… who was the thing at the end?

  23. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >watch for the first time
    >love every second on it, the theme song engraved in my mind
    >later wants to listen to it again, but its different from what I remembered
    >learn there is two versions, listen to the other one, its not the one either
    What the frick bros, I still can't find it after years.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      ?list=RDSdjp5t4a9Kw

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        god I love this movie
        love the Bennings scene, the dogs too. even the head crawling away, or the stomach opening up. good shit good shit

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          You are now aware that Bennings' human mind is still (mostly) intact at the moment of this scene. It has infected most of the rest of his body and is involuntarily over-riding his brain with its motor control of the rest of him. Bennings is scared out of his wits, and starting to feel a little weird. He tries desparately to scream out to his friends for help.

          The scream does not come out like he thought it would. And he feels the flames for many seconds until he loses consciousness.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            dare I say kino

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              You are now aware that Bennings' human mind is still (mostly) intact at the moment of this scene. It has infected most of the rest of his body and is involuntarily over-riding his brain with its motor control of the rest of him. Bennings is scared out of his wits, and starting to feel a little weird. He tries desparately to scream out to his friends for help.

              The scream does not come out like he thought it would. And he feels the flames for many seconds until he loses consciousness.

              Samegay btw.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Charade you are!

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            nice headcanon

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >HELP! Das Ding has got me!

  24. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    They didn’t even try to make the second one good, what the frick?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      The Mary Sue had such plot armor that she went out with the thing, knowing it was the thing, alone and nothing happened to her.

  25. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    DAS THING

  26. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I just watched this for the first time and liked it a lot. What are some other top tier horror movies, not necessarily like it since I've seen all the aliens and preditor movies of that type, but good quality horror stuff?
    >ask in the horror thread
    they're all goregays who don't care about good story, they recommend 3/10s on imbd so long as a stripper gets chopped up in it.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Funny Games. Both versions are good.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I thought Color out of Space had great atmosphere. Same with Nosferatu the Vampyre and lots of black and white movies like The Haunting and The Innocents.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Bone Tomahawk
      go in blind

      The Hateful Eight is also heavily inspired by The Thing, though it's not horror.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >Bone Tomahawk
        is watching a dude getting split in half by the groin your thing?
        it's not mine
        good movie though, will not think about it everynight, one time is enough to puke

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I just watched this for the first time and liked it a lot. What are some other top tier horror movies, not necessarily like it since I've seen all the aliens and preditor movies of that type, but good quality horror stuff?
        >ask in the horror thread
        they're all goregays who don't care about good story, they recommend 3/10s on imbd so long as a stripper gets chopped up in it.

        bone tomahawk rules.

  27. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    holy trips confirmed
    I watch it in my head almost every night

  28. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Come on, man, you don't wanna hurt anybody

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      The way he shoots the gun is always funny to me.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        The way some people throw their gun forward while shooting seems pretty common in older movies for some reason, I wonder why that is

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          I've always wondered why they shoot pistols that way in films. Even a person who never shot before wouldn't shoot that way instinctively. Maybe it's just to emphasize the action for old film or small television screens?

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          I've always wondered why they shoot pistols that way in films. Even a person who never shot before wouldn't shoot that way instinctively. Maybe it's just to emphasize the action for old film or small television screens?

          It's gotta be an acting/directing thing because Wilford was a marine and a bodyguard prior to acting, it's safe to assume he knew how to shoot a gun.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Ahll keel yuu!

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous
  29. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  30. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I watch it and other shit about Antarctica when it's hot, just because I wish I were there.

    My favourite thing to watch on a hot day is this:
    https://www.antarctica.gov.au/antarctic-operations/webcams/macquarie-island/

    >Macquarie Island, sub-Antarctic island in the southern polar vortex. Just look at those awesome temps and windspeeds

  31. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    only if you turn the volume up enough to injure your hearing

    some

  32. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

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