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It is a great movie. But the more people suck it’s wiener the more it attracts the…contrarians. They smell happiness and love and decide to devote their lives explaining how they are smart because they don’t like it.
Pet theory: the Thing works by deactivating the immune system, that's what allows it to merge different biologies together.
But it comes with the side effect that the infected body can't defend against bacterias and starts rotting fast.
So it deliberately landed in Antarctica, because it was the only place sterile enough for it to survive.
That's also why the entire universe isn't overrun by Things, because otherwise landing anywhere that's not Antarctica would have been an instant grey goo (.. or red goo, I guess) end of the world.
He was playing with samples of infected blood for like half the movie.
The things cells can enter and take over the body through contact with just the skin.
>The things cells can enter and take over the body through contact with just the skin
I hate this because it makes what happened in the movie dumb. The thing just needs to wait it out if that was the case. The violent take overs are too risky when it just can touch you then walk away.
I'm going to alaborate on this(my) post. The only way violent takeovers make sense is if our bodies immune system can fight off thing cells >inb4 perfect copies
To the naked eye but thru billions of years of evolution our immune system can tell that the thing cells are foreign and dangerous. Pure head cannon I know but (you) come up with a better explanation.
I'm going to alaborate on this(my) post. The only way violent takeovers make sense is if our bodies immune system can fight off thing cells >inb4 perfect copies
To the naked eye but thru billions of years of evolution our immune system can tell that the thing cells are foreign and dangerous. Pure head cannon I know but (you) come up with a better explanation.
The Thing can be violently eating shit mindlessly because that's just what it does, while still infecting with just a few cells.
No Thing ever speaks, there's no way to know how it thinks, if at all.
No, Childs at the end doesn't count.
>The Thing can be violently eating shit mindlessly because that's just what it does
If this were the case it would never disguise itself as a person or animal.
According to John Carpenter, he takes all his failed movies pretty hard, but the film's initial negative reception disappointed him the most. Not only was it a box-office bomb but critics panned its gory effects, tone, and characters. Vincent Canby, called it "too phony looking to be disgusting. It qualifies only as instant junk". Dave Kehr wrote that it was "hard to tell who's being attacked, and hard to care." Likewise Roger Ebert was disappointed by the "superficial characterizations and the implausible behavior" and dismissed the film as nothing more than an Alien (1979) knockoff. Carpenter was particularly upset when Christian Nyby, the director of the original The Thing from Another World (1951), publicly denounced Carpenter's version, saying, "If you want blood, go to the slaughterhouse. All in all, it's a terrific commercial for J&B Scotch." In response to the commercial bombing of the film, the studio canceled the multi-picture deal they had with Carpenter who noted that his career would have been different if the film had been successful. Not surprisingly, he was extremely relieved when the film enjoyed a rich cult success following its home video release along with the critical re-evaluation it received.
sucked wiener
I think it was Fuchs or Bennings, wasn’t it?
Diabeetus
Because he was completely alone in a shed. Mac basically sent him out to get buttfricked, one of the dumber decisions in the film
he kept touching the thing with his pencil and then putting it to his lips
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Exactly what a thing would say. Alright guys you know the drill.
I-i'm not the thing, i swear
Not it.
it's not me I swear
This is the dumbest posting on the board and you seriously need to go back to plebbit.
Test him next.
Not me man!
Stop being a gay and untie me already MacReady!
This "dubs" method of yours is completely unscientific Macready! This is bullshit!
Good thinking MacReady. We'll find this "thing" one way or another and when we do we can celebrate over a nice cold Bang's.
>not a single positive
this can't be right
No same numbers here, Mac
I'm clean
MAKE IT HOT ENOUGH FOR TWO, MAC
BURN HIM BURN HIM
MAC UNTIE ME FROM THIS CHAIR RIGHT FRICKING NOW HES IT I SWEAR TO GOD. HAND TO CHRIST
amongus
Ah come on. Not this again! It can't be me, we've been together the whole time
IVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR BULLSHIT MAC LET ME OUT OF THIS FRICKING CHAIR
WINDOWS, BLAST HIM
>freezes
Cut me loose! Come on, get me the hell outta here! Cut me loose dammit!
Guys I'm cold, does anyone have a good human coat
YOU CAN SEE MY BREATH MAC I'M NOT A THING
>one off
I've got my eye on you. You've been acting mighty suspicious
THAT'S FAKE NEWS YOU IDIOT
Come on Mac, untie me, we've been friends for years!
DON'T LISTEN TO IT, MAC
it's a perfect movie, it's not my fault
your mother is a perfect movie
Your mom goes to college.
It is a great movie. But the more people suck it’s wiener the more it attracts the…contrarians. They smell happiness and love and decide to devote their lives explaining how they are smart because they don’t like it.
>before it gets “Avatar’d
Isn't there already a terrible remake from 2011?
Wouldn’t the thing be able to spread to insects? Wouldn’t we all be fricked?
its Antarctica so no insects but yeah makes sense.
It's why it being in Antarctica saved the planet, if The Thing got ahold of a fish the whole world would be fricked.
Pet theory: the Thing works by deactivating the immune system, that's what allows it to merge different biologies together.
But it comes with the side effect that the infected body can't defend against bacterias and starts rotting fast.
So it deliberately landed in Antarctica, because it was the only place sterile enough for it to survive.
That's also why the entire universe isn't overrun by Things, because otherwise landing anywhere that's not Antarctica would have been an instant grey goo (.. or red goo, I guess) end of the world.
Maybe it can't replicate haemolymph
>why not?
Because it can't, ok?
He was playing with samples of infected blood for like half the movie.
The things cells can enter and take over the body through contact with just the skin.
>The things cells can enter and take over the body through contact with just the skin
I hate this because it makes what happened in the movie dumb. The thing just needs to wait it out if that was the case. The violent take overs are too risky when it just can touch you then walk away.
I'm going to alaborate on this(my) post. The only way violent takeovers make sense is if our bodies immune system can fight off thing cells
>inb4 perfect copies
To the naked eye but thru billions of years of evolution our immune system can tell that the thing cells are foreign and dangerous. Pure head cannon I know but (you) come up with a better explanation.
Or maybe it's just it's nature.
The Thing can be violently eating shit mindlessly because that's just what it does, while still infecting with just a few cells.
No Thing ever speaks, there's no way to know how it thinks, if at all.
No, Childs at the end doesn't count.
>No Thing ever speaks
is this true? can't believe i never noticed that before
It's bullshit. Blair and Palmer speak at times where they are definitely things.
>The Thing can be violently eating shit mindlessly because that's just what it does
If this were the case it would never disguise itself as a person or animal.
What are you talking about, Palmer and Norris both say a lot of shit while Things.
It became the insulin for his diabeetus.
sepsis.
According to John Carpenter, he takes all his failed movies pretty hard, but the film's initial negative reception disappointed him the most. Not only was it a box-office bomb but critics panned its gory effects, tone, and characters. Vincent Canby, called it "too phony looking to be disgusting. It qualifies only as instant junk". Dave Kehr wrote that it was "hard to tell who's being attacked, and hard to care." Likewise Roger Ebert was disappointed by the "superficial characterizations and the implausible behavior" and dismissed the film as nothing more than an Alien (1979) knockoff. Carpenter was particularly upset when Christian Nyby, the director of the original The Thing from Another World (1951), publicly denounced Carpenter's version, saying, "If you want blood, go to the slaughterhouse. All in all, it's a terrific commercial for J&B Scotch." In response to the commercial bombing of the film, the studio canceled the multi-picture deal they had with Carpenter who noted that his career would have been different if the film had been successful. Not surprisingly, he was extremely relieved when the film enjoyed a rich cult success following its home video release along with the critical re-evaluation it received.
The pencil.
So if the alien touched the bog roll does that mean they could've got infected anally if they went to the loo?
>I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FRICKING COUCH!!
God what a good movie
>poking the Thing all over with the end of his pencil, getting goo and blood all over it
>immediately sticks it in his mouth while thinking
That's it. Did you not notice that?