I think the thing infected the original aliens on the ship and it crash landed on earth, they seem to absorb the knowledge the host has. If you look at the ship on the prequel and how the thing behaves or looks it's unlikely they build it.
@TheKevin546 yes thats the real story. the aliens crashed the ship on purpose to kill the thing. but the studio that made the prequel thought that it was too complicated
I keep coming back to this. I fucking love John Carpenter. This is the best opening sequence of any horror film. The soundtrack with the imagery is just amazing. Long live 1980's horror films you will never be matched again!
I have seen both this one and prequel, what is exactly the thing, is it a creature, or some type a virus, or somehow both. It almost seems to me, but having just one cell get into another host, that is how it reproduces. Like Asexual reproduction.
Oh lars doesnt speak english but he definitely understands it very well in the prequel. He apparently doesnt know whether he wants to be the shooter or the pilot because he switches roles midflight according to the prequel. You know, the prequel that matches seamlessly with the 82 film?
Saw the prequel today. Wasn't terrible, but thought they could've done something more than just do an imitation of this film. Then again, irony much? Imitation of a movie about an alien that mimics others?
no very wrong the prequel was a stupid failed atempt to make money the ship was excavated with explosives not the ship powering up thousands of holes in the story if your gonna do a prequel do it right play dead space 1 or 2 thats what the 2011 was inspired from , kurt russel is were its at only that mullet could stop this thing
@anderskittilsen I really don't want to see the 2011 version. From what I understand, it will feel like a remake (and I have read reviews of it, where they say it was going to be a remake).
People need to realise though, Carpenter did not create the idea of the Thing.
@57worldwide ye, it feels like a bad remake, but its kinda worth watching it too, since its the prequel. i just remember the scenes i like and try to forget the rest:P lol
i think it was a book from the thirties, then it became a movie in the 50's or something, then the 80's version. correct me if im wrong:)
@anderskittilsen I think the creatures seen in the prequel are partly inspired by concept art from the Thing 2 videogame (which is a sequel to the Thing videogame, which was a sequel to Carpenter's film).
I think you are right about the history of the Thing. I would like to have some information to figure out the 1982 film, like, I would watch the 2011 film if it could put some pieces into the puzzle. I don't really care about the axe in the door, or the guy with the slit throat, though.
@57worldwide Just watched the prequel now and I have to say it was good. Not fantastic but also not as bad as a lot are saying. My only gripes with it were the cgi effects and the inner workings of the spaceship. At times the monster effects looked too similar to the same repeated toothy mouthed creatures you saw in this one but it did have a couple creepy scenes and they did look like something even a big man would shit himself at.
@TheSteelStallion I'm more interested in wether or not extra information is added, not so much interested in a back story (if you understand what I mean). I can guess what happened to the Norwegian camp. I'm only interested in finding out: how the Thing assimilates creatures; wether the Things are part of a whole, or wether each part is fully independent; etc.
I assume the Thing learns in the Norwegian camp, eg it doesn't behave exactly the way it did when it got to the US camp.
@57worldwide I think in that regard it leaves certain things to your imagination based on what's been said already, much like the 1982 film. Way I see it is, it starts as one thing and spreads like a disease. On a cellular level it infects whatever it comes into contact with, even touching blood or being scratched. You're definitely on it when you mention the difference of the US and Norwegian camps. Some believe it chooses a cautious approach at the US camp due to the violent method not working
@57worldwide As for it being independent or part of a whole.. hard to say unless the film makers literally outright said it. Seeing as it is basically an alien cellular life form, I think it's safe to say each part is independent, as there isn't one brain controlling everything. I think of it as a movie about a disease rather than a movie about one alien, like the title suggests which is merely something a character would describe a creature he has seen.
@TheSteelStallion BUT OF COURSE, it depends entirely on who the spaceship belongs to. It could belong to very first origin of the thing, which I doubt, I see no sense in having a creature which creates an assimilating disease. I believe the spaceship simply belongs to another alien race which was unfortunately infected by The Thing which used the knowledge learned from the ship owners to possibly fly it. It does show the ability to perform human tasks whilst being someone else after all.
@57worldwide Which also begs the question of whether or not the person infected is self aware of himself, or if it's just the alien parasite itself gaining knowledge from the brain.
As you can see I have thought far too much into this xD
That's what I love about the old classics. They let you use your imagination to go off on wild theories. Sadly something you can't really do these days with horrors.
@TheSteelStallion I think that it needs more than just a speck of blood (as shown in the original movie - Bennings is absorbed by the thing, and there is talk about how it 'tried to digest the dogs'). But that is speculation - perhaps one cell can assimilate a creature, but the process is far slower?
I know the cells act independently to try and preserve themselves, but do they have a sort of collective awareness (as in, are they aware of what else has been assimilated)?
@57worldwide I think there must be a collective awareness of sorts, though the cells are independent in action they are collective in nature. (I assume) the thing does not try to assimilate other 'things'. It is also smart (planting Macready's torn clothes), and Carpenter's movie can be seen as dual survival horror - humans trying to ensure survival of the human race, and the thing trying to survive (even though it would assimilate everything if it did survive).
@TheSteelStallion I think it only seperates if it feels threatened (the blood reacting to the hot needle; the assimilated person transforming into the thing when it knows it has been discovered, but not before; the defibrillation scene) but there must be a collective consciousness if they stay together in the first place (as opposed to splitting into multiple things to try to assimilate as many as quickly as possible).
This Lars sucks ass. and the way the pilot drops the grenade looks so fake and is so improbable. the opening scene done the 2011 way and with 2011 Lars and Matias would be so much better
@juke521 The pilot didn't drop a grenade, the passenger did. The pilot exited the helicopter from the right side and took the rifle with him. The passenger got out on the left and dropped the grenade. You can clearly see the passenger is the one with the binoculars and the blue parka with a rip on the left sleeve and a fur lined hood.
"Get the fuck away from it! Thats not a dog. Its a thing of some kind. It just imitates a dog. Get the fuck away from it, you idiots!"
Lars, you can`t speak English, you can`t throw grenades and you definitely can`t shoot. You were doomed to die yelling and acting like a desperate madman. Pitty considering your hardboiled role in the prequel.
@Eljulitus i think Lars should be more embarrassed over the fact that his rifle had a high powered scope, grip, and extended mags. So yeah, Lars really does suck at shooting lol
@Digitalunderground2 he got knocked out by carter and derek. thats how they got his flamethrower. by the time he woke up he was all alone and just waited til the helicopter scene
@Bilson1966 It's hard to compare, they are from very different eras and I view them very differently. The 50s alien is essentially a big scary monster much like Frankenstein's that just wants to kill you and use you for fertiliser... nothing very new about it. Carpenter's is a truly *alien* creature that subverts your very body to become part of it. I'd have to go with Carpenters as the worse of the two, more fundamentally threatening as it threatens your very identity.
@Bilson1966 In the original movie the Thing is an intelligent vegetable, believe it or not. Look, you can find a scene describing it at this video kJCNLnMTrYw
The original movie is a completely different story. It shows the excavation of the saucer and the Thing, but the story is set at the north pole, it's set in the 50s, and the Thing itself isn't a shapeshifter.
@Parrotguy1999 That's the thing from another world, , It is based on the book Who Goes There?, but they changed the story. john Carpenter's The thing is really based and molded on the book, where the plot is , An alien spacecraft crashed on earth 20 million years ago and so on . . but in the book, MacReady's team was first to come than the team in the 2011 prequel and the 1982 team comes 2nd . . The Thing from the another world was meant to be different . .
I don't think people realize this movie is a sequal to the original black and white movie called "The Thing From Outerspace" so more or less the prequal is a remake of that old black and white movie.
Ragin over the death of Lars because of this years film -_-. All that work. Just to be shot in the head from a non-Norwegian (norsk) speaking old man -_-. R.I.P. Lars :(
consider this: if so many viewers homed in to watch the john carpenter original, it clearly shows what a waste of a skin the prequel is. A lone dog escapes. A chopper persues. And thats just the beginning of the carpenter movie. The pale prequel missed every oportunity to get the goat. It even missed the vital exploration of the alien ship, and its greatest crime: the discovery and excavation of the iced alien which would have been priority build up to tension and atmosphere. Waste
@arturssalnikovs Amazing? Seriously? It's the same old Hollywood formula used in countless films, I can't believe anyone can find that amazing. I bet you get afraid of every predictable pop-up scene as well. The Thing is great because of its concept, not its execution.
if it's winter on Antarctica, why are there scenes in broad daylight and scenes in which it is pitch black? In the Antarctic winter, it's never that dark for so long.
I've seen a lecture by Prof. Sapolsky three years ago about Toxoplasma Gondii. I'm not saying it's the Thing, ok, but this species gets quite close to it.
It's amazing how good science fiction movies are in fact close to reality wether it's our future reality or not. In this particular case it's actually quite scary.
The original for the time was as terrifying, esp if you put into contex, space travel, mars. cold war, etc.
John Carpenter did a very good homage to the original, he didn't go over board or get stupid, I would have liked to see both people kill each other at the end and then a pan out view "months later" everything in snow.
@zalu no wonder, it's made by ennio morricone. I'm not entirely sure but it could be his first released electronical piece. quite remarkable actually.
My favorite horror movie of all time. The artistry of the models and puppets endures long after you already know all the twists and turns of the plot.
@ColeCola12 definitley me, but....the ending of the new one its a blue and white helicopter...not brown WTF but damn if they dont make it shot for shot, the new one ruled solid acting, very well done cg no gimmickey acting or actors just a good movie
@ColeCola12 I'll probably pass on it, part of the whole movie is the mystery that McCready's expedition team has to solve after they shoot the norwegian guy. Brings suspence to it.
@ColeCola12 You're just now figuring out that on of the greatest horror movies of all time was related to that piece of crap? Oh well, you'll love this one so much more anyway
its not jack lol, its not even burboun. Thats cheap scotch whiskey, You might as well have said "after a few swings of applejuice" thats how close you were :P
@wtfmanicanthaveaname The cheap scotch whiskey you're referring to--J & B--might be a dollar or two less or more than a bottle of Jack. And in no way does it taste like apple juice.
@deaddropsd1972 That's the only major continuity problem I see with the '11 Thing. When Macready and his pals fly out to the UFO they should've found the torched snow-vehicle along with the remains of Carter. Also, wasn't the UFO buried as opposed to exposed in the '82 movie? And as for Kate Lloyd? She somehow found her way to San Diego California & married me. Thing or not, she can absorbe me any time...
@mykranili That and the 2011 Splitface Thing is much different looking. In the prequel, the left side of Splitface is up where in this one it's completely vice versa. Also in the prequel, Splitface's eye is wide open with no tongue as oppose to it's eye suppose to being closed with a wrapping duel tongue. You would think the CGI experts would be on top of something as important as getting the Splitface Thing right, its probably the worst continuity mistake of the whole prequel in my opinion.
@deaddropsd1972 That's the only major continuity problem I see with the '11 Thing. When Macready and his pals fly out to the UFO they should've found the torched snow-vehicle along with the remains of Carter. Also, wasn't the UFO buried as opposed to exposed in the '82 movie? And as for Kate Lloyd? She somehow found her way to San Diego California & married me. Thing or not, she can absorb me any time...
I just saw the prequel, "The Thing 2011", and it ends with that copter taking off in chase of the dog-alien-replicant, shown here in the opening scene.
And having seen both, one thing is for certain: Lars can't shoot worth a damn!
I liked the game on the PS2 that was a sequel to this , in it you are part of a rescue team trying to find out what happened. So with the 2 films and the game you kinda have a trilogy. Also the score to this film is simple yet mysterious and terrifying.
@huntergratzner1 true that. they just didn't understand carpenters approach to the film..... And I guess CGI is faster to do... so they were like aye lets gets this shit in the theatres fast and make some dough!! ALthough It wasn't terrible by any means.....and the creature wasn't sneaky in this movie. he just ran out there and started fucken shit up.
@TheGrizzzle CGI is NOT faster to do, and that is a shitty assumption about CGI that seems will never die. As if someone just pushes a button and special effect happens. I will agree I wished more of the practical effects they did for the prequel had ended up in the final film and some of the CG wasn't very good, but to say it's easy is just ignorant.
@rahiim1997 I saw it last night. It is a prequel. it is actually a really good movie. A great homage and addition to Carpenter's classic. I was skeptical too...but I really liked the movie.
@MCEProd22 Yep. Lol when I went to go watch the prequel I was rooting for this guy throughout the movie because of his epic beard+flamethrower. But then once I saw the ending of the the prequel I shat bricks when I realized who he was in this movie.
my firened ses this movies stupdi and that they need to give the alien monster a name i mena wat can u call it other than the thing u cant rlly decribe it only way of decribing it is well the thing srry for bad spelling
George was licked by the infected dog on his face. George at 8:42 takes a drink of Macready's whiskey thus attaching infected sampling onto the bottle. Macready drinks from the bottle throughout the entire movie and gives the bottle to childs in the end.
In the Game Macready is shown alive and well. The Thing is alive!!!
@Hunkyfish20 yeah i mean look at how quickly it jumps him and how badly it tries to lick. Total dead give away in hindsight. Damn the thing =/ will it ever be stopped?
It takes way more than just saliva to transform someone into The Thing... The dog gets George during the night while everyone is a sleep, not from licking his face.
I only speak German, but the languages are not that different:
"Out! Out!"
"Get away from the dog. It is ???. ?????"
"Get away, you idiots!"
I think it wouldn't have much of a difference if he had spoken english. He was much to upset to explain whats going on, and the american with the gun only saw a stranger running through his camp shoting everywhere, so he would still have killed him before they get a clear explaination.
Who the fuck tries to look for a lobbed grenade..?
hudini2 1 week ago
The remake carries over so perfectly. Lars is the only one to be in both movies other than The Thing lol.
go0fy11137 1 week ago
I think the thing infected the original aliens on the ship and it crash landed on earth, they seem to absorb the knowledge the host has. If you look at the ship on the prequel and how the thing behaves or looks it's unlikely they build it.
TheKevin546 1 week ago
@TheKevin546 yes thats the real story. the aliens crashed the ship on purpose to kill the thing. but the studio that made the prequel thought that it was too complicated
camelhound1 1 week ago
I keep coming back to this. I fucking love John Carpenter. This is the best opening sequence of any horror film. The soundtrack with the imagery is just amazing. Long live 1980's horror films you will never be matched again!
futuristPARKA 3 weeks ago
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Why the fuck would you attempt to put out a small fire in the middle of the snow, in Antarctica, like it's a real threat...?
Krenisphia 3 weeks ago
how can you miss with a scope like that.
seansfc 3 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@seansfc because lars cant fucking shoot
chidorislayer9000 3 weeks ago
I have seen both this one and prequel, what is exactly the thing, is it a creature, or some type a virus, or somehow both. It almost seems to me, but having just one cell get into another host, that is how it reproduces. Like Asexual reproduction.
DerektheDuctTape 3 weeks ago
@DerektheDuctTape
It's an alien creature.
evanstone9 2 weeks ago
they killed the guy who tried to kill off the dog that was copied buy an alien to stop the madness and end all this bullshit
Fightseason 3 weeks ago
the prequel was genius i love this movie
Fightseason 3 weeks ago
@Fightseason in my opinon this one is the better film but they tied it in perfectly at the end lol
chidorislayer9000 3 weeks ago
I find the pile of filth in "THE THING - Part 4 of 8 - HD 1080p" related videos thumbnail hillarious
TreeHugerHippie 3 weeks ago
Ok so from this film I gather Norwegians:
1. Have horrible aim.
2. Can't throw grenades.
3. Are generally crazy people and cannot communicate.
xxxzoso 4 weeks ago
granade defusing...
snow...
how was that supposed to work?
markust1994 1 month ago
Honestly thought it was a remake...
MrMememan24 1 month ago
I had a total mindfuck after watching the 2011 version didnt know it was a prequel until the last second... spectacular
MrMememan24 1 month ago 2
The Thing invaded 3 people to dislike this video.
theDoomguy2011 1 month ago 11
8:10
Sounds like he says 'God damn it computer'. Yes I know its Norwegian.
chaffeur 1 month ago
Oh lars doesnt speak english but he definitely understands it very well in the prequel. He apparently doesnt know whether he wants to be the shooter or the pilot because he switches roles midflight according to the prequel. You know, the prequel that matches seamlessly with the 82 film?
Altaire7 1 month ago
Saw the prequel today. Wasn't terrible, but thought they could've done something more than just do an imitation of this film. Then again, irony much? Imitation of a movie about an alien that mimics others?
blueBruSea 1 month ago
So..... Lars was shooting at the dog for days?????????? How long does it take to run from station to station????
Pierin24 1 month ago
In 1982 it was very serious film as Horror movie. I remember I saw when I was kid,it was terrible:)
sarokcsiszolo 1 month ago
tut lars...just tragic.
ArthurVuksake 1 month ago
If you're a fan of this movie, save yourself the trouble and don't bother watching the prequel.
Sawbones12 1 month ago
anyone else think that they should make another video game of 'the thing'?
skeeter551 1 month ago
no very wrong the prequel was a stupid failed atempt to make money the ship was excavated with explosives not the ship powering up thousands of holes in the story if your gonna do a prequel do it right play dead space 1 or 2 thats what the 2011 was inspired from , kurt russel is were its at only that mullet could stop this thing
frodofuckingbaggins 1 month ago
Booze & liquor plays a very important part in the movie!
jeff2all 1 month ago in playlist The Thing (1982)
@jeff2all Liquor is booze.
57worldwide 1 month ago
9:15 - Quickly! Put out that fire lest it spreads over the ice and then we're all doomed!!!
alejandroUT 2 months ago
the ending of the "2011 the thing", was the only thing that gave me the same feeling the '82 movie gave me.
the new special effects look cool on videogames, but not in movies, and the scenes were just stupid.
in the original, there was a mystery and not an action movie with heroes (okay kurt was the main char, but he wasnt a hero.)
oh well...
anderskittilsen 2 months ago
@anderskittilsen I really don't want to see the 2011 version. From what I understand, it will feel like a remake (and I have read reviews of it, where they say it was going to be a remake).
People need to realise though, Carpenter did not create the idea of the Thing.
57worldwide 1 month ago
@57worldwide ye, it feels like a bad remake, but its kinda worth watching it too, since its the prequel. i just remember the scenes i like and try to forget the rest:P lol
i think it was a book from the thirties, then it became a movie in the 50's or something, then the 80's version. correct me if im wrong:)
anderskittilsen 1 month ago
@anderskittilsen I think the creatures seen in the prequel are partly inspired by concept art from the Thing 2 videogame (which is a sequel to the Thing videogame, which was a sequel to Carpenter's film).
I think you are right about the history of the Thing. I would like to have some information to figure out the 1982 film, like, I would watch the 2011 film if it could put some pieces into the puzzle. I don't really care about the axe in the door, or the guy with the slit throat, though.
57worldwide 1 month ago
@57worldwide Just watched the prequel now and I have to say it was good. Not fantastic but also not as bad as a lot are saying. My only gripes with it were the cgi effects and the inner workings of the spaceship. At times the monster effects looked too similar to the same repeated toothy mouthed creatures you saw in this one but it did have a couple creepy scenes and they did look like something even a big man would shit himself at.
TheSteelStallion 1 month ago
@57worldwide The story itself too went a long at a steady enough pace and didn't feel too structured like a lot of movies do.
TheSteelStallion 1 month ago
@TheSteelStallion I'm more interested in wether or not extra information is added, not so much interested in a back story (if you understand what I mean). I can guess what happened to the Norwegian camp. I'm only interested in finding out: how the Thing assimilates creatures; wether the Things are part of a whole, or wether each part is fully independent; etc.
I assume the Thing learns in the Norwegian camp, eg it doesn't behave exactly the way it did when it got to the US camp.
57worldwide 1 month ago
@57worldwide I think in that regard it leaves certain things to your imagination based on what's been said already, much like the 1982 film. Way I see it is, it starts as one thing and spreads like a disease. On a cellular level it infects whatever it comes into contact with, even touching blood or being scratched. You're definitely on it when you mention the difference of the US and Norwegian camps. Some believe it chooses a cautious approach at the US camp due to the violent method not working
TheSteelStallion 1 month ago
@57worldwide As for it being independent or part of a whole.. hard to say unless the film makers literally outright said it. Seeing as it is basically an alien cellular life form, I think it's safe to say each part is independent, as there isn't one brain controlling everything. I think of it as a movie about a disease rather than a movie about one alien, like the title suggests which is merely something a character would describe a creature he has seen.
TheSteelStallion 1 month ago
@TheSteelStallion BUT OF COURSE, it depends entirely on who the spaceship belongs to. It could belong to very first origin of the thing, which I doubt, I see no sense in having a creature which creates an assimilating disease. I believe the spaceship simply belongs to another alien race which was unfortunately infected by The Thing which used the knowledge learned from the ship owners to possibly fly it. It does show the ability to perform human tasks whilst being someone else after all.
TheSteelStallion 1 month ago
@57worldwide Which also begs the question of whether or not the person infected is self aware of himself, or if it's just the alien parasite itself gaining knowledge from the brain.
As you can see I have thought far too much into this xD
That's what I love about the old classics. They let you use your imagination to go off on wild theories. Sadly something you can't really do these days with horrors.
TheSteelStallion 1 month ago
@TheSteelStallion I think that it needs more than just a speck of blood (as shown in the original movie - Bennings is absorbed by the thing, and there is talk about how it 'tried to digest the dogs'). But that is speculation - perhaps one cell can assimilate a creature, but the process is far slower?
I know the cells act independently to try and preserve themselves, but do they have a sort of collective awareness (as in, are they aware of what else has been assimilated)?
57worldwide 1 month ago
@57worldwide I think there must be a collective awareness of sorts, though the cells are independent in action they are collective in nature. (I assume) the thing does not try to assimilate other 'things'. It is also smart (planting Macready's torn clothes), and Carpenter's movie can be seen as dual survival horror - humans trying to ensure survival of the human race, and the thing trying to survive (even though it would assimilate everything if it did survive).
57worldwide 1 month ago
@57worldwide Good point. I think MacReady even comes up with the theory that each one is fighting for it's own survival too.
TheSteelStallion 1 month ago
@TheSteelStallion I think it only seperates if it feels threatened (the blood reacting to the hot needle; the assimilated person transforming into the thing when it knows it has been discovered, but not before; the defibrillation scene) but there must be a collective consciousness if they stay together in the first place (as opposed to splitting into multiple things to try to assimilate as many as quickly as possible).
Perhaps it is weaker in smaller 'amounts'?
57worldwide 1 month ago
So if Lars is shooting, who is driving the damn thing? Because that sure as hell doesn't look like the female lead
ShutUpJim 2 months ago
@ShutUpJim the pilot at the end of the movie that shows up.
TheDarkyello 2 months ago
@TheDarkyello ahh shit, I must've missed that
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Damn it Lars. Only If you could speak english...
The Granade throw was hilarious.
P.S This is one of the best horrors I've ever seen.
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TheATeciak 2 months ago
This Lars sucks ass. and the way the pilot drops the grenade looks so fake and is so improbable. the opening scene done the 2011 way and with 2011 Lars and Matias would be so much better
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LaccaTony 1 month ago
@LaccaTony yeah, just one of the plethora of continuity errors that made this "film" a joke.
Altaire7 1 month ago
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@juke521 The pilot didn't drop a grenade, the passenger did. The pilot exited the helicopter from the right side and took the rifle with him. The passenger got out on the left and dropped the grenade. You can clearly see the passenger is the one with the binoculars and the blue parka with a rip on the left sleeve and a fur lined hood.
LaccaTony 1 month ago
"Out! Out!"
"Get the fuck away from it! Thats not a dog. Its a thing of some kind. It just imitates a dog. Get the fuck away from it, you idiots!"
Lars, you can`t speak English, you can`t throw grenades and you definitely can`t shoot. You were doomed to die yelling and acting like a desperate madman. Pitty considering your hardboiled role in the prequel.
Eljulitus 2 months ago 8
@Eljulitus i think Lars should be more embarrassed over the fact that his rifle had a high powered scope, grip, and extended mags. So yeah, Lars really does suck at shooting lol
ITheOscarI 2 months ago
I don't get what happened to lars in the prequel. Did he just trip so it looked like he was grabbed?
Digitalunderground2 2 months ago
@Digitalunderground2 he got knocked out by carter and derek. thats how they got his flamethrower. by the time he woke up he was all alone and just waited til the helicopter scene
343xbv 2 months ago
le meilleur film d'horreur de tous les temps...
on n'a jamais fait mieux !
titi22121971 2 months ago
BOM...BA BOM...BA BOM...BA BOM...
The bass notes of terror
MaidenUtah1 2 months ago
Gotta love how the guy shot Lars in the eyeball without warning and Lars wasnt even shooting at him...so much for finding out what is wrong...
jerryfudala 2 months ago
Need a remake of this movie again!
kodiak1966 2 months ago
Poor Lars went through alll of that sh!t in the prequel, just to ge shot in the face so quickly in this movie lol
MrPiff17 2 months ago
@MrPiff17 ikr lmao
sikkinyx58 2 months ago
I don't know why, but the opening music as the 'chopper comes over the ice-covered mountains is SO evocative ... :-D
MrSontaran3 2 months ago
@Bilson1966 It's hard to compare, they are from very different eras and I view them very differently. The 50s alien is essentially a big scary monster much like Frankenstein's that just wants to kill you and use you for fertiliser... nothing very new about it. Carpenter's is a truly *alien* creature that subverts your very body to become part of it. I'd have to go with Carpenters as the worse of the two, more fundamentally threatening as it threatens your very identity.
Parrotguy1999 2 months ago
@Bilson1966 In the original movie the Thing is an intelligent vegetable, believe it or not. Look, you can find a scene describing it at this video kJCNLnMTrYw
Parrotguy1999 2 months ago
I wish they just could understand what he said, and kill the damn "dog". lol
Sputteeee 2 months ago
The original movie is a completely different story. It shows the excavation of the saucer and the Thing, but the story is set at the north pole, it's set in the 50s, and the Thing itself isn't a shapeshifter.
Carpenter's film is completely separate.
Parrotguy1999 2 months ago
@Parrotguy1999 That's the thing from another world, , It is based on the book Who Goes There?, but they changed the story. john Carpenter's The thing is really based and molded on the book, where the plot is , An alien spacecraft crashed on earth 20 million years ago and so on . . but in the book, MacReady's team was first to come than the team in the 2011 prequel and the 1982 team comes 2nd . . The Thing from the another world was meant to be different . .
TheTremor209 2 months ago
@TheTremor209 Um, yeah, that's what we have been talking about. The original movie compared to Carpenter's remake.
Parrotguy1999 2 months ago
@Parrotguy1999 oh ok!
TheTremor209 2 months ago
YOU ARE CHEATING BITCH !!!!
renatoavatarian 3 months ago
"Start the Hellacopta Newna" RIP Lars....true hero.
leo97612 3 months ago
I don't think people realize this movie is a sequal to the original black and white movie called "The Thing From Outerspace" so more or less the prequal is a remake of that old black and white movie.
UncleHappyHands 3 months ago
@UncleHappyHands It was called "The Thing from Another World", and Carpenter's film isn't a sequel, it's a remake.
Parrotguy1999 2 months ago
@Parrotguy1999 Is it? I know I got the title goofed up but isn't the thing from another world based on the excavating team?
UncleHappyHands 2 months ago
Ragin over the death of Lars because of this years film -_-. All that work. Just to be shot in the head from a non-Norwegian (norsk) speaking old man -_-. R.I.P. Lars :(
dabomb5521 3 months ago
consider this: if so many viewers homed in to watch the john carpenter original, it clearly shows what a waste of a skin the prequel is. A lone dog escapes. A chopper persues. And thats just the beginning of the carpenter movie. The pale prequel missed every oportunity to get the goat. It even missed the vital exploration of the alien ship, and its greatest crime: the discovery and excavation of the iced alien which would have been priority build up to tension and atmosphere. Waste
birdance 3 months ago
it's me, this is the next chapter of 2010 version,right? i watched this one a year ago if i remembered.
TheCrazyZeen 3 months ago
@TheCrazyZeen 2011 Version in Germany .. I looked it yesterday ...
KILLERBEANvsWAGNER 3 months ago
oh no lars!
Seannyskillz 3 months ago 8
@Seannyskillz
Lars blows up, he drops the grenade.
The pilot is the one shot by Gary.
snake2006 1 month ago
Kurt Russel and Keith David. were the best
unreal3010 3 months ago
Its amazing how they managed to tie the 2011 version with this one.
arturssalnikovs 3 months ago
@arturssalnikovs Amazing? Seriously? It's the same old Hollywood formula used in countless films, I can't believe anyone can find that amazing. I bet you get afraid of every predictable pop-up scene as well. The Thing is great because of its concept, not its execution.
atheniandpa 3 months ago
@zippy2508 i just watched it thought it was pretty good.
Made me want to watch the original again so here i am.
Antisocialnerd2 3 months ago
if it's winter on Antarctica, why are there scenes in broad daylight and scenes in which it is pitch black? In the Antarctic winter, it's never that dark for so long.
monnhauser 3 months ago
@zippy2508 The thing (1982), is a remake of The Thing from Another World (1951).
Sbized 3 months ago
LoL I hade to watch this because of the ending in the 2011 movie :)
TheNitFace 3 months ago
Ok so why was he trying to shoot it since bullets can't kill it again ?
KaLNFoRc3R 3 months ago
Now don't freak out on the following, ok:
I've seen a lecture by Prof. Sapolsky three years ago about Toxoplasma Gondii. I'm not saying it's the Thing, ok, but this species gets quite close to it.
It's amazing how good science fiction movies are in fact close to reality wether it's our future reality or not. In this particular case it's actually quite scary.
MrGoofyfooter 3 months ago
The original for the time was as terrifying, esp if you put into contex, space travel, mars. cold war, etc.
John Carpenter did a very good homage to the original, he didn't go over board or get stupid, I would have liked to see both people kill each other at the end and then a pan out view "months later" everything in snow.
Leave it there, now way to make a thing two.
Invasion of the BS the remake PEEE UUUU.
tahoevic 3 months ago
im watching this because i didnt watch the 2011 movie, for me its an abomination of sorts.
thebyronicheroine 3 months ago
Spoiler alert!!!!! God's fake!!!
INMATE2468 3 months ago
The music which opens the film is amazing.
zalu 4 months ago 20
@zalu no wonder, it's made by ennio morricone. I'm not entirely sure but it could be his first released electronical piece. quite remarkable actually.
MrGoofyfooter 3 months ago
@zalu I like the music at the end of the film too
sikkinyx58 2 months ago
Poor Lars.
wdalphin 4 months ago
My favorite horror movie of all time. The artistry of the models and puppets endures long after you already know all the twists and turns of the plot.
kftc88 4 months ago
IMDB lists the translation as this:
"Get the hell outta there. That's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog! It isn't real! Get away you idiots!"
Totallyfizzle 4 months ago
@The_Thing_Fans
shadowsteve68 4 months ago
Twitter: @The_Thing_Fans
shadowsteve68 4 months ago
Damn double post
mykranili 4 months ago
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Part 10 missing. Waste your time if u want to watch.
muznula 4 months ago
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Add adults only to the title for luck.
027220 4 months ago
oh Lars
TheKingofAntarctica1 4 months ago
@ThaiBettas
watch the prequel The Thing 2011
SuperKnuckels 4 months ago
Who else is watching this because of the ending of the 2011 movie?
ColeCola12 4 months ago 156
@ColeCola12 I am, but because I don't remember the beginning of this one very well. Watched it long ago.
scarhunter92 4 months ago
@ColeCola12 definitley me, but....the ending of the new one its a blue and white helicopter...not brown WTF but damn if they dont make it shot for shot, the new one ruled solid acting, very well done cg no gimmickey acting or actors just a good movie
InShatteredMolds 4 months ago
@ColeCola12 They had to go make a prequel to this and spoil the original movie, why couldnt they come up with something new.
MrFlashmn 4 months ago
@MrFlashmn
Well wouldn't you only see the new one if you saw the original?
ColeCola12 4 months ago
@ColeCola12 I'll probably pass on it, part of the whole movie is the mystery that McCready's expedition team has to solve after they shoot the norwegian guy. Brings suspence to it.
MrFlashmn 4 months ago
@ColeCola12 You're just now figuring out that on of the greatest horror movies of all time was related to that piece of crap? Oh well, you'll love this one so much more anyway
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ColeCola12 3 months ago
@WIlliamMunnyOutlaw
your opinion is a piece of crap. =D
KennethMoreland 3 months ago
@KennethMoreland you actually liked that movie dude? It shamed the legacy of the original!
WIlliamMunnyOutlaw 3 months ago
@ColeCola12 I watched.
mitchester7 3 months ago
@ColeCola12 me lol, great ending.
CageUnleashed 3 months ago
@ColeCola12 me lol i love this movie and 2011 version as well
CaRcypher 3 months ago
@CaRcypher 2011 was a prequel
JaredTG188 3 months ago
@CaRcypher yes i know
CaRcypher 3 months ago
@ColeCola12 haha, yea
tigerija 3 months ago
@ColeCola12
I am.
orion2342 3 months ago
@ColeCola12 lol I am :D
OneRound79 3 months ago
@ColeCola12 hahaha, I just watched 2011 one, I knew I'll find a comment like yours. :D
PhoenixTomislav 2 months ago
@ColeCola12 to compare the look of norwegians, the choppa, the rifle and all that shit... :p
PhoenixTomislav 2 months ago
Btw they are not soldiers but scientists :)
qube20 4 months ago
The Best Part of the Prequel was that it led directly to this
IronMan50780 4 months ago
What good is a bottle of jack without bacon strips.
MrStevenkickass 4 months ago
Dude, in the prequal the guy who was shooting the gun was a badass
M3XICANXxL3G3ND 4 months ago
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Just saw the prequel so I had to come check out the intro of this movie. Anyone who has seen the prequel will know what I'm talking about.
kennkal 4 months ago
@8:48 Yeah I'll be fine... after a few more swigs of Jack. :D
Nightweaver1 4 months ago
its not jack lol, its not even burboun. Thats cheap scotch whiskey, You might as well have said "after a few swings of applejuice" thats how close you were :P
wtfmanicanthaveaname 4 months ago
@wtfmanicanthaveaname The cheap scotch whiskey you're referring to--J & B--might be a dollar or two less or more than a bottle of Jack. And in no way does it taste like apple juice.
Jonnn79 4 months ago
@wtfmanicanthaveaname Oh I'm sorry. I didn't know becoming a liquor connessueir also turned someone into a total ASS.
Nightweaver1 4 months ago
@ThaiBettas The alien absorbed the dog and then made a copy when the team wasn't watching.
Nightweaver1 4 months ago
There is no part 10 guys, can't see it, beacause of some copyright, thumbs up so no one waste their time
Thefrankyfunky 4 months ago
LARS IS SO FUCKING SHITTY
OlSwampy122 4 months ago
Clever prequel connection but what happened to the girl ?
deaddropsd1972 4 months ago
@deaddropsd1972 she probably froze to death
DJTigerstyle1 4 months ago
@deaddropsd1972 That's the only major continuity problem I see with the '11 Thing. When Macready and his pals fly out to the UFO they should've found the torched snow-vehicle along with the remains of Carter. Also, wasn't the UFO buried as opposed to exposed in the '82 movie? And as for Kate Lloyd? She somehow found her way to San Diego California & married me. Thing or not, she can absorbe me any time...
mykranili 4 months ago
@mykranili That and the 2011 Splitface Thing is much different looking. In the prequel, the left side of Splitface is up where in this one it's completely vice versa. Also in the prequel, Splitface's eye is wide open with no tongue as oppose to it's eye suppose to being closed with a wrapping duel tongue. You would think the CGI experts would be on top of something as important as getting the Splitface Thing right, its probably the worst continuity mistake of the whole prequel in my opinion.
darkhorse1280 3 months ago
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@deaddropsd1972 That's the only major continuity problem I see with the '11 Thing. When Macready and his pals fly out to the UFO they should've found the torched snow-vehicle along with the remains of Carter. Also, wasn't the UFO buried as opposed to exposed in the '82 movie? And as for Kate Lloyd? She somehow found her way to San Diego California & married me. Thing or not, she can absorb me any time...
mykranili 4 months ago
jeez... you'd think he'd be out of bullets by now
KeeperoftheKnife 4 months ago
I just saw the prequel, "The Thing 2011", and it ends with that copter taking off in chase of the dog-alien-replicant, shown here in the opening scene.
And having seen both, one thing is for certain: Lars can't shoot worth a damn!
snappydoodad 4 months ago
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I liked the game on the PS2 that was a sequel to this , in it you are part of a rescue team trying to find out what happened. So with the 2 films and the game you kinda have a trilogy. Also the score to this film is simple yet mysterious and terrifying.
ArmondoOrtiz76Lincol 4 months ago
Then ending of the THing Prequel is the Beginning of this film! JUST awesome. I had a erection during it!!:)
TheGrizzzle 4 months ago
@TheGrizzzle Too bad that was the best part of the prequel. :(
Too much CGI.
huntergratzner1 4 months ago
@huntergratzner1 true that. they just didn't understand carpenters approach to the film..... And I guess CGI is faster to do... so they were like aye lets gets this shit in the theatres fast and make some dough!! ALthough It wasn't terrible by any means.....and the creature wasn't sneaky in this movie. he just ran out there and started fucken shit up.
TheGrizzzle 4 months ago
@TheGrizzzle CGI is NOT faster to do, and that is a shitty assumption about CGI that seems will never die. As if someone just pushes a button and special effect happens. I will agree I wished more of the practical effects they did for the prequel had ended up in the final film and some of the CG wasn't very good, but to say it's easy is just ignorant.
JangoFett07 1 month ago
Halloween
The Thing
The Fog
Prince of Darkness
The Ward
11poketrainer 4 months ago
they made another thing not even going to see that one ..is a joke some time u can't touch greatness..
rahiim1997 4 months ago
@rahiim1997 I saw it last night. It is a prequel. it is actually a really good movie. A great homage and addition to Carpenter's classic. I was skeptical too...but I really liked the movie.
vangelicmonk 4 months ago
Alas, poor [NAME REDACTED FOR SPOILERS], we knew him well...
chriscumbag 4 months ago
Does anyone else see something comical about them trying to stomp the fire out at 9:10?
NintendoDevil 4 months ago
wow that shooter must really suck cant kill that fkn dog carrying alien...couldve used the whole load of grenades and airstriked the thing!lmfao!!!
iMalaDroid 4 months ago
Lower that chopper so he can shoot the dog jzzzzzz :/
yaboimoney1 4 months ago
Dude just shoot the fuckin
yaboimoney1 4 months ago
so thats Jørgen Langhelle in the helicopter?
MCEProd22 4 months ago
@MCEProd22 Yep. Lol when I went to go watch the prequel I was rooting for this guy throughout the movie because of his epic beard+flamethrower. But then once I saw the ending of the the prequel I shat bricks when I realized who he was in this movie.
K3nnyg22 4 months ago
my firened ses this movies stupdi and that they need to give the alien monster a name i mena wat can u call it other than the thing u cant rlly decribe it only way of decribing it is well the thing srry for bad spelling
swampydarklord7 4 months ago
Major secret:
George was licked by the infected dog on his face. George at 8:42 takes a drink of Macready's whiskey thus attaching infected sampling onto the bottle. Macready drinks from the bottle throughout the entire movie and gives the bottle to childs in the end.
In the Game Macready is shown alive and well. The Thing is alive!!!
Hunkyfish20 4 months ago
@Hunkyfish20 yeah i mean look at how quickly it jumps him and how badly it tries to lick. Total dead give away in hindsight. Damn the thing =/ will it ever be stopped?
FaUsT491 4 months ago
@Hunkyfish20
It takes way more than just saliva to transform someone into The Thing... The dog gets George during the night while everyone is a sleep, not from licking his face.
danciswithwolves 4 months ago
anyone else Ready for The Prequel coming out this Friday ?
michaelforthriller 4 months ago
I only speak German, but the languages are not that different:
"Out! Out!"
"Get away from the dog. It is ???. ?????"
"Get away, you idiots!"
I think it wouldn't have much of a difference if he had spoken english. He was much to upset to explain whats going on, and the american with the gun only saw a stranger running through his camp shoting everywhere, so he would still have killed him before they get a clear explaination.
Yora21 4 months ago