lol this thread is 20 years old, anyway merry xmas ilxors whatever yr cells are up to
pic.twitter.com/wNrVs3not9— Caligula (@TheHolyKnife) December 19, 2022
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
watching christian nyby's version for the first time in 40 yrs
― mark s, Friday, 10 February 2023 20:17 (one year ago) link
it's p good but it's no THE THING
in conclusion: watch the skies!
― mark s, Friday, 10 February 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link
clear up a debate for me re: this dialogue exchange
Macready: Blair, have you seen Fuchs?Blair: I don't wanna stay out here any more. I wanna come back inside.I hear funny things out here.Macready: Have you come across Fuchs?Blair: It ain't Fuchs. It ain't Fuchs.
Blair: I don't wanna stay out here any more. I wanna come back inside.I hear funny things out here.
Macready: Have you come across Fuchs?
Blair: It ain't Fuchs. It ain't Fuchs.
to me it's obviously saying "the guy you think is Fuchs isn't Fuchs anymore" (either paranoia from real Blair or misdirection by Thing Blair, depending on if he's been turned yet.) The flipside to that argument goes, Blair is saying Fuchs isn't a "thing".
a shocking number of people online believe the latter.
anyway, a GREAT movie.
― omar little, Thursday, 17 August 2023 21:21 (nine months ago) link
Just came in #3 in an '80s critics' poll:
https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-80s-movies/the-thing-1982directed-by-john-carpentershown-kurt-russell-2/
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 August 2023 21:30 (nine months ago) link
xp You're right.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 21:52 (nine months ago) link
I am in the camp that believes that exchange is Thing-Blair stalling so that he can finish constructing his ship and possibly needing to forage for more supplies.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 August 2023 21:58 (nine months ago) link
I saw this film probably half a dozen times back in high school, mostly while shitfaced.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 22:02 (nine months ago) link
Nice list - I mean, it would be better with less American films but it's pretty good xps
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 August 2023 22:20 (nine months ago) link
Just read the Billson BFI book in one sitting. Really excellent stuff, and very interesting to me for its sections focusing on compare/contrast with the Campbell novella and the Hawks film.
She really has a good eye for Carpenter's directing and structure, too. The little moments of brilliant misdirection (Clark's scalpel, Childs and Garry pushing back on Mac during the blood test), the singularly excellent casting and characterization, the escalating isolation (winter, storm approaching, no one answering, destroyed comms), etc.
Not much of this is really extremely new to me, but it's still so fascinating and nice to read something from someone who was deeply, deeply getting it at a point when so many critics were still thoroughly missing the point.
― omar little, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 16:15 (four months ago) link
Just saw this in the theater for the first time. It’s a totally different movie with a crowd.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 16 February 2024 15:29 (three months ago) link
Finally got round to watching this before the apocalypse
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 26 February 2024 23:14 (two months ago) link
This story is an interesting take
The Things by Peter Watts
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 26 February 2024 23:23 (two months ago) link
There is also Adam Roberts's THE THING ITSELF.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 February 2024 23:31 (two months ago) link
"This was one of the first movies where the Black guy lasts to the final scene. I don’t think I’m the only brother who’s ever survived in a horror or sci-fi movie, but I’m certainly one of the few. It was great foresight on John’s part"
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/25/john-carpenter-kurt-russell-the-thing-horror-classic
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 March 2024 18:13 (one month ago) link
And in a situation where you don't really know which, between two people, actually "survived," adding to the fun
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Monday, 25 March 2024 19:48 (one month ago) link