Posted on 06/28/2022 7:47:23 AM PDT by max americana
ohn Carpenter’s The Thing is a cult classic forty years after its initial release, and the discussion for it hasn’t died down as a new fan theory has come along to explain an oddity from the film and its prequel/sequel.
Throughout both the 1982 “original” and its 2011 follow-up, The Thing as an organism is incapable of communication outside of its human host. It’ll kill them mercilessly, feasting on paranoia as much as it does the flesh itself.
This fan theory from /u/Outrageous-Career-91 explains why it doesn’t communicate with humans.
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Essentially, the disgust and mistrust it has for mankind makes it fearful and unwilling to try and make peace with humans.
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Saw The Thing when it originally came out in the theaters in 1982 on my 13th birthday. Back then I was (and still am) a fanatic about movies. I was going to the movies once a week with my then best friend (a fellow fanatic about the movies) for a lot of years from the 1970s-1980s
But The Thing was one movie I saw without my friend. A few days before my 13th birthday, my uncle called up and asked me what I wanted for my birthday. I told him I wanted to see 2 movies. The Thing and Poltergeist.
So, on the day of my 13th birthday, first he took me to see The Thing. About half way through the movie he couldn’t stand the gory special effects anymore and walked out of the movie, waiting for me in the lobby when the movie ended.
He then took me to see Poltergeist, but assuming he didn’t want to see gory special effects that movie might have, he bought only a ticket for me and went back to his apartment (which was nearby the theater), coming back to pick me up after the movie ended.
Yes, I very much enjoyed both movies.
. . . and he lectures us on the diabeetus.
“Don’t forget the novel.”
and the comic book. In it, supposedly BOTH McReady AND Chiles survived into the real world and were actually not infected, negating the belief that one of them was the alien.
“HEY, SWEDEN!!!”
I heard the same about the QM show The Invaders.
Quirky but a favorite.
This screed is from MSN and is nothing but leftard wokeism.
The Original Thing Movie was out in 1951. I was 13 and basically never had nightmares. I did for weeks after that movie, and so did a lot of cousins and friends my age.
Later during the Cuban Missile Crisis, I had nightmares as our ship was in and out of Gitmo. I only had a secret clearance and that was enough.
Later while in the reserve, I had a top secret Clearance and I had a few more Cuban Missile Crisis nightmares.
1951 Thing info:
When scientist Dr. Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite) reports a UFO near his North Pole research base, the Air Force sends in a team under Capt. Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey) to investigate. What they find is a wrecked spaceship and a humanoid creature (James Arness) frozen in the ice. They bring their discovery back to the base, but Carrington and Hendry disagree over what to do with it. Meanwhile, the creature is accidentally thawed and begins wreaking havoc.
82 was a great year in movies
Your right though....dude sounds like another self loathing snowflake.
Ahhh yes... Someone else’s insecurities transferred to a fictional entity. Yawn...
don’t forget that the 82 version is from the “expanded” version of the original novella called Frozen Hell from the same author, which is the basis for the movie.
Interesting that the Thing and Blade Runner didn’t do well at the box office when they came out. But both went on to be regarded as two of greatest movies of their genre ever.
“The theory works perfectly to explain the organism’s actions, and fits in with the themes of paranoia throughout the films. One of the most highly speculated films, everyone, and their monster alien dog has an opinion on its ending.”
The theory is idiotic and shows the hatred of the writer for humanity. The creature simply wanted to survive and perhaps to spread itself across the world. The creature’s motivation is no plot hole.
Wile E. Coyote doesn’t stay harmed due SAG rules. It’s a union thing.
and the interesting part is that Ridley Scott believes that aliens dont have our interests at heart and doesn’t think that aliens are friendly like in E.T.
I’m still haunted by the thought of James Arness as The Thing.
Who Goes There? Matt Dillon???
The Alien was upset about Global Climate Change
Yeah, I don’t either. The theory of evolution is not compatible with the theory of friendly apex predators from another galaxy.
Kurt Russel has great everything. He is tasty eye candy.
The original story, Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr. writing under the pen name Don A. Stuart was a frigid, quiet, claustrophobic and very disturbing short story.
Best read on a warm summer’s afternoon...
John Carpenter’s substitution of gory, vivid (and well executed) special effects pales by comparison, at least in my mind.
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