The Thing - Caravan Of Garbage

[@Mopki3]

"That's how he lost his arms" Hey, remember when you lost your arms in that accident? Want to experience that again with fake arms and get paid for it?

[@thespicemelange.1]

Yeah I thought the same thing.

[@angelalmaguer311]

No wonder he sold those screams on camera

[@alisterfolson]

"Fuck the PTSD. I wanna get paid."

[@makogiron]

I hope he got paid good

[@inviktus1983]

Yes I do, tell me more

[@dragonite77]

This movie has the best dog actor who has ever lived. I'm legitimately convinced that dog somehow understood the concepts of movies and acting and was giving its best perfromance it could.

[@the_scotch]

It's an absolutely incredible performance. The way it feels like you can see it sizing things up and plotting its next move? Unreal

[@JazzSparky]

Ooohh, better than the dog from The Mask? Tough call but you might be right. Let me get Crufts on the phone for an expert opinion.

[@saintniccage2818]

Laughs in homeward bounds golden retriever

[@notrated777]

the dog is somehow so menacing? like i can’t believe it

[@RedVelvetUnderground333]

It’s rlly amazing how talented the cast and crew was on this

[@BlueSpams]

Here’s The Thing

[@s1ckboirari]

Yeah but The Thing is

[@iwonttellmynametoamachine5422]

The Thing we do in the shadows

[@DNOstalgia]

The Thing is, The Thing isn't my favourite...

[@paulaburrows8660]

First Things first

[@badhollywoodscience]

Orange rocky guy.

[@chewinga]

Fun Fact: At the research base on the South Pole (Amundsen-Scott Station), the winter-over crew is essentially stuck there for about 8 months. They have a tradition, that every year after the final scheduled flight leaves the base, they have a movie night in the gym and everybody watches "The Thing."

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

They also have to get their appendixes removed

[@mattburnett4185]

@@goldenfiberwheat238 I think some dude in Antarctica once had to do surgery on himself to remove his own appendix.

[@devlincognito5005]

How do I get a job there??? I'd finally get some time to paint!

[@masonh8326]

I watched Jaws before a scuba trip I went on in the ocean!

[@FutureDeep]

They also make sure that the remaining fruits and veggies are eaten in time for the restock during the shift change. The blueberries often had the shortest shelf life so they were eaten first. They called this event the Blue Harvest.

[@mrhaast5053]

The Thing has one of the best commentaries I've ever seen. It's an hour and a half of Kurt Russel laughing his ass off at John Carpenter describing all the bts details mixed with cigarettes being lit every few minutes.

[@johnreynolds7996]

If you listen very closely you can hear the clinking of ice cubes...... J&B Whisky, no doubt.... My favorite moment was when MacReady walks from one cold room to another and Kurt Russell casually mentions that those two rooms were a continent and several months apart.

[@ShmuckOnWheels]

@@johnreynolds7996 Im sure it weren't only cigarettes being lit. Carpenter and Russel are old buddies and stoners.

[@ShmuckOnWheels]

I bet they were sparking up a fatty or 2 as well. Those guys go way back and are good buddies.

[@the_scotch]

This has possibly the best bit of dog acting I've ever seen. When it walks into the dog pen, it acts real sneaky, and it's like you can see it sizing things up and plotting its next move. It's fucking incredible.

[@codygreene9067]

Right up there with the dog limping across the desert in No Country For Old Men or Sam the German Shepherd acting injured after getting mauled by zombie dogs in I Am Legend.

[@-BuddyGuy]

I doubt the director told it to be sneaky. They probably led it into a room full of strange/large dogs and caught its natural reaction

[@oq1106]

I waited the entire fucking video for them to mention Kurt Russels hair. Which is at least as amazing as the movie itself.

[@saintniccage2818]

It's a pure mane to be fair

[@MichaelMartin-qe5ye]

He's the mane guy.

[@Luke101]

Probably the best hair genetics in Hollywood. You could make a sweater from that beard

[@KenrickBlock]

And that’s saying something because the movie flows effortlessly and is perfect.

[@saintniccage2818]

@@KenrickBlock a follicle of spoilers......

[@cameronliterally]

So happy to see Ben back editing.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Return of the King

[@steverogers7601]

The cult of personalityyyyyyy

[@BennyCo.Skateboard]

I am as well and the ending is exactly why. When he adds himself in it's for a reason or a joke. Lawrence just puts some dumb reaction in.

[@MITHYKA]

Why did he leave?

[@ZacharyMarshall-d1c]

Now all they have to do is bring back green trivia

[@isaacbuddy]

Not enough attention (zero) was brought to Maso just stopping himself from saying "There are scenes where he's off doing the thing" before correcting "thing" to "stuff" at 5:52 and I'm here to fix that.

[@yuyuhakusho]

I had the pleasure of working with Keith David and I was almost unable to hold back from talking about this movie with him the whole time.

[@Flint-Dibble-the-Don]

He was only 26 when they made it. He seems so much more mature. I think if he chose to lead no one would have had a problem with it. Except Mac.

[@johnjuiceshipper4963]

He’s my favourite ‘that guy’ actor. I love watching a movie and finding out Keith David is in it.

[@matthemming9105]

You worked with GOLIATH!?! Amazing

[@saintniccage2818]

@@yuyuhakusho welcome to work....M.F

[@niccthicc3234]

Keith David played the Vice Pres in Saints Row and the Pres in Rick and Morty. If that doesn't qualify him for a cabinet position at the minimum then i dont know how to end this joke

[@Ares91k]

I like how if you spoke Norwegian you would have known something was wrong from the start because when they are shooting at the dog at the start he yells " get away from it, its not a dog its something else" its cool and makes me think that they had a similar situation but actually killed most of it because they are military so they where well equipped

[@kitredKitredson]

It's great, isn't it? The inability and the unwillingness to try to communicate effectively dooms them all. Their base survival instincts take over their reason and it costs them their lives

[@alexanderlane6115]

They were introduced chasing the last part of it down (at least as far as we know none of it was left alive at their base), so if they'd been able to kill it they would have won

[@scarlettNET]

The prequel actually covers the Norwegian base and your assumptions are correct!

[@sebastiannock942]

Yeah but no one speaks Norwegian 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@kitredKitredson]

@@sebastiannock942 Yeah, precisely! All these science geniuses and would-be heroes and none of them can communicate a damn thing!

[@redshark92]

I also subscribe to the "Two humans at the end" theory. It's the one that ties into the "distrust" themes of the movie the best - after all is said and done we have two human survivors - they won - they beat The Thing! - but they still can't trust each other.

[@clarkmichaels822]

It would examplify the point of paranoia the best: there is nobody left to fear, but they don't know that.

[@redshark92]

@@clarkmichaels822, yep, exactly so!

[@genuinesaucy]

I showed this movie to my best friend, and he said "oh my god, SERIOUSLY?" twice. Once when Kurt Russell first appears playing the chess computer, then again at the no-answer final scene. After that we talked for like ten minutes about whether the Childs in the last scene was a Thing or not. MacReady's smarmy grin and chuckle is so ambiguous and creepy; it's a perfect ending for a movie with the core theme of paranoia. Here we are 42 years later and the fans are still arguing amongst themselves about who was human and who wasn't by the end. Legendary.

[@clarkmichaels822]

Which I feel is missing the point. The point is the paranoia. Debating who the Thing is is trying to solve the paranoia. Even if it's 100% certain who was the Thing at the end and who wasn't... so what? What does that add to the story, to the point?

[@Jojozilla426]

@@clarkmichaels822 Its not paranoia if you dont care about the answer, humans like to know things and work things out, if people werent debating the ending it wouldnt have been a good ending. If they ever officially revealed the truth I agree that would be missing the point, but the audience trying to work it out is exactly the point.

[@JonathanWillow-zz7rb]

I always figured they were both human, but laughing because they assumed they'd just sit there drinking until they die.

[@MojaveMoron]

I still think Macready was the thing in the end

[@lancesilvis4085]

@@JonathanWillow-zz7rb same here. They’re laughing because they had to burn down their only way of surviving the winter in order to survive something else, the situation is ironic, therefore, it’s funny.

[@ChrisM-z6b]

So as a guy who has watched this film way too many times, here's how "The Thing" works. Each cell has its own intellect and will to survive but when in contact with each other they are able to share info and coordinate to act as a single organism. When it seperated or infects a new person that becomes a new organism with a separate will. However, it still retains all the memories of its previous self allowing it to continue to enact plans it made previously.

[@MySerpentine]

@bornwithnoname2670 Because that's what we see it doing.

[@MySerpentine]

@bornwithnoname2670 If there was no evidence for it that would be assuming. As it is it's a reasonable hypothesis.

[@MySerpentine]

@bornwithnoname2670 No, you just don't want to understand how I'm using them. An assumption implies there isn't any thought involved, it's part of the connotation of the word. It's no longer an assumption once it's an educated guess.

[@johnreynolds7996]

There is no actual evidence shown on-screen that a Thing can "infect" its victim. Every example we do see is actually done by violent tentacle-rape that wouldn't be out of place in a Japanese porno-flic. The only reason it is ever discussed is that Blair comes up with a hypothesis of cellular absorption that could suggest that a single Thing cell could end up consuming an entire person if given enough time. But, hey, never forget that Blair was insane, and the computer simulation could only model based on the parameters defined by.... an insane man. Nobody else in the camp bought into Blair's theory, though Fuchs does mention it to MacReady as a sensible precaution. But, really, if Things could "infect" people then the Dog-Thing could have infected the entire crew by simply padding up to them all and sticking his wet nose onto any exposed skin.

[@Two_Ravens]

Fun Trivia. The monster burning scene in Thing from Another World was the first full body on-screen burn in cinema.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Is this Green trivia?

[@Two_Ravens]

@@jonbaxter2254 It was a plant monster being burned, so yes. It is also Green Trivia.

[@tonymata8070]

​@@Two_Ravens "RODNEY!!!!" 😂

[@tofubutcher7456]

Not sure of Carpenter ever commented on it but the way the computer wins at chess is impossible. Possibly an editing mistake but a fan theory is that it could also be a further analogy, The Thing doesn't play by the rules, or McCready has been sick of the computer's cheating ways and finally snapped

[@jonbaxter2254]

The Thing would suck at chess.

[@erinrising2799]

so it was a cheating b****?!

[@Aloysius2113]

doesn't he literally say "Cheating bitch." before frying it?

[@TheBlackSpiral]

@@jonbaxter2254 What if it assimilated a chess world champion though

[@juliansiri6141]

Love the incredibly editing at the end, mason is right, he should charge more. Love having ben back.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Love Ben having to pull back the slide of the gun every time

[@natehinson5725]

There is an incredible short story by Peter Watts called “The Things” which reimagines the events of the movie from the perspective of the monster, and it is legitimately thrilling. Everyone who likes this movie should read it.

[@Azrael4u]

That is such a great story, it is definitely my head cannon. If anyone is interested the escape pod podcast did a recording of it episode 298.

[@Arosukir6]

Thank you so much for the short story suggestion! I just read it (all hail Clarkesworld, lol) and it was phenomenal!

[@yael8754]

"I will have to r--- it into them" Such a chilling, horrifying ending line that I remember it to this day and I read the story years ago.

[@JohnnyTightIips]

I know James and Maso have been through a lot. But when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS F*CKING COUCH!

[@mourad505]

"Where's the Blue Harvest joke?" "It's gone." "Well, what about the Rodney guy?" "... It's GONE, Macready..."

[@patrickbateman312]

@@mourad505 Well done, both of you! :D

[@nickl6715]

@@mourad505 I took care of the former 😂

[@johnreynolds7996]

You have got to be fucking kidding me! And made all the more hilarious in that the line is muttered by a Thing.

[@alisterfolson]

The Thing: "I crashed on this planet. I was trying to fly home but the locals kept tryna kill me."

[@anubusx]

The Xenomorph feels the same after being born on The Nostromo.

[@hada__02]

God I missed Ben’s editing

[@DBZnChill]

Fr love when he does the random edits of himself

[@marlzz92]

He is the GOAT 🐐

[@jeynarl]

The picture frame of mason's family was 100% lore accurate

[@BennyCo.Skateboard]

@@DBZnChill I was getting real tired of seeing Lawrences dumb face just sit there.

[@JCOdrjones]

Lawrence is great tho

[@sowder]

THIS IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE HORROR MOVIE. GOT TO WATCH IT WITH JOHN CARPENTER HIMSELF A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

oh how so

[@sowder]

@@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 JOE BOB BRIGGS DRIVE-IN JAMBOREE OUT IN VEGAS. IT WAS A TRIBUTE TO JOHN CARPENTER. IT WILL AIR ON SHUDDER SOON.

[@hollandscottthomas]

I am insanely jealous.

[@Statsy10]

@@sowder I hope you leaned over to him at some point and whispered, “It’s good… but I really think it would be better if it had a big guy in a suit.” 😂

[@null6634]

WAS THE VOLUME TOO HIGH ABD NOW YOU SHOUT ALL THE TIME?!!!

[@toothpastehombre]

This movie legitimately turned me away from horror films. It shook my little child brain so hard I said nope to entire genre of film until I was an adult. And even now, this film is full PTSD. Absolute masterpiece

[@jaymikesmovienites3452]

That’s fascinating because as a kid it did the opposite. But by this time, I had already been traumatized by the exorcist when it premiered on tv for the first time

[@air-headedaviator1805]

That was me with Alien

[@NameSpaceVoid]

Somehow I got to watch the shining when I was really young and that part at the end when Wendy is running around with the chanting in the background had my nerves so shot I literally threw up. Horror movies aren’t for kids

[@Oliverf-ej8kl]

The terrifier did that to me at as adult. This one got me really into sci fi horror lol

[@steverogers7601]

Different strokes for different folks. We saw it along with predator and robocop as kids and thought it was cool and intriguing. The shining was more comforting and thrilling than scary or chilling.

[@johnskrip7174]

Really excited for what I hope is many “Here’s the Thing” editing jokes

[@alisterfolson]

Here's the thing... supercut!

[@simonmorgan8539]

Lovely little Maid Marian cameo in the edit. A treat to see these deep cuts, great job!

[@jonbaxter2254]

Mason will never outlive that joke

[@JohanKylander]

​@@jonbaxter2254Which one's that from?

[@richardblakely6854]

0:13 - I discovered within this past week that there’s actually ANOTHER adaptation of Who Goes There?! It’s called Horror Express (1972); it stars Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee, and is set on a train!

[@alexanderguerrero347]

Damn.

[@grantchauncey9488]

There can never be enough praise to this film, it is simply a perfect horror movie. James brought up a point that I also said to my friend yesterday, this film excels at delivering exposition and giving the audience just enough of an understanding of what this Thing is. That coupled with a cast of great characters and arguably the best practical effects put to film, you have a masterpiece that continues to find more and more fans. I can't imagine the heartbreak that Carpenter felt when this was released, nowadays I struggle to find a single person that dislikes this film. Carpenter's cynicism has always been present in his work and especially in interviews, but the aftermath of The Thing's release is enough to make any director into a cynic.

[@johnreynolds7996]

There are, I think, two flaws in the movie: 1) Fuch's demise is .... inexplicable. It's like Carpenter just had enough of the character and so just .... sent the dude out into the snow 2) It is never explained how the keys to the blood bank came back into Garry's possession. Again, inexplicable. Other than that, yeah, it's a great movie. As a horror movie it is exceptional because the characters all act rationally (if, obviously, in a panic) and it actually allows the characters to come to conclusions that turn out to be wrong. So MacReady can be certain that Garry is a Thing (he's not), and Blair can be convinced that Clarke is a Thing (he's not), and yet they are using sound reasoning based on the information at hand. They are wrong not because the script requires it but because they don't have all the information they'd need to know better. That's very rare in horror movies, where the Hero's Hunches (tm) are always correct, and the rest of the crew are just dumb as an ox.

[@EtMeBuddy]

that walt disney bit KILLED me, welcome back Ben

[@jonbaxter2254]

I thought it was a lie, but ti was true. Dafuq?

[@omegagamer36]

Can someone please explain the Walt Disney bit?

[@saintniccage2818]

​@@omegagamer36Walt wrote kurt russel on a bit of paper.....and then he died.

[@iam1hobbit]

1:51 Maso's familiy photo. I think this puts the Maid Marian argument to rest. Unless James was a homewrecker and stoler her away... hmmm...

[@tomralfe5428]

I was about it say - it’s so messed-up of James to be constantly listing after Maso’s wife.

[@myhnea15]

I think it was a mandate by James to edit it that way, so we would all think he's NOT the one into Maid Marian..😏

[@rorylynch7775]

This movie is what the secret invasion tv show should have been, in terms of the the paranoia and suspense both the characters and the audience get from being unable to trust anyone because the creatures can look like anyone

[@nondescriptusername68]

Exactly. Though the comic event wasn't spectacular, it certainly was unsettling and always had me on edge. The show couldn't even come close.

[@SimonBuchanNz]

@@nondescriptusername68 the second Secret Invasion series (2022 it looks like?) is pretty good though. Plays a lot more with the promise of the concept

[@saintniccage2818]

But then there's no room for jokes and arm cameos

[@Rat-czar]

The soundtrack is perfect. The right amount of ambient and tense beats that keep you on edge. It still gives me anxiety watching it after the 3rd-4th time

[@DrewDeLand]

Kurt’s beard is one of the greatest beards in film history.

[@johnreynolds7996]

Clarke's beard was a serious contender, which is the real reason why MacReady shot him dead.

[@CalciumChief]

14:09 That's what I always say. We assume it's gonna destroy the world, cause it's a monster movie and the characters convince you of that. It crash lands on this random mudball of a planet, its ship is likely busted, it freezes hundred of thousand of years and wakes up to see the planet overrun with these hairless apes. I can totally see it just want to peace out and go back home to its space wife with space dinner that's gone cold by now. Maybe it also tried to just build a ship in the Norwegian camp, but they tried to kill immediately, so now its trying the stealth approach.

[@WlatPziupp]

We need another prequel in the form of a musical where it sings about being a peaceful creature with thoughts and feelings that just wants to go home. In the songs it keeps almost saying Thing like "We're more alive than you think, I'm not some evil..." but then gets interrupted and the big turning point song ends with "I'll be that Thing"

[@toomanyoldsports]

@@WlatPziuppI want to live in your mind.

[@kitredKitredson]

@@CalciumChief Yes! This!

[@lancesilvis4085]

@@WlatPziupp yes you’ve fiiiiinally maaaade a mooooonkey out of meeeeeeee!!!! I love you doctor Brimley!

[@johnreynolds7996]

It's trying to build a flying machine out of locker panels and a diesel generator. I don't care how smart it is, it ain't gonna be able to build a spaceship out of those parts. The secret is this: Blair destroyed the helicopter, so the Blair-Thing can't use that to make a getaway. So it is building a flying saucer/hovercraft/whatever to try to escape the camp. Perhaps hoping to get to anther camp or, maybe, to get to South America or New Zealand. But not to get to space. In the novella they find an anti-gravity harness that the Blair-Thing was building. Again, not interstellar, but enough to get it out of Antartica and get it to civilization.

[@devlincognito5005]

One of the greatest films ever made! Coincidentally, this was the first video I ever saw anyone edit when my friend made a 15 minute video called "the Invincibles" where it was the scenes of the cast nailing up all the windows and doors, then Macready running through the hallways dynamiting all the buildings, then the survivors nailing everything up again repairing everything, just for Macready to run around dynamiting everything. Sounds daft now, but 13 year old me, it blew my mind!

[@The40Kwarrior]

My favourite movie of all time, love The Thing - I saw it when I was about 6 or 7 years old and have watched it at least once a year for the past 20 years or so. Still looks really good to this day as well, just great.

[@Cybop-xd9mm]

Did it terrify you as a kid? What was your first initial reaction to watching it at a young age?

[@BrianDemong]

Actually, Frankenstein is the name of the scientist. I, the person correcting you on this trivial point, am the monster.

[@FutureDeep]

The scientist was the true monster.

[@BrianDemong]

@@FutureDeep You are late to your bus stop. You see the back of the bus as you round the corner. Running frantically, you collide with an old lady walking her dog and fall down; you get up, keep running, but trip and fall again. As you are sitting on the ground, bruised and frustrated, the bus pulls away, oblivious to your plight. The bus is the point, and you missed it.

[@FutureDeep]

@@BrianDemong Is the dog okay?

[@BrianDemong]

@@FutureDeep :)

[@socialcommentary]

Deep cut Fox Maid Marrion as Maso's wife is peak Caravan of Garbage along with Ben's explanation of how the Phantom is actually an amazing movie! Ben deserves a raise!

[@frownline1]

Wild that they basically got that guy to reenact the accident which took his arms

[@timcogan82]

This and Predator are two movies I love that I also wish didn’t open with a spaceship landing on Earth.

[@KaneA87]

100% agree. These amazing movies would've been even better

[@700Harry007]

Agreed. It would've been better as post-credit scenes. It'll made you wonder whether are scenes actually prologues or set-up for sequels.

[@CalciumChief]

But why, though? Makes it clear it's an alien and that doesn't really imapct anything. If it wasn't there you'd be asking if the Predator is some mutated dude, a secret army weapon, a demon, or he's from the center of the Earth. Instead the movie just tells you it's an alien.

[@saulspanco854]

​@@CalciumChief😂😂 op wants to seem smart and artsy

[@ergunatik2661]

@@CalciumChief Exactly. Last night I was watching The Usual Suspects and throughout the movie they present Verbal Kint as this weak, clumsy, lowlife criminal but it turns out he is actually Kaiser Soze. I mean, what the hell movie? Why didn't they just tell us he was Kaiser Soze in the beginning? We could have watched the movie knowing he was the ultimate bad guy and the movie would have been MUCH MUCH BETTER.

[@Courtesyflush52]

12:25 “Do you remember that?” Yes I can without a shadow of a doubt that every single one of us remembers that scene in detail, and it haunts our waking and sleeping moments

[@pjkorab]

VERY important detail: Ennio Morricone actually didn't do any of the synth music. So basically most of the iconic music from this film is by Alan Howarth or Carpenter himself. Supposedly the story is that they were all big fans of Morricone and were very excited that he accepted the job - but then they were very surprised that he wrote music very similar to what he always writes and it was so out of place that most of it was just unusable and got thrown out. Not sure whether they left the "music by Ennio Morricone" credit due to some contract obligations, or as a marketing boost, but I always thought this was at least a bit unfair.

[@motherplayer]

Favorite thing about "The Thing from Another World" is the scientist who so desperately wants to set a good impression to this creature from the stars before finding out it could care less and promptly kills him when he has a chance.

[@luckyasmr1374]

Just rewatched this film recently and it still holds up! So great!

[@dustintirey6122]

"Here's the thing." - James or Mason in every video 😂

[@jonathancrincoli6263]

@18:25 The significant thing about drinking the bottle is that earlier Fuchs told everyone that no one can share food/drink and must prepare it for themselves. So, Macready knows when he accepts the drink that Childs is no longer human.

[@jonathancrincoli6263]

…….Macready exhales, Checkmate, movie ends……. Beautiful especially since the movie starts with Macready in checkmate and doesn’t accept it. To see him come full circle and accept it is perfect.

[@alexander0the0gray]

Please do one more “That guy who says Rodney” compilation before the end of the year! It’s my only request! - This is my third time asking.

[@storiesfromtheabyss9808]

Mason confirmed to be the one who definitely is in love with Maid Marion. Also this in my top 5 favorite movies of all time, thanks so much for covering it!

[@DarkachuWasTaken]

I love that you can hear the exact moment that James goes from "Yeah, he SHOULD get paid more" to "wait that means I have to pay more"

[@Victor-em3nu]

This movie is so insanely good.

[@RonnieBarzel]

It really is mind-boggling just how great the summer of 1982 was.

[@bobojo6447]

Best horror movie

[@Kindred1a1]

You both should do a Cosmic horror month. (The Thing, Annihilation, The Endless, Black Mountain Side, The Empty Man, The Mist, Shin Godzilla, The Lighthouse, The Ritual, Alien, to name a few)

[@imposible2beat]

Absolutely Perfect Film. Pure Cinema Boyz and Girlz.

[@tenimeartstudios]

THANK YOU, JAMES. 💙 There are so few KZbin channels who correctly pronounce Rob Bottin's name, and it drives me insane. THANK YOU for being an exception. 💙💙💙

[@tenimeartstudios]

And then you add an "N" to Roy Scheider's name... 😅 I'll give you a pass because of the rare correct "Bottin"... 😅😅😅

[@talldaveh]

Brandon Sanderson representing the concept of "too much lore" lol

[@alexanderguerrero347]

Damn. But it just fits

[@MasterJack2]

Each new book I have to reread 4 others just to be up to date. But I like it.

[@niklashegg]

Thanks to the arm chomp scene replaying 100 times, I finally noticed the character’s sleeves change between shots

[@TundraWolfe]

I hope next week you mention the award-winning short story The Things, by Peter Watts. It recounts the events of this movie from the perspective of The Thing and gives some (speculative) insight into what sort of organism it is and how it perceives humanity. It might not technically be canon but it's definitely worth the read and the mention! Thanks for covering my favourite movie of all time, you gents are the best!

[@scottgray4623]

As I recall from reading the Wikipedia article of the short story "Who Goes There", the creatures all shared a psychic link - that wasn't expressly stated in the films, but makes total sense when looking back at them.

[@JohnnyBRad]

If I had a nickel for every time a classic 80s sci-fi movie would be better if it didn’t open with a spaceship revealing the alien twist right away I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[@aj7419]

reckon those scenes are intended to garner attention and intrigue "what is that? a spaceship? landing on earth? what the hell are they up to!?" thinking about it... those scenes might be necessary to convey to the audience that is not so much about the unknown, but perhaps more about the not understood it's not like these are movies about solving a mystery, they're more about attempting to learn and deal with obstacles/scenarios that would appear to be entirely unable to overcome what i'm saying is mystery is not the point, the struggle of the characters is, and clueing the audience in early on some details of the situation assists in conveying that might come back to this comment later and edit for clarity - kind of stream of consciousness as is

[@JohnnyBRad]

@@aj7419 Yeah I fully understand the WHY they had to do it. Beyond just the not understood, you really have to hook an audience early and a spaceship coming to Earth certainly does that. And maybe it’s just hindsight after seeing a movie like the Thing a dozen times but I just think how much more crazy would the reveal of like Predator be if we had ZERO idea of what was hunting them verses like “oh yeah, that’s probably the alien I saw earlier”.

[@Rat-czar]

100% agree. If I ever show someone the movie I’ll just make sure to skip that scene😂

[@demon-goat]

@@aj7419 I love the way you described this

[@Matt-vh2ci]

You basically forget about It half way through the movie, then you go "wait that is spaceship From the First scene" when the characters see It.

[@timcogan82]

Would love to see you boys do the whole Carpenter Apocalypse Trilogy.

[@imposible2beat]

That would be a lot of fun. The other two are not as good as The Thing, but are still good and fun films.

[@thomasinham]

^^^ weird weird awesome movies

[@WhiskerDooz]

I'm going to put Prince of Darkness on and Carpenter all over my apartment

[@imposible2beat]

@@WhiskerDooz the soundtrack is so good.

[@kareningram6093]

I kind of want to see this sequel now, where The Thing eats ET.

[@killaronjones3933]

The Thing From Another World is an amazing classic that deserves more respect. The scene of them setting it on fire is unbelievable for the time.

[@SimonBuchanNz]

Welcome back Ben from the Soviet Union

[@jackalovski1]

Fantastic coincidence I watched this with a friend two weeks ago after not seeing him for almost a year and we watched it because he’d never seen it. I love at the start of the movie he said “at least the dog survived” not knowing that [spoilers] the dog was the thing. But even though I’d watched it before I still didn’t know who was and wasn’t the thing and how they were going to get infected. But one thing I did notice is that whenever anyone was getting an injection of anything ( normally sedatives) if the person doing the injecting was the thing, it had the opportunity to infect them then and that’s how I think [spoilers] that’s howWilford Brimley gets infected. 9/10 one of the top 100 movies ever made.

[@6sKi6z6]

I enjoyed the 2011 “Thing” prequel a lot more than the reviews told me I would. The attention to detail and ties to the 1982 movie were great. It’s just the baffling studio decision to switch from practical effects to cgi at the last minute that really holds it back.

[@chrish.9788]

The commentary and editing was some of the best y'all have put out. This was hilarious, and it touched on everything important about the film. Great video!

[@chantebrand1581]

Hands down one of the best paranoia movies ❤

[@stevensmith8876]

Kurt Russell's breath is fog in the final scene, but Keith David no fog. HE'S the Thing!

[@apepmedia3059]

"An intellectual carrot ... the mind boggles" - The Thing from another world

[@mooddog2087]

For Childs being the Thing: At the end when Childs shows up you never see his breath, unlike McGrady who looks like he's smoking a cigar.

[@clarkmichaels822]

Which the Red Letter Media guys debunked. You can definitely see Childs' breath in some of the shots, but it's harder to see because he has darker skin and the lighting isn't great. Even so, the Thing makes a PERFECT copy of any other being, so it would just breathe warm air like any other human. Similarly the gasoline theory is silly (MacReady filled the bottle with gasoline before giving it to Childs to test him), since Thing Childs (if it was the Thing) would have Childs' memories and know what liquor tasted like. Again, completely missing the point of the movie. The paranoia is the point. It's not a puzzle for viewers to solve.

[@JayG724]

@@clarkmichaels822 I think Childs is the thing. If you watch throughout the movie everyone that’s human seems to have a slight glow in their eyes everyone infected does not. At the end of the movie McGrady does Childs does not.

[@victoriacrichlow-debro9602]

Her name is Adrienne Barbeau!

[@matthemming9105]

"He said the video was edited by Obi Wan from Canada. I'm wondering if he means Old Ben from Canada..." "That Old Editing Wizard? I dont think he exists anymore. He dropped a couple of dope videos, one about the Duality symbolism in The Phantom Menace that people should go watch if they haven't already, and then probably got a life beyond editing youtube videos. I don't think he exists anymore..." Which is to say: Welcome back, Ben!

[@2723cadd]

I am once again on my knees!!! Begging for the fifth element caravan of garbage!!!!

[@davidarredondo2017]

They have to do the 1st-4th first

[@saintniccage2818]

@@2723cadd gonna have to get this dude some knee pads how long he's waited down there

[@jonbaxter2254]

There he is!

[@Jabberwockybird]

Gotta do Horror Express first. since that's a hidden cousin of The Thing movies.

[@under-._.-score]

I love that in this movie with a bunch of weird creepy alien shit - a light being on is one of the more terrifying moments.

[@KaneA87]

All these years and their voices still sound the wrong way round. From the way they look, their voices seem like they've been purposely switched

[@KarlTheExpert]

I'm going with them both getting assimilated and replaced by Things at a young age and the Things got their voices all jumbled up.

[@steveforsyth7269]

I'll say.. while the original is standard 50s horror fare .. the way they open the door and he's just standing there 02:29 .. THAT'S a great moment!

[@Waylude]

9:21 I love these guys

[@jacobtuttle4311]

The visual gag of neo nervously crouch running in-between cubicles when they say you'd still have to go to work is fantastic

[@RustyShackleford101]

You know who'd be excellent at finding The Thing? That guy who yells "Rodney!" #JusticeForThatGuyWhoYellsRodney

[@jinxysaberk]

i think what makes this movie so amazing is we learn the information as the characters do and they don’t often have to say it out loud because it’s shown to us perfectly

[@spider-insider7981]

James has been assimilated by the thing! The real James would have called the trivia segment 'Thingvia'

[@CerberusLives]

There's a great short story online called 'The Things', which recounts the movie's events from the Thing's perspective, and interprets its actions as it basically wanting to know more about us and fix our rubbish, ineffective human bodies and it gets pissed off when the humans reject that 'gift' by repeatedly lighting it on fire.

[@JohnSmith-x8s5g]

"Can it get into our phones?" THE ONLY question that would matter today I'm afraid.

[@notnominal7013]

Stumbled across Mr Sunday Movies relatively recently, and I just love this channel. I think I could hear you two talk about almost anything and I'd be smiling holding back a chuckle. You're a natural born comedic duo with impeccable editing, just my kind of humour, and some great movie reviews. Keep it up guys!

[@Malaclypse_the_Third]

I think the prequel was fine but I did wonder why the creature bothered hiding in it. They maybe made it a bit too powerful.

[@DrRipper19]

Unironically I wouldn't actually mind a sequel to this set 50 years later starring Keith David and Kurt Russel

[@DoomsToys]

Blows my mind this movie

[@jamesgreen9480]

I like the idea for a sequel that keeps coming up every few years. The thing gets to civilisation but realises that the best way to take over the world/get back home is to become a high ranking politician instead of just killing everyone. American psycho but with a shape shifting alien. More interesting than just doing the thing tries to escape a remote base again

[@wstine79]

Even though it took a toll on his mental sanity, Rob Bottin did a great job with the THING FX.

[@CloudWolf-zu7eq]

The chest mouth scene haunted me for days when I first saw it , Ty for Bringing back such wonderful childhood memories Caravan of Garbage ❤️ 😂

[@joebees21]

One of the greatest horror films of all time.

[@nickl6715]

One of? It's not only the best horror film it's the best sci Fi film of all time. It's two e goated.

[@joebees21]

@@nickl6715 It's definitely firmly in my top 10. Arguments must be made for Silence of the Lambs, The Shining, Alien, Aliens, Jaws, Halloween, Shutter Island and in terms of Sci-Fi I'd make a case for Blade Runner.

[@nickl6715]

@@joebees21 I love all of those too but they don't hold a flamethrower to The Thing pound for pound.

[@nickl6715]

The only one that is close is Alien(s).

[@Aussiemystic]

Trivia that was strangely missed: James Carpenter was inspired to make this movie by Claire Tonti's podcast "Just Make 'The Thing'".

[@The33Q]

Ben has some nice gun skills, Ben Wick

[@Randomaccount9470]

One of the very few horror movies that actually scare me P. S the horror is elevated by the fact the characters asides the murderer are not a*holes you don't want them to die

[@bigbaddwolf90]

The photo of Mason's family killed me 😂

[@jakek1735]

There's a really old movie theater near where I live that only does 2 or 3 showtimes per week, only on weekends, sometimes not even every week, because it's all volunteer and donation supported. They'll show all kinds of classic movies from all eras. Last year, around Halloween time, they did this movie. That was probably the most packed I've ever seen this theater, which seats a pretty impressive amount of people, like I said it's a really old theater from back when movie theaters were designed like opera houses, it has a balcony and everything. And this was just a regular movie screening; I've seen special events there like movie screenings with live band/orchestra accompaniment, or silent movies with the organ being played live, or screenings that have members of the cast and crew present for Q&A. The Thing was more packed than any of those, and everybody was cheering and clapping at various moments. So I just wanna say: John Carpenter, if you're listening, James and Mason are right, don't listen to that asshole who directed the 1951 version, he's just jealous.

[@ShmuckOnWheels]

That's so cool! We have the same type of theater in the city I live in, but it hasn't been operational for at least 30 years. It's bullshit that it's just sitting there, but it has a business complex built around it that has active shops so it hasn't been torn down for reasons to do with structural integrity. I went to that theater dozens of times back in the 80's. I used to think I was getting a message/vision to try and spearhead an effort to re-open the theater, and in the capacity that you mentioned, if even that much. The money involved in doing this is way beyond my means, as is the knowledge of how to raise it in the first place. It would definitely be a labor of love supported by donors and volunteers. The only other "art house" and independent cinema in the area is about 20 minutes away in downtown Tacoma.

[@nickl6715]

Little known fact: Due to the icy setting and the creature's insistence on reaping the research team as the opportunities present, the working title for this film was "Blue Harvest".

[@TheDahaka1]

The "you don't even know if you're infected" theory is so interesting! I mean, it can copy your body once it consumes you, but maybe the copy can remain completely accurate only until it believes it's still the original. The thing is still in there, conscious of what's happening, but it lets the personality and memories of the copied person keep control until it needs to take it away, and after that the copy isn't as accurate anymore

[@TheJesselopez1981]

Yay! Ben's back. Missed ya.

[@aleckgardner6845]

The little animated robin hood reference for Masons family was top tier

[@Hugh_Jannis]

My own personal head canon is that The Thing is a distant prequel to Final Fantasy VII with The Thing being Jenova

[@sheikbazinga9378]

Kurt Russell was one of the Cetra and an ancient ancestor to Aerith. I think they cover that in the next game

[@cipangoreng]

Mother!!!

[@TheLoneDrow22]

Lol nice.

[@trickypg7184]

Brilliant analysis about how you know just enough about The Thing for it to be captivating. I love this movie so much.