THE THING (1982) MOVIE REACTION!! First Time Watching | Kurt Russell | John Carpenter

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[@NicholasIrvin]

I got a good idea for a movie for the both of you reactive the 1980s blob movie.Now that might be a good movie for the both of you react It's very good to watch.Recommend you check it out

[@IAmNotARobotPinkySwear]

24:43 - windows drops the keys to the blood here (hear it hit the floor). It's how The Thing got to the blood later on. Also explains why Windows runs for the shotgun when everyone is arguing about who had the keys last, he knows if they find out it was him they'd suspect him of being The Thing. 49:16 - that's Kurt Russell throwing an actual explosive, if you read the history on it, something was wrong w/ the fuse, it was supposed to go off a few seconds later then it did, lucky he threw it when he did or there might not be any more Kurt =( I love small details in movies like that that often get over looked (aka me for like a decade). Also the use of actual flamethrowers on set b/c CGI wasn't a thing yet, /chef's kiss. Something you'd never see in movies nowadays.

[@shainewhite2781]

The Dog Kennel Sequence was done by Oscar Winning VFX artist Stan Winston Studios after Rob Bottin fell ill with a bleeding ulcer and heat exhaustion. Winston didn't want to recieve credit, until he got "Special Thanks" at the rolling credits.

[@mrdavman13]

Winston actually only made the model of the thing that escaped thru roof and did some of the motion capture for models that Bottin had already made. That is why he felt like he didn’t deserve credit, they essentially ignored the piece that escaped thru the roof after some editing and filming changes.

[@rennieking5666]

You are the first reactors who thought this was a comedy.

[@Ranman1]

No uninfected human would drink from the same bottle after someone else, after being through what they went through. That is why Mac immediately lols when Childs drinks from the bottle.

[@justsoicanfingcomment5814]

If you play the Play Station 2 game The Thing, you will eventualy reach the shack where Mc.Ready and Childs ended the movie. And Mc.Ready's body is still there. But Childs body is missing. Then later still, Mc.Readys body disapears too......

[@evanirvana500]

Really? You literally know you're going to die no matter what you do, sharing a drink from the same bottle wouldn't matter and you're actively gonna freeze so the alcohol would help. But at the end, a normal person would take a drink. You're going to die anyway, and if he's the thing he's going to kill me anyway. There's literally nothing you could do. I have heard a theory the drink was lighter fluid or some flammable liquid and childs didn't react so that's why mac laughed like he did. In reality, no one knows and no one will know. Lol anybody's theory would work and there is no wrong answer. But I do def think anyone would share that drink when you're essentially accepting your own death.

[@Ranman1]

@ So you would be ok turning into a literal monster? Im not! Would rather freeze to death.

[@evanirvana500]

@Ranman1 if there was anything in that bottle or mac was the thing, you're gonna be assimilated anyway no matter what you do

[@justsoicanfingcomment5814]

@evanirvana500 Mc.Ready survives and helps MC fight in PS2 the thing.

[@shainewhite2781]

BEST SCI FI HORROR FILM EVER MADE! It was not well received by critics upon release, calling "Boring, dull, a wretched excess, and a hell of an antidote for ET" as ET was released 2 weeks after the release of THE THING. It was a box office disappointment, making $19 million dollars against a $15 million dollar budget. However it's gained a cult following overtime and has been regarded as one of John Carpenter's best movies ever made. The sound effects of The Thing when it transforms are that of alligators, crocodiles, rattlesnakes, horses, pigs squealing and human screams played backwards or slowed down to make it sound otherworldly and terrifying.

[@Bjready2]

Your wife is right.... Blair, having done the research realized he was infected. Remember the scene from the dog kennel when Blair drew blood from the remaining dogs after they were attacked by the thing. He then analyzed the remaining dogs blood and found how the infection worked on the computer. What he saw on the computer, was on a cellular level. You could be infected and wouldn't even know it. Blair also had a stop watch during that scene, timing the rate of infection from cell to cell, realizing that the remaining dogs were being imitated inside out and it was just a matter of time. He then killed the remaining dogs before full infection. He also realized that he was a part of the 75%... Window said, "hey guys somebody got to the blood" who did, Blair did! Blair picked up the keys after Windows dropped them when he saw Benning being imitated. You can hear the keys drop before he runs out of the room. Everyone is there when Bennings is being burned but Blair. Blair then wrecks the helicopter, after killing the dogs and draining the blood... But how was Blair infected, It was the autopsy, Blair touched it... Fukes said in the helicopter to MacReady after reading Blair's notes, " there are still cellular activities in these burned remains, they are not dead yet". That is why Blair went crazy because he knew he didn't have much time left. (stop watch)... But before Blair could kill himself (the noose he tied in the shack) he transformed, he said, "I'm much better now". Palmer was the first infected and fully imitated. In the beginning the dog went into Palmer's room. Remember the scene when MacReady hit the fire alarm and everybody came out of their rooms. Palmer came out of that room where the dog walked in early that day... Remember Blair said, "So the dog wasn't put into the kennel until last night" He was also wearing those grey long Johns the cook found in the trash can. Palmer also infected Norris... If you ever decide to watch the film again you'll notice Palmer standing next to Norris in several scenes.... Fukes also said to MacReady in the helicopter, reading Blair's notes, that you have to be in close proximity to the infected to also be infected. And Norris was next to Palmer in more scenes than with anyone. In the end it's Childs who is last infected. Did Childs forget not to trust anyone before drinking behind MacReady..no!... Mac already knows that Childs is the thing...that's why he passes him the drink, the same drink he gave to the cheating Chess game...😮

[@tranya327]

I agree with most of this. The film is deliberately designed so that we don't know who was assimilated when. My own take, is that Blair was taken over and became a full imitation, shortly after he did the combo of running the computer simulations and then reaching for the gun in his desk... If Blair were the thing when he wrecked the radio room, his strategy could have been to force the humans to lock him up in isolation, so that Blair-thing would then have the needed privacy to start building the escape ship. When Blair wrecks the radio room... are we seeing a frightened human trying to ••prevent humans from leaving•• (and carrying the thing-infection with them) ...OR, is it Blair-thing acting, trying to ••prevent a warning•• from reaching the outside world? (If the warning were believed, the superpowers could have responded with nukes on missiles, to destroy the outpost and stop the contagion.). The clues we're given, fit both interpretations; no way to know. :D

[@Bjready2]

@@tranya327 interesting 🤔

[@mrdavman13]

Good guesses but none of it is confirmed and some of your theory just doesn’t make sense for a lot of reasons.

[@8228js]

Old joke, but this movie did make a bold prediction: Mac torches Windows.

[@cooler_carpington]

Funny, here's your updoot.

[@hv3926]

The one question to be asked between Mac and Childs at the end, especially with only 1 bottle of booze between them: "Did Palmers pot make it and where is it? One possibility is Nauls. He is just a young man compared to the others. When Mac said, "We're not getting out of here alive....." this had to be very depressing, especially for Nauls. Maybe he knew where Palmer stored his pot and then took it for himself. The last we see of Nauls, he has a goofy stoned smile on his face and begins wandering off toward where the Thing obviously was, and Mac then surmised that Nauls was gone.

[@BattleAngelFan99]

21:06 Remember when they found that big hollowed-out block of ice at the norwegian camp and doc theorized maybe they found some animal in the ice and thawed it out? There ya go! 33:54 Yes that is the guy from Dante's Peak. :D Funny, when I saw Dante's Peak, I pointed out "Hey, that's the guy from The Thing" 36:15 Kurt Russell should have played Jesus. :D 38:30 Blair has a noose because he's contemplating ending himself so he doesn't die by being taken over by the thing. Remember, it's an organism that enters into you and proceeds to eat you cellularly and then after it eats you, it pretends to be you. The thing you hate most has eaten you, used the energy and cellular matter to make more of itself, and is using your identity to do the same to everyone you care about. If he ends his life though, he can spare himself that fate. 40:20 It's been revealed in interviews that the thing assimilates the individual, inheriting all the health problems of that individual, such as heart problems. 55:55 You remember the Chess Wizard MacReady was playing chess with earlier? "Check mate, check mate, check mate", And he dumped his icecubes into it because he wasn't going to accept defeat? Symbolism here, this is where The Thing is saying "check mate". And MacReady again won't accept defeat.

[@davidgarrido5506]

Fan pops The infection timeline goes like this Dog thing infects Norris when it walks into the room with the silhouette on the wall Split face infects Bennings Norris infects Palmer Norris or Palmer infect Blair by sabotaging his food drop offs Windows is infected by Palmer during the blood test Clark,Copper, Garry, Fuchs and Nauls die human

[@DrJohnnyFever.]

We don't know if Palmer or Norris got infected by the dog first. It was a shadow of a crew member so we couldn't guess. Then we saw Bennings get it. Windows got the keys from Garry and dropped them when he saw Bennings so either Palmer or Norris cut open the blood in storage. Then put the keys back in the store room. I think Blair was human and just freaking out because he knew how important it was that it didn't get out. After he was put in the tool shed either Palmer or Norris got to him. The movie doesn't say but Norris had a heart condition which The Thing also perfectly imitated. I think Blair burned Fuchs because he was the only one left that could figure things out. Mac acted in self-defense when he shot Clark. Then Blair gets Garry and Nauls. I thought Childs was human but there are clues that Blair got him. He was falling asleep at the window and when they show the door open the coats and boots are in different places. Also why would Childs leave without telling anyone and leave the door open. Don't believe the gasoline/breath theories. The Thing is a perfect imitation so it would still have warm moist breath and it would know the difference between whiskey and gasoline.

[@brandontrammel4581]

Let's give a shout-out to Blair the real mvp. If he hadn't destroyed the equipment the alien would have gotten away to the mainland. Also its implied the thing alien got loose and killed the good aliens whos ship it really was. Hence why the ship crashed in the beginning.

[@JSPokemonYT]

John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) is my 2nd favorite movie of all time.

[@JSPokemonYT]

@randywhite3947 Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)

[@tonyfonseca2480]

Dog kennel scene the thing never excaped theirs a quick scene showing mc cready burn the thing and the monster falls from the ceiling. The thing was simple trying to get off the ground after being shot up . And take a defensive stance. Caught this movie in the theater long time ago. 😊

[@k3n12ock]

Ahh the usual, "Why is he shooting at the dog" until .... LOL

[@YW2324]

Ya.. because it was probably turning into it. The second dog

[@stephmgreen]

I’m just starting the video but I have to say, my favorite piece of trivia regarding The Thing is that it (in addition to the Fly) inspired the third season creature of Stranger Things.

[@Damiana_Dimock]

If y'all enjoyed that film and you have not seen Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978) and or the remake Body Snatchers (1993) (or the original 1956, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers--The '78 remake of the '56 film is similar enough it's best to just watch the '78 version and go back to the '56 film if you're really curious, and the '93 version is drastically different so I do always recommend checking that out but after '78...anyway...,) I highly recommend checking it/them out 🙏🏼😊 Also, the 1978 film stars the recently deceased, Donald Sutherland. If you are Donald Sutherland fans also check out Klute (1971,) it might be my favorite of his films--He plays a private detective. 1978's Invasion Of The Body Snatchers has a pretty stacked cast, btw. I do enjoy people recognizing them all on their own tho, so I'll end my overlong sales pitch here 😂

[@mikemckague9506]

Definitely recommend the 2011 prequel

[@garbageday587]

But the CGI was bad as shit

[@RetroRobotRadio]

Note that because the seasons are switched below the equater, "Antarctica, Winter 1982" is like May to July!

[@MariettaCalupig-gy6nt]

Love your videos ❤

[@alexhidalgo7110]

Absolutely love this movie so much Love you both and your reaction absolutely amazing

[@BorenyaRSaikia]

Watch The Thing 2011 after this...please, it's a request ❤❤❤❤

[@Styxswimmer]

It's terrible.

[@flankerpraha]

Don't watch the Thing 2011, it's shit and waste of time.

[@Styxswimmer]

@@flankerpraha my son is 16. He adores the original 51 version and the 82 version. But when we watched the 2011 version, he just said "that was terrible".

[@brandonflorida1092]

Actually, I don't think it's right that the alien is "in the body,:" I think it replaces the body with a copy, although the original body is involved in the process of making the copy,

[@dq405]

The Thing in the dog kennel did not escape through the ceiling; it broke the boards and raised itself, but remained hanging in mid-air until Childs burned it. (You can see it fall after the flames hit it.)

[@nino6664]

Have you ever tried aiming and shooting a gun at a moving target while you're also in a moving car truck airplane it's not that easy

[@broodhunter21]

He's a pretty bad shot" Clearly, you do not know much about shooting. Taking a shot at a moving smaller than man sized target, from a moving, unstable platform like that, not including cold weather gear, would be kind of a miracle by itself. Trying to use a scope in this situation actually makes it worse, not better, as your site picture is smaller and not steady. By the time you saw it in the scope and pulled the trigger, you would be way off target again. Hell for Marine Snipers that would be a near impossible shot. Have you ever noticed how military aircraft have machine guns and electric cannons? Because hitting a ground target while you are moving is crazy hard. You throw an obnoxious amount of lead down range because maybe you will get 1 hit in 50 or so.

[@Darth-Lesbian]

Also, guy is probably just a regular scientist and not a trained soldier.

[@miguelvelez7221]

​@@Darth-LesbianAlso, also, the Norwegians had JUST been through what the Americans were about to. Even if that dude was a military sharpshooter he had likely, like MaCready at the end, spent days up with the constant rush of either adrenaline or terror taking it's toll on his sleep deprived body. Add in sighting from a helicopter and a small erratic moving target and that combined explains everything, though this only becomes clear in hindsight.

[@garbageday587]

I was about to say that other reactors said the exact same thing too.

[@Styxswimmer]

I did 4 years in the Marines. At the 500 yard line I got 15 out of 15 in the black (perfect shots), but at 50 yards on a moving target, it's much harder. Hitting a moving target is not as easy as people think

[@Muckylittleme]

She probably has more emotion watching adverts.

[@tsianinavibranietsova4087]

Misogynistic much, incel?

[@Muckylittleme]

@@tsianinavibranietsova4087 Shut up Simp. Nothing to do with her gender, Get woke somewhere else.

[@supermoogle07]

Y’all are one of the earliest react channels I followed. This movie is the reason I followed half the react channels I watch. This is easily in my top 5. SO HAPPY y’all are reacting to it now.

[@UberDurable]

The prequel from 2011 is worth watching.

[@garbageday587]

But the CGI is bad as crap

[@arjaegonz]

One of the best horror classics! Glad you guys watched it 🥶

[@kiyan.videos]

Can you guys react to MTV Scream (Season 3, the other seasons have some walmart ghostface but season 3 is the original)

[@joerenaud8292]

Director John Carpenter said he thought he made it clear who was the thing at the end of the movie when you could see mist coming out of Mac Ready's mouth in sub zero temperatures but nothing was coming out of Childs mouth.

[@Da420KinG]

Great reaction guys.....Ya should definitely watch & react to the 2011 version it's also really good.

[@allisterfiend_2112]

fyi, the 2011 version is a preqeul showing what happened at the norwegian camp.

[@jahbvbypost]

Legit vented watched all the reactions on your platform…yall pick the best horror movies to react to literally 👏🏾💯🔥

[@Vlad.Larionov]

Great reaction! It is very interesting to see your joint detailed reaction to the film Robocop 1987. This is a cool movie 🦾🤖🔥 Do you have any plans to do it?

[@garbageday587]

You didn’t have to blur the blood and stuff . It makes the video less interesting plus many other reactors didn’t do it.

[@g1native]

Why did you blurry out the good parts!👎

[@garbageday587]

Exactitude it’s retarded to do so. Why show this video with blurred parts ? It make the video less interesting et plus there are plenty of reactors who show everything .

[@Deekernz]

I always thought Blair was fine until he was locked away, and may have hung himself before the thing got to him (nothing said he had to be alive to be copied)

[@MySerpentine]

I always gotta wonder if they could've talked to it.

[@NicholasIrvin]

You know, it'll be a good movie for you.Both to react to the 1980s.Blob movie.Now that might be a good movie for you to react to

[@RetroRobotRadio]

It was not filmed in Antarctica, correct.

[@angelavalentino5146]

Just something I suggest to all reactors, you might need the subtitles and n movies before 2000. Sometimes the sound /dialogue is a little wonky.

[@supermoogle07]

Denise is one of the only reactors to be suspicious of the dog. Shows how it’s the perfect disguise. Who doesn’t immediately love and trust a husky?

[@number1fool]

She’s suspicious of everyone and everything in their horror reactions. And also wonders if everyone in the movie is going to die.

[@Darth-Lesbian]

Actually, a lot of reactors I’ve seen personally are suspicious of the dog. Which is a bit of a let down for me because it’s not as fun as when they suspect nothing 😂

[@supermoogle07]

@@Darth-Lesbian yeah. It’s always great seeing the kennel scene when they are oblivious to it.

[@justsoicanfingcomment5814]

You broke scarry movie rule #1. Turn off the lights.😊

[@michaelschwartz8730]

Maybe the most suspenseful movie ever? But Stevie Wonder still makes me shake my butt every time 🤷‍♂

[@Bibbleisthemostbaddie123]

Can y’all watch carrie or trick or treat

[@mrdavman13]

Damn this lady don’t pay attention to shit apparently. She’s asking questions about shit that was just shown, was just talked about, or obviously is a mystery and unanswered so far. I have no clue what she is doing if she has so many questions during the movie.

[@norwegianmaster744]

Hey Sweden!!!

[@MrJtestes00]

nice reaction, if a little overedited.

[@FanPops]

We had quite a few copyright issues with it to say the least lol

[@jasperz1549]

Hi

[@blackfox717]

if the purpose of your goal is to react & enjoy a film for what it is, Why do something counter progressive to that goal like constantly trying to predict the film with endless theories or questions that would hinder the film from entertaining & surprising you ? This process would be better if you comment on what your feeling about the art style, ambiance, dialogue, character development, actors, pacing, rather than what you think, Questions & theories would be best had at the end of the film, but with that said I always enjoy people taking it back to put on a beloved cult classic like the thing, thanks for the video, it was entertaining, maybe a headache in a half, but we got to the end, so take care & GOD bless

[@sreyangovender3404]

The chick on the right is super annoying 😒

[@eddhardy1054]

Come on, they're both really annoying.

[@notsogood9449]

Both of them are super annoying.

[@Jerofred]

Watch the thing 2011

[@davidgarrido5506]

Fan pops You should have done the 2011 prequel that is set at the Norwegian camp

[@garbageday587]

The CGI is bad though

[@davidgarrido5506]

@@garbageday587 Yeah but it sticks extremely close to continuity by showing how where everything ends up Macready and copper find it

[@kimrust1826]

The original is better.

[@danielpeckham5520]

The black and white version?

[@mikemckague9506]

​@danielpeckham5520 I believe the full name for that one is a Thing from another world isn't it?

[@robertmills8640]

It's not better, it's just different. I like them both.

[@Well_hello_there_]

You'll live.

[@MrEwanc]

I have to say that when I initially began watching your reactions video I felt you appeared somewhat stolid, phlegmatic, or, dare I say, even rather taciturn as a couple, and I at first hoped for little entertainment by way of hysterics. However, as the video progressed energetic and involuntary outpourings of emotions and alarm were indeed forthcoming. Ultimately this was an entertaining reactions video. Thank you.

[@intotheabyss42478]

go watch the prequel from 2011 under the same name!

[@garbageday587]

But the CGI is crap