The Thing (1982) Movie Reaction, Review, & Trivia

[@akathebaronreacts]

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[@666scottypotty]

If the thing can only imitate living tissue they should have checked every ones teeth for fillings and dental work.

[@akathebaronreacts]

🖤Sorry for the late reply. I don't have alerts for new comments set up right I think and see I have a bunch I haven't replied to. Would have replied sooner LOL. But yeah, fillings would have been a dead giveaway, good point. I don't see how it would have known about 'alterations' to the body just by using DNA alone.

[@palasta]

I think that UFO sighting referred to at 11:35 was in 1997. The Phoenix Lights.

[@akathebaronreacts]

🖤Yes! I didn't know that detail when I put that note in the video, but I just looked it up and it's true. That's crazy.

[@brandonflorida1092]

Although Ennio Morricone did compose the score, he wasn't allowed to see any of the film and, basically, gave them a kit.

[@akathebaronreacts]

🖤I thought he had to compose only some of the score without seeing the movie but it was the entire thing without seeing any part of the movie? That's crazy. Turned out great anyway.

[@KaliU-ix2kf]

Masterpiece

[@evanirvana500]

I love the fun facts you supplied. Usually I do that in comments! I think best actor award goes to jed, the husky/wolf that started the movie. He was so good at his job that apparently other actors avoided him because he was "eerie". How do you train a dog to have those weird expressions that most of the time even before he reveals who he is, even the most dog loving reactor is grtting uneasy. Esp that expression as he watched them bring in the remains of the thing from the norwegian camp. That was very un-dog. And I think basically all the ppl that were assimilated was basically by the same thing. There wasn't multiple things but one that could release an appendage or whatever to get someone else. It has 'Alien' vibes too. Here's a question I ask everyone but have yet to get a response. John carpenter had said he'd be up for making a sequel with the popularity of the movie now and renewed interest. My question is how would you do it 40 years later?

[@akathebaronreacts]

🖤Yes, the award for Best Good Boy goes to Jed! I loved White Fang as a kid, it was cool to find out this was the same dog. And thank you for the feedback on the random facts. I've only done if for two reactions so far, so I love hearing whether or not people like them to know if to keep doing them. So far seems like people like them. Good question as far as a sequel goes. Since they didn't establish on camera whether or not The Thing was killed, it would likely have had to survive and just be frozen in ice, maybe one of the two DID get assimilated and like they said its goal would be, to go into a hibernating freeze until "rescued." Maybe it's not found for 40 years. However they find it, likely they would think it's a "dead body" I would like them to keep it frozen until they get to their base, hopefully far away from Antarctica to change scenery since this movie, and the prequel were both in an arctic setting. But if they do make a part 2 I hope Carpenter stays true to using practical effects, at least for the most part. Using some modern-day technology can only help if they strictly use it as support. But I like my animatronics and puppets LOL.

[@evanirvana500]

@akathebaronreacts I loved White Fang too! Also if you ever saw "The Adventures of Natty Gann", whicb also featured our good boy, Jed. It was a 'decent' movie. Jed played a protector of a young girl running away. It has a lot of great close interactions with Jed, who truly was an amazing actor! I had a wolf once years ago, my Lobo was the best animal I ever had. He was a white wolf and had been raised by ppl from birth so he didn't know how to wolf so he couldn't be released. I miss him every day. And I agree with the sequel. I think it would be interesting to have global warming start to melt the ice The Thing might have been frozen in. Oh absolutely, must be practical effects! It's so fun watcbing younger reactors who were raised entirely on cgi with limited practical effects exposure . One even said before watching this movie he wasn't expecting much because it was "just" practical effects, so it wouldn't be as good. He changed his mind fast! It horrified many who were almost puking. It looks too real. Our brains can tell the difference between real and whats cgi, esp when you get close up. It looked real because it was real. Those puppets were in the same space as the actors and no matter how good the actor, theres a diff between seeing them interacting with a green screen to an actual thing. Anyway, great reaction! Pls do add fun facts, they were great. Plus you'll avoid ppl in comments supplying sane facts and repeating continually. Might I suggest some more obscure movies? 2006 "The Pulse", featuring Ian Somerhalder of Vampire Diaries fame and Kristen Bell. Also "Lights Out" which was a great but freaky movie, "The Ring" and "The Grudge".

[@por1821]

Good reaction😊... It would have been better if the spaceship at the start was deleted.

[@akathebaronreacts]

🖤Sorry for the late reply. I don't have alerts for new comments set up right I think and see I have a bunch I haven't replied to. Would have replied sooner LOL. But I don't agree. Seeing the spaceship for the first time when the crew in the movie did would have been better.

[@Arnoldman-ep9gw]

So the thing took over the space ship, not the original alien.

[@akathebaronreacts]

🖤Yeah. Whatever the thing is, it's able to mimic/absorb intelligence based on what the being it absorbs knows, and it's a hive mind so in a way I guess there's no limit to what it can learn, but whatever you'd consider it's race or species, it doesn't seem to have any ambition to create technology or society. Just spreading like a virus or bacteria seems to be it's base instinct. So it makes sense it may have caused the crash after being found by aliens vs being the species to which the spacecraft originally belonged.

[@Arnoldman-ep9gw]

Or did the thing crash

[@akathebaronreacts]

🖤Possibly. Instead of causing the crash indirectly by wreaking havoc on the ship like it did in the two bases on Earth, it may have seen they were approaching a planet and crashed the ship itself knowing it could live/spread there. I'm curious as to what Carpenter will do to explain the thing further if he does decide on a sequel. If he's not involved tho, I don't want one LOL.