The Thing (2011) - Caravan Of Garbage

[@Strivez]

Here’s the other Thing

[@ricky9451]

Nice

[@badatgamesguy5399]

That Thing? This Thing? Or that other Thing?

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

i love it, i bloody love it

[@MartinOlminkhof]

Same thing

[@BlueSpams]

And one more Thing

[@ToggleMatch]

The thing can't replicate inorganic material in this film but it wears the clothing of the people it kills, suggesting it carefully undresses all of its victims before violently murdering them and changing into their clothes.

[@charlesberg1234]

Or the clothes is 100% cotton

[@thedeadlynose5127]

It tears through there clothing as stated in the film

[@RedCatHabitat]

So if you see your buddy covered in blood and sprinting to his wardrobe, he's a thing.

[@rumo510]

So...romantic?

[@JollyJeff]

The Thing can't replicate inorganic stuff but it can make organic material that LOOKS like inorganic material. It learned from the "previous" movie.

[@Web4Brainz]

" I switch ears of the earring depending what bar I'm in." I will not let that joke go unacknowledged

[@Thena_the_Grey]

I heard that and was like, ah yes, a man of culture and a child of the 90s lol

[@RicardoMoralesMassin]

I also caught that Le jebettequois joke and I acknowledge it.

[@bezkit91]

Came here to see if anyone picked up on this😅

[@devinlucas1759]

There was no mention of Blue Harvest, The movie Joker, or Thoughts and/or Prizes.. I think we all know who was really the Thing 🤔

[@ellishannah1662]

I forgot about thoughts and prizes, did you ever win a thought and or a prize?

[@skeletor8212]

The original creature is even blue and they mention it

[@LuisSierra42]

@@ellishannah1662 I did win once, I won one Thought

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Best member of Fantastic Four?

[@FufuJetskii]

The friends we made along the way

[@wstine79]

The test footage with the practical effects was impressive.

[@ultraironicman1853]

If only we got that

[@RettMikhal]

Anything would look impressive compared to MS-Paint face move helicopter guy Thing and Scorpion King's kid brother Thing.

[@Robocop4Ever]

Replacing Kurt Russell with Mary whatever as the lead protagonist is what did it in for me. I tried to watch it several times, couldn't take it seriously. 🤢🤢🤮🤮

[@PatrickByrne-e5v]

Yeh, I remember seeing it years back and feeling very sorry for the artists. What a kick in the dk

[@PatrickByrne-e5v]

@@Robocop4Ever Not her fault really. Shes not bad at all. Just wrong character for her

[@Raktus]

The thing about innovating is... technically the Thing from the original movie would be the one that learned everything from all the interactions in this movie. So, really, the thing to have done if you wanted consistency between the two movies would be to have THIS version be slow and not understand the humans it's mimicking. Just make it make all sorts of mistakes and nearly get killed constantly. That way it became an underdog horror monster just barely winning the day as it slowly gets better and better at taking people out... eventually becoming as good as it is in the original movie.

[@StudioInkblot]

I'd be kinda down for a horror prequel like that

[@chucklebutt4470]

That would be so much better

[@novuspatriarch]

Great idea. Get to writing.

[@JCOdrjones]

Fuck... shame we didn't get that

[@zealot777]

That makes sense and a good plot point.

[@Gunbudder]

Britta's a B! She's a G D B! That guy has had that hair in literally EVERY ROLE i've seen him in across 15 years

[@UKProgRock]

Pierce, Pierce, Pierce... Pierce you're a B! I make you right, there. It's only the facial hair that seems to change slightly

[@AM-uo2kf]

I was watching the beginning of this review and i saw Vaughn and his tiny nipples.

[@ZachBobBob]

THAT'S WHERE I KNEW HIM FROM

[@AM-uo2kf]

@@ZachBobBob hey, hi, how are ya?

[@Alexus1138]

@@ZachBobBob ikr? lmao

[@micpere1991]

It's a shame they covered the practical effects with dodgy CGI. From what is shown in the BTS, the real stuff looked good. They could have used CGI when needed for stuff that was too complex.

[@terrycrichton]

My idea for a sequel to the Thing is the scientists from another nearby station finding the wreckage of the American and Norwegian stations, gradually piecing together what happened, going insane with paranoia and killing each other thinking they've been infiltrated by the Thing, only in the end to realize the Thing was never among them.

[@kush6846]

Sounds cool but imo if you don’t have the monster, you don’t really have a thing movie.

[@turtlesallthewaydown8831]

I guess the real Thing was inside us all along…

[@SpaceGoat115]

I actually love that idea. It would solidify the idea that The Thing is not something physical, but a manifestation of something.

[@ZetsuboNoShima]

@@SpaceGoat115the thing is definitely something physical. It’s just a spooky alien

[@SpaceGoat115]

@@ZetsuboNoShima Thats what I’m saying. This concept would change The Thing from something physical to something more abstract. The Thing is the fear and paranoia it causes

[@CaptainCat101]

Imagine spending all that time designing those practical effects, only for the executives to demand CGI over it

[@ManDuderGuy]

Feels bad man.

[@themeshow1011]

Not only that, imagine designing all those practical effects, thinking it's all gonna be in the movie, only for you to find out they replaced it all with cgi AT THE PREMIERE

[@Rick_Cleland]

I'll never forgive them for what they've done.

[@MAZE4]

They probably didn't even a Zx spectrum on that base!

[@Rick_Cleland]

@@MAZE4 Outrageous. 😒

[@WAMTAT]

Would love to see a practical effects release of this film

[@thedeadlynose5127]

Fucking same would undoubtedly make the film 100 times better

[@ZBEAST66]

Check out Harbinger Down(2015) the practical effects team went on to use the unused effects from this terrible film.

[@archmage_of_the_aether]

I'd like a practical effect version of this KZbin video

[@EverythingPSPOfficial]

@@archmage_of_the_aetherprint off the script and perform with with friends in front of a live audience

[@michaelsacco4212]

Check out The Thing (1982)

[@fritzophrenia3146]

"One more Thing" Columbo says, when people ask him if there's any sequels to the original Thing

[@johnmuselmann7886]

Hahaha

[@TheBrotherGrim]

😂 Perfect

[@PatrickByrne-e5v]

Just.. one more thing☝ 👉😉

[@MadMadNomad]

"Just One more Thing" , A movie where detective Columbo must unravel the aftermath of a Thing rampage, including determining which of the survivors is the the Thing. He does this by casually dropping an inaccurate statement about Alpha-Centauri cuisine into a conversation, prompting the Alien to correct him. ( I un-ironically want to see this.)

[@avicusdusang1477]

I won't stand for this opossum slander. That's North America's only marsupial. Incredibly resilient to rabies to the point of almost being immune. Terrific pest control for ticks.

[@tadpolegaming4510]

And they find garbage

[@GoatTheGoat]

I remember being super excited for this movie. We were finally going to see what happened at the Norwegian base. Then it came out and was just a remake with bad CGI. So disappointing. This movie stole my innocence.

[@RettMikhal]

Your innocence was blue and was harvested.

[@pessimisticleaf3972]

A sequel idea could be The Thing again, completely played straight, then halfway through our characters realized there's actually 2 or more The Thing amongst them. Call it The Thing$, if you will.

[@archmage_of_the_aether]

Actually is should be "Thes Thing"

[@GUNUFofficial]

Ah you mean the video game?

[@pessimisticleaf3972]

@@GUNUFofficial Oh shit it IS the video game! It was my first exposure to The Thing so I guess subconsciously I was remembering that.

[@twomillionbagels]

since its the third movie in the series, you could also try calling it... 3 The Thing. its unfortunate that that's the only way to creatively insert the "3" into the title though. if only there was another way.

[@coinopanimator]

There are two decent sequels to the thing. The game and the short story from the things POV.

[@jacobsutton9528]

15:04 underrated earring joke.

[@ejbalshan]

I feel that not casting Michael Chiklis was a missed opportunity.

[@balintgyuri6555]

"-How are we gonna make money with this? -We won't!", which is exactly what they did with this" has to be the blanket summary for the majority of box office bombs

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

The problem with the practical effects is that they were unfinished And the suits thought that it meant it would look like that in the final product So they hired another company to redo everything over the practical effects (not enhancing them like the og company would do) They did everything in 2 months and the original company doing the effects only discovered it on the day of the release And yeah the worse offender is the final thing with the pilot puppet because that one they needed to do everything to cover the pilot

[@ejbalshan]

The Thing is that this does nothing better than the Carpenter film and nothing significantly different.

[@bensneb360]

This does have one of the best prequel endings of all time, the way it seamlessly connects to the first one is very satisfying and a great ending

[@saintniccage2818]

I said for years this ending was made first and they worked backwards.

[@GarmrsBarking]

did someone mention rogue one

[@steeltekki]

Yes, a lot of care was put into syncing up the ending and the origin story of the burnt out building/bodies etc

[@ShatteredAutomaton]

I swear these videos will never be the same if they stop putting in the edit that's a pic of SpongeBob taking a deep breath synched with James gasping after a belly laugh.

[@cardthrow18]

These are dark times. First Green Trivia, then Rodney, and thoughts and prizes came next, struck down in its youth. Not even the wise can say who will stand and who will fall.

[@Whiteythereaper]

I still adore Ben and Laurence for always using the random Series 1-4 clips from Doctor Who. Always a joy

[@keirstraub8352]

Was very suprised to see a still image from Scottish sketch show burnistoun make the edit

[@HomeOnTheRanges]

Honestly think if they would’ve kept the original effects and changed the actors from English speaking to Norwegian it could’ve been pure gold

[@natemekis3959]

10:08 James says The Thing can replicate ORGANIC matta. It’s actually pronounced “matter”. We got em boys.

[@randomjunk1977]

The Thing in the original movie was slow in its absorbtion abilities and had to rely on remaining hidden and wait for its moment. The 2011 Thing keeps revealing itself and charging down hallways and launching tentacle spears at distance, often in front of witnesses. If it had the capabilites we see in the 2011 version in 1982 it could have picked everyone off much sooner.

[@stefanpp1155]

Steve Tyler from "Aerosmith" is a big fan of "the thing". He always sets an alarm, when it's on TV, because he doesn't want to miss it.

[@fredbyoutubing]

Those faces melting together gave me nightmares for weeks after watching this movie. Just the concept of losing your identity as this horrific thing happens is super terrifying.

[@Whispurer]

Didn't know this before looking at the Wikipedia article for this, but because in this film they pulled The Thing from the ice; the working title for this film was actually Blue Harvest.

[@Psilocybin77]

"I put out my hand, and a cheque appears"-- Mike Stoklosa on John Carpenter about his thoughts on reboots, sequels, requels, revisions, remakes of his films.

[@readstreams]

I listened to this whole thing on Apple Podcasts (because it went there first for me) and I love it because at the end when James mentions next week’s video for Caravan of Garbage, it doesn’t play the clip (because it’s audio of course) and then Mason asks, “What was it?” and James replies, “We’re doing the Rusty Crow History trilogy”. Sooooo I’m excited for that and now I know Mason has no idea what’s coming up and that’s why he probably always watches it right before the recording starts.

[@TaliesinBHeidkamp]

Trilogy? What is there besides Gladiator and Robin Hood?

[@readstreams]

@@TaliesinBHeidkamp I'm not completely sure, I haven't seen them and just went off what he said (I also realize I put "Rusty Crow" instead of "Russell Crowe" because the auto generated captions said that and I'm dumb lmao)

[@zippogirl]

@@TaliesinBHeidkamp Probably Master and Commander.

[@robertstoner4973]

Loved the game. I remember testing a guy, he wasn't the thing, and he got mad at me. Then we walked down a hall and he turned into the thing and killed me

[@TheNotoriousMrDee]

That's the thing about The Thing.

[@liamfitzdrums]

One big fault of the game is that every person that you interact with is programmed to potentially be the thing. If you know this while playing it, you basically end up trusting nobody

[@retsaMinnavoiG]

You cross contaminated him with the thing when you took his blood. You killed an innocent man and it killed you in return. You're a monster.

[@robertstoner4973]

@@retsaMinnavoiG 😂😂😂

[@RettMikhal]

I just remember the blood test model looked like a GALLON of blood each time you did it.

[@taylorthompson2067]

I fucking love this channel. Just love it. Cheers me up, I never get tired of rewatching everything. I just everything from the personalities to the hilarious editing it's just so goddamn good

[@Psilocybin77]

The podcast is even better, cause you can take it anywhere, and it's normally over 2 hours with the boys.

[@saintniccage2818]

@taylorthompson2067 can I interest the gentleman in some sort of big sandwich perhaps???

[@UMNightlife]

I read somewhere that the original sequel idea was to have MacReady and Childs be rescued, same actors, but with bandages on their body from frostbite to make up for the amount of years since the original, something along those lines.

[@GilgaFrank]

You know what I'd like to hear one more time? The guy who shouts RODNEY..

[@thegrandbeef]

FYI, American Possums are pretty chill. It's the raccoons that are the wicked trash goblins.

[@leafcatcher1715]

He switches which side the ear-ring is on, depending on which bar he’s in. Why was that not responded to?

[@Whoopsie00]

Classic maso-underrated-joke that goes over Mr. Scumbag movies' head.

[@2723cadd]

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

[@rorylynch7775]

Prepare to be on your knees for a very long time

[@patrickkueny2395]

Y

[@saintniccage2818]

It's not him lads, it's a imitation

[@millsfinancialgroup]

Please stop with this. Its annoying at this point

[@archmage_of_the_aether]

Stand up, lad

[@ZyxthePest]

The Spongebob breathing in image might be the best edit on this channel.

[@Randomaccount9470]

You know it's about to get real when that comes up 😂

[@jmace2424]

How do you show the works of Eric Christian Olsen and not show him as Vaughn on Community?? 🤣

[@addisonwong2472]

I knew I recognized him! Had no idea about him in NCIS lol

[@calvinmobley9628]

Lates...

[@JJJackson777]

streets behind from James & Maso

[@bftvclips8925]

Pretty sure he was in Beerfest too

[@taurinstraiter2325]

Also, he stars in the sex comedy "Fired Up (2009)". That movie has Alan Richtson as a background character in it.

[@ZombiedWolf]

Still waiting for Hollywood and EA to let John make a Dead Space movie. He has stated he wants to make it, so let the man make it.

[@Videosaurus_Wrex]

One of my favourite things about this channel is the constant respect and love shown for Sunshine, my all-time favourite film and I don't always pick up all the references to it that you guys do

[@Ovetupp]

I left a like for 2011. Pretty solid year, all Things considered.

[@GSTFCE]

I was 12 and watched original Thing for the first time, didn't know about 2011 thing

[@foxskirata]

"Here's a hint for next week!" *Shows THE most iconic scene of that movie* Bit more than a hint, lol

[@ItsAVolcano]

The story I'd hear from the films FX artists is that the studio demands the pre-screening cut of the film before despite the finishing cgi not being done. Said chi was specifically to smooth the odd connection points on the prosthetics, one of the biggest issues audiences had with the original version.

[@Calhasnopals]

All these Things James and Maso have “Here’s the Thing”’d over the years sure are stacking up

[@TarmacChris]

Interesting news: They're remaking The Thing again, but this time using the newly-found expanded material (only found very recently) from the original short story. It's being done by Blumhouse so I'm actually fairly hyped for it if they can get it right.

[@matthewwynne939]

I thought the CGI was fine in limited uses, but that final chase scene was where it really looked terrible.

[@andrew4233th]

For those who miss it. Rodney? Rodney? Rodney!? Rodneeey!?!? RODNEY! ROBLBLLLLLLsggg

[@mattkirkwood8874]

Thank you, I needed that

[@dontyouworryaboutit_]

spot on with the exploding sound effect

[@maxatrillionfatstacks]

This is one of those movies idk why you would even attempt to remake. The original is so iconic, the characters are memorable, some of the best ever practical effects, and you can't really do much different with the story even as a prequel aside from them maybe trying to blow up the UFO. I feel like this movie was destined not to do well, even if the original practical effects had stayed in with some cgi updates I'm 100% sure the general consensus would be "eh it was okay but the original has Kurt Russell"

[@DaniG._.German]

15:24 *One More Thing! Trivia.* I've been rewatcing Jackie Chan Adventures.

[@anubusx]

Don't mess with uncle.

[@SorceressHeart]

Magic must defeat magic!

[@Finchspielberg]

Aiyaaaaaa!!!

[@JamesTomlinson-e3z]

13:30 Clinton Baptiste from Phoenix nights is a reference I never thought I’d see on a caravan of garbage but I’m so happy it’s there

[@AnhBui-pd3ys]

it's hilarious how they trailed off from this episode of "Eric Christian Olsen career recap" to talk about The Thing prequel. Such a Mr Sunday thing to do!

[@marielalara1202]

I really can't believe James and Maso went all the way to Norway to film this. True dedication to the craft 👏 👏

[@JamesThomasJeans]

Why do people keep saying MacReady is just a murderer after killing Clark? Clark literally comes at him from behind with a knife. Mac was defending himself.

[@naderzein2435]

I agreewitj you, but seems like most people want to agree with Childs' assessment of the situation 😅

[@archmage_of_the_aether]

Defending himself... with MURDER

[@fritzthecat8158]

They're not americans. They dont understand the concept of self defense lmao

[@BitestheStuff]

Maybe manslaughter? Either way, MacReady was holding them all hostage.

[@motherplayer]

Course, Childs is one to talk about that kind of thing. What was it he said when considering the possibility he condemned a normal human to die in the cold? "Well then we're WRONG."

[@edwardosquidawardo]

Here’s the Ebon Moss-Barchrach

[@titusmccarthy]

*Nods. Michael Chiklis

[@anthonyanibarro]

I would love a CoG on Annihilation. Might be too recent of a movie, but after seeing these I was reminded of the similar sci-fi horror-of-the-unknown elements that it has

[@granteklund9943]

Absolutely agree. I adore that movie and I wanted to see a continuation of the store on the big screen.

[@hollandscottthomas]

I would say an Alex Garland retrospective might be good ahead of a big release from him, but he recently said he's retired from directing so that won't happen.

[@Adarkane325xi]

The Thing Prequel Production Staff: ‘all practical effects!’ Also The Thing Prequel Production Staff later: ‘all CGI effects!’

[@AdamHarumDB]

As somebody who has a stake in it and helped support Harbinger Down getting made… it’s… not good. And made me realize all the criticism around the original practical effects looking awful in this The Thing, were likely valid.

[@D_Fyre]

It seems, more than practical effects or cgi, a good cinematographer is what's needed for creature effects to be believable.

[@explorinjenkins349]

They overdid the reverse tentacles crap.

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

Australian opossums are adorable! What a sweetheart.

[@RonnieBarzel]

I think the American and Australian varieties are actually pretty far apart on the lineage tree. Like, not just different species but different orders.

[@Steve_Marsden]

This is probably my favorite comments section and community on KZbin. You can tell that the people who watch these are genuinely funny themselves. Also, great job on the edit.

[@synchc]

I used to be very funny but I'm not anymore so you'll just have to take my word for it.

[@BrendanHenry]

I think it reaches for the wrong ear because it would only have memories of him looking in the mirror, so it would expect it to be on the wrong side.

[@BrendanHenry]

However... I should say that when writing and directing, I 100% retcon my own work in this exact way in order to explain a mistake made on set, or something that gets fixed in post. 😅

[@charly03090309]

That was always my take on it. The only problem is the speed at which he got assimilated and his clothes being intact. To match the tone of the original, they shouldnt have dubbed thing scream on, and left his status ambiguous (or even kept the earing in the correct ear, and had her torch him out of sheer paranoia). Not a terrible film but could have been so much better with a few tweaks

[@AsparagusVideo]

I know someone that worked on this movie in the effects department, and he said the reason they went so heavy w/ the CG was because the footage they got of the practicals didn't looks good. The practicals themselves were good... it was that they were shot badly and everything looked too proppy. I guess it goes to show it ultimately boils down to how you shoot something rather than how it looks to the naked eye.

[@SirAsdf]

I don't think I've ever seen a movie that had so much bullshit studio interference that the production crew made a whole other movie to prove they weren't responsible for how bad it turned out.

[@Dorian_sapiens]

This should maybe be more common.

[@theamazingbatboy]

I contributed to the Harbinger Down kickstarter. Of the two film projects I helped fund, this was the one I was proud of. The practical FX guys who made it are true pros, passionate about getting to make something that properly highlighted their talents & vision and to work with icons like Lance Henriksen (who is clearly having a ball). It's not god's gift to horror but it _is_ a lot of fun and a "terrific for what it is" kind of movie-in the vein of Halloween, Dog Soldiers, or Saw

[@Dannytello9000]

3:01 sorry to “uhm actually”, but as a Dane, I have to point out that at 3:00 you say: ”they got a bunch of actual Norwegians”, but Ulrich Thomsen is a Danish actor 🤓

[@kestrel5922]

A thing that broke my immersion (somehow I just couldn't ignore it) was that in the scene here the main character is recruited, she's using a video endoscope which weren't invented yet when it's set! I literally spend most of the movie going 'Why is this set later, I though this was a prequel?"

[@Ocapela215]

Most people don't know that. I don't think they knew they were off by 2 years

[@guitarzero1836]

as much as this movie annoys me as a john carpenter fan it holds a special place in my heart. Me and my brother in law watched it together and spent the entire movie riffing on it and predicting the entire plot. Good times.

[@fritzthecat8158]

As a john carpenter fan i threw this trash movie in the garbage. He had nothing to do with this dumpster fire

[@ulisesrodriguez4401]

2:55 Still love the SpongeBob breathing for the long exhale every video 🤣

[@Jurassic_Malcolm]

The Thing is I love Mr. Sunday movies

[@spencehead87]

Please do a Caravan of Garbage on Sunshine. That is one of my favorite movies and it makes me so happy to hear that James loves it too!

[@naderzein2435]

Another example of studios completely misunderstanding what made something good the first place. Oh lets cover up all these amazing practical effects, and also can we re-edit to try and get a PG13? 🤦‍♂️

[@chanelhenderson8460]

I love when the Norweigens are singing. I always sing along though I have no idea what theyre saying 🤣🤣

[@N313GrayFox]

7:00 My eyes are rolling so far back hearing this. Are you fucking kidding me?!

[@demon-goat]

makes me think they probably somehow screened it for new viewers and not returning fans of the original

[@jman201017]

"You know I change the earring depending which bar I'm in" lmao, that was such a solid line and it wasn't acknowledged at all.

[@PlatinumPaladin]

"He's in Scrubs." Love the present tense for something that was over twenty years ago..... Jesus, I'm old.

[@Milaaq302]

"I don't think Joel Edgerton knows what an iPod looks like Now." Yep, you earned a like. Also, I presume it gets mentioned at the end of the recap, but I thought the movie was bad for the most part and then they hit me with a raging continuity boner right at the end with the music just finishing me off and I left satisfied.

[@JollyJeff]

You can explain Childs (in the 1982 movie) having the earring because The Thing learned from the "previous" movie (ya know, the 2011 movie), so when it did get Childs (well if it got Childs because, we don't really know, ya know), it would also get his earring and put it on, or it could make something that LOOKED like an earring appear in his ear. Heck, The Thing in the 1982 movie was probably bummed that the new batch of humans didn't figure out that it can't replicate the inorganic stuff plot point. The 1982 Thing probably thought, "damn, I was hoping these humans would be smarter than the "previous" ones!" Then it realized that, at a meta-level, the sequel to the "first" movie wasn't really made after the first one. That's why it was confused for the first part of the 1982 movie, it assumed that the director of the 1982 movie would know everything from the "first" movie. When it realized what was happening it freaked out and that's when it opened up its stomach to bite that guy's hands off. I think that's why there will never be a third movie because The Thing in that one would be so pissed off that it would break the third wall, pop out of the movie screen and eat the audience in the movie theater and come into the "real world". Oooooh, I just figured out the plot of the next movie, I'm gonna be a millionaire!!! Hey, don't tell anybody, OK?

[@willumbermarchant5510]

If you get this new Meata/Mecha-Meta-Thing to be voiced by Ryan Reynolds, I'm all in!

[@JollyJeff]

@@willumbermarchant5510 That would actually be a terrifying event! Thanks!

[@adamthompson4072]

Just had a thought: James and Mason talking about a possum is probably most definitely NOT the kind of opossum Lawrence used

[@TheTeleporter101]

Love or hate this movie, you cannot deny that marketing it as a reboot and then dropping the sickest plot twist since Saw that the whole movie was a prequel to the John Carpenter movie was incredible!

[@sethrobinson28]

“GET AWAY FROM IT! THATS NOT A MOVIE! ITS SOME KIND OF THING PRETENDING TO BE ONE!!”

[@FloppyFred]

One of the few "modern" Horror Movies i actually quite enjoy, despite the low CGI Effects.

[@LordSleven]

Glad I'm not the only one

[@thedeadlynose5127]

If they were to realise the film again worth all the practical effects again it would probably be alot better too

[@demon-goat]

what do you like about it that isn’t just done already in the original? (no sass, genuine question)

[@fritzthecat8158]

This movie is trash. Many better modern horror films

[@FloppyFred]

@@demon-goat Atmosphere, Actors, the Sets and the whole build up of what is coming, that´s what i like. I don´t care if it was maybe already told in the original. There are way worse "Prequels" or "Origin" Stories out there. This here at least didn´t completely destroyed the Legacy like they usually do.

[@geordanegames]

"depending what bar i'm in." peak glanced over moment.

[@traviswartooth]

Jumpscare warning at 8:40 jeeez

[@Shoeboxjeddy]

Very Caravan to bring up the game but completely miss the fact that they're about to re-release a modern port of it, imminently.

[@TheNetherlandDwarf]

Love this film but I have to say: "oh we based our female lead in a sci fi horror film off Ripley". I mean... Yeah. Cmon man that's like, the baseline. "oh we based her off the most iconic and well known (let's be honest probably only known for some people) example". I think it's a great choice, but it's just really funny to me to hear that said out loud by a design team. I'm trying to think of an example in another genre that would compare to it lmao. (I mean it's also rough bc how many famous female action-horror movie leads do you have right? I'd love to see more)

[@William-the-Guy]

Female led action movies? Sarah Connor from the Terminators, Beatrix Kiddo from the Kill Bills, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Xena Warrior princess from TV, the many reboots of Charlies Angels... There were actually a lot of good female action stars from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. Then, somehow studios started making very bad female-led movies on like 2016 and convinced people they weren't allowed to criticize them because they were breaking some kind of gender barrier, despite to 40+ years of far better movies already having female led action stories.

[@TheNetherlandDwarf]

@@William-the-Guy none of those are horror movies though... Terminator at a pinch but then you get bogged down in like, is sarah the protagonist in those movies? I also love her character, but re-watching those first two films, it really feels like the structure follows a male lead with her in a supporting protagonist role, like in terms of actual agency she doesn't do much which they do fix in later films! It's like I see people say she's the conceptual protagonist as the story is about her surviving, but then if her role can be replaced by any macguffin... is she practically? Completely agree about the action movies though. Grew up wanting to be like buffy or xena as a kid, or one of the many leads from cartoons I watched.

[@William-the-Guy]

@@TheNetherlandDwarf female led horror movies? The Underworld franchise. The Halloween franchise. The Scream franchise. I'm sorry dude but you've fallen for the same mass-hypnosis that ad executives cast on the rest of your generation. You pretend that all the great female role models from the last 40 years don't exist and that the crappy female role models of the last 10 years we were breaking some kind of gender barrier. That's just not true! Female led action and horror movies have been around since before your parents were born (if you're Gen Z). Female leads are not a new thing, at all. The new ones are just badly written.

[@William-the-Guy]

@@TheNetherlandDwarf Female-led horror movies? The Silence of the Lambs franchise. The Underworld franchise. The Halloween franchise. The Scream Franchise.The Hellraiser franchise... I'm sorry, but you've been taken in by a bad advertising campaign. The "gender barriers" were all broken 40 years ago, and by much BETTER movies than we have now. Gen Z has this horrifying habit of pretending all the good movies starring women do not exist, so they can pretend new bad movies starring women broke some kind of barrier. But it's just not true! Also, you edited your first comment to remove the word "action-horror" so that it made my response focusing on action movies look like it didn't fit. That's bad faith.

[@TheNetherlandDwarf]

@@William-the-Guy what? It's still there... It never went away... buddy I don't disagree I'm not trying to screw you around. And anyway my point still stands making a horror story and saying you're basing your lead off Ripley is like saying your fantasy world is based off lotr, it's like the most generic expected baseline. Basing it off the silence of the lambs would be sick.

[@inappropriatecomedy123]

One THE THING i like about this podcast is when they review THE THING.

[@BlazePiffington]

The thang*

[@afernandezaf55af]

Hey! I just scrolled through my KZbin feed just as you were talking about the game and I saw that there's a trailer for a remastered version of the game!

[@munohlow]

There’s no D in Henrickson… yet😏

[@Psilocybin77]

eeeeew he's like 96

[@munohlow]

@@Psilocybin77 smash

[@Trashbat420]

best editing on youtube.

[@imposible2beat]

Here again…this one is not Pure Cinema.

[@archmage_of_the_aether]

And also it is posible 2 beat u

[@burgerpocalypse]

the thing with the The Thing video game is that the squad mechanics don't matter insofar as you only need a specific person to live to unlock a door or reach an objective. everyone else is expendable, which COULD be cool, but the way it plays out is that you activate hidden triggers that randomly decide one of your squad is The Thing and transforms. While people can naturally turn after being hit by other things, there are long stretches where you have no squad mates because the game decided to turn them all into enemies, and also because it takes them away during level transitions and bosses. All in all, I can't wait to see what the remaster attempts.

[@nyyfandan]

Here's a question for the arctic researchers among you: how common are flamethrowers? I'm pretty sure they've been banned by the UN as a war crime so it's odd that 2 arctic research bases in this universe have flamethrowers

[@kennethpeterson7524]

They are a tool to rapidly melt ice and snow that builds up in problematic places like the skids of a helicopter or external air vents, etc.

[@noodle_fc]

@@kennethpeterson7524 Exactly. If there's one place you'd want to be able to throw flame for peaceful purposes, Antarctica is that place.

[@UMNightlife]

Okay but what about guns?

[@noodle_fc]

@@UMNightlife Rabid penguins?

[@nyyfandan]

Surely there's far safer and more efficient ways to melt ice. A lot of helicopters use jet fuel, or something similar to jet fuel. You wouldn't want to shoot a flamethrower anywhere near a helicopter. And both of these movies take place in the 80s. It's not like it's 1928 or something where people didn't know better. Why would they go through the trouble of training civilian researchers to use flamethrowers when there's probably chemical solutions that can't potentially blow everyone up.

[@connla]

the thing (2011) is the textbook argument why prequels generally don't work. The entire film's existence turns into a checklist of things to do for the original film. It's entire last third is literally placing all the corpses around the base so it lines up with that one scene in the original where they are walking through the camp. Its infuriatingly dull.

[@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 fourth time asking.

[@trav9210]

Lmao that AvPR black screen joke was top tier chef's kiss

[@DoshishaJoe]

Really excited for Maso’s debut single “I Left my Heart In Romsey (I reckon)”

[@BobbyRoberts-v9x]

I would love to see a cut of this with the practical effects.

[@alistairlindsay2685]

The original concept of the Thing involved it being just a sludge that would suffocate it's victims, turning their skin blue in the process. It would then harvest the bodies, resulting in the films original working title: Blue Harvest