Uncovering An Alien Spacecraft (Opening Scene) | The Thing (1982) | Fear

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  • After going through some old footage, MacReady (Kurt Russell) and his team uncover a crashed alien ship that's been buried in the ice for a 100,000 years.
    From The Thing (1982): A research team finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and is starting to hunt them down. Things take a sinister turn when they realise that the creature can take the shape of its victims.
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Komentáře • 484

  • @aplleyva
    @aplleyva Před 3 lety +293

    I just realized that McCready refers the the other scientific team as "Norwegians" and Not "Swedes" as He had been joking earlier in the film meaning He's taking this whole situation a lot more seriously.

    • @beachchaos1863
      @beachchaos1863 Před 2 lety +22

      nice catch!

    • @Mrz-sb1hw
      @Mrz-sb1hw Před 7 měsíci +1

      I'm going to catch " the thing" make a deal with it , to have comic books model statues and a record deal.

    • @MrBelles104
      @MrBelles104 Před měsícem

      Or it's cause he didn't know and was corrected the first time.

  • @thebattlecrow
    @thebattlecrow Před 2 lety +135

    I just noticed this little detail: Norris smiles when he's looking at the spaceship. This movie just gets creepier with every watch

    • @rfkwouldvebeenaok1008
      @rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 Před rokem +2

      You think it's because he's a thing or just general scientific interest?

    • @Bullet-Tooth-Tony-
      @Bullet-Tooth-Tony- Před rokem +10

      @@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 He was a thing

    • @hotaimbat
      @hotaimbat Před rokem +8

      @@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- we don't know for sure

    • @jamesfrench7299
      @jamesfrench7299 Před rokem +8

      The mystery shadow in the room where the dog thing entered was the closest likeness to Norris. He's the thing here.

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 Před rokem +7

      He was indeed the thing, and sense the thing assimilate the memories of its victims the Norris-Thing probably flashback when he was one of the alien pilots and thought to himself, yep, we never made it home. My theory I guess

  • @Y0uGuysAreTh3RealHer0es
    @Y0uGuysAreTh3RealHer0es Před 5 lety +936

    What I like most about this scene is that Norris is already infected. So in fact, it’s the alien who says that the ship has been buried for at least 100.000 years under the ice.

    • @heathenpride7931
      @heathenpride7931 Před 5 lety +74

      Pretty sure it’s Palmer not Norris.

    • @wcw2793
      @wcw2793 Před 4 lety +42

      I never thought of that until now 😳

    • @theredblurb132
      @theredblurb132 Před 4 lety +109

      Using the knowledge of Norris's mind and the other Norwegians to make a better guess. Doesn't even react when it comes across the spot it froze in for all those years.

    • @StekliCujo
      @StekliCujo Před 4 lety +88

      Infected isn`t the same as assimilated.

    • @rickyandreou
      @rickyandreou Před 4 lety +78

      It's not established that Norris is already infected during this scene. It very well could have happened later off screen.

  • @melissaking6019
    @melissaking6019 Před rokem +235

    It's brilliant that we never really see the alien's natural state. It's been planet hopping, absorbing and destroying everything it contacts for who knows how long. The horror, paranoia, dread and sense of the apocalyptic in this film are dazzling. Carpenter's masterpiece.

    • @pyropulseIXXI
      @pyropulseIXXI Před rokem

      This isn't the 'thing's spacecraft, you oaf. The Thing was onboard this craft and likely assimilated the aliens on board, which is what caused this spacecraft to crash on Earth in the first place. The opening scene is literally the saucer flying out of control, highly suggestive that the 'thing' was assimilating and causing havoc to the aliens that were piloting/onboard this spacecraft

    • @rossroys
      @rossroys Před rokem +8

      What if it not even it ship but did a "alien" type of deal and killed the ship original crew

    • @Darkstalker212
      @Darkstalker212 Před 11 měsíci +15

      ​@@rossroys The Thing killed the original crew.. that's how the ship crashed landed to earth 200,000 years ago 😅
      The Aliens eventually captured it and it'd broken free from it's imprisonment and attacked the crew 😂

    • @fernandomarrufocortes5137
      @fernandomarrufocortes5137 Před 9 měsíci +6

      Body Snatchers VS The Thing!!! Who... or What wins?????

    • @kadmii
      @kadmii Před 5 měsíci

      possibly not, Norris started having pain in his chest later in the film (which I assume is the Thing taking over from the inside slowly)

  • @mattgerrish908
    @mattgerrish908 Před 4 lety +525

    One question that still Burns in my mind is if that is the actual ship from the Thing's species, or is it the ship belonging to another species that it absorbed before it landed on Earth?

    • @Cyrax4d
      @Cyrax4d Před 4 lety +185

      Matt Gerrish another species. The intro you can tell the pilot got infected because it crash landed on Earth

    • @Turrican60
      @Turrican60 Před 4 lety +154

      @@Cyrax4d Yes, it may well be the case that the pilot was infected. Superficially at least, one can certainly draw that conclusion. Nevertheless, we can't be absolutely sure since it isn't made clear to the viewer, therefore it's ambiguous in nature. For all we know, the pilot may have had the equivalent of a heart attack or seizure, whilst The Thing was merely a biological specimen that had been collected and stored aboard the ship....then it got an unexpected opportunity to escape after the crash. Alternatively, The Thing may simply have been piloting its own craft...but a malfunction suddenly developed and it had to crash-land on Earth. There are many potential explanations that one could theorise, but the answer will always remain the same: *we don't know.*

    • @Cyrax4d
      @Cyrax4d Před 4 lety +31

      Turrican60 it only makes since that the thing killed the pilot cuz Blair wanted to make a ufo which copied the hosts mind.

    • @Kehwanna
      @Kehwanna Před 3 lety +28

      I like to think the Thing was a type of parasite that gains a bit of intelligence from its host and infected the intelligent alien crew when they explored some planet. Possibly the Thing commandeered the saucer and knew about life being on Earth, therefore crashing it on Earth in a failed attempt to land here.

    • @caneloex5897
      @caneloex5897 Před 3 lety +14

      Matt Gerrish I wonder that the alien species was in the ufo and I wished they showed what was insude

  • @wcw2793
    @wcw2793 Před 4 lety +305

    It’s sad that this film is probably the closest thing to At The Mountains of Madness that we’ll get.

    • @waltersobchak4565
      @waltersobchak4565 Před 3 lety +62

      I agree but you gotta admit this was a hell of a story. HP Lovecraft would've loved this movie and pigged out on Popcorn and Soda like the rest of us. Lol

    • @klttrll
      @klttrll Před 3 lety +38

      The closest THING

    • @wcw2793
      @wcw2793 Před 3 lety +16

      @@waltersobchak4565 That he would! The alien in this film is pretty much the Shoggoth from his story.

    • @wcw2793
      @wcw2793 Před 3 lety +6

      @@klttrll Lol I see what you did there.

    • @kerianhalcyon2769
      @kerianhalcyon2769 Před 3 lety +1

      Yet.

  • @bub777
    @bub777 Před 3 lety +148

    The thing that I found bone chilling is that the ship looks like a drawing here. Yet the characters are seen walking around and on it. I'm impressed by that kind of effect!

    • @AlexanderMacAoidh
      @AlexanderMacAoidh Před 2 lety +14

      Star Wars OG used to use this sorta trick too. They drew a matte painting, and used practical effects. To us the characters are looking at a ship miles away
      To the actors they’re really looking at green screen

    • @humanafterallTF2
      @humanafterallTF2 Před rokem +3

      I believe alien movies used this trick too. But funniest thing is that even halo2 on original xbox used painting backgrounds, common in early video games.

    • @CollectorChronicles
      @CollectorChronicles Před rokem

      I think they used this trick in old old movies too

    • @pyropulseIXXI
      @pyropulseIXXI Před rokem +5

      It is called a *Matte painting,* and lots of movies used to use these, such as the OG _Star Wars._

    • @pyropulseIXXI
      @pyropulseIXXI Před rokem +2

      @@AlexanderMacAoidh They aren't looking at a greenscreen. The set exists normally, and you have stuff near the camera of which the matte painting is literally painted on; it is all set up such that the perspective illusion makes it seem like the matte painting is the background, whilst it is really super close to the camera, and the people on set are further away, but look closer. You don't use greenscreen anywhere to do this effect.

  • @Eragarev
    @Eragarev Před 4 lety +128

    I think I read that they didn't film going into the ship because they didn't want to ripoff Alien too much.

    • @anthill-2sadler708
      @anthill-2sadler708 Před 3 lety +9

      Makes. Some kinda. Sense. . .

    • @jkorshak
      @jkorshak Před 3 lety +26

      Budget was also a consideration.

    • @endermanwithalowercasee
      @endermanwithalowercasee Před 2 lety +16

      The prequel shows that was a valid decision lol

    • @Jotkah26
      @Jotkah26 Před rokem

      Nearly the same story.

    • @vaultboy4710
      @vaultboy4710 Před 6 měsíci +2

      I think it makes sense that a group of 3 men wouldn't just waltz into an ancient alien spacecraft.
      I don't think anyone in their right mind would.

  • @chrisschumacher8553
    @chrisschumacher8553 Před 3 lety +100

    I can just imagine them getting back to the base. "What did the insides look like?" "We didn't go inside." "Couldn't you find a hatch?" "No, there was a hatch, and it was open, we just didn't go inside." "WTF?"

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 Před 3 lety +7

      They should’ve brought more men to explore the craft.

    • @re1010
      @re1010 Před rokem +17

      @@joethekinghawk7514 they couldnt because they only had a small aircraft. Plus, this was a last minute investigation.

    • @desertweasel6965
      @desertweasel6965 Před rokem

      They didn't go inside, because it had been blown up when the Swedes found it. They went inside and what they saw caused them to want to blow it up. Then, they found the thing buried outside the ship frozen and they took it back and after killing most of the swedes, the thing became a dog to escape and find more people.

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 Před rokem

      @@re1010 true

    • @vaultboy4710
      @vaultboy4710 Před 6 měsíci +6

      You're telling me you'd come across an ancient alien spacecraft and walk willy nilly into it? Something that has to be indestructible to our standards since it's capable of interstellar travel, and is far beyond our knowledge despite it being probably older than our species. I'd just assume whatever is in and on there isn't designed for me, and could lead me to getting killed or worse just approaching it.

  • @colinclayton8042
    @colinclayton8042 Před 3 lety +83

    This is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. It shows you how the crew realized the gravity of what they had done.

  • @SirKolass
    @SirKolass Před 6 lety +82

    Good effects for an old movie though

  • @satireisnotdead5804
    @satireisnotdead5804 Před 2 lety +16

    Norris-Thing's just there for the nostalgia

  • @NewNicator
    @NewNicator Před 3 lety +180

    Just realised until now that Copper has a piercing on his right nostril, and wears it all the way up to his death. If he was the thing, then it wouldn’t have been able to replicate the metal ring and would have discarded it. Little details like that is why I love the movie.

    • @warrioroflight6872
      @warrioroflight6872 Před 3 lety +35

      Well, the inorganic material thing was established in the prequel, so technically, it doesn't necessarily apply here. Although this movie does make clear that a Thing creature does need to find clothes because it can't make some out of its own body, an earring isn't that hard for an assimilated life-form to pick up after being infected and putting back in for the sake of the disguise.
      Fillings, on the other hand, are different because you can't just take them out or put them in at will like you can with the earring.

    • @richards9407
      @richards9407 Před 2 lety +1

      @@warrioroflight6872 I don't think the thing would have fitted the earing itself. It's very difficult even with a mirror and there would be no piercing tool. It's possible that another thing could have done it for him though. Then there's always the question about needle phobias. Things were quite prone to that I understand. They didn't like spiders either.

    • @johnspence8141
      @johnspence8141 Před rokem

      except the metal rejection thing was a new introduction by the prequel and was not in the writing anywhere for this movie.

    • @pancytryna9378
      @pancytryna9378 Před rokem

      @@richards9407
      It's very difficult unless you are an organism that can just move it's cells around, and then it's easy

    • @ajdoyle9559
      @ajdoyle9559 Před 10 měsíci

      @@richards9407 : Why don't things like spiders ?

  • @zejaguar
    @zejaguar Před rokem +31

    When I first saw this movie back in the 80s, I had no idea what was coming. I was shocked . It was a thrill too. The special effects were amazing. Good acting too.

  • @VCYT
    @VCYT Před 5 lety +106

    Albert Whitlock did the UFO painting. He was from England an also did star trek scenes in the 1960s + many movies, an won awards. see 2:20

    • @jasonhagar1758
      @jasonhagar1758 Před 4 lety +7

      Nice. It definitely looked like the same style as Star Trek TMP. I've always loved it, has a unique quality to it.

    • @VCYT
      @VCYT Před 4 lety +4

      @@jasonhagar1758 I think he also won an Oscar.

    • @jimaco0312
      @jimaco0312 Před 4 lety +7

      VC YT he certainly did an incredible job, its really hard to tell it’s a painting.

    • @RonnieMcNutt_Mindblowing
      @RonnieMcNutt_Mindblowing Před 3 lety +2

      @@VCYT your profile pic explains...

  • @RaoulDuke77
    @RaoulDuke77 Před 3 lety +53

    I can't stop staring at Kurt Russell's doofy hat

    • @nonameman7114
      @nonameman7114 Před 10 měsíci +4

      Lmao wonder if that was a stylistic choice by him or carpenter

    • @vaultboy4710
      @vaultboy4710 Před 6 měsíci +5

      ​@@nonameman7114On the commentary they did together for this movie, Kurt said it was a movie about that hat. 😂

  • @brucewayne7838
    @brucewayne7838 Před 7 měsíci +18

    all these years later and it is still a fantastic scifi/horror movie. one of carpenters finest !.

  • @russellthompson9271
    @russellthompson9271 Před 5 lety +103

    Fantastic scene. Visually stunning. Love the 80's!

    • @agent_taquero0079
      @agent_taquero0079 Před 4 lety +11

      Rocky, Alien, Predator, Rambo, Terminator, Star Wars, etc. Lots of actual good blockbusters

    • @aplleyva
      @aplleyva Před 3 lety +2

      Probably my favorite scene of the movie. Love this piece of the soundtrack from Ennio Morrrcone, RIP

    • @lieshtmeiser5542
      @lieshtmeiser5542 Před 3 lety +4

      If CGI was possible for this scene, it wouldve ruined it.

    • @anthill-2sadler708
      @anthill-2sadler708 Před 3 lety +1

      To. Da. Maxx

  • @TheBic4
    @TheBic4 Před rokem +11

    The fact they don’t do inside despite the hatch being open kills me. They didn’t even discuss going In.

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 Před rokem +1

      It make sense that they didn’t go inside at that particular moment, for Pete sakes this alien craft have been in the ice for thousands of years, God only knows what is awaiting them inside there.

  • @peccatumDei
    @peccatumDei Před 6 lety +301

    I am such a geek. I'd like a movie where they explore the ship, figure out it's tech, etc.

    • @PositiveOnly00
      @PositiveOnly00 Před 5 lety +23

      closest thing tho that would be the preqeul you get an inside look of it and a better and closer look at it.

    • @velveetaslingshot
      @velveetaslingshot Před 5 lety +18

      Hell yeah! I always wished that they made an extended cut with an extra hour of them getting it out of the ice.

    • @VCYT
      @VCYT Před 5 lety +26

      An after 2 weeks exploring it, they find Trumps tax returns in a box.

    • @joevines3428
      @joevines3428 Před 4 lety +12

      I'm such a geek I think about the Thing universe, and if it crashed into Antarctica, The safest thing to do is nuke Antarctica, even if The world floods it would be the only option, it would only take one cell getting exposed to the outside world, before everything is fucked, and also how many other worlds has the Thing assimilated, is it still present on multiple worlds?

    • @natesmodelsdoodles5403
      @natesmodelsdoodles5403 Před 4 lety +1

      that makes two of us.

  • @kextrz
    @kextrz Před rokem +6

    Ennio Morricone music here is enough to give nightmares to anybody for a few nights.
    This movie could have ended right there, and yet be nearly as effective.

  • @Z3AL316
    @Z3AL316 Před rokem +3

    3:14 look at Norris’s face, he was long gone by this point

    • @byrondean
      @byrondean Před 5 měsíci +2

      He's remembering the good ole days when he brutally assimilated the original alien pilots and made them crash land on Earth thousands of years ago. 😂😂😂

  • @JohnMartin-oh6bf
    @JohnMartin-oh6bf Před 3 lety +49

    Brilliant storyline....carpenter smashes the boundaries of time and space with an alien craft that’s ancient,yet way ahead of our time in tech terms.
    And an alien that’s hardly subject to time at all...still very much alive after all this time.
    100,000 years old at least!...so it could be well over a quarter of a million for its suggestiveness.

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 Před rokem

      So are you suggesting that the alien craft been in the ice much longer?

    • @JohnMartin-oh6bf
      @JohnMartin-oh6bf Před rokem +3

      @@joethekinghawk7514 norris said it ‘id say the ice it’s buried in is a 100,000 years old…..at least!’.

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 Před rokem

      @@JohnMartin-oh6bf yep, he was guessing.

    • @JohnMartin-oh6bf
      @JohnMartin-oh6bf Před rokem +3

      @@joethekinghawk7514 a conservative estimate

    • @vaultboy4710
      @vaultboy4710 Před 6 měsíci +1

      ​@@joethekinghawk7514He was the geologist on their team, he would've had the best guess out of anyone.

  • @paulcrosby7419
    @paulcrosby7419 Před 4 lety +27

    3:26 “MANNIX! GIVE ME MY PISTOL!!!”

    • @SuperMovieLvr933
      @SuperMovieLvr933 Před 4 lety +1

      I think it actually works better in The Hateful Eight. Although this movie is fantastic.

    • @Cyrax4d
      @Cyrax4d Před 4 lety

      Paul Crosby 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @AdiCool88
      @AdiCool88 Před 3 lety +1

      "GIIIIIVE IT'CHEEEAAAAHH!!"

  • @kaiwent3978
    @kaiwent3978 Před 4 lety +26

    0:36 Me and the boys practicing social distancing at the crash sight.

    • @meathead6155
      @meathead6155 Před 3 lety +1

      Naw, they are trying to measure the size how big of the ship silly.

  • @calebhorton4701
    @calebhorton4701 Před 5 lety +59

    I think it’s interesting to note that one of the men who goes with Mac (we don’t know for sure which) is a Thing by this point.

    • @EntertainmentFan11
      @EntertainmentFan11 Před 5 lety +6

      Caleb Horton Norris? Not at this point.

    • @calebhorton4701
      @calebhorton4701 Před 5 lety +12

      PowerRangersFan Norris or Palmer, but it is indeed one of them.

    • @wontletmeaimwillnotletmefu1684
      @wontletmeaimwillnotletmefu1684 Před 5 lety +4

      The 3rd man is Garry.

    • @calebhorton4701
      @calebhorton4701 Před 5 lety +16

      The third man is Palmer. It's kinda hard to tell, but is indeed him.

    • @RemarhBsoul
      @RemarhBsoul Před 5 lety +10

      I don't think it's Norris yet because he is helping too much in the clip, the Thing is usually passive unless necessary. And it could have taken them out here since it was controlling the helicopter

  • @bakdpotato143
    @bakdpotato143 Před 9 měsíci +3

    2:42
    What an amazing shot.

  • @jeffreywright2294
    @jeffreywright2294 Před rokem +4

    RIP Richard, Donald, A Wilford , and Charles Thanks fellas 🙏

  • @konstantinoskaragiannis1596
    @konstantinoskaragiannis1596 Před 5 měsíci +4

    "The Thing"(1982) is a horror sci-fi movie masterpiece!This is one of the 5 best horror sci-fi movies of all time for sure!

  • @evm6177
    @evm6177 Před 2 lety +6

    Oh I love watching this like a CZcams time travel episodical.. Just switched here from the 2011 Prequel discovery scene. 🍷

  • @Masloboytsev
    @Masloboytsev Před 4 lety +30

    Millennium Falcon, is that you?!

    • @igk5845
      @igk5845 Před 4 lety +2

      Василий Маслобойцев thought the same

    • @Masloboytsev
      @Masloboytsev Před 4 lety +4

      "Chewie, we're home!"

    • @satireisnotdead5804
      @satireisnotdead5804 Před 3 lety +1

      Don't tell it managed to get to the Star Wars galaxy as well (that would be a better movie than the sequel trilogy tbf)

  • @haleloi3018
    @haleloi3018 Před 6 lety +71

    Y did they not enter the ship? would have found many interesting things I bet. I'd risk it.

    • @Eragarev
      @Eragarev Před 5 lety +53

      I think I read that Carpenter didn't want this movie to seem too much like Alien, so they scrapped exploring the ship.

    • @lee.as.in.l.e.e.7394
      @lee.as.in.l.e.e.7394 Před 5 lety +43

      Joseph Wagner maybe it’s more intriguing to let the audience have their own interpretations of what could be inside the UFO

    • @obeqwaet1772
      @obeqwaet1772 Před 4 lety +35

      If we saw the interior of the spaceship we would have essentially had an idea as to how the creature "truly" is, rather than it being ambiguous. For all intents and purposes it is perfect in how we didn't see it.
      Because for all we know, the spaceship is _not_ the "original" parasites vehicle, only something that it assimilated and ended up crashing on world. The Thing is akin to not just a space parasite but a space cancer. Imagine something so alien that its alien to other aliens (who are beyond us intellectually on a massive scale).
      It would just undermine everything and make it a gimmick, something the sequel failed to realize and cheapened the whole aspect of what the Thing even was. It wasn't for us to know, nor for us to care, only to be feared.

    • @sr.alligator7569
      @sr.alligator7569 Před 4 lety +12

      They were going to explore more of the ship in the prequel, have the concept be like the Norwegian camp but in space. And the alien pilots would have collected different life forms, Xenomorphs, The Thing, etc.

    • @PandemoniumPirateRadio
      @PandemoniumPirateRadio Před 3 lety +3

      @@obeqwaet1772 Excellent comment.
      I like this interpretation that the craft is not even a ship made by the parasite.
      Though isn't there a scene where one of the men who have been infected is building a ship? 🤔
      That kind of ruins that idea.

  • @jamesfrank3213
    @jamesfrank3213 Před 4 lety +38

    In hindsight, upon discovering the UFO wreckage, if I was Mac I'd fly to next closest camp and be transmitting on the radio constantly trying to get a hold of someone. Given you'd already found the camp destroyed, dead crew, and the situation with the dog, it is vitally important to start talking anyway possible. This would be something I'd discussed with our own camp first. If we find something of significance, given our lack of radio comms, we will continue onward to nearest reachable site and report our findings to begin spreading word. I think the Norwegians mistake was they tried to keep their find too quiet. Not faulting the movie, just what I would do today.

    • @Turrican60
      @Turrican60 Před 4 lety +2

      @Zipgun TV ...yes, AND for fear of compromising our entertainment!

    • @thetooginator153
      @thetooginator153 Před 4 lety +20

      James Frank - I think Windows said that there wasn’t another camp for a thousand miles, which is beyond the range of a helicopter. Windows was also transmitting night and day trying to reach someone.
      This movie did a pretty good job of limiting the options of the station. It also limited the options of The Thing - at least for a while.

    • @jamesfrank3213
      @jamesfrank3213 Před 4 lety +3

      @@thetooginator153 the Norwegian camp sent their helicopter to a base for kerosene restocking, so they were within range.

    • @Demowan
      @Demowan Před 3 lety +21

      Imagine the consequences : every country would want to get a grasp of the find of the millenium. They would NOT listen to warnings, collect samples, making it easier for the Thing to infect the whole wide world. Actually, if it was only for the Thing itself, maybe Humanity would have a tiny chance of survival : quarantined in Antarctica, condemned to freeze in a state of eternal hibernation, the organism could (probably) never leave the continent. But if you take human greed into account, you know we're doomed. From the moment the Thing was taken out of the ice, it had already won.

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 Před 3 lety +5

      And you would run the risk of getting the Thing back to civilization which wouldn't be good at all.

  • @Treyway2455
    @Treyway2455 Před 7 měsíci +2

    This scene Also has my favorite score in the movie

  • @onlythewise1
    @onlythewise1 Před rokem +1

    super cool movie, first movie was the best but this second one so good with special effects and actors so good one of my favorites

  • @Treyway2455
    @Treyway2455 Před 7 měsíci +3

    I like the scale of how big this ship was

  • @Elitesolider1023
    @Elitesolider1023 Před 3 lety +24

    I still wonder to this day is the thing artificially made by another species just like how the enigners made the xenomorphs or is it actually a natural born species?

    • @Jack_Pepsi
      @Jack_Pepsi Před rokem +1

      One of my personal theories is that it's an alien pathogen that got out of control and adapted to consume any species by "becoming" it

  • @joevines3428
    @joevines3428 Před 4 lety +42

    What happens when a "Thing" has assimilated a eco system/world? Does everything look normal, like imitation animals living out the originals lives? Or is there a reason to hide?

    • @Turrican60
      @Turrican60 Před 4 lety +6

      @Finn MacCool And how do you *know* that "everything dies"? Do you have irrefutable proof, or did John Carpenter personally tell you? Don't present guesswork as some sort of 'fact' when it's nothing of the sort.

    • @emiliomaresca4781
      @emiliomaresca4781 Před 3 lety +2

      @@Turrican60 because there Is nothing that suggest a different kind of nature except for the predator. So there Is no evidence of homeostasis :)

    • @gavriloprincipgaming7857
      @gavriloprincipgaming7857 Před 3 lety +11

      My guess is that “The Thing” evolved similar to how viruses evolved here, Needing hosts. Probably some poor alien race went to a half thingified planet and that’s how it started an interstellar war campaign.

    • @emiliomaresca4781
      @emiliomaresca4781 Před 3 lety +7

      @@gavriloprincipgaming7857 that's a very good assumption. This would make the movie concept even creepier, considering that the thing from outer space would a be an irrational entity driven by animal instincts, even when It struggle with alien technology. It's just applying schemes 💀

    • @jahpunk7092
      @jahpunk7092 Před 3 lety +1

      perhaps they look the same but have New habits and gadgets previously unknown. Perhaps they have cell phones and are constantly checking the either of the internet like its an oracle

  • @dumpstercratsforextinction3493
    @dumpstercratsforextinction3493 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Best horror movie ever made and I saw it in the theater when I was 6 years old in 1982!!!!

  • @cas447
    @cas447 Před 3 lety +18

    0:08 I guess they were watching The Thing 2011 prequel. 😆

  • @ThehulkGreen
    @ThehulkGreen Před rokem +2

    Cinematic gold.

  • @ohiovr
    @ohiovr Před 3 lety +4

    All that permafrost melting. Hope whatever is down there isn't pissed off..

  • @nelsonvzaks9186
    @nelsonvzaks9186 Před měsícem

    Thank you to these guys for freezing their asses off in that weather to make this masterpiece.

  • @hagengilbert8102
    @hagengilbert8102 Před 3 lety +24

    Actual footage showing and explaining exactly what happened “we can’t learn anything from this!”
    Uh, what?
    Was he already assimilated at this point?

  • @jeffreywright2294
    @jeffreywright2294 Před rokem +1

    Awesome movie 🎥!

  • @TravellerTinker
    @TravellerTinker Před 3 lety +7

    I wonder what the planet where it came from looks like

  • @HariHaran-cb9om
    @HariHaran-cb9om Před 2 lety +2

    Blow your mind and music

  • @leonardoramirez4057
    @leonardoramirez4057 Před 3 lety +3

    one of my favorite movies

    • @ecstasy5317
      @ecstasy5317 Před 2 lety

      Now showing up in 4k Blu ray.....👍

  • @masterm537
    @masterm537 Před rokem +2

    3:00 fun fact. that part of the background theme was used in the hateful eight.

    • @giuffre714
      @giuffre714 Před rokem +1

      And both had Kurt Russell trapped in a snow storm with people he wasn't sure they were who the claimed to be😀

    • @masterm537
      @masterm537 Před rokem +1

      @@giuffre714 yeah🤣🤣

    • @AgentMaryland
      @AgentMaryland Před 6 měsíci

      And was plagiarized in Gundam 0083 to great effect.

  • @OCDtea
    @OCDtea Před 3 lety +5

    3:00 this music was reused in The Hateful Eight (which kinda was Tarantino's version of THE THING)

    • @atcred3
      @atcred3 Před 3 lety +2

      he did that as a shout out to Mcready fans..since Kurt Russell was in both films👍😉👍

    • @lukakrtinic1192
      @lukakrtinic1192 Před 3 lety +1

      yeah,Enio Morricone did the music for both movies

    • @giuffre714
      @giuffre714 Před rokem

      @@atcred3
      And both had him trapped in a snow storm with people he wasn't sure were who they claimed to be😀

    • @johnspence8141
      @johnspence8141 Před rokem

      he reused it because Morricone couldn't do the score in the timeline Tarantino wanted. It was not an homage to kurt russell, it was because Morricone couldn't get it done...and it is soooo out of place in that movie.

  • @luthermcgee3767
    @luthermcgee3767 Před rokem +2

    I like McCready's hat. Reminds me of Yosemite Sam 😆 😆.

  • @gabo19912
    @gabo19912 Před rokem +1

    This kind of movies are always a nightmare to me.

  • @jeffhampton2767
    @jeffhampton2767 Před rokem

    Great movie

  • @doomguydemonkiller
    @doomguydemonkiller Před rokem +1

    Kurt Russell’s hat steals the scene.

  • @norbertrivera
    @norbertrivera Před rokem +1

    Incredible that this great movie was a box office failure

  • @flaechenbrand
    @flaechenbrand Před 3 lety +3

    They are very happy that they found the ship. Who is the other person that flies wirth MacReady and Norris? Maybe these are the three guys from the cover of the Soundtrack LP.

  • @MagicNash89
    @MagicNash89 Před 2 měsíci

    Thats an awesome looking spacecraft

  • @talkaboutwacky
    @talkaboutwacky Před 9 měsíci +4

    I thought it was such an awesome idea that the aliens flying the ship were transporting the Thing possibly to some penal colony but it escaped and took over the ship and caused the crash. Even other alien civilizations knew the danger of the Thing

    • @susiduo3438
      @susiduo3438 Před 3 měsíci

      A penal colony for something like this ?.....YOU serve 100 000 years in prison !!!!..... Oh come on.

  • @eduardomeiger
    @eduardomeiger Před rokem +2

    Morricone's soundtrack?

  • @cadror26
    @cadror26 Před 4 lety +8

    When Norris was talking about a backscatter effect, was that just for how the word sounds, or did it actually mean something?

    • @zody14
      @zody14 Před 4 lety +3

      Backscatter in physics is the reflection of waves, particles, or signals back to the direction from which they came.

    • @zody14
      @zody14 Před 4 lety +1

      @@cadror26 Honestly, I wouldn't know. I just assumed you need an answer to what the Backscatter effect was.

    • @JacobGrim
      @JacobGrim Před rokem +1

      The older ice is probably rising to the surface while the top ice is being worn away by wind and weather, that's my guess

  • @robertparks7233
    @robertparks7233 Před 3 lety +2

    You gotta be fuckin kidding me!classic,top to bottom.the direction,acting,and those freaking effects.rob bottom I believe. Rp

  • @krugmeister7301
    @krugmeister7301 Před 6 měsíci

    I felt that PALMER was already in contact with the Dog...Then Norris..

  • @KurtisDexterWard
    @KurtisDexterWard Před 5 lety +91

    It's not a UFO but more a ULO no? I mean Unidentified Lying Object. Don't get mad I'm kidding! ^^
    Edit: Oh, I guessed! It's an Unidentified Frozen Object.

  • @dripalien4529
    @dripalien4529 Před 3 lety +3

    It's hard to believe that they are aliens, I didn't expect aliens to look this Hella ugly.

  • @HariHaran-cb9om
    @HariHaran-cb9om Před 3 lety

    Best of best music on this sceen

  • @heavleezilla9911
    @heavleezilla9911 Před 4 lety +8

    Whose is with McReady (Kurt Russle) and Norris (Charles Hallahan) when they go to the thing ship!!!!!!! Please EXPLORE!!!!!!!!!

  • @428dragpak
    @428dragpak Před 2 lety +2

    Whats going to come out is that this movie is actually based on a alien ship which WAS found in the ice

  • @JARVART94
    @JARVART94 Před 3 lety +1

    The music in this scene can also be heard in the final chapter of the hateful eight

    • @giuffre714
      @giuffre714 Před rokem

      And both have Kurt Russell trapped in a snow storm with people he's not sure are who they claim to be😀

  • @anthill-2sadler708
    @anthill-2sadler708 Před 3 lety +2

    The. Opening. Scene stands. Out. In. My. Mind . . the. Ship. Spirling. Down. In2. The. Atmosphere . .

  • @drnkinirish
    @drnkinirish Před 7 měsíci +1

    Why didn't the Norris-thing absorb Mac or Doc on this little outing? He was alone and in close proximity with them. Unless he hadn't been infected yet. And as a side question: what's the significance of the light change/freezing at 2:44 of this clip?

    • @sarajohnson6855
      @sarajohnson6855 Před 7 měsíci +1

      I can only assume he doesn't assimilate Mac and the Doc during their outing due to the fact he doesn't have access to spare clothes to have them change into. The Norris thing only went with them to keep up with normal Norris activities.

  • @jonwmeyer11
    @jonwmeyer11 Před měsícem

    Maybe someone can answer this for me. In this scene at 2:20 we see them looking over the space ship buried in the ice. In the 2011 version, it's in an ice cave. If the prequel is supposed to be the exact events right before, what happened to the ice cave? The ceiling?

  • @petebanham4916
    @petebanham4916 Před 7 měsíci

    The brilliance of this film, the way Carpenter produced it, is that it will keep throwing up questions that have different answers depending on what you believe…

  • @oomahuntressprotectress848
    @oomahuntressprotectress848 Před 4 měsíci

    that was a return from a getaway holiday

  • @HariHaran-cb9om
    @HariHaran-cb9om Před 3 lety +3

    Scenes of music

  • @eat_ze_bugs
    @eat_ze_bugs Před rokem +4

    Well according to Bob Lazar some spaceships were discovered from archeological digs.

  • @jimaco0312
    @jimaco0312 Před 3 lety +1

    The soundtrack in this scene was used again in the hateful eight

    • @giuffre714
      @giuffre714 Před rokem +1

      And both had Kurt Russell trapped in a snow storm with people he wasn't sure were who they claimed to be 😀

  • @charleswest6372
    @charleswest6372 Před rokem +1

    Wonder how many ships are buried around earth like this...underwater too.

  • @WarfareGamer
    @WarfareGamer Před 3 lety +2

    "Half a mile dewey"

  • @gabo19912
    @gabo19912 Před rokem +2

    If it really existed than I pitty humans.

  • @mr.nibblenips4231
    @mr.nibblenips4231 Před 3 lety +1

    Isn't there a scene where they try to get in the ship? Or did i dream that.

  • @thurmanbaseballfuriesleade4302

    100,000 years in the ice🥶

  • @mcd3379
    @mcd3379 Před 6 měsíci

    Would love to have seen inside......

  • @Malcio
    @Malcio Před rokem +1

    Better than Hollywood

  • @zzzombie888
    @zzzombie888 Před 7 měsíci

    Been trying to figure out who the other guy is aside from Norris And mac.. Either Garry or Palmer (but why other Pilot risk going too)

  • @haleloi3018
    @haleloi3018 Před 4 lety +20

    I often wonder, is this movie a leaked story as a few have been? I heard for years of some "Thing" found in cold places; Alaska, and esp much about Antarctica where Admiral Byrd had an area cordoned off for years when he found something buried...is this it?

    • @Turrican60
      @Turrican60 Před 4 lety +11

      No, this is not 'it'. The Thing is based on a famous science fiction novel written by John W. Campbell...it's not real, ffs.

  • @flaechenbrand
    @flaechenbrand Před 3 lety +7

    In the book „Who goes there?“ Blair is building an atomic-powered Anti-Gravity Device, nearly bringing it to perfection.
    Norris talks about the backscatter effect in the video: signals, waves and particles that travel back to its origin. They travel non-linear.
    An anti-gravity device would (in theory) be able to travel faster than light by contracting space in front and expanding space behind it.
    This means that such an object could appear „out of thin air“. For example in Antarctica, but people would think they discovered something that was buried there for thousands of years.

  • @Apache_warrior_74
    @Apache_warrior_74 Před 6 měsíci

    I wonder what the Thing's home planet was like

  • @TGPLUG
    @TGPLUG Před 2 lety

    That’s the dream really init

  • @NoName-dn8nv
    @NoName-dn8nv Před rokem +2

    wtf kinda hat is that? is it on backwards and sideways? how can he get through doorways? is it so tall it would interfere with the helicopter blades? did it strike fear into alien? was he formerly a gold miner and just never gave up the hat look after hitting mother lode?

  • @Jotkah26
    @Jotkah26 Před rokem

    Maybe the bad thing was that Alien was the movie before with the perfect organism.

  • @prehistorichero2755
    @prehistorichero2755 Před 2 lety +10

    If I would make a Thing prequel (two of them, one of them was an animated reboot of the 2011 version), I would set it as a deleted scene of the 2011 film and the protagonists were the alien crew sent on a zoological expedition where they find a mysterious pathogen and brought it onboard for further study, only the Thing escaped and killed the crew one by one, leaving the surviving alien pilot to crash a spaceship in Antarctica in order to kill it before he/she gets assimilated by the Thing and escape before remain dormant under the ice. It's actually a film adaptation of the game, Among Us hence the title, with all the elements, except the crew are extraterrestrial and the Thing was renamed the Imposter.

  • @dova3282
    @dova3282 Před 4 lety +2

    This is what armstrong saw when he came to antartica

  • @silvertusk6679
    @silvertusk6679 Před 4 lety +4

    Mac was going with two things

    • @joethekinghawk7514
      @joethekinghawk7514 Před 3 lety +2

      I think one (Norris).

    • @lukakrtinic1192
      @lukakrtinic1192 Před 3 lety +3

      I agree 100%,but I dont understand why the 2 of them didnt attack him,this was a perfect chance...

    • @giuffre714
      @giuffre714 Před rokem

      @@lukakrtinic1192
      Norris was infected but not assimilated at this point 😀

  • @Eba-chan_mechanism
    @Eba-chan_mechanism Před 2 lety +2

    3:10
    ??「シーマ…獅子身中の虫め!」

    • @AgentMaryland
      @AgentMaryland Před 6 měsíci

      “If you weren’t a part of that rotten Federation, you wouldn’t have suffered so much.”

  • @kungfufan540
    @kungfufan540 Před 3 lety +2

    no kate

  • @dougie1968
    @dougie1968 Před 6 měsíci

    I've always assumed the spacecraft malfunctioned and crash landed on Earth. The pilot who is the Thing survives the crash, gets out and freezes.

  • @modeljetjuggernaut4864
    @modeljetjuggernaut4864 Před 5 lety +5

    Wish it would've shown them going inside.... I mean who wouldn't?

    • @modeljetjuggernaut4864
      @modeljetjuggernaut4864 Před 5 lety +2

      @Stahlhelm Model. 1940 Fd. Gr. ah... good call

    • @obeqwaet1772
      @obeqwaet1772 Před 4 lety +5

      I think not going in (beyond it being a constraint of the producers) was a smart move. If we saw what the interior looked like it would have just cheapened the experience. The whole aspect of the thing being what it is, is that its a parasitic cancer. It's something so alien that it's alien to aliens. It's left up to ambiguity but you could surmise that this entity is able to replicate and assimilate and become someone else without them knowing.
      It literally has all of your memories, DNA, neural pathways, everything, for all intents and purposes it IS you if you become assimilated, like a program on an operating system. You are able to run and function normally until the OS/parasite decides "no" and does something else and takes over. Going into the ship would make no difference and just be a gimmick, because ....who is to say the spaceship is the parasites vehicle in the first place.
      It could easily just have been another assimilated species that the parasite took over.

    • @tmcm2278
      @tmcm2278 Před 4 lety

      @Obe Qwaet
      If it belongs to a crew that the Thing assimilated, then how does it cheapen the experience if they explore it?

    • @garybiggs9010
      @garybiggs9010 Před 4 lety +5

      They are dealing w/a crisis at their base and probably need to get back before the weather turns worse. They found out what they needed to know. A ship that large would take a crew of men and a day to explore.

    • @modeljetjuggernaut4864
      @modeljetjuggernaut4864 Před 4 lety

      @@obeqwaet1772 great explanation. Also, the saucer containing another 'assimilated species' by the parasite was all the more evident by the erratic way it was falling into Earth at the beginning 😁 such a great fliick

  • @samin.adeebsabet
    @samin.adeebsabet Před rokem +1

    looks like han solo ditched his ride.

  • @karanvirkooner1993
    @karanvirkooner1993 Před 5 lety +9

    Couldn't they just blow the ship by planting explosives around it IEDs as well to prevent the parasite from escaping and blow it to kingdom come then burn the thing and then obliterate it

    • @FireKobra
      @FireKobra Před 5 lety +3

      no

    • @alibouk227
      @alibouk227 Před 4 lety +5

      They didn't know the parasite was in there I believe, and who would blow up the discovery of the millennnia

    • @TravellerTinker
      @TravellerTinker Před 3 lety

      @@alibouk227 well i dont wanna get infected by an ancient hundreds of thousands of years old extraterrestial parasite in while freezing in Antarctica.

    • @alibouk227
      @alibouk227 Před 3 lety +3

      @@TravellerTinker True, but I'm not sure if they knew alot about the thing yet, or whether it's in the UFO.

    • @robertjoseph2535
      @robertjoseph2535 Před 3 lety

      @ Karanvir Kooner
      Then everyone in Kingdom Come would get assimilated. Ha!

  • @locomojoboy2
    @locomojoboy2 Před 10 měsíci

    I thought the ship was buried deeper than that…