The Thing From Another World (1951) (Colorized) Reaction (Request)
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- čas přidán 20. 01. 2024
- Hey All! Going into a movie from 1951, I will be honest, I was a little skeptical if I would be able to enjoy it. However, this surpassed what I was expecting. This was pretty awesome, and it's great to see what inspired Carpenter for the remake in 1982!
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Hey guys, I would like your input on this one. This video by far has the worst like/dislike ratio out of anything I've ever posted. It's sitting at only a 70%. What do you guys not like about it? Do people take issue that I colorized something that is black and white? And if so, is it because the colorization isn't the best? Does my commentary suck? Did I say anything offensive? Let me know! No hard feelings will be had, just would like to understand what the issue is.
The colorizing was a big negative for me. This is one of my favorite movies, and it has been since I was a kid. But I HATE the colorization of black & white movies. There was an actual colorized version that would air on TV at times and I couldn't stand it. It's been done with a lot of old movies, and I'm a firm opponent of it in nearly all cases. They even did it to Casablanca, which is just blasphemous.
I'm glad you enjoyed the movie, but you need the black-and-white version to get the full effect. The movie just seems so...warm in color. You don't get the truly chilling (in every sense of the word) feeling when it's in black and white.
Thanks for the comments guys, I get what yall are saying. Well, at least when I watched it, it was the original black & white. The colorization came about in the editing process
This was always one of my favorite science fiction movies when I was a kid. And I never realized until today, that only two people were killed in it, and that you never actually saw them being killed.
The creature was played by James Arness who started out in sci-fi films but then landed the role of Marshal Matt Dillon on the long running western tv series called Gunsmoke in the late '50's. It became one of the longest running live action tv westerns.😊
he was also in the movie called THEM! about those giant ants in new mexico
James Arness stated in an interview that he got the role, partly because of his height (6'6"). They wanted a really tall, menacing figure for the role, and he fit the bill. He acknowledged that it was tough to get parts in the business because of that height. Most major stars (particulary in westerns and sci-fi) played the "good guys", and it was considered improper to have the "bad guy" taller and more good looking than the "good guy". That limited his roles until Gunsmoke came along. Of course, it didn't hurt that he got a recommendation for the part from the guy they originally picked to play Marshall Matt Dillon; John Wayne.
Thanks so much for watching this, Mike. I've requested it from at least half the reactors who've done "The Thing" and you're the only one who listened.
I read the story this is based on a million years ago and I think the 1982 version is more faithful to that. In 1951, they didn't have the technology to make it a shape shifter, as I believe it was in the story.
I thought it was interesting that when the scientist ran up and tried to talk to it, it did listen for a minute (although not speaking English) before cuffing him out of the way. Both versions have one thing in common - an alien who is intelligent, but with whom we can never really communicate because it's going on its instincts and just doesn't care what we have to say.
One experiment I've always thought would be interesting is to take the thing from the 1982 version and trap it in a chamber in a lab and then refuse to supply it with anything it wants until it speaks to us as it's real self.
Since you actually ask for other movies:
"Contact,"
"Deja Vu,"
"Forbidden Planet,"
"Frequency,"
"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,"
"The Green Mile,"
"North by Northwest,"
"Psycho,"
"Rear Window,"
"The Time Machine (1960 version),"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
Amazing that you’re reacting to this classic! And let black and white be its awesome self. Thanks!! One of the great things in this movie is the casual, off-the-cuff sounding dialogue - a technique used in movies like Alien.
If you're into these kinds of movies here's another. It came from Beyond Space. (1958) Give it a look great old movie. I was born in 1954 and both these movies scared the shit out of me as a young boy. And remember we only had 3 TV stations back then. Had to watch on the late-night movies. And at the end we got the sign off of the station and then a test pattern.
The original story was very much like the 1988 version but the special effects required were far beyond was was possible at that time also, people would have freaked out too much over the concept of an alien organism ‘assimilating’ and imitating a human and the transforming from one form to another would have been a little too much and the movie censors of the time would have quashed it.
Great reaction. Other commenters have already mentioned that John Carpenter’s version was more true to the original story and that James Arness - Marshall Dillon of TV fame - played the monster. About the dialogue, there’s a story to that. The movie was directed by Christian Nyby, who was a close friend to legendary director Howard Hawks, who also produced the film. Hawks was known for his rapid fire and overlapping dialogue, often featured in screwball comedies and hard-boiled detective films. Nyby adopted that style to the point where many experts believed that Hawks himself directed the film. I like the dialogue, but I can see your objections.
I always thought the rapid dialogue with several actors speaking at once, sometimes with conversations going on in the background of the main conversation in the foreground, gave the film the feel that the viewer was actually eavesdropping on a real scene. That, at least, was the impression conveyed decades ago, when so many other movies had dialogues written to be performed much like a stage play. Plus, the rapid fire dialogue in "The Thing" also made the movie feel more exciting; without today's special effects, science fiction back then had to rely on descriptions and surprise to create the feeling of excitement, fear, and horror--much like a book does.
Remember, 1951 was only about twenty years after the silent film era ended--a span of time only as distant from 1951 as the year 2000 is from us now, so this type of dialogue was innovative.
This was the first movie to completely light a scene by setting a man on fire!😮😊
Good, thoughtful reaction to a real classic. Thank you.
Thanks for watching and for your kind words
I am not sure if I mentioned this in the video, but it is colorized with the use of editing technology, so when I watched this, it was in the original black and white.
James Arness Tv's western hero sheriff Marshal Dillion/ Gun Smoke tv series. It ran for like twenty years on CBS TV. He was like 6-7' tall he also is in the SF classic THEM! from 1954. He plays a FBI agent.
The 80's Thing isn't really a remake of this film. Just the title was taken from this "The Thing From Another World"
The Mist has a great black and white version. Actually makes it scarier. I am so happy you are reacting to older movies
I LOVE THIS FILM.
I didn't see this movie when it came out in 1951 because I was 4 years old but I first saw it when I was 12 or 13 around 1960. My friends and I loved this movie. It was, by far, the best sci-fi movie of the time. Any time it was on TV, we were watching. I always thought the reason it was so good was that the idea made sense. Most of the sci-fi of the time was ludicrous.
Check out The Day the Earth Stood Still and When Worlds Collide. Both also from (1951), The War of the Worlds (1953) THEM! (1954) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Superman the Movie (1978).
Mike: I know you like horror movies. To me, the most terrifying movies are those that did/could really happen...
The Deer Hunter
Primal Fear
Hey Kay! Thanks for more suggestions. I have seen The Deer Hunter, that one is a classic! Primal Fear doesn't ring a bell though, I will add it to the list. Also, working on editing your first request, hopefully will be ready on the weekend!
@@mikewatchesstuff You are the best! 💜
Actually, I like these older movies and so I clicked on specifically to see someone else's reaction to it. The C-47 when in civilian use is known as a DC-3, I'm sure you've heard of it in that configuration. I can remember when weathermen used WWII surplus radar on local news back in the mid 1970's, particularly during the april 1974 super outbreak. Didn't give ya much warning back then. Trace radioactivity? Hell, back then they had clock radios where the hands glowed in the dark and to this day they'll still make a geiger counter tick. Such a small amount though, no one worries about it. As many xrays as I've had in my life I wouldn't, lol. "He's having kittens"="He's freaking out".
Kenneth Tobey (Captain Hendry) did a lot of these types of movies back then. Another good one he stars in is "It Came From Beneath The Sea". The creature in the film was played by James Arness, a big man in his day who went on to star for many years as US Marshall Matt Dillon on tv's Gunsmoke.
Having grown up on a farm I know what electricity can do to plants as we had an electric fence for our cattle that pulsed on and off to burn through weeds that came into contact with the wire, that way they didn't all eventually just overwhelm it and short it out.
Movies like these, while entertaining were basically made on a shoestring budget with few takes and if you talk faster you use less film :) Back then companies like Winchester films, Monogram Pictures, Producers Releasing Corporation, etc were collectively known as "poverty row pictures" for how cheaply they were made. Then again, even larger studios like Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures never invested a lot into their horror or sci-fi movies as their target audience was usually children and teens going to afternoon movies like the Saturday Matinee. A very few at the time had much larger budgets and benefitted greatly from it. Films like "Forbidden Planet" and "War of The Worlds" or even "Mystery of The Wax Museum" were even filmed in color which was very expensive back then.
The score is amazing in this film
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Interesting trivia
The actor playing “the thing” actually did play Frankenstein’s monster
Actually, James Arness did not play the Frankenstein monster. You are probably thinking of Glenn Strange who took over the Frankenstein monster role from Boris Karloff. Glenn Strange did co-star with James Arness in Gunsmoke for 12 years. He played Sam the Bartender.
@@bruceburns321 you’re right. I fucked that up
Well, Thermite isn't an explosive, it just burns very hot. Also, even if it was, you rightly pointed out it was a bonehead move to blow it up (that's what "pulled a boner" meant). The guy saying the story should be referred to the Chief of the Air Force, how about the bloody President! This is an alien! The doctor saying he wants to examine it is ridiculous, it could be dangerous or carry diseases etc. It should be transferred to a secure facility where it can be defrosted in a controlled environment.
"having kittens" means getting worked up, excited etc.
The hazards associated with radioactive materials just weren't treatedt as careful as today. You could have a watch of clock with radium painted dials for clear glow in the dark visibility. For real 50s kid fun, your parents might even get you the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory. Yes, a kids' toy with real radioactive minerals and chemicals for your budding genius to play with. Good times the 50s.
I have to agree with your assessment that Carpenter's film is the superior story. It captures a fantastic sense of paranoia because no one knows who the Thing is until it's too late. The 50s film is a straight up monster films playing more on fear of communist invasion than actual alien menace. All the same it has a terrific sense of energy thanks to the dialogue and directing that most sci-fi films of the era lack. Yes, at times the dialogue is unrealistically fast in scenes like the mess hall where everyone is greeting each other but in the action scenes the pacing of the dialogue sounds like people in a no time to think situation.
I do prefer the BW to the colorized print. The BW feels more like the arctic than the colorized one, the grey scale of BW heightens the sense of cold which the colorization loses.
Thanks for the great reaction and comments on the movie!
Hey my Friends, react to "Christine" (1983) by Stephen king & John Carpenter. Great movie with insane story. One of the best movies by Stephen king. I think it's very interesting for you & your loyal subscribers. Thanks
Hi Joaquim, thanks for your comment. I think I saw part of this movie when I was a kid. Does it involve a car? If so, that's about the extent of what I know of this film. I'll add it to the list for you.