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Topic: John Carpenter's The Thing (Read 28631 times)
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stu
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It's available on Hulu.com! Man, I love the Halloween season, and I love this movie. For me, this is the greatest horror flick ever made (and it doesn't even contain female nudity [or females, for that matter, but I digress]). The film takes it's time getting to where it needs to be- a lost art in modern horror. I could go on, but I'm sure most here have seen this movie at least once. I own The Thing on DVD, but whatevs.
P.S. Christine and The Blob remake are also on Hulu.
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Dear Diary,
Jackpot!
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sidereal
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Gave me nightmares for 12 years. Awesome movie.
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Slyfeind
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I never understood why the one guy flipped off the other guy with his ring finger.
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Samwise
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I just saw this for the first time, thanks to Hulu. Good flick. I'm guessing it's not coincidence that the whole blood test thing reminded me of BSG.
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schild
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This movie really shines in high-def.
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stray
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The game really pissed me off though. I remember it being... overwhelming.
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Margalis
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There is no bigger Carpenter fan than myself. Love this movie. By the way the short story is great as well and much closer to the movie than the lame '51 version was.
Adrienne Barbeau was at the local library today but I couldn't make it. I was going to ask her to sign my Escape from New York.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Ingmar
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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FatuousTwat
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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sidereal
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So awesome.
Were those official John Carpenter's The Thing action figures? Do want.
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Johny Cee
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So awesome.
Were those official John Carpenter's The Thing action figures? Do want.
Those were GI Joes. You'll notice Shipwreck by the bar most of the time. Boy, I wish Carpenter could get his shit together. That guy used to take a shoestring budget and do weird and interesting things.... |
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Margalis
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He hasn't really done anything since Ghosts of Mars. He's attached to a couple of projects that are supposedly about to start shooting, dunno if that's really going to happen though.
I watched They Live again the other day. The part where Piper is in the store where all the snooty aliens are talking to normal humans is so fucking funny.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Riggswolfe
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The Thing is John Carpenter at his best. It's also probably my favorite Russell/Carpenter team up, even over Escape from New York.
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"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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Evildrider
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What? Big Trouble in Little China was the best evar!  |
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stu
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Big Trouble in Little China is truly awesome, but in a different way. It's more  than  . They Live is a good bridge between the two. |
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SnakeCharmer
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I've always enjoyed In The Mouth of Madness as Carpenters best work. Still gives me the willies when I watch it.
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Zetleft
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All great movies but wheres the Prince of Darkness love.  That one scene when she opens her eyes still creeps me out. |
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stray
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God, we all have our favorites, I guess. Mine would be Escape from NY. Been hunting for a door sized snake plissken poster for years.
Escape, The Thing, Big Trouble..
We can all agree that Kurt Russell was pretty awesome back in the day at least.
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Margalis
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I just finished rewatching Prince of Darkness 5 minutes ago. Weird ooze dripping upward and pooling on the ceiling, demon creature reaching through a mirror into a watery anti-world. Really creepy movie, gives me the willies more than any other carpenter film. Thanks God they gave Dennis Dunn all the homo jokes to lighten the mood.
Also "You will not be saved by the God Plutonium" is probably my favorite line from any movie, ever, and it's not even spoken.
The idea of God, Satan and science all sort of comingling is ripe territory.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Riggswolfe
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God, we all have our favorites, I guess. Mine would be Escape from NY. Been hunting for a door sized snake plissken poster for years.
Escape, The Thing, Big Trouble..
We can all agree that Kurt Russell was pretty awesome back in the day at least.
Yeah, those two were great together. I can't think of any other actor/director team ups that were so full of win. And when I said the Thing is my favorite, it's something like 100% - 99%. So it's not a total blowout. Big Trouble in particular grew on me over the years, especially when I realized that Kurt Russell is the sidekick and not the hero of the movie. It made the whole thing click better for me. Of course, he thinks he's the hero but that's part of the charm. I wonder if Prince of Darkness is on DvD. I didn't know that was a Carpenter movie. My main memories of that movie are Donald Pleasance and the weird vial of "evil" in the basement of the church. |
"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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stray
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Evildrider
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I wonder if Prince of Darkness is on DvD. I didn't know that was a Carpenter movie. My main memories of that movie are Donald Pleasance and the weird vial of "evil" in the basement of the church.
It's part of the "Apocolypse Trilogy" that Carpenter wanted.. They don't share actors or storylines really, but they were The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and In the Mouth of Madness. |
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schild
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Yeah, those two were great together. I can't think of any other actor/director team ups that were so full of win.
OK, that I can't agree with.  How could you miss John Woo and Chow Yun Fat? |
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stray
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I've think I've stated before that I..... kinda don't like them a whole lot. Well, I like Chow Yun Fat. But as far as Woo goes, it's just not my thing, besides the cool choreography. And perhaps my favorite film from them (Hard Boiled) is perhaps their corniest and over-the-top. |
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ahoythematey
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I think Chow Yun Fat is an amazing actor that rarely gets the kind of roles that would show his range, and John Woo is one of those many shackles.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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I just finished rewatching Prince of Darkness 5 minutes ago. Weird ooze dripping upward and pooling on the ceiling, demon creature reaching through a mirror into a watery anti-world. Really creepy movie, gives me the willies more than any other carpenter film. Thanks God they gave Dennis Dunn all the homo jokes to lighten the mood.
Also "You will not be saved by the God Plutonium" is probably my favorite line from any movie, ever, and it's not even spoken.
The idea of God, Satan and science all sort of comingling is ripe territory.
OK that sounds awesome. And it is available on dvd, I've just ordered it :) |
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stu
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Prince of Darkness has always been badass in my view, but... Holeee fuck?! I never realized that was Alice Cooper playing the maniacal homeless guy until reading the film credits just now.
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justdave
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Prince of Darkness has always been badass in my view, but... Holeee fuck?! I never realized that was Alice Cooper playing the maniacal homeless guy until reading the film credits just now.
that's the one thing that puts PoD behind The Thing for sheer creepy in my book...Thing is unrelenting, but the bit in the middle where Alice Cooper stabs someone with a bicycle kind of...jars. |
"They started to resist with a crust that was welded with human brain and willpower."
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Watched this lastnight, cool film, it's dated more than The Thing has though - too many 80's hairdos and mustaches! And the bicycle thing was at least novel. I've never seen someone killed with half a bicycle in a film before :)
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Margalis
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The great thing about that is the lingering shot of the guy propped up on the bicycle dead.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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DraconianOne
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Funnily enough, I watched Prince of Darkness a couple of weeks ago. It is a good movie despite itself - some of the dialogue is fucking awful, the acting is terrible (apart from Donald Pleasance and Victor Wong) but the story and storytelling is brilliant. And that ending just creeps me out no end.
Made up for watching Village of the Damned a few weeks before that. That's going in the other thread.
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NowhereMan
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Oh God, Prince of Darkness. I saw that when I was about 10 and it scared the crap out of me, I think I'd actually repressed memories of it until just now. Not sure how it would stand up but I remember it being seriously creepy, not full of shock horror but still very fucking scary.
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justdave
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I think my biggest thing with The Thing was that I saw it when I was a ute, and the combinition of paranoia (which I didin't quite get) plus blood monster burnt some sort of imprimatur of scared on me, so even when I watch it now, it's kind of like 'Oh, yeah, there's Keith David, he was pretty good in OH FUCK THIS IS WHERE THE BLOOD JUMPS OUT OF THE DISH'.
Same thing with The Fog, which has one of the single greatest camera shots ever filmed. I actually saw PoD after Big Trouble, so I didn't really take it seriously (Egg is teaching a physics class?) until the jar of devil, and it didn't really register until the end scene, which was awesome.
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"They started to resist with a crust that was welded with human brain and willpower."
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WindupAtheist
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John Carpenter's The Thing is the best horror movie ever put on film, period.
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