People Hated Having To Think About How 'The Thing' Ended
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Published 2021-12-03
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Original Article:
www.factfiend.com/people-hated-think-thing-ended/
Sources:
www.mentalfloss.com/article/68365/13-fascinating-f…
www.denofgeek.com/movies/john-carpenters-the-thing…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)#Releas…
screenrant.com/thing-movie-childs-human-ending-exp…
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Clips:
The Thing (1982),
www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/
Rick and Morty (TV Series 2013– ),
www.imdb.com/title/tt2861424/
The Thing (2011),
www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372/
Captain America: Civil War (2016).
www.imdb.com/title/tt3498820/
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Kurt Russell,
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m.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/goofs/
The Thing Prequel,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(2011_film)
John Carpenter,
Nathan Hartley Maas, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Downey Jr,
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E.T,
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Pokemon Go,
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Music:
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All Comments (21)
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Regarding the flamethrower, that's just good awareness of being in a movie. Don't monologue before killing your enemy.
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The best example of people walking out of a theatre was the first South Park film. I was working at a movie theatre at the time. During the Uncle F***er song, parents who came with their teenaged kids began walking out, right as it was happening in the film. It was so perfect. I have always wondered if they planned it that way.
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Hating The Thing because it doesn’t explain the ending reminds me of the Garth Marenghi quote “I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards”
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I'm glad Karl mentioned how good the dog's acting was in "The Thing" cuz that dog nailed every scene they were in. The dog looks suspicious when it's supposed to, scared when it's supposed to. Just all around great acting from a dog.
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Also, earlier in the film, we see a Thing produce visible breath anyway and it's supposed to reproduce people exactly. The film Never suggests that the Thing doesn't produce visible breath.
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Far as the prequel lore goes I assume the dog thing learned about the piercing/filling thing and now knows to take that extra step to blend in
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3:13 - I never saw it that way, to me there's a clear progression of the thing's tactics from prequel to the original. during the prequel it's a lot less stealthy and almost dies because of it, so they got better at stealth. and I just assumed that it learned that it needs to imitate suff like earring and piercings, because they can just pick those up and put them in place after finishing the transformation.
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I saw The Thing when I was a kid, and was terrified to be alone around the family dog for several days.
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"Effects were disgusting" [Mission accomplished]
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I mean, to be fair, if Childs WAS a thing he could've easily put the earring back in. A lot easier to do that than it is to replace fillings or an implant.
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The saddest part about The Thing (2011) is that they had beautiful practical effects already built and filmed, but the higher ups said to replace it all with CGI.
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The Thing is an absolute masterpiece. 10/10.
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I like to think that it mimics so well that not even the people know they're the alien. It's a defense mechanism, but one that will self trigger if the person realized they're infected. The horror!
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Perfect movie. People using Child's breath as proof of anything need to see the film on the big screen. I have, from an original print. It's not added in digitally. Inorganic material? Blair was wearing glasses. The Blair-Thing simply put them on. Watch the film.
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There is old audio dramas based on the short story the movie is based that establishes the ambiguity. The remaining two survivors just sit together to wait and see if they are a monster. Or if it might be one of the dogs they missed. As great as the movie is, the ending to the audio drama makes you use that imagination even more.
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Eh, even without the prequel, I can see the earring becoming another fan theory. Not being able to imitate piercings is a logical weakness of the Thing, albeit one that could be easily worked around if It knows what It's doing.
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Speaking of Marvel de-aging, they actually did it with Kurt Russell in Guardians of the Galaxy.
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4:55 I can Identify with that feeling. That honestly is why I HATED "The Devil's Advocate". The sheer nihilism at the end of the movie just pissed me off to the point my wife and I (girlfriend at the time) talked about how much we hated that ending. Have you considered covering that one?
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Maybe the true Thing was the Thing we discovered in ourselves along the way.
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In the ending of the prequel, the main character kills the last person because she noticed that the ear piercings he had switched sides of his head. So with that knowledge, how in the original film ending, him wearing/having an earring does not make him not the thing.
