The clue at the end was that one of them did not exhale condensation in the freezing air. ?
Did the ending of John Carpenter's The Thing sit right with you?
by Theocratic Sedition 15 Replies latest jw friends
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Theocratic Sedition
Mickey, thanks for the link. I have to watch his youtube arguments later.
Check out this monologue written from the alien's perspective. Its a bit long, but fascinating. By Peter Watts from Clarkesworld.
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Giordano
I loved the old black and white original. I think they spent about $30,000 to make it. I was 7 or 8 when I first saw it in a theater of screaming kids. Everytime the monster showed up I was hiding down between the seats. Many many years years later I caught it on T.V. and in the monster's last scene, he's a silhouette standing on an electric grid thats about to be turned on, and the way he's standing there......... legs spread apart, hands at his hip... I thought to myself that couldn't be James Arness...Marshal Matt Dillon from the Gunsmoke TV show? Yep it was. His first job as an actor.
The Carpender remake was Ok. The third version of it a year or two back was dull....not good at all. How can The Thing be made into a dull movie?
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Glander
James Arness starred in another classic about the same time, "Them" about giant mutated ants. This one gave me night terrors for awhile.
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00DAD
I'm watching it right now. (Saw it when it first came out years ago. Don't remember the ending ...) I'll get back to you after it's over!
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tec
It bothered me not to know. But then, I figured they were both going to freeze to death then, even though that means the Thing would be alive again later.
Also, the newest one is not a remake. It is the prequel. It's really good, too. I liked it as much as the old one.
Peace,
tammy