John Carpenter's The Thing is one of the those movies you either love it or hate it, but the nostagatia of it does prove to be good. Based upon a chilling version of Christian I. Nyby's 1951 classic "The Thing". "The Thing" is...
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John Carpenter's The Thing is one of the those movies you either love it or hate it, but the nostagatia of it does prove to be good. Based upon a chilling version of Christian I. Nyby's 1951 classic "The Thing". "The Thing" is quite remarkable and impressive at most parts. Kurt Russell's character makes a outstanding performance in this movie, especially when those parts where you see him, scrapping everyone in the facility , in need for blood test study to many parts of him disingrated those things. Kurt Russell also did many movies where he did, amazing performances in, Tombstone, Soldier, Poseidon and many more. The starting of the movie, where you see a helicopter shooting a wolf for some apparent reason is just confusing, it appears that the guy sucks at shooting and keeps on missing the target. Pissed off as he should be, throws grenades and a hilarious part that i like the most, destroying his helicopter and his mate into pieces. Its a really laugh out loud moment. He then shoots the guy's leg instead of the wolf and got HEADSHOT by some guy in the base. OWNED! I will come back to this later.

The story is kinda intriguing and very good, i haven't seen, Christian I. Nyby's 1951 classic "The Thing", so i don't know which is better. Maybe it might be a book or something. In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers after seeing some Noweigans on tail with a wolf, sought out their research facility. They found out that its deserted and many precious research notes scattered. But soon discovers some weird and scarce body of some form of alien buried in the snow, over 100,000 years. Transporting back to the remote research facility, testing out what the hell it is.

The scene where you see Doc doing some kinda of surgegy to it, looks disgusting and menacing, seeing him cut through parts of its body, almost made me nausea. Back to the wolf part. The wolf aimlessly wondered off searching for something or someone, until some guy ordered him to go to the kennel. But havoc starts and the wolf mutantic into some kinda of beast. This part is my favourite when some guy says, "Mac, we need the flamethrower!" But in confusion, why is there flamethrower in Antarctica? Why?

Then havoc starts out when the alien body, appears to be alive and start the imidating process to some person, when the researchers finds out, Kurt Russell's character, MacReady disingrated him to ashes with a flamethrower. But tensions turned as everyone is for themselves, a high risk of paranoia shifts through the research facility. Taking blood tests and tieing up everyone. Theres a part where you see a head formed into some kind of headcrab from "Halflife" or something from "Doom 3", its just very gruesome and scared me abit. The pre-CGI effects are near flawless - truly realistic and grotesque. Its just amazing to see how much time they put into, making these scary monsterisites. The Action scene seqeuences feels and looks just awesome and impressive, its just intriguing how realistic this is. Especially when this movie came out, around the 80s. The acting in the movie, feels kind of boring at some parts, they seemed to have no emotion at some parts.

In conclusion, John Carpenter's "The Thing" is one of the most great movie out there. With impressive CGI effects to the purely astounding action sequences. Its truely a classic. The Ending where MacReady (Kurt Russell), he says "Yeah, **** you too" and throwing a dianomight is amazing, disingrating it to ashes, but at the end raises some eyebrows. What it really is, is who are you a human or a alien lifeform? This is a great recommended purchase.