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Full Reaction to "The Thing" (1982)

🕑 Added 2021-10-18 01:31:30 +0000 UTC

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crawlie

I think everyone is on the side of the dog at first :D The best theory I heard concerns the chess game. It goes something like this: MacReady is playing white, and he gets checkmated by the superior computer, who is playing black. He gets pissed off and plays a move the computer can't deal with - he throws his drink at the computer, destroying it. In the end, we have MacReady, who is white - facing off against Childs, who is black. If Childs is the Thing, he has "checkmated" MacReady, can infect him and then wait in the ice. So MacReady makes his "winning" move, drinking a poisoned drink that he then offers to Childs. There are definitely some holes in it, but it's still fun to think about. The movie can be good to rewatch and try and look for clues. Thanks for the fun reaction, and spooky makeup! Maybe the closest we'll get to Goth Duaffy? (Guothy?)

Mike LL

I remember seeing this in the theater. It is based on a novel or a story and I'm very familiar with the original 1950's cheesy movie they made of this story, so was very curious to see this. It wasn't really very scary to me, it was just a gross out feature and I remember being amazed by the special effects. And the summer of 1982 was just full of amazing movies, The Thing was just another movie, I must have gone to the theater every week that summer. Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner, ET, Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan, Tron, An Officer and A Gentleman, and so many smaller films I remember like Night Shift, Young Doctors In Love, Porky's it was just a crazy, crazy good year at the movies.