Uncovering An Alien Spacecraft (Opening Scene) | The Thing (1982) | Fear 

This isn't the 'thing's spacecraft, you oaf. The Thing was onboard this craft and likely assimilated the aliens on board, which is what caused this spacecraft to crash on Earth in the first place. The opening scene is literally the saucer flying out of control, highly suggestive that the 'thing' was assimilating and causing havoc to the aliens that were piloting/onboard this spacecraft

What if it not even it ship but did a "alien" type of deal and killed the ship original crew

​@@rossroys The Thing killed the original crew.. that's how the ship crashed landed to earth 200,000 years ago 😅 The Aliens eventually captured it and it'd broken free from it's imprisonment and attacked the crew 😂

Body Snatchers VS The Thing!!! Who... or What wins?????

possibly not, Norris started having pain in his chest later in the film (which I assume is the Thing taking over from the inside slowly)

I saw it on HBO. Blew me away. Once was enough.

I agree but you gotta admit this was a hell of a story. HP Lovecraft would've loved this movie and pigged out on Popcorn and Soda like the rest of us. Lol

The closest THING

@@waltersobchak4565 That he would! The alien in this film is pretty much the Shoggoth from his story.

@@klttrll Lol I see what you did there.

Yet.

Matt Gerrish another species. The intro you can tell the pilot got infected because it crash landed on Earth

@@Cyrax4d Yes, it may well be the case that the pilot was infected. Superficially at least, one can certainly draw that conclusion. Nevertheless, we can't be absolutely sure since it isn't made clear to the viewer, therefore it's ambiguous in nature. For all we know, the pilot may have had the equivalent of a heart attack or seizure, whilst The Thing was merely a biological specimen that had been collected and stored aboard the ship....then it got an unexpected opportunity to escape after the crash. Alternatively, The Thing may simply have been piloting its own craft...but a malfunction suddenly developed and it had to crash-land on Earth. There are many potential explanations that one could theorise, but the answer will always remain the same: *we don't know.*

Turrican60 it only makes since that the thing killed the pilot cuz Blair wanted to make a ufo which copied the hosts mind.

I like to think the Thing was a type of parasite that gains a bit of intelligence from its host and infected the intelligent alien crew when they explored some planet. Possibly the Thing commandeered the saucer and knew about life being on Earth, therefore crashing it on Earth in a failed attempt to land here.

Matt Gerrish I wonder that the alien species was in the ufo and I wished they showed what was insude

nice catch!

I'm going to catch " the thing" make a deal with it , to have comic books model statues and a record deal.

Or it's cause he didn't know and was corrected the first time.

@@MrBelles104 back in the day they teached geography in school, oh how things changed

@@Guitarninjaruy "Asking Americans to name another country"

Well, the inorganic material thing was established in the prequel, so technically, it doesn't necessarily apply here. Although this movie does make clear that a Thing creature does need to find clothes because it can't make some out of its own body, an earring isn't that hard for an assimilated life-form to pick up after being infected and putting back in for the sake of the disguise. Fillings, on the other hand, are different because you can't just take them out or put them in at will like you can with the earring.

@@warrioroflight6872 I don't think the thing would have fitted the earing itself. It's very difficult even with a mirror and there would be no piercing tool. It's possible that another thing could have done it for him though. Then there's always the question about needle phobias. Things were quite prone to that I understand. They didn't like spiders either.

except the metal rejection thing was a new introduction by the prequel and was not in the writing anywhere for this movie.

@@richards9407 It's very difficult unless you are an organism that can just move it's cells around, and then it's easy

@@richards9407 : Why don't things like spiders ?

Nice. It definitely looked like the same style as Star Trek TMP. I've always loved it, has a unique quality to it.

@@jasonhagar1758 I think he also won an Oscar.

VC YT he certainly did an incredible job, its really hard to tell it’s a painting.

@@VCYT your profile pic explains...

So are you suggesting that the alien craft been in the ice much longer?

@@joethekinghawk7514 norris said it ‘id say the ice it’s buried in is a 100,000 years old…..at least!’.

@@JohnMartin-oh6bf yep, he was guessing.

@@joethekinghawk7514 a conservative estimate

​@@joethekinghawk7514He was the geologist on their team, he would've had the best guess out of anyone.

Caleb Horton Norris? Not at this point.

PowerRangersFan Norris or Palmer, but it is indeed one of them.

The 3rd man is Garry.

The third man is Palmer. It's kinda hard to tell, but is indeed him.

MacReady isthe pilot. Also, it would not be in the thing's best interest to crash the helicopter if its goal is to assimilate everyone and then assimilate the rescue crews.

Naw, they are trying to measure the size how big of the ship silly.

It was great

It is for sure.

closest thing tho that would be the preqeul you get an inside look of it and a better and closer look at it.

Hell yeah! I always wished that they made an extended cut with an extra hour of them getting it out of the ice.

An after 2 weeks exploring it, they find Trumps tax returns in a box.

I'm such a geek I think about the Thing universe, and if it crashed into Antarctica, The safest thing to do is nuke Antarctica, even if The world floods it would be the only option, it would only take one cell getting exposed to the outside world, before everything is fucked, and also how many other worlds has the Thing assimilated, is it still present on multiple worlds?

that makes two of us.

It make sense that they didn’t go inside at that particular moment, for Pete sakes this alien craft have been in the ice for thousands of years, God only knows what is awaiting them inside there.

This movie is like Alien 1978

@Zipgun TV ...yes, AND for fear of compromising our entertainment!

James Frank - I think Windows said that there wasn’t another camp for a thousand miles, which is beyond the range of a helicopter. Windows was also transmitting night and day trying to reach someone. This movie did a pretty good job of limiting the options of the station. It also limited the options of The Thing - at least for a while.

@@thetooginator153 the Norwegian camp sent their helicopter to a base for kerosene restocking, so they were within range.

Imagine the consequences : every country would want to get a grasp of the find of the millenium. They would NOT listen to warnings, collect samples, making it easier for the Thing to infect the whole wide world. Actually, if it was only for the Thing itself, maybe Humanity would have a tiny chance of survival : quarantined in Antarctica, condemned to freeze in a state of eternal hibernation, the organism could (probably) never leave the continent. But if you take human greed into account, you know we're doomed. From the moment the Thing was taken out of the ice, it had already won.

And you would run the risk of getting the Thing back to civilization which wouldn't be good at all.

One of my personal theories is that it's an alien pathogen that got out of control and adapted to consume any species by "becoming" it

Василий Маслобойцев thought the same

"Chewie, we're home!"

Don't tell it managed to get to the Star Wars galaxy as well (that would be a better movie than the sequel trilogy tbf)

A penal colony for something like this ?.....YOU serve 100 000 years in prison !!!!..... Oh come on.

No. The Thing is about how humans behave toward one another when confronted with something unknown.

No crappy cgi in this version lol

Palmer

Now showing up in 4k Blu ray.....👍

A UFrO. Not a type of hair.

Crazy. Funny. Thou . .

Backscatter in physics is the reflection of waves, particles, or signals back to the direction from which they came.

@@cadror26 Honestly, I wouldn't know. I just assumed you need an answer to what the Backscatter effect was.

The older ice is probably rising to the surface while the top ice is being worn away by wind and weather, that's my guess

Then Norris would have assimilated MacReady

Palmer

@@samaelcoral7297 at first I thought it was Bennings

And both have Kurt Russell trapped in a snow storm with people he's not sure are who they claim to be😀

No, this is not 'it'. The Thing is based on a famous science fiction novel written by John W. Campbell...it's not real, ffs.

And both had Kurt Russell trapped in a snow storm with people he wasn't sure were who they claimed to be 😀

No,he s palmer .read the novelization by Alan Fostet

@@samaelcoral7297 That's the novel. This is the movie.

I agree, Palmer was the second helicopter pilot and it makes no sense to risk him and Mac on the same journey, 3rd man here is Garry 100%

Spooky indeed

The earth is large, very large, and we miss more things then we actually know.

Maybe longer According to the movie.

no

They didn't know the parasite was in there I believe, and who would blow up the discovery of the millennnia

@@alibouk227 well i dont wanna get infected by an ancient hundreds of thousands of years old extraterrestial parasite in while freezing in Antarctica.

@@TravellerTinker True, but I'm not sure if they knew alot about the thing yet, or whether it's in the UFO.

@ Karanvir Kooner Then everyone in Kingdom Come would get assimilated. Ha!

I think one (Norris).

I agree 100%,but I dont understand why the 2 of them didnt attack him,this was a perfect chance...

@@lukakrtinic1192 Norris was infected but not assimilated at this point 😀

@Stahlhelm Model. 1940 Fd. Gr. ah... good call

I think not going in (beyond it being a constraint of the producers) was a smart move. If we saw what the interior looked like it would have just cheapened the experience. The whole aspect of the thing being what it is, is that its a parasitic cancer. It's something so alien that it's alien to aliens. It's left up to ambiguity but you could surmise that this entity is able to replicate and assimilate and become someone else without them knowing. It literally has all of your memories, DNA, neural pathways, everything, for all intents and purposes it IS you if you become assimilated, like a program on an operating system. You are able to run and function normally until the OS/parasite decides "no" and does something else and takes over. Going into the ship would make no difference and just be a gimmick, because ....who is to say the spaceship is the parasites vehicle in the first place. It could easily just have been another assimilated species that the parasite took over.

@Obe Qwaet If it belongs to a crew that the Thing assimilated, then how does it cheapen the experience if they explore it?

They are dealing w/a crisis at their base and probably need to get back before the weather turns worse. They found out what they needed to know. A ship that large would take a crew of men and a day to explore.

@@Obe_Qwaet great explanation. Also, the saucer containing another 'assimilated species' by the parasite was all the more evident by the erratic way it was falling into Earth at the beginning 😁 such a great fliick

Brilliant movie. Ahead of it's time.

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The prequel comics, and director commentary give some insight. The ship was from aliens that were carrying lifeforms on their ship. One of them was the Thing disguised as a life form and slowly infiltrated the crew, and was guiding the ship to assimilate earth. By the time most of the crew was dead the last pilot purposely crashed the ship in an ice environment to stop the thing (apparently if it had crashed anywhere else, event the ocean the entire earth would've been doomed). In the prequel comic a group of vikings find the thing has been attacking and assimilating colonists in Greenland. It turns out the Thing has been trying to desperately to get back to the ship without freezing, and a human host is really the best chance it has. The Vikings go about killing anything alive and eachother (including a herd of cows), until there are only two left. Their fate is left ambiguous but more than likely one was the thing and the other at least stopped it from ever getting rescued back to Greenland. The Norwegians rediscover the lifeform, and it goes straight for trying to get back to the ship again. The Norwegians destroy the ship. The thing then has to try and build a new space ship in the American camp.

@@ProtomanButCallMeBlues Thank you

They literally point out they're planting thermite charges then they show a large explosion. It's pretty clearly explained

I did that in actual time😀

Herbivore The Carnivore tbh that sounds about right. 😂

Literally what the europeans have been doing since Columbus lol

The thing isn’t the alien that crashed. It’s the creature that killed the alien crew.

Wrong, The Thing is not the builder of the craft, they are the aliens’ specimens

Maybe the thing just wants to go back home, no matter the cost

What had great imagination and was well written?

Asinine review. No context.

@KrisKringle2:You replied to my comment above, but I don't see it here. I'll answer if I see ur comment here.

@@johnishikawa2200 Rotten Tomatoes disagrees 😀

@Joe Giuffre: That's cool--everyone has their own likes and dislikes. And movies are a totally subjective form of art. There are people that I know who criticize my insistence of extreme realism in movies, and tv shows. And with a film like this, one could ask how anything in this genre be made "realistic"? My answer is that it can be done, with the right combination of casting, screen writing, and direction. And this flick here--the 2011 prequel here--this film comes the closest to the narrative that works for me on this particular story. I want to be transported when I watch a movie. An example of such a film would be " Alien, 79 ". From another genre a tv show that was super real and intense was the series "Breaking Bad". But it just comes down to taste, is all.

@@johnishikawa2200 Loved Alien and Breaking Bad 😀

Thats why the monster looks better in the prequel for the most part. Alot of the corn syrup effects in the original doesn't hold up entirely. Some of it does, but alot of it is a bit goofy. Its still fun for what it is, but using CGI in the prequel was smart.

This IS the remake. The "remake" was a prequel.

@@markussmedhus9717 Well done😀

Pretty sure it’s Palmer not Norris.

I never thought of that until now 😳

Using the knowledge of Norris's mind and the other Norwegians to make a better guess. Doesn't even react when it comes across the spot it froze in for all those years.

Infected isn`t the same as assimilated.

It's not established that Norris is already infected during this scene. It very well could have happened later off screen.

You think it's because he's a thing or just general scientific interest?

@@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 He was a thing

@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- we don't know for sure

The mystery shadow in the room where the dog thing entered was the closest likeness to Norris. He's the thing here.

He was indeed the thing, and sense the thing assimilate the memories of its victims the Norris-Thing probably flashback when he was one of the alien pilots and thought to himself, yep, we never made it home. My theory I guess

Makes. Some kinda. Sense. . .

Budget was also a consideration.

The prequel shows that was a valid decision lol

Nearly the same story.

I think it makes sense that a group of 3 men wouldn't just waltz into an ancient alien spacecraft. I don't think anyone in their right mind would.