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In the original black and white movie version Gunsmoke's James Arness played the monster And the movie sucked! No, it was actually great by 1950s standards. Still very watchable. A classic, although only very loosely based on Who Goes There. They didn't have the movie technology to make monsters like depicted in Campbell's short story back then.
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That’s the wrong “Thing”  That Thing would get his punk azz handed to him...
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Yeah, I've read all the books listen to the shows that I can about the thing.......watch it on my 75" Sony in sround sound..... the one about who goes there the short story where the monster/ the view from the monster is pretty badass. ...A few times a year that helicopter circles my living room !
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Watch the director's cut sometime, John Carpenter tell you what they were doing and how they did it . Couple ways to tell who's a monster and who's not >dark eyes and clothing changed , then the missed editing , drinks that refill , and the pool room the monster swallow that guy 1/2 way...the monsters wearing jeans and a t shirt ..lol
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Both versions were great- for the times they were made. I liked the James Arness one because the characters had rapport and joked and seemed real. Better than most cookie cutter monster flicks back then.
I took my girlfriend to see Carpenter's at the dollar movie ( hey big spender)...and the opening scene where they were trying to shoot the dog had her wimpering...
Great flick. Russel showed he was good.
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I've seen all 3 and the one starring Kurt Russel was the best one but watching that dudes head sprout legs and run around like some kind of spider was hilarious, took a hell of an imagination to come up with that one.
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The original "The Thing" was the first movie that played at our brand new drive-in theater, 1951 I think, maybe 1952. I was 11-12 at the time. Conned my dad into taking me, he thought it was stupid, I thought it was the greatest movie I ever saw.
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Saw it in theater, knew nothing of what to come.
Dogs face split and I was WTF?
Had me squirmin LOL
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In the original black and white movie version Gunsmoke's James Arness played the monster And the movie sucked! No, it was actually great by 1950s standards. Still very watchable. A classic, although only very loosely based on Who Goes There. They didn't have the movie technology to make monsters like depicted in Campbell's short story back then. That's horseschit. A movie is timeless or it isn't. The Kurt Russell version is. The original is not.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Saw it in theater, knew nothing of what to come.
Dogs face split and I was WTF?
Had me squirmin LOL Seen how they made that ... mold of the inside of the dogs, mouth then using the top half , made a bunch of them then put them in the form of a flower pedel ! Good chit !
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That House episode with Mira Sorvino always reminds me of "The Thing" for some reason. Great movie that would be worth a trip to the theater. I have the two DVD set somewhere around here.
"Their minds are dead" - Carmine Ricca
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The Killer Shrews gave me the willies…
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I remember the 1951-version "The Thing from Another World". Our parents were out, we were watched by our paternal Grandma while she was watching the film. I was ten, my sister seven years old. Grandma was later scolded by our Father because of my nightmares. My sister didn't have that problem. That's a great movie, one of my favorites of all time.
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Saw it many years ago, wasn’t worth a damn then
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I preferred "The Swamp Thing" 1982.
The monsters were loosely contained within Adrienne Barbeau's T-shirt.
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The above reminds me that there's another great read for fans of Beowulf, written from the perspective of Grendel, the monster who was eventually defeated and killed by Beowulf. Well worth a read. Short book. John Gardner. Excellent book.
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The above reminds me that there's another great read for fans of Beowulf, written from the perspective of Grendel, the monster who was eventually defeated and killed by Beowulf. Well worth a read. Short book. John Gardner. Excellent book. Yep. That's it. I couldn't put it down.
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