So was Childs the thing?

yes

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>>82347653
Explain

Yes. Game is canon and he is dead and Russell is alive helping you kill the thing.

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>>82347688
Did carpenter approve of this. Video games shouldn't be taken seriously.

>>82347653

No

>>82347688
In the game, Childs froze to death. It was never confirmed whether or not he was the thing.

The real question is when did the thing get Blair? I thought he was still himself when he destroyed the chopper and the radio equipment. So did the thing get him inside his prison hut?

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Also wasn't that bottle of liquor they drink in macready's shack? Who grabbed it? Also did Fuchs seriously burn himself alive or was there foul play involved?

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>>82348313
Remember the door was wide open when they came to test blair. The thing had probably been in and out of there for sometime. I always assumed it was that one creature that spawned from the dog-thing and climbed into the rafters.

>>82347625
https://youtu.be/8faq5amdK30

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Carpenter literally spelled it out for you, mongs.

Rolling

>>82347687
Why did he run off into the snow? He was alone where Blair-Thing was hiding, so he could have easily been assimilated.

>>82349331
He would've had to change clothes then. His gear changes when he reappears at the end

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>>82348313

How did Mac survive the explosion?

>>82351270
He ran very fast

>>82351360
How?

>>82347625
I read somewhere that childs drank gasoline at the end but I don't know if that's true

>>82351398
Kurt Russell is actually the fastest man in the realm. John carpenter knows this and uses it in all their films. Also he's flame - retardant.

>>82347625
listen to the commentary track by russel and carpenter. they say like ten times that they discussed this back and forth hundreds of times on set but in the end the conclusion was always that they couldn't know

>>82348427

The dog rafter one is completely burnt and is dissected. but later kills fuchs. it doesn't escape

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>>82351400
I've read that too. If the thing retains all mannerisms and information the host had, it should've recognized what gas tastes like. Beforehand it was always a perfect mimic and realized how to blackmail macready

How the fuck do you guys remember this movie so well? I don't remember any of these characters except Kurt Russell. Am I a brainlet or is there a secret /tv/ movie club?

>>82351650
by rewatching it

this movie has the deepest lore tbqh..

>>82351490
It splits in two in that scene. The one that feeds stays down and gets toast, a part of it grows arms and climbs up through the ceiling. >>82351490

>>82351650
Just rewatched it last night. I can't recall all the minor characters names tho

>>82348313

Dissection scene

>>82351464
>they discussed this back and forth hundreds of times
And now so do we. Will the cycle ever end? Because they decided to never know, does that mean no one will ever know?
I like to think neither were the thing but both were too far beyond trusting each other to save one another so they both died out there like two idiots.

>>82351650
Study it

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>>82351784
If they were both human they were totally screwed, there was no way they could've survived the rest of the winter without food or heated shelter. It's a great ending not only because of its ambiguity but it's doomed tone.

>>82351784
According to Carpenter's Twitter 1 was the thing, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was just him fucking with the audience. My headcannon likes to think that the script is cannon and that Mac had a flamethrower under his poncho and burned childs after the credits

>>82351650
I just watched it a couple months ago.

>>82351729

That one mixes with blair thats why it shits out a dog in the barn

I'm cool with Childs being the Thing and I like the idea of Mac giving him one of his moltovs to drink.

>>82351650
you watch it multiple times because it's one of the best movies ever made you pleb

Even Carpenter doesn't know so, no.

>>82347625
>op didn't play the sequel video game

>>82351650
By having these threads upwards of 60 times a year.

>>82351885
Kurt's character survives and gets another copter to boot.

>>82351360
for u

Im pretty sure carpenter confirmed childs was the thing by saying the end scene made it obvious since childs breath doesnt show up in the cold while macreadys does

ITT: fan-fiction and reddit-tier theories

The Thing threads have become cancer.

No.

Stop asking this question.

>>82353212
What were they like before?

>>82353335
Same but reddit wasn't a thing yet.

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>>82353212
The swede that shot that one guy in the leg actually laced his bullet with thing-sauce, thus initiating first contact and spreading the infection. The dog then rubs up on that dudes bullet wound in the rec room, infecting the dog. The wounded-man-thing then tells Clark to put the now-infected dog-thing into the kennel so it may feed and escape through the rafters

>>82347687
The biggest clue to Childs being the thing is the fact that he accepts the bottle of whiskey without any concern of infection. That's exactly why Mcryde laughs.

See the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SppG-I_Dhxw

>>82351650
>not watching the greatest horror movie at least 100 times
>scientists on south pole watch this movie annualy
>you don't
>you should watch it every month

>>82353766
mcready*

>>82353766
This is part 2: this is where he talks about the ending:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgRWMbGSUec

>>82353766
Oh very interesting, thanks. God what a great movie!

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>>82349827
oh shit

>>82353208
We've put that one to rest multiple times before. His breath is visible.

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>thread actually discussing a great movie barely active.
>like three retarded colbert meme threads with over 100 replies
This board blows

>>82347687
>>82353766
Also, Childs doesn't breathe at the end does he, you notice the breath on Mcryde but it's just not there for Childs

Guys, What if I'm the Thing?

>>82354483
Nah you can see Childs' breath. It's just hard to see due to the lighting in the scene.

>>82354483
he breaths. Heres another video of the same guy debunking this theory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30OW_EUX33I

>>82347625
Neither of them were. But at that point it didnt matter. They probably killed each other anyway out of suspicion.

>>82354428
you know how many times thing has been discussed u silly newfriend