The last video game you played now has a problem. The Thing

File: tmp_22538-dark-souls-3518135091.jpg (4MB, 2768x1557px) Image search: [Google]

4MB, 2768x1557px

Par for the course

>Friday the 13th
This makes things a lot more complicated and a lot more fun

>>379632864
>game now has two killers

sounds like a lot of bullshit to survive through.

>>379631496
>tekken 7
everyone who fist fights it is fucked apart from jack

>>379631496
>Factorio

Well it's already filled with murderous monsters and all of mine stuff is mechanical, so nothing really changes.

Alien Isolation

There was a debate thread about this not too long ago of who would prevail: a Xenomorph or the Thing. Everyone is fucked if the Thing successfully copies a Xenomorph.

>>379633030
Could Jason be assimilated into a Thing?

>>379633349
I have seen Alien movie few days earlier an they talked about it being based on silicone or something.

So I thing the thing couldn't do a shit to xeno.

>>379633410
...that's a very good question. Jason is technically supernatural.

>>379631496
>Persona 5

What would the Thing's palace look like?

>Killing Floor 2
Time to go Firebug

>>379631496

Only if the soundtrack can also be done by Ennio Morricone so i can know how fucked i am.

https://youtu.be/FXUbHLu9KEc

File: 1491615909420.jpg (148KB, 1426x1438px) Image search: [Google]

148KB, 1426x1438px

It can't copy robots, so it's fucked

File: jason-x10.png (359KB, 800x456px) Image search: [Google]

359KB, 800x456px

>>379633603
Yeah, at this point he's a weird unkillable revenant demon cyborg entity. I'm not sure the Thing would know what to do with him.

>>379631496
MK8D. I guess it's fucked if it gets hit by a blue shell but everyone is basically fucked otherwise.

File: IMG_4191.gif (2MB, 500x281px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 500x281px

>OW
So we get a hero that can actually stealth kill now

>>379633572
Wouldn't the Thing just match those traits if it came into contact? I figured as long as the Thing's cells came in contact with the Xeno, the Thing cells would obtain the Xeno's acid blood resistance and just take over normally from there.

>>379633826
Yet Jason is made of meat. And he keeps coming back due to supernatural aide.

If the Thing assimilated Jason, would it also gain his powers?

>>379631496
>Project Highrise

Goodbye World.

File: akko1.png (970KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

970KB, 1280x720px

>>379633826
Real talk, should Jason X even be considered canon to the main Friday the 13th series? Nobody is going to go back to that storyline in movie form, Jason's hunting grounds have always been the woods and that's not changing any time soon.

File: carpenterthingchilds.png (308KB, 714x306px) Image search: [Google]

308KB, 714x306px

Reminder that Childs was the Thing.

File: theblobbanner.jpg (31KB, 620x400px) Image search: [Google]

31KB, 620x400px

The Thing vs. The Blob
Who wins?

>>379634421
What? How? He passed the test

>>379634557
He could have easily been assimilated after the test

>>379634507
The Thing.

It is nigh indestructible and mimicks whatever form it assimilates.

>>379634557
>he doesn't know

>>379634421
No.
Childs acted too suspiciously to be The Thing, which would take far more care to cover its tracks.

>>379634064
I rewatched the scene, the xeno replaces it's skin with polarized silicone.
Which looks like the thing we put onto sunglasses. I don't really think The Thing could replicate that.

DOOM

Meh.

>>379634507
Wasn't the 80s Blob a government bio-weapon? If it's overall earthly in origin the Thing shouldn't have any issue assimilating it

>>379631496
nier a tomato

can the thing take over machines? If not, it's fucked.
I guess it could take over the local fauna like the fucking boars and antlers

>>379631496

Nier: Automata, so ... I guess only the animals are vulnerable? Maybe Adam and Eve too?

>>379634557
At the end he was the Thing. When Childs thought MacReady could have been the Thing he was extremely cautious and didn't want to let him in but for some unexplained reason he went outside because he saw Blair (???) walking outside of the shed.

>>379634698
https://twitter.com/thehorrormaster/status/272063161832701953?lang=en

>>379634782
The Thing is implied to have assimilated plenty of alien lifeforms before it arrived on Earth. The question comes down to how quickly The Blob could digest The Thing before it gets assimilated.

>>379634507
In a 1v1, the Blob.
The Thing is nigh indestructible due to easily splitting off, but The Blob's enveloping acid would be the one thing more or less guaranteed to take it out unless it rapidly adapted to it.

If they're both let loose in an Area, The Thing.

>>379634507
Depends if the Blob can digest The Thing. Otherwise the Thing will just take it over.

>>379634684
I dunno, the Blob clearly has some sort of instant dissolving aspect to it, and really isn't affected by anything other than freezing - while the Thing is clearly affected by things like acid, heat, and cold.

I'd classify the Blob from the Remake as more like a bioweapon than a natural living organism. So it's sort of unfair to just say "lol, the Thing wins". That's true for most animals, but the Thing does have some weaknesses. Plant cell walls being one example of a barrier it cannot pass through. Maybe the Blob is simply too hostile an environment to be properly replicated.

File: a4e91f5c984cc617c5ef825c29abb42f.jpg (300KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

300KB, 1920x1080px

What Remains Of Edith Finch

The Thing would just ruin everything wonderful about the game...

>>379634941
Carpenter has changed his mind repeatedly.
The only reason he does it is to troll the fans.

>Pro Evolution Soccer 2017
???

>>379631496
If The Thing was confirmed to being on Earth, how quickly would you kill yourself?

>>379634973
That's kinda my point. The Thing has probably eaten tons of things like the Blob but not vice versa thus giving The Thing the advantage.

File: Ivan.jpg (90KB, 680x794px) Image search: [Google]

90KB, 680x794px

>>379631496
Slavic master race will never socum to ancient savage spirit

>>379634941
Him saying that kinda ruins the ending. I always believed neither was the Thing and that they just die from exposure eventually.

>>379635207
How could I tell if I'd been assimilated?

File: taro_yoko_interview-1200x675.jpg (61KB, 960x539px) Image search: [Google]

61KB, 960x539px

>>379631496
NieR Automata
Should be relatively okay, since 90% of beings arent organic
>>379634892
Consider the fact that adam and Eve are machines

>>379635081
Yea, but it's always been a popular theory that Childs was assimilated sometime after he was left to guard.

Another theory was that everyone was already infected and slowly being taken over by the Thing anyways.

>>379635292
I always thought the music starting as Childs took a sip from the whiskey to be an obvious indicator that he was the Thing. It's a nice call back to the start where Mac 'gives' the computer some whiskey after it beats him.

File: Factory.jpg (853KB, 2560x1440px) Image search: [Google]

853KB, 2560x1440px

Factorio.

Since there are no other humans, and every kind of local fauna is already hostile and automatically marked down for murder, and considering the massive flame-thrower defenses I just build, it's much less of a threat than you'd think.

>>379631496
>Castlevania: aria of Sorrow
Soma just freezes it, kills it, then absorbs it

>>379631496
>Space Engineers

It's hard enough as it is!

>>379635081
There's good evidence supporting the Childs-Thing theory and Carpenter's tweet is basically the cherry on top.

>>379635296
Being violently raped would be a pretty good indicator.
The assimilation from a single cell theory is bandied about a lot, but we only ever see violent assimilations, and given how it gave itself away by one, and that it's clearly intelligent enough to use subterfuge, it's safe to assume it's not something it could reasonably do

>>379635292
different endings were considered for the movie.

One was a day shot with one of the sled dogs leaving the outpost. And in the original script, MacReedy knew Childs was the thing >>379635474.

It's ultimately left to your interpretation though. Having everyone die after sacrificing themselves to save the Earth is a pretty good ending though.

>>379634941
>>379635081
>>379635292
I'm pretty sure he is just taking the piss there. Notice how he says "a thing", not "the thing", or "the Thing". I'm pretty fucking sure he is just trolling the fans because they are dumb enough to ask a completely meaningless question.

>Carpenter endorses and recommends the new Prey
Why am I not surprised?
Wait: I am surprised that somebody of his age takes out the time to play modern videogames.

>>379635576
>>379635419
There's speculation and counterspeculation, which is what makes The Thing such a fantastic movie that endures to this day.
I honestly don't want a definitive answer for that reason.
Carpenter's tweet is just stirring the pot because he finds it funny, most likely because he himself hasn't decided.

>>379631496
>Rising Storm 2

it sounds like a nightmare. It's kinda cool how adding one element completely changes everything.

>>379635576
>There's good evidence supporting the Childs-Thing theory and Carpenter's tweet is basically the cherry on top.
What evidence? Actually the most simple explanation can be made (and has been made), which that there would be no point for Childs not Escape from New York there.

>>379635846
Carpenter will always be my favorite director even if most of his later work is pretty meh.

>>379636002
Actually, I'm not all that familiar with his work... what did he make that wasn't terrible and wasn't called The Thing?
I don't think I know any other good movie that he made. Almost all of it is terrible, cheezy B grade schlock that is funny, but definitely not good.

The Thing is a masterpiece though, no denying that.

>>379635963
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SppG-I_Dhxw

the camera panning to the generator room door that Blair had access to that would allow him to sneak up on Childs

>>379635963
Killing the lone survivor to ensure no one knows about the Thing is a pretty good reason to stay behind.

I swear I'll bomb an orphanage if someone unironically brings up the breath theory.
People who didn't pay attention to one of the best scenes in the movie need to be gassed

>>379631496
>M&B: war band

That would be pretty cool, nothing 100 slave crushers cant handle though

>>379631496
DET ER IKKE EN BIKKJE
DET ER EN SLAGS TING
DET BARE IMITERER EN BIKKJE

KOM DERE VEKK IDIOTER

>>379636137
That's part of the charm.

Prince of Darkness, Mouth of Madness, and The Thing are his best ones though.

Everything else has cheese for the sake of it, which I love.

>>379636137
>Almost all of it is terrible, cheezy B grade schlock that is funny, but definitely not good.
Wrong.
>Christine
>Escape from New York
>They Live
>Big Trouble in Little China
>Prince of Darkness
>Halloween
>In the Mouth of Madness
Are all excellent films

>>379631496
>Space Station 13
Fucking Lings

>>379636336
Big Trouble and Halloween are definitely up there too.

Also Escape from New York earns points for how much of a not-action movie it is.

>>379631496
>Dead Cells
I think most of everything is already down the shitter, if anything the thing is just another horror on the island to overcome.

With the success of alien isolation and ft13th the game as well as all the classic horror movie monsters in mk9, mkx, and dbd. How long until we get another thing game?
>>379633718
This is a good question. Maybe it wouldn't have one?

>>379635485
No John, you are the thing.

File: 1481534077225.jpg (9KB, 225x225px) Image search: [Google]

9KB, 225x225px

>>379631496
>tfw want to watch The Thing but too much of a coward

>>379631496
>Ar Tonelico
Eh if they find it they sing it do death

>>379633809
>goth
>shawty

western artists need to get put into mass graves.

>Risk of Rain

>Overloaded Magma Worm

I don't see any changes anon. Can't be worse than blighted enemies.

>>379636168
That is precisely the problem. If Childs is a thing and Russel is the last survivor, why would Childs not attack him already? The Thing does not seem to be very sentient and planning and this is a completely needless contrivance.
>>379636158
Really just an overanalysis and over-interpretation looking desperately for indirect evidence. It's assuming rules that nobody knows that even exist. Seriously, this is silly. The movie is of course shot in such a way to intentionally make the viewer consider the option that Childs is a Thing a POSSIBILITY, but that is where it ends.

>>379636336
>Escape from New York
>They Live
Seriously?
Those are the definition of "so bad it's actually entertaining". Escape from New York in particular is just hilariously fucking stupid. And I don't think all if can be chalked up to intention.

So what happens once a Thing completely assimilates a planet? Do they all just bail off the planet to find a new one, or are some left behind? And do the ones left behind just go about like the civilization they copied, or do they go full Cronenberg 24/7? Are there Thing scientists, or is their technology just stuff they learned from other species?

>>379633718
>playing Persona 5
>Ann starts to transform into a Thing while you're on a date

sounds like 120 hours of fucking horror.

>Nier automata

I think the thing is more fucked honestly.

Heroes of the Storm
He'll fit right in.

>>379636723
Its a very watchable film, as soon as any monster is exposed is immediately burned to death. Its like instant catharsis. t. a coward

>>379636830
>The Thing does not seem to be very sentient and planning and this is a completely needless contrivance.
While I agree it has no reason not to attack him, The Thing is clearly very intelligent.

The Bennings scene shows that it's fully capable of abstract thinking, by actively using terror and paranoia as a weapon to help hide its other parts.

Surfing on Counter-Strike:Source. Those poor weaponless soldiers.

>>379636723
It's not exactly "scary." There's plenty of gore and blood though, if you're squeamish.

>>379636723
It's one of my favorite movies ever and I hate horror movies. It's more about psychological horror, like not knowing who to trust. DESU it's probably the best horror ever made.

>>379636646
>No John, you are the thing.
Well then I'm not actually threatened by the Thing anymore, am I?

>>379636831
Basing on what we see, it seems that the Thing does not really have a consciousness outside of the copy it creates, so I would doubt there is anything like "Thing scientists". It would really go against the type of horror the movie is trying to setup.

I don't think these questions mattered to the director or the writers, but presumably, it stays dormant until somebody accidentally picks it up and spreads it further. It's quite literally modeled on a virus, actually - I don't think it's a complete stretch that HIV virus was a major influnece (the movie was released a year after the first publication of it's behavior), so I think presuming things like specialization and dominance hierarchies is pointless.

>>379636831
It's probably like the zerg in starcraft, or even just like any run of the mill virus- you just run your shit until you can't sustain and collapse

>inb4 like people

>>379636831
First they get all the technology they can
Then they build spaceships
Then whatever happens later is a mistery

>>379637125
>The Thing is clearly very intelligent.
I don't think it is. I think it can mimic behavior of intelligent creatures, but that is where it ends.

File: IMG_0240.png (114KB, 480x320px) Image search: [Google]

114KB, 480x320px

literally already happened

>>379636723
The movie is more psychological than outright horror. The concept of The Thing is horrifying but the movie itself rests on suspense, tension, and uncertainty. It's not like a lot of horror movies that will induce paranoid tension in you just to shatter it to bits with cheap jump scares.

>>379636830
>Really just an overanalysis and over-interpretation looking desperately for indirect evidence.

I've watched both parts, and everything he brings up has some evidence to support his theories.

Meanwhile you're saying the creature doesn't seem intelligent.

Why you coming into a good thread and shitposting mate?

>>379637306
It was building a spaceship

>>379637180
The mark of the greatest Horror movies is always the fact that they don't rely merely on the fear of death to scare you.

>>379636172
What's that? And what scene are you talking about?

>FIFA 17
Goodbye to every famous footballer
and goodbye Alex Hunter

>>379637306
The real question is what would it look like in nature, like fully assimilated/dominant?

>>379631496

>arma 3

knowing how trigger happy eveyrone is i dont think anyone would notice and at worse someone shoots the thing with a attack heli by accident

>>379631496

> Red dead redemption

The game just improved and became The dark tower

>The Evil Within

It's actually fitting.

Also, does this game have a crossbow?

>>379637306
It was building a space ship.

It was capable of understanding blood tests.

It used misdirection multiple times throughout the film.

It assimilated people who were alone and used stealth when possible.

When that failed it would viciously attack and seek to kill to reduce the numbers of the humans in the outpost.

How is this not intelligent?

>>379634421
The Thing game is canon according to Carpenter.

Childs is dead and Macready survived.

>>379637306
f@m, the thing is very intelligent. It tried to trick everyone at the outpost by making them think MacReady was assimilated by finding some of his spare clothes and tearing them

>>379637375
>There are people on this board RIGHT NOW that believe The Thing's race could natively build a space ship and that it didn't just acquire that knowledge from some other race it assimilated
When it crash landed, I guarantee you it didn't crash in its native form as it wasn't piloting that ship in its native form.

Battlefield 1. I'd watch it

>>379637729
I didn't say that
You can't mimic a fucking spaceship using human technology
You have to be intelligent to do it

>>379637405
There's a theory that Childs was the thing because you couldn't see his breath, but this scene clearly shows The Thing has visible breath and that Childs was just a case of effect fuck up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Z44BIDPPc

>>379637306
In my opinion, the scene linked demonstrates the fact it truly is intelligent.
If it were just an animal good at mimicry, it would have simply attacked and hoped for the best.
Instead, knowing it had other parts to hide, it opted to scare the living shit out of them to spread the distrust, paranoia and terror it needed to work with.
Abstract thinking such as that is one of the key ways to identify sapience over mere sentience.

File: black snow.jpg (249KB, 1280x800px) Image search: [Google]

249KB, 1280x800px

Anyone remember that GMod gamemode that was basically the Thing? One of the maps (the only good one) was even heavily based on the American base from the film if not an accurate recreation.

There's also Black Snow which is very heavily inspired by the Thing, but it lacks the body horror and I'm pretty sure Source updates mean that it's no longer playable.

>>379637729
Maybe the Thing was retarded when it first came to life and it gains knowledge through assimilation, maybe it has always been smart. In either case, does it really matter? In the movie it displays high intelligence when fucking with the outpost.

>>379637368
>I've watched both parts, and everything he brings up has some evidence to support his theories.
No. It has coherence, but not evidence. It makes sense, but it's based on assumptions that themselves are untestable and frankly... probably not very good. Now - the way he then builds on those assumptions is perfectly fine and valid. But it's not evidence. He even states it out right: that the whole theory is based on assumption that the movie is build like a puzzle, that it has it's internal rules and those can be unfold so that the truth can be revealed.

But that... that is not actually a reliable assumption to make. And it is what the whole theory is predicated upon: everything assumes some kind of intentional code the movie uses, but that code might as well not be there at all, or might have been intended entirely differently.

This is a frequent problem with all media interpretation. In this case, I think it's particularly jarring because really, Carpenters previous and following works does not fit that criteria either. It makes sense with authors like Kubrick, but not really with works like The Thing.

>>379637375
>It was building a spaceship
What? When? You mean the ship that it crashed with? How do you know that it build it?

>>379637445
Wrong question, really. That is not something that needs to be answered at all.

>>379637661
>It was building a space ship.
Again: either I'm completely fucking mad and missed something really big, or it was not building a space ship. It was found in a space ship, which does not mean it was the Thing that build that shit. That shit crashed, remember? Maybe because - I don't know - the thing fucked up the crew?

>It was capable of understanding blood tests.
The human it had assimilated was. It was mimicking them-
>It assimilated people who were alone and used stealth when possible.
Most rudimentary animals can do that.

>How is this not intelligent?
Because it's a virus like organism?

File: ss5_1.png (3MB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 1920x1080px

>>379631496
Prison Architect and that would be fucking amazing. Finally a good reason to invest in special forces.

>>379632752
Me too pyromancy build too I'm good

>>379631496
everyone's dead unless a deadra get's thing'd first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J5gN1DwNDE

Space station 13
it actually has the thing already in it
desu they get wrekt by the crew pretty consistently these days

>>379638172
How did you miss the fucking spaceship
The one below the cabin

>>379638172
>What? When? You mean the ship that it crashed with? How do you know that it build it?
As I recall, Mac found that the Blair Thing was constructing its own ship in the base

>>379635474
>whiskey
I thought it was an unlit Molotov cocktail?

File: 20170604215317_1.jpg (355KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

355KB, 1920x1080px

i will fly my plane straight into it if my payload didn't do the job

>>379637219
>it stays dormant until somebody accidentally picks it up and spreads it further
But it doesn't stay dormant. When left alone in a shack with a box of spare parts Wilford Brimley makes a spaceship. I agree that there's probably no kind of hierarchy or specializations, but they clearly have some amount of advanced knowledge and intent that goes beyond instinct.

>>379636723
>tfw watched it for the first time at school

Same with Pulp Fiction. Probably the only good thing about taking media studies.

>>379638398
It's not made clear, but given it perfectly assimilates victims, and that Childs would know the smell of gasoline, it's highly unlikely to be an indicating factor.

>>379636723
Pussy

>>379631496
>Monster Hunter

oh boy oh boy

>>379636723
The only part that scared me was when it chops those guy hands off

>>379638632
Well I didn't deny it.

>>379631496
Also what's up with the dog?

>>379638696
>cut tail
>tail grow legs and attacks you
Fuck no

>>379638752
For what reason?

>>379638752
I bet everyone freaked out at that scene for the first time.

File: heroes-facebook-preview-bcon.jpg (1MB, 1200x630px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1200x630px

>>379631496
>Heroes of the Storm
The Nexus will be fine

In fact I might worry how the thing will survive

>>379638879
Wasn't expecting it

>>379638172
>Again: either I'm completely fucking mad and missed something really big, or it was not building a space ship. It was found in a space ship, which does not mean it was the Thing that build that shit. That shit crashed, remember? Maybe because - I don't know - the thing fucked up the crew?

It was building a space ship. It was doing that at least from the time that the radio room was destroyed. It was already a base chassis before a full week had passed in the outpost.

The Thing understands space ships enough to build them. Whether that knowledge was natural or assimilated, the Thing possesses it.

>The human it had assimilated was.
It possibly assimilated Norris, but it definitely got to Palmer by the time the blood test was even suggested by the Doctor. Judging by the movie's time line, it beat the doctor to this conclusion and was intelligent enough to lift the keys, and plant blame.

Palmer is assimilated pretty much from the moment you see the dog sneak on his shadow. There are dialogues that character gives that are clearly sent to misdirect the crew.

A fucking lion doesn't do that, neither does a virus.

Ergo it doesn't fucking matter if it's because the intelligence is assimilated or not. The Thing owns it now and uses it to a level that completely breaks down the crew's morale.

It is not a rudimentary animal in any sense of the word. It is an intelligence that is driven by goals and is clearly willing to sacrifice parts of itself to achieve this.

You find me any other lifeform on Earth that isn't human doing this, and I'll concede and say the Thing is dumb as bricks.

>>379638762
Watch the movie, that's not a dog.

>>379638172
watch the movie dipshit

File: good boy.jpg (153KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

153KB, 1920x1080px

>>379638762
>Also what's up with the dog?

He's a perfectly normal good boy my fellow human.

>>379638440
Is that some Falcon 4.0?

>>379638954
I mean why were his hands chopped off?

>>379639015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjIXwkX1e48

>>379638298
>>379638318
>>379638992
Holy shit I actually did forget about that scene and I am an idiot.

>>379631496
>SMT 1
Probably not that much more fucked than they already were.

File: 1484013502548.gif (2MB, 320x240px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 320x240px

>>379631496
>Watching the 2011 prequel
>It's pretty meh throughout
>Ending sequence plays
>The Thing main theme starts playing
>Fucking goosebumps everywhere

https://youtu.be/SGwVfV69ssk?t=32s

>>379639085
The spider head thing is the craziest shit

>>379639270
Yeah the whole prequel was meh but I really loved the ending with the music playing and the setup

>>379638172
>No. It has coherence, but not evidence. It makes sense, but it's based on assumptions that themselves are untestable and frankly... probably not very good. Now - the way he then builds on those assumptions is perfectly fine and valid. But it's not evidence. He even states it out right: that the whole theory is based on assumption that the movie is build like a puzzle, that it has it's internal rules and those can be unfold so that the truth can be revealed.

>Thing can't reproduce non-organic material
>Clothing is brought up throughout the film as a hint that someone got assimilated
>Long-johns are specifically named, meaning that distinctive clothing is intact (Palmer)
>The video uses color theory to recommend that the changes in wardrobe could lead to hints that an individual is possibly infected by the Thing

Again, why are you here shitposting?

>Again: either I'm completely fucking mad and missed something really big, or it was not building a space ship. It was found in a space ship, which does not mean it was the Thing that build that shit. That shit crashed, remember? Maybe because - I don't know - the thing fucked up the crew?

What in the fuck? Did you even see the movie?

>>379639270
This was probably the only good part of the movie and it was very good. I love it when prequels end right where the original begins and it's setup nicely. Kind of like Halo Reach.

>>379639270
The prequel was set to use practical effects at some point. If you look them up, they were actually pretty on par with the 80s one.

Even then, it was just a retread of the Thing. Even the idea of a Thing that was more naive and less subversion wasn't toyed with.

>>379638762
It's not a dog

>>379639270
For a story that never needed to be told and a movie that never needed to be made the prequel did not end up as bad as it could have been.

>Street Fighter V

I dunno man I think they'll get by

>>379639270
Honestly, there were just two things that bothered me about the Prequel: A) the need to stuff down some american cast into the story, and B) that the The Thing several occassions to just kinda parade around in front of the camera to allow us to appareciate it more. It was this cinematic bullshit when the thing slowly walked towards it's prey instead of either spazzing out or just taking the kill as quickly as possible that ruined it for me. It was those few scenes that made me realize that the authors were faaar too focused on parading their dollies in front of the camera than in telling an tense story.
Otherwise, I was actually really pleasantly surprised with it. Which is because I absolutely expected it to be pure, inexcusable garbage. And the way it ties to the first movie is really good, and made it felt like they aren't trying to fuck up it's own legacy.

>>379639270
It's sad that the Ending was the only bit that really grasped what The Thing was really about.
Personally what killed it for me is that The Thing acted like a rabid animal rather than the calculating monster it is.
Though I'll admit the penultimate scene, where we see the guy accidentally turning on the wipers, was a brilliant bit of foreshadowing in its simplicity

>>379631496
How did they get a dog to act so creepy?

>>379633030
>>379632864

This would actually make a really good horror movie plot, two different supernatural slasher killers decide to kill the same group of teenagers and a bloody competition between the two to see who can get the most kids and kill them in the most brutal ways

>>379639850
That's literally just the plot of Jason vs. Freddy.

File: freddy-vs-jason-new-line.jpg (224KB, 900x507px) Image search: [Google]

224KB, 900x507px

>>379639850

>>379639850
You mean something like Jason and Freddy Kreuger?

Has there ever been any lore that says just how old The Thing is? Or points to how many other lifeforms have been taken over by it?

>>379639850
So Alien vs Predator with a slasher skin? I shiggy dig it

>>379631496
>rimworld

some one make a "the thing" mod please.

>>379639406
>What in the fuck? Did you even see the movie?
I did completely black out on that scene, and that reflects very poorly at me. So I'm conceding a full defeat on the whole intelligence of The Thing problem, I clearly should have never started arguing that in the fist place.

That said:
>The video uses color theory to recommend that the changes in wardrobe could lead to hints that an individual is possibly infected by the Thing
And that is precisely what I'm saying is wrong with the video. These are some huge leaps of logic that the interpreting person is doing because he assumes such logic is there.

>Ghost Trick
I trust Sissel can somehow deal with it.

>>379639770
>where we see the guy accidentally turning on the wipers

I don't remember that. What was that about?

>>379639850

Wasn't that Freddy vs. Jason?

>>379631496
It gets shoved into the cremator/gibber within 10 minutes of its arrival by security and the greytide.

Childs still has his erring so he isn't the Thing

>>379639984
Don't they show it getting cut out of the ice at the beginning of the movie? It's probably been there for a long fucking time.
It probably just wants to go home

>>379639682
Yes I meant to say wolf.

>>379638992
>There are dialogues that character gives that are clearly sent to misdirect the crew.

Oh shit, like what? This is the spookiest thing I find about skinwalkers

>>379631496
Titanfall 2
The Thing would be overpowered in moments

>>379639953
>>379639971
>>379639973
They didn't "choose" to kill the same people. Freddy was using Jason to get power.

>>379639984
Nope.

Nope.

It is probably one of the best eldritch horrors ever put to film. You know it can perfectly imitate people and animals. You can it can assimilate with a single particle.

You know if it got to the mainland, civilization is fucked (seriously, it's a running gag on /tv/ that nobody can come up with a solution despite their being a simple one).

That's it.

You're now locked in a base with it and a dozen other people you've known for years.

File: Home Movies - S1E02 - I Don't Do Well In Parent-Teacher Conferences.avi_snapshot_13.50_[2016.01.09_07.44.31].jpg (85KB, 480x360px) Image search: [Google]

85KB, 480x360px

>devil survivor

Honestly not sure.

>>379639984
Well in the movie they estimate that it crashed there in the Arctic several million years ago, and during the Bennings scene when Bennings Thing lets out that amalgamated, inhuman scream, Carpenter has gone on record saying that the shriek was meant to sound like the screams of all the other combined creatures that the Thing had absorbed up til that point. Favorite scene in the movie for me, btw.

>>379640097
39 second mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz-XJMspLOA

>>379639743
All it takes is one Yoga Fire and shit's going to get surreal.

File: ditto.jpg (8KB, 228x210px) Image search: [Google]

8KB, 228x210px

>>379631496
It kinda already is?

>>379640273
They were both killing all the kids on Elm Street. Freddy told him to only kill a few and then leave but Jason starts trying to kill them all.

>Guilty Gear
While The Thing itself would get incinerated, I wonder how it would play as a character.
Something with shit defenses, but really nasty setups and unblockables?

>>379631496
SS13
I haven't played that much, only rounds i've really seen for antag are wizard and nuke ops, but isn't this basically that game mode?

>>379631496
>Nier
not fucked at all because the thing is biological

>>379640226
It's not that either

File: 1277078630959.jpg (305KB, 1833x3000px) Image search: [Google]

305KB, 1833x3000px

>Shogun 2 Total War

A little more fucked than normal, guess the world turns into onimusha for some

>>379640269
>implying one infected grunt won't lead to the extermination of the entire militia and IMC

>>379640241
If we follow that Palmer was assimilated after the scene where the Dog approached the shadow, here are just some juicy ones.

>fucking with Childs by bringing up Chariots of the Gods. Like literally messing with him about the idea of aliens by joking about conspiracies.
>The entire scene after the MacReedy plant. Palmer is trying to get Child's to open the door just to fucking flamethrower MacReedy.

File: df.jpg (606KB, 1600x857px) Image search: [Google]

606KB, 1600x857px

>>379631496
Jesus Christ.

File: It's gonna get kicked in the face.jpg (143KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

143KB, 1280x720px

>>379631496
Wouldn't even be worthy of notice.

>>379640295

> it's a running gag on /tv/ that nobody can come up with a solution despite their being a simple one

you know, I saw this and laughed and thought it would easy to solve. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized the only solution is to nuke all life on Earth.

>>379631496

>Danganronpa 1

They were already fucked from the start anyway.

On the other hand this is going to make things more interestng.

File: tmp_24186-coop-1498297238.jpg (16KB, 500x384px) Image search: [Google]

16KB, 500x384px

>>379631496
>New Vegas
I'm not sure what happens here, how would it even react to the post-apocalyptic Nevada desert?

>>379640440
The thing would get salted

>SMT Nocturne
well the world is dead anyway and I doubt the thing would pose a threat to any of the demons

>>379631496
>Bioshock
eh, wouldn't really make a difference desu.

File: 1393735310325.png (162KB, 500x602px) Image search: [Google]

162KB, 500x602px

>>379640687
If I knew The Thing was on earth, I'd not hesitate to glass the planet in a heartbeat if I could.
It's kinder that way.

>>379640371
I've never seen the prequel because I heard it was bad, if that dude was a Thing why didn't he assimilate the woman? They were alone.

>Rising Storm 2
>Flamethrower

I'm done pretty quickly.

>>379640854
>people running around
>no worthwhile external communications
>There's an entire faction of people who fight with melee weapons
>there are many horrifically dangerous creatures (deathclaws) to assimilate and dominate with.

It would probably have a ball

>>379639770

How does he 'accidentally' turn on the wipers? Why should he not?

>Rising Storm 2

jesus christ ricehats are fucked

GI are okay because flamethrowers

So was The Thing intelligent? Do you think it owned the ship it crashed in or was it just a passenger that escaped its containment?

File: thething3.jpg (119KB, 1200x656px) Image search: [Google]

119KB, 1200x656px

Rewatching The Thing after finding out the telltale sign someone is the creature makes it into a completely different movie.

They went out of their way to ensure whenever someone is the Thing, their eyes never have a gleam of light in them.

>>379641108
His facial expression and him aimlessly fiddling at the controls pretty clearly indicates he was confused why it happened

>>379641191
It took over the pilot.

File: 1471333158549.png (289KB, 374x373px) Image search: [Google]

289KB, 374x373px

>>379631496
>MGS5
This just made the game a whole lot weirder.

what are some good movies if I loved The Thing?

The Void was okay but could have been better

File: 1413161706999.gif (40KB, 255x249px) Image search: [Google]

40KB, 255x249px

>>379641247
FUCK OFF

THIS WAS DEBUNKED YEARS AGO

>>379640687
>the more I realized the only solution is to nuke all life on Earth.
>>379640945
>I'd not hesitate to glass the planet in a heartbeat
did you get your knowledge about nuclear bombs from hollywood? that's not how nukes work

>>379641191
mostly intelligent, for reasons explained earlier in the thread

>>379635614
>>379638992
>>379637973

for example

File: Kitten_class_attack_ships.jpg (46KB, 999x562px) Image search: [Google]

46KB, 999x562px

>>379640295
Funnily enough the only thing keeping it from being completely unstoppable is its apparent desire to integrate into the societies it infects. Imagine how fucked everybody would have been if the entire time they were debating who was and was not a human there was a team of squid monsters operating out of sight constructing a fleet of tiny spaceships.

>>379641353
I think X-Files has a episode that is basically The Thing, then another one where it's The Thing but on a volcano

File: e76ef4db2728146be75f28249bf5dde2a6b36ba064c07869e4c21542a1fed182.jpg (323KB, 1600x740px) Image search: [Google]

323KB, 1600x740px

>>379631496
Game is much better now.

>>379641396
Did the image not imply that it was a general statement that mere fact of The Thing being on Earth in a populated area means it's not worth trying to save?

>>379641396
>thinking glassing=nukes

File: 1354499118629.jpg (4KB, 167x160px) Image search: [Google]

4KB, 167x160px

>>379631496

>Space Station 13

Nothing changes

>>379640971
If you think that's bad take a look at this retarded shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFGm__skOH4&index=9&list=PLZbXA4lyCtqrxG5V8jWS8ENPCRZJDFWlG
>escaping from the Thing because it can't reach you with one of its limbs
As pointed out in the comments I also just realized Mary Elizabeth Winstead kills the Thing the exact same way she kills the alien ship in 10 Cloverfield Lane

>>379639669
I still consider it one of the best cash-in attempts that hollywood has done over the last few decades. The Things showy "horror-cliché-friendly-but-nonsensical" moments not withstanding and the american crew bothered me and felt tacked on, but it never tried to shit on anything and outside of those few encounters that were way too much by-the-book-of-american-horror-cliclés, it did not ruin anything by attempts to overexplain the lore or shit on it and it tied into the real thing so damn very well. In general, it was at least dinified, which is something we can't exactly claim about shit like The Day The Earth Stood Still.

Never played the game, but I heard it was pretty good.

I do remember one cheap, purely B-movie knock-off of The Thing called I think The Thaw. It had horrible reviews and it was clearly like almost an amateur project, but I thought it was better than most people realized, and one of the few that kinda sorta managed to emulate the feeling Carpenter went for, even if with different story and ocnsiderably smaller budget.

But I had see that movie ages ago and perhaps a little... unsound of mind at the time.

>>379631496

>D44M

Just another monster to rip n tear thru

>>379641396
The Thing gets to to a populated human settlement (shit not even that, it just needs to assimilate a flock of pigeons) and all of mankind is irreversibly fucked. Therefore, the only solution to stop the Thing once it hits the mainland is to completely annihilate all life on the planet.

Did you really needed that explained?

>witcher 3

geralt has dealt with dopplers before. he should have no problem killing the thing

>>379641709

>perfect CGI face on the thing

This shit here always unnerves me:

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

>>379641084
But even with all that could it handle the Securitron Mk IIs?

File: 1444821281063.png (52KB, 221x195px) Image search: [Google]

52KB, 221x195px

do you think that The Thing is real? or maybe there is some organism out there similar to The Thing?

File: Angel.png (1MB, 797x599px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 797x599px

>>379631496
>MGQ
Yeah man
They are literally fucked

>>379641782
>completely annihilate all life on the planet
okay kid. how do you plan to do that

>>379641709
Yeah, this scene clearly showed they did not realy realize what made The Thing so damn good and sumplemented it with hollywood horror clichés. That was not "The Thing", the monster from the sequel - that was a ugly hollywood villain being all dramatic and cynematic about killing her.

>slightly obscure
>well enough known for people to have decent knowledge to hand
>minor barrier to entry
Are these the three requirements for a great thread topic?

File: The_buried_UFO_(The_Thing_-1982).png (60KB, 300x125px) Image search: [Google]

60KB, 300x125px

>>379640295
>it can assimilate with a single particle
That's bullshit tho.
The infection form is likely small, but if it was particle based everyone would have been converted by aerosol.

The Thing has limits probably based around mass and energy constraints. While it can reform matter it also choose to re-purpose existing -- inefficient -- structures. That implies energy constraints. Not to mention that it was frozen in the Antarctican crash site in the first place.
Also, it's desperation to build its craft and get off the base suggest that a global infection form is probably off the cards. If it was smart after infecting Palmer it could have waited until the team was rescued and proliferated. That it didn't, suggests it won't or can't. My guess would be that its can only reproduce itself a limited number of times, or maybe control a limited number of forms at once.

It's actually not ruthless enough in repurposing forms. Palmer could have killed and assimilated the whole team in a night if he needed to. But it is desperate to leave. My money is on some kind of alien super-soldier/weapon, which while devastatingly powerful, is not programmed to be some all-consuming evil. It wanted to get offworld, to contact its handlers maybe.

File: 1488229005054.jpg (410KB, 1802x1810px) Image search: [Google]

410KB, 1802x1810px

>379642337
Move along, people.
It's just a genuine 'sperger that can't grasp hypotheticals, so no need to give it more (you)s.

>>379642491
this

that's why the new thing is so terrible

>>379639773
It was well trained and part wolf, DVD extras bruh

Reminder that in the original short story, Who Goes There, the Thing also had the ability to read minds so it knew beforehand if you had a plan to oust it.

So... the last game I played was City:Skylines. A large 300k inhabitants city with a public transport system that I'm particularly proud off. And a bit of a hygiene issue.

And and I think I can very, very easily claim that am just gonna be here watching as my city becomes living hell and then some brilliant mind will decide to nuke the whole region througly.

Seriously, I don't think it could be any worse.

>>379641353
Body Snatchers is a similar concept, albeit a lot weirder. Also the first Alien movie is a pretty good monster slasher flick, although every nerd worth their salt has seen it.

>>379638992
The keys thing is alot easier to see when you know what you're looking for.

Windows asks Bennings for the keys to move some stuff.
Bennings tells him to get them from Garry
Windows comes back with the keyring from Garry
Sees Bennings getting assimilated
Drops the keys, you actually hear that.
Runs off
From there it's simply a matter of Palmer or perhaps Norris picking up the keys, getting to the blood and then leaving the keys where Garry would find them again

The only uncertainties with the things getting people are both Norris and Blair, but the theory with Blair is the rubber he touches the remains of the thing with and then puts in his mouth is pretty sound since it was well known that "it wasn't dead" "there is still cellular activity" "a microbe is enough to take over an entire organism" is the rubber on the end of his pencil is probably how he turned.

Other than that with Mac and Childs at the end it was intentionally left ambigous and that's why there is this whole
>But the breathe! he has no breathe!
and Bennings does, what's your point?
>The whiskey was a molotov!
If it was a molotov it would have a rag in it and no cap.
>Muh glare in his eyes
Grasping straws

But that's the beauty of the end it has no clear cut truth, in the game you see the remains of Childs, but not Macs. That could be taken multiple ways.

It's intentionally left open. Even Carpenter saying the game was canon only added fuel to the fire which makes it great enough to leap walls.

People have been over the film scene by scenes and there is no stone unturned at this point. I've seen videos that even keep track of the fucking coats people are wearing and concluded who the third person at the crash site was with Mac and Norris.

Here's one for you:
When Childs leaves the door open at the end to "chase after Blair" pay attention to the coats.

>>379642198
Prions

Hitman 2016, does the Thing put 47 out of business? It can disguise, right?

File: Cp_gravelpit0006.jpg (52KB, 275x285px) Image search: [Google]

52KB, 275x285px

>>379633572
>>379634064
>>379634717

>A Xeno successfully impregnates a thing
>It motherfucking works

File: images.jpg (10KB, 300x168px) Image search: [Google]

10KB, 300x168px

The thing would be gunned down by an junkyard truck with a tank cannon on it.

If The Thing gets on Nier it would turn to salt
Does it have a soul?

>>379641943
If every part of it is autonomous doesn't that mean that every single spilled drop of blood is just as much a threat as an entire assimilated person? And wouldn't using dynamite against it be one of the worst possible way to kill it?

>Call of Pripyat
Yeah it wont last for long

>>379642198
>do you think that The Thing is real?
HIV virus is.

Some prions can be compared to this thing too. But rerally, on a molecular level, similar shit happens disturbingly often and HIV virus is pretty much a perfect thing already. I was actually planning to use that in the intelligence discussion earlier, until I thoroughly humiliated myself there.

>>379642363
>that was a ugly hollywood villain being all dramatic and cynematic about killing her.
It's not like the thing in the original movie was subtle when it was finally out, or did you forget it's final form that's a tower of flesh who they couldn't even animate properly? or this scene here >>379641943
Where rather then a fast transformation it takes it's time to transform into something lethal.

>>379639270
>>379639435
Watch the films again, the real mindfuck is how everything is accurate. The guy Macready finds with his wrists cut, the axe in the wall, the charred thing, the tapes and documents on the floor.

The prequel did a fantastic job with the details and keeping continuity to the JC Thing.

>>379639669
The whole film was done with practical effects, the same people who worked on the practical effects of the first movie did the prequel, they were even fucking there at the premiere.

There's loads of documentaries about it and they were pretty pissed off with all their work getting painted over in post.

File: eyes.jpg (226KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

226KB, 1920x1080px

>>379642767
>>Muh glare in his eyes
>Grasping straws

It's not even grasping at straws. It's demonstrably false. Palmer's eyes have a gleam in the scene right before.

>>379643229
>The whole film was done with practical effects
Bullshit it was, while practical effects where used the movie also had tons of CGI

>>379634421

It's literally just the two of them left, if he was the thing he didn't need to hide it. Could have assimilated MaCready, get frozen again and wait for rescue teams to bring back their remains.

File: halo ring.jpg (382KB, 2440x1740px) Image search: [Google]

382KB, 2440x1740px

Since the Flood is basically the Thing without the ability to imitate, it leads me to wonder if the Thing can die of starvation?

>>379643113

Individual cells/parts will just freeze or become dry and crusty very fast.

>>379631496
>Witcher 3
Ill slay it

>>379643330
Like I said: grasping at straws. I'm not even sure where that shit started and why not a single one of the other things were shown to have a gleam in their eyes.

It's as valid an arguement as the breath thing.

>>379631496
Life is Strange just got a lot weirder.

>>379643154
>Where rather then a fast transformation it takes it's time to transform into something lethal.

The disgusting thing about the original is the clear indication that whatever is inside the original body is pushing and breaking BONE to get out.

>>379642491
The idea that it's a virus that assimilates organisms and induces changes in the biomass is where the whole one particle thing comes from.

The movie also mentions the direct possibility that the Thing is transmitted as a virus (everyone prepare their own foods.) This is also a way to explain how Blair is assimilated in a way the rationalizes the shed looking just fine despite their being a trap hole leading to an elaborate ice basement with a half-finished flying saucer in it.

I've always been partial to the idea that the Thing was just trying to find a way off our rock and the research team was just an obstacle the Thing was willing to remove.

File: banda.jpg (153KB, 1600x511px) Image search: [Google]

153KB, 1600x511px

>>379643434
The whole film WAS done with practical effects, they painted over most of it in post.

>>379643113
Theoretically, yes.

MacReedy wasn't much of a thinker though. His ultimate plan was to just flip the chess board and call the Thing a cheating faggot.

>>379642491
>but if it was particle based everyone would have been converted by aerosol.

it's called suspsension of disbelief. it's a mass market movie.

File: ruined jesus painting.jpg (100KB, 1200x630px) Image search: [Google]

100KB, 1200x630px

>>379643746

>>379643229
>The guy Macready finds with his wrists cut,

The thing that bothers me is that in the prequel, he slits his wrists, but in the original the wrists are slit and the head is hanging on by half a neck.

>>379643154
>It's not like the thing in the original movie was subtle when it was finally out
There is a difference between subtlety, boldness, and then being a camera prissy. That giant totem thing aside, in the original movie Prey still acted in a way that seemed like it makes sense: either human, or animal. It seemed "efficient". The scene somebody else provided just make him look like a show-off: not only showing what he look, but also acting as if there was no particular rush. Not growing the new parts he needed to reach her. Playing peak-a-boo. Letting himself to be surrounded this way?

I think there are about fifteen ways a Thing from the first movie would have solved the situation in ten times as horrifying ways. More efficient ways too.

That whole scene is pretty much a good example of why the prequel Thing is something that you can actually just run away because it's too much of a show-off to really chace and pin you down for lauch.

>>379643849
> it's a mass market movie
>the Thing appealing to the Mass Market crowd

the idea is pretty fucking laughable.

>>379642198
Zionist Jews are pretty similar. Literally a parasite that's taken over the US government.

>>379634507
The Thing wins. The Blob is always shown operating as a single unit, only operates on instinct, and has an exploitable weakness.

The Thing can't be isolated and can function on an intellectual level at or above humans. Sooner or later it would figure out it can freeze the blob.

>>379643746
Oh well will you look at that, but I imagine that practical effects would have made the whole thing a lot harder to move.
>>379643980
Then consider it a creature who learns, it starts out a lot more violent but after learning from its encounter with one group of humans it takes a lot more subtle approach when encountering the next.
>but also acting as if there was no particular rush
Maybe it wasn't

>>379642198
That would be silly anon. Even if that were real how could you expect us to infect people and keep it quiet?

>>379643746
Reminds me of infested Terran.
Starcraft movie when?

>>379636336

I would add Starman to that list as well.

Because of that movie I wish JC had made another collaboration with Jeff Bridges.

>>379643980
And another thing

In the 2011 eversion the thing has 11 minutes of screen time compared to the 15 in the original, then again that movie is a lot slower so make of that what you will.

>>379644482
>a creature that learns

It would've been great if the Thing actually had a character arc. It like starts off as a xenomorph antagonist, killing the crew as a slasher villain, but then about halfway through the film it starts to adapt as an infiltrator until lastly outsmarting the survivors and escaping.

Is there any other Lovecraftian-esque films that are not hot garbage? I love this film so much because of that lovecraft feeling but it's like the only one worth anything. And yeah, I know of Carpenters other lovecraftian attempts.

*screams internally*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZqT1DFCSOs

>>379644769
It can drive a space ship so it must be a intelligent creature

File: 1490972815135.jpg (59KB, 800x1140px) Image search: [Google]

59KB, 800x1140px

>>379631496
>Rabi-Ribi
I haven't watched The Thing but I'm pretty sure shit would get really bad really quickly.

File: 400c1d619d8848732dc8b43ba595f4d906ae72a0.jpg (497KB, 600x1167px) Image search: [Google]

497KB, 600x1167px

>>379631496
>The Thing has invaded its setting, how fucked is everyone?

Just another tuesday.

>>379644924
The Void is okay.

Mouth of Madness is THE adaption of Lovecraftian horror.

Prince of Darkness is slow, but the idea of an Anti-God is nicely done.

There is also the Burrowers, which has a good lovecraftian ending.

Dagon is decent if you want plenty of breeding in your horror.

The Descent I would say classifies in the niche since Lovecraft loved writing about degenerated humans.

There are some other ones that have twists, like Cabin in the Woods (but that's more of a corny comedy).

>>379644924
I would say that Dark City is Lovecraftian-esque and somewhat good

>>379645439
Dark City is just a great surrealist film in general.

>>379645345
Wait a minute the imperium doesn't use AI

File: the thing.jpg (147KB, 662x1000px) Image search: [Google]

147KB, 662x1000px

Why do you guys keep calling the 1982 film the original?

>>379631496
>Prey '17

not too much different

>>379645632
Because the original sucks and the 1982 version is both truer to the tone of the short story and a better movie technically and thematically.

>>379645632
Because the actual original shouldn't have existed. Even the prequel is better than that shit.

>>379645632
Because that is 'The Thing from Another World' not 'The Thing'.

>>379645632
Because the thing from another world barley has anything to do with the story it's based on while the 1982 version does.
>>379645772
The original does not suck

>>379645632
Because The Thing and The Thing form Another World are two different movies based on the same story. No relation otherwise

>>379631496
What does the Thing actually want?

>>379646242
frienship.

>>379643493
The Flood is literally set up to prevent stuff like The Thing to infect it.

>>379646242
To go home and leave the backwater planet it landed on

>>379646342
Kek. I want to be so close to you that it's like I'm inside you.

The scene where the Americans watch a video of the Norwegians at the UFO was actually a scene from TTFAW
I think it was removed from the Thing prequel and the UFO was too big for it to work.

>>379643454
Macready had a flamethrower under his coat and dynamite. Also its not 100% but Child's changed jackets which is a huge hint for assimilating. Not to mention it probably wasn't alcohol in the bottle he gives Child's but gasoline from the Molotov(The thing wouldn't know the difference of consider it). That's why MacReady laughs because it's his final checkmate with the thing(le chess scene in the beginning of the film). There's some other really relevant bullshit too on why CHild's is the thing in the end.. some guy named collaborate learning on youtube goes pretty in depth about all of it.

>>379631496
When was Blair assimilated?

>>379639850
underAAAAAAAAGED

>Risk Of Rain

Fuck.

>>379646941
Slowly over the course of the film. There may not have been a concrete point when he stopped being Blair and started being a Thing.

>>379643746
Doesn't the BluRay version allow you to watch the movie without the shitty Jewover?

File: tmp_980-ad8Pp_d1121180656.jpg (56KB, 640x574px) Image search: [Google]

56KB, 640x574px

>>379631496
Very fucked

>>379636768
Not as bad as the Cremator.
The stage is gg and the boss is gg.

>>379647336
What about Norris?

>>379647479
The Thing in Morrowind aesthetics would be legit nightmare fuel.

>>379642491
>or maybe control a limited number of forms at once.

Yep, does anyone have the link to the short story that tells everything from the Thing's point of view?

Last chapter explained that the thing had problems keeping control over different Things than Himself and that he had to "rape" the other Things to dominate them

>>379631496
Battlefront II

OUT OF MY WAY YOU ORGANIC CRAP

>>379645346

Thanks. It's funny because The Descent is another one of my favorite horror films, with the European ending at least.

>>379631496
>Kingdom Hearts
It possesses the 13 Xehanorts and then is promptly burnt the fuck out by a Fireaga

>Rimworld
Whatever, faggots that don't do dumb labor (which I'm forced to refer to as "colonists") deserve it.

Urbosa's Fury

Yawn

>tfw no mountain of madness movie
I just want to hear the teke-li-li

>>379636723
The Thing is the pinnacle of practical effects in movies.

The movie is great, but then the how it was made is amazing.

>>379636269
Watch out at your next feast though

File: 1496172453863.png (194KB, 500x375px) Image search: [Google]

194KB, 500x375px

>>379631496
>Resident Evil 2
Because we all know Birkin, Mr. X and the whole T-Virus aren't enough.

>>379647861
>"rape"

What do you mean by "rape"?

File: rogered.jpg (19KB, 488x488px) Image search: [Google]

19KB, 488x488px

>>379647874

File: del toro's house.jpg (232KB, 1024x667px) Image search: [Google]

232KB, 1024x667px

>>379648025

Yeah, was going to be directed by del Toro too. I heard it got stuck in production hell because Toro refused to "Hollywood" the script.

>>379631496
What if the last video game I played was The Thing?

>>379639085
That is practical effect.

It is amazing.

File: daddy long legs.jpg (171KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

171KB, 1280x720px

>>379631496
...yeah, we're fucked.

File: 1407430105029[1].jpg (16KB, 272x384px) Image search: [Google]

16KB, 272x384px

>>379640273
>I got caught as underage so I went to Wikipedia to salvage my comment

File: 1453168918664.png (451KB, 855x436px) Image search: [Google]

451KB, 855x436px

>>379631496
>Darkest Dungeon

Business as usual then

File: 1447007385266.jpg (96KB, 595x539px) Image search: [Google]

96KB, 595x539px

>StarCraft 2

Nothing new to be honest

Man, I fucking love the thing.

Is the xbox game as good as I remember? It was hard as fuck if my memory's good

>>379648337
What are you even talking about?

unless your game takes place in a frozen wasteland devoid of biomatter, the thing eats the entire world in 5 minutes. the end.

great thread op.

File: 1403365676638[1].jpg (80KB, 488x519px) Image search: [Google]

80KB, 488x519px

>>379640881
Could the Thing assimilate an SMT Demon? I know you can eat them, but they're also partially beings of pure energy summoned via computers.

>The Thing assimilates a Demon
>It then is able to infiltrate the Demon Summoning Program/Amala Network and infect all of reality

File: 1460238759339.jpg (72KB, 420x750px) Image search: [Google]

72KB, 420x750px

>>379648613
The game was quite raw but the concept was bitching.

>>379638992
If it assimilated Norris, why didn't it attack MacReady when they were alone in the ancient spaceship? I think Palmer was the Thing first.

>>379633349
Isn't xeno blood acid? If so I don't think assimilation would even be possible. But xeno can't really kill the thing either.

>>379648754
Demons get sick
I think the Thing could assimilate them

>Stellaris
>Empire is post-synth ascension and technologically on the level of FE's

might do some bad things to the few organic migrants but overall either it stays under the radar in some shitty backwater or else it's fairly quickly destroyed

unless course it spawns on another empire's planet in which case, nuking it from orbit would be a good choice

File: 1403016908220[1].gif (863KB, 500x281px) Image search: [Google]

863KB, 500x281px

>>379644593
Anon, I'm going to need a blood sample.

>>379634557
Watch this analysis, pretty neat!
https://youtu.be/SppG-I_Dhxw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8faq5amdK30

>>379647684
There isn't even a hint as to when Norris was gotten to beyond "after Palmer gets assimilated and before the blood bank"

The theory behind Blair is when he is examining the remains of the thing they found at the Norwegian base he touches it with the eraser on the end of his pencil and then puts that in his mouth. It's said later that a particle is enough to take over an entire organism. Which is why that's the commonly accepted theory

>>379644934
>70s and 80s horror remakes were better than the originals in every way
>nowadays they're all dog shit

What the fuck happened to quality remakes like Hammer Films, The Blob, and JC's The Thing?

>>379631496
>alien parasite
>bloodborne
Things become a bit more eldritch, other than that, just another day in yharnam

File: 1496913838874.jpg (13KB, 480x360px) Image search: [Google]

13KB, 480x360px

>Rising Storm 2

I hate those Things...

>>379649525
Passion became profit

>>379649525

30's+ horror were all kind of bad... silent films have a quality to them that some of them are still unsettling and good, especially that german expressionism. But horror movies of the 30s and on get fucked, especially when the Hays production code was enforced, american movies got fucked, especially horror. In short, 80's didn't have to do much to improve on early films.