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Beast — 2 years ago(November 30, 2023 05:54 PM)
Flamethrower to thaw out equipment that gets frozen, dynamite because their scientific experiments dealt with them excavating under the ice.
The arctic refers to the north pole, in the movie they were at the south pole
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AnthonySocksss — 1 year ago(October 26, 2024 09:24 PM)
A flamethrower is napalm, it would make no sense to thaw out equipment with a weapon. You would just end up destroying whatever you’re flaming.
Real Antarctic research stations use other methods like heating rods or hot air blowers.
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WarrenPeace — 2 years ago(February 04, 2024 04:51 PM)
And I bet out of all the stations from all the other countries that America was the only one with guns and an armed guard because it is ****ing America which is so ****ing paranoid of everyone else while being aggressive and a bully at the same time.
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AnthonySocksss — 1 year ago(October 26, 2024 09:27 PM)
It would’ve made more sense for them to rig the flamethrowers together, but then it would be an even bigger copy of alien.
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WarrenPeace — 1 year ago(October 26, 2024 09:52 PM)
What do you mean by "rigging them together" and how would that have copied Alien?
This is a remake of The Thing From Another World (1951) so I don't see how it copies Alien at all.
If anything I would say Alien stole from the orig. movie since that came first.
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AnthonySocksss — 1 year ago(October 26, 2024 09:58 PM)
Because in alien they rigged flamethrower units together. This movie has barely anything to do with the 1951 version and is not a remake of that. But this movie was made by the Studio in an attempt to capitalize on Alien’s success.
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WarrenPeace — 1 year ago(October 26, 2024 10:06 PM)
Because in alien they rigged flamethrower units together.
I don't remember them doing that.
I guess you mean they taped them together?
Would have been impossible to do with tanks on the back.
This movie has barely anything to do with the 1951 version and is not a remake of that.
Did you not see the first one?
They were stuck in an arctic base with a mysterious alien terrifying them.
I don't remember if it was a shape shifter though.
Yes, there are differences but the first one did inspire this one and Alien.
I was guessing but it turns out I was right.
(Alien writer Dan) O'Bannon drew inspiration from many works of science fiction and horror. He later said: "I didn't steal Alien from anybody. I stole it from everybody!"[36] The Thing from Another World (1951) inspired the idea of professional men being pursued by a deadly alien creature through a claustrophobic environment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)#:~:text=O'Bannon drew inspiration from,creature through a claustrophobic environment
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But this movie was made by the Studio in an attempt to capitalize on Alien’s success.
A guess based on an observation or is there a source that backs this up?
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AnthonySocksss — 1 year ago(October 26, 2024 10:19 PM)
In Alien, the engineer jury-rigs some makeshift flamethrowers together using flammable liquid, and a butane lighter taped to a pneumatic gun.
Yes I’ve seen the 1951 version, it’s not a shapeshifter, it’s a giant vegetable man. The 1982 version was more faithful to the original book, but Carpenter was still clearly inspired by Alien.
“The project then languished for a few years until the success of “Alien” saw it pick up steam again, and Carpenter, who’d reinvented the horror genre with “Halloween,” was loosely attached, although didn’t want to write the script himself.”
https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/5-things-you-might-not-know-about-john-carpenters-the-thing-109062/
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WarrenPeace — 1 year ago(October 26, 2024 10:23 PM)
Yes I’ve seen the 1951 version, it’s not a shapeshifter, it’s a giant vegetable man. The 1982 version was more faithful to the original book
Did you read the book?
I am interested in it and last time I checked, a couple of years ago, I think they said a newer version was going to include some extra stuff in it that did not get published the first time?
OK so Thing/World inspired Alien and Alien inspired Thing.
Everyone in media business steals ideas of this and that from each other time to time.
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AnthonySocksss — 1 year ago(October 26, 2024 11:38 PM)
I read bits and pieces of the novella, never finished, but what I did read was pretty good. It obviously leaves more to the imagination than the movie did as to what the creature looks like. There’s also a short story from the Thing’s perspective.
Alien also wouldn’t have gotten made without the success of Star Wars.
What’s even funnier is that the writer of Alien, Dan O’Bannon, made a film called Dark Star a few years prior which was directed by Carpenter and was his original dry run for Alien. Except the alien was a beach ball.
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WarrenPeace — 1 year ago(October 26, 2024 11:51 PM)
What’s even funnier is that the writer of Alien, Dan O’Bannon, made a film called Dark Star a few years prior which was directed by Carpenter and was his original dry run for Alien. Except the alien was a beach ball.
Yeah, I saw it once and thought it was weird.
I would give it another chance to see if it is any better.
AFAIRecall I think there was a groovy song being played while they were doing their space things?
Wasn't the beach ball a droid or a friendly alien?
I don't remember it being an enemy.
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