Friday, November 21, 2008

The Thing is better than your God.

John Carpenter's The Thing is the greatest movie ever made. It starts off slowly, with a spaceship crashing in Antarctica and some Norwegian guys flying a helicopter after a dog trying to murder it. Boring you say? Well I say "frig off". Then, they land the copter, blow it up, get shot by these American researchers and the dog survives. But it isn't a dog. It's an alien. So then all the Yanks are running about when all of a sudden serious shit starts happening. The dog transforms into a weird octopus/bodybuilder thing, then this Bennings guy gets infected and he gets burnt but Blair goes mad. So they lock him up and he starts to build another spaceship coz he's the Thing like, and while this is going on the other Thing's are ruining peoples shit until Macready decides to go mental. He burns all these fella's blood samples and Palmer goes ape-shit and bites Window's head with his own half-head. Macready kills it but it's too late. Blair is nearly finished building his ship. So then Macready, Nauls and Gary try and kill Blair but he has transformed into some seriously creepy monster/mutant. Macready has finally had enough of this shit, and tells it to fuck itself before throwing dynamite at it and pissing off. He does a summersault just before he kills it because he is Macready and he is just that awesome. He destroys the camp and sits down to drink bourbon, then Childs wanders up coz he got lost in the snow storm. Who can he trust? 'Hell if I know. But even if Childs was the Thing it probably wouldn't want to attack Macready considering Macready just served the Thing a healthy portion of fail. Fuck the Thing.

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