The Thing from Another World

I just want to throw that out there.

Wait, so, Oh, wait, so are you doing the, the, is the film, the thing from another world that you're calling out from 1951? Okay.

Howard Hawks.

Yep.

couple of my criteria there.

So yeah, that would be what I like to throw in through the mix of just something, uh, fun and different for the spooky season.

Because, I mean, I don't know if we're going to be doing this in three years from now still, but, or two years from now, I mean, but I was going to say it'd be interesting to do the thing from another world, the thing, and then the, I don't know if it was a requel, a sequel, a prequel, whatever that one that came out in there.

It turned

He opens by describing its physical impact as a strong whiff of palpable nerve-straining shock, and he says that Alien can be relied upon to amaze its audience.

but he argues that almost none of the underlying story is particularly original, comparing its basic ingredients with older movies such as The Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Thing from Another World, which is the original The Thing, for those that don't know that.

Where Alien becomes exceptional, and in his view, is the filmmaking.

And his reservations were primarily about the writing.

right.

Yeah, mid-range early 2000s, right? The black and white footage shown to Julian Rome is footage from The Thing from Another World.

This footage was also used in the remake of The Thing from Another World and John Carpenter's The Thing 1982.

And it is a film that R.J. McCready finds in the destroyed Norwegian camp.

There you go.

John Carpenter's The Thing.

Even the original The Thing From Another World is probably my favorite black and white monster movie next to Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Nice.

Definitely does.

... maybe we need a good shakeup.

[laughs] It's like, uh, in, in my favorite, uh, science fiction movie about aliens, the, the, uh, movie called The Thing From Another World, 1951, it's like the, uh, uh, scientist in there is, as they're standing, uh, uh, about to, uh, uh, melt the ice where a flying saucer had embedded itself-

Yeah

... and the, one of the reporters says, "What, well, what can they, what can you learn?" He, he says, "Just think the secrets of the universe.

1951.

Mm-hmm.

And the, the, uh, The Thing from Another World with, uh, James Arness played the, uh, Karos man, and, uh-

Yep

Yeah.

It's funny, but it's a bit like The Thing from Another Planet or Thing from Another World, um, you know, and The Thing.

Like, they're so different because of the, the special effects and whatever, but they're both equally good.

Um, so as this...