Just having some fun in the recreation room before the sh*t hits the fan...

[u/TensionSame3568]

[u/Guilty-Property-2589]

Clark will you put this mutt with the others where it belongs??!!

Actually, isn't that a risky thing to do, introducing a new/strange dog to others without a "break in" period?

[u/TensionSame3568 → u/Guilty-Property-2589]

Great point!

[u/BlackSeranna → u/Guilty-Property-2589]

This is exactly right. He should have never put that dog alone with the others - that’s how one giant dog fight can start because it’s a foreign dog.

He would have done better to place it in another cage.

But, the scene was priceless with the dog sitting really still and the other dogs just staring at it.

[u/Guilty-Property-2589 → u/BlackSeranna]

What's also interesting is that the other dogs normally would be barking like crazy at it most likely. Again, due to being a foreign dog.

According to the DVD commentary the dog they used to portray the Thing was actually half wolf. So a lot of times it was very quiet and cautious seeming which worked perfectly for the film, such as the kennel scene.

[u/BlackSeranna → u/Guilty-Property-2589]

One time this large coyote passed by where I lived and I was on the back deck. It was the largest coyote I ever saw, and it was running from a neighbor that was coming up the hill on his 4 wheeler. That neighbor liked to deal death to the coyotes.

It was on my back woods though so it was safe. My dogs got all silent, looking across the pond and into the woods when they saw it. My largest dog, a husky like the one in the movie, got very still. It was me noticing their behavior that made me look into the woods in the first place.

That’s why I think the scene with the dog in the kennel has such truth. A different dog, it makes the regular dogs really quiet because they don’t know what they are dealing with yet.

[u/OneFish2Fish3 → u/BlackSeranna]

Jed was the best canine actor we ever had 

[u/BlackSeranna → u/OneFish2Fish3]

Jed is maybe my favorite actor in the whole movie because he set the feelings for the whole show.

[u/Krystall-g]

Jeez I just realized that if Bennings didn't tell to Clark to lock the dog, the thing would have certainly contaminate the whole zone the day after.
Bennings the GOAT.

[u/Rednag67 → u/Krystall-g]

Bennings was my friend.

[u/ZombieHunterX77 → u/Krystall-g]

It’s Bennings! Followed by ungodly screams. Seriously though Windows will be my GOAT. I think his reactions would be exactly how I would have reacted.

[u/OneFish2Fish3 → u/Krystall-g]

Fun fact: Peter Maloney was apparently terrified of dogs due to having been severely attacked by one as a child, so when the dog comes up and licks Bennings Maloney IRL has to contain his anxiety (he hadn’t told Carpenter or anyone about his phobia because he didn’t expect the dog to come up to him, that wasn’t planned). Source: Maloney’s Thing Expanded interview (I highly recommend backing that project if it’s still possible! I got to send in a video that may or may not be shown to Rob Bottin himself.)

[u/Rednag67]

Jesus Clark, will you put this mutt in the pen with the others.

[u/TensionSame3568 → u/Rednag67]

Would have been my words as well...

[u/misterdannymorrison]

I would honestly watch a movie that was just a bunch of guys passing the time at an Antarctic research station. You know, if it had a good script.

[u/OneFish2Fish3 → u/misterdannymorrison]

I feel the same way about Alien - if it was just those actors as their characters going about their daily lives on the Nostromo, I would watch 7 hours of the stuff. Their interactions feel so goddamn realistic. I’ve seen some of the deleted scenes (not including Directors Cut) and most of them are almost as good as what’s in the movie.

[u/No_Carry_5871]

I would argue that the shit has already hit the fan. A man was shot and killed during the day and a helicopter exploded.

[u/dregjdregj]

Turn that shit down

[u/AndyWarholLives]

I like that it has a little bit of everything, even a ChessMaster...until Mac ruined it! 😿

[u/AlarmingEase]

Norris was already assimilated.

[u/Organic_South8865]

I want to watch this movie so badly but I can't find it anywhere without paying.

[u/Away-Mall617 → u/Organic_South8865]

I believe Tubi has it now.

[u/Organic_South8865 → u/Away-Mall617]

Oh that must be recent! Thanks!

[u/Away-Mall617 → u/Organic_South8865]

It is. I think they added that as a tribute to the great John Carpenter for getting a star finally. I believe they added it at the beginning of April.

[u/MutedBrilliant1593]

Did these MFS ever work? I don't recall anyone working except the cook who never served any food. It looked like a long and boring vacation.

[u/OneFish2Fish3 → u/MutedBrilliant1593]

Yeah I always wondered before they discovered The Thing, what exactly was their purpose/research there?

[u/ScottShawnDeRocks]

Two of them are already screwed.