John Carpenter's The Thing w. Brad Bannon
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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We don't know what the Hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is. Join us and our good pal Brad Bannon as we discuss John Carpenter's The Thing!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Sarah Marshall. |
| 0:07.6 | Hello, Alex Steed. |
| 0:09.2 | So we're talking about what today and why is it our first movie of a 2021? |
| 0:15.3 | 22. |
| 0:16.6 | That's the one. |
| 0:18.7 | Let's keep that in. |
| 0:19.7 | Whatever fucking year this is. We're doing John Carpenter's the one. Let's keep that in. Whatever fucking year this is. |
| 0:21.7 | We're doing John Carpenter's The Thing, which is a movie about frigid temperatures |
| 0:29.3 | and snow and paranoia and trying to stop a contagion from taking over the entire world. |
| 0:39.1 | It's very relevant. |
| 0:40.4 | And it's also one of the great horror movies of the late 20th century. |
| 0:45.6 | It's John Carpenter at his best. |
| 0:48.1 | I feel like I'm saying this over and over. |
| 0:49.6 | I think we're doing a lot of movies these days that are like a director producing a masterpiece and this is one of |
| 0:55.2 | them so we have coming up in the show to die for which i think we agree is a gus vincent masterpiece |
| 1:01.8 | and then goodfellas where you know marins christasy probably arguably had a handful of masterpieces |
| 1:07.0 | before goodfellas but i can think of no more of a, of course, easy masterpiece than Goodfellas |
| 1:13.7 | itself. That one's like a master masterpiece. That's where like we become whatever the thing above that is. Yeah. And we also |
| 1:19.9 | talked about Titanic as our last movie of 2021. Another masterpiece, another chilly, chilly tale. |
| 1:26.3 | Yeah. You know that I love the seasonal picks. and so you're indulging me in having some movies that are very cold. |
| 1:33.1 | This is a cold movie. |
| 1:35.0 | And we were talking about it with Brad Bannon, who we last saw for a very hot movie. |
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