Hello, Sarah Marshall. Hello, Alex Steve. So we're talking about what today and why is it our first movie of a 2021?

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Whatever fucking year this is, we're doing John Carpenter's The Thing, which is a movie about frigid temperatures and snow and paranoia and

and trying to stop a contagion from taking over the entire world. It's very relevant and it's also one of the great horror movies of the late 20th century. It's John Carpenter at his best.

I feel like I'm saying this over and over. I think we're doing a lot of movies these days that are like a director producing a masterpiece and this is one of them.

So we have coming up in the show to die for, which I think we agree is a Gospels and Masterpiece and then Good Fellas where you know Martin Scorsese probably arguably had a handful of Masterpieces before Good Fellas, but I can think of no more of a Corsese Masterpiece than Good Fellas itself.

That one's like a Master Masterpiece. That's where like we become whatever the thing above that is. Yeah, we also talked about Titanic as our last movie of 2021.

Another Masterpiece, another chilly, chilly tale. Yeah, you know that I love the seasonal picks and so you're indulging me in having some movies that are very cold. This is a cold movie.

And we were talking about it with Brad Bannon who we less off for a very hot movie. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, the dichotomy here is we had him for our hottest movie and we have him for our coldest movie. Yeah, that's cool.

This is a good party question. Would you rather be at the outpost in The Thing or on the Titanic?

Yeah, don't do too many indoor things, but if you do bring this one up and people will be like, there's an intellectual.

There's someone who wants to talk about something scary that isn't the scary thing happening right now. Yes. So that's nice.

What's the selling point of this movie? Why would people want to check this out?

So first of all, this is a Kurt Russell movie and those are always fun. Kurt Russell is always fun, even in this very intense movie.

I mean, I feel like this is a new year movie that kind of bookends the new year along with Titanic because we just kind of said goodbye to 2021.

And now we're saying hello to the horrible situation we remain in with The Thing. I don't think that's very enticing though. I mean, I'm going to do a hard sell in one minute.

Okay, this is a really beautiful movie. It has a gorgeous moody soundtrack by Ennio Morecone.

It's got a bunch of great performances. The practical effects are gorgeous. They're very gross. It is a beautiful movie and a gross movie.

It's about as we talk about in this episode, the way people behave in a certain desk situation and what it means when we try to do the right thing when we know we're not making it out of this one alive.

It's also kind of a alien western, which I think is a great flavor of movie and a superstition by Stevie Wonder. That part's great too. Almost at a time.

No, we can guy can't shoot. What's that about? Okay.

We often talk like in these episodes about like feelings, the movie of folks. And usually those feelings take place in a world in which we still have some agency and control over the outcome of our situation.

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