The Thing (1982)

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🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot (Kurt Russell) and the camp doctor (Richard Dysart) lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one. In honor of October, Halloween, and scaring Max. Today on Buzzn The Tower we'll work ourselves into a paranoid frenzy as we talk about the John Carpenter cult classic, The Thing. I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me as always the Wilford Brimley to my Kurt Russell, Max Sanders. And with that.

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0:00.0	The thing is, is, it's one of those fascinating 80s movies that when it came out was grossly underappreciated.
0:12.0	The critics didn't like it. Fans were lukewarm on it.
0:15.3	And there's some reasons for that. You said, how did this happen? Isn't this just
0:19.3	Carpenter's MO for the 80s that people just didn't understand what he was doing at the time
0:22.9	Halloween crushed it out the gate 78 no I mean yes I you're right yeah like but that was
0:29.5	a no I mean how was big trouble in Little China? B bombed.
0:33.0	Oh, it did?
0:34.0	Yeah, I remember it came out the same week as aliens, it did really badly.
0:36.0	So it's interesting be, I'm gonna go.
0:38.0	They lived, didn't make money.
0:39.0	I'm gonna go to a fact right away.
0:40.0	Yeah.
0:41.0	There's an argument that part of why the thing didn't do well is because it came out two weeks after
0:44.6	E.T. and the general public was all warm and fuzzied up to this idea of E.T.
0:49.4	And then it's like, well, and then there's this other alien movie that's not so much like that.
0:53.0	So I mean is Carpenter the victim of like horrific PR timing on all the releases of his movies?
0:57.4	No, just ahead of his time and a little weird I think. Welcome to Buzz in the Tower, a podcast dedicated to the movies of the 1980s.
1:09.3	Prepare to be stuffed in our DeLorian and taken on a trip through the best decade of film ever.
1:14.0	Hey Mo, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88.
1:17.6	Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
1:20.9	So if you love Caddy Shack, the Goonies, aliens, weird science, spies like us, the great
1:25.7	outdoors, Empire Strikes Back, The Great Muppet Caper, Pretty and Pink, Predator, Rocky Four,
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