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He can’t sing for shit though
And so continues the annoying trend of naming sequels after the first movie in a series, just to confuse people even more.
<blockquote> Yeah.... A little different. Not too many music genera advocate the degree of violence (killing police, gangs, drug use, etc.) and debasement of women as "hip hop".</blockquote>
Lol, most rock and roll songs sing about those same things. Get your head out of your ass
Read Guns germs and steel. The only reason Europeans conquered most of the world was because of the blind luck of being born in a geographically advantageous part of the earth. Also the distance from the equator coincidentally means they have differing amounts of melatonin. The idea that “white is right” is just a narrative they manufactured after the fact.
Yeah, nothing to do with the exploding wealth gap in what is supposed to be the largest and richest developed economy in the world, derrr
A lot of the time their “thumbs” were relative. For example, both of them gave <i>Sudden Death</i> a thumbs up — a pretty mediocre movie — yet Ebert himself rated it 2 1/2 stars, which is a pretty fair assessment. As Ebert himself said, there was more to reviewing movies than just “the dumb thumbs and stars,” and there were “gradations and context.”
The imitations absolutely know they are a Thing. They couldn’t be anything else. They are no longer human, they are an alien mass disguised to resemble one. It’s clear that each Thing (Norris-Thing, Palmer-Thing, Blair-Thing, Dog-Thing) is its own separate consciousness as well, with its own free will.
<blockquote> The Thing does not even imitate all the internal organs,</blockquote>
The Thing does mimic internal organs as shown when Blair dissects the split-face thing. Which is still what leads me to believe Norris-Thing inherited a duplicated heart defect.
As for single cell infection theory? Not likely once you consider the biology of the Thing and how it works.
<blockquote> Why did the alien even bother trying to assimilate the men out in the cold winter where they kept destroying the assimilated men/alien copies with flamethrowers and dynamite?</blockquote>
Every time the Thing assimilated someone it did it for its own survival. The Thing wanted to just hitch a ride to civilization, but the Americans grew wise once they discovered what happened at the Norwegian camp. Once it took over the Earth it would probably go back into outer space and take over more planets/organisms. The scary idea is that there are probably entire planets out there composed of nothing but Things.
I believe the other dogs would have noticed the Dog-Thing was an imitation and would have eventually attacked it or alerted their owners to its intentions. The dog-thing was acting in self defense at that point.
It also probably calculated that it had a better chance of survival by quickly absorbing the other dogs — as it knew the Americans had discovered what happened at the Norwegian camp and were going to probably test the dog-thing — but unfortunately for it Clark noticed the commotion.
Or in horrible agony. Before he was assassinated, JFK suffered from chronic fatigue, nausea, dizziness, constipation/bloody diarrhea, joint ache, urethritis and never-ending, debilitating back pain. If anything, the shooter put him out of his misery.
Because it can’t. It’s an amoeba, not a virus. Think of “The Blob,” but not only can it absorb its victims, it spits out duplicates of said victims.
Going by the lore, the larger a Thing is then the more intelligent it is. It’s able to use duplicated memories/knowledge/anatomy to build objects, such as how Blair-Thing was building a spaceship.
However, when it breaks off into smaller things (like Norris-Thing’s head) it is not as intelligent and more like a mindless animal. Each separate Thing is also its own entity, so there is no shared hive-mind.
Each time the Thing revealed itself it was on the verge of being discovered. However, it is able to assimilate people by silently attacking them as well, such as how Blair-Thing fused its hand with Garry’s face to muffle his screams.
Fox already destroyed the Alien franchise
I enjoy Goldeneye much more on repeat rewatches compared to Casino Royale. CR is arguably just as ridiculous as Goldeneye. The whole love story is hackneyed, and Craig just looks like a Polish boxer. He is boring.
Hardy doesn’t have the Star power/draw of any of those actors though
<blockquote> The thing probably knew that the humans were smart and would soon figure out how the thing worked by studying the corpse, and would then turn their suspicions towards the dog next</blockquote>
Bingo, exactly. The Thing had no choice at that point, as it was on the verge of being discovered. When Clark put it in the holding pen it was only a matter of time until the other dogs would notice it wasn’t a real dog. So it had to assimilate them all there and then.
Upon a closer rewatch Windows appeared to be covered in a thick layer of slime that was most likely slowly assimilating him. He was making a lot of inhuman croaking noises that sounded like he was becoming a Thing.
I’m just postulating as to why would logically happen according to what’s been dictated by the movie. You’re assuming the thing had or would be able to catch and replicate a fish or seal or something. If it fell into the Antarctic Ocean it would quickly freeze and just sink to the bottom, it doesn’t show any natural protections from subzero temperatures such as a natural anti-freeze, nor the ability to swim.
Anyway, there was a deleted scene where Bennings and McReady try to stop the dogs from reaching the coast, and Bennings gets dragged under the ice by The Thing, but unfortunately it remains a depleted scene, so it’s all just a big guessing game.
Ah, the existential horror of working degrading, minimum wage service jobs.
So just tell her to sell more apps. Problem solved.