After a long day of work, Kanye West goes to his Kanye Nest to take his Kanye Rest. He wakes up feeling his Kanye Best. Then he’ll get Kanye Dressed into his Kanye Vest to go on a Kanye Quest. He goes to church and becomes Kanye Blessed, then to a hotel room to be a Kanye Guest. Then to school to take his Kanye Test. He forgot to brush his teeth. Did he run out of Kanye Crest? His neighbor stole it, what a Kanye Pest.
I'm not sure how to feel about movie analyses on your channel. On the one hand I prefer the more open subjects of your other videos, allowing you to explore various ideas. On the other hand, I'd be interested to see you do other movies. Maybe pink floyd: the wall down the road?
Hey just curious, not trying to pester you, will there be a How Trump Won part two? Or How Trump Lost? Anything like that after the election whatever the results may be? Not upset if there isn't going to be. Just thought I'd ask.
@EmpLemon I love the video but I can’t see how you criticize McCarthy for going too far when all summer long we’ve had organized groups of communists and anarchists rioting in the streets and imposing their will upon the public. He was right. About everything. The long march through the institutions is complete.
@Ya Knoe I also saw that, glad i wasn't hallucinating lol. It was funny bc I didn't know what video from my watch later had been removed lol, so I was upset.
When the vid came back i I realized it was this video which I had already watched lol
And I also want to add that if you do it, I think you should use the song "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who for the intro and outro parts of the video just to keep something neat from the first video. By the way that video was very very good, and I bet you'd make another really good one. No matter what they say, there are people who appreciate what you do ; )
Not sure if you've seen it before, but there's also a short story written from the perspective of the Thing. It's very much worth a read: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
It's the particularly realistic depiction of people under crisis and the shocking, horrifying body horror SFX that guarantee this film a place in my nightmares forever, ever since I first saw it over 30 years ago.
Love channel man, you really speak fluently and on point with context and little bias but yet still driving in deep into physiological idiosyncrasies. Idk I'm drunk best I can do. Just thank you bro. Jimmy k vid was fantastic aswell
Do you like The Twilight Zone a very imaginative series I'm under the impression that there will never be another great series like the original Twilight Zone Series in the 1950s to 60s
I would love to see your take on Escape from New York and They Live, Hell , Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers and Existenz too, love your work emp
The thing I find so terrifying is the fact that this was seen as Nihilistic back now, but more realistic now. We look at other movies like Blade Runner and we say that’s so nihilistic, but every day it seems to be more realistic than the day before.
Absolutely. This movie came out a couple of years before I was born but it scared the absolute shit out of me when I saw it for the first time as a teenager and remains one of my favorite movies.
@Kaxenia Kristelle seeing how well the effects hold up after over 30 years compared to CG effects from a movie that came out even just 10 years ago is insane. CG effects age like milk
@Cole Marriott I feel like I’m rare instances some cg can hold up. Like some shots in the original Jurassic Park still look good. But for the majority of instances you’re right
The Thing's critical reception reminds me of when critics first found progressive rock and hated it. Sometimes only time can tell, and some critics are just thick as a brick.
It's strange to us now ... but the popular mood had overdosed on grim downer movies in the previous decade. If you released the most transcendent greatest Zombie movie in 2021 it wouldn't pop like in 2011. Also the amount of gore crossed the line with critics into what was seen in the day as low-culture and lacking intelligence. People were burnt out on the Cold War too. We remember all the cool culture now but the herd was into some basic comfort entertainment, the gems were great however.
I didn’t think that the big league critics were staggeringly incompetent before the internet social media age but this video sure enlightened me to that
@Amuro Ray that's why when I judge the film's quality I try to leave the effects out of it because I've seen the original puppets and models and know that it was a stupid circumstance of bureaurocratics that hurt the film. damn shame bc Studio ADI produces some banger stuff in the workshop
@Turbulent Thrombosis The Thing 2011 happened. It exists, and your denying of reality isn't going to change that. Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
@Turbulent Thrombosis Yeah, because the guy who lies and then tells people to shut up is fun at parties... I was just pointing out a fact, I don't see why you felt the need to be so hostile.
Well, pretty hard to live up to the 1982 one, wich is for me the greatest horror/sci-fi ever put on film.
But i still enjoyed the sequel/prequel of 2011, yeah the CGI effects somewhat ruined the awesome real models they created, and that were supposed to be used, but overall it's a decent flick.
@Amuro Ray Not only that but you can clearly see clark charging him with a scalpel with the intent to cause grave bodily harm. Definately justified self defense.
I think something nobody thinks about is that Mac was already given the idea he could be rushed at any moment at multiple points as he was actually trying to take control and make the right decision.
Now if that were you in that scenario, especially after being left alone to freeze in the cold due to being framed without knowing so, I think you'd be on edge enough to kill in order to try and keep things together to go against the thing
Probably one of my favorite things about this movie was also the fact that no one acted stupid in this movie for the sake of plot convenience like in a lot of other horror movies. For most of the movie everyone were actually making pretty sound decisions considering the circumstances they're in (isolating the base so the alien couldn't escape, trying to use a blood test to identify it, keeping MacReady out after he starts seeming mad sus), and the bad decisions you do see them make you can still see why they might do it.
sorry to necro this but after watching it the only thing i thought was really dumb was the multiple times a character alone would chase the thing without letting ANYONE else know
But that is the point. As the video here states, paranoia was a part of the movie's theme. Why would anyone then tell a group of people, of which no one doesn't trust eachother with any kind of information about themselves, that they are chasing the monster? For all they know, the people they speak to could also be the monster, which would then hunt that person down.
the way that the critics brought up their distaste for how realistically the characters acted really shows how out of touch a lot of people today choose to be
And considering how horrible the inner workings of Hollywood are (which people have become aware of because of people like Weinstein being exposed) it makes you wonder if those critics were simply made uncomfortable due to seeing a familiar reflection of themselves.
Funny coincidence that EmpLemon used clips of 2019 Joker in this video, one of the most relevant examples of critics once again denigrating their own purpose by berating a piece of media possessing the kind of quality that should be hailed by cinema enthusiasts
One thing I would have given critics back in the 80’s is they at least lived in a culture that prioritised the idealized, safe outlook on inoffensive, non-thought challenging media given the lingering fear that the common perception of communism gave them and the much more present and newer terror of the AIDs epidemic. That might be why critics stigmatized movies like this that were far ahead of their time and held up mirrors to the most troubling aspects of society. I’m sure that plenty of people back then (in fact, many people today even) would rather muffle those kinds of ideas in an effort to give the problems they’re based off less overall presence
Just a quick reminder that the 2011 reboot of The Thing was supposed to be a love letter to the original, with practical effects and all, but the producers said "you know, CGI is popular, that's what the kids want, so that's what you're going to do" and they scrapped ALL of it. Somewhere, out there, exists a cut of that film with practical effects. All we've been left with is some... thing posing in it's place.
I love the inept logic of "it's inplausible, why won't they band together" - can you group up if grouping up can result with being stabbed in the back? To have a common enemy you have to know the enemy to begin with.
Exactly. Group up in pairs of two? One or both could be the monster. In pairs of three? One monster could still overpower two people. The only criticism that's valid is that MacReady didn't do the blood test until it was already too late, but given the circumstances its not realistic that they would think of the perfect solution off the bat.
Apparently the original idea was from when the devs were kids they'd use cards to determine the impostor and tag people to 'kill' them (something along those lines)
then the rest of it was definitely added in from The Thing
@AxxL I want to believe this comment is some kind of incel joke mocking Chads or something, But considering I have found the exact same comment from you from somewhere else, The chances of this being a One off joke is non existent
@Draws Was just about to say that, especially OneyPlays video on it where they sabotaged an game and kept shifting the blame getting random players punished instead.
@SevenShooter changelings, the blob could technically be an alien, xenomorph rounds, etc. I wasn't saying otherwise, just that the game does in fact have playable aliens.
Uhhh yeah there is a reason is called ahead of his time, if aliens gave us the ultimate perfect tecnology how are we supposed to used it when we don't even know what it is?
"sir, this is a horror film" that's not the point either, it's a story that doesn't allow room for warmth or humanity because you can't trust anybody. not to get too literal, but they're trapped in antarctica with a monster. not much room for warmth or humanity there.
@plasticweapon Holy shit that's such a great point about it -- the plot and setting are directly related to the tone and themes on an allegorical scale.
I saw all 4 movies in the theater when they came out.
ET was cute, I guess. Have never felt the urge to watch it again.
Poltergeist - I found this boring overall but I did like the Indian burial ground idea. Never saw this movie a second time and I only think about it on Thanksgiving when my sister-in-law, Carol Ann, visits.
In my opinion, Blade Runner and The Thing are amongst some of the finest movies ever made and I have seen each over 50 times.
Wait a minute, if each cell can be a separate monster and split off from other instances of the Thing, and with some theorizing that Macready himself could have been a Thing and fairly early on at that, is the suggestion then that the Thing finds itself in conflict with itself? An imitation doesn't know just by looking which of the crew are also initiations so each instance is also in a state of paranoia about the others?
That would add such an extra layer to the movie if the monster doesn't even know who to trust. Whoa.
I think I’ve heard it said the thing has been shown to deliberately attack other “things,” if it means it can allow it to deceive people and to survive and further the cause. And yes I think it’s been established that each thing can recognize a kindred thing.
I think I'm not the only one like it around here, but I don't get scared by unknown, bc, well... I don't know it...I got scared by knowing more and more... Bc reality is way worse than any fiction...
@Atomic Kat i'm not, its just always funny to see how buttmad lovecraft fans get when you mention the fact he was a racist which continues to provide amusing self serious responses to this day
@Postal Dude SAYS THE GUY WHO NAMED HIMSELF POSTAL DUDE, your series is literally all about being an edgy tryhard. Would you rather Lovecraft use his cat as a suppressor?
@Atomic Kat just because racism was socially accepted at the time doesn't suddenly mean it was okay to be racist back then. racism is still bad regardless if everyone around you openly accepts it or not
There’s an extremely acclaimed theory about the Thing: An advanced alien race which had already developed space travel, discovered a strange creature on a different planet, which had the ability to amalgamate and perfectly imitate any organism it consumes. The aliens decide to study it and maybe use it in one way or another. However, the Thing samples somehow escaped, wiping out the entire alien race. What was left of that race tried to escape and colonize other planets as their home. The Thing once again managed to hijack one of the ships. The crew members pulled an Among Us and died off, one by one, being assimilated by the Thing. The last alien finds a planet, Earth. The alien then decides that destroying the monstrosity that wiped out its race is more important than its life. It crashes headfirst into the planet, but the Thing survives and assimilates the alien, then bursts outside, but freezing in the Antarctic expanse, later to be found by the Norwegians, and ultimately the Americans.
"ToTAllY dEvoiD oF eiThEr wArmTh anD HuMaNitY", the movie is literally a lovecraftian nightmare which takes place in the ices of Antarctica, and you expect it to be warm and feel-good? Starlog shut up
@Taylor It’s more like I could never enjoy something without any warmth in it. Like why would I? So I get fear and depression or something? It’s a fair critique. How can something be entertaining yet just be pure despair and fear fuel
@popopop984 It's not meant to be entertaining and enjoyable on a visual/narrative level. A bunch of people get super paranoid and die in fear isn't exactly meant to be heartwarming. It's enjoyable in more of a cerebral way, putting yourself in their shoes, thinking of how you would act, or what they should have done differently. Asking who's right, who's wrong, and who's just crazy.
It's more of a philosophical 'entertainment', much like all those thought experiments of "What's the most painful way to die?" or "What are the odds of something terrible happening to me?" The answer isn't really something you want to know, it won't be satisfying, but in some morbidly curious way it would be interesting.
@popopop984 I mean different strokes for different folks, but the story is primarily about Paranoia, the villain can be anyone, even those you think you know well, maybe it could have built up the interpersonal relationships between the characters more before the monster got going, but as a movie it does have a limited amount of time that can be devoted to scenes, and in that regard I think it fleshed out the important characters well enough.
I just realized that your suggestion that what allows him MacReady to act without the same kind of attachment to their (former) teammates when taken over by the thing is that MacReady was always the outsider of the group, is actually foreshadowed and established right at the beginning; everyone else lives in dormitory-like living accomodations within the compound, but MacReady lives in a house on stilts. He's quite literally an outsider.
@Build a Home For My Knees they don't but he used to make jokes in his older commentary videos and he used to be funny i'm just wishing he could make jokes again cause he seems like a funny guy based on his previous works from 2018 and 17 and 16
@Juan Stamos Yeah I agree, while I still find his newer content captivating its missing the trademarked Emplemon flair that made his videos editing style unique. Theres almost no jokes or memes in this video aside from the sponsored segment. Thats what I liked about his newer vids, He used his experience from making YTPs and infused it with emotional storytelling. It doesnt even have to be funny, I just want him to use his editing style and flow more.
no, No, JUST NO! I commented literally the same thing FIRST but of cooourrse because you are "jUsTin Y" YOU ARE THE EFFIN ONE WHO GETS THE LIKES AARRRGH
I've known about this move before among us, but let me just say that playing on the Polus map with one impostor is basically just the movie but interactive.
I didn't know about that history lore, pretty insightful! I remembered he shit on Labyrinth which killed Jim Henson's cinema career outside of the Muppets and he apparently ended Carpenter's big budget career. He claimed video games weren't art while praising a medium with no interaction, only consumption. Miserable old man.
He’s a caricature of the stereotypical snob. Is an art “critic”, from Chicago/NY/LA, thinks religious people are stupid, loves Michael Moore, and compares every movie to Citizen Kane (sounds like the average redditor). That’s like the qualities a film critic would have in a TV show where they were making fun of film critics.
He’s like if you took Martin Scorsese’s opinion on Marvel Movies and made that into a full person, but even then Scorsese actually has talent. The only movie Ebert actually worked on was Beyond the Valley of the Dolls... not the worst movie but I mean
I’m not trying rag too much on the guy. Rest In Peace
@Hydrogoniise And there are even more like him, not just one or two, but many. Plus, you’re no better than a guy if ya disrespect him in death, so I give my condolences, but he sure wasn’t a good man imo.
17:20 I think its negative reception actually proves how inconsistent media criticism is in general over decades. Each individual aspect of a work can be astoundingly good, but if the audience or a critic gets a certain feeling that violates the zeitgeist, it completely taints their perception of it, and aspects that someone 50 years removed would identify as 'objectively good,' become objectively bad in that moment. In many (not all) cases, we might not even be able to articulate exactly why people in general would review it worse in a certain time because the differences can be so subtle. Many great artists never receive international acclaim and renown within their lifetimes. It stands to reason that there are films, games, music regarded as bad now, that 50 years from now will be considered prophetic and shining examples of their medium.
We see it in games like Final Fantasy XIII, Banjo: Nuts & Bolts, Dear Esther, Zelda II, Super Paper Mario, which were very much victims of their times; each beautiful graphically, beautiful musically, not containing any extreme game-breaking issues, but because of a perception or feeling usually relating to when they were released, the genre or story relative to the series they are within, the general expectations within the medium by the audience at that time, they are reviewed poorly by players and critics alike. Many or maybe most people have come completely around on Super Paper Mario since the series has drifted further from its roots, and it became so apparent how well SPM carried the torch of its series by comparison. Zelda II is more the reverse where it was praised in reviews at release yet is now often dismissed (strangely due to difficulty, when beloved games like Dark Souls that epitomize difficulty and steep learning curves are praised for it). I think we're starting to see the very beginnings of it with FFXIII, now that the open-world genre has become so prevalent, with people feeling like they're practically drowning in choice of what to do in a game, and ironically find FFXIII to be a breath of fresh air by comparison. We'll probably see it eventually with Nuts & Bolts if a true Banjo-Threeie comes (and maybe even without it), re-contextualizing it as a spinoff game rather than 'the last Banjo game.'
I believe Blair was already assimilated when they went to ask him about Fuchs, he was getting ready to neck himself when Norris-thing got to him, or Palmer-thing if he had already been assimilated too.
Nah, Blair was assimilated already by the time he had locked himself in his office. He wouldn't have had enough time to grab all the spare parts from the helicopter and tractor to make his craft if he didn't get assimilated until around the time Fuchs death happened. I mean, it's pretty much assumed that Blair is the shadow figure passing the lab and who got to Fuchs. Blair destroying the radio and vehicles was all a ploy and distraction to make it look like he was keeping anyone from leaving but you have to consider the fact that, Blair-thing already had other plans for getting to society. He destroyed all the equipment to prevent anyone at Outpost 31 from contacting the outside world and warning them. That way, he successfully isolated everyone and could then assimilate or kill the rest and then bail. This also helps his backup plan if the main plan fails. If it did fail, then they would still be cut off and by the time help came to check on them, all humans would've died from freezing to death and the thing could freeze and lie dormant until found and THEN attack. Therefore, Blair had definitely been assimilated early on, assumed by most to be off screen, my thought being by the dog and before the Palmer/Norris wall shadow assimilation. The dog, when walking down the hallway, could've been just coming from attacking Blair. But yeah, it just makes so much more sense that way. It would be way too much of a coincidence if Blair had destroyed the vehicles and stuff as a human to stop the thing from leaving and then a day or so later as Blair-thing, end up using that to it's advantage. Anyways, cheers!
I don't know how one can be taken seriously when criticizing a group of men living in one of the most morale-breaking, physically dangerous places on Earth for being simple-spoken and quick to panic/turn on each other. Alaska's suicide rate is insane, and that's (mostly) outside the Arctic circle and without a shapeshifting murder-alien.
The most heroic part of the crew was when McCready told them that they need to blow it up, even when it will cost them their lives.
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9:50 all of which was completely understandable in the situation. He rightly should have viewed his life and the life of his crew as far less valuable than destroying the thing. It would have wiped out all life, making any of their other efforts entirely inconsequential. Human nature is horrible, sure. But this was an act of self preservation that couldn't be obtained by acting with more kindness.
I do appreciate your analogy as it applies to the context of real tribal warfare, but it falls short if your to take the film literally.
In regards of public reusage of Carpenter's idea I kinda like "God Eater" - when anime meets The Thing meets Fallout. I always wondered where they got idea of all-devouring cells creating their own versions of what they eaten, only after The Thing I realized it was this movie except alien dominated the planet and humans adapted parts of it as a weapon.
So if I'm understanding this correctly, official movie critics and reviewers have always sucked at their job. Glad to know that particular stupidity hasn't gone away from people
I remember a few years back I finally watched The Thing after years of being terrified of it and it's reputation. But when I watched it I actually had a good time and thought it was very good. What helped me was the fact that by the time I had watched the movie I had already spent a few years head first in being a Fan of Dead Space, a video game with a very similar premise. As a cosmological horror that's spent eons assimilating and devouring all life and civilizations in its path sets it's sights upon humanity, except instead of infiltration, it uses desecration.
It's probably safe to say that the critics were influenced by their time, and since The Thing has managed to outlive them and still holds up today, then that would mean it was by definition ahead of its time.
Still hate that people act like Among Us is the first "Who is the Murderer" game. Fucking Trouble In Terrorist Town, Murder and Morbus did it before (and that's just the G-Mod variety of games) and Morbus has (or rather had) literally shapeshifting aliens in it..
@Bacon Sir Yes, it was created by a Soviet Psychology Professor of the University of Moscow in 1986 before Plotkin made it into Werewolf because the Mafia wasn't as culturally significant during that time.
I saw this movie the night before Wilford Brimley died. It really showed me how good of an actor he can really be, and made me forget that he also spawned the "diabeetus" meme, at least until I checked the credits and saw his name. As Blair, he made a perfect example of a Lovecraftian character, as he loses all hope and goes mad over learning what the Thing can really do. Rest easy, Brimley.
2:25 Siskel and Ebert. Easily the two most beloved movie critics of all time.
But if you go back and look at a lot of their reviews for classic films, you’ll see that a lot of the time, they were just objectively wrong. Sometimes only one of them was, and the other would call them out, but still.
It just goes to show, that no matter how popular someone is, no matter how highly their opinions are regarded, they can still be unequivocally f*cking wrong.
Hilariously enough, my opinion of The Thing is like that of society’s. My dad made me watch it with him when I was 14, and I hated it because it creeped me out and I thought it was too pessimistic. Now, years later, it’s one of the few horror movies I actually enjoy, and i enjoy greatly.
It's kind of relieving when you find out all Saints are sinners too. Police men work only for a check, your public safety is just a trade. Politicians are slime, all act only at the whim of their party. Even Mr. Rodgers has some dirty laundry I'm betting. That's what the movie makes me think, that everyone is still carnal, still just trying to survive. At whits end, when you're at death's door, no one is worth more to you than yourself.
I think I first watched this when I was like 13, I really loved it for the psychological horror aspect(I'm actually a Psych major now), and it gets even better the more you realize how "real" it actually is
@Joseph Stassup might wanna reverse a bit on that cynical nihilistic outlook, not everyone is just jaddedly out for themselves like that to be clear. You do you, but hey man, people aren't actually that hollow.
Honestly amazing how you’ve progressed through the years, I remember finding your channel the last year it would be normal to go trick or treating although my mum couldn’t afford a costume I got to spend the night with shit loads of ytp. Ik u didn’t make it but the best ytp ever made was that 90s computer ad thing. Can’t remember the name but pure gold
Dunno why everyone is making vids about my fav horror movie of all time, suddenly, for some reason, all at the same time this year... But I am eternally grateful. My obsession with Kurt Russell and his films have become a sort of inside joke amongst my home and workplaces, so it's nice to see stuff like this popping up.
I'm honestly baffled to find out probably one of the most inovative films in sfx, camera work, and mystery story telling was hated by viewers and petty critics. Who goes into a horror movie and complains it had too much horror lmao
@Mate Product Well, I had absolutely no interest in the game. I said "why would I play this shit, it's not even a real game". Then a friend gifted it to me, so ofc I had to download and be their 10th player. If you have 9-10 people that you know well, this game is an absolute blast. If you can't gather that amount of friends, it's no real fun, at least for me. Whenever we drop under 9 players, I'm out.
Just sharing this in case you haven't played it yet, but hang around online with a bunch of friends anyways. 👍
@Yoshi92 the point is that the game mechanic already existed, TTT ie, being good or bad has nothing to do, it's just annoying to see children preach in something they literally don't know about.
One of the greatest horror sci-fi films of all time, reviewed by one of the most entertaining narrators of all time, and the only scary thing about this was that it got taken down within 1 hour of being uploaded. Keep at it emp, maybe you'll get a break someday.
How did you go through all the inspirations or possible meanings for the film, but not once mention the story it was based off of by John W. Campbell (titled "who goes there")?
It wasn't some cold war allegory, or human psychology study that suddenly struck John Carpenter with inspiration.
It was a story he read that was written in 1938.
Well before the cold war even started.
Seems uncharacteristically shortsighted of you to not touch on the source material for a movie like this, emps.
The Thing is a masterpiece and still holds up amazingly well today. My favourite horror and sci-fi film and always there as one of my favourite go-to films to watch. Ebert saying the story and people were secondary, total dummy. The whole film is about the people and their developing distrust and suspicion of each other regardless of the special effects.
This is most certainly one of the best videos that's ever been uploaded to Youtube and I wish you, EmperorLemon, all the success & money in the world. You certainly deserve it, comparing you to other Youtube videomakers.
It must have been heartbreaking for the film to bomb after spending a year practically living the project and suffering hospitalisation. I'm glad it was retrospectively recognised.
Already own both the original and remake. I liked both, but feel more attached to the original. I like practical effects in cinema, especially in Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead".
Isolation is one of the most safe things one can have. I have been socially isolated since 8 August 2000. I go weeks without seeing another human. I feel very safe indeed. It is lonely. I will not lie. But loneliness is far milder an emotion than the horrible emotions humans can inflict on us. Isolation is not as bad as people are lead to believe.
I still have yet to actually watch The Thing but I’m never anything less than blown away by the artistry I see just in pictures and clips. It’s why I think I’m never tired of videos like this!
10:41 - The leaders you want in times of crisis are not the leaders you want in times of peace, and vice versa. In spite of his paranoia, MacReady makes for the best leader given the situation, because he can act without hesitation or remorse. It may not lead to the best outcomes in hindsight, but in the critical moments it allows the group to move forward and reassess on both a collective and individual level. In situations where the stakes are lower and the time is less valuable, acting quickly and decisively is unlikely to lead to the best possible outcome. You would rather have a leader that takes the time to weigh the pros and cons and anticipate possible consequences.
I wouldn't call the guy he shot "innocent." He literally was trying to stab McReady from behind because he suspected him. But awesome video as always man. you keep makin em - we'll keep watching <3
@Diego Decuadro Mansilla people often make illogical decisions under fear. The two men at the end of the day were just trying to survive. There was no good guy or bad guy in that situation.
@Diego Decuadro Mansilla Wrong! If a thing gets "wounded", it'll act how the original organism would've act. Thus if McReady was a thing, it would've act out to try to maintain it's cover.
@Ken Pierce yet the thing woudnt have been in much trouble , it migth act how a human would act if it was stabbed but it woudnt have the same effect. Kinda like with the heart atack scene, the thing acted like it had a heart atack or maybe it had one but the thing didnt die from it
@Avery Hepburn yes i agree that people make illogical decisions under stress but i am not claiming that somebody is good or bad , just that the action taken was dumb
@Diego Decuadro Mansilla Member that the thing only showed itself as alive the second time it got hit with the defibrillator? Cause I do. It acts out as if it's dead to not cause any suspicion, which gives the crew the time to get a flamethrower and torch it. The exact reason why in the blood test scene McReady wanted to test Copper and Clark as well, even though they were dead.
@Ken Pierce yes and?. My point is that if you were to stab the thing while disguised as human it would act hurt but in reality it would do next to nothing since to truly hurt the thing you have to use something that hurts it at the celular level like fire or acid
I really really liked your bit where you compared the theme of paranoia in the film and compared it to the state of the world in the 80's, it was a really interesting juxtaposition I didn't consider.
It’s similar in themes to the novel, lord of the flies. Especially interesting is how both pieces of media create such an unnerving atmosphere. The thing does it with special affects and lotf does it with word choice
@Vincent Tapia It seems it may have something to do with the ambiguity of the words following 'The'. The unknown is terrifying to us by our very nature.
@Al W And also the fact that "the" implies it's unique It implies there's only one Only one thing is necessary to destroy us all, only something as unique as humanity poses the biggest threat to itself
I love the variety of source materials you use in these videos; I think it really adds to what you're saying, especially when knowing some of their context. Specifically I really like how you've been incorporating clips from The Wall in some of your work; I'd love to see you review that sometime. Great job.
I've been binge watching horror gore movie clips recently and I think it is God's will that one of my favorite YouTubers started covering this subject too all of a sudden.
My theory for Blair is that he believed he was infected, and tried to hang himself to keep from turning, but then the thing took him over completely, removed the noose but didn't know it was an object of murder/suicide so it left it up.
I saw someone argue that the thing is attempting to use reverse-psychology. Blair-thing wants to work on the ship and does not want to get back in the base so it intentionally makes itself sound overly suspicious
That ending has been argued and dissected forever! I mean forever!
My conclusion matches Russel's assessment in that the movie comes full circle reestablishing the paranoia and mistrust that the movie started with. We'll never know whether McReady or Childs are The Thing so we end up back to square one...coming full circle and for me that's a great ending and a great structured movie.
The Thing is a classic not just of the Horror Genre, but of movie making itself. The actors, directing, story, and obviously the EFX's make The Thing a movie that will be treasured for generations to come.
Screw YouTube for staggering this video; it's so good! I love this movie, and it makes me so happy that you've done an introspective on it, Emp. Thank you :)
Dear Emp, This comment more than likely will go unnoticed, but I just wanted to say, I sincerely thank you for referencing L4D2, and for making an underrated movie get what it deserves. -sunbu♡
I can't fathom this isolation thing. We never locked down in Florida and we're fine. I never ever thought that I would see Florida be a bastion of sanity in my lifetime.
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Arthur Durham2022-02-10 20:41:36 (edited 2022-02-10 20:48:03 )
I generally don't care for movies made in the 80s. But I watched The Thing for the 1st time recently and it holds up terrifically. Extremely unnerving practical effects & the story has terrific pacing with interesting characters making interesting choices.
I didn't find parts of it needed to be looked over like a lot of older movies bc that "was the style of the time". There's nothing cheesy or goofy about it. Nothing to make you think it's from a different decade (except the technology they use in the story, but even then they're on a remote arctic outpost so it fits the vibe).
It's just a damn good and terrifying movie (in both direct visual horror and making you question your own perception of reality and morality) that sadly has only become more relevant now than it ever was.
TBH I don't really care for the other 3 movies that beat it at the box office, I find them more to be products of their time. The Thing feels timeless. And I don't know how they did it so well, but the upscaling on the blu ray version looks fantastic, like it was shot today.
You realize by 2011 technology advanced so much the effects no matter how well shadowed the effects were would be scrutinized by how unrealistic and less scary they would've been. They wouldve recieved hate mo matter what they chose the lesser of two evils.
@Man Ray The 2011 "prequel" can be more classified as a "remake", and a bad one at that as well. What ruined it for me (aside from the CGI) was that the monster acted really weird. The infamous helicopter scene for example. Why the fuck would it transform right there? Wasn't it able to sit out the trip to wherever they were heading? Wouldn't it know the explosion would've killed it?
Also, take the Juliette-thing scene, right? Why did it need an elaborate transformation? Why couldn't it just swiftly kill Kate? She literally had her back turned to it! Maybe it learned and did it right with Bennings? Who the fuck knows! Now let's talk about Edvar. Here, the thing is unnecessary aggressive. Like they weren't even able to reach the table they wanted to put him on. I thought it was vulnerable when out in the open, only using it's shape shifting abilities when it has no other choice. Here it's just OMG, gotta kill all the people! Also the final boss, gotta give it to them, that thing is straight up nightmare fuel (which they probably were going for) until it transformed in it's less scary yet final form. gfu
@Ken Pierce On the contrary I really enjoyed the intense pacing of the film. There was almost no room to breathe as the thing was relentless in its assault, opting for unfettered aggression against the humans. The helicopter scene is puzzling at first glance aye, but consider the fact that the thing might have known that its cover might have been blown by Kate in the first place, or that it was crashing the helicopter to make its way back to the space craft it rode in on rather than risk having to try to take out an entirely separate base. And the thing with Edvar? Did you suppose the thing wanted to be put on a table away from other humans. To essentially put itself on a platter to be fried like a can of worms? It made the right decision to stay attached to the humans and use them as a sort of shield to prevent being burnt. The only reason the thing is ever vulnerable is because of the risk of being burnt up. There's no reason to be an imposter if it is able to use its incredible strength and horror to destroy any resistance.
In short I am satisfied with the ferocity it displayed in the takeover of this research station, and it gives more credence in the 1982 version to act more cautiously having learned from previous errors. However this is just my take on things. I enjoyed it, was sold on the whole movie, and therefore it is easier to justify the things behavior for me.
@Man Ray I guess fair enough. For me the biggest thing about the prequel is that the thing acts out of character. I can't get over the helicopter scene, that was imo plain dumb. It should've known it would be it's demise. You can't tell me that in however long it existed it never learned that it doesn't mix great with fire, besides the operative knew that if the helicopter crashed there would be fire, effectively killing itself. Also it would've had a better chance of surviving on the ground if let's say Kate was able to get it to land. You've got a point with the Edvar scene however, I didn't consider that it probably was the last one and had to do something.
@GG Channel Studio interference, the director and vfx artists didn't know that the execs replaced all of the practical effects until they watched the movie themselves.
Out of the few channels I still come back to youtube to watch regularly, yours are my favorite. My friend group has even adopted the downward spiral meme a small bit, and we allways queue up the hurricane mathew tribute on our music bot around hurricane season. Keep up the great work!
Sometimes I forget that emp is a master of cinematography and his transitions are amazing.
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Mike Taylor2020-10-28 18:19:19 (edited 2020-10-28 18:19:45 )
Wow As usual You have knocked it out the park! So many cogent points that ring so true during these tense times. Fantastic editing, Love your humor & up there with the best ads on YouTube.
The thing helped inspire the game among us. The alien sabotaging everything like the blood bank, the survivors having a meeting & they barely trust each other believing anyone could be “suspicious.” The movie even inspire the necromorphs from the Dead Space series
I find it interesting when a movie was heavily criticized on its initial release but becomes a revered classic as time goes on. Stanley Kubrick's the Shining had faced similar criticism on its initial release ( hell the person who portrayed Wendy was nominated for worst actor at one point), but is now a horror classic.
Rob Bottin later did the effects on Tim Curry on one of my favorite films Legend. You are really good at Video Essay Reviews Mr. Lemon. More of these please.
This was a great video, didnt realize how much our world now, somewhat reflects the 80s culture. Ive heard other people compare it, but not in the depth Emp did.
Didn’t get around to watching this until now, (wanted to watch it as a companion piece to the actual movie) and it’s amazing! Emp you’ve got a great eye for literary analysis.
I dont think there has ever been a time where an emplemon video has disappointed me. Its so unbelievably impressive how he can make a video on something i have hardly heard of/never heard of at all and itll be so engaging throughout the entire video. Also love the manscaped ad
1) I will never understand audiences in 1982. The Thing is my favorite horror movie and quite possibly my favorite movie of all time! On the other hand, I have always found E.T. to be overrated. I watched it 5 times by the age of 9 wanting to like it and I just never did. Poltergeist is good, though. Still need to see Blade Runner. 2) McCready didn't murder Clark, it was totally self-defense.
Thank you for making this video. You are like the only Channel I can find on YouTube who truly makes content that 100% applies to my own personal situations. I have been thinking the exact same way you portray the characters in the movie to think. You connect the movie so well with the real world its unbelievable. I'm a person who has been hit really hard by corona, but I have not lost any friend, i have not been sick, i have not lost a family member, i have not lost a job, i have lost "nothing".
Only what you said: I have gained nothing new. I can't go to crowds. I can't socially interact. I feel like SoCiEtY needs to see this video. People dont seem to understand that there are bigger problems than a disease that can kill 30% of our world and leave the rest with broken lungs. I'd rather have my whole family wiped by that than by Depression caused by the isolation.
Thank you so much. I connect deeply with this video.
Something interesting came from my girlfriend watching it the first time, she was 100% sure MacReady was a Thing until the blood test because of how he acted. Different perspectives change the movie a lot.
It's not everyday i watch horror movies, but when i do, i want to feel uneasy, and feel psychologically traumatized, in the best possible way. Stay scared, my friends.
Shoutout to the Starlog guy with that quote about The Thing being "totally devoid of either warmth or humanity" Man went to see a horror movie and then had the balls to complain that it wasn't a cute Disney movie with a happy ending. In doing so he wins the award for the single biggest example of missing the point
I watched 2 minutes of this video then was like, I’ve never seen the thing, might as well, got nothing better to do, so I stopped watching this video and watched the movie and hoooo boooy that was a great film, thanks emp for showing me this masterpiece
EmpLemon, you are quite possibly the greatest youtuber ever. I don't think I've ever seen a youtuber make content like you make, I think we should all learn to appreciate what we have in you right now if you were ever to leave us...
Yep, this is still #1 on my horror list. What could possibly be scarier than a monster that looks and acts just like everyone around you. Perhaps a killer that can get you in your dreams, but they pretty well ruined that with all the sequels LoL.
Theory: what if blair was tieing that noose to kill himself but in this scene he's completely fine. I believe he turned and it was too late; He was trying to kill himself before turning into the thing.
I love this movie so much! I have the blu ray copy and have seen it 7 times :D . Nice to see the movie getting some popularity since nobody i know has seen it.
hands down my favorite film, thanks for making this video dude
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Ya Mum2020-10-27 19:37:48 (edited 2020-10-28 05:36:14 )
The Thing is one of the only films that scares me every single Time I watch it, not just from the visuals but from just from the idea of the thing and also how much of the the things movements and sabotage is left out
Hopefully, the number of views this video received relative to the rest of your channel doesn't deter you from making this kind of content .. This was a really great video
I watched the Thing as an adult and initially I thought how terrifying can practical effects be now? That spider head scene creeped me tf out! It's incredible!
My dad told me a story of seeing this movie at a drive in, while living in the Colorado Mountains, he and his sister saw it at a late night drive in. He went back to his apartment and he couldnt stop being nervous about his german shepherd dog, after seeing the films monster effects in the kennel scene.
A Dank Meme2020-10-30 15:19:04 (edited 2020-10-30 15:20:14 )
Among us was definitely inspired by this awesome film, These are what they have in common. 1. There is an impostor trying to kill everyone 2. The impostor is an alien 3. The theme songs sound similar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsMH-sdznh8 - The thing Theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7oKN3IkO4M - Among Us theme song 4. The Characters have to find the Impostor before everyone is killed 5.The main characters go insane as they lose trust within each other. 6. There are Emergency meetings also in "The Thing" (Sort of) 7. The thing takes place in an Isolated Antarctic Research outpost in the middle of Antarctica, I think that the Polus map in "Among Us" is based on this location since the map is a Research lab which is in Isolated and snowy environment Just like in "The thing". That's what I Found out about "among us" and "the thing" So in conclusion, John Carpenter invented the Concept of Among us.
Even though it was trying to rip Off the premise of Alien they succeeded in making a truly horror inducing film full Of existential dread and body horror that no 9 year old should be allowed to watch. Thanks mom:/
It wasn't ripping off Alien at all. The original "The Thing" was made in the 30's and that's what the 80's version is based on. Alien by no means has a monopoly on the extraterrestrial horror genre.
The Thing is still one of my favourite horrors that relates to body-horror. I am absolutely smitten by the special effects, even to this day. In a timeperiod where CGI is prefered to practical effects, I think it's important that we hail the films of ages past that are powerhouses when it comes to effects that aged really, really well - The Thing, Alien 1 (that chest burster, so good) and Lord of the Rings (specifically the battle for Helms Deep with the scale models of the keep) are just some of the films that can still make my skin crawl from the sheer talent.
Thank you for this unexpected but entertaining dive on a film I love.
Glad he 'shined the light' on the cinematography too as when pointed out i finally realized just how essential it was for the practical effects to be as effective as they are.
@cockroachafro for real. film-making at its finest. I'm happy that today most of us realise the importance and the value of John Carpenter's The Thing.
Now that I think about it, the anime parasyte, while it is compared to the thing, ultimately falls flat with me just because of how ridiculous they made the aliens. The thing itself is scary yet totally fascinating because it most likely wasn't self aware, just an animalistic infection that melted organisms to ensure its own survival. It could learn, but only for the explicit purpose to fool those around it and assimilate them to fulfill its primal objective of survival. Compare that to parasyte where the infected talk normally for no reason, jump around like ninjas and are nigh invulnerable for no reason. It takes away the real scariness by making the aliens less subtle and by turning them into knockoffs of Alex Mercer from the prototype games.
My favorite theory is that in the last scene, the black character is the final monster, due ti him drinking out of what were molotov cocktails the protag made
I agree. I’m sure E.T. is analyzed for its brilliant story telling too. Seriously, John Carpenter was dealt a bad hand, at least his work is getting the appreciation that it deserves.
Just like the protagonist of the movie feels so threatened by the monster, so does the audience of the early 80s feels creeped out by how different the movie is from the standards. They were so close-minded to the elements that made a movie "good" to them at the time, that the sight of something so terrifyingly new made them act more on instinct and to reject it, much like animals react to something they have never seen before. it wouldn't be until later that more open-minded audiences would start to fully appreciate the movie and to understand how innovative it truly was.
@Succubastard 101 I completely agree with what you're saying. For as close-minded as they were could they at lest be more specific? Criticism is just insult without any real reason behind it.
@Ducks Rule Florida Not to be out here calling everyone names. I say that because they definetly aren't there to say which filmes are the best and highest quality.
The 80's version of The Blob also recieved a lot of flack back in the day due to being extremely brutal. Audiences back then just wanted another brainless slasher to turn their brains off.
I could watch any documentary that has to do with John Carpenter's The Thing. It's just a damn good movie and totally tops the original The Thing from Another World.
I was always baffled by how the creature was able to act completely normal until caught and then it went simply bonkers. I wonder if Carpenter planned a inner logic to this, or it's simply the eruption of violence needed for each action sequence, and the creature's logic just dismissed as "don't bother trying to understand it, it's an alien"
Ah yes. The one movie that scared me out of anything back then and even now. It just made me even afraid to say goodnight to my parents. My mind would wander off saying to my self "is that person a thing?!". Truly terrifying.
What I like the most about the Thing is that it probably wasn't piloting the UFO it crash landed on to Earth - that was probably some other creature that tried to escape and it had consumed, sending the UFO careening through the galaxy
The Thing is a beautiful, horrific masterpiece. when Among Us got popular i thought it was about the Thing, but it is but without the monster. That's really cool
This might be the only good take I've seen on The Thing. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, but most analyses seem shallow and unwilling to delve into the more uncomfortable philosophical spaces Very good job
@caveman Problem is, variants of cgi are easily outdated as graphics and animation improve over time. You could argue this with 1993 Jurassic Park where the cgi is phenomenal and still ages well to this day, but that's mostly because the shots are so minimal and angled from a distance to avoid any graphical flaws. Even then, you can still notice some minor rendering imperfections of the dinos. The Jurassic world cgi effects are supposedly superior to that of the original, which indeed they are if we're just talking about texture wise, however, there is this optic-like instinct you have that it somehow looks ironically more fake than the original as a lot of people noticed, and you can't exactly put your thumb on why it does at first. This is simply because the dinosaurs where permanently animated in every shot regardless if just parts of the dino were shot, or up close, or from afar. Point is I think regardless how authentic cgi is, even in films like Avatar, I will still notice that it's been animated on a expensive software and green screened.
Wow, my class just talked about this topic TODAY and made comparisons with the red scare, but instead of 'The Thing,' it was the Salem witch trials. Unlike my teacher, this was interesting and didn't take a total of 10 hours to finish.
I literally hate body horror. Despise it. It’s rancid, I loathe it, yet this movie is one of my all time favorites. To quote a YouTuber whose name I forgot, a normal horror movie has a bunch of absolutely STUPID characters hiding behind chainsaws like a geico commercial, and they die but they could’ve lived if they were smart. This movie, you have a bunch of scientists and technicians who get to work and try to stop this alien as soon as possible, but once you see The Dogs™️, you know there is ABSOLUTELY NO ESCAPE. You KNOW. So you’re glued to your old CRT, wondering who will get turned into the best use of practical effects next.
10:20 Now I kinda wanna see a zombie game where the zombies are not just brain dead, but they think and try and act like humans, maybe calling out for help or pleading for some sort of help, but if they get close they are forced by a virus to make them attack. It would make fighting zombies a LOT more difficult as like, these would be innocent people, suffering, but wanting help.
Remember when Blair is trying to talk McCready into letting him back on the base, Blair is highly sedated because they've given him morphine "to keep him calm" That's where his demeanor comes from.
I actually got my friends to sit down and watch this movie with me a few weeks back. One of them isn't even into horror, and he loved it. Glad you made a video on it, I hope more people watch this amazing movie because of it.
Holy shit that end... Just goes to show that films like this that show even ONE aspect of the human mind will make sure it never really dies. Guarantee that in a decade or two, another video relating to The Thing will be made, somehow... Life imitates Art
I wasn't going to watch this because I haven't seen the thing before, until I realized it need more attention because of the takedown. So take my watch time Emp, your content is great, I bet the video will be too.
The big issue with critics is that they're still people and still vulnerable to peer pressure and the Overton window. When that window is against edgy stuff, they likely will be too and any critic who doesn't step in line (Just Reviews who does albums and pop songs) will be heavily ostracized and possibly even de-platformed too.
So grateful for the excellent content you pushed out in the last year Emp. It's really given me faith in the quality of youtube and youtubers again. Best wishes
Technically, the movie ended on an unsolved cliffhanger because Childs strayed off towards the end. He says he encountered a thing and killed it, but with no scene showing he did it’s likely he too became a thing.
Good video on my favorite film. But I would just add that Carpenter was a lefty, and made that quite explicit. Just look at his comments about They Live which was a critique of Reagan and 80s unchecked capitalism. Comparing Trump to Macready would likely be seen as abhorrent by Carpenter.
I dug up an old post of mine with some thoughts on the plot of the film:
"I don't see a problem with Fuchs' death (other than the way the power goes out, as well as his idiotic reaction, but hey – it's a fucking horror movie; no artistic license and no silliness; no movie); limited availability to information is the entire premise of the movie. One possibility is that he burned himself after he was attacked, whether accidentally or intentionally, and another is that the monster burned his remains.
There are some serious credibility (logical) flaws, though, without including cases of artistic license (e.g Fuchs' comments above and kennel scene lack of lighting and noise), or reasonable cases of less than reasonable behavior, under the duress of the circumstances:
– Norwegian hilarity and extreme incompetence. Failing to hunt down a dog; for an hour or more; in a helicopter over an open area; with grenades and rifles; before instead managing to kill yourself with them is pretty fucking impressive. I appreciate and respect the running gag, though; Swedes have been running it for hundreds of years. – Bled-to-death, frozen Norwegian. For some reason, I doubt that the blood would have coagulated and frozen mid-air, with hardly any of it reaching the ground. You could easily argue that this falls within artistic license, though. – Dog-thing hoisting itself through the ceiling of the kennel, the next moment being on the ground with those parts nowhere in sight. Where did they go? Did some of the creature escape?? Wouldn't the characters have noticed and reacted accordingly??? You could argue that this falls within artistic license, though. – Crew member reactions to gained information. Mostly notably, Blair and Fuchs' reactions to learning of the creature living, and some very ambitious and unscientific conclusions made by Blair, especially as read in his notebook(s), by Fuchs. – Blair's super-computer. I can get over the fact that it's fucking retro, but don't pretend that you have ready-made software at all – let alone accurately – capable of calculating every kind of probability and spread of a cellular infection that's unlike anything known to anyone on the planet (and sure as fuck not supported by any pre-existing computer program), or that Blair manages to learn enough about its properties and (re)program the software in less than 12h – even if he were Leonardo da Vinci reincarnate & 2.0, with access to the greatest technology in the world, in 2020. What's worse is that explicitly stating the implications for humanity of the alien monster isn't meaningful in the first place, nor is it necessary to do so in a way that undermines the credibility of the film, should you insist on stating them. – MacReady picking up a flashlight, conveniently found next to the helicopter. Why couldn't they just have him on his person??? – The entire crew trusting Garry with the revolver, when it's just been proven highly likely that he's infected, and the subsequent suspicion towards him, after (as opposed to before) he voluntarily offered his weapon up. – For one reason or another, let's accept that MacReady and Nauls went – unescorted – to the former's shack only to turn off the light, under those circumstances. Nothing human could have made it back on its own, the hundred yards along a lit path in a moderate storm??? – The distrust of MacReady after he didn't take multiple opportunities to kill everyone else. – The solid wall that in-flames Palmer runs through. TopKEK. – Blair's carnivorous, cavernous project. I can't believe that Carpenter willfully undermined the plot's credibility simply to communicate that the creature wants to leave the base, which is undesirable (to communicate) in the first place. Please reference "Blair's super-computer" above, too. The major problems here are: Knowledge, material & time constraints. – Garry, MacReady and Nauls reacting to the power going out by immediately resorting to suicide, without so much as checking the generator, first."
I love how half the comments are pissed the credit used among us instead of literally every other game that depends on manipulation and convincing, borderline disregarding the review.
Great video, but I strongly disagree with your assessment that humans respond to any type of overwhelming stress or hardship with paranoia and mistrust. How humans respond depends a lot on the specific situation. When Britain was bombed in the second world war, almost every economist expected there to be complete national chaos and paranoia. Looting, murder etc. What actually happened was solidarity amongst (most) British citizens; many of them shared food supplies, helped rebuild houses etc. The reason why the characters in the thing react so negatively is SPECIFICALLY because this sense of solidarity is completely eliminated because of the mistrust that is caused by the simple nature of the monster.
Watching this film when I was young, I would always just watch it purely for the effects. As years have gone on though you really take in consideration how smart and just expertly crafted this film is, even with the limited ranged score. I watched it last night and it gets better and better with every year.
How dare people not find this movie to be the masterpiece it was of its time.
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Just Derp2020-10-27 19:44:38 (edited 2020-10-28 02:27:15 )
From memes, politics, pro wrestling, smash bros, to jumping from space, and now The Thing? Next hes gonna talk about the food industry Edit: lmao rip video youtube took it out by the shed and shot it
@Tout va Bien is emp actually vegan? jeez we'll probably only get another year of high quality uploads before malnourishment and protein deficiency destroys his mind. SAD!
@Matthew Is Cool I sincerely hope you're joking because vegan diets have consistently been associated with lower all-cause as well as cause-specific mortality for several decades at this point. The amount of people who seem derive their sum total of nutritional knowledge from quacks talking shite on YT is truly mind boggling at times.
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Al W2020-10-29 04:38:24 (edited 2020-10-29 04:39:03 )
Why the Meat industry wants to use you. Title of next vid 😆
I personally think that both were Things at the end and the ending scene is just the creature having a conversation with itself about what its plan going forward is.
Actually McCready knows that childs is a thing, because in the end childs drinks the whisky, and if childs was human he wouldn't drink it, cuz they all know that the thing can infect humans through food and drinks, then we see McCready laughing because the thing fell for his trick
@LordVader1094 well, the thing first kills it's victims then becomes them i think what you wanted to say is that childs was really cold and just couldn't think straight, so he drank the whisky and McCready thought that childs is a thing that fell for his trick
Recently The Thing has been popping up in my feed a lot, and now you've come around to cover the film. I'm excited for what you have in store.
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Danny McDeeva2021-06-17 00:07:12 (edited 2021-06-17 00:23:31 )
I agree. The Thing is one of the most thought provoking horror/sci-fi movies ever created. Not to mention just plain scary. And certainly one of Kurt Russel's finest roles. For the first time I was able to completely disassociate Kurt from his role as Dexter Riley in the The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes; the 1969 Walt Disney movie seen in my youth. I'm fairly sure I helped start the cult following as I had always championed this movie.
Not mentioned is that this movie is a remake of the 1951 pre-Gunsmoke James Arnes version, The Thing (From Another World). Same arctic setting, but completely innocuous compared to this one.
Whoa. Such a good analysis. This movie seems very interesting.
Trust is really something so contradictive to survival and nature when there are mechanisms that take advantage of trust, even when unknowingly. It's the thing that makes us society, and also one of the greatest weaknesses.
I like to think that both the nihilistic view and idealist view exist. While we have seen all of the themes in the thing in real life, the same can be said for Idealists. Thanks to people who trusted anyway and banded together, humanity has been able to overcome great obstacles. I think we will see that again. While people may be falling into this nihilistic mindset, there are others who will rise to the occasion and defeat the present threat as well as the threat humanity imposes on itself when it begins to loose it's way.
The last scene made me thought that the protagonist was infected the rest with the bottles of alcohol. One character said that they should eat canned food to not get infected.
Let’s be honest here. Both Blade Runner and THIS make E.T. look like shit. And honestly Roger Ebert’s review really didn’t age well. Considering how much the thing has that many horror films today are lacking. And to say the story and characters became secondary is nonsense. It has probably one of my favourite character moments in the entire film. Kurt Russell is playing chess on a commodore computer and thinks he’s gonna win. But then loses and just after the female voice from the computer says “Checkmate! Checkmate!. Proceeds to pour his drink down the computer and then says “Cheating bitch”.
Am I misunderstanding what you said, or did you actually say @8:50 that “three quarters of a million people” within the U.S. were infected with HIV by the end of the '80s?
There were around 100,000 cases of HIV reported in the U.S. by the end of the '80s; where in the world did you get that “3/4ths of a million” figure from?
How has seemingly no one (that I can see) commented on this? lol I am extremely confused. Apologies in advance if I’m misunderstanding something.
Watching you branching out your content over so many diverse topic has been so wild, I love it. I love to see you getting into films now, and I can't wait to see where you go next.
Fun fact: the person who fly the plane tried to warn the group about the dog being the monster, but they didn't understand him due to him speaking Norwegian
the fact that this video doesnt have over 1m views is really annoying. cmon youtube ~ but i guess it shows emps audience that even when videos arent promoted over 300,000 will still be watching.
I can't help but agree with you Lemon. This is a movie far ahead of it's time. I thought the movie was great when I first watched it years ago and now due to the pandemic forcing us in isolation, I felt that both the pandemic and your video essay of The Thing make me relate to this movie so much more now than I did when I first watched it. Now I consider it one of the best horror movies I've ever watched. I just wish this movie got a better review on opening night because it's backlash back then feels very unwarranted nowadays
Name another channel that transitioned so gracefully from ear bleeding YTP to insightful commentary on things that are uniquely relevant to our culture
Maybe for Christmas, you could keep with the theme of a movie that flopped in its time but was appreciated later and make a video of sorts on "It's A Wonderful Life"
I often cringe at the CGI horror of our time that's indiscernible from the background, but Rob Bottins effects reaaaaaally pop out. I'm not usually actually scared by horrors but, the things from "The Thing"... Those things really scare me
Petition to have the sequel prequel released without the edited in cgi. The version exists, completely latex models, but higher ups demanded cgi later, completely missing the homage.
@SQuinGedSUB it’s a joke on Emp’s channel because a while back he made a video talking about how most subscribers to youtube channels don’t actually watch the channel’s videos (e.g. Pewdiepie has >100m subs but doesn’t get anywhere near that many views) and he made a joke of repeatedly asking “CAN YOU UNSUBSCRIBE??”. It was a Downward Spiral type thing
I don't think that assessment of Macready was very fair. It makes it sound like he's more flawed than he actually is. A lot of what he did in the film boiled down to desperation in the face of terrible odds and existential crisis. Also, a Virus is considered a form of life, a shitty one, but a form of life none the less.
It's not actually confirmed that a virus is alive. And if some say it is, there will be others who disagree. From what I've seen, there's not a consensus as it's still a topic of debate.
To be honest this is why there is so many atemporal pieces of art that it might not significate anything on the beggining but later on that makes more sense on the world and whats happening. Anyways Lemon glad to see you have reinvented yourselft and did not went into a downwards spiral
If they ever decide to do another The Thing as a sequel, one thing. Get actual practical effects. Another thing that I’d be interested in is what would happen if it was released in the world, the story takes place in a small town. Already we’ve got the idea of a pandemic, and the beginning of the pandemic where people are equally distrustful of others and try to seek out others because of their loneliness. If you wanted to worldbuild, you could see how a government would go about trying to test each person, the conspiracies that would form, the fact that you CAN burn it and some people have seen loved ones be brutally taken over means they’re more than willing to torch anyone they believe is different... in the small town, it’s full of people like this. Some seem like idiots, but it’s only that they’re firmly ignorant. This could have LOTS of potential, story-wise, character-wise and worldbuilding and allegorical-wise... just please, for the love of god make it practical.
Theres a theory at the end that the other worker not mccready wasnt drinking alcohol but rather drinking Oil. And when he passes mccready the bottle mccready gives him this look of "You son of a bitch, well played." But you can also see the fear and irritation in his face. Or he was just having one last drink with his friend.
I actually found out about The Thing from this video, lol. It reminds me a lot of a SciFi horror novel I wrote a few years back. Basic premise was that there was an alien monster that could transform into whatever it wanted to and could also absorb the memories and personality of any organic lifeform it consumed the brains of. And this creature ended up on a space ship, where everyone ended up going completely mad while the monster slaughtered them. It's so eerily close to The Thing's premise that I actually thought I had seen the movie beforehand and forgotten about it then ripped it off subconsciously. But, strangely enough, my inspiration for the novel was Venom from Marvel Comics.
There are major differences between The Thing and the monster in my novel. Which I never actually ended up naming other than the nickname of Shapeshifting Alien (outside of the novel). The monster from my novel didn't have to assimilate anyone to shapeshift into them, it just had to know what they looked like. It could also transform into whatever its mind could come up with. It ate people instead of assimilating them, as well as being able to take over their minds with a direct connection to their brains. The creature had a true form unlike The Thing, which was revealed in the novel multiple times. It was also less animalistic and more cold and calculating. The general theme of my monster was to put humans in the boots of the hunted. To portray the creature as essentially what animals would see a human as: An incomprehensible foreign lifeform that possesses superior mental and physical capabilities and kills indiscriminately.
If anyone is interested I could edit the novel, upload it onto Google Docs and share it here with you all. I'd just have to find it first.
Actually, if we're going by the video game and comic book canon of the franchise, we do see what happens to McReady and Childs. Childs dies but McReady survives.
This fucking website sucks but this channel is top quality. Emp on nearly every aspect of your videos you manage to do everything every “commentary” YouTuber tries to do but infinitely better. Great editing, great research, great topics, and even the damn music is great.
Love the movie! You kinda lost me a few times, I mean the arguments were decent but the big difference was MacReady was right. Alot of them saw first hand what this thing was and what it was capable of where as when you try and compare it to something like corona or aids either information was inaccurate or people did not know or see the full extent. And MacReady defended himself from a guy trying to stab him. The creature or thing tried to set him up by stuffing his clothes in the furnace making it look like MacReady turned and ripped through his clothes. The creature was intelligent and tried to manipulate them.
I mean the aids pandemic also was manipulated as was the current coronoavirus one, with constant framing of others for it being their fault and as well as information being with held from the public.
Just saw The Thing last night for Halloween. Great timing to find this Emplemon recommendation (even though I didnt get the notification, thanks youtube)
While the video is well put together, its quite disappointing to see a stark lack of credit. The video contains many key phrases which can be found on the Wikipedia article alone, but you portray them as your own original ideas. For example, the comparison between the chess game and the overall film should be credited to Diabolique's Daniel Clarkson Fisher.
I think that one of reasons why the Thing was hated so much back then was because it showed how humans truly are. Now the time we live in is parallel to even the movie its self. People paranoid, hurting each other, and keeping them self locked away from humanity. Driving the feeling of pure isolation and fear of fellow man. Truth is humanity has always been this way. We just needed a foreign thing to show us. Now I'm not getting all "humanity is the worse thing to exist" or anything like that. Humans bring good. Although we bring a lot of bad as well. It really does make you think ya know. On a side note I use to have faith in humanity for stopping outbreaks. Not now. If the Thing existed we probably be done for lol. Amazing stuff as always Lemon. Have a good one and a Happy early Halloween! 🎃
7:41 well yes but actually no, watch Jack Saint’s video on the The Ideology of Apocalypse. Like really, they’re not wrong. Both types of scenarios exist, but one seems more plausible… though I do think that the Thing fundamentally would do everything to make everyone not trust each other so it can work… but that’s not how humanity is always, at least not in my opinion.
Critics and audiences alike hating a carpenter film only to years later end up embracing the film.... sounds familiar.... oh yeah Halloween 3 had the same fate
Seriously an underrated horror movie and one of my favorites. I remember watching it after it was already 10 minutes or so in so I got didn't get the space craft intro, which made it pretty fuckin crazy when the thing finally showed itself lol.
@Badabing Bing outside of some recent youtube videos, I've literally never heard anyone mention this movie. So maybe outside of my circle of friends, but it's weird because they all like horror movies too.
Honestly I think the thing is a gross film because of all the gore I remember being a kid it actually looking away because of how realistic it looked. I was like under the impression that they had successfully shot the dog at the beginning of the film those Norwegians could have saved those Americans
The Thing is one of the most timeless movies ever made. I dont think there will ever be a point where humans dont fear some form of imperceptible enemy.
I think there was A Comic that took place after The movie where the survivor( not Kurt russel) was revealed to be the thing. Makes sense to me, probably killed McCready a bit later.
I don't get why the characters don't just interview each other regularily. Surely the thing can't speak English and even if it could it wouldn't imitate actual personalities and memories of an individual.
I can tell every one of the characters from The Thing by name, compared to something like the hobbit movies, i can't remember any of the dwarves by name, not even one.
Wait, that South Park scene where they get head lice and Cartman has everyone put blood on culture plates was from this movie? You learn something new everyday
I hate horror movies and this is still one of, if not one of my most beloved movies to watch. The atmosphere, soundtrack, and amazing body horror coupled with the fantastic character interactions always jelled so well. All elements are so meditatively done. It just knows how fast to burn, when to hit the fan, and what little hints to give the audience to really just get under your skin.
I've always loved Emp's attitude, but his application of topics and similar personal media tastes make this channel a favorite to me. Each new video, especially within the last year or so have been a real treat. Please, don't stop making documentary style videos
Dug up an old post of mine that I think is interesting:
I don't see a problem with Fuchs' death (other than the way the power goes out, as well as his idiotic reaction, but hey – it's a fucking horror movie; no artistic license and no silliness; no movie); limited availability to information is the entire premise of the movie. One possibility is that he burned himself after he was attacked, whether accidentally or intentionally, and another is that the monster burned his remains.
There are some serious credibility (logical) flaws, though, without including cases of artistic license (e.g Fuchs' comments above and kennel scene lack of lighting and noise), or reasonable cases of less than reasonable behavior, under the duress of the circumstances:
– Norwegian hilarity and extreme incompetence. Failing to hunt down a dog; for an hour or more; in a helicopter over an open area; with grenades and rifles; before instead managing to kill yourself with them is pretty fucking impressive. I appreciate and respect the running gag, though; Swedes have been running it for hundreds of years. – Bled-to-death, frozen Norwegian. For some reason, I doubt that the blood would have coagulated and frozen mid-air, with hardly any of it reaching the ground. You could easily argue that this falls within artistic license, though. – Dog-thing hoisting itself through the ceiling of the kennel, the next moment being on the ground with those parts nowhere in sight. Where did they go? Did some of the creature escape?? Wouldn't the characters have noticed and reacted accordingly??? You could argue that this falls within artistic license, though. – Crew member reactions to gained information. Mostly notably, Blair and Fuchs' reactions to learning of the creature living, and some very ambitious and unscientific conclusions made by Blair, especially as read in his notebook(s), by Fuchs. – Blair's super-computer. I can get over the fact that it's fucking retro, but don't pretend that you have ready-made software at all – let alone accurately – capable of calculating every kind of probability and spread of a cellular infection that's unlike anything known to anyone on the planet (and sure as fuck not supported by any pre-existing computer program), or that Blair manages to learn enough about its properties and (re)program the software in less than 12h – even if he were Leonardo da Vinci reincarnate & 2.0, with access to the greatest technology in the world, in 2020. What's worse is that explicitly stating the implications for humanity of the alien monster isn't meaningful in the first place, nor is it necessary to do so in a way that undermines the credibility of the film, should you insist on stating them. – MacReady picking up a flashlight, conveniently found next to the helicopter. Why couldn't they just have him on his person??? – The entire crew trusting Garry with the revolver, when it's just been proven highly likely that he's infected, and the subsequent suspicion towards him, after (as opposed to before) he voluntarily offered his weapon up. – For one reason or another, let's accept that MacReady and Nauls went – unescorted – to the former's shack only to turn off the light, under those circumstances. Nothing human could have made it back on its own, the hundred yards along a lit path in a moderate storm??? – The distrust of MacReady after he didn't take multiple opportunities to kill everyone else. – The solid wall that in-flames Palmer runs through. TopKEK. – Blair's carnivorous, cavernous project. I can't believe that Carpenter willfully undermined the plot's credibility simply to communicate that the creature wants to leave the base, which is undesirable (to communicate) in the first place. Please reference "Blair's super-computer" above, too. The major problems here are: Knowledge, material & time constraints. – Garry, MacReady and Nauls reacting to the power going out by immediately resorting to suicide, without so much as checking the generator, first.
I disagree with the assertion that The Thing is cosmic horror. Body horror? Yes. Psychological horror? Certainly. But cosmic horror? Not really. Macready understands the entity. It's not incomprehensible. It's not a story about the inadequacy of human comprehension or the indifference of the universe (hence the 'cosmic' part of cosmic horror).
Not gonna lie. As a kid I found E.T. far scarier than anything else. I saw Alien when I was 6. But E.T. gave me nightmares not Alien. And this was a movie that was being shown during the day as a family movie. It's a fucking body horror nightmare.
Le var2020-10-28 13:33:32 (edited 2020-10-28 13:51:50 )
I watched "The Thing" 1892 just to watch this video AND I DONT REGRET FILM, but i regret the video... I hate those analogies of physical and mental things like, damn, of course they are similar because MENTAL humans live in PHYSICAL world, so we must copy or adapt its systems!
The AIDS paranoia was some time after The Thing was made from what I remember. That was more late 80s. You show a picture of Ryan White. That was around 1990
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Jesus Villa2020-10-30 03:19:37 (edited 2020-10-30 03:22:39 )
Did the crew ever see their film become a culture classic? If not that would be tragic...
5.40 The computer moved it's rook beside's MacReady's king. If he killed it with his rook or king, he'd still been safe, but the computer declared check mate after making it's last move. The computer actually did cheat!
Bro i can definitely see how YouTube had their panties in a bunch over this vid. call me a conspiracy theorist or whatever but i think its because you mention hysteria and quarantine together with this horror movie... it upset the algorithm gods... maybe I'm wrong though
I always thought at the end childs was the thing because when he takes the drink childs should've known it could've spread to him because he came in contact with Macreadys saliva on the bottle and then Macready knows he truly alone
I think it's the scene with the chess computer all over again: offering his adversary the fatal "drink". If I recall correctly, all of the beer bottles were filled with fuel to make Molotov cocktails. The alien doesn't know the difference between gasoline and an alcoholic drink, confirming to McCready that Childs is infected when he takes a sip with no reaction. Safe to say it's fate is sealed when it has imbibed the flammable substance, just like the computer.
@Paul Andreotti I guess the other thing is the extreme difference in their breathing. (Sorry, lost on the words) Seeing McCready's breath nonstop while nothing from Childs at all. It was very prevalent there..
I took it to mean that it didn't really matter at that point. Whichever of them was human, they weren't going to survive without shelter anyway. Assuming either of them were the Thing, it'd just go back into hibernation. It's lose-lose at that point, so may as well have a drink.
@Niko it cant perfectly emulate a human for example when they were trying to figure out who sabatoged the blood palmer still had his headphones in during a time where a normal person wouldn't have his fucking headphones
Audiences at the time didn't like it either, and I doubt they were influenced by the critics much. They just liked E. T. and the other movies at the time more.
Humans acting more like the monsters was from the original short story where during the blood test, (more men in the short story) every time an imitation is revealed, the rest gleefully beat the creature to death
They left it ambiguous, neither person is confirmed to be The Thing. I'm pretty sure Carpenter himself said that one was infected, but never disclosed who.
EMP, I just got out of school holy shit have I been waiting for a new video. Thanks for the new bus ride material. ♥️♥️ Love the vids and keep up the great work. I look forward to watching this.
@Tucker Mayatt completely agree, now when I insist to people that they must watch this movie at least they might take it into consideration because of among us. For the past 4 years whenever it would arise on a conversation they would ignore my suggestion to watch it
Heck, I started to play among us because it reminded me of this movie, which is my fav. horror movie of all time. So certainly can appreciate when this game inspires other to watch this classic masterpiece
Nah that's cringe. This movie is so different from among us. Among us has the basic basic concept of 1 imitator v multiple survivors. But the thing has lore in the film they go to the previous research base that the thing had inhabited and infected. You see one mans corpse entirely frozen with a razor in his hand and his throat slit. Frozen blood on the walls and the entire research station just abandoned. With sections of wall torn down and the room they find the thing in is the container where they were able to re freeze it until they thaw it out at the next base. And the differing personalities of the crew mates. Among us is niche. I played it 2 years ago when it released and thought yeah it is like the thing. For a passing minute. But people straight up comparing a McDonalds hamburger to the most premium beef patty bacon cheeseburger is kinda insulting to the original.
@Neal Rame one comment justifying mccready killing the innocent crew member all the replies are saying hes sus and they're gonna vote him out. Not one comment has anything concerning the film
@Cryo Judgement ah, i see. i have a quick question though: have you actually read the comments section? cause i see far more comments talking about the film.
Think you could review alfred Hitchcocks "The birds" after swwing that movie I went outside and just looked around at the birds outside in an entirely new light.
2:37 Lol I think I made an Among us meme about a month ago with this exact image or one very similar. When I played Among Us, I immediately thought of The Thing.
Just in case: the text on the right poster on 11:39 says "The US Army is the weapon/tool of agression and robbery" (Армия США — орудие агрессии и разбоя)
Idk about the ideology stuff. I mean I see the relation but I think the movie is stronger in the department of exploring human activity and interaction in crisis. Good vid tho.
I'm pretty sure in this instance the sponsors come first, second the ideological digs, and third the movie discussion. At the end of the video he credits another creator for the film analysis, so it is likely that emplemon is engaging in the same behavior he used to warn people about. Using his sponsors and large audience to profit off of smaller youtubers struggling to grow by having them ghost-write videos for him. He got a video restored by youtube in half an hour indicating he is at the very least on their good side. Based on the other videos of his I have seen, it stands out to me when someone who trains viewers in "content smuggling" and "working the algorithm" has a role in shaping the behavior of many youtubers on the platform. If his actions were contrary to what youtube wants it would be easy to shut him down, instead you get guaranteed fear-mongering, communists aren't bad, Trump bad, X is/isn't a hero, and all variations of "here's how you should feel about this topic" techniques typically associated with propaganda.
You should watch & discuss Invasion of the Body Snatchers next.
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Person 12020-10-27 19:44:59 (edited 2020-10-28 09:18:42 )
Dude your content has improved a lot since the start of this year. You now make your own different type of videos that are unique though some are better than others like your Rick and Morty than your video game video
Scrubs thought it'd be cool after playing Among Us and cash in on the scramble to have some pseudo deep reviews that'll catch the eye of the algorithm. IE, Hahaha, look at how ideology divides us! Racism, class, birthplace, hahahaha! Epic win movie review that totally hasn't been explored and more intelligently before, funny memes from game will get me views as I play live action memes about it, hahaha!
The reason I can enjoy the film is the same reason that I canNOT enjoy Ridley Scott's Alien prequels. The human cast in the thing is competent from start to finish, adapting to new information and changing strategy accordingly almost instantly. Whilst Prometheus and Covenant had some of the most stupid science guys I have ever seen in any scifi movie. You can't immerse your audience in your grand, philosophical, pseudointellectual themes when your movie fail to explain basic plot holes and character motivations. If only there is one guy like MaCready amongst the crew of Prometheus or Covenant, at least 5 guys would survive in both movies.
And worst of all, it could be any one of us. It could be in this very room. It could be you, it could be me, it could even be * head gets blasted off by a shotgun * Woah Woah Woah! Ooh What? it was obvious, Clark’s a thing! watch he’ll start shaking any second now…any second now. See! Shaking! No wait, that’s me moving his body. So we still have problem? Big problem… Alright who’s ready to go burn a thing? * Wet gurgling and roaring emits from behind Mac and Windows from Palmer. *
This is a comment for the algorithm wow what a great video how have more people not seen it. So great and cool and good and definitely monetizable... right?
Depends how define 'isolated'. They were, as a group, isolated from the rest of the world. They were, in smaller groups, isolated from each other. One of them was isolated by himself in quarantine. And they were all 'isolated' by their paranoia and distrust. Sure they were physically near each other, but they weren't truly 'together' in a co-operative sense. While MacReady had his group, he never truly trusted them as he did himself, meaning he was isolated as the only 'safe' person in his view. Just as all others viewed themselves as the only 'safe' person, again making them isolated.
@Taylor : "Isolated" is not isolated. They were isolated only as a group somewhere in the middle of the Antarctic continent. None of them were isolated in any other true sense, not even Blair who was "isolated" with The Thing.
@Code Optimization Ware You clearly don't get it if you are reading it purely literally. They were all mentally and socially isolated due to paranoia and distrust, even if they weren't physically isolated from each other.
@Taylor : Oh shit, you gotta be kidding me! Blah, I saw the movie already myself. You don't tell me about the movie, and you don't tell me what isolation does and does not mean.
Your little metaphors are no worthy substitute for actuality nor reality. And you live in your mind and feel that it's real. Brain power is NOT your strong suit, I can tell already! And your remade, "rebooted," re-"imagined," re-whatever https://youtu.be/UYASnI_bPU8 shit-flicks are shit, especially your 2011 Thing prequel! Now go make yourself useful and burn it, before I do...again.
Such a good movie with the exception of the intro (space ship) which ruins the mystery of what’s going on. Also Blair building a spaceship super fast under the cabin was sort of silly. Still in my top 3 movies though.
The last 15 minutes are sort of strapped together, Carpenter ran out of time and the dude behind special effects had to be hospitalized from over working.
A dudes stomach opens and amputated a guy at the forearms and then a dudes head grows spider legs and rips its head off then grows eyes. I dont think it was age restricted due to PR.
6:56 ...God. Fucking. Damnit. I feel so... Stupid. I never put it together before that Black Mesa is supposed to be Area 51. I think it's because when I think of Area 51 I always picture Roswell from Futurama, and so I always imagine it as being like a post WW2 military camp rather than a secret military testing complex.
Plus, I mean, nobody banged their own grandma at Black Mesa. Well. Ok, if they did, then not in an extraordinary time travel way... Probably.
judging by the shots in the video, I won't be suprised if Interplay and black Isle based the Master from Fallout 1 on the monster, the fact how it (judging as I havent seen the movie) can absorb people and it can hoffically destroy a human or other living beaing...
It'd be cool if you do there will never be another series like Twilight Zone when I'm talking Twilight Zone I'm talking about the 1950s to 60s series I would love it if you would talk about the Twilight Zone
I watched the video complaining about YouTube demonetization and age restriction, there is no indicator in the description that this video is restricted
We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
And if you ask me how I'm feeling
Don't tell me you're too blind to see
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
(Ooh) Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
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Ah after all these years, I found it again. Can someone please help and tell me what the name of the old show with the blue play doh figures are?? No matter what I searched I just could not find the name.
This is odd but i found your video and loved it bur couldnt finish it and when i tried to watch it again i just could not find it, i even looked on my liked videos and it said it was deleted
My dad told me that you can tell who "the thing" is at the end of the movie because Childs, the crewmate, drinks from a Molotov Cocktail. A Molotov is entirely gasoline and MacReady made it previously in the film, so MacReady laughs because he knows he's "the thing".
Having watched the video on this video's youtube problems (and subbing after that video) I thought it worth mentioning this video has shown up in my recommendations, if that helps at all?
@Will__Mem9rno It's about an alien lifeform that's mistaken for some sort of ice cream like substance that they package and sell to people since it's so addictive. You can probably guess how things go from there.
No. I’d say it’s a perfect title. Because what words can you really use to describe this creature? When it reveals itself, it’s a grotesque amalgamation of heads, arms, tentacles, claws, teeth, and legs. It’s a “Thing.”
People talking about Among Us, but people don't know about unfortunate spacemen. Basically The Thing but with spacemen, like seriously, you can be the monster instead of just a murderous among us figure
According to science, if the universe is actually infinite, then every conceivable idea and thought that every human has ever had, has, and will have, exists somewhere within the universe. Indeed even the thoughts that no one ever had and never will have, exist somewhere within the universe, IF it is infinite.
And because there is a limited number of infinite possibilities (I know it sounds paradoxical, but think of every number between 0 and 1, there's practically an infinity of them but it eventually goes from 0 to 1) then there are only so many forms in which atoms can arrange themselves before they have to start repeating themselves with some minor variations each time. That means every creation inside an infinite universe, down to each individual human, exists an infinity of times and has to go through an infinity of different situations.
In conclusion, past the limit of the observable universe, where the laws of physics may differ from those that we know, the events from The Thing have happened for real, and there are countless organisms identical to "the thing" that are endlessly journeying through the cosmos. Have fun sleeping tonight.
(Actually don't worry, even if it turns out the universe is infinite, which it likely is, and The Thing has a 100% chance of existing out there, that would be beyond the limits of the observable universe, and the universe expands in on itself faster than light can travel, so even if somebody tried to come towards us faster than light, it would still not be able to ever reach us. Though that also means that there's an identical you somewhere out there right at this moment, reading a comment made by another me, just as he's about to be assimilated in a painful way.)
I know it’s abt the movie but I rly love this comments for kinda personal reasons
Tldr: I’ve been terrified of death etc and struggling spiritually/existentially for the past couple years but ur comment makes me feel better so thx
So uhh I’ve been having a lot of existential dread which I guess you could call a crisis of faith, and every sort of ~spirituality~ I’ve looked into, I’m only ever been skeptical. But at the same time I can’t bring myself to accept atheism and such—bc of the existential dread.
But I’ve always loved metaphysics and multiverse theory and idk somehow this is rly comforting to me? I get that we haven’t 100% proven it—so I guess in a way it’s not too different that believing in god—but idk, it’s more... objective? than anything else I’ve tried so far.
@Feral Animation I think I know what you mean. I'm pretty much the same. I wouldn't describe myself as either religious nor an atheist nor agnostic.
I don't like atheism because to me it feels like it tries to sell a cynical, meaningless and nihilistic existence. It tries to embrace the nothingness almost in defiance to religious people, and in doing so I feel it completely blinds itself towards the intrinsic beauty of existence. At the same time however, every religion out there seemingly tries to sell me what feels like a fake reassurance. Nothing is scary to religious people because they can justify it through a greater purpose.
"If I die I die because God wanted me to"; "Space is empty because God wanted it to be empty"; "It doesn't matter if I'm stranded alone on the moon, God is with me" and so on. And really I can't buy into any religion specifically when they are based entirely on human-made doctrines. There's always some ancient text at the basis of it all that was ultimately wrote by another human. There is not a single shred of proof for the existence of a personal god-like creator.
I don't hate religion or religious people, and I understand religion has its place within our society; after all it is a trading system through which one gains reassurance in their life in exchange for somebody gaining political power. And I'm sure it has helped humanity throughout the ages too, as I can't imagine humans, with our innate selfish nature, would willingly move towards today's kind of society where it's not common to kill one another, if it weren't for the absolute belief that a creator was intently watching them at all times. But it just isn't for me, I can't help it but feel like both sides are lacking something critical.
Not science, however. Science, to me, fills that missing gap, giving meaning to the universe and comfort in understanding it, while also forcing us to embrace the fact that we are ultimately in control of our own destiny. The more I've learned about the universe, the more at ease I became understanding that I am part of it. If there was something I'd consider a God, that would be reality itself, the space that bent itself in order to allow me to exist inside of it; the fundamental laws of physics that allow for conscient thought.
The universe exists in itself. It's a closed system, where no new atoms ever get created, just recycled over and over. The same atoms that form you right now are the same atoms that were inside exotic distant stars, planets, dinosaurs, kings and emperors, plants and insects, rivers, oceans and mountains. After we die, our atoms will entirely return to the universe. Some parts will become the earth, others will become new animals, and ultimately new people, and new stars.
@Shizi As implausible as it sounds, yes, if the universe is infinite then star wars also exists incredibly far away from us.
Impossible to ever reach or detect, but presumably real, at least based on the way mathematics predict reality so far.
There would also be a place within our universe where somebody had this great idea to make an entirely fictional movie, but the events of that movie were real as WW2 here.
yeeeah. Putting Trump and "Salvation" in the same clip is exactly the kind of rhetoric these people push. Rest of the video is a pretty good analysis though.
Especially since the entire video is inspired by the pandemic response he bungled up and is now constantly having rallies, regardless of who gets hurt, just to further his goals. He is the guy in sci fi movies that gets infected with an alien virus but doesn't say anything to the rest of the crew. OUR "SAVIOR" LADIES AND GENTLMEN
@Rayo Visual I'd like to imagine it's one of those sarcastic memes (glorifying bad people and ideas) that was popular a few years back. Trump was often the butt of these memes. But then 2016 happened and we realized that there actually are a dangerously large number of idiots who fell for it hook line and sinker.
Which certainly actually makes it more perplexing that someone as fluent as emp in internet culture would put that in his video considering the current climate
People just ignore the mass riots that spread COVID at unbelievable rates, they ignore the emails implicating the Bidens in selling out America to China (even sexual abuse), they ignore the initial spread of COVID, helped by ignorant politicians that were sucking up to China, they ignore the physical violence suffered by people speaking even remotely right-wing opinions, they ignore the gargantuan economical crisis caused by lockdowns, they ignore the rampant election fraud aimed towards helping the Democrat party. Tell me, people, who's the hypocrite?
@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin obviously your party, yea. Who's the president that's actively down playing the seriousness of the situation. Which party's the senate majority who happens to refuse to pass aid for struggling Americans? Which president is the one that actively promotes nutjob cures for the virus. As someone from a country which only experienced 200 covid infections and 14 deaths because we closed down on the first sign of trouble, your republican party isn't a right wing party. It is the party of selfish narcissists. Vladimir
@Vega Obviously if the economy goes into a free fall COVID is gonna be the least of our problems, since people who were barely making rent will suffer the most, compared to the elites who can ride lockdown with cash to spare. The relief bill was shot down by dem politicians barely last month, when the objective was just helping U.S. citizens with cash. Hydroxychloroquine has been vetted and helps fight against COVID, it's a legitimate treatment. Now, if lockdown was so important, why is it that a great deal of democrat-run cities are experiencing upticks in COVID activity? Why was Pelosi in a hair salon totally unprotected? Cuomo ignored quarantine too!
@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin you're just spouting nonsense this whole time Vladimir. My country's economy is doing great because we reacted quickly, quarantined for a 1/4 of a year and now life has returned to normal, restaurants are more packed than previously. Everyone's going to the cinemas. No one's wearing a mask anymore.
@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin 328.2 million, and now 200,000 of those are dead. Idk about you but trying to put out a raging forest fire (covid) sounds way more complicated and costly than just prevention
@Vega I hope you understand that in the wide scale of things, 200,000 isn't much. 655,000 Americans die of heart disease every year. In 2018, 48,344 Americans died by suicide. In 2019, over 38,800 Americans died in car crashes. It's an incomplete list, but my objective here is that the overall Covid fatalities aren't extreme.
@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin from your sources, democrats rejected the bill because it doesn't help. the bill isn't adequate at helping the people.
"House Democrats in May passed a $3.4 trillion bill that would extend some of those measures and approve a number of other initiatives, such as nearly $1 trillion for cities and states, but Republicans and the White House rejected that plan. The White House didn’t begin negotiations with Democrats over what to do next until late July, and those talks faltered as both sides dug in."
@Vega 200,000 is still a very small number to justify 22,000,000 to 17,000,000 jobs lost in the lockdowns. And about 9/11, I fully decry senseless war, and I believe we shouldn't have had any hand whatsoever in the middle east, since it just hurt the country as a whole. If that's what you try to say, I agree.
@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin 1. You rather have non-Americans suffer than to benefit yourself. 2. The Heroes Act would codify EPA's environmental justice grant programs and provide up to $50 million in additional Fiscal Year 2020 funds for the sole purpose of investigating and addressing these disproportionate impacts of COVID-19. This provision is based on legislation developed and introduced by Reps. Excuse me? investigating the impacts of COVID seems pretty important for a bill aimed to tackle the impacts of COVID 3. If not bailouts then what do you guys want? Bailouts helps small businesses too. aka The Economy 4. People are unemployed and unable to pay their debts due to COVID. So the government is using the money (paid for by the citizenry) to help alleviate the financial problems of the citizens
@Vega 1.- Yes. By law, illegal aliens don't enjoy the same treatment as a citizen. They're here ILLEGALLY, and any other country would boot them off, why not the U.S.? 2.- As i've said before, the money that is supposedly meant for emergencies is often siphoned off to programs that never show their worth, or that ironically hurt the development of the marginalized communities they're supposed to help. The act says it should only be used in programs that "will investigate or address the disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in environmental justice communities.", which considering their track record, is too vague and can be interpreted in many ways. 3.- Most bailouts are only enjoyed by corporations and big companies, and worst of all, this means the business isn't profitable or functional, but is still propped up while smaller businesses get squashed. We've seen minority mom & pop shops take the brunt of the Covid economical free fall, while big businesses like Amazon continue to grow; they can take the economy's hits. 4.- Student loans are something people agreed to by contract, which means they were never forced to, they did it out of their own volition. Here, it's their responsibility to get out of the hole they themselves dug, not the taxpayer.
@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin have some compassion in your life for once, this isn't a numbers game. And the rest are just things you disagree with. I say they work, you, otherwise
@Vega Running a country isn't about feelings, it takes brutally honest logic and men capable of taking those decisions, it rounds back to Emp saying how Macready was the only one guiding the whole group as a leader. I know compassion, but give a man a fish, and he'll be fed. Teach a man to fish, and he'll be fed his whole life. What we're doing is just making people dependent on the government to solve their issues, and ultimately that gives leeway to authoritarianism and injustice, you can see it in this review too, the characters had to depend on Macready.
@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin Hey, that's just Emp's personal opinion. The world is more nuanced than that. A country driven by it's lust for material wealth ain't the only government and ideological systems around.
lol critics are out of touch and useless no matter the time period it seems. when a bunch of critics pan a movie there is a high chance it will be very enjoyable. and to think they would trash talk one of the most iconic sci-fi horror movies of all time along the likes of alien......what a joke.
EmpLemon's assertion that MacReady murdered Clark is just as exaggerated and unreasonable as when Childs said it. Did nobody else pay attention to how Clark was about to stab him with a scalpel? At least Childs had the justification of plausible deniability over whether or not he saw the scalpel in Clark's hand.
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no one2021-01-04 17:13:02 (edited 2021-01-04 17:13:23 )
So I came from the demonetization about this vid by Emp's where he was showing the list of words that guarantee a takedown It is the mention of aids almost at the 11:00 mark of the vid, that it took it down That's why is age restricted
an american horror movie is the most realistic depiction of the American pandemic clusterfuck. The rest 90% of the world is doing fine and has moved one. Mainly Asia and some pacific countries. Will the west follow? Or fade into chaos and redundancy?
You know... I understand many of the underlying messages, the truth of human nature, and the challengues... But... What are we meant to do? For real, I've had enough of understanding why the world sucks, why we suck, what everything means, but we need solutions, hope god dammit. I'm not asking for a magical solution that changes everything from one day to another, I'm asking for where do we begin to make a brighter future.
Well, I say the same. I can't tell you the solution, but you can tell me yours and I'll tell you why it is shit, you kill me and your solution becomes the status quo. That is how it works.
@Deadliest Vice why does emplemon comment to go buy manscaped when he already mentions it in the video?
also among us isn't just a meme game its actually pretty fun and a good concept for a game and sure its probably been done before but its nice to enjoy things for as long as they last
@that darn guy that song is like 15 years old now but still an absolute classic. DOOM is my favourite rapper, but he was a great producer as well. he passed near the end of 2020, I'm still pretty gutted about it. go check some of his shit, he's incredible
so if the thing bites or touches you, you mutate into another thing. but can the thing that has bitten/touched you transform itself into a copy of youryelf??
I wonder if EmpLemon has heard of, “Everywhere at the End if Time,” by The Caretaker, with album art by Ivan Seal and a complete set easily accessible by searching up, “Everywhere at the End of Time vvmtest” on youtube? I wonder if he knows that post awareness stage 6 is without description.
After a long day of work, Kanye West goes to his Kanye Nest to take his Kanye Rest. He wakes up feeling his Kanye Best. Then he’ll get Kanye Dressed into his Kanye Vest to go on a Kanye Quest. He goes to church and becomes Kanye Blessed, then to a hotel room to be a Kanye Guest. Then to school to take his Kanye Test. He forgot to brush his teeth. Did he run out of Kanye Crest? His neighbor stole it, what a Kanye Pest.
Critics are basically disabled citizens anyone could do what they do and likely audiences would appreciate a laymens experience rather than a high filutent critic. Basically journalists and critics take themselves way too seriously because 100 years ago when literacy was low you were actually seen as quite comendable and intelligent if you could write, now, not so much so these people are just trying to gain respect without doing anything to earn it. Basically the reason nobody reads news or video game news media.
I had two main issues with that movie: the dialogs which sound like characters are shouting accross a footbal field even when they are inside and a few meters apart, and the fact that the contamination followed no rule nor logic. I would have loved a movie where you try to piece out together who got it and who doesn't, and then sometimes you guessed wrong but every contamination can be explained by what you see on screen. In the Thing, it felt like people would just get it at random, which didn't feel like it made sense.
god that serious review of the thing's tones was ruined by a fucking among us reference to the point of me skipping 10 seconds ahead and saying "Fuck off."
Seeing some of the issues that happened in the 80s is not very unlike right now
Since we're struggling with a pandemic, political unrest, and other issues surrounding social justice, it does bother me to see just how a generation can glorify a generation and mask the heinous faults.
I admit that I've had that same mentality, so I'm not cutting myself slack over this
aye yo it's back! I knew YouTubers wasn't that much dumb. oh wait. demonitization impacting YouTubers and destroying their careers: me: never mind they might be still dumb.
Curses, all these people mentioning Trouble in Terrorist Town and Among Us, my boy Unfortunate Spacemen getting no love despite being a first person Among Us sort of.
This video was actually taken down for "violating YouTube's Community Guidelines." a few hours after it was uploaded, but now it's back up, and Age-restricted.
Bob McBobbington2020-11-04 18:23:56 (edited 2020-11-04 18:36:16 )
Movie was more good idea than good execution, sans the effects. I couldn't care less who died because I couldn't care less about the characters. Ultimately I agree with Ebert. And ultimately it didn't dive into any philosophical discussion horror wasn't already exploring for the past 100 years. It just was packaged in a "cooler" way. And emp's excuse for the lack of characters is just that, an excuse. You can do an allegory WHILE having good characters. ANd by good characters I don't necessarily mean likeable.
hey look your video its up its like you made this crap up 1 min before also the john capute movie adaption its a bit of a remake of the 1951 movie the thing from another wold
7:10 He didn't murder him, though. The guy was about to literally stab him in the back. That's about as definitive a case of self defense as you can get.
At 15:00, I feel like it should be mentioned that the framing of this shot mirrors exactly what you say about the uncertainty. The flare being held provides a second source of light apart from the ambient lighting. Encompassing the noose is a cool, blue shade that shows that something was going on that only a human could experience. It also makes the noose appear even more sad in the position it lies at. There was genuine sorrow when it was tied and set up. But Blair is in a more aggressive red. It feels less somber, and it makes sense since he's acting completely inconspicuous. Eating, asking to be let back out. But there's something off about that behavior. The contrast in frame between the ignorance of the noose and the clashing between a cold blue and a harsh red. It's absolutely masterful if not unintentional.
Bruh, last week this movie was on TV, then I watched with a streamer in a watch-along, and now I'm obsessed with it and now emp is talking about it. I love it.
I'm glad someone acknowledges the greatness of this masterpiece and is able to enlighten other people about how this is the pinnacle of a psychological horror film.
The Thing taught me that the only person I can truly trust is Kurt Russell. Emp your channel continues to amaze me with the sheer variety of topics you give the attention they deserve.
EmpLemon you're one of the few youtubers left that I feel still has soul, good on you for pursuing what you wanted to do with your life instead of playing it safe.
This video really made me understand what people see in the thing, unfortunately I was never able to watch it Thank you for making this video, this is by far my favourite in your entire channel
Even the creator of the 1950's version of The Thing hated this movie. Little did he realize that years later, John Carpenter's version would overshadow his to the point that not many people are aware of the 1950's version.
There was a really interesting story written by Peter Watts from the perspective(s) of The Thing. While it's by no means official, I thought it was such a unique personal interpretation. I love how it ties into the ambiguity of the story. http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
Also being paranoid of subversive ideology is perfectly reasonable, unless you are a fence sitter Emp who sees no reason to fight for good even if means doing harsh things.
My dad showed me this movie when I was 10. It’s been my favorite ever since. Any time me and the lads have a movie night, I always beg and plead we watch it since most of them haven’t. Whenever I convince one to watch it themself they always say the fuckin love it as well
Wonderful video, but that darnedest manscaped add got me out the wonderful groove EmpLemon got me into! Love the vod regardless. Make more shiz like this, i love your work even if what you make is controversial. Keep subverting the world we live in!
So there was an old Starcraft 1 custom game called "The Thing" that had identical mechanics to Among Us. I wonder if the creators of Among Us got inspiration from that map, in turn being indirectly inspired by the movie
EMP nice attention to detail by having the text use John Carpenter’s signature font Albertus. Love your stuff man you’re an inspiration for content creators and I love watching your videos brother. Keep up the great work
Lets say this, you and another fellow are the only survivors of the thing´s carnage partially caused by your distrust. and to check you think to scare the crewmate to see if it will react in an animalistic way, but if you do the crewmate will think you are infected and will shoot you with no remorse, so either way you are doomed to never know if he really is the thing or if you are.
The Thing has had a tiny surge in popularity due to it being both Halloween and the popularity of Among Us. Glad to see it get the recognition it deserves.
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Larry Laffer2020-10-28 03:17:41 (edited 2020-10-29 06:54:29 )
A film so disgusting only Wilfred Brimley could actually stomach the special effects on set. "Look it up it's true, only he could actually be near it's gory special effects and not retch." Giving birth to animals in his youth gave that man a constitution of steel. RIP you legend.
The initial wave of negative feedback from critics is yet another in a long list of examples of critics not knowing what the fuck they’re talking about.
They live, as well as another great John Carpenter movie. If you want to talk about prophetic too, that shit was way ahead of its time in depicting how humans can be manipulated by mass media and institutions of power.
Any other looks at Carpenter's works down the line? I mean, one of them kind of fits the spirit of Halloween since it was really spooky, but, mmm, now I can't think of the title...hmmmmm...
This didn't show up in my sub feed and then had a warning before I opened it. Unreal shadow banning, I don't even get those notifications on channels that cover horror movies (like Dead Meat).
Yeah YouTube didn't like this video because it's not about politics, lootboxes, a famous youtuber, or a cartoon about spiderman jumping off a toilet to rape Elsa
I have to say I’ve been a sub for a while and I love where you’ve come to as a channel, every passion project of yours is very well written and the editing, analysis, and humor are even better. Thanks for making such awesome congent
Dude, your content always fascinated me, it made me think about and find interest in topics I had literally 0 concept of or interest prior. But, the The Thing is one of my favorite horror movies of all time, so I nearly fell over when I saw this in my subscription list.
The real enemy in the movie isnt the thing itself but the paranoia among the group that one of them could be a thing but they dont know who, one of my favorite movies all time 10/10 - a masterpiece
This movie has a special place in my heart. I absolutely hated horror movies as a kid, but one day when I was like 13, my dad basically went, “Son, it’s time to show you The Ways,” and he used this and Alien as my official introduction to horror.
Obviously, I hated it. That shit gave me nightmares for like a week. But as I got used to scares, and saw how cheap and stupid most horror movies are, I realized just how good this one is. It's one of the very few that's not only genuinely frightening, but smart as well. There’s no cheap jump scares, no brain-dead chicks, no catering to angsty teens with shitty edgelord music or teen drama; and most importantly, there's not a single moment that makes you go, "Wtf are you doing!?!? Run that way!!!" It's just a bunch of grown men doing their damndest to survive. Every action they make- even their mistakes- makes sense, and is is what any normal person would do. The threat of The Thing is constantly looming in the air, and the music is just so iconically good.
Hearing the main theme makes me feel so nostalgic. I absolutely love this movie; it’s so much fun to rewatch over and over, and it will always be my all-time favorite in horror.
I can watch this movie with my eyes closed and go to sleeep.... the narration and acting is on point all the way through, painting the perfect picture in my mind as I lay with my eyes closed... perfection.
The Thing was possibly the inspiration for Among us. the Imposter (or imposters) killing the regular crewmates through differing methods, one being the stomach mouth shooting a spike like tongue through the head of the crewmates.
I know it's speculation however, it would be extremely cool to find out it's true.
I feel that's pretty exaggerated*. Sure, you can find a lot of historical examples of people turning on one another during a panic. But you could also find a lot of examples of people cooperating and being civil during times of distress. It entirely depends on the situation at hand. In the movie, the threat is new and not understood. This leads to the group turning on one another and developing mistrust. Drawing parallels to 2020, sure there were people punching one another for toilet paper and dumbasses not wearing masks. But there are also a lot of sane, rational, level-headed individuals who don't endanger people's lives. Negativity bias is a really strong thing when left unchecked.
Aside from that, great video. The movie is really good and it's a shame it didn't get the reception it deserved back then.
Crazy I just watched this movie a week ago and now I see a ton of new The Thing vids from a lot of creators I like. Seems Covid and the riots got everyone thinking about the same Thing.
I like this side of emp lemon. The whining about how things were better in the past gets old, and it's refreshing to see him do a deep dive into the subtext of things and find his own meaning of media from that.
Now that emp has talked about a movie and videogames in his previous video, I would like to see him talk about anything having to do with music such as the analysis of a music album or a song in specific.
The video is a banger. I have to admit that when I saw the thumbnail, I postponed watching the video and really I just watched it because I know that empLemon gives quality content
The best common aspect across all the best works of horror is horror we cannot escape from and is something intrinsically human for us. A lot of early horror films, like Frankenstein, showcases man's making of monsters, in some form of benevolent scientific pursuit. Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing all showcase human fear of those they need to be faith in. Its something you can't be certain of, because there is a risk of being betrayed, leaving you dead. Its a paradox of something where there is no answer for.
Bro, why is The Thing suddenly blowing up. Just last month, i binge watched a bunch of thing theory videos. And now, it seems The Thing is suddenly getting the spotlight
I have a far fetched theory. When I first saw Among Us I saw the monster looking kill animation and thought "Oh it's like The Thing". I could imagine some other people thought the same and started some conversations where someone has to explain what that is, and as result cause more people to talk about it.
I am a simple man, I see The Thing, I click. By the way...when will they give us a GOOD GAME of this franchise ? Like an Among Us on steroid, or an Alien Isolation. I start to think that people dislike easy money.
ET, The Thing and Xtro all were great alien movies that came around the same time Sadly, only ET is remembered since it’s family friendly. Only true men know about the Thing and Xtro
Can I take a moment to say that fucking dog is incredible in the movie. I have never seen a dog act that way, the way it pauses at the doorways walking down the hall. It's so unnatural and unsettling and is perfect at building the tension. You know something's up with it, but at that point in the movie, you're not sure what... I'm convinced the dog was an actual alien.
@LegendaryMarston that is incorrect. While it is true that he is very reclusive, I am pretty sure he simply retired, moved on to a different field of work, and refused to stay in contact with any form of media.
@LegendaryMarston i just did some searching. There are persistent rumours he’s a real estate agent nowadays but there is nothing solid on that. He’s been retired from the movie business since the late 90s, but his last confirmed credit was for a short movie called Cindy’s Boyfriend in 2013 (which he did as a favor to the director). Theres also claims he worked on a Game of Thrones episode in 2014, but no confirmation. He lives in Covina, CA on the outskirts of Los Angeles. He evidently values his privacy a lot and has zero media presence.
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Joel Kahn2020-10-28 02:55:08 (edited 2020-10-28 02:55:24 )
Why on earth was this taken down for a short time by YouTube? There's absolutely nothing wrong with this video as far as I can tell
Doctor Reed2020-10-27 20:35:13 (edited 2020-10-27 20:39:02 )
i dont think ive ever seen an analysis be so utterly wrong on its way to reaching the right conclusion lmao. you almost sound like youre rooting for the thing at some points dude
Wtf, I saw this movie just 2 weeks ago. I swear you must follow me around or something because you uploaded that video about Hungrybox just after I got into Smash and now you upload a video about a pretty specific cheesy movie that I had just watched recently.
I can't complain though, I would be watching this video even if I hadn't seen the movie and this way I won't have it spoiled
Cosmic Coincidence or just timing? I just watched the movie today and Youtube just put this video on my recommendations lol(also I just subscribed, good stuff)
And then the 2011 film came out and ruined everything with terrible effects and characters, because the studio high ups had to intervene at the last second..
Yo why was this video deleted for a few hours i came back to watch it again earlier today and found it was deleted now it’s back again what happened?!?!
The thing is a great movie but I thought this was one of the weakest videos I've seen from you. The crossover with Kino Corner was especially grating, stale, and uninteresting. "The Making Of The Thing" is just a better use of time, and re watching The Thing itself is more entertaining. To date this is the first and only time I've not been able to watch one of your essays all the way through. Sorry dude, I normally like you too.
The thing isn't a virus. It is a highly intelligent alien organism. "Can you even trust yourself." Yes, because if you are assimilated by the thing, you are dead, the thing devours its victim and grows the victim out of its own mass.
@Niko Also, calling it devalues the fact that it is a highly evolved, highly developed animal, that can mimic other animals so that it can survive in a verity of environments.
Dude, you showed Trump and Hitler in your vid and didn't said they are SUPET bad?? That is your 200% reason, why this vid has so much troubles.... I'm not kidding...
I just watched The Thing for the first time the other night. Was one of those "masterpieces I know is great but just haven't gotten around to watching yet" movies. Totally loved it. Absolutely amazing film.
I thought the concept of the film was incredible, but the creature’s design made it hard for me to feel scared of what could happen to the characters knowing that a tentacle monster was what I was supposed to be scared of. I feel like if I saw it for the first time now I would definitely be more horrified than I was a year ago
The fact that EmpLemon can pull up a topic I know nothing about, and get me to get extremely interested in it as amazing and I don’t know another YouTuber who does it.
The Thing never got the credit it deserves at its release. This film is genuinely one of, if not the beat horror films ever made. It’s a Lovecraftian tale in ever sense of that word. Filled with distrust, paranoia, incomprehensible horrors. Afiak, it wasn’t even conceived as a Lovecraft-Esque film. Yet, it hits all the notes like very, very few media ever has.
Thanks to Among us I got to know about that film. Watched it for the first time just 2 days ago and now all my recommendations are about fan theories of The Thing. Film is great, absolutely didn’t age neither visually nor thematically Anyway, thanks for another great vid. You really did put a lot into it and it shows
Let's fucking go I'm so glad that one of my favorite films is finally getting so much recognition on YouTube it set the foundation for games like among us
To me, this not only cements Emps creativity and skill in multiple genres of content, but also that man when left to his own devices, is ultimately his own undoing.
YES YES YES! I always loved this movie. i tried to show it to my friends, but they all tought it was to slow and boring, and disgusting. they whent back to their nun movies. id get it tbh
Back in the days movie critics despises films that are too violent. The Thing is a smart horror-classic film. After watching this video, The Thing really aged well ahead of its time.
in an among us update later, the dev can make so that we can be more than 10, and if we are 12, we can (kinda) remake The Thing in Among us the only problem is that in among us, you can't infect others to be impostors
I'm trying to find the game advertised at the end of the video but it's not on steam anywhere! I'm searching all over the web for "Halixion", have I spelled the name wrong or does this game just not exist?
edit: the game is called "Helexian" and its in the video description
The greatest trick the devil played was convincing people he didn't exist. Capitalist ideology is invisible to many US-Americans, presented to us from a young age as the way things are (and always will be) or "common sense".
Something I should add, The Thing wasn't John's final blockbuster, he made next year's Christine, (The killer car movie) Which critics also complain about, this time it's use of swearing, which ironically enough Scarface came out on the same week, Scarface had the world record for most swear words in a film into the South Park movie
Uh, Macready did not murder an innocent “crew member.” Jesus. Did you see it? Clark rushed Macready with a knife and Mac shot him. What is your definition of self defense?
After pulling an all nighter for ap assignments I was downward spiraling, but emp arrived just in time to pull me out the spiral with a video about one of my favorite movies.
John Carpenter is a master of cinema who never got the recognition he deserved in his time. he made masterpiece after masterpiece. glad you're talking about one of his most iconic works.
So fellas, humans really don’t like things that look like human but aren’t quite human. This is why a lot of the population becomes uncomfortable with things like Polar Express and Monster House, it looks too realistic to us and sets us off.
This is of course known as the “Uncanny Valley.” effect and it’s thought to be an evolutionary tactic for survival.
The funny part is. No other animals that we know of experience the Uncanny Valley effect, Only us. Which leaves the question; what was out there that Mimic humans so well and was so dangerous that we have evolved this as a tactic for survival? Just something to think about.
The thing about critics is they often forget to critically think . You don’t have to personally like a movie in order to tell that it’s a good movie, and a good movie does t necessarily have to cater to your specific tastes.
Is the story gripping? Are the characters appropriately developed? Is the acting convincing? Are the special effects executed well?
Sometimes a piece of art just isn’t your cup of tea. That doesn’t mean it’s bad per se; in fact, you might just find yourself in the minority of that art’s perceived opinion. 🖼 🤷♂️
One thing, McCarthy was vindicated in his trials on hollywood against communist sympathizers. Hell we even see it today with communist sympathizers in media, film, burning harassing communities in the street. McCarthy was right, he didnt go far enough. Other than that this video is great, rob ager has done great analysis as well.
Ngl you made this real cringe trying to say the thing is representative of an ideology. Please leave film analysis to people who actually study film, youtuber.
I want you to know that I stopped watching your content because you made a comparison to Trump making necessary brazen decisions. It’s a great video, but I’m not going to finish it
you lost me when you said the least terrible opton then showed donald trump the litteral worst option an open fascist with ice concentration camps at the border and pushing constant conspiracies just to keep his voter base despite who might get hurt by pushing that reluctantly denounces white supremacy. im sorry but you posted right wing propaganda cringe and im not just gunna sit here and not call it out even if the rest of the video is good.
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1 like@RuddyCreeper Child jeezus lmao
1 likeAmong us but a movie.
1 likeI'm not sure how to feel about movie analyses on your channel. On the one hand I prefer the more open subjects of your other videos, allowing you to explore various ideas. On the other hand, I'd be interested to see you do other movies. Maybe pink floyd: the wall down the road?
2 likes@RuddyCreeper Child Thank you
1 likeHey just curious, not trying to pester you, will there be a How Trump Won part two? Or How Trump Lost? Anything like that after the election whatever the results may be? Not upset if there isn't going to be. Just thought I'd ask.
3 likesThanks you shill but seriously amazing tastes for the thing one of my favorite movies.
1 like@EmpLemon I love the video but I can’t see how you criticize McCarthy for going too far when all summer long we’ve had organized groups of communists and anarchists rioting in the streets and imposing their will upon the public. He was right. About everything. The long march through the institutions is complete.
2 likesHey manscaped are scammers search it
1 likeDo a video on 12 monkeys and contagion
1 like0:12 "You know the Thing." Joe Biden.
1 likeThks lem keep it up
1 likePleeeease make a never again on senna
1 likeIf you do a never ever on the wall I’ll name my kid after u
1 likeAge restricted lol
1 likeDid this get temporarily removed because it “broke TOS”?
0 likesWill we ever have a new Meme revew?
1 likewas this video down for a bit?
1 likeHappy Spooktober Emp
1 like@Ya Knoe I also saw that, glad i wasn't hallucinating lol. It was funny bc I didn't know what video from my watch later had been removed lol, so I was upset.
1 likeWhen the vid came back i I realized it was this video which I had already watched lol
Bless Your Perfection
1 likePraise the true creators
I didn't get a notification for this even though I have rung the bell
2 likesAnd I also want to add that if you do it, I think you should use the song "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who for the intro and outro parts of the video just to keep something neat from the first video. By the way that video was very very good, and I bet you'd make another really good one. No matter what they say, there are people who appreciate what you do ; )
2 likesManscaped CBT
1 likeNot sure if you've seen it before, but there's also a short story written from the perspective of the Thing. It's very much worth a read: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
1 likethank you for the ads, enjoy your adsense and whatever promotion commenting, liking can give you for the algorithm.
0 likesIt's the particularly realistic depiction of people under crisis and the shocking, horrifying body horror SFX that guarantee this film a place in my nightmares forever, ever since I first saw it over 30 years ago.
0 likesThis video was fucking fantastic dude. Basically made all my English teachers look like a bunch of pussies with some fantastic film analysis.
0 likes"Open like a Tauntaun, FAster than the Autobahn " MC Chris
0 likesYou said it's utterly terrifying in "even its calmest moments"
those are the scariest moments, i think, and in life, too
if it's calm ... something is definitely wrong here ...
best manscaped ad i've ever seen, props
0 likesLove channel man, you really speak fluently and on point with context and little bias but yet still driving in deep into physiological idiosyncrasies.
1 likeIdk I'm drunk best I can do.
Just thank you bro.
Jimmy k vid was fantastic aswell
North Korea lookin' sus right now.
0 likesBeen neglected to mow my lawn but finally busted out the old lawn mower 2.0 out of the drawer and got her done. Thanks manscaped🤠
0 likesAmong Us
0 likesDo you like The Twilight Zone a very imaginative series I'm under the impression that there will never be another great series like the original Twilight Zone Series in the 1950s to 60s
0 likesI would love to see your take on Escape from New York and They Live, Hell , Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers and Existenz too, love your work emp
0 likesLove the MF Doom outro
0 likesThe thing I find so terrifying is the fact that this was seen as Nihilistic back now, but more realistic now.
0 likesWe look at other movies like Blade Runner and we say that’s so nihilistic, but every day it seems to be more realistic than the day before.
the embodiment of "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it"
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This is the best comment I’ve read today
64 likesThis is the best comment to date.
18 likesThat is so true
12 likesAbsolutely. This movie came out a couple of years before I was born but it scared the absolute shit out of me when I saw it for the first time as a teenager and remains one of my favorite movies.
27 likesI just seen it last week for the first time and was stunned by how good the practical effects looked.
9 likes@Philly Glory Bol Welcome to the party pal.
5 likesthis comment is driving me insane
0 likesMarty McFly has left the chat
0 likesYou mean among us? Most kids would shit on the practical effects
0 likes@Kaxenia Kristelle seeing how well the effects hold up after over 30 years compared to CG effects from a movie that came out even just 10 years ago is insane. CG effects age like milk
10 likesVery well put
0 likes@Cole Marriott I feel like I’m rare instances some cg can hold up. Like some shots in the original Jurassic Park still look good. But for the majority of instances you’re right
1 like@Cole Marriott Unless you're Jurassic Park or T2
0 likesThe Thing's critical reception reminds me of when critics first found progressive rock and hated it. Sometimes only time can tell, and some critics are just thick as a brick.
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flute begins playing
75 likesall in all
42 likesyou're just a
-nother brick in
the wall
Same thing with black sabbath black sabbath
23 likesand the poet lifts his pen
21 likes@Big Guy Jimmy glad i'm not the only one who caught the nod to Jethro Tull xD
20 likes@Anessen wdym led zep 3 and 4 were loved at release
3 likes@Anessen Yeah any banf can be great when they steal everything lol
0 likes@Azhag Dark you can have an opinion but that doesn't mean you have to share it
8 likesIt's strange to us now ... but the popular mood had overdosed on grim downer movies in the previous decade. If you released the most transcendent greatest Zombie movie in 2021 it wouldn't pop like in 2011. Also the amount of gore crossed the line with critics into what was seen in the day as low-culture and lacking intelligence. People were burnt out on the Cold War too. We remember all the cool culture now but the herd was into some basic comfort entertainment, the gems were great however.
4 likesI don’t think they were dumb critics, just probably had a different rubric
0 likesin the wall.
0 likesis ur name from that porcupine tree song
1 likeWell I guess you guys arent ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it
0 likesLike Rimbaud.
0 likesI didn’t think that the big league critics were staggeringly incompetent before the internet social media age but this video sure enlightened me to that
1 likeThe first thing I compared it to was critics' reception of Pinkerton by Weezer.
0 likesHe did not just hit us with the Asia AND the jethro tull reference
0 likesPretty much the reason I take Ebert's opinion on anything with a minuscule grain of sodium chloride.
0 likesThe Shining had a similar reception upon release
0 likesI'm leaving this message because I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Shame what happened to the prequel.
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We don't talk about 'that' movie
51 likes@Bootmam Bill absolutely
3 likesIt's the dude.
3 likesWill they make the same mistake regarding the Frozen Hell version that's coming?
0 likes@SSGL - Split Screen Gaming League yes
8 likes@Bootmam Bill that film got screwed over by the executives. Did you know the director had practical effects made but the studio threw them out?
40 likes@Amuro Ray yeah, the story of that movies development uosets me everytime, the sheer amount of wasted potential is phenomenal
18 likesDamn it Kenny, why are you always commenting on the videos I watch!!!!! Baka!!!!!!
2 likesI think it’s good that I haven’t seen that movie
0 likes@Amuro Ray that's why when I judge the film's quality I try to leave the effects out of it because I've seen the original puppets and models and know that it was a stupid circumstance of bureaurocratics that hurt the film. damn shame bc Studio ADI produces some banger stuff in the workshop
4 likes@Upsetti Spaghetti Vulture I know
0 likesWatch Harbinger down, it's the same concept and I even think John Carpenter was part of it's creation.
0 likesReally good movie but it'll never come close to the thing but it's miles better than the prequel.
@Epsilon Xenos seen it! Wish I hadn't! Both suck
0 likesWhat prequel I’ve NEVER heard of it
0 likes@Zashera Khan The Prequel is called "The Thing" it was released in 2011, don't watch it, it sucks.
0 likesHarbinger down is better
@Epsilon Xenos ya I know I was being sarcastic sorry
0 likesGuess I’m the 869th like then…
0 likesWhat Prequel? There was never a prequel
1 likeCompletely expected. Go to the bathroom film yourself taking a shit then put a name on it. You have a 2020 blockbuster.
0 likes@Turbulent Thrombosis Yes there was.
0 likes@Turbulent Thrombosis The Thing 2011 happened. It exists, and your denying of reality isn't going to change that. Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
1 like@Bladabladabloo you must be fun at parties
1 like@Turbulent Thrombosis Yeah, because the guy who lies and then tells people to shut up is fun at parties... I was just pointing out a fact, I don't see why you felt the need to be so hostile.
2 likesWell, pretty hard to live up to the 1982 one, wich is for me the greatest horror/sci-fi ever put on film.
0 likesBut i still enjoyed the sequel/prequel of 2011, yeah the CGI effects somewhat ruined the awesome real models they created, and that were supposed to be used, but overall it's a decent flick.
@Bladabladabloo /r/whoooosh
0 likes@Bootmam Bill what movie? ;)
0 likesI like how no one talks about the original 😢
0 likesMacReady was no murderer. He was acting in self-defense.
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YEA
32 likesAnd murder is a legal term. It's called 'killing' which murder can fall under. And it was indeed self-defense,
90 likes@dbsommers1 homicide is better than “killing”
9 likesThey were violating his NAP by potentially being the Thing.
23 likes@Xen Slayer I thought everyone knew this???
6 likes@Amuro Ray Not only that but you can clearly see clark charging him with a scalpel with the intent to cause grave bodily harm. Definately justified self defense.
24 likes@Amuro Ray No Doubt, But i guess he just didnt have the time to take the proper shot.
6 likesI think something nobody thinks about is that Mac was already given the idea he could be rushed at any moment at multiple points as he was actually trying to take control and make the right decision.
4 likesNow if that were you in that scenario, especially after being left alone to freeze in the cold due to being framed without knowing so, I think you'd be on edge enough to kill in order to try and keep things together to go against the thing
Topical
1 likeSTAND YOUR GROUND BRAH
0 likes@Wilhelm VG tell that to the victims.
0 likesTbf, Clark probably thought the same thing.
0 likesIf MacReady was forced to shoot through a crowd of people to defend himself he wouldn't be happy about it. But he would be happy he defended himself
1 likeProbably one of my favorite things about this movie was also the fact that no one acted stupid in this movie for the sake of plot convenience like in a lot of other horror movies. For most of the movie everyone were actually making pretty sound decisions considering the circumstances they're in (isolating the base so the alien couldn't escape, trying to use a blood test to identify it, keeping MacReady out after he starts seeming mad sus), and the bad decisions you do see them make you can still see why they might do it.
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sorry to necro this but after watching it the only thing i thought was really dumb was the multiple times a character alone would chase the thing without letting ANYONE else know
21 likesBut that is the point. As the video here states, paranoia was a part of the movie's theme. Why would anyone then tell a group of people, of which no one doesn't trust eachother with any kind of information about themselves, that they are chasing the monster? For all they know, the people they speak to could also be the monster, which would then hunt that person down.
41 likesAgree.
0 likesThey didn't always make perfectly sound decisions, but it's reasonable given the circumstances they were in.
12 likesI hate that "mad sus" is a genuine choice to use for that sentence to make sense.
8 likesActually, the Norwegians definitively did!
1 likethe way that the critics brought up their distaste for how realistically the characters acted really shows how out of touch a lot of people today choose to be
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And considering how horrible the inner workings of Hollywood are (which people have become aware of because of people like Weinstein being exposed) it makes you wonder if those critics were simply made uncomfortable due to seeing a familiar reflection of themselves.
92 likesIm sorry, but what do you mean by "today"?
12 likes@Paper Thin i say today like “current times” or “nowadays” kind of deal
5 likes@Beebup these werent critiques made in 2020 though. Why do you refer to these critics like they arent from the 80s?
27 likes@Paper Thin my bad, i forgot that those “reviews” were from then. it’s still kind of jarring that that mentality still thrives in Hollywood, though
19 likesY E P
0 likes@Beebup aR
0 likesFunny coincidence that EmpLemon used clips of 2019 Joker in this video, one of the most relevant examples of critics once again denigrating their own purpose by berating a piece of media possessing the kind of quality that should be hailed by cinema enthusiasts
3 likesOne thing I would have given critics back in the 80’s is they at least lived in a culture that prioritised the idealized, safe outlook on inoffensive, non-thought challenging media given the lingering fear that the common perception of communism gave them and the much more present and newer terror of the AIDs epidemic. That might be why critics stigmatized movies like this that were far ahead of their time and held up mirrors to the most troubling aspects of society. I’m sure that plenty of people back then (in fact, many people today even) would rather muffle those kinds of ideas in an effort to give the problems they’re based off less overall presence
1 likeJust a quick reminder that the 2011 reboot of The Thing was supposed to be a love letter to the original, with practical effects and all, but the producers said "you know, CGI is popular, that's what the kids want, so that's what you're going to do" and they scrapped ALL of it.
350 likesSomewhere, out there, exists a cut of that film with practical effects. All we've been left with is some... thing posing in it's place.
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One could say the butchered remake we have now is a mere imitation of what truly was meant to be. An imposter.. alien.
35 likes#ReleaseThePracticalCut
17 likesGo watch Harbinger Down.
2 likesOy vey
3 likesThe irony
1 like@James Green
1 likeThis
I thought it was a prequel.
1 like@Colin Grant pretty sure it's a prequel set in the Norwegian base that originally dug up The Thing
0 likesI love the inept logic of "it's inplausible, why won't they band together" - can you group up if grouping up can result with being stabbed in the back?
574 likesTo have a common enemy you have to know the enemy to begin with.
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Exactly. Group up in pairs of two? One or both could be the monster. In pairs of three? One monster could still overpower two people. The only criticism that's valid is that MacReady didn't do the blood test until it was already too late, but given the circumstances its not realistic that they would think of the perfect solution off the bat.
8 likesThe Among Us comparisons aren’t a coincidence, the game was straight up inspired by this movie.
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Among us is inspired by Space Station 13. Space station 13 is inspired by the thing.
252 likesDare I say, it was BASED
31 likesApparently the original idea was from when the devs were kids they'd use cards to determine the impostor and tag people to 'kill' them (something along those lines)
97 likesthen the rest of it was definitely added in from The Thing
@AxxL What?
12 likesi do say the Unfortuate spaceme is also inspired by it .
2 likesAnd the behavior of people who play it.
5 likes@AxxL i am a better youtuber
6 likes@AxxL I want to believe this comment is some kind of incel joke mocking Chads or something, But considering I have found the exact same comment from you from somewhere else, The chances of this being a One off joke is non existent
11 likes@Morbidly Obese Wizard among us is very stripped down space station 13
8 likesIt also has the same story
2 likesUnderrated upon release, Masterpiece upon belief
No shit.
0 likes@Draws Was just about to say that, especially OneyPlays video on it where they sabotaged an game and kept shifting the blame getting random players punished instead.
4 likesThat and Alien by Ridley Scott.
2 likes@Random Internet User He's trying to advertise his channel by doing these "bait" comments, just ignore him
4 likes@Draws its roughly 50% coincidence then
0 likesI was the 666th like
0 likesI'd say that the changelings in ss13 are similar, but that's about it.
0 likesUnfortunate Spacemen > Among us
2 likesyou literally fight a shapeshifting monster
and Outpost 13 map
@Draws Among us is just space station 13 but actually playable
1 like@AxxL I don’t care
0 likesAin't this just like TITT from garrys mod?
1 like@AxxL can we take a moment to appreciate that this guy censored the word "channel"
1 like@Draws space station 13 doesn't have player controlled aliens. It's based off the Mafia game
0 likesamong us is just trouble in terrorist town as a standalone game
0 likesYeah and uhhh TTT.
0 likes@AxxL that's cool but nobody cares
0 likes@SevenShooter SS13 has player controlled aliens though lmao
0 likes@Bali Killer since when? Either way, it's based off the game "Mafia" but in space
0 likes@SevenShooter changelings, the blob could technically be an alien, xenomorph rounds, etc. I wasn't saying otherwise, just that the game does in fact have playable aliens.
0 likespolus with one impostor
1 likeThe devs even said so.... Sooo...
0 likes@AxxL
0 likesIts funny because it isnt true
Even the main menu theme is similar
0 likesZoomers finding out about "The Thing" - DUH of course!
1 like@Vermin
0 likesReport Axxl as spam.
There's nothing like someone bringing cringe into your favorite horror film. 'SO IT"S LIKE AMUNG US????? THAT'S SO EPIC!!! :DDDD'
1 like@Random Internet User nah mate. He's just a self promoter
0 likes@Kate Jaceldo Based?
0 likesAnd what in paricular would it be based on?
I wonder huh?
So was dead space for the necromorphs
1 like@AxxL why did you censor the word channel
0 likes@Roberto Guardado Finally, someone made an ACTUAL comparison that is true.
1 likeLooks like the genius figured it out👏
0 likesamogus
1 likeOh so what your saying is,
152 likesA man pushed the limits of special effects, plot, health and budget and made a film way ahead of its time...
And everyone hated it...
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Uhhh yeah there is a reason is called ahead of his time, if aliens gave us the ultimate perfect tecnology how are we supposed to used it when we don't even know what it is?
6 likes1:20
909 likes"totally devoid of either warmth or humanity"
Sir, this is a horror film.
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Translation: they want the heroes, the human, to win.
89 likes"sir, this is a horror film"
60 likesthat's not the point either, it's a story that doesn't allow room for warmth or humanity because you can't trust anybody. not to get too literal, but they're trapped in antarctica with a monster. not much room for warmth or humanity there.
@plasticweapon Speaking of warmth, isn't Antarctica colder than a Yeti's turd?
3 likes@Factualhat haha dude, find Eberts Friday the 13th movies if you want a good laugh
0 likes@Windwalker88 ight thanks for the suggestion
0 likes@Factualhat I enjoy slashers but critics at the time were brain dead
0 likes@Ian McManus its fine if you enjoy slashers but dont be like these critics who have no idea what they Are talking about when it comes to movies
0 likes@plasticweapon
1 likeHoly shit that's such a great point about it -- the plot and setting are directly related to the tone and themes on an allegorical scale.
While it is a really dumb criticism a horror movie can have humanity
0 likesImagine going to the cinema, and having to choose between Blade Runner, E.T, Poltergeist and The Thing.
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I saw all 4 movies in the theater when they came out.
41 likesET was cute, I guess. Have never felt the urge to watch it again.
Poltergeist - I found this boring overall but I did like the Indian burial ground idea. Never saw this movie a second time and I only think about it on Thanksgiving when my sister-in-law, Carol Ann, visits.
In my opinion, Blade Runner and The Thing are amongst some of the finest movies ever made and I have seen each over 50 times.
To each his own, of course.
They don’t make em like they used to 🤷♂️
8 likesWait a minute, if each cell can be a separate monster and split off from other instances of the Thing, and with some theorizing that Macready himself could have been a Thing and fairly early on at that, is the suggestion then that the Thing finds itself in conflict with itself? An imitation doesn't know just by looking which of the crew are also initiations so each instance is also in a state of paranoia about the others?
58 likesThat would add such an extra layer to the movie if the monster doesn't even know who to trust. Whoa.
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Very very late, but I need to archive this comment because that’s brilliant.
9 likesI think I’ve heard it said the thing has been shown to deliberately attack other “things,” if it means it can allow it to deceive people and to survive and further the cause. And yes I think it’s been established that each thing can recognize a kindred thing.
0 likesBut that’s kind of an interesting take
Among Us in Terrorist Town by John Carpenter is my favorite horror franchise. It truly is the Dark Souls of Japanese Soap Operas
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Sheesh, by Damn Daniel Featuring Pewdiepie is on the Soundtrack, OMG I love it
3 likesIt’s also like Push the Button from Jackbox
0 likesI wish I could read the phrase among us normally
7 likes"It's once again that time of year when we revisit the horror genre."
1715 likesSo... everyday?
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CZs! Been watching you for a few years now, I did not realize you were an EmpLemon fan too!
1 likeHu sez am gae?
0 likesLet me guess, this will be a future topic on your channel, correct?
1 likeThe Thing was one of those classics that were reviled by critics at first and got the love it deserved as time went on.
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I feel like one day that'll be the case for The Last Jedi. Maybe not please don't hurt me YouTube
6 likesMy god your everywhere what the hell
3 likesLmfao I just saw your comment on the osu mania talent show video
2 likesWe've got the same taste in YouTube videos. Only your comments attracts likes 😂
3 likesTruth
0 likesEbert was a doofus
0 likes@EndLaiser
3 likesAhahahahahaha
Nice joke
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." -H.P. Lovecraft
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Explains his relationship with non whites
23 likesI think I'm not the only one like it around here, but I don't get scared by unknown, bc, well... I don't know it...I got scared by knowing more and more... Bc reality is way worse than any fiction...
4 likes@Atomic Kat i'm not, its just always funny to see how buttmad lovecraft fans get when you mention the fact he was a racist which continues to provide amusing self serious responses to this day
4 likes@Postal Dude Actually, that was a family cat he adopted, he didn't name it.
10 likesBut yes, he was racist, which is based, and only makes him cooler.
@Postal Dude SAYS THE GUY WHO NAMED HIMSELF POSTAL DUDE, your series is literally all about being an edgy tryhard. Would you rather Lovecraft use his cat as a suppressor?
4 likesyou guys are really arguing if a racist is racist he is a great write you can enjoy his writing without agreeing with him
5 likes@Postal Dude Wait, that was supposed to be bantz you were handing out? Didn't notice.
1 like@Floppa VEVO Whether he was racist or not is irrelevant, he was correct.
2 likes@Atomic Kat just because racism was socially accepted at the time doesn't suddenly mean it was okay to be racist back then. racism is still bad regardless if everyone around you openly accepts it or not
0 likes@antipsychotic conforming to social norms will always effect people of all generations
0 likes@RE4VER boy i haven't seen this comment before. Really breaking new ground lmao
0 likesHorror is an extremely reactionary genre which is why it's very based.
0 likes@antipsychotic dont buy chinese manufactured clothing
0 likesThere’s an extremely acclaimed theory about the Thing:
7 likesAn advanced alien race which had already developed space travel, discovered a strange creature on a different planet, which had the ability to amalgamate and perfectly imitate any organism it consumes. The aliens decide to study it and maybe use it in one way or another. However, the Thing samples somehow escaped, wiping out the entire alien race. What was left of that race tried to escape and colonize other planets as their home. The Thing once again managed to hijack one of the ships. The crew members pulled an Among Us and died off, one by one, being assimilated by the Thing. The last alien finds a planet, Earth. The alien then decides that destroying the monstrosity that wiped out its race is more important than its life. It crashes headfirst into the planet, but the Thing survives and assimilates the alien, then bursts outside, but freezing in the Antarctic expanse, later to be found by the Norwegians, and ultimately the Americans.
As a wise man once said "A person is smart, people are dumb."
18 likes"ToTAllY dEvoiD oF eiThEr wArmTh anD HuMaNitY", the movie is literally a lovecraftian nightmare which takes place in the ices of Antarctica, and you expect it to be warm and feel-good? Starlog shut up
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Well most psychological horror movies are full of warmth and humanity, idk why this one isn’t
74 likesYeah the point of the movie is that there is no hope in the movie and that there is no way that the people in the thing would not survive
53 likesA film literally set in the cold about an alien is criticized for a lack of warmth and humanity. Damn.
51 likes@Taylor It’s more like I could never enjoy something without any warmth in it. Like why would I? So I get fear and depression or something? It’s a fair critique. How can something be entertaining yet just be pure despair and fear fuel
1 like@popopop984 It's not meant to be entertaining and enjoyable on a visual/narrative level. A bunch of people get super paranoid and die in fear isn't exactly meant to be heartwarming. It's enjoyable in more of a cerebral way, putting yourself in their shoes, thinking of how you would act, or what they should have done differently. Asking who's right, who's wrong, and who's just crazy.
42 likesIt's more of a philosophical 'entertainment', much like all those thought experiments of "What's the most painful way to die?" or "What are the odds of something terrible happening to me?" The answer isn't really something you want to know, it won't be satisfying, but in some morbidly curious way it would be interesting.
The film has plenty of warmth.... didn't they see the flamethrowers?!
38 likes@uranium54321 Wym? It's full of warmth (alcohol) and humanity (12 straight dudes). There's just no cheesey sex scenes because this is a good movie.
9 likesThe story is meant to make you THINK about humanity. How would we act in this scenario
10 likes@Jugdish You made me giggle out loud
2 likes@popopop984 I mean different strokes for different folks, but the story is primarily about Paranoia, the villain can be anyone, even those you think you know well, maybe it could have built up the interpersonal relationships between the characters more before the monster got going, but as a movie it does have a limited amount of time that can be devoted to scenes, and in that regard I think it fleshed out the important characters well enough.
1 likeHonestly that sounds like a compliment for a horror movie to me. "Totally devoid of warmth and humanity. Outstanding!"
7 likesI just realized that your suggestion that what allows him MacReady to act without the same kind of attachment to their (former) teammates when taken over by the thing is that MacReady was always the outsider of the group, is actually foreshadowed and established right at the beginning; everyone else lives in dormitory-like living accomodations within the compound, but MacReady lives in a house on stilts. He's quite literally an outsider.
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Macready browses 4Chan, that's why.
8 likes@Zorro9129 while the rest are playing minecraft on discord
2 likesUnrelated but I'm amazed on the variety of topics you have uploaded to the channel. From YouTube geographic to YTPs to this, it's outstanding.
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There he is
80 likesyeah but he doesn't make ytps anymore unfortunately
37 likes@Juan Stamos I still think he incorporates a lot of high quality edits into his work that make me think that what he is doing now is even better.
104 likesJUSTTINNNN MA BOYYY. Everyone asks, who is justin. Nobody asks how is justin?
21 likes@Juan Stamos he doesn’t enjoy making them tho
6 likesobligatory "here before it gets popular" Justin Y. comment
7 likes@Ethereal its already got more likes than emplemons own comment
4 likesHell yeah, I’ve been lurking on his channel for many accounts since 2014. I’m glad he’s gotten so big
0 likestfw when no public discord
1 like@Yo-man yeah and i get that honestly i dont expect him to do youtube poops anymore if he doesn't want to
4 likesbut i just wish he would throw in a funny or 2 in his videos cause there is a severe lack of humor in these newer videos
@Build a Home For My Knees they don't but he used to make jokes in his older commentary videos and he used to be funny i'm just wishing he could make jokes again cause he seems like a funny guy based on his previous works from 2018 and 17 and 16
3 likesOf course you’d be here
0 likes@Tartellu tfw when no public discord
1 likeOf course Justin Y. watches EmpLemon
1 like@Juan Stamos Yeah I agree, while I still find his newer content captivating its missing the trademarked Emplemon flair that made his videos editing style unique. Theres almost no jokes or memes in this video aside from the sponsored segment. Thats what I liked about his newer vids, He used his experience from making YTPs and infused it with emotional storytelling. It doesnt even have to be funny, I just want him to use his editing style and flow more.
5 likesi haven't seen u in a minute
0 likesWait but you don't watch the videos when you comment.
1 likeHi justin.
1 likeindeed
1 like@Not FLAZ yeah
1 likeJustin.. Please stop.. The accident was 10 years ago.. This won't bring her back.
2 likesPlease, Justin.. just stop
How much time do you spend watching youtube a day?
2 likesI've seen Justin's comments around since I was a child I wonder if hell keep commenting after I'm dead
1 likeDamn man.
0 likes@CubeThyFour hi
1 likeAgreed
0 likesReally goes to show that you don't need to make multiple channels that cater to a specific genre of video; it's all about the creator themselves.
0 likesp
0 likesAll hail our great leader Justin Y
0 likes@Robert Zhang is that a cool cat reference?
0 likesGoat
0 likesJustin Y. We meet once again.
0 likesYou gonna just stand there or give me a hug?
2 likesI'm sure validation from Justin Y. is one of the most rewarding things someone like EmpLemon can experience.
0 likes@Juan Stamos id take these any day over a ytp
0 likesHighly agree.
0 likes@Kang Dedededede Justin Y. Watches all, sees all, knows all, and comments where he is least needed
0 likes@Nick MaGrick I see
0 likesBless your perfection
0 likesThis guy is the one of if not the only famous youtubers that become famous not by making videos but by commenting
2 likesno, No, JUST NO! I commented literally the same thing FIRST but of cooourrse because you are "jUsTin Y" YOU ARE THE EFFIN ONE WHO GETS THE LIKES AARRRGH
2 likesBro are you a savant
1 likeJustin senpai how do I become a man of culture like you
0 likes@35volts he's 44 years old, lives off government wages, and jobless
1 likeJustin, you said it best brother.
0 likesAnd hey look, Emp-ai noticed you!
oh boy, I see people are pissed that you exist.
0 likesIt's the real Justin Y.
0 likesJUSTIN Y???
0 likesbruh
0 likesworship the justin y
0 likes@Juan Stamos wahhh. Wahhh. Wah.
0 likes@Puppy Puppington wah wah whahhhhhh
0 likes"Totally devoid of either warmth or humanity"
73 likesWhat? Did they expect flowers and sunshine in a horror film?
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Midsommar: nervously looks around
3 likes"MacReady, the main protagonist, murders an innocent crewmember."
81 likesClark, attempting to kill him with a scalpel: 👁👄👁
I've known about this move before among us, but let me just say that playing on the Polus map with one impostor is basically just the movie but interactive.
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And the imposter cant spreaf
1 like@anoon or disguise as one of the crewmate
0 likesThis movie has a game...
3 likesActually there are 2 thing
0 likesIt's also a game mode in Space Station 13.
0 likesMan, Roger Ebert just has awful taste in everything.
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Yeah, makes you wonder how he got such a big name despairing having some of the worst opinions.
58 likesI didn't know about that history lore, pretty insightful! I remembered he shit on Labyrinth which killed Jim Henson's cinema career outside of the Muppets and he apparently ended Carpenter's big budget career. He claimed video games weren't art while praising a medium with no interaction, only consumption. Miserable old man.
115 likes@Anon Spartan to be fair he did regret dismissing videogames later in his life
26 likesAnd now he's dead
36 likesHe’s a caricature of the stereotypical snob. Is an art “critic”, from Chicago/NY/LA, thinks religious people are stupid, loves Michael Moore, and compares every movie to Citizen Kane (sounds like the average redditor). That’s like the qualities a film critic would have in a TV show where they were making fun of film critics.
58 likesHe’s like if you took Martin Scorsese’s opinion on Marvel Movies and made that into a full person, but even then Scorsese actually has talent. The only movie Ebert actually worked on was Beyond the Valley of the Dolls... not the worst movie but I mean
I’m not trying rag too much on the guy. Rest In Peace
@Cherrycola scorsese is absolutly right on superhero movies btw
52 likes@Not Freeman wow thanks for the addition bro. What a fresh and hot take
4 likes@Cherrycola you're welcome fam
30 likesI watched his show for years but even as a child I disagreed with him many a time
0 likesActually one of the few critics that backpedalled and gave tthe film a lot more merit the second time he reviewed it.
3 likes@LordVader1094 there's many shitty critics like him. In fact I argue it comes with the territory
2 likesBefore mass communication, not as many options to listen to
1 like@Hydrogoniise
0 likesAnd there are even more like him, not just one or two, but many.
Plus, you’re no better than a guy if ya disrespect him in death, so I give my condolences, but he sure wasn’t a good man imo.
17:20 I think its negative reception actually proves how inconsistent media criticism is in general over decades. Each individual aspect of a work can be astoundingly good, but if the audience or a critic gets a certain feeling that violates the zeitgeist, it completely taints their perception of it, and aspects that someone 50 years removed would identify as 'objectively good,' become objectively bad in that moment. In many (not all) cases, we might not even be able to articulate exactly why people in general would review it worse in a certain time because the differences can be so subtle. Many great artists never receive international acclaim and renown within their lifetimes. It stands to reason that there are films, games, music regarded as bad now, that 50 years from now will be considered prophetic and shining examples of their medium.
7 likesWe see it in games like Final Fantasy XIII, Banjo: Nuts & Bolts, Dear Esther, Zelda II, Super Paper Mario, which were very much victims of their times; each beautiful graphically, beautiful musically, not containing any extreme game-breaking issues, but because of a perception or feeling usually relating to when they were released, the genre or story relative to the series they are within, the general expectations within the medium by the audience at that time, they are reviewed poorly by players and critics alike. Many or maybe most people have come completely around on Super Paper Mario since the series has drifted further from its roots, and it became so apparent how well SPM carried the torch of its series by comparison. Zelda II is more the reverse where it was praised in reviews at release yet is now often dismissed (strangely due to difficulty, when beloved games like Dark Souls that epitomize difficulty and steep learning curves are praised for it). I think we're starting to see the very beginnings of it with FFXIII, now that the open-world genre has become so prevalent, with people feeling like they're practically drowning in choice of what to do in a game, and ironically find FFXIII to be a breath of fresh air by comparison. We'll probably see it eventually with Nuts & Bolts if a true Banjo-Threeie comes (and maybe even without it), re-contextualizing it as a spinoff game rather than 'the last Banjo game.'
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I mean it's between this thing and Souvlaki (1993)
0 likesthere will Never Ever be another horror movie as surreal as The Thing
19 likesI believe Blair was already assimilated when they went to ask him about Fuchs, he was getting ready to neck himself when Norris-thing got to him, or Palmer-thing if he had already been assimilated too.
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Nah, Blair was assimilated already by the time he had locked himself in his office. He wouldn't have had enough time to grab all the spare parts from the helicopter and tractor to make his craft if he didn't get assimilated until around the time Fuchs death happened. I mean, it's pretty much assumed that Blair is the shadow figure passing the lab and who got to Fuchs. Blair destroying the radio and vehicles was all a ploy and distraction to make it look like he was keeping anyone from leaving but you have to consider the fact that, Blair-thing already had other plans for getting to society. He destroyed all the equipment to prevent anyone at Outpost 31 from contacting the outside world and warning them. That way, he successfully isolated everyone and could then assimilate or kill the rest and then bail. This also helps his backup plan if the main plan fails. If it did fail, then they would still be cut off and by the time help came to check on them, all humans would've died from freezing to death and the thing could freeze and lie dormant until found and THEN attack. Therefore, Blair had definitely been assimilated early on, assumed by most to be off screen, my thought being by the dog and before the Palmer/Norris wall shadow assimilation. The dog, when walking down the hallway, could've been just coming from attacking Blair. But yeah, it just makes so much more sense that way. It would be way too much of a coincidence if Blair had destroyed the vehicles and stuff as a human to stop the thing from leaving and then a day or so later as Blair-thing, end up using that to it's advantage. Anyways, cheers!
3 likesI don't know how one can be taken seriously when criticizing a group of men living in one of the most morale-breaking, physically dangerous places on Earth for being simple-spoken and quick to panic/turn on each other. Alaska's suicide rate is insane, and that's (mostly) outside the Arctic circle and without a shapeshifting murder-alien.
5 likesThe most heroic part of the crew was when McCready told them that they need to blow it up, even when it will cost them their lives.
19 likes9:50 all of which was completely understandable in the situation. He rightly should have viewed his life and the life of his crew as far less valuable than destroying the thing. It would have wiped out all life, making any of their other efforts entirely inconsequential. Human nature is horrible, sure. But this was an act of self preservation that couldn't be obtained by acting with more kindness.
2 likesI do appreciate your analogy as it applies to the context of real tribal warfare, but it falls short if your to take the film literally.
Still my favorite horror film of all time.
13 likesLike you said it was ahead of its time.
I think we can all agree that The Thing is one of the greatest film ever created
10 likesIn regards of public reusage of Carpenter's idea I kinda like "God Eater" - when anime meets The Thing meets Fallout.
27 likesI always wondered where they got idea of all-devouring cells creating their own versions of what they eaten, only after The Thing I realized it was this movie except alien dominated the planet and humans adapted parts of it as a weapon.
So if I'm understanding this correctly, official movie critics and reviewers have always sucked at their job. Glad to know that particular stupidity hasn't gone away from people
3 likesI remember a few years back I finally watched The Thing after years of being terrified of it and it's reputation. But when I watched it I actually had a good time and thought it was very good. What helped me was the fact that by the time I had watched the movie I had already spent a few years head first in being a Fan of Dead Space, a video game with a very similar premise. As a cosmological horror that's spent eons assimilating and devouring all life and civilizations in its path sets it's sights upon humanity, except instead of infiltration, it uses desecration.
3 likesI just notice this was uploaded on my birthday lol
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0 likesHello there gamer.
0 likessame bro
0 likesHappy birthday!
2 likesIt's probably safe to say that the critics were influenced by their time, and since The Thing has managed to outlive them and still holds up today, then that would mean it was by definition ahead of its time.
2 likesThe Thing has the most perfect theme; isolation, Paranoia and Distrust.
18 likes"..totally devoid of either warmth or humanity" that´s kinda the point with the film.
40 likesStill hate that people act like Among Us is the first "Who is the Murderer" game. Fucking Trouble In Terrorist Town, Murder and Morbus did it before (and that's just the G-Mod variety of games) and Morbus has (or rather had) literally shapeshifting aliens in it..
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I believe Mafia was the original version of the game
59 likes@Bacon Sir Yes, it was created by a Soviet Psychology Professor of the University of Moscow in 1986 before Plotkin made it into Werewolf because the Mafia wasn't as culturally significant during that time.
29 likes@Matthew Yi and then you have stuff like Town of Salem and similar "vote out" games
32 likesThe shape shifting alien helped inspire the necromorphs from the Dead Space series
15 likeswell more people know about among us than morbus
3 likesI dont think anyone thinks among us is the first. Wtf is this strawman
23 likesLaughs in Clue
2 likeswerewolf
1 likeTown of Salem
0 likesDont even forget Town of Salem, and the first game in that genre is Werewolf.
0 likeswhy so angry though
0 likes@CreeperBot ???
0 likes@Bacon Sir myb I was referring to notflu
0 likesWerewolf
0 likesMorbus is just a Multiplayer game of The Thing with the serial files shaved off
0 likesSpace Station 13 has had a changeling gamemode for years.
0 likesWitch-hunt was a table top too. Or was it called Salem trials?
0 likesBut yeah among us is just annoying at this point
Loved when mentioning how isolation really does to the mind as you use Pink Floyd’s the wall to depict that
10 likesI saw this movie the night before Wilford Brimley died. It really showed me how good of an actor he can really be, and made me forget that he also spawned the "diabeetus" meme, at least until I checked the credits and saw his name. As Blair, he made a perfect example of a Lovecraftian character, as he loses all hope and goes mad over learning what the Thing can really do. Rest easy, Brimley.
1 like2:25
2 likesSiskel and Ebert. Easily the two most beloved movie critics of all time.
But if you go back and look at a lot of their reviews for classic films, you’ll see that a lot of the time, they were just objectively wrong. Sometimes only one of them was, and the other would call them out, but still.
It just goes to show, that no matter how popular someone is, no matter how highly their opinions are regarded, they can still be unequivocally f*cking wrong.
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I believe they are both overrated, it's easier to criticize than it is to create
0 likesI got scared by this movie through just the images of the monsters burned into my mind at 11 years old. Now it’s the paranoia that terrifies me.
5 likesHilariously enough, my opinion of The Thing is like that of society’s. My dad made me watch it with him when I was 14, and I hated it because it creeped me out and I thought it was too pessimistic. Now, years later, it’s one of the few horror movies I actually enjoy, and i enjoy greatly.
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A non pessimistic 14 year old, that's a new one.
47 likes@Kachucho Ikr
8 likes@TheSamuel As a 14 year old, I can confirm Memerio is truly one of a kind
16 likesIt's kind of relieving when you find out all Saints are sinners too. Police men work only for a check, your public safety is just a trade. Politicians are slime, all act only at the whim of their party. Even Mr. Rodgers has some dirty laundry I'm betting. That's what the movie makes me think, that everyone is still carnal, still just trying to survive. At whits end, when you're at death's door, no one is worth more to you than yourself.
13 likesI think I first watched this when I was like 13, I really loved it for the psychological horror aspect(I'm actually a Psych major now), and it gets even better the more you realize how "real" it actually is
3 likesI'd say the thing is fairly optimistic because we can kill it
2 likesThat is ironic.
0 likes@Joseph Stassup might wanna reverse a bit on that cynical nihilistic outlook, not everyone is just jaddedly out for themselves like that to be clear. You do you, but hey man, people aren't actually that hollow.
3 likes@Joseph Stassup You could use religion, no need to be that cynical.
1 like@Zorro9129 His Roblox girlfriend probably broke up with him 😔
1 like@Tusk in Radar
1 likeThat’s what happens when you get Twitter 🤢
The Thing's source material comes from a book called "Who Goes There?" and it's a great read!
10 likesHonestly amazing how you’ve progressed through the years, I remember finding your channel the last year it would be normal to go trick or treating although my mum couldn’t afford a costume I got to spend the night with shit loads of ytp. Ik u didn’t make it but the best ytp ever made was that 90s computer ad thing. Can’t remember the name but pure gold
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All right here on ur finger tips that’s the name
0 likesMy favorite movie of all time. For me, it's perfect from beginning to end. It ends on the same paranoia as the theme.
3 likesDunno why everyone is making vids about my fav horror movie of all time, suddenly, for some reason, all at the same time this year...
17 likesBut I am eternally grateful. My obsession with Kurt Russell and his films have become a sort of inside joke amongst my home and workplaces, so it's nice to see stuff like this popping up.
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Definitely not because Halloween, i assume
0 likesI think that it's because "Among us" is popular right now, and this game is based on "The thing".
0 likesIt's quite a tonal difference between his Disney films and The Thing.
0 likesI think there was a few things leading to this :p
0 likesEveryone asks “who’s the thing” but nobody asks “how’s the thing”
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Hopefully, very dead
76 likes@stuff & more stuff can’t agree more
28 likesThis says a lot about society 😔
22 likesBut I asked..
2 likesIt's because we already know.
4 likesThey're assimilating the Diabeetus guy, y'know, the usual.
Sounds like something a alien imposter would say...
6 likesHa....ha....
2 likesProbably hungry
4 likesIs winning, look what it's happening in Chile
2 likesHow’s the Thing? On fucking fire
7 likeshere's the thing,
3 likesThere is 1 Thing Among Us.
1 like@Angrily Screaming Hot Dog bruh now the thing has diabetes karma
1 like@jbcooler ninja ...or perhaps... the Thing IS diabetes???
2 likesHere's the Thing!
2 likesI have a better one, "why's the Thing?"
2 likesShould the Thing?
0 likesRead "The Things", a short story that tells the events of the movie from the thing's point-of-view.
0 likesI'm honestly baffled to find out probably one of the most inovative films in sfx, camera work, and mystery story telling was hated by viewers and petty critics. Who goes into a horror movie and complains it had too much horror lmao
1 likeLame af that people are like "it's just like among us." Like have some self awareness.
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We live in a society bottom text
49 likes@Mate Product Well, I had absolutely no interest in the game. I said "why would I play this shit, it's not even a real game".
17 likesThen a friend gifted it to me, so ofc I had to download and be their 10th player.
If you have 9-10 people that you know well, this game is an absolute blast. If you can't gather that amount of friends, it's no real fun, at least for me. Whenever we drop under 9 players, I'm out.
Just sharing this in case you haven't played it yet, but hang around online with a bunch of friends anyways. 👍
@Yoshi92 It's a shitty, dumbed down version of Trouble in Terrorist Town.
10 likesWell the thing is about one impostor trying to kill it’s fellow humans and among us is about one impostor trying to kill its fellow humans
2 likes@Kurt maybe. but I can ask any boomer or female friend to join Among Us.
3 likesWith TTT its too complicated for those kinda ppl. 😜
@Infinite07 its actually a shape shifting alien like the thing.
0 likes@Good_Watch so is the impostor in among us
0 likes@Infinite07 yeah I was talking about the imposter. It's like the thing.
1 like@bootleg MS Do you have reading comprehension
1 like@Yoshi92 the point is that the game mechanic already existed, TTT ie, being good or bad has nothing to do, it's just annoying to see children preach in something they literally don't know about.
0 likes@lasarousi I don't understand your comment.
0 likes@lasarousi Wow, it's like there just children or something. Crazy 😱
0 likes@Syndicate Grim they're indeed.
0 likesRandom observation: I love how the thing combines two sub genres of horror, body horror and psychological horror.
0 likesRoger Ebert Gave Anaconda 4 stars and called Alien a haunted house in space....he can get bent
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Yep
1 likeAlien was a haunted house in Space. Even Ridley would say so.
2 likesThis man makes some of the most underrated content on youtube, one of the most comfy viewing vids i have ever watched this month worth the wait
5 likesI want practical effects to come back. This really is a passion project. In fact, I guess I really want the passion to come back
10 likesAlways putting out the best docs/analysis videos on youtube, great job Emp!
0 likesOne of the greatest horror sci-fi films of all time, reviewed by one of the most entertaining narrators of all time, and the only scary thing about this was that it got taken down within 1 hour of being uploaded. Keep at it emp, maybe you'll get a break someday.
0 likesThe blood scene in this film was genius on so many levels, and it caught me off guard for multiple reasons
0 likesI'm so glad you covered this film! Was just watching it last week to get my spook on, and it's incredible how relevant the film really is!
0 likesHow did you go through all the inspirations or possible meanings for the film, but not once mention the story it was based off of by John W. Campbell (titled "who goes there")?
2 likesIt wasn't some cold war allegory, or human psychology study that suddenly struck John Carpenter with inspiration.
It was a story he read that was written in 1938.
Well before the cold war even started.
Seems uncharacteristically shortsighted of you to not touch on the source material for a movie like this, emps.
this has been one of my favorite movies for years, glad it's finally getting the attention it deserves
1 likeThe Thing is a masterpiece and still holds up amazingly well today. My favourite horror and sci-fi film and always there as one of my favourite go-to films to watch. Ebert saying the story and people were secondary, total dummy. The whole film is about the people and their developing distrust and suspicion of each other regardless of the special effects.
0 likesThis is most certainly one of the best videos that's ever been uploaded to Youtube and I wish you, EmperorLemon, all the success & money in the world. You certainly deserve it, comparing you to other Youtube videomakers.
0 likesIt must have been heartbreaking for the film to bomb after spending a year practically living the project and suffering hospitalisation. I'm glad it was retrospectively recognised.
1 likeThis is undoubtedly one of the greatest movies ever made
1 likeWell Emp, you convinced me to fork over $7 to buy the movie so I could watch this video. I hope you’re happy
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So you do
6 likesIt's worth it, The Thing is an amazing movie :)
79 likesWhy hello shuck
4 likesHow about you make a way too expensive The Thing stop motion video next? 😅
5 likesI'd argue its the best movie of all time and this Emp Lemon review is a gift to humanity if even one person watches it.
11 likesHow was it?
3 likes@cockroachafro I will completely back that argument <3
4 likesIts good right
3 likesI mean you could have spent 5 minutes online and found it here: https://archive.org/details/thethingt00
4 likesBut good on you for not pirating
[coughs twice] Torrents.
2 likesOne of the best spending decisions you'll ever make.
1 likeWow everyone is here
0 likesew shuckmeister
1 likeThe fact you haven’t watched it is a crime.
4 likesYou gotta get the Blu-ray.
2 likesShuck
0 likesShuck!!
0 likespart 4 is better then 5
1 likeBy “fork over $7” you mean “went to movierot”
0 likesHe should be. The thing is a baller movie
0 likes@Nicholas Kremin thanks for spreading it on a public YouTube video, now it's taken down.
3 likesAlready own both the original and remake. I liked both, but feel more attached to the original. I like practical effects in cinema, especially in Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead".
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Wasn’t expecting to find my favorite JoJo/Konosuba YouTuber here.
0 likesCapitalism.mp4
2 likesI'm shocked there are people that have never even seen it before.
2 likes@David GN40 right!
1 likeOne of the best films ever made
1 likeYou say this like its a bad thing
0 likesIt was worth the money
1 like$7 dollars is pretty cheap
0 likesDid you enjoy it?
0 likes@OVAH Lord lol no. Main cast is way better and the fights are better and overall is paced better
0 likesHow would you rate the thing shuck
0 likesPOGGERS
0 likesA man of culture in both anime and horror
0 likes@OVAH Lord I agree
0 likesIsolation is one of the most safe things one can have. I have been socially isolated since 8 August 2000. I go weeks without seeing another human. I feel very safe indeed. It is lonely. I will not lie. But loneliness is far milder an emotion than the horrible emotions humans can inflict on us. Isolation is not as bad as people are lead to believe.
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you're right
1 likeman, that claymation bit at the end was one of the hardest nostalgia hits i've ever experienced
0 likesMy favorite part of John Carpenter's The Thing is that none of the human characters are stupid.
1 likeI still have yet to actually watch The Thing but I’m never anything less than blown away by the artistry I see just in pictures and clips. It’s why I think I’m never tired of videos like this!
0 likesNow here's a question the crashed ship was it the Thing's or did it hijack it after assimilating the crew?
2 likesFantastic review and analysis, The Thing is one of my favorite movies :)
1 likeI've watched this movie 5 times this year alone. Never gets old.
1 likeAs good as your YTPs were, I will be forever glad you branched out into the stuff you do now. These videos are the best
0 likesGod I love this channel 😄
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You’re verified cool
22 likesMe too
1 likeMe too
0 likesThought I'd only see you in music stuff but guess you'll be everywhere
20 likesMe too
0 likesDude I love you and this channel
4 likesi love your pfp
5 likesand i love you jesus christ
Internet sample guy i like you
4 likes@Rayz :(
1 likeif you like it now, you should have seen it before the downward spiral
1 likeGod i love ur channel too! Huge sample head!
0 likesYou’re just Justin y 2.0
0 likesthanks
0 likes@Juan Stamos amazing joke
0 likesYou shouldn't.
0 likes@netizen cant tell if thats sarcastic or not
0 likesYour channel is pretty good too bandstand.
0 likesHey bandstand, where is Yandhi?
0 likesLoved it when I was a kid for the ytps still love it for a different reason
0 likesWhy are you everywhere? From Death Grips to Clippings and now here?
0 likes@Juan Stamos it wasn't.
0 likesYou're everywhere damn lmao
0 likesMe too man emplrmon does a great damn job
0 likesDon't we all.
0 likesBless Your Soul
0 likesYours too
2 likesMe second.
1 likeSay God with reverence or else it is sinful
1 likeMe too.
0 likesGod I hate emojis
0 likesoh hey i remember you from that death grips samples video, heya
0 likes@Kabtan yea lol
0 likes10:41 - The leaders you want in times of crisis are not the leaders you want in times of peace, and vice versa. In spite of his paranoia, MacReady makes for the best leader given the situation, because he can act without hesitation or remorse. It may not lead to the best outcomes in hindsight, but in the critical moments it allows the group to move forward and reassess on both a collective and individual level. In situations where the stakes are lower and the time is less valuable, acting quickly and decisively is unlikely to lead to the best possible outcome. You would rather have a leader that takes the time to weigh the pros and cons and anticipate possible consequences.
1 likeWell you convinced me to watch this for Halloween and I all I have to say is thank you.
1 likeI just watched The Thing for the first time and it’s now one of my favorite movies. I was literally wringing my hands as I watched it, it was AMAZING.
0 likesIt's amazing what kind of content you make. I cannot wait for what you'll have for us in the future
0 likesI wouldn't call the guy he shot "innocent." He literally was trying to stab McReady from behind because he suspected him.
461 likesBut awesome video as always man. you keep makin em - we'll keep watching <3
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@Diego Decuadro Mansilla people often make illogical decisions under fear. The two men at the end of the day were just trying to survive. There was no good guy or bad guy in that situation.
64 likes@Diego Decuadro Mansilla Wrong! If a thing gets "wounded", it'll act how the original organism would've act. Thus if McReady was a thing, it would've act out to try to maintain it's cover.
6 likes@Ken Pierce yet the thing woudnt have been in much trouble , it migth act how a human would act if it was stabbed but it woudnt have the same effect. Kinda like with the heart atack scene, the thing acted like it had a heart atack or maybe it had one but the thing didnt die from it
12 likes@Avery Hepburn yes i agree that people make illogical decisions under stress but i am not claiming that somebody is good or bad , just that the action taken was dumb
1 like@Diego Decuadro Mansilla Member that the thing only showed itself as alive the second time it got hit with the defibrillator? Cause I do.
8 likesIt acts out as if it's dead to not cause any suspicion, which gives the crew the time to get a flamethrower and torch it. The exact reason why in the blood test scene McReady wanted to test Copper and Clark as well, even though they were dead.
@Ken Pierce yes and?. My point is that if you were to stab the thing while disguised as human it would act hurt but in reality it would do next to nothing since to truly hurt the thing you have to use something that hurts it at the celular level like fire or acid
5 likes@Diego Decuadro Mansilla I'm not saying it wasn't dumb. I'm saying it's good writing. Not every character will make genius decisions.
4 likesYESSS
0 likes@Diego Decuadro Mansilla Excellent point.
0 likesIf he killed mcready they would be quickly consumed
1 likeKnowing that the crew didn't know what the monster looked like gives me a whole new appreciation for my favorite movie of all time.
1 like“There is no cohesion within the male group at Carpenter’s Antarctic research station”
1 likeGeez louise, have professional film critics always sucked at their jobs?!
I really really liked your bit where you compared the theme of paranoia in the film and compared it to the state of the world in the 80's, it was a really interesting juxtaposition I didn't consider.
1 likeEmp, I trusted u so I watched the movie before I watched this video and u managed to terrify me in every possible way. Thank you.
1 likeYou are genuinely one of the best youtube content creators out there. Your videos are always interesting and a joy to watch
0 likesIt’s similar in themes to the novel, lord of the flies. Especially interesting is how both pieces of media create such an unnerving atmosphere. The thing does it with special affects and lotf does it with word choice
0 likesDamn, Emp is still pumping out the highest tier content on this whole platform.
0 likesOutstanding video. Excellent job analyzing the movie, I haven’t heard anyone talk about it like this before
0 likesThe Thing, The Mist, and The Shining are horror personified: humanity at it's worse.
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there's also the Mist
3 likes@Guilherme Almeida oh yeah. Thanks for reminding me. It's funny. All the best horror movies have "the" in the title.
13 likes@Vincent Tapia It seems it may have something to do with the ambiguity of the words following 'The'. The unknown is terrifying to us by our very nature.
12 likes@Al W Yeah. That's most likely it.
3 likes@Al W And also the fact that "the" implies it's unique
5 likesIt implies there's only one
Only one thing is necessary to destroy us all, only something as unique as humanity poses the biggest threat to itself
@A Possibly Heretical Alpha Legionnaire That's why I think we will destroy ourselves somehow. I didn't think about the 'unique' aspect.
0 likesHow about The Road?
1 like@Julius Jahn a great but depressing example as well!
0 likesWe should make a horror movie simply called “The The”
2 likesIt’ll become the most morbid horror movie ever conceived
The edit at 14:36 is amazing. It looks good and symbolizes Blair losing his mind and dooming himself, 10/10 work
0 likesAmazing film analysis. Subscribed. Heres a movie idea: 1984 'Threads'. its an amazingly facinating film with not enough people talking about it.
2 likesI love the variety of source materials you use in these videos; I think it really adds to what you're saying, especially when knowing some of their context. Specifically I really like how you've been incorporating clips from The Wall in some of your work; I'd love to see you review that sometime. Great job.
0 likesI've been binge watching horror gore movie clips recently and I think it is God's will that one of my favorite YouTubers started covering this subject too all of a sudden.
0 likesMy theory for Blair is that he believed he was infected, and tried to hang himself to keep from turning, but then the thing took him over completely, removed the noose but didn't know it was an object of murder/suicide so it left it up.
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The thing doesn’t slowly take over people tho evident by all the scenes where the thing visually was taking someone over
3 likes@vClapem maybe it depends on how many cells infect you. 1 can take hours to take over and organism, but several cells can do it in minutes.
7 likesI saw someone argue that the thing is attempting to use reverse-psychology. Blair-thing wants to work on the ship and does not want to get back in the base so it intentionally makes itself sound overly suspicious
4 likesThe fact that you have been putting classic Knox claymations in your videos of late speaks to my soul, Mr. Lemon.
1 likeThat ending has been argued and dissected forever! I mean forever!
0 likesMy conclusion matches Russel's assessment in that the movie comes full circle reestablishing the paranoia and mistrust that the movie started with. We'll never know whether McReady or Childs are The Thing so we end up back to square one...coming full circle and for me that's a great ending and a great structured movie.
The Thing is a classic not just of the Horror Genre, but of movie making itself. The actors, directing, story, and obviously the EFX's make The Thing a movie that will be treasured for generations to come.
Screw YouTube for staggering this video; it's so good! I love this movie, and it makes me so happy that you've done an introspective on it, Emp. Thank you :)
0 likesDear Emp,
7 likesThis comment more than likely will go unnoticed, but I just wanted to say, I sincerely thank you for referencing L4D2, and for making an underrated movie get what it deserves.
-sunbu♡
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I love the LFD series
0 likesrob is the real hero of this film by spending a whole year at work and even getting hospitalized because he was working waaaay too much
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and his name is
2 likes@almost_ friday me
2 likes@almost_ friday JOHN CENA
3 likesand he was 23 at the time. i need to get off my ass, holy shit
11 likes@three three three yeah i guess so
4 likesRespect the movie grind
1 likeRespect the movie grind
0 likesI can't fathom this isolation thing. We never locked down in Florida and we're fine. I never ever thought that I would see Florida be a bastion of sanity in my lifetime.
1 likeI generally don't care for movies made in the 80s. But I watched The Thing for the 1st time recently and it holds up terrifically. Extremely unnerving practical effects & the story has terrific pacing with interesting characters making interesting choices.
1 likeI didn't find parts of it needed to be looked over like a lot of older movies bc that "was the style of the time". There's nothing cheesy or goofy about it. Nothing to make you think it's from a different decade (except the technology they use in the story, but even then they're on a remote arctic outpost so it fits the vibe).
It's just a damn good and terrifying movie (in both direct visual horror and making you question your own perception of reality and morality) that sadly has only become more relevant now than it ever was.
TBH I don't really care for the other 3 movies that beat it at the box office, I find them more to be products of their time. The Thing feels timeless. And I don't know how they did it so well, but the upscaling on the blu ray version looks fantastic, like it was shot today.
every single one of your videos are all incredible. keep it up, youre one of the best channels out there!
0 likesThis movie deserves every YouTube video it gets about it
5 likesIf you ever feel useless just remember that the practical effects in the 2011 prequel were replaced with cgi
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That was such a stupid decision to make.
57 likesYeah, the practical effects is what made the movie, I think that's why I like a lot of 80s movies
29 likesYeah. Everyone remember. You are not CGI. You are a practical effect. Everyone is their own practical effect
26 likesThey weren't that bad people. I love 2011 Thing.
2 likes@Man Ray it wasn't bad but the use of practical effects would've made the movie ten times better
17 likesAlso a shame they where not allowed to use the three eyed alien pilot. That would have beeb such a nice ref to the original short story
4 likesYou realize by 2011 technology advanced so much the effects no matter how well shadowed the effects were would be scrutinized by how unrealistic and less scary they would've been. They wouldve recieved hate mo matter what they chose the lesser of two evils.
0 likesThere’s a prequel? Oh no...
3 likes@jgfulmer it takes place days/hours before the original. It shows the things origins and how it destroyed the previous research station
3 likes@Man Ray The 2011 "prequel" can be more classified as a "remake", and a bad one at that as well. What ruined it for me (aside from the CGI) was that the monster acted really weird. The infamous helicopter scene for example. Why the fuck would it transform right there? Wasn't it able to sit out the trip to wherever they were heading? Wouldn't it know the explosion would've killed it?
1 likeAlso, take the Juliette-thing scene, right? Why did it need an elaborate transformation? Why couldn't it just swiftly kill Kate? She literally had her back turned to it! Maybe it learned and did it right with Bennings? Who the fuck knows! Now let's talk about Edvar. Here, the thing is unnecessary aggressive. Like they weren't even able to reach the table they wanted to put him on. I thought it was vulnerable when out in the open, only using it's shape shifting abilities when it has no other choice. Here it's just OMG, gotta kill all the people! Also the final boss, gotta give it to them, that thing is straight up nightmare fuel (which they probably were going for) until it transformed in it's less scary yet final form. gfu
@Ken Pierce On the contrary I really enjoyed the intense pacing of the film. There was almost no room to breathe as the thing was relentless in its assault, opting for unfettered aggression against the humans. The helicopter scene is puzzling at first glance aye, but consider the fact that the thing might have known that its cover might have been blown by Kate in the first place, or that it was crashing the helicopter to make its way back to the space craft it rode in on rather than risk having to try to take out an entirely separate base. And the thing with Edvar? Did you suppose the thing wanted to be put on a table away from other humans. To essentially put itself on a platter to be fried like a can of worms? It made the right decision to stay attached to the humans and use them as a sort of shield to prevent being burnt. The only reason the thing is ever vulnerable is because of the risk of being burnt up. There's no reason to be an imposter if it is able to use its incredible strength and horror to destroy any resistance.
2 likesIn short I am satisfied with the ferocity it displayed in the takeover of this research station, and it gives more credence in the 1982 version to act more cautiously having learned from previous errors. However this is just my take on things. I enjoyed it, was sold on the whole movie, and therefore it is easier to justify the things behavior for me.
@Man Ray I disagree with you, but you actually made a point without insults or anything like that so you get props for that
1 like@Man Ray I guess fair enough. For me the biggest thing about the prequel is that the thing acts out of character.
0 likesI can't get over the helicopter scene, that was imo plain dumb. It should've known it would be it's demise. You can't tell me that in however long it existed it never learned that it doesn't mix great with fire, besides the operative knew that if the helicopter crashed there would be fire, effectively killing itself. Also it would've had a better chance of surviving on the ground if let's say Kate was able to get it to land.
You've got a point with the Edvar scene however, I didn't consider that it probably was the last one and had to do something.
Cheers
@Ken Pierce Clink Cheers
0 likesIt still bothers me that we'll never see the version of the movie with complete practical effects.
0 likes@Cryo Judgement You clearly never saw what the actual practical effects looked like. Watch the Behind the Scenes of it, they're terrifying.
1 like@toongrowner1 what prevented them from using it?
0 likes@GG Channel Studio interference, the director and vfx artists didn't know that the execs replaced all of the practical effects until they watched the movie themselves.
1 likeI appreciate this movie even more, thank you for making this emp
0 likesOut of the few channels I still come back to youtube to watch regularly, yours are my favorite. My friend group has even adopted the downward spiral meme a small bit, and we allways queue up the hurricane mathew tribute on our music bot around hurricane season. Keep up the great work!
0 likesSometimes I forget that emp is a master of cinematography and his transitions are amazing.
0 likesWow As usual You have knocked it out the park! So many cogent points that ring so true during these tense times. Fantastic editing, Love your humor & up there with the best ads on YouTube.
0 likesThe thing helped inspire the game among us. The alien sabotaging everything like the blood bank, the survivors having a meeting & they barely trust each other believing anyone could be “suspicious.” The movie even inspire the necromorphs from the Dead Space series
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No, Among Us had nothing to do with "The Thing", it's a stripped down and kid friendly version of Trouble in Terrorist Town.
1 like@Kurt
0 likesNah, Among Us feels more like The Thing than Trouble in Terrorist Town
The puppets and the way they move and behave still give me goosebumps
0 likesI find it interesting when a movie was heavily criticized on its initial release but becomes a revered classic as time goes on. Stanley Kubrick's the Shining had faced similar criticism on its initial release ( hell the person who portrayed Wendy was nominated for worst actor at one point), but is now a horror classic.
0 likesThe Thing is an amazing movie that proves the most important thing ever: Critics Are Idiots.
1 likeThis channel is like a buffet, there is so much topics EmpLemon covers and it's amazing.. keep up the good work EmpLemon.
1 likeRob Bottin later did the effects on Tim Curry on one of my favorite films Legend. You are really good at Video Essay Reviews Mr. Lemon. More of these please.
0 likesThis was a great video, didnt realize how much our world now, somewhat reflects the 80s culture. Ive heard other people compare it, but not in the depth Emp did.
0 likesJust when I thought I couldn't like EmpLemon any more, he makes a video on a horror cult classic.
0 likesVideos like this are why you're my favourite channel, Emp.
0 likesan other great video by you mr emp. keep doing these type of videos cause i love them❤
1 likeDidn’t get around to watching this until now, (wanted to watch it as a companion piece to the actual movie) and it’s amazing! Emp you’ve got a great eye for literary analysis.
0 likesI dont think there has ever been a time where an emplemon video has disappointed me. Its so unbelievably impressive how he can make a video on something i have hardly heard of/never heard of at all and itll be so engaging throughout the entire video. Also love the manscaped ad
0 likes1) I will never understand audiences in 1982. The Thing is my favorite horror movie and quite possibly my favorite movie of all time! On the other hand, I have always found E.T. to be overrated. I watched it 5 times by the age of 9 wanting to like it and I just never did.
1 likePoltergeist is good, though. Still need to see Blade Runner.
2) McCready didn't murder Clark, it was totally self-defense.
You have such a diverse channel! Love the work Emp
0 likesHi Lemon.
0 likesThank you for making this video. You are like the only Channel I can find on YouTube who truly makes content that 100% applies to my own personal situations.
I have been thinking the exact same way you portray the characters in the movie to think. You connect the movie so well with the real world its unbelievable.
I'm a person who has been hit really hard by corona, but I have not lost any friend, i have not been sick, i have not lost a family member, i have not lost a job, i have lost "nothing".
Only what you said: I have gained nothing new. I can't go to crowds. I can't socially interact. I feel like SoCiEtY needs to see this video. People dont seem to understand that there are bigger problems than a disease that can kill 30% of our world and leave the rest with broken lungs. I'd rather have my whole family wiped by that than by Depression caused by the isolation.
Thank you so much. I connect deeply with this video.
Something interesting came from my girlfriend watching it the first time, she was 100% sure MacReady was a Thing until the blood test because of how he acted. Different perspectives change the movie a lot.
0 likesLoved all of The Wall imagery, you should do a breakdown of that album/movie that would be really interesting
0 likesI've been seeing a lot of love for the thing recently, and I love it.
0 likesThank you emp for introducing me to my favorite film of all time
1 likeThe effects were gorgeous, really sunk you into the movie
0 likes>critics missing the mark
389 likesI guess some things never change.
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"Some thing" lol, did you make that joke on accident or was it on purpose
12 likesYeah definitely with the last of us 2 critic consensus .
0 likes@Timothytosser Except the thing is actually well written.
2 likes7:30 I wouldnt describe McReady as paranoid, I would describe him as a survivor who maintains his cool under pressure.
0 likesMan, imagine going to a theater and having to choose between E.T, Blade Runner or The Thing, geez that would be a dilemma!
1 likeSurprised the music wasn't mentioned. I really really like the theme of this movie. It's unsettling and somewhat reminiscent of a heartbeat.
1 likeSo glad it got appealed! Love this kinda content emp
0 likesNot only is EmpLemon a good YouTube pooper, he’s also a good video essayist.
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One of the best I’d say
0 likesHe's a former YouTube Pooper. I still enjoy YouTube Poops, and have since 2008.
2 likesThe correct word is amazing analysist
1 likeIt's not everyday i watch horror movies, but when i do, i want to feel uneasy, and feel psychologically traumatized, in the best possible way.
2 likesStay scared, my friends.
Shoutout to the Starlog guy with that quote about The Thing being "totally devoid of either warmth or humanity"
0 likesMan went to see a horror movie and then had the balls to complain that it wasn't a cute Disney movie with a happy ending.
In doing so he wins the award for the single biggest example of missing the point
Good video Emp. Keep on coming out with this stuff. Also great use of l4d music.
0 likesI watched 2 minutes of this video then was like, I’ve never seen the thing, might as well, got nothing better to do, so I stopped watching this video and watched the movie and hoooo boooy that was a great film, thanks emp for showing me this masterpiece
4 likesEmpLemon, you are quite possibly the greatest youtuber ever. I don't think I've ever seen a youtuber make content like you make, I think we should all learn to appreciate what we have in you right now if you were ever to leave us...
0 likesDamn, the effort you put into the ad at the end is impressive. Also the rest of the video was incredible. God damn The Thing is amazing
0 likesIn the theme of isolation I remember a kurzgesagt video about loneliness. "When you become chronically lonely, your brain goes into defense mode."
13 likesYep, this is still #1 on my horror list. What could possibly be scarier than a monster that looks and acts just like everyone around you. Perhaps a killer that can get you in your dreams, but they pretty well ruined that with all the sequels LoL.
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0 likesTheory: what if blair was tieing that noose to kill himself but in this scene he's completely fine. I believe he turned and it was too late; He was trying to kill himself before turning into the thing.
I love this movie so much! I have the blu ray copy and have seen it 7 times :D . Nice to see the movie getting some popularity since nobody i know has seen it.
0 likeshands down one of the best channels when it comes to handling sponsorships. Some come close - like knowledgehub - but lord you take the cake.
0 likeshands down my favorite film, thanks for making this video dude
0 likesThe Thing is one of the only films that scares me every single Time I watch it, not just from the visuals but from just from the idea of the thing and also how much of the the things movements and sabotage is left out
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Capitalize "Thing". I had to re-read your first sentence because people commonly use the phrase "The thing is, ..."
4 likes@Benjamin Hartnett ok then bucko
6 likes"THEY WILL BE MET WITH FIRE AND FURY"
71 likesFire and fury ensues
Thank you for doing this film justice
1 likeHopefully, the number of views this video received relative to the rest of your channel doesn't deter you from making this kind of content .. This was a really great video
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It got half a million views almost, only a fool or a corporate entity would consider that a disappointment for such a well put-together video.
1 likeIt had a bunch of its original views shaved off because of Youtube fuckery, Emp got so pissed he made another video about it.
1 likeYou are literally the one channel I can go to and know that I will see a SHIT ton of popular YouTube creators, you are one of the best honestly
1 likeI watched the Thing as an adult and initially I thought how terrifying can practical effects be now? That spider head scene creeped me tf out! It's incredible!
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Yeah, that was the final scene that convinced me that the movie was a masterpiece of cinema
2 likesFun fact: The computer in the beginning, by the rules of chess, did actually make an illegal move, therefore cheating.
2 likes1982 critics: "this would never happen in a million years."
0 likes2020 critics: "this exact situation happened to me last week."
My dad told me a story of seeing this movie at a drive in, while living in the Colorado Mountains, he and his sister saw it at a late night drive in. He went back to his apartment and he couldnt stop being nervous about his german shepherd dog, after seeing the films monster effects in the kennel scene.
0 likesBreaking News! Your channel is wildly all over the place and nails it every time!
1 likeEmp could cover legitimately any topic and make it interesting and fun to watch.
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he already did that with nascar there is nothing he cant cover
6 likesAgree
1 likeI loved this when I firsted watch it.what an amazing film!
0 likes15:52 amazing to see this track getting some love. I thought only robot voiced greentexters knew about it
0 likesI already love this movie now I love it even more
0 likesOut of all the sponsor shout outs I've seen, this one is the best. Good work.
0 likesThanks for having me be a part of this ABSOLUTE KINO, Emp! The video turned out great!
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oh shit it's the guy
0 likesAmong us was definitely inspired by this awesome film, These are what they have in common.
1 like1. There is an impostor trying to kill everyone
2. The impostor is an alien
3. The theme songs sound similar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsMH-sdznh8 - The thing Theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7oKN3IkO4M - Among Us theme song
4. The Characters have to find the Impostor before everyone is killed
5.The main characters go insane as they lose trust within each other.
6. There are Emergency meetings also in "The Thing" (Sort of)
7. The thing takes place in an Isolated Antarctic Research outpost in the middle of Antarctica, I think that the Polus map in "Among Us" is based on this location since the map is a Research lab which is in Isolated and snowy environment Just like in "The thing".
That's what I Found out about "among us" and "the thing"
So in conclusion, John Carpenter invented the Concept of Among us.
The blob was another disturbing "The thing" like movie that still scars me to this day
4 likesEven though it was trying to rip Off the premise of Alien they succeeded in making a truly horror inducing film full Of existential dread and body horror that no 9 year old should be allowed to watch. Thanks mom:/
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It wasn't ripping off Alien at all. The original "The Thing" was made in the 30's and that's what the 80's version is based on. Alien by no means has a monopoly on the extraterrestrial horror genre.
4 likesquality content during the world wide downward spiral, thanks lemon
0 likesThe Thing is still one of my favourite horrors that relates to body-horror. I am absolutely smitten by the special effects, even to this day. In a timeperiod where CGI is prefered to practical effects, I think it's important that we hail the films of ages past that are powerhouses when it comes to effects that aged really, really well - The Thing, Alien 1 (that chest burster, so good) and Lord of the Rings (specifically the battle for Helms Deep with the scale models of the keep) are just some of the films that can still make my skin crawl from the sheer talent.
15 likesThank you for this unexpected but entertaining dive on a film I love.
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Glad he 'shined the light' on the cinematography too as when pointed out i finally realized just how essential it was for the practical effects to be as effective as they are.
0 likes@cockroachafro for real. film-making at its finest. I'm happy that today most of us realise the importance and the value of John Carpenter's The Thing.
0 likesIt really is ironic that, in our own isolation, have explored the concepts of the Thing through "Among Us".
1 likeI LOVE this movie! I have a Husky and he does that quiet slink around walk and it always freaks me out a little.
0 likesSuch a fantastic ensemble film, its up there with "The Great Escape" & "12 Angry Men" for me
0 likesThis rings true for a show on Netflix called Parasyte just on a larger scale; definitely set the groundwork for a lot within the genre
0 likesNow that I think about it, the anime parasyte, while it is compared to the thing, ultimately falls flat with me just because of how ridiculous they made the aliens. The thing itself is scary yet totally fascinating because it most likely wasn't self aware, just an animalistic infection that melted organisms to ensure its own survival. It could learn, but only for the explicit purpose to fool those around it and assimilate them to fulfill its primal objective of survival. Compare that to parasyte where the infected talk normally for no reason, jump around like ninjas and are nigh invulnerable for no reason. It takes away the real scariness by making the aliens less subtle and by turning them into knockoffs of Alex Mercer from the prototype games.
0 likesIt's a shame this video got demonetized and taken down it's gonna have less views and it's one of emps best videos.
1 likeLove this movie so much, one of my favorite. Sick vid Lemon
0 likesFantastic.
1 likeMy favorite theory is that in the last scene, the black character is the final monster, due ti him drinking out of what were molotov cocktails the protag made
"... instant junk."
155 likes"... a wretched excess."
Calling those critiques is like calling an apple an orange. It's both unobservant and lazy.
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I agree. I’m sure E.T. is analyzed for its brilliant story telling too. Seriously, John Carpenter was dealt a bad hand, at least his work is getting the appreciation that it deserves.
26 likesJust like the protagonist of the movie feels so threatened by the monster, so does the audience of the early 80s feels creeped out by how different the movie is from the standards. They were so close-minded to the elements that made a movie "good" to them at the time, that the sight of something so terrifyingly new made them act more on instinct and to reject it, much like animals react to something they have never seen before. it wouldn't be until later that more open-minded audiences would start to fully appreciate the movie and to understand how innovative it truly was.
28 likes@Succubastard 101 I completely agree with what you're saying. For as close-minded as they were could they at lest be more specific? Criticism is just insult without any real reason behind it.
13 likesYou are a fool if you belueve critiques exist in the professional world to do anything other than make money
6 likesThose are cut from longer reviews he was just showing that the conclusions were negative.
1 like@ryan dirks That's true...
0 likes@jllemin4 Probably.
0 likes@Ducks Rule Florida Not to be out here calling everyone names. I say that because they definetly aren't there to say which filmes are the best and highest quality.
1 likeRodger ebert was a hack
2 likesThe 80's version of The Blob also recieved a lot of flack back in the day due to being extremely brutal. Audiences back then just wanted another brainless slasher to turn their brains off.
1 likeI never realized how similar "nothing there" is to the thing. A flesh amalgamation just consuming. And being able to look human
0 likesEasily one of my favorite movies of all time
1 likeI could watch any documentary that has to do with John Carpenter's The Thing. It's just a damn good movie and totally tops the original The Thing from Another World.
0 likesI was always baffled by how the creature was able to act completely normal until caught and then it went simply bonkers. I wonder if Carpenter planned a inner logic to this, or it's simply the eruption of violence needed for each action sequence, and the creature's logic just dismissed as "don't bother trying to understand it, it's an alien"
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I think the the Thing goes bonkers when discovered is because it knows how terrifying it is to other beings, and exploits it to the max.
0 likesAh yes. The one movie that scared me out of anything back then and even now. It just made me even afraid to say goodnight to my parents. My mind would wander off saying to my self "is that person a thing?!". Truly terrifying.
6 likesWhat I like the most about the Thing is that it probably wasn't piloting the UFO it crash landed on to Earth - that was probably some other creature that tried to escape and it had consumed, sending the UFO careening through the galaxy
0 likesI love this video no matter how cursed it's been.
0 likesThe Thing is a beautiful, horrific masterpiece. when Among Us got popular i thought it was about the Thing, but it is but without the monster. That's really cool
0 likesThis is a pretty underrated movie in my opinion, a hidden gem
0 likesI knew it was only a matter of time till Emplemon would make a video on this masterpiece
0 likesI just watched The Thing yesterday so this is just perfect
I waited to watch this video since I was watching The Thing on Halloween with some buddies of mine. Awesome movie and awesome analysis
0 likes"The Thing" is probably my favorite horror movie.
1 likeThis might be the only good take I've seen on The Thing. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, but most analyses seem shallow and unwilling to delve into the more uncomfortable philosophical spaces
0 likesVery good job
John Carpenter: I will show you horror with Jim Henson puppets goddamnit
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Harsh truth but that’s pretty much what all the monsters were. Glorified puppets. Which somehow still look 1000 times more believable than cgi
27 likes@Solid Soundwave practical effects are best for horror. An American Werewolf In London exemplifies this.
16 likes@Solid Soundwave You only notice cgi when it's bad.
6 likes@WolfWiz99 Indeed.
1 like@caveman or overt. Too much cgi you'll forget the movie was live action
7 likes@Infinity Being talking to you disney with lion king
0 likes@caveman Problem is, variants of cgi are easily outdated as graphics and animation improve over time. You could argue this with 1993 Jurassic Park where the cgi is phenomenal and still ages well to this day, but that's mostly because the shots are so minimal and angled from a distance to avoid any graphical flaws. Even then, you can still notice some minor rendering imperfections of the dinos. The Jurassic world cgi effects are supposedly superior to that of the original, which indeed they are if we're just talking about texture wise, however, there is this optic-like instinct you have that it somehow looks ironically more fake than the original as a lot of people noticed, and you can't exactly put your thumb on why it does at first. This is simply because the dinosaurs where permanently animated in every shot regardless if just parts of the dino were shot, or up close, or from afar. Point is I think regardless how authentic cgi is, even in films like Avatar, I will still notice that it's been animated on a expensive software and green screened.
2 likesThis channel is wholeheartedly my favourite on this entire website
0 likesWow, my class just talked about this topic TODAY and made comparisons with the red scare, but instead of 'The Thing,' it was the Salem witch trials. Unlike my teacher, this was interesting and didn't take a total of 10 hours to finish.
0 likesThis film is a horror/Sci fi legend!! Masterpiece.
0 likesFor a movie to produce so much suspense, fear, doubt, disbelief.... That's great art.
Those practical effects are far superior in being terrifying than any computer graphic. This stuff is tangible man, you can touch it....
"The Thing" is truly despicably scary good. No, scary... Great!
If you love your enemy, you stay sane and things don't get any worse than they have to be.
2 likesI loved that the beginning of the movie was a 5 minute run of a dog just to realize that was no dog.
0 likesI literally hate body horror. Despise it. It’s rancid, I loathe it, yet this movie is one of my all time favorites. To quote a YouTuber whose name I forgot, a normal horror movie has a bunch of absolutely STUPID characters hiding behind chainsaws like a geico commercial, and they die but they could’ve lived if they were smart. This movie, you have a bunch of scientists and technicians who get to work and try to stop this alien as soon as possible, but once you see The Dogs™️, you know there is ABSOLUTELY NO ESCAPE. You KNOW. So you’re glued to your old CRT, wondering who will get turned into the best use of practical effects next.
2 likesyeah: emp was definitely an honour roll student. superb video as always.
0 likesThe funny part about all of this is now everybody is suddenly conscious of the paranoias those on the outskirts of society held...
1 likeYou really can do any kind of video, I love it! I love your channel!!!
0 likesThe couch scene gives me chills every time.
0 likesSome may call it “instant junk”, but me, I call it “eventual treasure”.
6 likesWe need a tv show series of The Thing!
0 likes10:20 Now I kinda wanna see a zombie game where the zombies are not just brain dead, but they think and try and act like humans, maybe calling out for help or pleading for some sort of help, but if they get close they are forced by a virus to make them attack. It would make fighting zombies a LOT more difficult as like, these would be innocent people, suffering, but wanting help.
0 likesLove the movie, love your videos keep it up :) .
0 likesRemember when Blair is trying to talk McCready into letting him back on the base, Blair is highly sedated because they've given him morphine "to keep him calm" That's where his demeanor comes from.
0 likesIf I'm awake with air in my lungs, it's time to revisit the horror genre.
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hello
0 likesI actually got my friends to sit down and watch this movie with me a few weeks back. One of them isn't even into horror, and he loved it. Glad you made a video on it, I hope more people watch this amazing movie because of it.
4 likesGreat video as always Emp!
0 likesI absolutely love your content, and have for such a long time, but it genuinely fuckin sucks that YouTube continues to screw you over consistently
0 likesFavorite horror movie ever , between the best ones , Carpenter made me like horror movies .
0 likesLove this film, according to the late Bill Lancaster the screenwriter both McCready and Childs where both human, I like that idea
0 likesI’m glad that the video about The Shining wasn’t a one-off thing. I’m glad that you made another one EmpLemon
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he made a video about the shining?
4 likesUm, I think it was VideoGameDunkey who made the video on The Shining.
13 likesHoly shit that end... Just goes to show that films like this that show even ONE aspect of the human mind will make sure it never really dies. Guarantee that in a decade or two, another video relating to The Thing will be made, somehow... Life imitates Art
0 likesI wasn't going to watch this because I haven't seen the thing before, until I realized it need more attention because of the takedown. So take my watch time Emp, your content is great, I bet the video will be too.
0 likesThis review (and movie) couldn't possibly be more relevant than today.
1 likeThe Thing and Blade Runner are both perfect examples of why you should never pay attention to what the critics think.
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The big issue with critics is that they're still people and still vulnerable to peer pressure and the Overton window. When that window is against edgy stuff, they likely will be too and any critic who doesn't step in line (Just Reviews who does albums and pop songs) will be heavily ostracized and possibly even de-platformed too.
0 likesAh yes, a classic. Good timing since we are being Isolated and Spooky month.
60 likesMacready’s lack of emotion and distance could be seen what Kurt Russell and John Carpenter envisioned, that Macready is a Vietnam veteran
2 likesStill a bit miffed that after all his good analysis, he still calls the supercell a virus. They are very different things.
1 likeThis is one of the few times I watched the sponsorsgip segment fully. This man knows how to make his goddamn ads intersting
0 likesSuperb review. Possibly the best on The Thing. Thank you.👍
0 likesSometimes I wonder just how many Simpsons episodes Emp has seen to have such a wide variety of appropriate scenes at the ready to use.
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Spongebob footage must be a close contender too.
2 likesThis is an amazing channel that embodies YouTubes good ol days
0 likesThere is something hilariously surreal about watching scenes from The Thing to the tunnel music from Mario.
1 likeit says something about how great the film is when people are still debating when where and how the monster is in every frame.
0 likes2020: “Fear is humanity’s greatest motivator.”
2 likes2021: “It still is.”
So grateful for the excellent content you pushed out in the last year Emp. It's really given me faith in the quality of youtube and youtubers again. Best wishes
5 likesMy favourite movie reviewed by my favourite YouTube. A match made in heaven.
0 likesThis is one of my all time favorite movies :)
0 likesTechnically, the movie ended on an unsolved cliffhanger because Childs strayed off towards the end. He says he encountered a thing and killed it, but with no scene showing he did it’s likely he too became a thing.
0 likesjust watched the movie so i could watch this video, it was actually really good
0 likesGood video on my favorite film. But I would just add that Carpenter was a lefty, and made that quite explicit. Just look at his comments about They Live which was a critique of Reagan and 80s unchecked capitalism. Comparing Trump to Macready would likely be seen as abhorrent by Carpenter.
2 likesOne of the greatest horror movies ever , Carpenter is a master of The Thing , Halloween, and They Live
0 likesThis is awfully poetic, nice job lemon
0 likesTwo EmpLemon videos in a month?
0 likesThe world truly has gone mad.
gotta love a spoiler warning for a movie that's almost 40 years old
0 likesJust watched this movie so I could watch this video, definitely worth it!
0 likes"totally devoid of either warmth or humanity :((("
2 likesGuys, I watched Frozen and it was devoid of horror and psychological torture, what a bad movie, right ?
I died at the among us roster lmao😂😂 good job empy
0 likesTo be fair, Macready only killed Clark in self defense. Clark attacked first noobs.
2 likesThe best thing about the thing is how human error is portrayed as more dangerous than a literal assimilating alien.
0 likesI don't know how you went from a ytp shitposter to one of the best video essay youtubers.
0 likesI dug up an old post of mine with some thoughts on the plot of the film:
0 likes"I don't see a problem with Fuchs' death (other than the way the power goes out, as well as his idiotic reaction, but hey – it's a fucking horror movie; no artistic license and no silliness; no movie); limited availability to information is the entire premise of the movie. One possibility is that he burned himself after he was attacked, whether accidentally or intentionally, and another is that the monster burned his remains.
There are some serious credibility (logical) flaws, though, without including cases of artistic license (e.g Fuchs' comments above and kennel scene lack of lighting and noise), or reasonable cases of less than reasonable behavior, under the duress of the circumstances:
– Norwegian hilarity and extreme incompetence. Failing to hunt down a dog; for an hour or more; in a helicopter over an open area; with grenades and rifles; before instead managing to kill yourself with them is pretty fucking impressive. I appreciate and respect the running gag, though; Swedes have been running it for hundreds of years.
– Bled-to-death, frozen Norwegian. For some reason, I doubt that the blood would have coagulated and frozen mid-air, with hardly any of it reaching the ground. You could easily argue that this falls within artistic license, though.
– Dog-thing hoisting itself through the ceiling of the kennel, the next moment being on the ground with those parts nowhere in sight. Where did they go? Did some of the creature escape?? Wouldn't the characters have noticed and reacted accordingly??? You could argue that this falls within artistic license, though.
– Crew member reactions to gained information. Mostly notably, Blair and Fuchs' reactions to learning of the creature living, and some very ambitious and unscientific conclusions made by Blair, especially as read in his notebook(s), by Fuchs. – Blair's super-computer. I can get over the fact that it's fucking retro, but don't pretend that you have ready-made software at all – let alone accurately – capable of calculating every kind of probability and spread of a cellular infection that's unlike anything known to anyone on the planet (and sure as fuck not supported by any pre-existing computer program), or that Blair manages to learn enough about its properties and (re)program the software in less than 12h – even if he were Leonardo da Vinci reincarnate & 2.0, with access to the greatest technology in the world, in 2020. What's worse is that explicitly stating the implications for humanity of the alien monster isn't meaningful in the first place, nor is it necessary to do so in a way that undermines the credibility of the film, should you insist on stating them. – MacReady picking up a flashlight, conveniently found next to the helicopter. Why couldn't they just have him on his person??? – The entire crew trusting Garry with the revolver, when it's just been proven highly likely that he's infected, and the subsequent suspicion towards him, after (as opposed to before) he voluntarily offered his weapon up. – For one reason or another, let's accept that MacReady and Nauls went – unescorted – to the former's shack only to turn off the light, under those circumstances. Nothing human could have made it back on its own, the hundred yards along a lit path in a moderate storm??? – The distrust of MacReady after he didn't take multiple opportunities to kill everyone else. – The solid wall that in-flames Palmer runs through. TopKEK. – Blair's carnivorous, cavernous project. I can't believe that Carpenter willfully undermined the plot's credibility simply to communicate that the creature wants to leave the base, which is undesirable (to communicate) in the first place. Please reference "Blair's super-computer" above, too. The major problems here are: Knowledge, material & time constraints. – Garry, MacReady and Nauls reacting to the power going out by immediately resorting to suicide, without so much as checking the generator, first."
Ooh, a Halloween special from Emp right before I get to decorating! This is absolutely spooktacular!
5 likesI love how half the comments are pissed the credit used among us instead of literally every other game that depends on manipulation and convincing, borderline disregarding the review.
1 likeNever change Internet.
Why the Fuck does the guy who recommends goofy YTPs to Internet Historian make such a amazing and through provoking analysis of such a film?
1 likeGreat video, but I strongly disagree with your assessment that humans respond to any type of overwhelming stress or hardship with paranoia and mistrust. How humans respond depends a lot on the specific situation. When Britain was bombed in the second world war, almost every economist expected there to be complete national chaos and paranoia. Looting, murder etc. What actually happened was solidarity amongst (most) British citizens; many of them shared food supplies, helped rebuild houses etc. The reason why the characters in the thing react so negatively is SPECIFICALLY because this sense of solidarity is completely eliminated because of the mistrust that is caused by the simple nature of the monster.
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Great analysis on my favorite horror movie. I know what im watching on the 31st!
0 likesWatching this film when I was young, I would always just watch it purely for the effects. As years have gone on though you really take in consideration how smart and just expertly crafted this film is, even with the limited ranged score. I watched it last night and it gets better and better with every year.
5 likesMF Doom, grade A vegan AND an incredible talent. What more could you want from a humble youtuber?
0 likesGreat content as always
0 likesThey should make an actual game of The Thing
0 likesThe Virgin E.T vs the Chad The Thing
12 likesI really love this channel, I love you Emp
0 likesI wish my school essays were as well put together as your videos emp
0 likesThe thing is amazing cause cosmic horror is hard to do in movies
0 likesHow dare people not find this movie to be the masterpiece it was of its time.
0 likesFrom memes, politics, pro wrestling, smash bros, to jumping from space, and now The Thing? Next hes gonna talk about the food industry
201 likesEdit: lmao rip video youtube took it out by the shed and shot it
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Emp is vegan, I bet he has a lot to say about it. Namely the fact that it's totally fucked and inhumane.
10 likes@Liravin youtube owned video a while ago but it's back
1 like@Liravin it was taken down by youtube within moments and was unavailable for about 4-5 hours because it “violated Youtube’s community guidelines”
2 likesEverybody Youtube should be subscribed to this channel, something has to interest u lol
1 like@Tout va Bien is emp actually vegan? jeez we'll probably only get another year of high quality uploads before malnourishment and protein deficiency destroys his mind. SAD!
5 likes@Matthew Is Cool I sincerely hope you're joking because vegan diets have consistently been associated with lower all-cause as well as cause-specific mortality for several decades at this point. The amount of people who seem derive their sum total of nutritional knowledge from quacks talking shite on YT is truly mind boggling at times.
7 likesWhy the Meat industry wants to use you. Title of next vid 😆
1 like@Tout va Bien I don't think that video would be very successful so hopefully he doesn't make it.
0 likesI personally think that both were Things at the end and the ending scene is just the creature having a conversation with itself about what its plan going forward is.
0 likesFan Theory: When Macready fried the computer, that foreshadowed the end of where the whole camp was blown up.
1 likeCant wait to see "is this among us in real life?" Comment
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Among Us is cringe, SS13 is better.
0 likesActually McCready knows that childs is a thing, because in the end childs drinks the whisky, and if childs was human he wouldn't drink it, cuz they all know that the thing can infect humans through food and drinks, then we see McCready laughing because the thing fell for his trick
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There's also the element that Childes knows that if it's the thing he's not going to survive so he drinks anyway.
5 likes@LordVader1094 well, the thing first kills it's victims then becomes them
6 likesi think what you wanted to say is that childs was really cold and just couldn't think straight, so he drank the whisky
and McCready thought that childs is a thing that fell for his trick
@Golden Brine Actually no, The thing couldn't kill him because it was freezing and McCready had a flamethrower
2 likes@pink god
6 likesChild's isn't the thing. The thing video game which carpenter said is canon. It explained in the game that child's died from hypothermia
Recently The Thing has been popping up in my feed a lot, and now you've come around to cover the film. I'm excited for what you have in store.
9 likesI agree. The Thing is one of the most thought provoking horror/sci-fi movies ever created. Not to mention just plain scary. And certainly one of Kurt Russel's finest roles. For the first time I was able to completely disassociate Kurt from his role as Dexter Riley in the The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes; the 1969 Walt Disney movie seen in my youth. I'm fairly sure I helped start the cult following as I had always championed this movie.
0 likesNot mentioned is that this movie is a remake of the 1951 pre-Gunsmoke James Arnes version, The Thing (From Another World). Same arctic setting, but completely innocuous compared to this one.
well researched but not dull
0 likeswell thought out but not over analyzed
i didnt know i could love this movie any more than i already dead but here we are
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I love how a good chunk of this video is just lecturing Roger Ebert for not getting the point while offering counterarguments, lmao.
0 likesThe Thing, E.T, Poltergeist, Bladerunner, the list goes on. Man 1982 was a fucking awesome year for movies.
1 likeWhoa. Such a good analysis. This movie seems very interesting.
10 likesTrust is really something so contradictive to survival and nature when there are mechanisms that take advantage of trust, even when unknowingly. It's the thing that makes us society, and also one of the greatest weaknesses.
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Good thing I do not trust
0 likesI always get blown away when I see someone else reference Klay World... sometimes I feel like that was just a fever dream I had when I was 8 lol
1 likeThank god this is back. I wanted to watch it this morning but it seemed to have been pulled 😰
0 likesI like to think kino gets all these larger youtubers to work with him just because he's a nice guy
0 likesYouTube really killed all chances of this video doing amazing which sucks because Emp puts so much work into these videos for us
0 likesI like to think that both the nihilistic view and idealist view exist. While we have seen all of the themes in the thing in real life, the same can be said for Idealists. Thanks to people who trusted anyway and banded together, humanity has been able to overcome great obstacles. I think we will see that again. While people may be falling into this nihilistic mindset, there are others who will rise to the occasion and defeat the present threat as well as the threat humanity imposes on itself when it begins to loose it's way.
0 likesThe last scene made me thought that the protagonist was infected the rest with the bottles of alcohol. One character said that they should eat canned food to not get infected.
0 likes14:40 "When you lose faith in the world, your mind becomes your own prison" - EmpLemon.
27 likesHow dare you to say something so controversial, yet so brave.
only gripe I had with the film was the blood testing scene. removed so much ambiguity.
0 likesamazing how bad critics are at judging actual movies
0 likesLet’s be honest here. Both Blade Runner and THIS make E.T. look like shit. And honestly Roger Ebert’s review really didn’t age well. Considering how much the thing has that many horror films today are lacking. And to say the story and characters became secondary is nonsense. It has probably one of my favourite character moments in the entire film. Kurt Russell is playing chess on a commodore computer and thinks he’s gonna win. But then loses and just after the female voice from the computer says “Checkmate! Checkmate!. Proceeds to pour his drink down the computer and then says “Cheating bitch”.
2 likesI always thought the UFO it crash lands in was another alien species that fell victim to the thing and crashed on earth.
0 likesGod i love these videos, I recommend everyone never ever all the time now
0 likesThis movie used to scare the shit out of me as a kid, but I went back time and time again.
0 likesWow deep ideology take I sure love it when entertainers start talking politics its always so fun
0 likesAm I misunderstanding what you said, or did you actually say @8:50 that “three quarters of a million people” within the U.S. were infected with HIV by the end of the '80s?
1 likeThere were around 100,000 cases of HIV reported in the U.S. by the end of the '80s; where in the world did you get that “3/4ths of a million” figure from?
How has seemingly no one (that I can see) commented on this? lol I am extremely confused. Apologies in advance if I’m misunderstanding something.
Roger Ebert has always been kind of dull, and his review of the Thing is what proved it.
0 likesThis movie is a master piece
1 likeGood to see Klay world, also it scares me how this movie is pretty similar to recent times
0 likesI wouldn't call that "murder" a murder. Dude had malicious intent with that biscuit.
0 likesYOU GUYS GONNA TRUST EMPLEMON?! HE COULD BE ONE OF THOSE THINGS!!
2 likesWatching you branching out your content over so many diverse topic has been so wild, I love it. I love to see you getting into films now, and I can't wait to see where you go next.
4 likesnot gonna lie, I'm sure he's done it before but the live action Emp at the end rustled the shit outta my jimmies
0 likesngl 18:25 probably made me laugh harder than anything else in the last like six weeks.
0 likesstarting to really feel like this channel need more subs but at the same time, the lack of subs makes this channel free to do what he wants to do.
0 likesmixed feelings about this
I like to get drunk af and watch this movie in the cold with my German Shepard. Talk about immersion.
2 likesIt genuinely warms my heart too see my favorite channel make a video on my favorite horror film. Great as always, emp!
3 likesGreat video and your logic is on point ...Thanks
1 likeFun fact: the person who fly the plane tried to warn the group about the dog being the monster, but they didn't understand him due to him speaking Norwegian
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0 likesAbsolutely incredible transition
You are truly a jack of all trades for videos topics!
0 likesthe fact that this video doesnt have over 1m views is really annoying. cmon youtube ~ but i guess it shows emps audience that even when videos arent promoted over 300,000 will still be watching.
3 likesI don’t think most of your points line up with the movie but I get your narrative aspect
0 likesAnd it went on to inspire horror movie monsters everywhere.
0 likesGreat video really enjoyed it! 👍
0 likesThe Thing’s creature design has had almost as much impact on my own creature design process as HP Lovecraft’s. And that’s not something I say lightly.
7 likesThe Thing only gets better with every watch
1 likeI can't help but agree with you Lemon. This is a movie far ahead of it's time. I thought the movie was great when I first watched it years ago and now due to the pandemic forcing us in isolation, I felt that both the pandemic and your video essay of The Thing make me relate to this movie so much more now than I did when I first watched it. Now I consider it one of the best horror movies I've ever watched. I just wish this movie got a better review on opening night because it's backlash back then feels very unwarranted nowadays
0 likesYou are a video smith my friend. Your command over visual media and presentation is a beautiful skill 💪😤👍
0 likesThe Thing really aged well.
0 likesName another channel that transitioned so gracefully from ear bleeding YTP to insightful commentary on things that are uniquely relevant to our culture
5 likesYou’re a legend emp
0 likesAn alternate title: There will Never Ever be a 80's Horror that's reflect's current society as John Carpenter: The Thing
0 likesMaybe for Christmas, you could keep with the theme of a movie that flopped in its time but was appreciated later and make a video of sorts on "It's A Wonderful Life"
0 likesgosh DAAAAARN your content is PHENOMENAL. I watch your ads every time I can. Amazing video, I'll be watching the movie soon
0 likesI watched The Thing a couple days ago, I decided to rewatch it due to seeing a poster of the movie in Stranger Things and because of Among Us
1 likeDid I ask for an EmpLemon video diving into The Thing? No.
0 likesAm I gonna watch the whole thing multiple times? Of fucking course
Hey EMPU, you should do a never ever on the AVGN. I think it would be awesome.
0 likesLove the choice of half life as background music, keep it up! :)
0 likesAlways disagreed with the notion that Macready is a murderer for shooting Clark. Clark had a scalpel in his hand, so Macready was defending himself.
0 likesI often cringe at the CGI horror of our time that's indiscernible from the background, but Rob Bottins effects reaaaaaally pop out. I'm not usually actually scared by horrors but, the things from "The Thing"... Those things really scare me
0 likesGiving me that Goosebumps nostalgia.
0 likesFilm critics saying a really good movie is bad, imagine my shock
0 likeshonestly recently I've been missing practical effects
0 likesPetition to have the sequel prequel released without the edited in cgi. The version exists, completely latex models, but higher ups demanded cgi later, completely missing the homage.
0 likesThis movie is really deep, but definitely like Among us.
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Among us was inspired by the movie. The necromorphs from the Dead Space series were also inspired by the alien in the film.
1 likeThe Thing is for Horror as Speed Racer is for Sci-Fi action films.
0 likesnice vid to watch here in the car while eating :p
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bro i love your videos
18 likesYo it’s am64 love your videos!!!
5 likesI’m on lunch eating too
1 likeAlso nice to unsubscribe to.
2 likesAY YO THIS DOOD SLURPIN ON MAH MILK
1 like @Carst012 why?
4 likesLove you're vids man, just wanted to tell ya
4 likeswhens the next video?
2 likes@Republic Of Texas chill
0 likesPretty comfy ngl
0 likesQuit eating start uploading
0 likesOh shit its you
0 likesIm kinda jealous cause here I am just poopin.
0 likesBruh alienmyth you better be makin alien goes to the store
0 likesThat’s such a vibe bro
0 likesTrue
0 likesI'm doing that right now :0
0 likesWtf Im doing the exact same thing hahaha
0 likesGood for smoking or pooping too!
0 likes@SQuinGedSUB it’s a joke on Emp’s channel because a while back he made a video talking about how most subscribers to youtube channels don’t actually watch the channel’s videos (e.g. Pewdiepie has >100m subs but doesn’t get anywhere near that many views) and he made a joke of repeatedly asking “CAN YOU UNSUBSCRIBE??”. It was a Downward Spiral type thing
0 likesThis is FAR TOO FUCKIN' INTERESTING to watch by myself, I hope it's still here next time I can get it in front of a small audience lol.
0 likesyour channel is like my go to for anything i seem to love
1 likefrom Spogebob to Video Games to Horror
would love for you to talk about anime someday
Finally watched the movie so I can finally watch the last Emplemon video I haven't
0 likesI don't think that assessment of Macready was very fair. It makes it sound like he's more flawed than he actually is. A lot of what he did in the film boiled down to desperation in the face of terrible odds and existential crisis. Also, a Virus is considered a form of life, a shitty one, but a form of life none the less.
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It's not actually confirmed that a virus is alive. And if some say it is, there will be others who disagree. From what I've seen, there's not a consensus as it's still a topic of debate.
0 likesEmpLemon is now gonna start making movie reviews?
31 likesThis is the best day ever.
Fun fact. Writer Peter Watts has a short story that tells the movie's events from the perspective of the alien. Interesting read.
0 likesI never watched E.T., but I have seen The Thing about a quadrillion times.
1 like"when you lose all faith in everything around you all you become is a prisoner in your own mind"
0 likesReminds me of the book (and movie) Needful Things, where the worst part isn't the literal demon living in the town, but the actions of the townsfolk.
0 likeswow an emplemon video on my favorite horror/scifi movie?
0 likesFUCK YEAH HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO YALL!
Who'd of thought that a YTPer would become an essay maker?
0 likes0:38 Blade Runner did not have a successful debut though. It underperformed initially and had mixed reviews, but it later became a cult classic.
2 likesWatched the thing tonight just so I could watch this video, I didn’t realize how much this movie sums up 2020. Among us and covid 19
0 likes“When you lose all faith in the world around you, you become a prisoner trapped in your own mind”
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Feels far to familiar.
3 likesI feel as if this video speaks volume not only in our 2020 Pandemic but the tragedy of politics in America today.
0 likesTo be honest this is why there is so many atemporal pieces of art that it might not significate anything on the beggining but later on that makes more sense on the world and whats happening. Anyways Lemon glad to see you have reinvented yourselft and did not went into a downwards spiral
0 likesYour content makes me feel like a smart-ass
0 likesGreat insightful video. F YT and their inconsistent nonsense. Keep up the great work :D
0 likes"They were taking a blood test when a big ugly thing burst into the room."
206 likesKeep going bro you’ll be big one day !
0 likesIf they ever decide to do another The Thing as a sequel, one thing. Get actual practical effects. Another thing that I’d be interested in is what would happen if it was released in the world, the story takes place in a small town. Already we’ve got the idea of a pandemic, and the beginning of the pandemic where people are equally distrustful of others and try to seek out others because of their loneliness. If you wanted to worldbuild, you could see how a government would go about trying to test each person, the conspiracies that would form, the fact that you CAN burn it and some people have seen loved ones be brutally taken over means they’re more than willing to torch anyone they believe is different... in the small town, it’s full of people like this. Some seem like idiots, but it’s only that they’re firmly ignorant. This could have LOTS of potential, story-wise, character-wise and worldbuilding and allegorical-wise... just please, for the love of god make it practical.
0 likesTheres a theory at the end that the other worker not mccready wasnt drinking alcohol but rather drinking Oil. And when he passes mccready the bottle mccready gives him this look of "You son of a bitch, well played." But you can also see the fear and irritation in his face. Or he was just having one last drink with his friend.
0 likesI actually found out about The Thing from this video, lol. It reminds me a lot of a SciFi horror novel I wrote a few years back. Basic premise was that there was an alien monster that could transform into whatever it wanted to and could also absorb the memories and personality of any organic lifeform it consumed the brains of. And this creature ended up on a space ship, where everyone ended up going completely mad while the monster slaughtered them. It's so eerily close to The Thing's premise that I actually thought I had seen the movie beforehand and forgotten about it then ripped it off subconsciously. But, strangely enough, my inspiration for the novel was Venom from Marvel Comics.
0 likesThere are major differences between The Thing and the monster in my novel. Which I never actually ended up naming other than the nickname of Shapeshifting Alien (outside of the novel). The monster from my novel didn't have to assimilate anyone to shapeshift into them, it just had to know what they looked like. It could also transform into whatever its mind could come up with. It ate people instead of assimilating them, as well as being able to take over their minds with a direct connection to their brains. The creature had a true form unlike The Thing, which was revealed in the novel multiple times. It was also less animalistic and more cold and calculating. The general theme of my monster was to put humans in the boots of the hunted. To portray the creature as essentially what animals would see a human as: An incomprehensible foreign lifeform that possesses superior mental and physical capabilities and kills indiscriminately.
If anyone is interested I could edit the novel, upload it onto Google Docs and share it here with you all. I'd just have to find it first.
Actually, if we're going by the video game and comic book canon of the franchise, we do see what happens to McReady and Childs. Childs dies but McReady survives.
1 likeHe did not MURDER Clark. Clark came at him with a scalpel and deadly intent. You're entitled to self defense.
0 likesMan this never showed up in my subscriptions! The Things is one of my favorites!
0 likesHopefully the Coronavirus doesn't have covid Huskies cause I'll be screwed
37 likesThis fucking website sucks but this channel is top quality. Emp on nearly every aspect of your videos you manage to do everything every “commentary” YouTuber tries to do but infinitely better. Great editing, great research, great topics, and even the damn music is great.
0 likesWas BLOWN AWAY the first time I saw this movie a couple years ago
0 likesMcreddy was the thing.
0 likesTainted the alcohol and came back to check if changed yet.
Then infected Childs at the end and had a good laugh about it.
7:14 He was literally about to stab him with a scalpel.
0 likesLove the movie! You kinda lost me a few times, I mean the arguments were decent but the big difference was MacReady was right. Alot of them saw first hand what this thing was and what it was capable of where as when you try and compare it to something like corona or aids either information was inaccurate or people did not know or see the full extent. And MacReady defended himself from a guy trying to stab him. The creature or thing tried to set him up by stuffing his clothes in the furnace making it look like MacReady turned and ripped through his clothes. The creature was intelligent and tried to manipulate them.
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I mean the aids pandemic also was manipulated as was the current coronoavirus one, with constant framing of others for it being their fault and as well as information being with held from the public.
2 likes@AbstractTraitorHero that's literally the opposite sort of framing, this is framing from the internal infected to the external
1 like@Niko To be frank It was rather early when I said that
0 likesthere will NEVER EVER be another horror movie like the 1982 remake of The Thing...except for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
0 likesMy favorite horror. The Thing!!!!
0 likes"this video contains spoilers" well damn. This is only my favorite film of all time, so I haven't seen it yet. Better watch it
0 likesJust saw The Thing last night for Halloween. Great timing to find this Emplemon recommendation (even though I didnt get the notification, thanks youtube)
0 likesThe thing is my favourite horror film!
0 likesHow the FUCK is your content of such consistently high quality? Seriously, I watch your uploads near religiously now.
1 likeWhile the video is well put together, its quite disappointing to see a stark lack of credit. The video contains many key phrases which can be found on the Wikipedia article alone, but you portray them as your own original ideas. For example, the comparison between the chess game and the overall film should be credited to Diabolique's Daniel Clarkson Fisher.
0 likesI think that one of reasons why the Thing was hated so much back then was because it showed how humans truly are. Now the time we live in is parallel to even the movie its self. People paranoid, hurting each other, and keeping them self locked away from humanity. Driving the feeling of pure isolation and fear of fellow man. Truth is humanity has always been this way. We just needed a foreign thing to show us. Now I'm not getting all "humanity is the worse thing to exist" or anything like that. Humans bring good. Although we bring a lot of bad as well. It really does make you think ya know. On a side note I use to have faith in humanity for stopping outbreaks. Not now. If the Thing existed we probably be done for lol. Amazing stuff as always Lemon. Have a good one and a Happy early Halloween! 🎃
0 likesOk wait ..... you say Carpenters carrier went downhill after "The Thing" ???
2 likesbuthe made "They Live" after that and " Escape from L.A."
7:41 well yes but actually no, watch Jack Saint’s video on the The Ideology of Apocalypse. Like really, they’re not wrong. Both types of scenarios exist, but one seems more plausible… though I do think that the Thing fundamentally would do everything to make everyone not trust each other so it can work… but that’s not how humanity is always, at least not in my opinion.
0 likesYour sociopolitical examination reminds me of the more blunt V for Vendetta, showcasing how the commonfolk can be manipulated deceptively easily.
0 likesThis is the second old movie that looks good from definition prospective either its a coincidence or TV deserved death
0 likesCritics and audiences alike hating a carpenter film only to years later end up embracing the film.... sounds familiar.... oh yeah Halloween 3 had the same fate
2 likesI definitely want to watch this soon
0 likesMan that commercial at the end! Well done!
0 likes"They will be met with fire and fury". LMAO, real memes come from the most unexpected places.
4 likesThis movie is my favorite movie ever it’s so good
0 likesHow peculiar! I recently watched the movie and this video shows up. Emplemon stop stalking me.
0 likesOne of many unfairly maligned classics
0 likesDude MacReady didn’t murder Clark, he came at him with a scalpel. That’s self defense not murder.
0 likesSeriously an underrated horror movie and one of my favorites. I remember watching it after it was already 10 minutes or so in so I got didn't get the space craft intro, which made it pretty fuckin crazy when the thing finally showed itself lol.
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It’s definitely not underrated
1 likeIt can't be called underrated when it's considered one of best movies from the horror genre and everyone praises it.
0 likes@Badabing Bing outside of some recent youtube videos, I've literally never heard anyone mention this movie. So maybe outside of my circle of friends, but it's weird because they all like horror movies too.
0 likes@Camm0Blue you guys are probably on the younger side
0 likesHonestly I think the thing is a gross film because of all the gore I remember being a kid it actually looking away because of how realistic it looked. I was like under the impression that they had successfully shot the dog at the beginning of the film those Norwegians could have saved those Americans
0 likes8:02
1 likeHe did it! He said SALVATION!
these vids make me want to watch a movie
0 likesThe Thing is one of the most timeless movies ever made. I dont think there will ever be a point where humans dont fear some form of imperceptible enemy.
3 likesGreat art always divides
0 likesI think there was A Comic that took place after The movie where the survivor( not Kurt russel) was revealed to be the thing. Makes sense to me, probably killed McCready a bit later.
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I really doubt it canon and if it was it really ruins the point of the ending.
0 likesI don't get why the characters don't just interview each other regularily. Surely the thing can't speak English and even if it could it wouldn't imitate actual personalities and memories of an individual.
0 likesI can tell every one of the characters from The Thing by name, compared to something like the hobbit movies, i can't remember any of the dwarves by name, not even one.
1 likeJust watched this for the first time, great movie. Watched this video a year ago to the t.
0 likesspooky. very much fits the 2020 mood for my money
1 likeI'm still reeling that someone else remembers Klay World after all this time with that ending.
0 likesWait, that South Park scene where they get head lice and Cartman has everyone put blood on culture plates was from this movie? You learn something new everyday
5 likesThis is, in my opinion, the best horror movie of all time.
3 likesI saw that movie when i was like 11 and holy shit its so good
0 likesThis is the greatest manscaped add with the ironic Thing clips
0 likesRemember, “Man is the warmest place to hide.”
0 likesOh my god I loved that inclusion of Klay World lmao
0 likesThe greatest horror movie ever made.
5 likes14:50 holy shit that transition
0 likesby the time this was uploaded, i was watching the actual movie, like for real
0 likesWow this is one of the best videos I’ve seen this year
0 likesMovie character's acting like real humans:
34 likesMovie critics: THIS IS SO UNREALISTICS!!
I hate horror movies and this is still one of, if not one of my most beloved movies to watch. The atmosphere, soundtrack, and amazing body horror coupled with the fantastic character interactions always jelled so well. All elements are so meditatively done. It just knows how fast to burn, when to hit the fan, and what little hints to give the audience to really just get under your skin.
11 likesI've always loved Emp's attitude, but his application of topics and similar personal media tastes make this channel a favorite to me. Each new video, especially within the last year or so have been a real treat. Please, don't stop making documentary style videos
Your vids get better and better each time
0 likesGreat content emp
0 likesI hope this version doesn't get taken down again.
2 likesWill we be able to find the Thing and destroy it before we are too isolated to do anything?
0 likesI swear this man has the same taste as me in literally everything. Starting to freak me out.
13 likesI'd love to see an EmpLemon video on the movie Watchmen
0 likesIs it just me, or is Emp uploading more often?
0 likesThey didn't have a good leader. They just had the most belligerent man in the room making all the decisions, that's what I got out of the movie
0 likesCalculon's back!
0 likesI watch half of this yesterday then came back and it had been TOS'd. Glad it's back up and I get to finish this video
Getting an age restricted warning on an Emplemon video, you just know this is going to be a great one.
3 likesAaah I was JUST watching loads of vids on the thing, rlly glad emp made something on it too
0 likesCORRECTION: It was the monster that chopped up the chopper; not Blair. Later on, the plot itself literally points this out, through McReady.
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Dug up an old post of mine that I think is interesting:
0 likesI don't see a problem with Fuchs' death (other than the way the power goes out, as well as his idiotic reaction, but hey – it's a fucking horror movie; no artistic license and no silliness; no movie); limited availability to information is the entire premise of the movie. One possibility is that he burned himself after he was attacked, whether accidentally or intentionally, and another is that the monster burned his remains.
There are some serious credibility (logical) flaws, though, without including cases of artistic license (e.g Fuchs' comments above and kennel scene lack of lighting and noise), or reasonable cases of less than reasonable behavior, under the duress of the circumstances:
– Norwegian hilarity and extreme incompetence. Failing to hunt down a dog; for an hour or more; in a helicopter over an open area; with grenades and rifles; before instead managing to kill yourself with them is pretty fucking impressive. I appreciate and respect the running gag, though; Swedes have been running it for hundreds of years.
– Bled-to-death, frozen Norwegian. For some reason, I doubt that the blood would have coagulated and frozen mid-air, with hardly any of it reaching the ground. You could easily argue that this falls within artistic license, though.
– Dog-thing hoisting itself through the ceiling of the kennel, the next moment being on the ground with those parts nowhere in sight. Where did they go? Did some of the creature escape?? Wouldn't the characters have noticed and reacted accordingly??? You could argue that this falls within artistic license, though.
– Crew member reactions to gained information. Mostly notably, Blair and Fuchs' reactions to learning of the creature living, and some very ambitious and unscientific conclusions made by Blair, especially as read in his notebook(s), by Fuchs. – Blair's super-computer. I can get over the fact that it's fucking retro, but don't pretend that you have ready-made software at all – let alone accurately – capable of calculating every kind of probability and spread of a cellular infection that's unlike anything known to anyone on the planet (and sure as fuck not supported by any pre-existing computer program), or that Blair manages to learn enough about its properties and (re)program the software in less than 12h – even if he were Leonardo da Vinci reincarnate & 2.0, with access to the greatest technology in the world, in 2020. What's worse is that explicitly stating the implications for humanity of the alien monster isn't meaningful in the first place, nor is it necessary to do so in a way that undermines the credibility of the film, should you insist on stating them. – MacReady picking up a flashlight, conveniently found next to the helicopter. Why couldn't they just have him on his person??? – The entire crew trusting Garry with the revolver, when it's just been proven highly likely that he's infected, and the subsequent suspicion towards him, after (as opposed to before) he voluntarily offered his weapon up. – For one reason or another, let's accept that MacReady and Nauls went – unescorted – to the former's shack only to turn off the light, under those circumstances. Nothing human could have made it back on its own, the hundred yards along a lit path in a moderate storm??? – The distrust of MacReady after he didn't take multiple opportunities to kill everyone else. – The solid wall that in-flames Palmer runs through. TopKEK. – Blair's carnivorous, cavernous project. I can't believe that Carpenter willfully undermined the plot's credibility simply to communicate that the creature wants to leave the base, which is undesirable (to communicate) in the first place. Please reference "Blair's super-computer" above, too. The major problems here are: Knowledge, material & time constraints. – Garry, MacReady and Nauls reacting to the power going out by immediately resorting to suicide, without so much as checking the generator, first.
14:42 incredible transition
0 likesan amazing video for an amazing film
0 likes"The Thing", Also Known as "the Masterpiece"
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Nah..
0 likesYour package comes with two free gifts. I see what you did there.
0 likesFunny, "instant junk" is how I'd describe most journalists so it checks out.
0 likesOH MY GOD that old Claymation channel was the best
0 likesWhy would a reviewer criticize a horror film for being "totally devoid of either warmth or humanity," is that not the entire poitn?
0 likesI literally watched this movie just last week in a watch along with a streamer. what an odd coincidence. also nice video
3 likesGreat video keep everything up
0 likesIM SO SO GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP THE CHESS METAPHOR
0 likesPretty sure the body horror is the most scary part.
0 likesYou need to Read the source material, who goes there. You just did The most woke review of the thing ever.
1 likeThat blows my mind that this movie didn't do well at release.
0 likesEmpLemon uploading a movie review of The Thing?
3 likes“…And there’s nothing wrong with me. And if there was, I’m all better now.”
18:27 thank you for reminding me of this, holy shit its been forever since i binged on klay world
0 likesI loved the film
0 likesThis is your best video yet. I'm sorry for what Youtube did to it
0 likesI love this movie, I love this video about it, and I'm so sorry that YouTubr screwed you over with it
0 likesgreat vid as usual
0 likesthat l4d music is fucking amazing aswell
Absolutely loved seeing Klay world in there
0 likesA video about the Thing with Goosebumps soundtrack, Emp really is a cultured man.
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pfffahaha thats what you call cultured?
0 likesYup. My favorite movie.
1 likeI disagree with the assertion that The Thing is cosmic horror. Body horror? Yes. Psychological horror? Certainly. But cosmic horror? Not really. Macready understands the entity. It's not incomprehensible. It's not a story about the inadequacy of human comprehension or the indifference of the universe (hence the 'cosmic' part of cosmic horror).
0 likesThat MF DOOM reference at the end was so good. Rapp snitch knisches.
0 likesAmong Us, but they actually can make sure the imposter don’t do more damage
0 likesI fucking love this movie
1 likeI feel like this video could also describe Kane & Lynch 2 a bit as well
0 likesAbsolute wonderful video
0 likesfinished it and it was really good.
0 likesAnytime EmpLemon uploads I'm watching. Doesn't matter what the subject matter is.
6 likesNot gonna lie. As a kid I found E.T. far scarier than anything else. I saw Alien when I was 6. But E.T. gave me nightmares not Alien. And this was a movie that was being shown during the day as a family movie. It's a fucking body horror nightmare.
0 likesHow many more videos do we need on this movie
0 likesWhen I learned of the among us game I instantly thought of this movie
0 likes2:56 - when you try to sound deeper and more mature but end up sounding like a bass-boosted Nerdstalgic
0 likesGood job as always
0 likesI watched "The Thing" 1892 just to watch this video AND I DONT REGRET FILM, but i regret the video... I hate those analogies of physical and mental things like, damn, of course they are similar because MENTAL humans live in PHYSICAL world, so we must copy or adapt its systems!
0 likesThe Thing is the best remake ever made
0 likes"Totally devoid of warmth and humanity", isn't that what would make the movie fucking amazing? Reviewers are always such pretentious hacks.
0 likesIm so glad you use Klayworld clips. Truly a forgotten gem of a wild west internet age.
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Dr. Bob was a thing
1 likeThe AIDS paranoia was some time after The Thing was made from what I remember. That was more late 80s. You show a picture of Ryan White. That was around 1990
1 likeDid the crew ever see their film become a culture classic? If not that would be tragic...
0 likes18:32 it’s been a long time since I’ve seen klay world, I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers this internet classic
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I grew up on it don't worry brother
0 likesExtremely ahead of his time
1 likeI think this would’ve made a good never ever but I do like still love this one
0 likesDarker and edgier, but still lemon fresh. Revoltingly satisfying.
0 likesThe only thing scarier than the thing is emps upload schedule
0 likesWhen the bio-morphing man-eating alien impostor is SUS!!
1 likeThis movie almost feels like a modern version of Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness”
4 likespeople viewing everything through the lens of the coronavirus is one of the worst side effects of the coronavirus i think
1 likeEmp is slowly but surely making a face reveal every ad
0 likesI LITERALLY just watched this movie for the first time three days ago. Wierd.
0 likes5.40 The computer moved it's rook beside's MacReady's king. If he killed it with his rook or king, he'd still been safe, but the computer declared check mate after making it's last move. The computer actually did cheat!
0 likesSolid vid as always.
0 likesFound when you still did ytps never saw you again until you asked us to unsubscribe so I subscribed, best decision I ever done on YouTube.
1 likeThat transition tho 14:40
0 likesBro i can definitely see how YouTube had their panties in a bunch over this vid. call me a conspiracy theorist or whatever but i think its because you mention hysteria and quarantine together with this horror movie... it upset the algorithm gods... maybe I'm wrong though
1 likeRest in peace, Wilford Brimley.
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Wilford brimley (ascended)
1 likeExcellent video, Chief.
1 likei fucking love this movie
1 likeLove the little KLAY WORLD cameo. Haven’t thought about those in forever.
0 likes10/10 this video saved my life
1 likesome people dont mind being alone, this movie reinforces the virtue....
0 likesWatch the thing with sea shanty 2 music in the background I just laugh every time
1 likeGreat work!
0 likesi see a lot of reference to pink floyd's the wall i would love to see a video about that
1 likeI always thought at the end childs was the thing because when he takes the drink childs should've known it could've spread to him because he came in contact with Macreadys saliva on the bottle and then Macready knows he truly alone
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I think it's the scene with the chess computer all over again: offering his adversary the fatal "drink". If I recall correctly, all of the beer bottles were filled with fuel to make Molotov cocktails. The alien doesn't know the difference between gasoline and an alcoholic drink, confirming to McCready that Childs is infected when he takes a sip with no reaction. Safe to say it's fate is sealed when it has imbibed the flammable substance, just like the computer.
10 likes@Paul Andreotti I guess the other thing is the extreme difference in their breathing. (Sorry, lost on the words) Seeing McCready's breath nonstop while nothing from Childs at all. It was very prevalent there..
3 likes@creamgravy1 Apparently, this was confirmed to have been just due to poor lighting.
3 likesI took it to mean that it didn't really matter at that point. Whichever of them was human, they weren't going to survive without shelter anyway. Assuming either of them were the Thing, it'd just go back into hibernation. It's lose-lose at that point, so may as well have a drink.
7 likes@Dagda I was asking myself that when watching that scene, but wasn't sure.. Good to know there, thanks.
0 likes@Paul Andreotti Just look at the clothes he was wearing before and in that scene, and you'll have your answer
0 likes@Niko it cant perfectly emulate a human for example when they were trying to figure out who sabatoged the blood palmer still had his headphones in during a time where a normal person wouldn't have his fucking headphones
0 likes@Niko explain. Gasoline isnt a biological being that the THING can know exists.
0 likes@Niko plus how would the thing know what alcohol tastes like if it tried it before or gasoline
0 likesI appreciate The Wall hammers and the other clip from the movie very nice
0 likesIt would've been an easy win for the thing to just pee in the water supply.
0 likesIt was really awful waiting to watch the second half of this because it was taken down as I was watching it
0 likes... Did the critics of that time know they were talking about the best horror movie of all time ?
0 likesI don’t know why people listened to Siskel and Ebert, “professional movie critics” my ass
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Audiences at the time didn't like it either, and I doubt they were influenced by the critics much. They just liked E. T. and the other movies at the time more.
1 likeI always liked that movie because it is like game theory (not the youtuber.) but instead you don’t know which side won.
0 likesLove the imposter reference
0 likesHumans acting more like the monsters was from the original short story where during the blood test, (more men in the short story) every time an imitation is revealed, the rest gleefully beat the creature to death
0 likesThe actors not knowing what the mosnter looked like reminds me of alien and the chest-burster scene
0 likes"The Thing is Among us"
21 likes-guy from the movie
it turns out in the end the bearded dude was taken over. i think the creators said that at one point
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They left it ambiguous, neither person is confirmed to be The Thing. I'm pretty sure Carpenter himself said that one was infected, but never disclosed who.
1 likeMore like this. Thanks king
0 likesSo... this movie is 2020 in a nutshell
1 likeI love the Goosebumps background music 😂
1 likeEMP, I just got out of school holy shit have I been waiting for a new video. Thanks for the new bus ride material. ♥️♥️ Love the vids and keep up the great work. I look forward to watching this.
5 likes14:37
0 likesThat transition.
This video is surprisingly good! :o
0 likesI still watch it every year with my mother
0 likesIt's been 14 years since I saw a Knox clay video. Nice little callback to it.
0 likesDo a never ever video on OJ Simpson. The trial is the most fascinating story ever
0 likes2:20 i know that if 2001 a space odyssey came out today it would've been so harshly criticized!
0 likes18:05 I don't care what universe you're from, what gender you are, or what race you're from... That's gotta hurt.
0 likesI'd say im glad youtube recommended me this but it did everything in its power not to
2 likesCan you do “I hate mars bars”
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no he has to make i hate dust
17 likesCan I get a DAMN DANIEL in chat?
8 likesEmpLemon doesnt hate everything.
2 likesIf he hate everything, does that mean he hate himself?
17 likes@Carst012 Emp literally made complaint videos on people doing that exact thing.
0 likesIs this a reference to an IHE rant?
1 likeSniiiiiiiiiiiifffff* aaaaaaaahhhh smells like 2015.
1 likeShame they really age restricted it 😔 video still godly
0 likesLord I love that sponsor, unironically.
0 likesY'know this movie is based on the 1938 novella "Who Goes There?"
0 likesDamn son, wasn't expecting a klay world reference
0 likespulling out the deep cuts I see
I literally just watched this movie because....because of Among Us (shamefully I say XD)
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Hey I’m just glad more people can appreciate this movie lol
48 likesNothing wrong with that. Trends may pass, only what we make of them remains.
35 likesThat's no shame my guy
15 likes@Tucker Mayatt completely agree, now when I insist to people that they must watch this movie at least they might take it into consideration because of among us. For the past 4 years whenever it would arise on a conversation they would ignore my suggestion to watch it
17 likesGet out
8 likes@Golden Robodude wtf
3 likesHeck, I started to play among us because it reminded me of this movie, which is my fav. horror movie of all time. So certainly can appreciate when this game inspires other to watch this classic masterpiece
8 likesNah that's cringe. This movie is so different from among us. Among us has the basic basic concept of 1 imitator v multiple survivors. But the thing has lore in the film they go to the previous research base that the thing had inhabited and infected. You see one mans corpse entirely frozen with a razor in his hand and his throat slit. Frozen blood on the walls and the entire research station just abandoned. With sections of wall torn down and the room they find the thing in is the container where they were able to re freeze it until they thaw it out at the next base. And the differing personalities of the crew mates. Among us is niche. I played it 2 years ago when it released and thought yeah it is like the thing. For a passing minute. But people straight up comparing a McDonalds hamburger to the most premium beef patty bacon cheeseburger is kinda insulting to the original.
2 likes@Cryo Judgement dude, its just inspired by the thing. Nobody is acting like it's a licensed game for the original movie
12 likes@Facundo Ruiz alot of people in these comments are lol
0 likes@Cryo Judgement show us literally one example
7 likes@Neal Rame one comment justifying mccready killing the innocent crew member all the replies are saying hes sus and they're gonna vote him out. Not one comment has anything concerning the film
0 likes@Cryo Judgement ah, i see. i have a quick question though: have you actually read the comments section? cause i see far more comments talking about the film.
7 likesamong us fans when their task is to be funny
2 likesCringe
1 like@Cryo Judgement it aint that deep dude
3 likesAtleast you know you should be ashamed.
1 like@Cryo Judgement They are Eloi. Ignore them as they know no better and can’t help themselves.
0 likes@toongrowner1 Try Space Station 13, you'd like it.
0 likesAnd it’s a classic. The critics back then were just as bad as the ones we have now.
0 likesImagine pushing manscaped right before no shave november.
0 likesnever expected from all the people. it would been you talking about the movie.
0 likesGreat. Looks like YouTube finally removed age restriction for this video
0 likesBest movie of all time
1 likeThink you could review alfred Hitchcocks "The birds" after swwing that movie I went outside and just looked around at the birds outside in an entirely new light.
0 likesWow I can't believe amogus is so popular they made a movie out of it
0 likes2:37 Lol I think I made an Among us meme about a month ago with this exact image or one very similar. When I played Among Us, I immediately thought of The Thing.
0 likesSo glad it’s back up!
0 likes"It's you! You are the thing!"
0 likesCredits roll
Imagine ruining a computer just because it beat you in chess
0 likesMy favourite YouTuber did a video on my favourite movie! Wow!
1 likeJust in case: the text on the right poster on 11:39 says "The US Army is the weapon/tool of agression and robbery" (Армия США — орудие агрессии и разбоя)
0 likesDamm that was a great transition 14:40
0 likes"How will we make it?"
0 likes"Maybe we shouldn't"
I can’t wait for Halloween
1 likeYou get extra brownie points for the inclusion of a klay world clip 😂
0 likesIdk about the ideology stuff. I mean I see the relation but I think the movie is stronger in the department of exploring human activity and interaction in crisis. Good vid tho.
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I'm pretty sure in this instance the sponsors come first, second the ideological digs, and third the movie discussion. At the end of the video he credits another creator for the film analysis, so it is likely that emplemon is engaging in the same behavior he used to warn people about. Using his sponsors and large audience to profit off of smaller youtubers struggling to grow by having them ghost-write videos for him. He got a video restored by youtube in half an hour indicating he is at the very least on their good side. Based on the other videos of his I have seen, it stands out to me when someone who trains viewers in "content smuggling" and "working the algorithm" has a role in shaping the behavior of many youtubers on the platform. If his actions were contrary to what youtube wants it would be easy to shut him down, instead you get guaranteed fear-mongering, communists aren't bad, Trump bad, X is/isn't a hero, and all variations of "here's how you should feel about this topic" techniques typically associated with propaganda.
0 likesThank you for not calling him "Rob BAWtin" its.. BO-TEEN.
0 likesI'm still getting ads. I watched em both for you. Love you Emp.
1 likeYou should watch & discuss Invasion of the Body Snatchers next.
0 likesDude your content has improved a lot since the start of this year. You now make your own different type of videos that are unique though some are better than others like your Rick and Morty than your video game video
3 likesEdit: hey it’s back
I was so shocked to see Klay World at the end of this video lmao I used to watch that all the time
0 likesemplemon didnt even used that clip from Meet the Spy from tf2, well done
0 likes18:04 anyone knows the link to that animation?
0 likesWe’re lucky the thing didn’t eat snow
1 likePuppets and animatronics will always look more creepier and scary to me than CGI bullshit nowadays.
0 likesmasterpiece 🔥🔥🔥
0 likesIf I ever hear the words “latex” (4:26) and “assimilation” (10:56) I am going to be very uncomfortable moving forward with the video.
0 likesFINALLY NO LONGER AGE RESTRICTED, YES
1 likeWhy is everyone talking about the Thing now wtf lol
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Among us being a popular game at the moment is my guess.
163 likes•October is spooky month
196 likes•Similarities to Among Us
•It’s a good movie
I like it
9 likesI will say maybe bc of the deep staters? Airborne rabies - cdc sends their regards.
2 likesCorona and I guess Among Us
1 likeCorona lockdown and Among us memes pretty much
2 likesBecause it's a really good movie
1 likeBecause it's the greatest horror movie and one of the best movies of all time.
8 likesLmao deep state, please off yourself.
2 likesIt’s Among Us, and that’s it
Because Jerma played it. I mean that makes sense in my head.
0 likesCause Among us has the same plot.
0 likesCuz the movie is a fucking masterpiece.
1 like@N N R U
3 likes"You like a movie, therefore you are a simp, hahaha le funni simp meme keanu chungus wholesome 100"
The Thing be coming!
0 likesWhile everyone missed the point. Go to 16:25 for your answer
0 likesScrubs thought it'd be cool after playing Among Us and cash in on the scramble to have some pseudo deep reviews that'll catch the eye of the algorithm. IE, Hahaha, look at how ideology divides us! Racism, class, birthplace, hahahaha! Epic win movie review that totally hasn't been explored and more intelligently before, funny memes from game will get me views as I play live action memes about it, hahaha!
2 likesBecause that's what next month's crisis is going to be.
2 likesHey there Cool Cat.
0 likesGood movie, and to leech off of among us
0 likes@Minerva's Owl
1 likeDere he is
It's always tome to talk about The Thing, because it's good.
0 likesGood to see kino corner in this
0 likesThe reason I can enjoy the film is the same reason that I canNOT enjoy Ridley Scott's Alien prequels. The human cast in the thing is competent from start to finish, adapting to new information and changing strategy accordingly almost instantly. Whilst Prometheus and Covenant had some of the most stupid science guys I have ever seen in any scifi movie. You can't immerse your audience in your grand, philosophical, pseudointellectual themes when your movie fail to explain basic plot holes and character motivations. If only there is one guy like MaCready amongst the crew of Prometheus or Covenant, at least 5 guys would survive in both movies.
0 likesAnd worst of all, it could be any one of us. It could be in this very room. It could be you, it could be me, it could even be * head gets blasted off by a shotgun *
2 likesWoah Woah Woah!
Ooh
What? it was obvious, Clark’s a thing! watch he’ll start shaking any second now…any second now. See! Shaking! No wait, that’s me moving his body.
So we still have problem?
Big problem… Alright who’s ready to go burn a thing?
* Wet gurgling and roaring emits from behind Mac and Windows from Palmer. *
8:42 and so history repeats itself.
0 likesAmong us vibes from this movie 😅❤️
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Among Us was inspired by this movie
2 likesI never watched this movie but I remember watching Smosh's The Ditto.
0 likes2:24 roger erbert looks like the thing if it successfully became human but forgot putting on weight existed.
1 likeGotta love the Goosebumps theme +1 like
0 likesDid my favourite YouTuber just make a video on my favourite movie....?
4 likesAm I dreaming....?
Yay I can finally watch this video. Now if only Montizon wasn't such an evil god........
0 likesThis is a comment for the algorithm wow what a great video how have more people not seen it. So great and cool and good and definitely monetizable... right?
0 likesnow off to watch the drinker's review again and draw my conclusions about the movie
0 likesI'm glad you reuploaded the video, because I was very disappointed when it got removed the first time.
0 likes18:27 holy shit i forgot about these claymations. Thanks so much about to binge them again
3 likesWow, I just watched it for the first time yesterday!
0 likes"THE THING: Horror in Isolation"
0 likesYeah, but none of the twelve men were ever individually isolated.
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Depends how define 'isolated'. They were, as a group, isolated from the rest of the world. They were, in smaller groups, isolated from each other. One of them was isolated by himself in quarantine. And they were all 'isolated' by their paranoia and distrust. Sure they were physically near each other, but they weren't truly 'together' in a co-operative sense. While MacReady had his group, he never truly trusted them as he did himself, meaning he was isolated as the only 'safe' person in his view. Just as all others viewed themselves as the only 'safe' person, again making them isolated.
0 likes@Taylor :
0 likes"Isolated" is not isolated. They were isolated only as a group somewhere in the middle of the Antarctic continent. None of them were isolated in any other true sense, not even Blair who was "isolated" with The Thing.
@Code Optimization Ware You clearly don't get it if you are reading it purely literally. They were all mentally and socially isolated due to paranoia and distrust, even if they weren't physically isolated from each other.
1 like@Taylor :
0 likesOh shit, you gotta be kidding me! Blah, I saw the movie already myself. You don't tell me about the movie, and you don't tell me what isolation does and does not mean.
Your little metaphors are no worthy substitute for actuality nor reality. And you live in your mind and feel that it's real. Brain power is NOT your strong suit, I can tell already! And your remade, "rebooted," re-"imagined," re-whatever https://youtu.be/UYASnI_bPU8 shit-flicks are shit, especially your 2011 Thing prequel! Now go make yourself useful and burn it, before I do...again.
He didn't "murder" Clark you dingus. Clark tried to kill him.
0 likesFantastic Movie.
0 likesI always said the Alien is a fashist and the thing is a Comunist
Spoilers:
6 likesSuch a good movie with the exception of the intro (space ship) which ruins the mystery of what’s going on. Also Blair building a spaceship super fast under the cabin was sort of silly. Still in my top 3 movies though.
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That's from the novel
0 likesThe last 15 minutes are sort of strapped together, Carpenter ran out of time and the dude behind special effects had to be hospitalized from over working.
0 likesoh fuck yea, I love this movie
0 likesThank fuck this video wasn't deleted forever, was worried when I saw YouTube took this down
0 likesGreat analysis
0 likesKeep it up!
0 likesCool, they made a game based on my social life
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among us?
1 likeJerma
0 likesHotel?
0 likesTrivago
Not the best attempt at a top comment, but still funny. 5/10
0 likesDo you eat people by putting your hand in their face?
0 likesThank you Susan, very cool!
1 likeYooooo I love the Knox's Korner reference 18:28
0 likesthis is my favourite movie
1 likeOne of my favorit movies
1 likeThat goosebumps intro hits different
0 likes7:30 wait this reminds me of the opening scene of National Treasure
0 likesFUCK YES
0 likesONE OF MY FAVOURITE YOUTUBERS REVIEWING ONE OF MY FAVOURITE MOVIES
THIS IS A WET DREAM FOR ME
My favorite fucking movie ever
1 likeBasically The Thing was a great movie but it became a victim of it's era.
0 likesI have a feeling that this film inspired Resident Evil
0 likes14:11 gonna need a link to someone actually saying this before this video was posted
0 likesWell I’m just glad I can still watch it
0 likesAge restricted already, good ol' Susan W is back at it again
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Last I checked, it was taken down due to "violating the guidelines."
16 likes@Cassandra Pantaristi always has been...
3 likes@Anisomniac I watched it before it was temporarily taken down.
1 likeThank you gay vader
0 likesA dudes stomach opens and amputated a guy at the forearms and then a dudes head grows spider legs and rips its head off then grows eyes. I dont think it was age restricted due to PR.
6 likes@Michael W. I T 'S N E V E R O G R E
1 likeI bet the same critics who slammed The Thing back in the 80s are praising it today. Critics don't know shit!
0 likesAn emplemon video about my favourite movie ! Why am i only seeing this now??
0 likesGlad it got reinstated :)
0 likesI remember those claymations!!!!
0 likesit really ain't an emplemon video without the marching hammers or the 1984 mac advert is it
0 likes5:35 The computer actually cheated. It's why MacReady calls it a "cheatin' bitch".
0 likesMaybe the thing was the friends we made along the way
0 likesAs a polish poet said: prophets won't be understood by their contemporaries, but by their grandchildren.
0 likesPubic health emergency is my new favorite thing to say without context
0 likesstuff like what happened with the thing is why you shouldn't listen to film critics and decide for yourself whats good or not...
0 likesWho's here after EmpLemon released his latest video, exposing youtube?
1 likewhat a coincidence, i just watched the thing yesterday and this showed up on the feed
0 likesBest propagandist on youtube, by far!
0 likesas the thing aged better in time, these among us jokes have aged worse in time.
0 likesfor gods sake emp what have you done
Seems that Genshin Impact was inspired by the thing....... or among us streams, and so therefore were indirectly inspired by the thing.
1 likeI kind of expected this comment section to now be filled with a lot of among us jokes..
14 likesAND I WAS RIGHT
We're stuck with you because we choose to be stuck with you and that ain't bad.
3 likesAround the 16 min mark Mr. Ballen’s intro theme is playing in the background!
0 likesso you're saying talking to humans is good thing?
1 likeBest thing about the movie is... If you can understand norwegian... The whole plot is revealed to you at the start :)
0 likesMcreedy is the guy who says if i am going down your all going down with me in like a video game or movie
0 likeswow realy gonna release another banger vid this soon and its on my favorite film thank you
3 likesI love your videos dude...
0 likesIt is true BS that Youtube took this down, Even if temporarily.
19 likesa masterpiece
0 likesEmp- Our salvation comes in the form of men who will do the least terrible option
0 likesAlso Emp- shows a clip of Donald Trump talking about "fire and fury"
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otherwise great video with amazing editing would recommend
0 likes8:04 is probably why this video got age restricted
0 likesThe claymation video before the ad at the end, I havnt thought about that in goddamn years.
0 likesThis video better not be age-restricted because of this: 11:47
0 likesRIP the ‘Terror in Isolation’ video title.
1 likeI’m manscaping while I watch this
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Hot
10 likesI don’t care? 🤷♂️
1 likegay boi
0 likesOh my goood it's back.
2 likesI was gonna watch it later but changed my mind and when I got back mere minutes later the video ViOLaTeD YoUTuBeS TeRmS oF SeRviCe lmao.
Love Carpenter movies.
0 likesYo EmpLemon, how can we learn how to edit like you? Do you have anything on Patreon? Your style is like Jon Bois soaked in LSD.
0 likesOmg that Klay World clip took me back!
0 likesso this is what Among Us developer tried to project
14 likesThe anime parasyte is definitely inspired by this movie
0 likesDamn the first time I went to watch it, it said that the video was “taken down for violating TOS”
0 likeswhat happened?
I hear left 4 dead and half life music, and I become happy
0 likesLETS DO SOMETHING SCARY!
0 likesPOPS: LETS GO TO BED EARLY AND BE ALONE WITH OUR OWN THOUGHTS!!
“The horror in isolation”?
60 likesBruh I’ve already watched Evangelion
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fanta
6 likesEverything comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling dooown...
6 likesTumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down...
2 likesorange juice
3 likesPen Pen watched everything
4 likesThe Thing is the 19th Angel confirmed???
0 likesTalking about The Thing and not talking about Carpenters score for the movie - it's a sin!
0 likesI was going to mention the similarity to ideologies, then you did.
0 likesAlways a treat when I see your name of my feed.
0 likes17:04 Lo-Fi Beats to Survive Arctic Terrors To
0 likesThis move and The Fly are what I call movies that I never wanna see again
0 likesSomeone once said the aliens are fashist and the thing is a comunist.
0 likesDarn good comparison…
6:56 ...God. Fucking. Damnit. I feel so... Stupid. I never put it together before that Black Mesa is supposed to be Area 51. I think it's because when I think of Area 51 I always picture Roswell from Futurama, and so I always imagine it as being like a post WW2 military camp rather than a secret military testing complex.
0 likesPlus, I mean, nobody banged their own grandma at Black Mesa. Well. Ok, if they did, then not in an extraordinary time travel way... Probably.
Any love for the original The Thing?
0 likesGoosebumps beware your in for a Scaaaaaaaare Da da da da DA
4 likesNot to confuse with "BLACK CLOUDS OF ISOLATIOOOOOOOON"
0 likesNot gonna lie, had a chuckle at the Among Us sound and Impostor screen.
0 likes2:37 I made that exact meme a few weeks ago👌👌👌
0 likesFinally get to watch, sorry about getting age restricted man
0 likes7:14
7 likesHe literally wants to punch the man
"innocent"
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@Niko Not a knife, a scalpel.
2 likes@BFGFANATIC sementics a scalpel is a sort of knife
0 likesThat Plato cartoon! I’ve seen it before, when I was like ten! I can’t remember what it was ... I remember pancake mines but not that one.
0 likes"Among Us" or "The Thing: The game"?
0 likesjudging by the shots in the video, I won't be suprised if Interplay and black Isle based the Master from Fallout 1 on the monster, the fact how it (judging as I havent seen the movie) can absorb people and it can hoffically destroy a human or other living beaing...
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the centaurs in fallout 1 kinda look like the Thing
0 likesThis didn't show up in my sub feed despite the fact I regularly leave a like on your videos
2 likesAh yes, the OG Among Us
3 likesWhat is that song that Homer sings at the end? I've been looking for it forever! (20:10)
0 likesNO LONGER AGE RESTRUCTED LETS GOOOO
2 likesThis is Great 👍
0 likesI'm having crazy deja vu from this video.
0 likesI thought title was about quarantine isolation at first
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I thought it was about the horror itself being isolated
2 likesI thought that Emp was going to compare The Thing's isolation with the coronavirus isolation.
1 likeI love the MF DOOM outro lol
0 likesIt'd be cool if you do there will never be another series like Twilight Zone when I'm talking Twilight Zone I'm talking about the 1950s to 60s series I would love it if you would talk about the Twilight Zone
0 likesDo Alien next!
0 likesKidding but also not kidding.
Not even the almighty YouTube prophet Montizon can censor the Emp!
0 likes15:50 is that saucer full of secrets?
0 likesBut what about the prequel from like ten years ago? No one ever talks about it...
0 likesThe claymation video is Klay World: The Murderer, if anyone was wondering.
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Thank you!!!! I couldn't find it but remember from the early days of Youtube!
0 likes@Aidan D Most welcome, bro.
0 likesThe film kinda reminds me of the belko experiment
0 likesHere we go!
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Hey Reventian, didn't expect to see you here. No UKARMS here unfortunately though.
4 likes@TheDarkSide11891 The Thing is my favorite movie and I wanted to do a UKARMS Spin on it. And EmpLemon is on my notifications.
2 likesNobody expects the reventian inquisition
1 likeFancy seeing you here, UKARMS man
0 likesAh shit, here we go again!
0 likesTony actin' kinda sus.
0 likesUkarms flamethrower review when?
0 likesi better watch this before youtube ends up slapping the life support
0 likesI found out about the movie because of the video game lol
0 likesI really hope you also make a video on They Live
0 likesYou haven't completed your scream fortress contracts... have you?
0 likesI just rewatched the 2011 remake. Its cgi was garbage and ruined the film. Would have been far better with animatronics like from a 6 to a 7.5
0 likesI watched the video complaining about YouTube demonetization and age restriction, there is no indicator in the description that this video is restricted
0 likesOctober is supposed to be scary in order to scare you from touching DA MEAT during November ?
0 likesFinally its back i was halfway through the video when it was gone :/
0 likesLet's see how this video does after YouTube's attempt to cripple it
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What happened?
0 likes@Ex Nihilo it was removed for a couple hours and now it's age restricted
0 likes@Bryan He has ads back on and is making money, although it's still age-restricted doe.
0 likesDownloading this before it gets taken down again.
1 likeWelcome back, I wanted to watch it but it got snapped mid watch :(
0 likesknox korner had some nice claymations.
0 likesYo YouTube straight up ripped this video from me mid stream the censorship is to the max here in America
2 likesNOOOOO IT GOT AGE RESTRICTED
4 likesgood to see the video’s back up. what part violated the youtube TOS?
0 likes"So, we just wait here?"
0 likes"...yup."
This is the video that the youtube bot removed twice and did in two different ways. I was expecting some more age restricted you know.
0 likesmaybe the thing was the friends we made along the way
0 likes"Age-restricted video (based on community guidelines)"
5 likesOkay okay here there’s a game right now. Right. And it’s very similar to this, have you heard about this?
0 likesGood video yet again. do more movie shit
0 likesI am commenting this in the hopes that it will help this video be recommended to more people
0 likesI can't believe you got Todd Howard on a video
0 likesAnime girls whenever they see tentacles reaching inside of them:
17 likes"I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is."
@EmpLemon Lol. People are going to scream, MANDELA EFFECT!!!
2 likeswhen you already explained why you changed the title.
I always comeback to that film.
0 likesi loved your shirt - subbed.
0 likesDid my mans just make a ytpmv to casually play in the background at the end of the video
0 likesWe're no strangers to love
7 likesYou know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
And if you ask me how I'm feeling
Don't tell me you're too blind to see
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
(Ooh) Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
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There are some people in this world, with a desire to destroy everything. You, are one of them.
0 likesHAHHHAAHAHHAHAHA
0 likesWhen the Thing is sus
1 likeI literally watched this yesterday, what is this synchronicity??
1 likeAh after all these years, I found it again. Can someone please help and tell me what the name of the old show with the blue play doh figures are?? No matter what I searched I just could not find the name.
0 likesNo ones talking about the clay world reference
3 likes2:48 would've been perfect for Vsauce music
0 likes5:15 this guy may be the stupidest horror movie characters in all of the horror movie genre
0 likesat 9:10 I see what ya did there :)
0 likes9:00 did you just use black mesa/half life music? Nice!
0 likes"Norris acting sus."
11 likesCopper: "C'mon, guys. Let's just finish tasks and be done with it. CLEAR!"
Yup, because Rona can assimilate my ass.
1 likeThis is odd but i found your video and loved it bur couldnt finish it and when i tried to watch it again i just could not find it, i even looked on my liked videos and it said it was deleted
0 likesThats some of the weirdest stuff
Always keep the thing on me
1 likeI really appreciate you using that Klayworld episode.
0 likesThe thing is among us in a nutshell
4 likesEdit: why was my comment deleted for a few hours
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It’s the other way around since the thing came out first
3 likes@Glctc Thnkr true
0 likesMy dad told me that you can tell who "the thing" is at the end of the movie because Childs, the crewmate, drinks from a Molotov Cocktail. A Molotov is entirely gasoline and MacReady made it previously in the film, so MacReady laughs because he knows he's "the thing".
1 likeHere's the scene where he does it at the end.
https://youtu.be/GA4Ozqt7338?t=98
Amogus? Sus? What do you mean son it's called The Thing!
0 likesYes clay world reference at the end
0 likesHaving watched the video on this video's youtube problems (and subbing after that video) I thought it worth mentioning this video has shown up in my recommendations, if that helps at all?
1 like"The Thing"? Yeah, real clever name guys.
16 likesWhat's next, "The STUFF"?
geez louise
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No! Not Chocolate Chip Charlie!!! He was so important not the plot, what do we do without him!!!
0 likesFunny enough, there actually is a movie called The Stuff.
5 likes@Robo - Nidai Describe it in excruciating detail
1 likeI'm stuff
0 likes@Will__Mem9rno from what i remember "the stuff" was about a canned food that was so addicting it made its victims engorge themselves to death
1 like@Will__Mem9rno It's about an alien lifeform that's mistaken for some sort of ice cream like substance that they package and sell to people since it's so addictive. You can probably guess how things go from there.
1 likeNo. I’d say it’s a perfect title. Because what words can you really use to describe this creature? When it reveals itself, it’s a grotesque amalgamation of heads, arms, tentacles, claws, teeth, and legs. It’s a “Thing.”
2 likesThank you to the two dudes that answered my question :)
1 likei'm such a pussy when it comes to horror dude, i never watched these movies and (6:06) this made me jump, i hate myself
0 likesFavourite horror movie ever
0 likesthat ending ad though
0 likes„Totally devoid of any warmth or humanity“.... it’s a fucking horror movie, dude
0 likesHey, two YouTube nukes weren't enough I guess, because the video is back
7 likeswait this is an emp video? when I watched this earlier I could've sworn this was like some legit movie critic
0 likesWhatever is out there, humans are alone with it in the void of space, stuck on a spec of dust with nowhere to go.
0 likesPeople talking about Among Us, but people don't know about unfortunate spacemen. Basically The Thing but with spacemen, like seriously, you can be the monster instead of just a murderous among us figure
0 likes9:43 hahahaha that was so fucking forced
0 likesAccording to science, if the universe is actually infinite, then every conceivable idea and thought that every human has ever had, has, and will have, exists somewhere within the universe.
25 likesIndeed even the thoughts that no one ever had and never will have, exist somewhere within the universe, IF it is infinite.
And because there is a limited number of infinite possibilities (I know it sounds paradoxical, but think of every number between 0 and 1, there's practically an infinity of them but it eventually goes from 0 to 1) then there are only so many forms in which atoms can arrange themselves before they have to start repeating themselves with some minor variations each time.
That means every creation inside an infinite universe, down to each individual human, exists an infinity of times and has to go through an infinity of different situations.
In conclusion, past the limit of the observable universe, where the laws of physics may differ from those that we know, the events from The Thing have happened for real, and there are countless organisms identical to "the thing" that are endlessly journeying through the cosmos.
Have fun sleeping tonight.
(Actually don't worry, even if it turns out the universe is infinite, which it likely is, and The Thing has a 100% chance of existing out there, that would be beyond the limits of the observable universe, and the universe expands in on itself faster than light can travel, so even if somebody tried to come towards us faster than light, it would still not be able to ever reach us. Though that also means that there's an identical you somewhere out there right at this moment, reading a comment made by another me, just as he's about to be assimilated in a painful way.)
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God, I love how all out you went with this xD
2 likesThe infinity of the universe is inconceivable to the human mind, you have no idea what lies at the limits of the known universe
0 likesI know it’s abt the movie but I rly love this comments for kinda personal reasons
1 likeTldr: I’ve been terrified of death etc and struggling spiritually/existentially for the past couple years but ur comment makes me feel better so thx
So uhh I’ve been having a lot of existential dread which I guess you could call a crisis of faith, and every sort of ~spirituality~ I’ve looked into, I’m only ever been skeptical. But at the same time I can’t bring myself to accept atheism and such—bc of the existential dread.
But I’ve always loved metaphysics and multiverse theory and idk somehow this is rly comforting to me? I get that we haven’t 100% proven it—so I guess in a way it’s not too different that believing in god—but idk, it’s more... objective? than anything else I’ve tried so far.
@Feral Animation I think I know what you mean. I'm pretty much the same.
3 likesI wouldn't describe myself as either religious nor an atheist nor agnostic.
I don't like atheism because to me it feels like it tries to sell a cynical, meaningless and nihilistic existence. It tries to embrace the nothingness almost in defiance to religious people, and in doing so I feel it completely blinds itself towards the intrinsic beauty of existence.
At the same time however, every religion out there seemingly tries to sell me what feels like a fake reassurance. Nothing is scary to religious people because they can justify it through a greater purpose.
"If I die I die because God wanted me to"; "Space is empty because God wanted it to be empty"; "It doesn't matter if I'm stranded alone on the moon, God is with me" and so on.
And really I can't buy into any religion specifically when they are based entirely on human-made doctrines. There's always some ancient text at the basis of it all that was ultimately wrote by another human. There is not a single shred of proof for the existence of a personal god-like creator.
I don't hate religion or religious people, and I understand religion has its place within our society; after all it is a trading system through which one gains reassurance in their life in exchange for somebody gaining political power. And I'm sure it has helped humanity throughout the ages too, as I can't imagine humans, with our innate selfish nature, would willingly move towards today's kind of society where it's not common to kill one another, if it weren't for the absolute belief that a creator was intently watching them at all times.
But it just isn't for me, I can't help it but feel like both sides are lacking something critical.
Not science, however. Science, to me, fills that missing gap, giving meaning to the universe and comfort in understanding it, while also forcing us to embrace the fact that we are ultimately in control of our own destiny.
The more I've learned about the universe, the more at ease I became understanding that I am part of it. If there was something I'd consider a God, that would be reality itself, the space that bent itself in order to allow me to exist inside of it; the fundamental laws of physics that allow for conscient thought.
The universe exists in itself. It's a closed system, where no new atoms ever get created, just recycled over and over. The same atoms that form you right now are the same atoms that were inside exotic distant stars, planets, dinosaurs, kings and emperors, plants and insects, rivers, oceans and mountains.
After we die, our atoms will entirely return to the universe. Some parts will become the earth, others will become new animals, and ultimately new people, and new stars.
Sounds like some pseudo-intellectual to me. No such thing as infinite. If there's a beginning, there's an end.
2 likes@Chance Davis Then what's the highest number that you can think of?
4 likes@White Silver Deez Nutz
2 likes@White Silver yes exactly!
2 likeshey, you forgot your "thank you for coming to my TEd talk"
1 like@Exu Thank you for coming to my TED talk
3 likes@White Silver okay, here is your degree in Masteral of Astrophysics
0 likesSo somewhere Star Wars is real. I mean it was in a galaxy far far away
0 likes@Shizi As implausible as it sounds, yes, if the universe is infinite then star wars also exists incredibly far away from us.
0 likesImpossible to ever reach or detect, but presumably real, at least based on the way mathematics predict reality so far.
There would also be a place within our universe where somebody had this great idea to make an entirely fictional movie, but the events of that movie were real as WW2 here.
nice use of the goosebumps theme.
0 likes“This content may be inappropriate for some users, do you wish to continue?”
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2:24 He's actually in Canada.
0 likes3:47 that old guys is the DIAEBETUS meme
0 likes"our only salvation comes from men like Macready, men that are ready to pick the least bad option"
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yeeeah. Putting Trump and "Salvation" in the same clip is exactly the kind of rhetoric these people push.
7 likesRest of the video is a pretty good analysis though.
@CajBaj the White Four more years
9 likes@Zacharias Noack Four more years
8 likesFour more years
7 likesYeah, why did Emp do that?
2 likesEspecially since the entire video is inspired by the pandemic response he bungled up and is now constantly having rallies, regardless of who gets hurt, just to further his goals. He is the guy in sci fi movies that gets infected with an alien virus but doesn't say anything to the rest of the crew. OUR "SAVIOR" LADIES AND GENTLMEN
8 likesthat was the one weird part of the video
1 like@Rayo Visual I'd like to imagine it's one of those sarcastic memes (glorifying bad people and ideas) that was popular a few years back. Trump was often the butt of these memes. But then 2016 happened and we realized that there actually are a dangerously large number of idiots who fell for it hook line and sinker.
1 likeWhich certainly actually makes it more perplexing that someone as fluent as emp in internet culture would put that in his video considering the current climate
People just ignore the mass riots that spread COVID at unbelievable rates, they ignore the emails implicating the Bidens in selling out America to China (even sexual abuse), they ignore the initial spread of COVID, helped by ignorant politicians that were sucking up to China, they ignore the physical violence suffered by people speaking even remotely right-wing opinions, they ignore the gargantuan economical crisis caused by lockdowns, they ignore the rampant election fraud aimed towards helping the Democrat party. Tell me, people, who's the hypocrite?
4 likes@Zacharias Noack I'd argue the better option in policy would be Trump, but yeah both are pretty bad
0 likes@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin obviously your party, yea. Who's the president that's actively down playing the seriousness of the situation. Which party's the senate majority who happens to refuse to pass aid for struggling Americans? Which president is the one that actively promotes nutjob cures for the virus. As someone from a country which only experienced 200 covid infections and 14 deaths because we closed down on the first sign of trouble, your republican party isn't a right wing party. It is the party of selfish narcissists. Vladimir
1 like@Vega Obviously if the economy goes into a free fall COVID is gonna be the least of our problems, since people who were barely making rent will suffer the most, compared to the elites who can ride lockdown with cash to spare. The relief bill was shot down by dem politicians barely last month, when the objective was just helping U.S. citizens with cash. Hydroxychloroquine has been vetted and helps fight against COVID, it's a legitimate treatment. Now, if lockdown was so important, why is it that a great deal of democrat-run cities are experiencing upticks in COVID activity? Why was Pelosi in a hair salon totally unprotected? Cuomo ignored quarantine too!
3 likes@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin you're just spouting nonsense this whole time Vladimir. My country's economy is doing great because we reacted quickly, quarantined for a 1/4 of a year and now life has returned to normal, restaurants are more packed than previously. Everyone's going to the cinemas. No one's wearing a mask anymore.
0 likes@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin malaria isn't covid now is it.
0 likes@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin 328.2 million, and now 200,000 of those are dead. Idk about you but trying to put out a raging forest fire (covid) sounds way more complicated and costly than just prevention
0 likes@Vega I hope you understand that in the wide scale of things, 200,000 isn't much.
3 likes655,000 Americans die of heart disease every year.
In 2018, 48,344 Americans died by suicide.
In 2019, over 38,800 Americans died in car crashes.
It's an incomplete list, but my objective here is that the overall Covid fatalities aren't extreme.
@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin from your sources, democrats rejected the bill because it doesn't help. the bill isn't adequate at helping the people.
0 likes"House Democrats in May passed a $3.4 trillion bill that would extend some of those measures and approve a number of other initiatives, such as nearly $1 trillion for cities and states, but Republicans and the White House rejected that plan. The White House didn’t begin negotiations with Democrats over what to do next until late July, and those talks faltered as both sides dug in."
@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin no matter what, thats an extra 200k of deaths. America went to war for 2 decades in the middle east for 3k
0 likes@Vega 200,000 is still a very small number to justify 22,000,000 to 17,000,000 jobs lost in the lockdowns. And about 9/11, I fully decry senseless war, and I believe we shouldn't have had any hand whatsoever in the middle east, since it just hurt the country as a whole. If that's what you try to say, I agree.
2 likes@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin
0 likes1. You rather have non-Americans suffer than to benefit yourself.
2. The Heroes Act would codify EPA's environmental justice grant programs and provide up to $50 million in additional Fiscal Year 2020 funds for the sole purpose of investigating and addressing these disproportionate impacts of COVID-19. This provision is based on legislation developed and introduced by Reps. Excuse me? investigating the impacts of COVID seems pretty important for a bill aimed to tackle the impacts of COVID
3. If not bailouts then what do you guys want? Bailouts helps small businesses too. aka The Economy
4. People are unemployed and unable to pay their debts due to COVID. So the government is using the money (paid for by the citizenry) to help alleviate the financial problems of the citizens
@Vega 1.- Yes. By law, illegal aliens don't enjoy the same treatment as a citizen. They're here ILLEGALLY, and any other country would boot them off, why not the U.S.?
2 likes2.- As i've said before, the money that is supposedly meant for emergencies is often siphoned off to programs that never show their worth, or that ironically hurt the development of the marginalized communities they're supposed to help. The act says it should only be used in programs that "will investigate or address the disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in environmental justice communities.", which considering their track record, is too vague and can be interpreted in many ways.
3.- Most bailouts are only enjoyed by corporations and big companies, and worst of all, this means the business isn't profitable or functional, but is still propped up while smaller businesses get squashed. We've seen minority mom & pop shops take the brunt of the Covid economical free fall, while big businesses like Amazon continue to grow; they can take the economy's hits.
4.- Student loans are something people agreed to by contract, which means they were never forced to, they did it out of their own volition. Here, it's their responsibility to get out of the hole they themselves dug, not the taxpayer.
@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin have some compassion in your life for once, this isn't a numbers game. And the rest are just things you disagree with. I say they work, you, otherwise
0 likes@Vega Running a country isn't about feelings, it takes brutally honest logic and men capable of taking those decisions, it rounds back to Emp saying how Macready was the only one guiding the whole group as a leader. I know compassion, but give a man a fish, and he'll be fed. Teach a man to fish, and he'll be fed his whole life. What we're doing is just making people dependent on the government to solve their issues, and ultimately that gives leeway to authoritarianism and injustice, you can see it in this review too, the characters had to depend on Macready.
3 likes@Vladimir Demetrov Ilyushin Hey, that's just Emp's personal opinion. The world is more nuanced than that. A country driven by it's lust for material wealth ain't the only government and ideological systems around.
0 likes@CajBaj the White "these people" you talking bout yourself bud?
1 likelol critics are out of touch and useless no matter the time period it seems. when a bunch of critics pan a movie there is a high chance it will be very enjoyable. and to think they would trash talk one of the most iconic sci-fi horror movies of all time along the likes of alien......what a joke.
0 likesFinally back on YouTube
0 likesThe original Among Us.
1 likeEverytime I hear about zombies it makes me think of Democrats.
3 likesThe video... got my...
0 likesThing one!
I'm sorry xD
hi, i am watching after the youtube claims
2 likesalso introducing the movie that everyone wanted and it's been here for over 40 years
edit: ty for the outro poop :)
Man, Knox again... making me feel like an old ass fuck, still love it though.
0 likesThank you for including Klayworld
0 likesEmpLemon's assertion that MacReady murdered Clark is just as exaggerated and unreasonable as when Childs said it. Did nobody else pay attention to how Clark was about to stab him with a scalpel? At least Childs had the justification of plausible deniability over whether or not he saw the scalpel in Clark's hand.
7 likes7:16 Yeah, or the fasted draw in the west bucko.
0 likesEmp, I can't access the music list...
0 likesBy the way, great job, as always
So I came from the demonetization about this vid by Emp's where he was showing the list of words that guarantee a takedown
0 likesIt is the mention of aids almost at the 11:00 mark of the vid, that it took it down
That's why is age restricted
Among us: 80s edition
0 likes"horror in isolation"
9 likesLaughs in introvert
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Cringe
2 likesimagine thinking that being antisocial is the same thing as being an introvert
1 likealso wired AVGN did tell me that critics loved this movie
0 likeswell dont know who to fact check
an american horror movie is the most realistic depiction of the American pandemic clusterfuck.
0 likesThe rest 90% of the world is doing fine and has moved one. Mainly Asia and some pacific countries.
Will the west follow? Or fade into chaos and redundancy?
Yo I think it was the the guy who was being handed the bottle since he wasn’t cold whatsover.
0 likesL4D2 music was a genius touch.
1 likewhy must you post this the second I start doing work
4 likesI've never felt smarter
0 likes4:26 “lots of latex”
1 likeoh
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[insert Changed joke here]
0 likesOmg, cool video and all, but did you do that credits music yourself?
0 likesAwesome! So nice
0 likesYou know... I understand many of the underlying messages, the truth of human nature, and the challengues...
6 likesBut...
What are we meant to do? For real, I've had enough of understanding why the world sucks, why we suck, what everything means, but we need solutions, hope god dammit.
I'm not asking for a magical solution that changes everything from one day to another, I'm asking for where do we begin to make a brighter future.
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Well, I say the same. I can't tell you the solution, but you can tell me yours and I'll tell you why it is shit, you kill me and your solution becomes the status quo. That is how it works.
0 likesNext do alien isolation, horror in isolation
0 likesGreat video
0 likesGreat video
0 likesExcellent video
0 likesthe thing is just among us in movie form
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@Deadliest Vice emp literally compares the 2 in the video
1 like@Deadliest Vice 2:37
0 likes@Deadliest Vice 18:01
0 likes@Deadliest Vice why does emplemon comment to go buy manscaped when he already mentions it in the video?
0 likesalso among us isn't just a meme game its actually pretty fun and a good concept for a game and sure its probably been done before but its nice to enjoy things for as long as they last
@Deadliest Vice 1. Among us came out in 2018 2. Among us is pretty good even though you hate it.
0 likesi just noticed the /x/ skinwalker music at 15:45, nice touch.
0 likesHah, now a film review. Ur all over the place
0 likesI see YouTube’s policy violation has been squashed!
2 likes20:12 i need the link to that mix pls, i'm in love whith it
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MF DOOM - Rapp Snitch Knishes
0 likes@420devious thanks bro. only ever heard of MF Doom but never got aroumd to listening to his stuff. Funny this was made by him
0 likes@that darn guy that song is like 15 years old now but still an absolute classic. DOOM is my favourite rapper, but he was a great producer as well. he passed near the end of 2020, I'm still pretty gutted about it. go check some of his shit, he's incredible
0 likes@420devious yeah heard about his passing, hit a freidn of mine pretty hard.
0 likeshell yeah im gonna check more of him out haha, thx
What would "Gamers" look like, 10 years from now -New York Times
9 likesso if the thing bites or touches you, you mutate into another thing. but can the thing that has bitten/touched you transform itself into a copy of youryelf??
0 likesheyyyy i can finally watch this!!!
0 likesAnother big great video
0 likesemp back at it with the knox clip
0 likesSpy tf2.
3 likesGr8 vid, how 'bout an Emp vid on the Holy Mountain?
0 likesThere is an imposter among us 😂
0 likeshttps://youtu.be/t7YYDfN_2vQ This link is to the clay animation you saw at the end it's pretty funny and I didn't expect it to be in the video
0 likesThank you susan, good job
0 likesAmogus
3 likesMaybe I'm stupid but can someone explain the cave picture to me.
0 likesI wonder if EmpLemon has heard of, “Everywhere at the End if Time,” by The Caretaker, with album art by Ivan Seal and a complete set easily accessible by searching up, “Everywhere at the End of Time vvmtest” on youtube? I wonder if he knows that post awareness stage 6 is without description.
1 likeI'm surprised you didn't mention the terrible prequel and the astonishing spin-off "Harbinger Down"
0 likesI just watched the thing for the first time last weekend
0 likesWhat the fuck
Now I’m not a socialist but I’ve gotten really tired of the more stupid parts of capitalism, like COMMERCIALS RUINING EVERYTHING
3 likesI was just talking how among us relates to the thing then you made the comparison too
0 likesIt's 👏 not 👏 murder 👏 if 👏 it's 👏 self 👏 defense 👏
0 likesIs that a clay world reference?
0 likesCool I finally watch this
0 likesAfter a long day of work, Kanye West goes to his Kanye Nest to take his Kanye Rest. He wakes up feeling his Kanye Best. Then he’ll get Kanye Dressed into his Kanye Vest to go on a Kanye Quest. He goes to church and becomes Kanye Blessed, then to a hotel room to be a Kanye Guest. Then to school to take his Kanye Test. He forgot to brush his teeth. Did he run out of Kanye Crest? His neighbor stole it, what a Kanye Pest.
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not sure if this was stolen from an optimus video or not anyone know?
0 likesCheesecake I posted it on there
0 likesWait is this the YouTuber who used to make YTPs?
0 likes18:28 OH SHIT I REMEMBER KLAY WORLD
0 likesI also remember the PS2 game being really good too
0 likesJust saw this movie the other day
0 likesI really hate critics. They’ve killed the earnings of way too many films.
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The Thing would not have succeeded financially even if critics didn't hate it.
1 likeCritics are basically disabled citizens anyone could do what they do and likely audiences would appreciate a laymens experience rather than a high filutent critic.
1 likeBasically journalists and critics take themselves way too seriously because 100 years ago when literacy was low you were actually seen as quite comendable and intelligent if you could write, now, not so much so these people are just trying to gain respect without doing anything to earn it.
Basically the reason nobody reads news or video game news media.
THERE’S A IMPOSTER AMONG US
1 likeWhich futurama thing looking episode was that?! Bender eating Amy lmfao
0 likesthis video was up for less time the the thing movie runtime
0 likesYesss its back
1 likeEarly spiral gang where u at
6 likesWOW those inital reviews of The Thing were complete horse shit!! Did we even watch the same movie?
0 likesOh hey this video is back up! Nice!
0 likesI had two main issues with that movie: the dialogs which sound like characters are shouting accross a footbal field even when they are inside and a few meters apart, and the fact that the contamination followed no rule nor logic. I would have loved a movie where you try to piece out together who got it and who doesn't, and then sometimes you guessed wrong but every contamination can be explained by what you see on screen. In the Thing, it felt like people would just get it at random, which didn't feel like it made sense.
0 likesFinally!
0 likesDude, stop trend hopping. Eeeeveerrrryoone's talking about The Thing now. We don't need you on the bandwagon too.
8 likes/s
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who the fuck uses /s?
2 likes@Jesus Villa people who don't want their jokes to be taken literally
6 likes@A perhaps the atheistic basement dwellers
2 likes@Exu Boooooo
2 likesEmpLemon IS the bandwagon
1 likeRequest: review why Klayworld is a gem of youtube
0 likesWhat song is playing at around 15:48 ? I've been struggling to find it after looking in the EmpLemon OST and coming up empty handed.
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@Coob it’s called “something wicked” by ross bugden
0 likesmanscaped tries way too hard to be vulgar. It was cute at first but now it's just a transparent marketing ploy.
0 likesgod that serious review of the thing's tones was ruined by a fucking among us reference to the point of me skipping 10 seconds ahead and saying "Fuck off."
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I'm pretty sure Among Us was inspired by The Thing, it kinda sounds like you just hate it because it's super popular right now.
0 likes@UB I hate it because it shows how you can rip the concept from something that's already been done and completely overshadow it (aka ss13)
0 likesNO LONGER AGE RESTRICTED 🦀
0 likes7:19 auto-subtitles really thought he said "donut"??
0 likesHere to support the vid and give a middle finger to GoogleTube
2 likesWhat happened to this video? Was it DMCA'd or something?
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Yeah for an hour or two
0 likesI need manscaped
0 likesdamn can't watch now. i'm 30 years old and still haven't seen it. i'll be back in 3 hours or so.
1 likeI like the thumbnail and the video
0 likescongrats i'm even more paranoid
0 likesSo... the thing... is COVID?
0 likesOMG the fucking video was about Among Us the whole time!
0 likesBro the knox clay world reference tho
0 likesSo, I could've sworn I saw this video say it was taken down earlier. Either from copyright infringement or violating TOS.
0 likesIt's not 18+ restricted anymore!
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yes
0 likesThe video is back thank god
0 likesThe Original “Amogus”
0 likesI could watch it the first time when it was removed
0 likesYaay, its back!
1 likeSeeing some of the issues that happened in the 80s is not very unlike right now
2 likesSince we're struggling with a pandemic, political unrest, and other issues surrounding social justice, it does bother me to see just how a generation can glorify a generation and mask the heinous faults.
I admit that I've had that same mentality, so I'm not cutting myself slack over this
Why'd this get age restricted?
0 likesNever had a bell notif fail me. Had to go to your channel to watch this.
0 likesI refuse to belive this was published 8 months ago
0 likesI was in the middle of watching this Tuesday night when the video went black and said it violated yt terms of service, wth happened
0 likessome of the shots of the aliens give me nausea
0 likesAHAHAAH YESSSS IT'S BACKKKK
0 likesSimpsons mf doom? Funny, grooved.
0 likesMore like ICE-Olation!
0 likesYeeesss, glad to see Klay World again
0 likesits my 4th favorite movie
0 likesYaY the video is back!
0 likesYaaaay its back
0 likesYou said a lot of buzzwords that YouTube usually censors. Sad that more people won’t be able to see this video
0 likesThe original Among us.
0 likesWhatever the thumbnail preview is called,
0 likesBravo!
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Got me
0 likesIs that Claymation?
0 likesEdit: I'm a fucking idiot, it's called Klay World. I've been calling it the wrong thing all this time.
We must comment spam to the developers of Dead by Daylight on YT to make The Thing another addition to the killer selection! 🙏
0 likesSorry that YouTube decided to take this video down the first hour it was genuinely out
0 likesAmong us: the movie
0 likesWas this removed from YouTube and then restored? I swear it was.
0 likesIs it me or was thing video taken down for violation of terms of service the same day it was uploaded?
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Yep
2 likesKinda gassed I never got a notification for this tbh
0 likes10:55 I legit got a monster ad after you said monster
1 likeNice
Watched this a month or two ago.
0 likesaye yo it's back! I knew YouTubers wasn't that much dumb. oh wait. demonitization impacting YouTubers and destroying their careers: me: never mind they might be still dumb.
0 likesthe hell happened getting it down then back up?
0 likesHoly fucking shit.
0 likesKnox's Korner.
Windows sus, I think I saw him sabotage blood bags...
1 likeWho else was watching anime and then this thing popped up
0 likesMf Simpson is so awesome
0 likesI figured the video would be taken down by Universal
0 likesNot to be an asshole or anything, but the film critics who panned the film.... have something in common.
0 likesHurray the videos back
0 likesThis movie is fucking great
0 likesIs it just me or did YT algorithem rape this video again?
0 likesDid Zizek write this episode?
0 likesYo I was watching on the toilet, then paused to wipe my ass. After I was done the video was gone! Good to see it's back up.
0 likesThere will never ever be another....
1 likeWhat about the original tho?
0 likesIf The Thing comes to America, we dead
0 likescant believe this got taken down youtube is trash
2 likeswhat is this doing in an MF doom rip playlist
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ah
0 likesI forgot this was EmpLemon
0 likes7:12 , the concept of self defence, more alien than The Thing.
0 likesWHEN WILL DOWNWARD SPIRAL BRING US FRYING DORY???
1 likejk
No longer age restricted
1 likeBest horor movie ever made
0 likesaw yes the origal among us
1 likeCurses, all these people mentioning Trouble in Terrorist Town and Among Us, my boy Unfortunate Spacemen getting no love despite being a first person Among Us sort of.
0 likes...I assume you’re a Pink Floyd fan.
0 likesWhat about the 2011 The Thing?
0 likesFor me there is no age limitation poping up
0 likesThank god it's back. Is it caused by bots?
0 likesGood video
0 likesYoutube done fucking with this video? Finally found it
0 likesEmplemon - great videos, horrible ads
0 likesonly the best film ever
0 likesDid this video just become available again?!?
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Nope your watching a mental manifestation of what the video was in your dreams and the comments from several months ago aren't real
2 likesA scruffy said in his Five Nights at Freddy's video. The absence of action and information can really help drive someone to the edge.
1 likeITS BACK!
0 likesGreat use of the wall
0 likesIf you’re intressted you should make a video on group b rally
0 likesThe original among us
0 likesEmp is shrimping confirmed.
0 likesRip Wilford Brimley
0 likescould you tell who to vote vote for the next years?
0 likesPlease pleasssse someone tell me the music on 15:47
0 likesThank you :3
fucking hell macready killed clark in self defense
0 likesHe's 23 ??!!! 💀
0 likesIt's back!
0 likesIt is age restricted for mentioning coronovirus
0 likesThis wasn't in my sub feed. First time this has ever happened to me.
0 likesi liked trump cameo :)
1 like11:47 POOR COMPARISON!!!
0 likesfinally
1 likeno TOS
Oh my GOD which MF DOOM song is this its on the tip of my fucking tongue @20:17
1 likeEDIT: Rap Stitch Kniches off Mm Food
great vid ngl, xD
0 likesSorry Emp, this is probably one of your worst video yet. Feels like you don't have a grasp on the source that well and circles around the point a lot.
0 likesYou can do better though, it's fine.
Keep watching the skies!
0 likesMy man i thiught you were about to bust out a poem at the start, what a dissapointment.
0 likesWeird I never got a notification for this and it's not in my subscription section on youtube
0 likes1:45 Ain't it beautiful?
0 likesBased and Isolationpilled
0 likes16:02 what is that song?
0 likesBlaire just didn't want to succumb to his diabetes.
0 likesyoutube got afraid that the thing was this video
0 likesHey it's back! But the video doesn't feel the same(?)
0 likesSubscribed.
1 likeI somehow missed this in my feed
0 likesI think Susan Wojcicki is the Thing
1 likeGo on less treaded ground next time
0 likes0:06 I never revisit or watch those type of movies, i find the boring as shit.
0 likeswait, were you the guy who made ytps?
0 likesIts back!
0 likesYou are not immune to propaganda
1 likeNo offense but are you really making a video essay on The Thing and you just called it a "virus" in the first 20 seconds? Nope.
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Pretty sure he wasnt speaking literally and only in to force the comparison to covid.
0 likesA M O N G U S
0 likesHow among us started
0 likesIdk about the AIDS themes, the source material is from the 30's...
0 likesWhy's this age restricted?
0 likesI assume this is the same video that didn't upload the other day?
0 likes15:45
0 likesBe me in a yt comment thread
Hear this music and smile to myself while holding my moist nugget innawoods....
Dude, I didn't get this in my sub box. wtf
1 likeIt got flagged because you said virus so many times
1 likeHey atleast it showed up in my feed :D
0 likesSays Area 51
0 likesShows black mesa
I thought the thumbnail was homeless forsen
0 likesWhat is the song at 16:08?
0 likesnice klayworld reference
0 likesLove you 💙
1 likethis video was taken down by TOS rip
1 likehmm... I guess eating this spaghetti will wait.
0 likesPlease do a video on KLAY WORLD
0 likesI never got a notification for this 🤔
0 likesIT RETURNS
0 likesWow this is already age restricted huh?
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This video was actually taken down for "violating YouTube's Community Guidelines." a few hours after it was uploaded, but now it's back up, and Age-restricted.
0 likes@Joshua1788 why is it age-restricted?
0 likeshere after his recent video
0 likesWhat’s the song at 15:49
0 likesAMONG US!!!
0 likesVideo's back!
0 likes11:46 jfc it's 2020 and people still say this is the worst thing to ever happen lmao okay
1 likeWhats the song from @ 15:45?
0 likesTbh you sound like a budget Chills
0 likeswow didn't know you listened to MF DOOM
0 likesAmong Us the movie?
0 likes9:45 Как забавно видеть русские надписи в западных роликах...
0 likesDamn. 80s peeps were really.... boring.
0 likesBro, Knox’s Korner????
0 likesclay world!!! Omg omg fucking clay world!!!
0 likesDo you even like lemons?
0 likesDid the appeal work?
0 likesImposter amogus?
1 likeSusan Wabbajack at it again.
0 likesyou've been watching jerma i see
0 likesomg i love kino kino daddy kino sexy so smart so handsome so kiiinnnoooo oh my gosh my kino
1 likeBig daddy is back
0 likesso whats the moral here?
0 likesEnters: Corona Light.
0 likesemplemon wins
0 likesF you Youtube for flagging this video for inappropriate .
0 likesBruh no longer age restricted yay
0 likesSelf defense is not murder dummy. Clark was going to stab him.
0 likesE.t my favorite Atari game
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That also caused the video game fall of 1985
0 likesImposter among us the movie
0 likes8;42 it was just.
0 likesI think you are a Michael Jackson fan... 🤔❣️👁️👁️
0 likesYouTube Poop time!
0 likesTry not to make Among Us jokes challenge
0 likesis emp a breadtuber or something wheres he going with this
0 likesAmong us the movie
0 likesYo, Empie, when I click on an EmpLemon video is because I want to watch Emp Lemon, not whoever the fuck "The Kino Corner" is.
0 likesWhy is this just now being recommended to me
0 likesHooray, back up!
0 likesD EKKJE EI VANLIG BIKKJE!!! :D
0 likesYou picked this from gawr didn't you.
0 likesIt lives!
0 likesSUS GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD AMONG US GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD
0 likesIt’s back
1 like"those who have no choice but to pick the least terrible option" immediately switches to a clip of donald trump
1 likeWhats the music at 15:49.???
0 likesMan is the warmest place to hide ? GAY
0 likesRecession, unemployment, Pandemic you checked all of the bots updated algorithm 2019-2020 buzz words
0 likesYeah it’s fucking back
0 likesIts not age restricted?
0 likesQuarantine Among Us
0 likesMovie was more good idea than good execution, sans the effects. I couldn't care less who died because I couldn't care less about the characters. Ultimately I agree with Ebert. And ultimately it didn't dive into any philosophical discussion horror wasn't already exploring for the past 100 years. It just was packaged in a "cooler" way.
0 likesAnd emp's excuse for the lack of characters is just that, an excuse. You can do an allegory WHILE having good characters. ANd by good characters I don't necessarily mean likeable.
2 spooky 4 Utube
0 likes2:40 SUS SUS SUS SUS
0 likesJust so you know I’m subscribed and this video is not showing up in my sub box
0 likesWhy did your voice changed at the beginning ?
0 likesWhy did this get taken down?
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That's what I want to know.
0 likesYeah I’ll subscribe
0 likesGreat video (but where's the Star_ video)
0 likesDuck go quack bro
0 likesyay video is back up
0 likesyo mac is alive the video game is canon
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he goes and picks up the video games protagonist in a chopper
0 likesFRYING NEMO
0 likesayo whats bo burnham doin in the thing
0 likes🤟🏻👽👍🏻
0 likesamong us movie
1 likethis movie predicted social distancing and among us
1 likehey look your video its up its like you made this crap up 1 min before
0 likesalso the john capute movie adaption its a bit of a remake of the 1951 movie the thing from another wold
0:00 CHAALMMSSKIIIN®
0 likesyoutube stopped recommending your resent videos for some reason.
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Recent*
0 likesAlso, he might be getting shadow-banned.
in b4 youtube takes this video down again
1 likeHAHA IMPOSTER SUSUSUUSUS
1 likeIt's back
0 likesYes. This.
0 likesAmong us the movie heheheheheh
0 likesPubic health emergency
0 likesYour video is age restricted
0 likesSo times there is no good answer so thing i wis more people understud
0 likesKlay world!!!!
0 likes7:10
2 likesHe didn't murder him, though. The guy was about to literally stab him in the back. That's about as definitive a case of self defense as you can get.
At 15:00, I feel like it should be mentioned that the framing of this shot mirrors exactly what you say about the uncertainty. The flare being held provides a second source of light apart from the ambient lighting. Encompassing the noose is a cool, blue shade that shows that something was going on that only a human could experience. It also makes the noose appear even more sad in the position it lies at. There was genuine sorrow when it was tied and set up. But Blair is in a more aggressive red. It feels less somber, and it makes sense since he's acting completely inconspicuous. Eating, asking to be let back out. But there's something off about that behavior. The contrast in frame between the ignorance of the noose and the clashing between a cold blue and a harsh red. It's absolutely masterful if not unintentional.
1 likeLove you Lemon, you are truly a diamond in the mess that is current youtube, wish more channels were like you
1 likei never get tired of emplemon's content
0 likeshe just has something about him that makes everything interesting
Bruh, last week this movie was on TV, then I watched with a streamer in a watch-along, and now I'm obsessed with it and now emp is talking about it. I love it.
1 likeThis is incredible. Thank you, Emp.
1 likeOne of the best channels out there. It's refreshing to see a variety channel in 2020 that isn't utter trash.
0 likesI'm glad someone acknowledges the greatness of this masterpiece and is able to enlighten other people about how this is the pinnacle of a psychological horror film.
0 likesThe Thing taught me that the only person I can truly trust is Kurt Russell.
0 likesEmp your channel continues to amaze me with the sheer variety of topics you give the attention they deserve.
EmpLemon you're one of the few youtubers left that I feel still has soul, good on you for pursuing what you wanted to do with your life instead of playing it safe.
0 likesOh my God I can't believe you actually did a video on my favorite horror movie. You just know what I like to watch, Emplemon.
1 likeHey Emp, good to see you're still kicking after all the nonsense bs of YouTube and Covid. Great video as always. 👍
0 likesThis video really made me understand what people see in the thing, unfortunately I was never able to watch it
0 likesThank you for making this video, this is by far my favourite in your entire channel
I never expected EmpLemon to cover a horror film, but man, am I glad he did.
0 likesI just watched this two days ago and loved it. You cant believe how weird it is that you just made this video. <3
0 likesThe absolute Zenith of my day. Thanks Emp!
0 likesEven the creator of the 1950's version of The Thing hated this movie. Little did he realize that years later, John Carpenter's version would overshadow his to the point that not many people are aware of the 1950's version.
1 likeAfter last episode being a miss off of title alone, it's glad to see Emp back to hitting the marks.
0 likesJust what I needed before I go to bed. An existential crisis!
0 likesGreat work on the vid, Emp!
There was a really interesting story written by Peter Watts from the perspective(s) of The Thing. While it's by no means official, I thought it was such a unique personal interpretation. I love how it ties into the ambiguity of the story. http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
0 likesAlso being paranoid of subversive ideology is perfectly reasonable, unless you are a fence sitter Emp who sees no reason to fight for good even if means doing harsh things.
0 likesOne of my favorite films of ALL time.
2 likesMy dad showed me this movie when I was 10. It’s been my favorite ever since. Any time me and the lads have a movie night, I always beg and plead we watch it since most of them haven’t. Whenever I convince one to watch it themself they always say the fuckin love it as well
0 likesThe best documentary creator on youtube talking about my favorite Sc-Fi horror film. Awsome!
0 likesJust watched this movie for the first time a week ago It blew me away.
0 likesWonderful video, but that darnedest manscaped add got me out the wonderful groove EmpLemon got me into! Love the vod regardless. Make more shiz like this, i love your work even if what you make is controversial. Keep subverting the world we live in!
0 likesMy favorite YouTuber covering my favorite horror movie? Hell yeah
0 likesHoly shit, you could take this commentary and apply it to almost any game of among us and it works. Its almost amazing.
0 likesCurrently hyperfixating on this film. Thanks, Emp :]
0 likesSo there was an old Starcraft 1 custom game called "The Thing" that had identical mechanics to Among Us. I wonder if the creators of Among Us got inspiration from that map, in turn being indirectly inspired by the movie
0 likesEMP nice attention to detail by having the text use John Carpenter’s signature font Albertus. Love your stuff man you’re an inspiration for content creators and I love watching your videos brother. Keep up the great work
0 likesWatching one of my fav youtuber cover my fav film of all time, what a wonderful day!
0 likesLets say this, you and another fellow are the only survivors of the thing´s carnage partially caused by your distrust. and to check you think to scare the crewmate to see if it will react in an animalistic way, but if you do the crewmate will think you are infected and will shoot you with no remorse, so either way you are doomed to never know if he really is the thing or if you are.
1 likeI just rewatched this with my brother! Incredible timing lol.
0 likesThe Thing has had a tiny surge in popularity due to it being both Halloween and the popularity of Among Us. Glad to see it get the recognition it deserves.
0 likesA film so disgusting only Wilfred Brimley could actually stomach the special effects on set. "Look it up it's true, only he could actually be near it's gory special effects and not retch." Giving birth to animals in his youth gave that man a constitution of steel. RIP you legend.
0 likesThe thing is literally the best movie ever
1 likeWatching this before I go to bed, I really love it so far.
0 likesWatched it for the first time a week ago, and had to watch it again the other day because i loved it so much and needed to rewatch the imposters were.
0 likesThe initial wave of negative feedback from critics is yet another in a long list of examples of critics not knowing what the fuck they’re talking about.
1 likeCongratulations on being among the 2% of YouTubers that pronounced Rob Bottin's name correctly.
0 likesI have never seen The Thing because it is so hard to even have a chance to see it where i live, but this video really got me curious...
1 likeEverytime you throw a Klay World clip into a video it reminds me of being in elementary school and finding that show to be the funniest thing ever.
1 likeGoddamnit, now you got me wondering what The Thing would be like with that Goosebumps theme played throughout
0 likesNever thought I’d want to see this, but I love this
0 likesAnd when the world needed him most, he returned
0 likesIt’s a good day when emp posts a new video
0 likesI was pretty meh about ET. Saw The Thing later on VHS and liked it a lot. There was a sequel and a video game too.
0 likesBest commentary on this movie I've seen since Red Letter Media.
0 likesemp lemon movie reviews is what ive been waiting for
0 likesFinally some good fucking content. Thank you Emp.
0 likesHey! It's a review of my favorite horror movie by my favorite directionally downspiralling individual!
0 likesThey live, as well as another great John Carpenter movie. If you want to talk about prophetic too, that shit was way ahead of its time in depicting how humans can be manipulated by mass media and institutions of power.
0 likesI watched this movie when I was like 11 and I couldn't sleep for like a month, one night I could've sworn that my cats were going to kill me.
0 likesI know you gentlemen have been through a lot... but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter-
0 likesTIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
So, you're saying that critics can be incredibly wrong? Who woulda thunk it?
0 likesQuarantine and among us becoming popular, this year is just The Thing themed.
0 likesI swear I literally will just think about something I haven't thought about in years and someone I follow will post a video on it the next day.
0 likesWell shit I never expected to see this wonderful thing.
0 likesAh, The thing. The first ever among us match.
1 likeI love knox claymations!! 🤯😹💜
0 likesYou're like the pop culture detective now
0 likesThis channel is one the best things on YT rn
0 likesAnother solid video, my man
0 likesanother good one emp!
2 likesI knew what I would hear but I am here watching it anyway because I like his voice.
0 likesIt amazes me how many Simpsons clips you can find that directly relate to what you’re talking about.
0 likesCould've gone with Alien Isolation but this good too
0 likesWell this video certainly explains Twitter over the past 3 years
0 likesOnce again another amazing video
0 likesTough scene. Really good movie.
0 likesAny other looks at Carpenter's works down the line? I mean, one of them kind of fits the spirit of Halloween since it was really spooky, but, mmm, now I can't think of the title...hmmmmm...
0 likesJerma releases his thing edit and emp releases this in one week? Yeah right buddy get in the chair.
1 likeHell yeah my favorite movie
1 likeThe Thing, where everyone is actually smart and not stupidly split their group so the monster can maul them to death.
0 likes15:19 never thought the downward spiral would make a cameo here
0 likesGlad this is back. Will watch again later.
0 likesDude that Simpsons flip of Madlibs song is amazing XD
0 likesYouTube being in a downward spiral™ once again. I'm just glad that this video is back so that I may watch it as much as I like.
0 likesI fucking love that you made a vid on this movie I fucking love this movie
0 likesCool, good job on the video!
0 likesI'm starting to think that SMT Strange Journey took inspiration from this movie.
0 likesI like this movie very much! Cool video
0 likesI'm glad boobtoob put this been up, I was pissed when it was pulled right when I wanted to sit down to watch it
0 likesThis didn't show up in my sub feed and then had a warning before I opened it. Unreal shadow banning, I don't even get those notifications on channels that cover horror movies (like Dead Meat).
1 likeNah man The Thing wins in the end. There was an imposter remaining
0 likesLife is unfair, but lgbt has way lot more chances of being REDACTED with REDACTED, it wasnt unfair.
2 likesWas just about to rewatch this movie in the next few minutes.
0 likesThis movie is trully ahead of it's time. Now people are playing Among us in the middle of a pandemic.
0 likesA fair comparison to make in a world which has embraced division and paranoia.....
0 likesI love this channel
0 likesParanoid about the aftermath of the election is getting to you eh? JK! Great video Emp!
0 likes(reference to the Trash Rat podcast)
Gotta like that Klay World clip at the end lmao
0 likesDamn, youtube had to confirm with me I actually wanted to see this video
0 likesOooh i was gonna stream this, this halloween with boys
0 likesGlad the vid is back! Now I can watch it
0 likesIT'S BACK BABY LET'S GOOOOOOOOO
1 likeYES! Youtube didn't completely kill the video 😃
1 like18:30 IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE I'VE SEEN CLAYWORLD. THAT WAS MY JAM IN 3RD GRADE
0 likesEmpLemon is the thing confirmed
0 likesI love it!
0 likesSorry for all the hooha with Tube, but I'd love more movie reviews
0 likesFor the record Blade Runner's Box office was 41 million
0 likesOkay, I literally just watched this movie like 2 days ago or so. What the fuck? I keep seeing people talk about this movie out of fucking NOWHERE.
0 likesAnd to think this channel use to be YTPs.
0 likesAnother great video
0 likes6:59 What is this picture from? Another movie? I'm interested.
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It's Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Literally the single most ancient and iconic thought experiment in history.
0 likesI'm Here To See The Thing
0 likesWait the video isn’t 40+ minutes long?
0 likesJames A. Janice would be so proud right about now
0 likesSusan censoring another great channel like usual.
2 likesThank you for remembering Klay World.
0 likesBruh I just watched this for the first time and finished 5 minutes ago.
0 likesNiceu on the video upload speed.
Nice to see the video get reinstated emp probably send them 3hunna gmails to YouTube big Ws
1 likedo people really find jaws a horror movie?
0 likesDo the uncredibles 2
1 likewhat a great fucking movie
0 likesThe very first game of among us.
0 likeswait I just watched this movie!
0 likesGlad you got your appeal approved to get this backup. Stupid shit from YT
0 likesYou made some big statements about Trump my dude, and I'm here for it <3
0 likesI just saw this movie 3 days ago
0 likeswhat the... I can't even watch it after I confirm that I WANT TO WATCH the video, looks like demontizon is back at work again
0 likesOh hey this video's back
1 likeApparently this video is age restricted.
0 likeswhat was the song that simpson was screaming?
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looking for it too
0 likesAll the real early birds watched it before it got removed than age restricted
0 likesWasn't there a version of this vid that got taken down for ToS?
0 likesAny time The Thing is brought up I gotta tell people to check out Unfortunate Spacemen at NotAmong.us
0 likesGreat vid
0 likesHow many clips from The Wall are you going to use before you just make there will Never Ever be another band like Pink Floyd
0 likesWhat about this was against terms and conditions? Copyright strikes?
0 likesOH YAH A NEW VIDEO YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
0 likesYeah YouTube didn't like this video because it's not about politics, lootboxes, a famous youtuber, or a cartoon about spiderman jumping off a toilet to rape Elsa
1 likeEvery upload is better than the last.
0 likesWhy is the l4d1 song so oddly fitting...
0 likesHow the did this get age-restricted
0 likesRoger Ebert has a bad take, part 43589.
0 likesSo can you upload that homer ytpmv towards the end?
0 likesIts back up thank goodness
1 likeSo... is Donald Trump or Joe Biden the impostor? I thought you’d follow up with political videos from 2016 in the election videos description.
1 likeStriked legitimately within 10 minutes of uploading
0 likesIf you guys want a game like among us but better and even more like the thing go check out out Unfortunate Space on steam for Free
0 likesthank u based lemon
0 likesbest youtuber
0 likesGood shit mane
0 likesGOOD JOJ, EMP
0 likesAGE RESTRICTED BOIIIIS
1 likeSo.. why is it age restricted
0 likesAyyy its back
0 likesThis video still isn't in my notifications wtf
0 likesrip this got age restricted
0 likesaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, thank you emp
0 likesthe guy emp had on in the beginning has really annoying inflections
0 likesFinally I can watch le vid
1 like10:53 meruem and gon
0 likesWhy is quinton reviews in your thumbnail
2 likesIt has returned
0 likesIt’s back
0 likesWhy did the video go down????
1 likeCommenting to improve video engagement lmao
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@*FlowThruInstrumentalZ* yeah unfortunately. I didn't notice it was age-restricter until I commented lol
0 likesCritics
1 likeDid you mean parasitic vultures?
begone age restriction
1 likeAmong us joke
0 likesin what world is self defense murder
1 likeThis didn’t got my sub feed :( Good vid tho
0 likesNo longer restricted
0 likeshey I can watch it
0 likesbrb gonna pirate the movie
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back
0 likesYes yes yes
0 likesSussy Amogus
0 likesamagous
1 likeAMOGUS
1 likeWhy was this taken down earlier? Lol
0 likeswerent u a ytp channel?
0 likesgood video but i dislike because you rationalised trumo
0 likesYour voice sounds kinda different....
0 likesBiggest whiplash is watching leafy was here then this video.
0 likesVideo kinda sus ngl. Amoogus
0 likesF its age restricted😭😭😭
0 likesJeb the witch
0 likesputting comment to help emp's algorithm
0 likesAmogus
1 likeAmogus
1 likeNo earrape?
0 likesWhat thing?
0 likesAmogus
1 likel4d reference
0 likesl4d vid when emplemon
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Among us
0 likes12:30
0 likesIt came back
1 likedo the road
0 likeswhen the monster is sus
0 likesAmogus
1 likeamogus
1 likeThis didn't make much sense.... sorru im too drunk
0 likesJeez, humans suck.
0 likesSome people love fortnight so what do people know wassgood anymore
0 likesAmong us
0 likesNah, ET is better.
0 likesI love this movie. One of my absolute favorites for the practical effects and the mystery.
1 likeAnd I love you for posting this for Halloween. You certainly appeal to many niches, Emp.
And I fucking knew Among us would be swiftly mentioned 😂
I've been so into The Thing over the last couple of weeks, this upload couldn't have been timed any better for me personally.
2 likesCan't wait to get through this.
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Same. The Thing is literally my favorite horror movie
1 likeI have to say I’ve been a sub for a while and I love where you’ve come to as a channel, every passion project of yours is very well written and the editing, analysis, and humor are even better. Thanks for making such awesome congent
0 likesDude this is too good of a matchup: this channel and this movie is a killer combo!
1 likeDude, your content always fascinated me, it made me think about and find interest in topics I had literally 0 concept of or interest prior. But, the The Thing is one of my favorite horror movies of all time, so I nearly fell over when I saw this in my subscription list.
0 likesYou're one of the best Youtubers I know. Your documentaries could easily be put on Netflix and paid for. I love it
0 likesGreat video, its good how you are expanding to other topics while still making quality content.
0 likesAmazing movie and not enough good things can be said about John Carpenter's The Thing. My favorite movie and excellent video Mr. EmpLemon
1 likeThe real enemy in the movie isnt the thing itself but the paranoia among the group that one of them could be a thing but they dont know who, one of my favorite movies all time 10/10 - a masterpiece
1 likeYou know it’s gonna be a good day when Emp drops something new.
0 likesEasily my favorite horror movie ever, no question about it.
0 likesThis movie has a special place in my heart. I absolutely hated horror movies as a kid, but one day when I was like 13, my dad basically went, “Son, it’s time to show you The Ways,” and he used this and Alien as my official introduction to horror.
1 likeObviously, I hated it. That shit gave me nightmares for like a week.
But as I got used to scares, and saw how cheap and stupid most horror movies are, I realized just how good this one is. It's one of the very few that's not only genuinely frightening, but smart as well. There’s no cheap jump scares, no brain-dead chicks, no catering to angsty teens with shitty edgelord music or teen drama; and most importantly, there's not a single moment that makes you go, "Wtf are you doing!?!? Run that way!!!"
It's just a bunch of grown men doing their damndest to survive. Every action they make- even their mistakes- makes sense, and is is what any normal person would do. The threat of The Thing is constantly looming in the air, and the music is just so iconically good. Hearing the main theme makes me feel so nostalgic.
I absolutely love this movie; it’s so much fun to rewatch over and over, and it will always be my all-time favorite in horror.
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Same
0 likesThe only creator whose shilling I'll watch on every single rewatch. Thanks for the great content, Emp.
0 likesI can watch this movie with my eyes closed and go to sleeep.... the narration and acting is on point all the way through, painting the perfect picture in my mind as I lay with my eyes closed... perfection.
0 likesHonestly, you sound far more happy with types of content like this.
0 likesThis is one of those channels that deserves way more subscribers than what it currently has. And I think all of us here know that.
0 likesThe Thing was possibly the inspiration for Among us. the Imposter (or imposters) killing the regular crewmates through differing methods, one being the stomach mouth shooting a spike like tongue through the head of the crewmates.
0 likesI know it's speculation however, it would be extremely cool to find out it's true.
I just watched this movie for the first time a week ago, it holds up so damn well.
0 likes7:32 - 7:54
0 likesI feel that's pretty exaggerated*. Sure, you can find a lot of historical examples of people turning on one another during a panic. But you could also find a lot of examples of people cooperating and being civil during times of distress. It entirely depends on the situation at hand. In the movie, the threat is new and not understood. This leads to the group turning on one another and developing mistrust. Drawing parallels to 2020, sure there were people punching one another for toilet paper and dumbasses not wearing masks. But there are also a lot of sane, rational, level-headed individuals who don't endanger people's lives. Negativity bias is a really strong thing when left unchecked.
Aside from that, great video. The movie is really good and it's a shame it didn't get the reception it deserved back then.
Crazy I just watched this movie a week ago and now I see a ton of new The Thing vids from a lot of creators I like. Seems Covid and the riots got everyone thinking about the same Thing.
1 likeI like this side of emp lemon. The whining about how things were better in the past gets old, and it's refreshing to see him do a deep dive into the subtext of things and find his own meaning of media from that.
0 likesI've been here since the YTP days and I love the way your channel is going
0 likesKeep it up brother🗿
This has to be my second favorite breakdown of the Thing right behind Ryan Hollinger’s video
2 likesHaven't watched yet but gonna say this is one of the best and most rewatchable movies of all time.
0 likesJust watched the Thing for the first time and loved it, then you drop this days later. Perfect timing.
1 likeThis is one of my favorite movies. Thank you for making this
0 likesAhhh yesss, The Thing needs so much more appreciation thank you for this vid
0 likesI love this channel because I have no Idea what you're gonna upload next but I always know it's gonna be well worth my time.
1 likeEmplemon could make a video about literally anything and i would watch it.😁
0 likesNow that emp has talked about a movie and videogames in his previous video, I would like to see him talk about anything having to do with music such as the analysis of a music album or a song in specific.
0 likesYo why the heck is this age restricted? Also props to you for covering one of my favorite horror movies
1 likeHoly cow, I love your normal content regardless of what it's about but when my fav people cover topics I adore it's just chefs kiss "perfecto"
0 likesThe video is a banger. I have to admit that when I saw the thumbnail, I postponed watching the video and really I just watched it because I know that empLemon gives quality content
0 likesI watched this movie for the first time a month and half ago. Yep, it's time for a rewatch. Now on to the video
1 likeYay it's back up! I thought Emp had to completely scrap it within an hour of release.
1 likeI was marathoning your content when you uploaded this. Now I gotta start all over
0 likesBeen binging The Thing videos for the past two days, only for you to go and upload a Thing video. This is a sign for SOMETHING.
0 likesOh hell yes this movie can never get enough praise
0 likesI don't know how it's possible that a youtuber changes this much and still manage to be this kino.
0 likesI love this movie and your style of video is perfect together
0 likesGod, i love this movie! Most badass fade to black ending.
0 likesThe best common aspect across all the best works of horror is horror we cannot escape from and is something intrinsically human for us. A lot of early horror films, like Frankenstein, showcases man's making of monsters, in some form of benevolent scientific pursuit. Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing all showcase human fear of those they need to be faith in. Its something you can't be certain of, because there is a risk of being betrayed, leaving you dead. Its a paradox of something where there is no answer for.
0 likesThis is amazing, because I watched the Thing for the first time two days ago 😆
0 likesBro, why is The Thing suddenly blowing up. Just last month, i binge watched a bunch of thing theory videos. And now, it seems The Thing is suddenly getting the spotlight
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I'm not complaining
0 likesI have a far fetched theory. When I first saw Among Us I saw the monster looking kill animation and thought "Oh it's like The Thing". I could imagine some other people thought the same and started some conversations where someone has to explain what that is, and as result cause more people to talk about it.
2 likesOk but The Thing is an AMAZING film.
0 likesHands down the best channel on YouTube.
0 likesThis is the movie that got me into psychological thrillers
0 likesEven with the thing you still managed to sneak in a simpsons clip
2 likesThis is on my Halloween list for a reason.
0 likesNobody knew how good they've had it been, until they no longer scared of horror movies.
0 likesThis is a good thing to watch on the roof of my house at night
0 likesAs always, right on the spot!
0 likesI am a simple man, I see The Thing, I click. By the way...when will they give us a GOOD GAME of this franchise ? Like an Among Us on steroid, or an Alien Isolation. I start to think that people dislike easy money.
0 likesI literally watched this yesterday for the first wtf you’re such a chad 🥰
1 likeET, The Thing and Xtro all were great alien movies that came around the same time
0 likesSadly, only ET is remembered since it’s family friendly. Only true men know about the Thing and Xtro
Can I take a moment to say that fucking dog is incredible in the movie. I have never seen a dog act that way, the way it pauses at the doorways walking down the hall. It's so unnatural and unsettling and is perfect at building the tension. You know something's up with it, but at that point in the movie, you're not sure what... I'm convinced the dog was an actual alien.
0 likesMakes me want to watch the thing now.
0 likesThis is all so great the comments are so positive! I'll leave another after watching. I was excited to see since it was taken down before.
0 likesLife may be bad, but it can always be a little better with an Emplemon upload
0 likesCan't believe they made a movie based on "Among Us," that's so cool
0 likesI'll never forget this movie...
1 likeI have never found your channel till today, Love this video, and def subbing!
0 likesI just watched The Thing last night you have perfect timing
0 likesDefinitely was NOT expecting Klay World. This is truly the best channel on this website.
0 likesCarpenter's In the Mouth of Madness is his last great film. I would like to see some sort of review idk.
0 likesI legit just watched this movie for the first time this Saturday haha
0 likesYES!!! Love this movie
0 likesYESSSSS!!!! THIS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE EVER!!!!!!
0 likesMy favorite channel, talking about my favorite movie. What a day
0 likesCan we expect an ''there will Never Ever be another streamer like Jerma985'' soon?
0 likesJokes aside, excelente video as always
It's back! I pulled this up to watch earlier and saw it was taken down for a Terms of Service violation. Glad it got fixed!
0 likesSuch good content, 370k to go!
0 likesStill waiting for Emp to do another documentary video on Team Fortress 2
0 likesWatching this while high is one hell of an experience
0 likesFavorite YouTuber talkin about my all time favorite alien flick?! Today is gonna be a good day
0 likesBoy am I glad i saw this movie this year
0 likesToday is a good day, Emplemon blessed us with a video today
0 likesRob Bottin has an interesting story himself, he just disappeared. To this day his whereabouts are still unknown.
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Really?
0 likesWait, you're serious?
1 like@LegendaryMarston that is incorrect. While it is true that he is very reclusive, I am pretty sure he simply retired, moved on to a different field of work, and refused to stay in contact with any form of media.
1 like@omegastar19 Oh thank god, I thought he might of been killed or something.
0 likes@LegendaryMarston i just did some searching. There are persistent rumours he’s a real estate agent nowadays but there is nothing solid on that. He’s been retired from the movie business since the late 90s, but his last confirmed credit was for a short movie called Cindy’s Boyfriend in 2013 (which he did as a favor to the director). Theres also claims he worked on a Game of Thrones episode in 2014, but no confirmation. He lives in Covina, CA on the outskirts of Los Angeles. He evidently values his privacy a lot and has zero media presence.
0 likesWhy on earth was this taken down for a short time by YouTube? There's absolutely nothing wrong with this video as far as I can tell
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pictures of nazi’s. it’s stupid, but i’m almost positive that’s why.
0 likesMan i love this movie
0 likesNice! Made me happy, made me smile!
0 likesHappened to watch this movie for the 4th time just yesterday
0 likesMoral of the story: E.T. was pretty good in 1982
0 likesThis movie kind of reminds me of among us
0 likesmy favorite movie with (one of) my favorite YouTubers?? hell yeah
0 likesI'm not afraid of any man... but... that Thing 1982 HD Blu-Ray release ... it scares me
1 likeI'm glad this video is back so I can now view it, but the age restriction perplexes me.
1 likeGod I love the thing
1 likeOne of my favorite movies
0 likesi dont think ive ever seen an analysis be so utterly wrong on its way to reaching the right conclusion lmao. you almost sound like youre rooting for the thing at some points dude
0 likesWhat if 'The Thing' came out today:
2 likes"Palmer was a Thing. (1 Thing remains)"
I’m shocked that this actually showed up in my sub box. Normally I have to search for your vids. Pleasant surprise for sure
0 likesTurns out we're the thing in isolation all belong
0 likesWtf, I saw this movie just 2 weeks ago. I swear you must follow me around or something because you uploaded that video about Hungrybox just after I got into Smash and now you upload a video about a pretty specific cheesy movie that I had just watched recently.
0 likesI can't complain though, I would be watching this video even if I hadn't seen the movie and this way I won't have it spoiled
Cosmic Coincidence or just timing? I just watched the movie today and Youtube just put this video on my recommendations lol(also I just subscribed, good stuff)
0 likesI SWEAR TO GOD EMP IT HAD A HOLD OF HIM!
0 likesad revenue busts out window
I recommend the Poz Button's discussion on this too.
1 likeOh fuck yeah this movie is amazing
0 likesAnd it's back but age-restricted. At least it's something for now =-/
1 liketfw your favorite youtuber makes a video on your favorite horror movie, wholesomesauce!!
0 likesi love the little klay world bit at the end. you should do a video on klay world.
0 likesGlad this was back, was sad to see YouTube pull a YouTube and take it down earlier
0 likesHoly shit I wanna watch this
0 likesgod damn this is good
0 likes10:00 that left 4 dead music hit me hard, man
0 likesDoes anyone know where the clip at 12:25 is from? It turns up constantly in Emp's videos yet it's driving me mad as to where it came from.
0 likesReplies (1)
It's a Big Brother speech from 1984.
0 likesifyou want game where you play as the Thing . try Unfortuate spacemen .
0 likesyeah well this video was good and all, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
0 likeswatching this in my downward spiral hoodie
1 likeMovie reviews by EmpLemon? Sign me up!
0 likesAaaaaand there's the video watched, now to go back into hibernation until he releases another video 6 months later
0 likesMy favorite YouTube does a video on my favorite horror movie The Thing. Good day today.
0 likesI went vegan after seeing those grotesque props
0 likesDo an analysis video about "Mad Men" please.
0 likesDo an analysis video about "Mad Men" please.
0 likesI for one welcome my new alien host
1 likeAnd then the 2011 film came out and ruined everything with terrible effects and characters, because the studio high ups had to intervene at the last second..
0 likesJust in time for me to watch it
0 likesYou failed to mention the best part of this or any other Carpenter movie. The music.
0 likesSAD
I liked for the green text skinwalker youtube video music
0 likesThen I liked again for the Knox's Korner add in
Keep it up
What’s the animation at 18:05
0 likesyou're a genius
0 likesthe kino corner looks like Tom cruise
2 likesi mean i may have online classes, but then again emplemon uploaded... dont tell my mom
1 likeYaaaaaas new emp lemon
0 likesI thought this violated YouTube terms of service?
0 likeslove the l4d2 snips
0 likesLet’s go it’s back up!
2 likeswhat song is playing around 16:19?
0 likesEMP! Please stop posting videos about media right after i watch it, you're scaring me.
0 likesfav horror movie ever.
0 likesOk, why is everyone talking about The Thing nowadays?
0 likesAmong Us, the movie
0 likes15:50 anybody know the name of this song?
0 likesKLAY WORLD LMAO the memories....Im the murderer lol
0 likesAh another klay world reference we like that
0 likesKino Corner sounds just like Seth Green
0 likesIm not mad, I'm just disappointed.
0 likeshe’s backkkkkkkkkkkk
1 likeWhere can I watch this movie bruh
0 likesThere is One impostor among us
1 like"We Live in a Society: The Video"
0 likesNot enough Reactor
0 likes9:10 That's the 2004 presidential election results map.
0 likesjohn carpenters music tho (carpenter brut)
0 likesNow do classical gas
0 likesoh its back, lets go
1 likemanscaped is a scam lol
0 likesAt least the video is back up again.
0 likesglorious!
0 likesI remember when this was taken down
0 likesamong us
0 likesedit: dude do I heAR NEW SUPER MARIO BROS MUSIC?!
DUDE AS IF YOU COULDNT GET ANY BETTER WTF!!!!
0 likesWelcome back.
0 likesPractical effects>>
1 likeYo why was this video deleted for a few hours i came back to watch it again earlier today and found it was deleted now it’s back again what happened?!?!
1 likeReplies (1)
He said on twitter it was Youtube who took it down. Thankfully he managed to contact them and get it back up quickly.
0 likesWhy does this remind me of antifa?
0 likesBASED AND EMPPILLED
0 likesemp vid on my birthday
0 likesyessirrrr
The thing is a great movie but I thought this was one of the weakest videos I've seen from you. The crossover with Kino Corner was especially grating, stale, and uninteresting. "The Making Of The Thing" is just a better use of time, and re watching The Thing itself is more entertaining. To date this is the first and only time I've not been able to watch one of your essays all the way through. Sorry dude, I normally like you too.
1 likeS for Ebert
0 likesYES
0 likesYES
YES
""instant trash""
1 likeAmong us rtx on
0 likesWe back boys
1 likethe ring shows up instead of ringu. Fucking hell google.
0 likesBuckle your fuckle guys!
0 likesAyyyy its back
0 likesAnyone else first show up when the video was terminated?
0 likesThe thing isn't a virus. It is a highly intelligent alien organism. "Can you even trust yourself." Yes, because if you are assimilated by the thing, you are dead, the thing devours its victim and grows the victim out of its own mass.
1 likeReplies (2)
Yes calling it a virus would imply that it's non living but it is very much living even moreso than a normal cell is living
0 likes@Niko Also, calling it devalues the fact that it is a highly evolved, highly developed animal, that can mimic other animals so that it can survive in a verity of environments.
0 likesyooooo holy shit 2 videos
0 likesthe thingy
0 likesLe epic sauce
0 likesamong us
0 likeswhy was this blocked for a bit?
0 likesWhy was this taken down
0 likesReplies (1)
Youtube being stupid
0 likesNICE
0 likesmr lemon
0 likesHay this comment will probably go unoticed but I saw this in my recommended, after you said the video wasn’t being shown by YouTube
0 likes>trump clip
0 likesB...B...BAYYUSSSDUH?
690k here we come
0 likesYouTube bot is at it again.
0 likesiceolation
0 likesamogus
0 likesamogus
0 likesamogus
0 likesKlayworld is the fucking best
0 likesAmong Us got a live action movie?
0 likesDude, you showed Trump and Hitler in your vid and didn't said they are SUPET bad?? That is your 200% reason, why this vid has so much troubles.... I'm not kidding...
0 likesReplies (1)
What?
1 likeI love you
0 likesAmong us
0 likesThis is among u s
0 likesI can't seem to share this video...
0 likesWoo!
0 likesWoo!
0 likesMan. Kino’s voice kinda annoying.
0 likesnice
0 likesHammers
0 likesamog us
1 likeCommenting to help the algorithm
0 likesI'm glad you went over possibly one of my favorite (sci fi) horror movies keep up the good work dude.
1 likeone of my favorite movies EVER. great breakdown as always dude!
1 likeI just watched The Thing for the first time the other night. Was one of those "masterpieces I know is great but just haven't gotten around to watching yet" movies. Totally loved it. Absolutely amazing film.
0 likesOne of my favorite movies of all time. I could watch this movie every day.
1 likeEmp is talking about the greatest horror movie. Pure quality at its finest
1 likeSuch a classic movie. I’m so happy nowadays it’s gotten the praise it deserved
0 likesI watched this movie as a kid and I remembering being paranoid about everyone around me being a "thing"
1 likeThis shit scarred me. And it's after effects still scares me to this very day.
You should do more movie analysis videos, this was quite entertaining!
0 likesAnother masterpiece Emp, good stuff once again
0 likesI thought the concept of the film was incredible, but the creature’s design made it hard for me to feel scared of what could happen to the characters knowing that a tentacle monster was what I was supposed to be scared of. I feel like if I saw it for the first time now I would definitely be more horrified than I was a year ago
0 likesThe fact that EmpLemon can pull up a topic I know nothing about, and get me to get extremely interested in it as amazing and I don’t know another YouTuber who does it.
0 likesWas thinking about watching The Thing a second time for Halloween. Now I'm definitely gonna do it.
0 likesI'm really happy that Emp covered my favourite horror movie:)
0 likesThe Thing never got the credit it deserves at its release. This film is genuinely one of, if not the beat horror films ever made. It’s a Lovecraftian tale in ever sense of that word. Filled with distrust, paranoia, incomprehensible horrors. Afiak, it wasn’t even conceived as a Lovecraft-Esque film. Yet, it hits all the notes like very, very few media ever has.
1 likeNeat to see you making vids on whatever you are passionate about dude
1 likeWooooo! Thanks for having me on the video, Emp! It was blast!
0 likesThanks to Among us I got to know about that film. Watched it for the first time just 2 days ago and now all my recommendations are about fan theories of The Thing. Film is great, absolutely didn’t age neither visually nor thematically
0 likesAnyway, thanks for another great vid. You really did put a lot into it and it shows
Emps content is truly magnificent and should get way more attention.
0 likesLet's fucking go I'm so glad that one of my favorite films is finally getting so much recognition on YouTube it set the foundation for games like among us
0 likesTo me, this not only cements Emps creativity and skill in multiple genres of content, but also that man when left to his own devices, is ultimately his own undoing.
0 likesYES YES YES! I always loved this movie. i tried to show it to my friends, but they all tought it was to slow and boring, and disgusting. they whent back to their nun movies. id get it tbh
0 likesYou're constantly improving your content, not that it was bad or anything, just, your as entertaining to me as redlettermedia, fucking good.
0 likesyou would be the perfect person to do an analysis on "They Live", one of Carpenter's other films.
0 likesI love this movie. One of my favs!
0 likesCosmic Horror is probably one of the best forms of horror at its purest most abstract form.
0 likesOne of my favorite youtubers looking at one of my favorite horror movies, LETS GET IT
0 likesThe Thing is so iconic. My favorite part is when Kurt Russell turns to the camera and says “looks like we got a Thing problem.”
0 likesReplies (1)
He didn't say that.
0 likeshow the hell did emp guess and accurately dissect my favorite movie
0 likesThis is probably my new favorite video on this platform.
0 likesEmplemon is one of the like four yt channels that drop consistent gold
0 likesI got so hyped when i saw this video in my subscriptions! I love this movie so much!
0 likesFirst real horror movie for me, one of the finest in my opinion.
0 likesIt's good to see that The Thing is getting the popularity it deserved.
0 likesnice job emp, keep it up
0 likesThis was a very good movie to review on, not too much of a movie review pick since they usually pick terrible movies to bash on
0 likesThis is exactly why emp deserves attention
0 likesWas about to watch The Thing today for the first time.. Better save this for later then. You make some good heckin' shit.
1 likeNice! My favorite movie! Awesome work Lemon
0 likesI didn't realize this was an EmpLemon video. I was literally looking for theories on it.
0 likesFUCK YES I'm so happy you're talking about this movie, dude.
0 likesI love the thing, but This doesn’t really seem like the kind of thing emp would normally cover
1 likeThis channel is like a Swiss army knife and I love it!
0 likesthis is pretty much the best channel on youtube
0 likesDamn i loved this movie
1 likeNice vid keep up the good work Empman
0 likesLove these video essays
0 likesHorror in isolation, and yet The Thing could also refer to the assembly (in the Old Norse) of survivors.
0 likesThis is my favorite horror movie!!!!
0 likesIt gives me a sigh of relief to see that this video is such better than the Have Video Games Been On a Downward Spiral one.
0 likesthx for talkin about this movie one of my favorite series of all time.
0 likesOh hell yeah my favorite horror movie being Re:Veiwed by one of my favorite channels.
2 likesThis is such a great channel...
0 likes7:37 holy fuck. people back then were even stupider at reviewing movies.
1 like"Watertight buddy system" do they not know how the thing works???
YESSSSSSSSSS
0 likesI love the thing and it is amazing and am i so happy that you made a video about it
The imposter joke got me rolling
0 likesGlad to see my fav Youtuber uploading. Keep it up bro.
0 likesBack in the days movie critics despises films that are too violent. The Thing is a smart horror-classic film. After watching this video, The Thing really aged well ahead of its time.
0 likesEmp making a video on one of my favorite films good day man.
0 likesThere’s a short story written from the things perspective and it’s honestly super unsettling, I forget the title
0 likesKino stonks. 📈 oh and I guess the emplemon was alright too
2 likesI'm a simple person. I see a video about The Thing (1982) and I click it. Easy as that.
1 likeCan't wait for the Collective Trauma once all of this is over
0 likesWe all know exactly why he's making this video now
0 likesFinally one of my subscribed channels makes a Halloween vid
0 likesinstant like, one of my favorite movies
0 likesI loove this movie!
0 likesOh my god I love when this channel posts
0 likesYou got good timing, i watched this again last week
0 likesin an among us update later, the dev can make so that we can be more than 10, and if we are 12, we can (kinda) remake The Thing in Among us
0 likesthe only problem is that in among us, you can't infect others to be impostors
I thought i wouldn't like this video but I do. Might watch that movie
0 likes2:36 this caught me off guard
0 likes20:09 That has to be my favorite mf doom meme
0 likesWhen a movie's box office is lower than BLADE RUNNER, you know it flopped really hard.
0 likesAh shit, my favorite documentarian talking about my favorite movie
0 likesWe truly live in a society.
1 likeA day where everyone is lucky is a good day :D
0 likesEmp is one of channels where I can anything about anything. He got he to love nascar docs from slapshoes and I am from the U.K
0 likesLook man if we're talking underrated gems that were ahead of their time
0 likesGOD HAND is on top.
This movie is the greatest game of Among Us ever.
0 likesWhere can i watch this movie for free i had some trouble finding sites that worked
1 likeThis is my favorite movie. What do you have for me Mr. LEMON
0 likesMy favorite movie of all time the practical effects guy was only 22 working on this movie. Makes me feel kinda useless tbh.
0 likesGreat video emp
1 likeI paused watching Jerma's playthough of The Thing video game to see EmpLemon talk about The Thing.
0 likesWow. This video appeared right after I watched a video of jerma playing the thing game.
0 likesAnother great video.
0 likesYou should have a live stream that just runs YouTube poops.
0 likesA new EmpLemon Video?!? LET'S GO!!!!
0 likesOshit a emp lemon upload on my favorite movie. Welp time to skip my next zoom class. Looking forward to this!
0 likesYesssssss welcome back Emp
0 likesI was just rewatching some of your older videos, and did not expect you to upload anything
0 likesWhy has no one realized that Among Us is just "The Thing: The Game"?
0 likesHe defended himself, no murder.
0 likesI refuse to believe you did not just make this video for the Among Us joke.
0 likesI'm glad I'm not alone in remembering Klay World.
0 likesGreat video!
0 likesyeah The Thing is alright, but have you seen Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask?
0 likesIdk why this is sooo good
0 likesI am literally watching the thing rn
0 likesHappy early Halloween emplemon
1 likeI'm trying to find the game advertised at the end of the video but it's not on steam anywhere! I'm searching all over the web for "Halixion", have I spelled the name wrong or does this game just not exist?
0 likesedit: the game is called "Helexian" and its in the video description
YAAAAASSSSSS, I'M HERE FOR THE KINO EDIT
1 likeEmpLemon + The Thing
0 likesOh yes
The fantastic four is just a group of horror movie names.
1 likeHey emplemon have you played the 90's style shooter "Dusk"?
0 likesEmp lemon: posts
0 likesMe: clicks
OMFG It’s like AMONG US
1 likeJust got home, thank you emp,
0 likesFor those who know vinesauce, let's get vinny to watch this.
0 likesok that was the most exquisite ad placement ever
0 likesSo that’s where among us got it’s inspiration from
0 likesI literally checked to see if you uploaded like an hour ago. I had a feeling that you were going to upload
0 likesThe thing is just one big among us reference
0 likesGood thing I checked my subscription feed by accident otherwise I would've received the notification 17 hours later as usual...
0 likesHow does this connect to YouTube demonetizing videos?
0 likesIn the beginning of the video, the goosebumps theme plays
0 likesGreat video
0 likesThere are so many THING's about this movie that are good
0 likesI'm sorry
you-you know..the thing!
0 likesWhy is the The Thing video game suddenly popular ?
0 likesSomeone told me I look like kurt russell in the thing one time
0 likes15:48 Alright Ive heard the song enough times now. Whats it called?
0 likesI’m watching this while playing csgo with pasta sauce on my fingers
0 likesMusic at 15:55 give me Mr Robot vibes
0 likes[Please Clap]
0 likesI clapped when I saw it!
Jeb! within 10s of screening?
0 likesI like.
but can you trust 🤔 yourself???
0 likesi lost it all
4 people were big enough losers to turn on notifications just to dislike
1 likeOMG YES THIS IS WHY I LIVE.
0 likesYou kind of look like James Franko, does anyone else see that?
1 likeReplies (1)
All the time
0 likesGood video
0 likes12:25
0 likesThe USA itself has a ideology.
And not a very good one tbh.
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The greatest trick the devil played was convincing people he didn't exist. Capitalist ideology is invisible to many US-Americans, presented to us from a young age as the way things are (and always will be) or "common sense".
0 likesHey emp, just to let you know that this video, isn't appearing on my YouTube feed. Maybe there's a problem
0 likesOh a new emp video
1 likeemplemon rules
0 likesI didn’t think he’d dewit
0 likesBRO I was just listening to that MF DOOM Simpsons video.
0 likes"area 51"
1 likeblack mesa
Hasn't even been a month yet
0 likesI turned off Better Call Saul for this
0 likesi saw avgn's review already
0 likesAmong Us the movie
0 likesbest horrow movie
0 likesWhen is the next never ever
0 likestfw when no public discord
1 likeMcReady is kinda sus
0 likes20:10 wait... Didin't you hate ytpmvs?
0 likesthinking sure is fun
0 likesPatrick thats a gun
0 likesgood Birthday present
0 likeswheres my minute memes
0 likesClearly you copied the game theorists
0 likesReplies (1)
This is obviously a joke
0 likesPost another smash video.
0 likesViruses are life yall are wrong
0 likesYES.
0 likesYO JUST WATCHED THIS
0 likesspooky
0 likes4:23
0 likesWHAOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
0 likesNice
0 likesJEB 2020
0 likesSomething I should add, The Thing wasn't John's final blockbuster, he made next year's Christine, (The killer car movie) Which critics also complain about, this time it's use of swearing, which ironically enough Scarface came out on the same week, Scarface had the world record for most swear words in a film into the South Park movie
0 likesDislike. Not long enough to be a real Emp video.
0 likesfrom what's this 14:37
1 likeReplies (1)
The wall (movie)
1 likeAdapted from pink floyd
That other guy that came in the video kinda sucks.
0 likesWhy was this removed last night?
0 likesI never did this before but here is a comment to aphease the bots.
0 likesUh, Macready did not murder an innocent “crew member.” Jesus. Did you see it? Clark rushed Macready with a knife and Mac shot him. What is your definition of self defense?
0 likesspooko
0 likesduuuuuude fucking klay world
0 likesamoungus
0 likesthinging
0 likesThis video gave me SUS vibes
0 likesLol it was striked
1 likeReplies (1)
why tho
0 likesTFW i didnt get a notification >:(
0 likesWoooooo
0 likesNo meme unsubbed sad
0 likesI commented before this video hit 1k comments
0 likesThis video didn’t show up I’m my subscriptions for some reason
0 likesComment for the algoritm
0 likesWoah
0 likesGayloween.
0 likesE.T. is a shit movie.
0 likesPoggers
0 likesWoah
0 likesKlay world nice
0 likesYOOOOO!
0 likes🗿
0 likesWhy was this removed for awhile
0 likesReplies (2)
Nevermind
0 likesAlso I need to watch this, although I've just heard spoilers; I've really gotta watch this.
0 likesThe Thing: The Sonic Unleashed of horror movies
0 likes(people hated both at the time of release but overtime people now love it more than ever.)
Mat pat did it first
0 likesbro this got taken down earlier
0 likes15:34 pewdiepie
2 likesSo does this guy no make YTPs anymore
0 likesWhat happened to the video.
0 likes"A"
1 like#YouTube_bots_suck
0 likesI much prefer the 2011's The Thing, just because of how fake-looking the creature is in the original.
0 likesAMONGUS
0 likes'ery nice
0 likesJust after I thought my day was ruined you came out out to save it. Thank you Emp!
1 likeEmpLemon doing a film review is honestly quite the treat. Much love.
0 likesMy favorite horror movie of all time. Right up there with Evil Dead 2, Scream, and Halloween 2.
2 likesI've been watching The Thing very recently along with poltergeist and Halloween.
1 likeThank you so much for uploading this emplemon.
Another emplemon video is all I need to make my day, thanks for the video.
1 likeAfter pulling an all nighter for ap assignments I was downward spiraling, but emp arrived just in time to pull me out the spiral with a video about one of my favorite movies.
1 likenever thought i would see a movie review on this channel
1 likebut i know its gonna be good
John Carpenter is a master of cinema who never got the recognition he deserved in his time. he made masterpiece after masterpiece. glad you're talking about one of his most iconic works.
0 likesGreat movie. Saw it last year. Absolutely a must see
0 likesWonderful! My man returns with another wonderful video essay.
1 likeIts always a good day when emp uploads
0 likesThis is my favorite movie! I know you didn't ask, but
0 likesman I love this one
That feeling when your favourite YouTuber makes a video on your favourite movie out of the blue
0 likesThere was a PS2 game of this my friend played and it scared the fuck out of me.
0 likesI saw the movie years later and it was really great.
I have been thinking all week I should finally watch The Thing and I’ve been rewatching some of your old vids while waiting for a one.
0 likesI’m curious, do you plan on ever making anymore YTP’s or are you going to just continue to explore more content?
0 likesI was just watching this last night holy hell thank you Emp!
0 likesThose practical effects still look so real and horrifying today. It's pure nightmare fuel that CGI can never hope to replicate.
0 likesthank you emp i love this movie <3 your the best man
0 likesOne of the best youtubers talking about the best horror movie? Yes please
0 likesKeep up the good work emp
0 likesFavorite Youtuber talkin' about my favorite flick - thanks Emp
0 likesAw dude, I loved this movie!
0 likesThank you EmpLemon, very epic
0 likesI watched this for the first time recently. Its so good
0 likesThis is my favourite horror film of all time
0 likesEMP had the best editing ever
0 likesI was just thinking about the thing a few days ago, thank you emp
0 likesDidn’t expect you to review this but this is good too
0 likesthanks man my day was rlly bad and you just made it a 100 times better
1 likeGreat movie. My personal favourite horror
0 likesWithout manscaped and with isolation, my body hair is the real horror here
0 likesI love the goosebumps music intro. Emp is a man of culture.
0 likesMy favorite youtuber talking about my favorite horror film. Nice.
0 likesFinally some good content
0 likesEmp lemon making a vid on one of my favorite movies of all time, Christmas indeed does come early.
0 likesOur dark lord... HE HAS RISEN.
0 likesWelcome back Emplemon!
The theories on the internet about this movie are just as interesting. If only the 2011 prequel could have been just as interesting.
0 likesYo i JUST started getting back into this movie the coincidence is weird af but I'm happy!
0 likesEmp uploads a new vid? Of my favorite movie? Fuck yeah!
0 likesBest practical effects ever
0 likesShout out to RLM for introducing me to this movie
0 likesThere will never ever be another YouTuber like Filthy Frank
0 likesI love this movie
0 likesOh my God I'm on time for an emplemon video
0 likesplz never leave us, emperor
0 likesMy favorite Youtuber reviewing my favorite movie
0 likesGreat movie.
0 likesthe thing is just among us in movie form
1 likeone of the people are the thing and they dont have any power to beat it
love your videos
0 likesCan't believe daddy lemon made a video about my favorite movie
0 likesThis is the last thing I expected you to make a video about.
0 likesHorror in isolation? You mean my everyday life?
0 likesIt's spooky time
0 likesjust watched this move yesterday for the first time
0 likesIt seems commentary channels are moving to movies & games now.
0 likesThe God Emperor has returned to save humanity
0 likesone of the bests yt channels
0 likesLike actually good content
0 likesLast time I was this early the Thing crashed onto Earth
0 likesNice vid so far
0 likesThe OG Among Us.
0 likesI love you emp
0 likesLiterally just came from a Jerma The Thing video. Freaky.
0 likesFact: No one here has watched the whole thing except for the secret unlisted gang.
0 likesThe original Among Us.
0 likesAmong us: The Prequel
0 likesNEW EMP VID LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO
0 likesPlot twist:
0 likesRob bottin is really Penguinz0
The Thing isn't scary. It's a good movie, but not scary at all.
0 likesHeyyyy I got here early great to see a new vid from emplemon when hopping on YouTube
0 likesEpic... Thing
0 likesThe Thing
0 likesThat Should Not Be
You really like that png of Jeb Bush, don't you. I do too
0 likesLETS GOOO EMPLEMON UPLOAD
0 likesThe original among us
0 likesYay among us video
1 likebabe wake up, new EmpLemon post!!!
0 likesHoney come here, emplemon just posted.
0 likesEmplemom is gay for Rusty Cage
0 likes2 views, 93 likes. Completely normal phenomenon
0 likesWTF? AMONG US???!!!
0 likesOooooh here we go
0 likesBUM BUM BUM BUM BUM prrrew (goosebumps theme)
0 likesAmong us the movie.
0 likesLETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO
0 likesanybody know easier ways to open pickle jars?
0 likesAmong us before Among us
0 likesIts just among us
0 likesPoggers emplemon upload
0 likeslet´s go to an antartic donwarnspiral
1 likeDownward spiral
0 likesCongrats @Lazzy XP for being the first person to comment but not typing "first"
0 likesLast time i was this early, the spiral was upward
0 likesYOOOOOOOOOOOO LETS GET IT
0 likesLet’s gooooo
0 likesLets go gamers, early gang
0 likesMAH MAN
1 likeInteresting.
0 likesWow!
0 likestop!
0 likes👍👍
1 liketime to study emplemon video pops up fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
0 likes0 dislikes!
0 likes1 minute ago great that it pulled up as I opened yt
0 likesfastest click in the west
0 likesOh hell yeah
0 likesNice.
0 likesWait what, did he just post?
0 likesNever been this early on any video
0 likesToday was a good day
0 likesET need chromosome
1 likenew video poggers
0 likesMake frying dory
0 likesSpooky
0 likesBig pog.
0 likesKino Korner Gang
0 likesYEAAAAAAAAH
0 likesDaThing
0 likesnice
0 likesNice...
0 likestrue
0 likesCall me crazy, but I prefer the 50s version overall
0 likesWhere is the comments of spoopy
1 likePeepee poopoo man
0 likesWaddup
0 likesPOG
0 likes:)
0 likesWe're quick
0 likesLol
0 likesrape?
0 likesYeeeee
0 likesEarly gang
0 likesSo fellas, humans really don’t like things that look like human but aren’t quite human. This is why a lot of the population becomes uncomfortable with things like Polar Express and Monster House, it looks too realistic to us and sets us off.
0 likesThis is of course known as the “Uncanny Valley.” effect and it’s thought to be an evolutionary tactic for survival.
The funny part is. No other animals that we know of experience the Uncanny Valley effect, Only us. Which leaves the question; what was out there that Mimic humans so well and was so dangerous that we have evolved this as a tactic for survival?
Just something to think about.
The thing about critics is they often forget to critically think . You don’t have to personally like a movie in order to tell that it’s a good movie, and a good movie does t necessarily have to cater to your specific tastes.
0 likesIs the story gripping? Are the characters appropriately developed? Is the acting convincing? Are the special effects executed well?
Sometimes a piece of art just isn’t your cup of tea. That doesn’t mean it’s bad per se; in fact, you might just find yourself in the minority of that art’s perceived opinion. 🖼 🤷♂️
wtf u copied gaemtheory!
1 likeReplies (1)
gaytheory clone ripoff alert!
1 likeSCP-804 the movie
0 likesMaybe not the first, but close enough
0 likesYay
0 likesHowdy!
0 likesThe amazing dragon intralysosomally attend because great-grandmother paradoxically weigh outside a faded brass. panicky, spotted ravioli
0 likesOne thing, McCarthy was vindicated in his trials on hollywood against communist sympathizers. Hell we even see it today with communist sympathizers in media, film, burning harassing communities in the street. McCarthy was right, he didnt go far enough. Other than that this video is great, rob ager has done great analysis as well.
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0 likesNgl you made this real cringe trying to say the thing is representative of an ideology. Please leave film analysis to people who actually study film, youtuber.
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0 likesThis is like a direct ripoff of CZsworld’s channel.
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1 likeThis movie isn't about a virus attacking an isolated community have you even watched this film?
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So what's it about, swagger?
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>Briefly supports trump
Nice
I'm not looking for a flame war, but come on.
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0 likesI may be alone here, but E.T. is far scarier than the thing.
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0 likesKinda sucks you didn't mention the games or comics that has its ending as to who was the Thing at the end.
0 likesI want you to know that I stopped watching your content because you made a comparison to Trump making necessary brazen decisions. It’s a great video, but I’m not going to finish it
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0 likesEngagement comment, also 2,000th comment.
0 likesreally solid video. except I feel like maybe theres a bit of signaling of pro-Trump shit and thats cringe. Maybe I'm paranoid though
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0 likesThey Live is a far better critique of ideology than The Thing is.
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The tangent about AIDS, especially in the current day, is sickeningly ironic.
1 likeWhy did you use a Donald Trump clip after talking about how 'we will be saved by men like McReady who have to pick the least terrible option'.
1 likeImagine being the critic who got pissed off because of how weird the practical effects looked, absolutely classless.
2 likesyou lost me when you said the least terrible opton then showed donald trump the litteral worst option an open fascist with ice concentration camps at the border and pushing constant conspiracies just to keep his voter base despite who might get hurt by pushing that reluctantly denounces white supremacy. im sorry but you posted right wing propaganda cringe and im not just gunna sit here and not call it out even if the rest of the video is good.
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0 likesDon't even joke about Donald Trump not being the worst option
0 likesUgh, Emp don’t imply that Trump is just a brave leader doing the least terrible option 🤮 8:05
2 likesGood vid tho