The Thing

[davp99]

I know this is OT, but if you get the chance watch the PBS Special of his next to last South Pole Trip, the things they went thru, Absolutely blew me away..Some real Tuff Dudes ... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="4">Dave..</font> </div>

 

[avaunt]

"What do we do now?".<br /><br />Kurt stares with the utterly remorseless look of a : man with nothing to lose/shapeshifting alien hiding in a mans form waiting for a chance to attack<br /><br />"I guess we wait".<br /><br /><br />Credits roll. Avaunt says (through his shaking, terrified fingers, clamped over his 17 year old face) " EH ? WHAT !, no no no no no, you can't do that to MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ! ".<br /><br />That movie scared me numb. I was so scared that my head sung in a high pitched tone, just exactly as if I had been smacked with a mallet.<br /><br />Two funny things.<br /><br />When it started, there were about 8 other people in the screening. Three of them were a REALLY built part Maori bloke, with his two little blonde girls. As they walked in, i heard him say " Hahaha, Yous sheilas are gunna pack yourselves" ( Kiwi slang for fright )<br /><br />When the chest opened up and bit the doctor, Large bloke SHRIEKED " I can't,ican'tican't " Leapt straight up in the air from between the two girls, landed on the seat behind, them rang straight up the backs of the seats ( Which afterwards I thought, really outstanding balance he had. In the dark too. ) hit the wall by the doors, and " Whip, clunck click clck . . barraled straight out through them. Blonde girls wrap arms about each other across his seat.<br /><br />I often thought , did he have the sense to tell all his mates HIMSELF and make a big joke out of it?. Being frightened of spooks, lizards, graveyards etc, isn't a shameful thing for us (part) Maori. there is a whole cultural past history of this, 's natural. <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /><br /><br /><br /><br />I sat in the whole thing. I never mind a horror show that has the boogyman killed off at the end, but if i watch where it survives one . . . .<br /><br />Second funny thing was, my twin knew which bus i had to catch home. There was a half mile of scrub and paddock to walk home

 

[wmdragon]

those are very funny anecdotes avaunt <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#993366"><em>The only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.</em> <br /> --- James Clerk Maxwell</font></p> </div>

 

[Grok]

flynn,<br /><br />Never saw it. I mean, I imagined there were a few seals and maybe a penguin or two. Are you saying there are native dogs in Antarctica?

 

[flynn]

No they shipped them down with them <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#800080">"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - <strong>Chuck Palahniuk</strong>.</font> </div>

 

[Grok]

Well yeah, I understood that AFTER I saw the dogs in the American camp. But the first scenes of the movie give you the impression it's a wild dog that the Norweigians are hunting. That's why I at first thought it was unrealistic.