#yes it's spring yes last week was into like the high 50s in temperature (Fahrenheit)

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What did you think of The Thing? 👀

VERY GOOD THANK YOU FOR RECCING IT TO ME!!! some reactions here:

that was... certainly An Experience, especially the bits with the dogs, bc I always hate when stuff happens to animals and so the dogs in the kennel freaking out and screaming made me Sad (especially since MY dog was in bed with me at the time ahdkdjskk).

why was Macready wearing a dumb sombrero/fedora mashup OVERTOP OF HIS HOOD how does that even work

definitely spent quite a bit of time crossreferencing the film with that X-Files episode that was semi-inspired by it — there's a lot of visual parallels, lighting and stuff, even aside from the plot points, which I think is really interesting. the concept and execution is EXTREMELY similar — even one of the side characters in the TXF episode seems like he may have been based on Windows? — but the... idk I guess functionality of the alien parasites in each are very different, and it's fun to compare and contrast! (TXF gets credit for Not killing their dog though ahsjsnsk... warms my heart)

Kurt Russell's hair is better than mine and I'm slightly miffed about that

the practical effects???? DUDE. it's SO COOL

I liked Windows, didn't like seeing his head get eaten

also when they were slicing their thumbs to get blood toward the end I had to look away, blood and stuff doesn't bother me and even hand gore doesn't get me, but very specifically fingertips??? *shudders* (this probably has to do with the fact that I permanently scarred a fingernail once by slamming my finger in a car door on accident, and also the time I accidentally sliced one of my nails against a cheese grater... I do not like that ahsjdjsksk. I wouldn't even let my mom prick my finger when we got at-home blood typing kits lol)

the lighting was... really pretty?? it is very dark (I maybe should have upped the brightness on my iPad screen tbh) but it's super atmospheric and the last scene with the stark black and white of night and snow, lit up by flare-orange flames? *my longest yeah boy ever*

also somewhat fittingly, it snowed here last night 😂

all in all I really liked that, i think technically speaking it's probably the first actual horror film I've really watched??? which is surprising considering how much I love the genre tbh but yeah! thanks sm for recommending it; now I'm gonna go pull out that list from when I asked you about horror movies and make a checklist of what to watch next lol 💖