Quite possibly the finest movie ever made

Rating: 10/10 (21 March 2003)

I'm totally serious, this is a work of art. The setting, acting, plot everything is TERRIFIC. Top notch psychological thriller. I love this movie so much it was one of the first DVD's I bought. Hell I bought a DVD player just so I could buy this movie on DVD. This movie is up there with the original Star Wars in terms of my devoted reverence.
What makes this movie so great? It's the feeling of helplessness so far away from any sort of rescue. It's the complete unknown. It's watching in grim fascination how this group dynamic completely becomes unhinged. When the monster first appears it is so GODDAMN frightening that you are just awestruck, along with the rest of the all male cast. It's that surreal theme of just a single repeated note.... It's the way the ending is left completely ambigious, something Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do. Remember Contact? Why have "we have 17 hours of footage" comment at the end instead of leaving it ambigious, promoting eternal wonderment and use of your imagination to decide for yourself how it all turned out. The Thing is a wonderful, terrifying, utterly captivating what-if social experiment that far transends it's b movie, horror/sci-fi categorization. In fact in that category it is it's Star Wars.