So I threw a bunch of old DIFs on my iPod over the weekend, and as I started this one, I realized that I had somehow never listened to the episode. And at the end of the intro, I realized that I simply had to watch the film.

One torrent later, here I am, about to watch The Thing for the first time ever. Reactions to come.

Saw the movie for the first time last night - while the creature effects were okay, the acting wasn't very believable. The facial expressions were so 'matter of fact' - yeah, some guy shot at us. Oh there's a weird alien creature.  And there's a ship. Whatever. The editing was disjointed in the old cheap John Carpenter B-movie kind of way. The dialogue was a bit minimalist too. I'm guess if you saw this movie at the time or were young, you'd be a big fan, but coming to it late and post-Aliens, etc, it seems it hasn't aged well. Wasn't tense (each alien incarnation died instantly from flame) and the climax was very weak.
I heard the prequel (2011) is lame.