-This week I looked at John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) starring Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, and Keith David. IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/?ref_=nv_sr_1

-This movie kept you on the edge of your seats. Although made in the early 80s, it was still enjoyable to watch despite the special effects that weren't so special. There was an eeriness about the whole movie like you didn't know who you could trust. My favorite part in the movie is when the doctor goes to use the defibrillator on Norris and his stomach turns into 2 jaws and bites his arms off. The monsters are very corny, put the movie on the whole is good. It got a very high rating on IMDb and for good reason. Very enjoyable movie that I would watch again. 8/10.

-The science in the Thing is almost non-existant. They devolop a theory throughout the movie that the thousands of year old aliens learn to "imitate" other organisms. This starts with a dog. The alien somehow coats its body with one of a sled dog. At one point the scientist claims that the alien "learned" to digest things. How could the alien ever consume anything if there was no digestion? Also, digestion is too complicated of a process to spring spontaneously, see conditions for Natural Selection proposed by Darwin. Whenever provoked, it broke its way out of the dog body and began showing its true form... which changes throughout the movie. Each alien is different than the one before it. Aliens have not been study in full in real life, but there must be a type of order amongst species. Each organism would most likely at least resemble other organisms within that species. Soon the aliens start imitating humans. I'm not an alien expert, but I have never seen a terrestrial organism that can completely coat its outward body into something that resembles a human. I've heard of camouflage and coloration in animals, but never a completely different skin. This movie will most likely never become a reality. If it somehow were able to, we would be in deep deep trouble.