The Thing
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Colin: You think they're gonna pay a bonus for bringing home an alien instead of core samples?

Sam Carter: And the last place you want to be is cooped up with a dozen of Norwegian guys.

Adam Finch: You know, I never believed in this shit.
Jonas: I always did.

Adam Finch: In the three years that I have known him, this is the most excited I have ever seen him.

Continuity mistake: In the 1982 movie, the alien ship is uncovered by the Norwegian scientists using thermite. (As seen on the films discovered by the Americans.) In the 2011 movie, it is uncovered when the Thing gets back into the ship and starts up the engines.

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Trivia: The fire effects throughout were done practically instead of digitally via clever in-camera effects and the use of special suits, gels and rigs allowing for precisely-controlled burns and for stuntmen to remain aflame longer.

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Question: We saw that Split-Face's arms became separate creatures, but that happened to its legs? Where did they go?

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