Factual error: Winter in Antarctica would not have a night and day as portrayed, with the amount of light changing so much during the course of 24 hours.
The Thing (2011)
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Directed by: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Starring: Joel Edgerton, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen, Ulrich Thomsen
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Adam Finch: In the three years that I have known him, this is the most excited I have ever seen him.
Trivia: Much of the ending was reshot, including a scene where the alien pilots within the spaceship were witnessed by Kate Lloyd dangling from some sort of tubes; the body of one was replaced post-production by an odd Tetris-like display.
Question: In the last part of the movie, how are they supposed to drive the snow vehicles? There is a scene before where they cut the wires of all the vehicles to disable them for the quarantine. Am I missing something?
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Chosen answer: By disabling the snow vehicles, they are making sure that the creature can't use them to escape from the quarantine zone. Since the creature can assimilate anybody, it would probably know how to use one.