I will forever die on the hill that this movie is not nearly as satirical as people think it is (I get the sense that much like Showgirls, the bad acting was not, in fact, meant to be part of the satire). This is a shame, because being even more pointedly satirical would have made it a better movie.

Speaking as a father to a 15 year-old zoomer, you are not wrong.

That is true, and you if look at it as “hey, at least he has one,” then I guess it’s not such a galling fact as I made it out to be.

The username/comment synergy is on point. I literally said “Ugh.” when I saw that my Batman-sippin’-coffee pic was now just pixels.

Well, they didn’t nominate him for Pig previously, and that was probably the best movie/performance of his distinguished career, so chock it up to another rock on the “Oscars don’t know shit” pile.

I was wondering the same damn thing. I feel naked without my profile pic of Batman from How It Should Have Ended sipping a cup of joe.

Wow. You would think those would be some important details to include here.

Yeah, if I’m going to listen to any “Take ‘Sound of Silence’ and make it power orchestra” cover of that song, I think this is a much better choice than Disturbed’s cover.

Really, it’s like the difference between eating a steak and downing a bag of potato chips: sure, that calorie intake may be the same, but the dining experience that leads to the consumption of either is very different.

Since no one else seems keen on giving you a straight answer (or, at least, not a thorough one), I’ll chime in.

Pretty sure Childs has an earing still in his ear.

Peter Watts story is so freaking good. Love the implication he brings that not even people assimilated by the Thing are fully aware what’s happened to them.

Eh, John Carpenter says a lot of things if there’s money in it for him. It’s one of the reasons why I love the guy so much: he doesn’t even pretend to have a front.

And honestly, it’s better that way. Some mysteries should remain mysterious forever.

Yep. Even if neither of them is a Thing, it’s not like they have a shelter to mull it over and survive the day, so most likely, their suspicion will just keep them in place and they’ll freeze to death.

EXACTLY. And that’s why the ambiguity of the ending as is rules so much. Leaves room for several possibilities that are completely consistent with what has been shown. (good job finding a more concise way to put that, by the way. I was trying to say something similar in my original comment, but sometimes I struggle…

I thought he was great in Bodies Bodies Bodies, too.

For the record, I’m a fan of the theory that might honestly be the darkest, which is that both of them are completely human... but because of the reasonable paranoia of what they just went through, they’ll never, ever know that, and so they’ll just freeze to death.

The beauty of this open-ended finale is that it feels like the perfect setup for literally every possible scenario regarding whether one, both, or neither are “things” right then.

Oh, yeah?