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This movie has the dumbest scene in all of film history!

posted 17 years ago by MetalheadHanz
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After watching this movie for a second time, I've realized that it DOES have the dumbest scene out of all of the movies I've ever seen. Ladies and gentlemen, the scene I'm talking about is... *drumroll* when the folks back at the base tried to barricade the door (by nailing boards onto the doorframe) from where The Thing would enter (the last scene with The Thing in the movie), only to realize that the door opens the other way. So The Thing could just pull open the door and viola~ Did I overlook any important plotpoints or something on their intentions of doing such a stupid thing, or was that mistake simply an accident? I still laugh every time I watch that scene in this movie xD

[–] mercybrown-1 17 years ago

Did you read the first post on this board ten hours ago and just decide to copy it? Really no need to start a new post when the same topic is already on the board (and the top post as well).

Bill

[–] jlschook 16 years ago

Regarding the scene where The Thing opens the door and we see that the boards nailed there don't keep him out as the door opens in and not out.I believe this a mistake made by the moviemaker.If this is the door where they first encountered the "Thing".That door opened outward.Remember that the Thing's hand was stuck in the door and the Thing pulled it back.

[–] flanger216 16 years ago

It wasn't nailed to the door... it was just a slapdash barricade they built to slow it down.

[–] semsox 16 years ago

"It wasn't nailed to the door... it was just a slapdash barricade they built to slow it down."

Exactly. If the OP thinks that's the "dumbest scene in all film history" then it's obvious he hasn't seen too many movies. Too me the dumbest scenes in movies are when a person shoots his gun at someone, and after he misses after 6 or 7 attempts, proceeds to throw the gun at him. It's like dude, if you couldn't hit him with the bullets, what the hell makes you think you're going to nail him with the gun. I've lost count, on how many times I've seen that done in movies.

[–] Jake-219 16 years ago

Yeah, really. I guess all those scenes in "Night of the Living Dead," "Last Man on Earth," "Return of the Evil Dead" and about a hundred other movies, of the protagonists boarding up the windows rank right up there as being almost as incredibly dumb, since the critters still manage to get their hands and arms through the windows themselves (though, oddly enough, for some reason they're often not able to get past those boards! Huh! Who'da thought? lol).

[–] jarnoldfan 14 years ago

In the ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN TV series, George Reeves would stand and smirk while the crook du jour empties his gun at his chest, but then DUCK when the frustrated felon threw the empty revolver at him. On the subject of doors and windows: I have noticed that Hollywood movies rarely show a house window with mosquito screening. Are there no mosquitos in California?

[–] Strazdamonas 14 years ago

im nto from california, so europe may be behind in this, but mosquitos screening really became popular and used here in like 2005 and back in 1951 noone eve knew such thing existed.

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[–] mel2000 13 years ago

im not from california, so europe may be behind in this, but mosquitos screening really became popular and used here in like 2005 and back in 1951 noone eve knew such thing existed.

Window and door screens were popular in the USA well before 1951.

[–] FreddiesDead 13 years ago

Dumbest scene? Not by a long shot. I can think of a dumber scene, like married couples sleeping on twin beds.

[–] 1bilbo 12 years ago

Dumbest scene in this movie is the commander being tied up while his girlfriend feeds him drinks.

[–] hornacek 15 years ago

But you can see that part of the barricade are pieces of wood at a 45 degree angle braced against the door to prevent the door from opening towards the hallway. But when the door open it open the opposite way. You think when they made the barricade they would have realized "oh, the door open the other way, let's nail some planks across the door to prevent it from opening."

[–] profh-1 15 years ago

The same thing happened in ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN when they shoved a bed against a door to keep it closed... (it's still funny!)

[–] hornacek 15 years ago

Yeah, but I'm sure it was intended as comedy in A&CMF. In this serious sci-fi monster movie, it's just absurd.

[–] mercybrown-1 15 years ago

There's another gaff in the scene immediately following this one. Check out where the barricade pieces fall - a moment later, out of no-where a 4X4 mysteriously materializes at the Thing's feet... which he then proceeds to pick up and use as a weapon.

[–] rory-100 15 years ago

Wrong-o, Metalhead. The dumbest scene is where an army captain gets himself tied up by a snickering dame. (Kinky, too.)

[–] irishtom99 13 years ago

the door pulls OUT from the corridor of the greenhouse..that was shown in the secene where they first confront the thing..in the lsat scene,the door pulls IN..my impression was that wasnt the greenhouse door,but one of many they bolted
for protection..

[–] Tresix 12 years ago

The scene where the soldiers encounter The Thing in the doorway: the door opened inwards to the soldiers, which is why they were able to get it closed with The Thing's arm stuck in it.

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[–] irishtom99 12 years ago

inward to the soldiers means outwards from the green house..in the last scene,the thing pulls the door open,toward him,therefore it was NOT the greenhouse door,but a corridor entrance..