Just got done watching John Carpenter's The Thing (1982). Hadn't seen it since I was maybe 15 years old. Really great film, such great suspense, music, acting.
But just now as it ended, I had to think to myself... the ending leaves a bit out there I think. I feel like there could have been something else happen.
Now I haven't seen the 2011 prequel, so no spoilers from that.
My ending would have been a bit something more thought provoking: Everyone gets blown up at the end except Kurt Russel, who is injured and crawls out of the burning building and out into the cold... and the next scene opens up to daylight, and a helicopter flies in and it's a rescue team. Everything is burned to the ground and gone, except they find him out in the snow and he's alive, and in shock, so they fly back to a base and put him on a plane for New Zealand, or somewhere. Credits roll as the plane takes off.
So, you know.. you get this hint that maybe he's 'the thing' now and the rescue gave it a way off antarctica. But it's not known for sure.
I think my ending's better.
