Did ET kill The Thing's impact?

Oh. Yeah. I have been enlightened. Embarassed, too, but mostly enlightened.

1982 was a good year for Sci-fi cinema.

Blade Runner

Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan

ET - The Extraterrestrial

John Carpenter’s The Thing

Tron

Zapped!

Ha ha. Very funny. Mention an obvious loser among all the classics (i.e., Blade Runner).

I can answer that. You have to remember, McReady and company were at a GOVERNMENT Antarctic installation. Those weren’t flamethrowers. Those were cigarette lighters engineered to government specifications.