Of course some people are fans of World_War_Z and MC.
https://www.newsweek.com/vaccination-center-screens-world-war-z-as-people-wait-for-jab
https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Zombie , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVgYrQQIqGY
https://minecraft-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Zombie , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSNMNM8Qouw
The Vacc-Pass can certainly be a handy tool for many. However, it can also get people to become tracked more & more like livestock.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90659763/vaccine-passports-hacking-privacy
Of course there are all sorts of privacy issues to consider.
https://www.verywellhealth.com/how-to-show-proof-of-vaccination-new-york-city-5196619
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/the-case-for-and-against-vaccine-passports-1.6047115
https://www.advisory.com/en/daily-briefing/2021/03/23/vaccine-passports
https://www.fastcompany.com/90614712/the-pros-and-cons-of-vaccine-passports
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/tech/elon-musk-neuralink-brain-implant/index.html , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njtlC4PF-8w
Before a smartphone or a computer can be miniaturized and connected to ones brain, something else is happening first. https://www.aeris.com/news/post/bluetooth-for-iot
The Bt Headset has become like the human version of the animal Ear_tag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth#List_of_applications
https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-bluetooth-headsets
https://research.csiro.au/dss/livestock-provenance-management-ceres-tag
https://www.digitalmatter.com/applications/livestock-tracking
Think of an A.I. managed world where humans are tracked just like livestock in the IoT.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/05/15/66860/cyborg-cows-are-coming-to-a-farm-near-you
Welcome to the world of Animal Farm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Plot_summary
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Vaccine+Passports
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=hackers
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Neuralink
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2021/08/28/new-windows-10-hacking-warning-for-millions-of-users/?sh=1601dd9a1bb7 , https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder
Of course there are always alternatives to W10.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-alternatives-to-windows-operating-systems/
https://www.techradar.com/news/best-alternative-operating-systems
https://alternative.me/windows-10
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/89257/thinking-windows-10-alternatives
The Death_Star series of spacecraft is one of the most well known Sci-Fi vehicles in history. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/mediaviewer/rm2479634944
"Every prominent shot of the Death Star I and II from the Star Wars saga in chronological movie order. Featuring scenes from Revenge of the Sith, Rogue One, A New Hope and Return of the Jedi." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVfzs1x_EAk
https://www.lucasfilm.com/productions/episode-iv
https://www.lucasfilm.com/productions/episode-vi ROTJ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086190/mediaviewer/rm346050560
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyPCkTzhDxQ , https://www.youtube.com/c/emergencyawesome/videos
Well, Spider-Man:_No_Way_Home looks like its already going to be a home run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydOn8qwLJzA
It seems that every few years LV has something big and new to boast about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSG_Sphere_at_The_Venetian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cJrlJ5EYOs
Any city that's built upon entertainment and hospitality has to keep offering more exciting things.
Sean_Connery could have been in the 2nd and 3rd Matrix movies, as well as in the LOTR movies.
https://screenrant.com/sean-connery-roles-characters-turned-down
Finding_Forrester was released on december 2000, the year in between The_Matrix and Vanilla_Sky. However, Finding_Forrester has nothing to do with VR. Yet curiously, the movie opens by showing a Ray Bradbury book that it partially about VR.
Novels featured in the film Finding Forrester https://www.amazon.com/ideas/amzn1.account.AFSUYOLYHCRBCZ3ZJCFGSDS2AOOQ/YTQKY9CYJPWA
The Illustrated Man was shown at the start of the movie. https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Man-Ray-Bradbury/dp/B00201AIPY/ref=monarch_sidesheet
"Parents in a futuristic society worry about their children's mental health when their new virtual reality nursery, which can produce any environment the children imagine, continually projects an African veldt, populated by lions feasting on carcasses. A child psychologist suggests that the automated house is not good for the children's development, nor the parents', and insists they disable the automation and take a vacation to become more self-sufficient.
The children are not pleased with this decision but later coolly agree to it. The children trap their parents in the nursery, where they become prey to the lions. They later have lunch on the veldt with the child psychologist. They then see the lions feasting but do not recognize what has happened." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man#The_Veldt
Matt Damon is near the end of Finding Forrester. He has pondered the simulation theory. https://www.inverse.com/article/16529-at-mit-matt-damon-wonders-aloud-what-if-all-of-this-is-a-simulation
Matt Damon used simulation theory at MIT's commencement... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNPqJQhlKSI , https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/matt-damon-tells-mit-graduates-899321/
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+matrix
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Sean+Connery
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Lancaster+Synchronicity
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-matrix-4-matrix-resurrections-cinemacon-trailer-reveal-warner-bros
Regardless of its official title, many people will just want to watch this movie.
https://gizmodo.com/the-matrix-4-has-its-official-title-and-first-footage-1847550925
https://deadline.com/2021/08/matrix-4-trailer-unveiled-during-warner-bros-cinemacon-reel-1234821127/
It could have been called, M-4 and people will still want to see it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix:_Resurrections
https://screenrant.com/matrix-4-footage-description-details-neo-trinity-cinemacon/
https://www.digitalspy.com/the-matrix , https://www.youtube.com/c/MatrixExplained/videos
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+MATRIX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqKafI7Amd8 Wow, this is still in old 240p. https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDxTalks/videos
Of course there is a lot more tech now and even more security breaches.
https://su.org/about/faculty/pablos-holman , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH-lMUBh9lA ,
https://www.youtube.com/c/singularityu/videos
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ibm-telum-processor-announcement-ai-accelerator
While You’re Paid LE$$ Than Ever! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z1CFD69RjE , https://www.youtube.com/c/RussellBrand/videos
"While Schwab had declared to see excessively high management salaries as "no longer socially acceptable",[25] his own annual salary of about one million Swiss Francs has been repeatedly addressed by the media. The Swiss radio and television corporation SRF reflected this salary level in the context of ongoing public contributions to the WEF and the fact that the Forum does not pay any federal taxes.[26] Moreover, the former Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung journalist Jürgen Dunsch criticized that financial reports of the WEF as institution headed by Klaus Schwab were not very transparent since neither income nor expenditures were broken down."[27]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Schwab#Salary_level_and_lack_of_financial_transparency
"Schwab as publisher of the World Economic Forum's 2010 "Global Redesign" report postulates that a globalized world is best managed by a coalition of multinational corporations, governments (including through the UN system) and select civil society organizations (CSOs).[28] It argues that governments no longer are "the overwhelmingly dominant actors on the world stage" and that “the time has come for a new stakeholder paradigm of international governance”. The WEF's vision includes a "public-private" UN, in which certain specialized agencies would operate under joint State and non-State governance systems.[29]
According to the Transnational Institute (TNI), the Forum is hence planning to replace a recognised democratic model with a model where a self-selected group of ‘stakeholders’ make decisions on behalf of the people.[30] The think tank summarises that we are increasingly entering a world where gatherings such as Davos are "a silent global coup d'etat" to capture governance."[31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Schwab#Capture_of_democratic_structures_and_institutions
https://insideevs.com/news/527781/tesla-bot-prototype-confirmed-2022
The T-Bot could be of great assistance for various tasks, indeed.
https://www.cnet.com/news/elon-musk-unveils-tesla-bot-a-humanoid-robot-utilizing-vehicle-ai/
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/tech/tesla-ai-day-robot/index.html
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-promised-robot-recruiting-pitch
Either using CGI or just getting an actor to provide a general depiction is all that the public is allowed to see, for now.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/20/22633958/tesla-bot-elon-musk-ai-day
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ATLAS+Robot
Such movies just might get more people to think about the world around them. Especially, the nature of reality.
https://fadmagazine.com/2021/08/20/wtf-boston-dynamicss-new-robot-atlas-video
A new level of agility, speed and strength is going into robotics.
https://www.bostondynamics.com/atlas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(robot)
Perhaps its a little similar in shape to what was depicted in the S3 movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_3#Plot , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O-F2fvHFW4
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079285/mediaviewer/rm2204313856 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6BkVLUlLGw
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Tesla+Prototype+Robot
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/darth-vader-isopod?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4
It's not really a monster. However, it could still be perceived as one of the many monstrous aquatic creatures.
https://weirdnwildcreatures.fandom.com/wiki/Giant_Isopod
https://weirdnwildcreatures.fandom.com/wiki/Monsters_of_the_Deep
It looks a little more like the Predator creature than DV. https://monsterlegacy.net/2017/06/12/predator
_-_The_Predator.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_(film)#Visual_effects , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0TR6Id1yO0
14 Gnarly And Deadliest Aliens In Sci-Fi Movies - Explained In Detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxj9sNSBOs
Isopod & Fried Rice from Master Sushi Chef Hiroyuki Terada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54m4SDJiL6U , https://www.youtube.com/c/HiroyukiTeradaDiariesofaMasterSushiChef/videos
There is a wide variety of foods that people can eat on earth. Of course there are also plenty of creatures that eat people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvklU1Ny7g
Grand_Central_Terminal keeps evolving through the decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Terminal#Innovations
https://www.grandcentralterminal.com
It was already the main transportation hub for NYC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central-42nd_Street_station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central-42nd_Street_station#Renovations
Soon it just might become the biggest transportation hive in the Tri-State Area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_LIRR_terminal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Side_Access
For now, Pennsylvania_Station_(New_York_City) is more busy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(New_York_City)#Expansion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(New_York_City)#Proposed_Metro-North_service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(New_York_City)#Gateway_Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tteBgBngES8 , https://www.youtube.com/c/ColdFusion/videos
JM was the quintessential eccentric digital genius.
https://www.gamesradar.com/who-is-kang-the-conqueror-and-what-are-his-powers
https://screenrant.com/kang-conqueror-variants-mcu-future-appear-when
https://screenrant.com/kang-conqueror-thanos-mcu-powers-stronger-comparison
https://time.com/6080568/loki-villain-kang-the-conqueror Of course any time travel story always has the potential to be interesting.
https://www.ign.com/articles/avengers-endgame-kang-the-conqueror-villain-time-travel
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/08/smartphone-growth-peak-5g-apple-samsung-iphone-tech/
The combination of smartphones and robots granting humans temporary mobility of freedom could potentially lead into a classic dystopian system. A.I. can be a tremendous tool to help advance humanity. However, if humans ever allow to become totally controlled by A.I., then a post human phase will begin.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/the-world-in-2045-according-to-pentagon-researchers
Japan is building the fastest commercial train line in the world - by removing wheels from the equation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_dzK9ykGyc , theb1m.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Japan
Japan is one of the best countries on the planet that keeps expanding and improving its transportation systems.
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/blade-runner-directors-cut.html
Sometimes more than one or two versions of a movie can be a good thing.
The Blade+Runner universe is expanding.
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/blade-runner-opening.html
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/blade-runner-black-lotus.html
https://thedarkroom.com/film-vs-digital-comparison/
Since there are various versions of movies, film based versions should still be preserved.
https://www.polygon.com/2020/2/6/21125680/film-vs-digital-debate-movies-cinematography
Why We Still Love Film: Analog Photography in the Digital Age | NBC Left Field https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YotUW5WcOh8
https://indiefilmhustle.com/film-vs-digital/
https://www.vox.com/2016/1/5/10714588/film-digital-35mm-70mm-explainer
https://stephenfollows.com/film-vs-digital/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinematography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insectoid
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/design-a-robotic-insect
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-01-robofly-insect-sized-robot-drift-surfaces.html
https://news.mit.edu/2021/researchers-introduce-new-generation-tiny-agile-drones-0302
Nice and small enough to explore some hidden places.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/02/mits-insect-sized-drones-are-built-to-survive-collisions/
https://www.roboticstomorrow.com/article/2018/06/the-world-of-insect-cyborgs/12087
https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/5/44/eabb0839
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v13/60
Of course robots can be in any shape or form.
It was as if Stanislaw_Lem wanted to include some aspects of the Gaia_hypothesis into his fascinating story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis#Overview
Solaris isn't just a water-world, its a world of consciousness with an aquatic psychic brain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis#Regulation_of_oceanic_salinity
The aquatic brain of Solaris is a very powerful form of sentient life. That means it can play serious mind-games with visiting humans. The nature of Solaris might not be benevolent or malevolent. However, its aquatic mind is very protective against any visiting life forms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(novel)#Plot_summary
Of course any good story can have various interpretations.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-beautiful-mind-bending-of-stanislaw-lem
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95558.Solaris
http://www.conceptualfiction.com/solaris.html
https://www.tor.com/2019/08/01/embracing-the-impossible-puzzle-of-stanislaw-lems-solaris
A few visual depictions of the story have been made.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(1968_film)
Most regard the 1972 movie as the best version. However, even it didn't fully meet the approval of Stanislaw Lem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(1972_film)#Plot , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT8Y7DGQn7M
Solaris film analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKxC5iZjrmI
Some composite life forms might be quite disturbing to see.
Its one thing to see rapidly growing creatures in a Sci-Fi movie, but what if it can become a reality?
Eventually, nano-tech Vaccine+Passports will become an ideal way to track the human herd. But what if most of humanity doesn't want to be tracked like livestock in the IoT?
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2012/08/cyborg-and-tissue.html
"Shortly after joining the project, Mika helped Penn and Levy assemble a list of games that could give them ideas for Free Guy’s story or influence its look, including GTA, Fortnite, and the work of Will Wright (who created SimCity, The Sims, and Spore)." https://www.theringer.com/movies/2021/8/16/22626608/free-guy-ryan-reynolds-zak-penn-matt-lieberman
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-08-12/free-guy-video-game-design
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2021/8/11/22619043/ryan-reynolds-career-arc-free-guy-deadpool
https://thedisinsider.com/2021/08/12/free-guy-review-ready-player-one-meets-the-truman-show
Free_Guy is somewhere in between Ready_Player_One and The_Truman_Show, indeed.
https://screenrant.com/free-guy-opening-weekend-box-office-better-than-expected
https://www.theringer.com/2021/3/24/22347595/pulp-common-people-history-podcast-britpop
Music video by Pulp performing Common People. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM
Common_People was released in 1995 and about half a decade later, The_Sims game was released.
If the The_Sims_(video_game) could have had its own music video, it would have been something like the Common_People_Music_video.
https://www.thegamer.com/sims-characters-from-first-game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IdrLTCdkXo
The DW have been in the music game since the 1990s and still have so much good energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dandy_Warhols
Good Morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8qUERnx_7Y
Bohemian Like You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU3mc0yvRNk , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Like_You#Music_video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXQugQPSLmA
Now it seems that train travel is being pushed more than air travel.
This means that fast high capacity trains will be more essential than ever.
The longest high-speed train in the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RY_0AviWe4
https://www.railway-technology.com/news/business-travellers-use-more-trains-post-pandemic
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/germany-flights-domestic-rail
https://www.raileurope.com/en-ca/blog/travel-trains-vs-planes
https://www.railway-technology.com/news/business-travellers-use-more-trains-post-pandemic/
https://www.allianztravelinsurance.com/travel/flight/train-vs-plane.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjwF-STGtfE
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/covid-19-could-accelerate-global-shift-planes-trains
For Japan, inter-island trains will become even more popular than planes.
https://www.japan.travel/en/plan/getting-around/domestic-air-travel
However, trains don't go everywhere so people will still require air and aquatic modes of travel.
https://www.japan.travel/en/guide/island-hopping
International and especially intercontinental air travel will still be a necessity, albeit gradually reduced.
https://www.japanstation.com/domestic-and-international-air-travel-in-japan
https://screenrant.com/batman-movie-2022-robert-pattinson-comics-inspiration
There is something very interesting about the origins of the Batman character.
https://screenrant.com/batman-ben-affleck-zack-snyder-costume-photo The same character has many faces or actors behind them.
https://screenrant.com/batman-arkham-games-ranked-best-worst-asylum-city
The analogy of the world as being like someones video game is the modern interpretation of what various religions have been implying since ancient times.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/13/gaming-column-video-games-reflecting-life
https://comicbook.com/news/was-batman-inspired-by-spring-heeled-jack Was an urban legend used as a partial template for what would become Batman?
Of course Iron Man and Batman have a lot of money behind them to fund all their tech and gadgets.
https://screenrant.com/what-if-iron-man-tony-stark-powerful-different
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/tony-stark-is-high-as-hell-in-iron-man-11-preview
https://www.cbr.com/batman-iron-man-richest-superhero
https://screenrant.com/marvel-dc-comic-batman-iron-man-richest
Black Panther takes wealth to a much higher level.
https://comicbook.com/news/black-panther-iron-man-batman-top-list-of-richest-superheroes
https://www.cbr.com/video-black-panther-richer-iron-man-batman
https://geeksgonnageek.com/who-is-the-richest-superhero-batman-iron-man-or-black-panther/
https://money.com/black-panther-net-worth
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Black+Panther
Of course these robo-snakes don't have to be an exact copy of a real snake.
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/2019/1523493
https://meeng.technion.ac.il/snake-robots
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29523851
https://www.pnas.org/content/112/19/5870
It will still be a while until life like robotic creatures can be achieved.
https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Abdul_Ben_Hassan
https://moviepaws.com/2017/10/22/owls-snakes-and-unicorns-the-animals-of-blade-runner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_and_the_City_of_a_Thousand_Planets#Plot
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS Clip - "Grumpy Converter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PkGSnxQHrw
"A group of American scientific researchers, isolated in Antarctica by the nearly-ended winter, discover an alien spaceship buried in the ice, where it crashed twenty million years before. They try to thaw the inside of the spacecraft with a thermite charge, but end up accidentally destroying it when the ship's magnesium hull is ignited by the charge. However, they do recover an alien creature from the ancient ice, which the researchers believe was searching for heat when it was frozen. Thawing revives the alien, a being which can assume the shape, memories, and personality of any living thing it devours, while maintaining its original body mass for further reproduction..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Goes_There? (1938)
It's interesting to see how the 2 initial THING movies interpret the source material.
"In Anchorage, journalist Ned Scott (Douglas Spencer), looking for a story, visits the Air Force officer's club, where he meets Captain Pat Hendry (Kenneth Tobey), his co-pilot Lieutenant Eddie Dykes, (a friend of Scott's), and flight navigator Ken "Mac" MacPherson. General Fogarty orders Hendry to fly to Polar Expedition Six at the North Pole, per a request from its lead scientist, Nobel laureate Dr. Arthur Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite); Carrington has radioed that an unusual aircraft has crashed nearby. With Scott, Corporal Barnes, crew chief Bob, and a pack of sled dogs, Hendry pilots a Douglas C-47 transport aircraft to the remote outpost.
Upon arrival, Scott and the airmen meet radio operator Tex, a woman named Mrs. Chapman, a man named Lee, who is one of two cooks, and the Inuit dog handlers. Also present are scientists Vorhees, Stern, Redding, Stone, Laurence, Wilson, Ambrose, Auerbach, Olson, Mrs. Chapman's husband Dr. Chapman, and Carrington. Hendry later rekindles his romance with Nikki Nicholson (Margaret Sheridan), Carrington's secretary. Several scientists fly with the airmen to the crash site, finding a large object buried beneath ice. As they spread out to determine its shape, they realize they are standing in a circle; they have discovered a flying saucer. The team attempts to melt the ice covering the saucer with thermite, but a violent reaction with the craft's metal alloy completely destroys it. Their Geiger counter, however, detects a frozen body buried nearby; it is excavated in a large block of ice and loaded aboard the transport. They fly out as an Arctic storm closes in on the site..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World (1951)
"In Antarctica, a Norwegian helicopter pursues a sled dog to an American research station. The Americans witness the Norwegian passenger accidentally blow up the helicopter and himself. The Norwegian pilot fires a rifle and shouts at the Americans, but they cannot understand him and he is shot dead in self-defense by station commander Garry. The American helicopter pilot, R.J. MacReady, and Dr. Copper leave to investigate the Norwegian base. Among the charred ruins and frozen corpses, they find the burned remains of a malformed humanoid which they recover to the American station. Their biologist, Blair, performs autopsies on the remains and finds a normal set of human organs.
Clark kennels the sled dog, and it soon metamorphoses and absorbs the station dogs. This disturbance alerts the team and Childs uses a flamethrower to incinerate the creature. Blair autopsies the new creature and learns that it can perfectly imitate other organisms. Recovered Norwegian data leads the Americans to a large excavation site containing a partially buried alien spacecraft, and a smaller, human-sized dig site. Norris estimates that the alien ship has been buried for at least 100,000 years. Blair grows paranoid that the creature could assimilate all life on Earth in a matter of years. The station implements controls to reduce the risk of assimilation..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)#Plot
The_Thing_(2011_film) is a good prequel that leads right into the classic 1982 John_Carpenter movie.
"In the winter of 1982, a buried alien spacecraft is discovered in Antarctica by Lars, Peder and Olav, members of a Norwegian research station, "Thule". American paleontologist Kate Lloyd is recruited by Dr. Sander Halvorson and his assistant Adam Finch to investigate. They fly to Thule in an American helicopter operated by Sam Carter, a pilot, Derek Jameson, co-pilot, and Griggs, a crewman. The scientists are met by station chief Edvard Wolner, Juliette, and Karl. After seeing the spacecraft, the scientists examine an alien body buried in the ice nearby, and make plans to excavate it. That evening, the new arrivals meet the rest of the base: Jonas, Henrik, Colin, and Lars's dog.
The next day, the body is excavated in a block of ice, which gradually melts in storage. In the evening, while the team is celebrating the discovery, Jameson sees the alien burst from the ice. The team searches for the creature, finding Lars's dog dead. The alien is found; it kills Henrik by dragging him into itself, spattering blood on Olav. The group burns the alien, killing it. An autopsy finds a metal implant of Henrik's outside of his body, and further that the alien's cells were copying Henrik's. Olav falls ill.
The next morning, the helicopter crew departs with Olav, for McMurdo. During takeoff, Kate discovers dental fillings in a bloodied shower. She runs outside to flag down the helicopter. When it attempts to land, Griggs transforms into a monstrous creature, attacking Olav. The helicopter spins out of control, crashing in the mountains. Kate finds the shower has been cleaned up and tells the team that the alien organism can assimilate and imitate its victims, revealing that it is now living among them after showing bloody dental fillings from the shower. Noting that Thule's helicopter is away for refueling at Halley, Edvard orders the team to drive to the closest base and they ignore her warning. Juliette, however, seems convinced and wants to help her prevent anyone from leaving. She lures Kate into an abandoned room where they store the keys to their snowcats, before transforming and attacking her. Kate escapes; the Juliette-Thing instead kills Karl. Lars burns the Juliette-Thing with a flamethrower. The team resolve to quarantine themselves until the threat is eliminated..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(2011_film)#Plot
Dr. Michael_Crichton wrote a brilliant story about...
"an extraterrestrial microbe transported by a meteor that crashed into the satellite, knocking it from orbit. The microbe contains chemical elements required for terrestrial life (Hydrogen and carbon)and appears to have a crystalline structure, but lacks the DNA, RNA, proteins, and amino acids present in all forms of terrestrial life, and directly transforms energy to matter with no discernible byproducts. The microbe, code named "Andromeda", mutates with each growth cycle, changing its biological properties."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain (1969)
"A team from an Air Force base is deployed to recover a military satellite that has returned to Earth, but contact is lost abruptly. Aerial surveillance reveals that everyone in Piedmont, Arizona, the town closest to where the satellite landed, is apparently dead. The duty officer of the base tasked with retrieving the satellite suspects it returned with an extraterrestrial contaminant and recommends activating "Wildfire", a protocol for a government-sponsored team of scientists intended to contain threats of this nature.
The Wildfire team, led by Dr. Jeremy Stone, believes the satellite—intentionally designed to capture upper-atmosphere microorganisms for bio-weapon exploitation—returned with a deadly microorganism that kills through nearly instantaneous blood clotting. Upon investigating Piedmont, the team discovers the townspeople either died in mid-stride or went "quietly nuts" and committed bizarre suicides. Two survivors—the sick, Sterno-addicted, geriatric Peter Jackson and the constantly bawling infant Jamie Ritter—are biological opposites who somehow survived the organism..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain#Plot
The introduction of the Wildfire facility https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgDmJzaSd40 (The scene that reveals the secret underground facility.)
"The story unfolds in flashback, told by Dr. Jeremy Stone as he testifies before a congressional committee:
After a U.S. government satellite crashes near the small rural town of Piedmont, New Mexico, almost all of the town's residents die. A military recovery team tries to recover the satellite but is unsuccessful. Suspecting that the satellite has brought back an alien organism, the military activates an elite team of scientists.
Wearing protective suits, Dr. Stone, the team leader, and Dr. Mark Hall, a surgeon, are dropped in Piedmont by helicopter. They find that the town's doctor had opened the satellite in his office and that all of his blood has crystallized into a powder. They soon discover that almost all of the victims' blood has crystallized, causing rapid death. Two other townspeople have committed suicide after going insane. Stone and Hall retrieve the satellite and find two survivors, a 69-year-old alcoholic man named Peter Jackson and a six-month-old infant, Manuel Rios.
In addition to Stone and Hall, the elite team also includes Dr. Charles Dutton and Dr. Ruth Leavitt, who are summoned to a top-secret underground facility, code named Wildfire, located in Nevada. Upon arrival, they undergo extreme decontamination procedures, descending through four disinfection levels to a fifth level where laboratories are located. If the organism threatens to escape, the Wildfire facility includes an automatic nuclear self-destruct mechanism to incinerate all infectious agents. Under the "odd man hypothesis", Dr. Hall is entrusted with the only key that can deactivate the device, the theory being that an unmarried male is the most dispassionate person within a group to make critical decisions in a crisis.
By examining the satellite with powerful cameras, the team discovers the microscopic alien organism responsible for the deaths in New Mexico. The greenish, throbbing life form is assigned the code name "Andromeda." Andromeda kills animal life almost instantly and appears to be highly virulent. The team studies the organism using animal subjects, an electron microscope, and culturing in various growth media in an attempt to learn how it behaves. Hall tries to determine why the elderly man and the baby survived..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain_(1971_film)#Plot
"In the near future, the unmanned Pilgrim 7 space probe returns from Mars to Earth orbit with soil samples potentially containing evidence of extraterrestrial life. The probe is intercepted by the International Space Station, whose six-member crew retrieves its samples. Exobiologist Hugh Derry revives a dormant cell from the sample, which quickly grows into a multi-celled organism that American school children name "Calvin." Derry realises that Calvin's cells can change their specialisation, acting as muscle, neuron, and photosensory cells all at once.
When Derry conducts further research on Calvin, it crushes his hand and knocks him unconscious. Calvin escapes its enclosure and it devours a lab rat, growing in size. Engineer Rory Adams rescues Derry, but is quarantined in the lab when Calvin attacks him. Adams tries to fight off Calvin, but is killed; Calvin escapes through a fire-control vent. Soon after, the station's communication system overheats, cutting off all contact with Earth. ISS commander Ekaterina Golovkina performs a space walk to find and fix the problem, which turns out to be Calvin. Calvin attacks her and ruptures her spacesuit's coolant system. As her suit fills with coolant, Golovkina blindly makes her way to the airlock. She and the crew realise that Calvin will re-enter the station if they let her in, so she chooses to stay outside and drowns in her spacesuit.
Calvin attempts to re-enter the station through its maneuvering thrusters. The crew fire the thrusters to blast it away, but they drain so much fuel that it causes the ISS to enter a decaying orbit, where it will burn up in Earth's atmosphere. Pilot Sho Murakami suggests using the ISS's remaining fuel to get back into a safe orbit even though it will allow Calvin to re-enter. The crew seal themselves in one side of the station and prepare to vent the atmosphere from the other side to render Calvin dormant. Derry grows weaker and unexpectedly dies. The crew discovers that, due to Derry being a paraplegic with no feeling below the waist, Calvin had been wrapped around his leg and feeding off of him. They are then attacked. Murakami seals himself inside a sleeping pod, while Calvin tries to break inside. Physician David Jordan and Quarantine Officer Miranda North use Derry's corpse as bait to lure Calvin away and trap it in the other side...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(2017_film)#Plot
The creature in the movie, Life is more like, The Blob than The_Thing.
However, these monstrous entities essentially hack and corrupt the DNA Source+Code of other life forms. Then either absorb or imitate them.
Of course HRG has his own take on the Alien theme.
The burn the monster scene is quite common in several Sci-Fi movies.
