Oddly enough, the reviewer here thought that the picture quality was great for an older movie. He gave it 4.5 out of 5. He's the kind of person who has a ridiculously good set-up though. And he usually doesn't change his reviews much for a movie that was earlier done on HD-DVD and was ported to Blu-Ray (HD-DVD review was in 2006).
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1662/thing1982.html
I usually boycott titles with no extras. Its complete BS like you said when they don't include them. Luckily the problem was far more prevalent in Blu-Rays early days and has more or less disappeared by now.
Ironically, Universal took the cheap route here and the HD-DVD had more extras that they cut on the Blu-Ray to squeeze it on a BD-25. That's some major bullshit. Pretty shameful on Universal's part.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
