10 Recent 'Reboots' Of 80s/90s Classics (That Were Nowhere Near As Good As Jurassic World)

3. The Thing (2011)

RottenTomatoes Score - 43% Compared To - The Thing (1982) - 92% In John Carpenter's 1982 version of The Thing, itself a reimagining of a fifties B-Movie entitled The Thing From Another World, a group of American scientists in Antarctica discover a destructive alien being that can assimilate with any organisms it comes into contact with and impersonate any victims of such assimilation. One by one they fall victim to the parasite as they attempt to exterminate it and prevent it from coming into further contact with humanity, leading to the hugely underrated ending where Kurt Russell and Keith David's sole survivors share a bottle of whisky with the implication that one of them is an imposter. In the prequel that nobody asked for in 2011, what did they do? They recycled the same plot, only this time around, it was Norwegian scientists (with a host of Americans led by Mary Elizabeth Winstead thrown in for marketing reasons) that became the prey of the titular being. Admittedly, this ties into the 1982 story, where the inhabitants of the American base witness a Norwegian helicopter shooting at an Alaskan malamute dog (actually the Thing in disguise, spoiled for any Norwegian speakers by dialogue) at the beginning of the film. Nevertheless, it was a lazy decision that was reflected in the film's critical reception, which contributed to it failing to make back its budget at the box office.