Just finally got to watching the old and new The Thing.
After reading reviews most seemed to say the old one was way better, with a deeper plot, and less reliant on cgi. And to be honest after watching the new one first then the old one (the newer one is a prequal) the 2011 version was much better. The 1982 version relied just as heavily on the cgi which was terrible at the time. Not to mention the 2011 version did a wonderful job of connecting the two movies. you could watch them almost as one if not for the difference of about 30 years.