I'm 28, so all these originals were before my time. I just can't stand these terrible remakes of movies these days. Seems like shoddy, 2nd rate work and acting along with an overall worse movie.
I agree 100% with Jared's point. Remakes rarely ever work. I can't speak to the 2011 "The Thing" though since I haven't seen it MTC. The new "Vacation" movie looks really lame to me even just watching the trailer. I did laugh at this Christie Brinkley ad though.