/vr/ - Retro Games

Contemporary critics raked Carpenter through the coals for The Thing, calling it boring, poorly characterized, with the special effects being over the top. Even the director of the original Thing From Another World came after him. It was a financial and critical bomb. Nowadays it's considered one of the greatest horror films of all time and a masterpiece of practical special effects, because the passage of time's allowed it to find an audience who are able to judge it on its own merits.

It's like all those great 2D PS1 and PS2 games that critics shit their pants with rage over, and panned for not fulfilling their polygon fetish, but are now considered classics.