On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:55:26 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 06/09/2011 1:08 PM, blake murphy wrote:
>
>>>> I used to set my alarm to get up in the middle of the night when it was
>>>> on. It's still one of my all-
>>> I was disappointed with the recent remake of the movie. There was a good
>>> take off of it on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
>>
>> in my experience, there's never been a remake of anything that was worth a
>> damn.
>
>
>Why would we expect much from a re-make? The people who are producing
>them don't have enough talent to come up with a novel idea, though they
>seem to be able to convince some people that their product will be
>better than the original, but tend not to be. The only reason that I can
>think of for a remake is that the special effects could be better.

Many of the very old classics were lousy quality; fuzzy B & W, poor
audio (some with no audio), and made for small screen... some of the
remakes are far superior, some are awful... but for those who want the
originals are still there. I like the original cartoons, the new
cartoons are terrible.