On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:33:43 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 06/09/2011 4:19 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>>>> 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...
>
>Small screen????? WTF???? The old movies were made long before
>television, and it was some time before they even started running movies
>on television.

Not talking television... the old movies were narrow sceeen, no
cinemascope... many were not much better than flip movies at the penny
arcade. Even the old television shows were antiquated technology... a
big difference from 32 mm to modern digitalized... do you still listen
to 78 rpm?