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   On 5/30/2024 1:58 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > On 2024-05-30 20:34:40 +0000, Your Name said:   
   >   
   >> On 2024-05-30 15:31:57 +0000, Paul S Person said:   
   >>> On Thu, 30 May 2024 06:03:54 +0000,   
   >>> danmin@danminart-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Danart) wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Rockinghorse Winner wrote:   
   >>>>> The new Disney adaptation of the evergreen children's story is   
   >>>>> being panned by reviewers all over the internet as woke trash, that   
   >>>>> further tarnishes the Disney brand. It currently has a 20%   
   >>>>> favoarable rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Released direct to cable, it   
   >>>>> seems some in   
   >>>>> corporate knew enough than to release it to theaters, so it could   
   >>>>> suffer it's ignominy in relative privacy. Choosing to update the   
   >>>>> cultural aesthetic to 21st c norms, while keeping the Edwardian   
   >>>>> setting of the original book, all it succeeds at doing is creating   
   >>>>> a cringe-fest that makes you feel embarassed for everyone involved.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Why does it have to be a remake? Why not just fill in the gap   
   >>>> between or after the following. Even a story before the before.   
   >>>   
   >>> Disney still thinks remakes are worth doing.   
   >>>   
   >>> -or-   
   >>>   
   >>> Disney is suffering from a total lack of imagination   
   >>   
   >> Neither of those is unique to just Disney. About 90% of lazy-ass   
   >> Hollyweird suffers from those same things too.  :-(   
   >   
   > I should add, it's not just Hollyweird either. Book publishers do the   
   > same thing.   
   >   
   > They often redesign the book covers, which when done *during* the   
   > release of a series is {beep}ingly annyoying for those collecting them   
   > who end up with either a mismatched set or having to rebuy the older books.   
   >   
   > Dorling Kindersley (DK) are also have a bad tendency to release a new   
   > edition  of a book with a few added new pages - again {beep}ingly   
   > annoying for those who already bought the previous edition.   
   >   
   And you think those outcomes are "by accident" because...?   
      
   > > Then there's the car industry with their rebooting of old models - the   
   > "new" Beetle and the "new" Mini being two of the best known examples.   
   >   
   >   
      
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