Russian Paul, the simple answer seems to be “yes”. We have a generation of the uneducated, who have been sold on the idea that anything older than they must be “updated”. Teach students that they don’t need to have an appreciation of the past, and that they can ridicule anything they don’t understand as a preferable alternative to destroying it.

I can’t think of a single “updated” film that was even half as good as the original. But they make money. Studios are not run by filmmakers, and more than hospitals are run by doctors. The accountants and the marketing wonks have taken over. Not a pretty picture. So what do we do to change it?

Boycott the son of a bitch.

Must everything be remade into bite-sized pieces of dumbed-down, mediocre,
mainstream garbage for the general public to swallow up? I’m no fan of the
Beatles, the most overrated band in the history of rock n roll, but their films have
a place in musical history, now it will be reduced to Disney bullshit. And I’m sure
that prostitute McCartney has no problem with this as long as he gets paid.