[Hodar]

When you take a classic book written over 100 yrs ago, and make it a *really* bad sci-fi movie; yes it's gonna bite. What's next? A re-write of the 3 Musketeers Jedi-style?

As soon as I saw the pre-views, I knew I had no interest in it. If they would have forgone the sci-fi aspect of it, and done the movie as it is written, it could have been great. Case in point: The Count of Monte Cristco (awesome!!)

[robertpaulsen]

Did you mean, "Monte Crisco"?

[razorbak]

Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't half the problem simple demographics? Disney cartoons did best when the baby boomers were kids. The made a comeback in the late 80s, early 90s, when the boomers started having kids of their own, and the "baby boomlet" started. Now the boomlet is aging into older fare. So there's no ready made audience for their big budget cartoons.

So the pro-abortion liberals at Disney are creamed by the consequences of their philosophy. It's like the story in the 1990s about the University administrations who couldn't figure why enrollment kept falling, as the young people who would've been born in the 1970s weren't around to pay tuition. Same is true for the pro-abort retirees to come who depend on an ever shrinking pool of workers. Unfortunately, though I'm a staunch pro-lifer, I'll feel the consequences too.

[WileyC]

When you take a classic book written over 100 yrs ago, and make it a *really* bad sci-fi movie; yes it's gonna bite. What's next? A re-write of the 3 Musketeers Jedi-style?

Actually.... with enough of the serial numbers rubbed off, this sounds kinda good. =)