I couldn't agree with you more, Kirby. WB get a f'n
clue!
Toochis
--- Kirby McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tivoed the CBS Evening News today and just watched
> it. I caught a
> report about Warner Brothers
> extreme makeover of Bugs Bunny. Warner's proposes
> to turn the wascally
> wabbit into some kind
> of crimefighting "INCREDIBLES"-like (only not as
> good) hipster figure
> along with all the other immortal Looney Tunes
> characters.
>
> The powers that be at Time-Warner should take the
> people at Warner's
> animation who thought this up
> and summarily fire every one of them. This was
> reported in this
> morning's Wall Street Journal as well.
> If this isn't a mistake on the order of the Coca
> Cola makeover of
> several years ago, I don't know what is.
> I can tell you I was just sickened by it. And this
> isn't just
> nostalgia either. Those Warner characters have
> lots of life left in them, if the idiots at Warner's
> knew how to use
> them.
>
> No doubt some will be found who will rise to
> Warner's defense in this
> dubious enterprise, but yours
> truly will not be among them. Sometimes you just
> have to wonder who
> these people are that make
> these nutty decisions. In the past, animators
> brought Bugs and friends
> into fine-tuned versions of themselves
> that was, in my opinion, perfected in the 1950s.
> But this is radical
> and just destructive of wonderful
> intellectual property.
>
> If it's not broke, don't fix it.
>
> Please excuse the rant.
>
> Kirby McDaniel
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