Interrupting your blog reading for a small rant
December 4, 2007
Last night I tivo’d Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer for the children. After lunch today when we realized that 24 degrees is not conducive to a snowball fight because your tears freeze in your eyeballs when you get hit in the face with snow, I suggested we sit down and watch it. It is my favorite of all the Christmas specials.
Can I just say…What the Hell??? Who thought it was a good idea to remake Rudolph? Rudolph who wants a nose job and asks why Santa can’t use headlights instead? Santa’s workshop is robbed? Toy Taker? And let’s not mention the bad music.
Burl Ives must be rolling over in his grave. Assuming that he is dead or else 140 years old.
The real Rudolph is coming on tonight at 8pm. I am setting my tivo up right now.
Carry on.
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Rudolph is my favorite too–I had NO IDEA that it had been remade, but that is ridiculous. We will be watching the real one at our house, no crappy remakes.
December 4th, 2007 at 3:37 pmThere are times for a good remake…father of the bride…parent trap…where the new is still good. Rudolph is not one of those times! We’ll be TiVoing the real one tonight! Love your photography!
December 4th, 2007 at 3:42 pmUh-oh, I skipped tonight’s recording. I better go switch it back. I am glad I caught your rant.
December 4th, 2007 at 3:56 pmThe exact same thing happened to us. I love the DVR search feature though, allowing me to find the “real” Rudolph.
December 4th, 2007 at 4:00 pmI had no idea that there was a remake. Why mess with something like that, anyway? The only thing I miss when I watch our VCR tape of Rudolph are the Norelco commercials I remember from my childhood, with creatures sledding on Norelco electric razors down snow-covered hills….
December 4th, 2007 at 4:14 pmI hate all these really stupid new Christmas specials they show. They’re just ruining the ones we grew up with.
December 4th, 2007 at 4:17 pmNicole,
Yes they are! And I stomp my old lady cane right along side you.
December 4th, 2007 at 4:38 pmAww… I like the Toy Taker one. My boys love both the original Rudolph and the Toy Taker movie. I don’t think it’s meant to be a remake. It’s just a continuation of the story. As my oldest says it’s Part 2 of Rudolph.
And yes his nose came in handy but it’s still hard to be different and I can see how he could still want to be ‘normal’.
December 4th, 2007 at 5:01 pmRemakes almost always stink… but come to think of it, I realized (while watching Rudolph LAST year) that Santa is pretty rude and crusty to poor Rudolph. What happend to him being a “jolly old elf”? The Rudolph movie makes him out to be just kind of a mean, fat guy.
December 4th, 2007 at 5:07 pmThat’s exactly what happened at our house. I deleted it from Tivo, but now I’m curious whether they kept Santa’s mean disposition from the original.
December 4th, 2007 at 5:10 pmI think if you’re going to remake a classic it should be worth watching. Some of the remakes (not just Christmas movies) are REALLY bad! Sorry you and your children had to watch that horrible movie.
A good Christmas remake for me was The Grinch Who Stole Christmas with Jim Carey.
December 4th, 2007 at 5:22 pmOH THANK GOD I CAME HERE.
I was so upset b/c I forgot totally spaced that Rudolph was on last night… good to know I didn’t miss the *real* one.
*whew!*
December 4th, 2007 at 6:05 pmBack when Coffeehusband and I were first married, were newlywed teens and dirt poor, one of the ‘big’ purchases we made was the vhs tapes of Rudolph, Year Without a Santa Claus, Frosty and ? (one more but my mind is drawing a blank right now). Since then we have watched ‘our’ copies with the children every year and I am now happy (more than happy) I’ve kept my head, and the heads of my children in the sand. I had NO idea they redid Rudolph, and the description you just gave pissed me off a little.
I’ll be firing up the old vcr player again this year…. smile.
December 4th, 2007 at 6:20 pmI sorta did the same thing last night. I got my 4YO so excited that we were going to watch Rudolph after dinner. Unfortunately, I read the TV schedule wrong, and because yesterday was not the 4th but the 3rd. Disappointment, wailing, gnashing of teeth ensued and then finally pouting. And that was just me.
December 4th, 2007 at 6:21 pmmeritt,
Santa Claus is Coming to Town? With Burgermeister Meisterburger? And young Santa with red hair? And, my favorite, the wizard, Winter who puts one foot in front of the other?
December 4th, 2007 at 7:44 pmHave you tried watching the original Rudolph with small children?
You see it in a totally different way.
i.e. It’s scary.
December 4th, 2007 at 7:44 pmBeing cable/satellite-less, relying soley on DVD’s I had no idea they remade it either! WHY do they feel the need to do that?
December 4th, 2007 at 8:36 pmanother thank you from a commenter — i just went and DVR’d the real one (missed 5 minutes… not too bad) and everything else that’s on over the next week or two. thanks!
December 4th, 2007 at 9:11 pmI have not see it or knew of it. We are watching the Burl Ives version. It’s like the Rosalind Russell (better)version of “Auntie Mame” as opposed to the Lucille Ball version.
December 4th, 2007 at 9:12 pmWe’ve been watching the original around here for about a week and I was actually shocked at how rude Santa was. I love the movie but had forgotten about how mean everyone was to poor Rudolph. Yes, I know. They’re supposed to be mean.
The remake sounds terrible!
December 4th, 2007 at 9:35 pmWe too were disgusted with “Rudolph 2″ from the Netflix disc we got in. I thought I had ordered up the real Rudolph, but we got the evil universe one instead. I thought I was going to stab an ice pick in my head while the toy-taker was singing his little ditty towards the end. Even the snowman bewildered me.
December 4th, 2007 at 9:42 pmI love original Rudolph, but agree that it’s scary for some little littles. My girls were terrified of the snow monster - had bad dreams about it for weeks. Of course they have bad dreams about, well, everything that isn’t pink and princessy, so that’s not saying much, but still…
December 4th, 2007 at 9:53 pmI Tivo’d Rudolph, but the darn cable company messed up and played Frosty instead. I like Frosty, but he’s no Rudolph.
December 5th, 2007 at 1:38 amI hadn’t heard about the “new” Rudolph. I’ve always wondered why Santa is so mean in the original, it seemed out of character for him; but I liked the movie anyway. BTW the movie with Snow Miser and Heat Miser is “The Year Without a Santa Claus,” my all-time favorite; Santa Claus is Coming to Town is a different one.
December 5th, 2007 at 8:50 amWe sat down to watch Charlie Brown Christmas the other night and the local news investigative team decided to air a special on Islamic terrorists in Georgia. I guess nothing says Christmas more than Jihad and infidels.
December 5th, 2007 at 9:58 amFrosty is my personal fav and there are something like eight million crappy Frosty follow-ups. I can and frequently still do sing the entire tune, much to the embarrassment of my family. (Real one Friday night at 8…if you’re interested.) But I do have a soft spot for dentist-wannabee Hermey. Is he in the new one?
December 5th, 2007 at 10:32 amI saw the remake (least I “think” it was this version) advertised, but they implied that it was mainly just digitally remastered……..
December 5th, 2007 at 10:44 amPlease tell me there was a special appearance by Jessica Simpson.
December 5th, 2007 at 11:17 amha!! that’s hilarious… rudolph wants a nose job?? oh, the insanity of it all!!
December 5th, 2007 at 12:39 pmI didn’t know about the remake. I DVR’s what I thought was the original. I better check to be sure before we try to watch it.
December 5th, 2007 at 1:34 pmIf you think that’s bad, you should watch “Frosty Returns”. It’s the most ridiculous piece of PC drivel ever to hit the airwaves! Frosty doesn’t even have a pipe!!
December 5th, 2007 at 4:19 pmBoo! Hiss!
I like the good ‘ol originals!
Oops, have to retract that; how could I have forgotten Keenan Wynn as the Winter Warlock? Apologies to Julie!
December 5th, 2007 at 9:13 pmThere is no more talent left in the entertainment industry. Everything is a re-make these days. That is all they do anymore, re-make someone else’s good idea, and thereby dilute the process.
December 6th, 2007 at 3:57 pmI am appalled both for myself, but more for you, since I did not see it. Ugh.
December 8th, 2007 at 2:14 amUh oh, I hope I taped the right one. Rudolph is all screwed up in our DVD set so I set it up to tape, now I’m afraid to check which one I recorded. Enjoy the real one
December 9th, 2007 at 4:19 pm