However, what interests me is the rather placid reaction to 3D conversions of older films, especially in comparison to the hysteria that surrounded the colorizing of black and white films by Ted Turner and others a few years back. (An exception is the recent release of colorized versions of films like Things to Come which Ray Harryhausen was involved in; Harryhausen’ has also released color versions of three of his own films: It Came From Beneath the Sea, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and 20 Million Miles to Earth.) And the point of my rhetorical question, “Is Nothing Sacred?,” had more to do with this reaction than anything else.

Incidentally, I must admit I did pay to see the 3D version of The Nightmare Before Christmas and found it rather lackluster. (It was not helped by apparent insertion of various props in the foreground in order to add the sense of depth.) However, with 3D versions of Titantic, Peter Jackson’s King Kong, the Star Wars films on their way, it is something that cannot be ignored.