My daughter is currently reading 'The Never Ending Story', the book of course is a much much different thing to the movie.

She is loving the book, I said I wish someone would make another NES that followed the book more closely, as it could make a great film.

She said she wouldn't want to see that though, as the original Never Ending Story film was part of her childhood, it is something that 'just was' and she thought a new film would wreck that for her, even if it was a completely new and different entity.

The best analogy I read was someone's tag here, the SE is like having someone run a long scratch down the side of your car with a key. It doesn't affect the performance of even the look of your car all that much, it would equate to less than 1% of the paintwork being changed, but every time you looked at your car it would piss you off, and you couldn't help feeling annoyed and wondering why someone would do that to you.