{"id":934,"date":"2007-04-13T14:04:32","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T14:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=934"},"modified":"2007-04-13T14:04:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T14:04:32","slug":"more_remakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/13\/more_remakes\/","title":{"rendered":"More Remakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As long as I&#8217;m feeling grumbly this afternoon anyway, I may as well note that two more genre classics are scheduled to be remade: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?id=40999\"><i>Barbarella<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstshowing.net\/2007\/02\/21\/the-day-the-earth-stood-still-being-remade-for-2008\/\"><i>The Day the Earth Stood Still<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can actually see some value in redoing <i>Barbarella<\/i>, which, despite its kooky, 60s-ish charms, is a pretty bad movie. As I was <a title=\"Snake Plissken? I Heard You Were Dead\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2007\/04\/snake_plissken_i_heard_you_wer\/\">saying the other day<\/a>, there is a case to be made for trying to improve questionable material. But <i>The Day the Earth Stood Still<\/i>? A movie that (a) is just about perfect on its own terms, (b) holds up quite well even after 50 years, and (c) stemmed entirely from the nuclear nightmares of the early Cold War times in which it was made? Come on. What&#8217;s the point?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as I&#8217;m feeling grumbly this afternoon anyway, I may as well note that two more genre classics are scheduled to be remade: Barbarella and The Day the Earth Stood Still. I can actually see some value in redoing Barbarella, which, despite its kooky, 60s-ish charms, is a pretty bad movie. As I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}