{"id":3742,"date":"2007-05-06T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2017-11-29T10:11:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T16:11:15","slug":"dont-remake-the-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/06\/dont-remake-the-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Remake the Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blogosphere, built of fanboys of science fiction, politics, or sometimes both, is abuzz about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,20036782_20037403_20037541,00.html\" target=\"_new\"><i>Entertainment Weekly<\/i> The Sci-Fi 25<\/a> top 25 science fiction things in the last 25 years, has this to say about #16, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,20036782_20037403_20037541_16,00.html\" target=\"_new\">The Thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, there&#8217;s been talk in Hollywood of remaking The Thing. Please don&#8217;t. For the love of God, we&#8217;re begging you. After all, this streamlined exercise in subzero paranoia cannot be improved upon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is amusing to some of us who realize the <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0084787\/\" target=\"_new\">1982 film<\/a> was a remake of a <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0044121\/\" target=\"_new\">1951 film entitled <i>The Thing From Another World<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t remake the remake because its subzero paranoia could not be improved?  Hollywood 2007 surely differs; why, it&#8217;s a parable about modern politics, somehow, making George W. Bush and the American military responsible would speak more truth to power.<\/p>\n<p>In the pool, I&#8217;m taking the spot where <i>alien<\/i> is replaced with <i>military experiment on Iraqi\/general Arabic prisoner gone wrong<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blogosphere, built of fanboys of science fiction, politics, or sometimes both, is abuzz about the Entertainment Weekly The Sci-Fi 25 top 25 science fiction things in the last 25 years, has this to say about #16, The Thing: Recently, there&#8217;s been talk in Hollywood of remaking The Thing. Please don&#8217;t. For the love of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18105,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/18105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}