{"id":3084,"date":"2008-07-27T16:03:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T20:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2008-07-27T16:04:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T20:04:44","slug":"the-great-remaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3084","title":{"rendered":"The Great (Re)maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Movie remakes get announced every day that (fortunately) never get made, but here are a few that struck me as especially pointless: <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>  <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?category=3&amp;id=58000\"><em>Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em> reboot<\/a>, where &#8220;the plan is to have a dark tone.&#8221; (Masterful and cunning plan, that.)<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?id=58031\"><em>Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em> remake<\/a> by MTV, which &#8220;may also include music not featured in the original.&#8221; You know, the original isn&#8217;t actually a <em>good<\/em> movie (despite some great songs). It&#8217;s the cult following and midnight showings that have made it popular. Trying to recapture that isn&#8217;t likely to work out for anybody.<\/li>\n<li>Has the world really be crying out for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?id=58051\"><em>Tron 2<\/em><\/a>?<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Oh, and do we really need <em>another<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?category=3&amp;id=58012\"><em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em> remake or take-off<\/a>? Haven&#8217;t the darker undertones of Lewis Carroll been examined, well, <em>a lot<\/em>?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie remakes get announced every day that (fortunately) never get made, but here are a few that struck me as especially pointless: A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot, where &#8220;the plan is to have a dark tone.&#8221; (Masterful and cunning plan, that.) A Rocky Horror Picture Show remake by MTV, which &#8220;may also include music &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3084\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-3084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}