{"id":809,"date":"2004-01-28T10:51:32","date_gmt":"2004-01-28T18:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=809"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:43:58","slug":"argh-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"ARGH!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--107530581953554733-->So &#8230; what do you do with a <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.go.com\/filmography\/Credits?movie_id=6180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>classic piece of American cinema about the Cold War<\/strong><\/a> that has a killer cast and director? <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.go.com\/movies\/M\/manchuriancandidate_2004\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Remake it, of course!<\/strong><\/a> I really do think this is proof that Hollywood is running out of ideas. This year we get remakes of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/movies.go.com\/movies\/D\/dawnofthedead_2004\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dawn of the Dead<\/strong><\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/movies.go.com\/movies\/S\/stepfordwives_2003\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Stepford Wives<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/movies.go.com\/movies\/M\/manchuriancandidate_2004\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Manchurian Candidate<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; Nobody seems to remember how great that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychomovie.com\/production\/productionwhy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>remake of &#8220;Psycho&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So &#8230; what do you do with a classic piece of American cinema about the Cold War that has a killer cast and director? Remake it, of course! I really do think this is proof that Hollywood is running out of ideas. This year we get remakes of &#8220;Dawn of the Dead,&#8221; &#8220;The Stepford Wives&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-d3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10448,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/10448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}