{"id":10512,"date":"2007-01-01T14:25:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T21:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/01\/01\/theres-certainly-is-a-need-to-fear.html"},"modified":"2007-01-01T14:25:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T21:25:01","slug":"theres_certainly_is_a_nee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/01\/theres_certainly_is_a_nee.html","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s certainly <i>is<\/i> a need to fear &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Underdog\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/underdog_,movie.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8230; what with war, violence, poverty, corruption &#8230; and, oh, yeah, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0467110\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/node\/30961\" target=\"_blank\">due out in August<\/a> (and based, of course, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060037\/\" target=\"_blank\">classic<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Why, one might ask, if they&#8217;re completely switching the story around (&#8220;A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers &#8212; a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.&#8221;) are they using the name, aside from cashing in on Boomer sentimentality.  Which, as any number of remakes-in-name-only demonstrate, is a great way to alienate your prospective customer base. <\/p>\n<p>And 2007 was looking to be such a good year so far &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/have_no_fear_under_dog_is_here\/\" target=\"_blank\">Les<\/a>, who&#8217;s chortling over the tag line that will no doubt have the Fundies providing the film with a lot of unwarranted publicity)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Previously kvetched about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/22\/theres_no_need.html\">here<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; what with war, violence, poverty, corruption &#8230; and, oh, yeah, this &#8230; due out in August (and based, of course, on the classic). Why, one might ask, if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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}},"categories":[45,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-cartoons","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3055,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/16\/strike.html","url_meta":{"origin":10512,"position":0},"title":"Strike!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Aug-02 10:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"Ask me how gleeful I am that the baseball players may go out on strike August 30th. 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