{"id":12178,"date":"2007-10-29T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/10\/29\/flop-house.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T09:42:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:42:43","slug":"flop_house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/flop_house.html","title":{"rendered":"Flop House"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Top Ten Movies that Went Wrong<\/a>?  Well, everyone has their own list (I’d have to include Phantom Menace, the film that single-handedly destroyed the dreams of a hundred million nerds).  Though I’ve seen two of these (which do you think?), and they were … yeah … pretty damned bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Top Ten Movies that Went Wrong?  Well, everyone has their own list (I’d have to include Phantom Menace, the film that single-handedly destroyed the dreams of a hundred million…<\/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":"","_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":[41,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-movies","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26800,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/what-if-if-the-phantom-menace-was-good.html","url_meta":{"origin":12178,"position":0},"title":"What if if The Phantom Menace was … good?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 2-Mar-12 3:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting hypothetical exercise of how the first Star Wars prequel could have been better. And ... y'know ... it's hard to argue that most of the suggestions are significant improvements, tightening the plot and upping the emotional stakes and getting rid of a lot of the more stupid silliness.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129173,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/18\/movie-review-the-phantom-menance-1999.html","url_meta":{"origin":12178,"position":1},"title":"Movie Review: "The Phantom Menance" (1999)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Dec-15 12:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, we're trying to watch the Prequels, now, too -- simply because +Kay Hill never saw them except the first (and parts of the second via the Lego game adaptation).http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace\/Summary: Some beautiful set pieces, but a story crippled by clashing tones of seriousness and slapstick, as well as some dumb\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EPI_TPM_poster5B15D.pngimgmax%3D660.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":26263,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/ghosts-of-the-phantom-menace.html","url_meta":{"origin":12178,"position":2},"title":"Ghosts of “The Phantom Menace”","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 10-Feb-12 3:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I didn't start this blog in time to record my 1999 initial impressions of The Phantom Menace -- released 13 years ago today, and also appearing in 3D today. 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