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Oh, come on. I mean, I know that Remake Fever is hot, and studios are desperate for properties that they can recycle and get some word of mouth on before said recycles vanish into deserved obscurity … but … Arthur<\/a>?<\/em> And Romancing the Stone<\/a>?<\/em> <\/p>\n

Yeesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, come on. I mean, I know that Remake Fever is hot, and studios are desperate for properties that they can recycle and get some word of mouth on before said…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_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":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128030,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/15\/return-of-the-poppins.html","url_meta":{"origin":13467,"position":0},"title":"Return of the Poppins","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Sep-15 1:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So, mercifully, this is not a remake of Mary Poppins that Disney is planning, but a sequel, twenty year later. 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