{"id":39755,"date":"2013-11-18T18:08:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T01:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/18\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-hollywood-edition.html"},"modified":"2013-11-18T18:08:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T01:08:18","slug":"this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-hollywood-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/18\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-hollywood-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"This Is Why We Can&#39;t Have Nice Things (Hollywood Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Every time they make a sequel to a beloved original movie, an angel plummets, screaming, into the bowels of Hell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080'>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Holy shit, no. No no no no no no no no no. Please don&#39;t ruin this by trying to make a sequel. It sounds terrible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/YHViO_oGYaTtmYg6qBdCczQA6jtVgNnWTQN8_fCwRW7BkOWJ0si9jTpGRTkEXsFxj805FQKrc7tF3vMljfq6s-RwUWgUK7WBnAeOUINOoDRCpsXJDOcSZQrD1lktBnE20M_S71okLEsF5Q=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/sequel-to-frank-capras-its-a-wonderful-life-aiming-for-2014-release\/'>Sequel to Frank Capra\u2019s \u2018It\u2019s a Wonderful Life\u2019 Aiming for 2015 Release [UPDATED]<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Commenting Rules: Keep the conversation civil and on topic. If your comment does not add to the conversation, it will be removed. Debate intelligently. Insulting the author, \/Film, or other commenters will result in comment removal and possible ban. If you want to point out a typo, correction, &#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Ee373ahN8Xx' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time they make a sequel to a beloved original movie, an angel plummets, screaming, into the bowels of Hell. Reshared post from +Les Jenkins Holy shit, no. No no no no no no no no no. Please don&#39;t ruin this by trying to make a sequel. It sounds terrible. Sequel to Frank Capra\u2019s \u2018It\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/18\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-hollywood-edition.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Is Why We Can&#39;t Have Nice Things (Hollywood Edition)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132193,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/09\/poster-for-rogue-one-sequel-leaked.html","url_meta":{"origin":39755,"position":0},"title":"Poster for &quot;Rogue One&quot; sequel leaked!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Dec-16 12:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Looks like a different cast, though, which doesn't bode well. Except it looks like that Darth Vader guy will be back -- awesome! 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