{"id":3795,"date":"2022-09-21T07:06:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T03:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3795"},"modified":"2022-09-21T07:06:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T03:06:52","slug":"credit-where-credit-is-due-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3795","title":{"rendered":"Credit where credit is due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a rule, movie remakes are pretty terrible, and there was absolutely no reason to remake the 1940 classic version of\u00a0<em>Pinocchio<\/em>. (Actually it&#8217;s already been remade like 40 times, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve bothered to see any of those ersatz editions.)<\/p>\n<p>From what I understand it&#8217;s actually happening twice this year, once with a live-action version available now on Disney+, and once with a stop-motion animated feature that will release later this year. Bold moves.<\/p>\n<p>Monday night I watched the live-action remake, a film featuring none other than Tom Hanks as the elderly Geppetto. Of course I thought it would be terrible, but as a matter of fact it was&#8230; okay. Not Top 365, but okay.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give credit where credit is due, and eat crow when crow should be eaten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a rule, movie remakes are pretty terrible, and there was absolutely no reason to remake the 1940 classic version of\u00a0Pinocchio. (Actually it&#8217;s already been remade like 40 times, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve bothered to see any of those &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3795\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3796,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}