{"id":769,"date":"2008-06-18T07:41:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T11:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2008-06-16T13:47:40","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T17:47:40","slug":"yknow-hes-got-a-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"Y&#8217;Know, He&#8217;s Got a Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Scalzi has an article about SF movies over at SciFi Scanner, and he makes an interesting observation: In science fiction, unlike every other movie genre, &#8220;classic&#8221; does not automatically equal &#8220;good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><I>Gojira<\/I> and its dozens of sequels are so bad that if there was any honesty in the world, people would have to admit that the universally-reviled 1998 Roland Emmerich version is actually the best-written, best-acted, best-produced Godzilla film ever made. No one will ever admit this, <I>ever<\/I> (except for me, and maybe, if he&#8217;s drunk enough, Roland Emmerich), but there it is. <I>Gojira<\/I> is a classic science fiction film. <I>Gojira<\/I> stinks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s got lots of other examples.  And he&#8217;s right: For every <I>Blade Runner<\/I>, there&#8217;s a <I>Logan&#8217;s Run<\/I>.<\/p>\n<p>The comments thread is interesting, too.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.amctv.com\/scifi-scanner\/2008\/06\/not-all-scifi-classics-are-good.php\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Scalzi has an article about SF movies over at SciFi Scanner, and he makes an interesting observation: In science fiction, unlike every other movie genre, &#8220;classic&#8221; does not automatically equal &#8220;good.&#8221; Gojira and its dozens of sequels are so bad that if there was any honesty in the world, people would have to admit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}