{"id":294,"date":"2013-10-06T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=294"},"modified":"2013-10-27T20:43:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T20:43:01","slug":"space-battleship-yamato-texas-chainsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Space Battleship Yamato \/ Texas Chainsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Space Battleship Yamato<\/strong><\/span> (2010)<\/p>\n<p>Not sure how this slipped past my radar for so long.\u00a0 Being a fan of Yamato (or Star Blazers as it was called in the US), I was surprised to find someone had made a live action version.\u00a0 The plot has been changed just slightly, other than that the story follows the near extinction of the human race, and the trip to Iskandar.\u00a0 The visual effects aren&#8217;t bad, it&#8217;s a shame we don&#8217;t get to see more of the Yamato in battles, because it looks awesome in those scenes.\u00a0 The script is very hammy, and the over-acting is in places hilarious.\u00a0 What I can&#8217;t work out is whether or not it was on purpose, it did make it feel like watching the anime after all.\u00a0 Overall, worth catching if you&#8217;ve ever liked the Yamato series, but it&#8217;s definitely on the pricey side for the BR disc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Texas Chainsaw<\/strong><\/span> (2013)<\/p>\n<p>Another sequel to one of the greatest horror films of all time, and unlike one or two of the actual remakes, it&#8217;s not offensively bad.\u00a0 An acceptable number of people die, Leatherface is scary and the lead actress is easy to look at.\u00a0 Really the only problem I had with the film (and I&#8217;m a real pro at suspending disbelief), is how the lead character later in the film seems to just forget what happened to all her friends.\u00a0 Actually there were a couple of annoying &#8216;OMG 3D&#8217; shots too, I do wish companies would grow out of that.\u00a0 It was solid though, definitely delivered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Battleship Yamato (2010) Not sure how this slipped past my radar for so long.\u00a0 Being a fan of Yamato (or Star Blazers as it was called in the US), I was surprised to find someone had made a live action version.\u00a0 The plot has been changed just slightly, other than that the story follows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}