{"id":1401,"date":"2008-10-31T06:25:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T20:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2008-10-31T06:25:04","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T20:25:04","slug":"robots-and-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/10\/31\/robots-and-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots and Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new releases from current exploitation leaders The Asylum (whose mandate seems to be to rush into production cheap films with titles that echo upcoming major releases or which cash in on box-office trends, even if the plots are completely different):<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Day the Earth Stopped<\/strong> (US-2008; dir. C. Thomas Howell)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/day-earth-stopped-poster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1402\" title=\"day-earth-stopped-poster\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/day-earth-stopped-poster.jpg\" alt=\"Day the Earth Stopped poster\" width=\"256\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/day-earth-stopped-poster.jpg 256w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/day-earth-stopped-poster-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"product_summary\">Hundreds of massive intergalactic robots appear in all of the major world capitals with an ultimatum: Prove the value of human civilization or be destroyed.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I mean these robots are BIG! Check out the legs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/day-earth-stopped01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1403\" title=\"day-earth-stopped01\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/day-earth-stopped01.jpg\" alt=\"Day the Earth Stopped pic 1\" width=\"450\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/day-earth-stopped01.jpg 475w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/day-earth-stopped01-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike its tacit &#8220;inspiration&#8221;, the imminent <em>The Day the Earth Stood Still<\/em> remake, this one seems to involve not a saviour but a destroyer &#8212; a sort of anti-Buffy:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/day-earth-stopped02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1404\" title=\"day-earth-stopped02\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/day-earth-stopped02.jpg\" alt=\"Day tghe Earth Stopped pic 2\" width=\"450\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/day-earth-stopped02.jpg 470w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/day-earth-stopped02-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasylum.cc\/product.php?id=150\" target=\"_blank\">Website and trailer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Merlin and the War of the Dragons<\/strong> (US-2008; dir. Mark Atkins)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/merlin_poster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1405\" title=\"merlin_poster\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/merlin_poster.jpg\" alt=\"Merlin and the War of the Dragons poster\" width=\"256\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/merlin_poster.jpg 256w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/merlin_poster-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"product_summary\">An army of dragons invade the crippled English countryside and the apprentice wizard Merlin must confront the fire-breathing beasts.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So&#8230; dragons and Excaliber and dragons and fire and horses and stuff&#8230; Did I mention dragons?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/merlin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1406\" title=\"merlin\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/merlin.jpg\" alt=\"Merlin and the War of the Dragons\" width=\"449\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/merlin.jpg 477w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/merlin-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasylum.cc\/product.php?id=149\" target=\"_blank\">Website and trailer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks as always to Avery for passing on the info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new releases from current exploitation leaders The Asylum (whose mandate seems to be to rush into production cheap films with titles that echo upcoming major releases or which cash in on box-office trends, even if the plots are completely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/10\/31\/robots-and-dragons\/\">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":[],"categories":[46,47,44,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}