{"id":2666,"date":"2009-05-12T15:49:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T04:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2009-05-13T07:53:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T20:53:20","slug":"battle-of-the-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/12\/battle-of-the-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever you think of the Asylum&#8217;s previous genre productions, I suspect they&#8217;ve got a winner in <strong>Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus<\/strong> (US-2009; dir. <span>Jack Perez [as Ace Hannah]) <\/span>&#8230; provided you like giant monster mash-ups. If you&#8217;re in doubt, check out this just released trailer:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Fa7ck5mcd1o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Fa7ck5mcd1o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Cheesy? Sure. Fun? Oh yes, definitely &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Understatement of the Year: &#8220;We&#8217;re dealing with a menace!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/megashark_large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2669\" title=\"megashark_large\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/megashark_large.jpg\" alt=\"megashark_large\" width=\"256\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/megashark_large.jpg 256w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/megashark_large-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Previous <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/01\/they-grow-em-big-in-the-asylum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Backbrain article<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasylum.cc\/product.php?id=155\" target=\"_blank\">Asylum website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever you think of the Asylum&#8217;s previous genre productions, I suspect they&#8217;ve got a winner in Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus (US-2009; dir. Jack Perez [as Ace Hannah]) &#8230; provided you like giant monster mash-ups. If you&#8217;re in doubt, check &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/12\/battle-of-the-giants\/\">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":[4,44,83,50,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666"}],"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=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}