{"id":942,"date":"2004-07-31T01:43:35","date_gmt":"2004-07-31T01:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=942"},"modified":"2020-08-21T01:44:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T01:44:06","slug":"thunderbirds-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2004\/07\/31\/thunderbirds-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbirds (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So Roger Ebert said that this movie was produced for an audience that didn&#8217;t exist. Um&#8230; Hello? I, for one, thought this movie was pretty cool, but I expect for completely different reasons than the 20 or so kids who enjoyed it along with us. I think you either have to have loved the original Thunderbirds series as a kid, or you have to be a kid in order to &#8220;get&#8221; this film. Ebert clearly is in neither group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Points off though for the rather annoying child characters (hint: Spy Kids kind of needed them, because that was the whole point, but Thunderbirds never needed a kid in a starring role in order to appeal to the target audience of same) and also because, for some reason, the words &#8220;International Rescue&#8221; could never actually be said out loud by any character in the film. Why not? Is it politically incorrect to imagine an organisation not directly affiliated with a single nation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This movie really put me in the mood for Team America: World Police which is coming from Matt Stone and Trey Parker in October. (It&#8217;s a satirical action film &#8211; with marionettes.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Roger Ebert said that this movie was produced for an audience that didn&#8217;t exist. Um&#8230; Hello? I, for one, thought this movie was pretty cool, but I expect for completely different reasons than the 20 or so kids who enjoyed it along with us. I think you either have to have loved the original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}