{"id":3076,"date":"2012-03-02T08:16:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T12:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2012-03-02T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T15:22:32","slug":"movie-review-arthur-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2012\/03\/movie-review-arthur-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: Arthur (Remake)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on a plane coming back from Zurich and watched the new remake of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1334512\/\" target=\"_new\">Aurthur<\/a> movie.<\/p>\n<p>I loved the movie.   It is hard to remake a movie that is so beloved and succeed &#8211; but this movie worked for me.   It was a wise combination of the familiar and the new in a way that will please the viewer regardless of whether they saw the original or not.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Mirren as Hobson was a brilliant idea.  I thought that updating the show to include scenes from Alcoholics Anonymous helped the plot nicely and provided a better explanation for the plot resolution.   I though the plot result ion at the end was more &#8220;responsible&#8221; and logical in the remake.  All the characters were a delight and were the perfect combination of capturing the essence of the characters in the original and yet making the characters all their own.<\/p>\n<p>I kept wondering if my favourite line, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4-d3m8LXsGQ\" target=\"_new\">Perry you are a dead man!<\/a>&#8221; would show up.  I was initially disappointed when that little sub-plot was done differently, but then realized that one thing that a sequel needs to do is not try to replicate already perfect scenes that that cannot improve on &#8211; so they gently wound the plot right by that line.<\/p>\n<p>The ending was more detailed and and so it felt like I was watching it for the first time.  Of course there was a moderate need for tissues after the movie completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on a plane coming back from Zurich and watched the new remake of the Aurthur movie. I loved the movie. It is hard to remake a movie that is so beloved and succeed &#8211; but this movie worked for me. It was a wise combination of the familiar and the new in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}