{"id":140,"date":"2008-05-09T14:57:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T18:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/2008\/05\/09\/the-wrong-buck-rogers-to-return-to-movies-good-no-just-bad-and-ugly\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T14:57:50","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T18:57:50","slug":"the-wrong-buck-rogers-to-return-to-movies-good-no-just-bad-and-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/09\/the-wrong-buck-rogers-to-return-to-movies-good-no-just-bad-and-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Buck Rogers to Return to Movies – Good? No, just Bad and Ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"\"buck\n

\nConflicting and confusing reports are emerging about a new Buck Rogers film project. Some of the releases claim that Frank Miller’s to direct – which could be a great thing – but that’s apparently either not true or not certain. There’s a bit of other information that runs through the coverage, though, which makes me want to run and hide.\n<\/p>

\n\"buck It’s this sort of thing:\n<\/p>

\nThe cheapness of the low-budget effects will be a running joke in the movie, which will retain the campiness of the 1980s TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century starring Gil Gerard.<\/a> <\/em>(from IGN)\n<\/p>

\nOkay, what’s right<\/em> about that sentence? Answer: the grammar.\n<\/p>

\nThe Variety<\/em><\/a> piece is less alarming and seems to have checked its facts, which was apparently beyond IGN. The IGN version’s been regurgitated in loads of places already, including the io9 blog<\/a>.\n<\/p>

\nAny new incarnation of Buck Rogers that even admits<\/em> there was a cheesy Gil Gerard version will leave me crying in my beer, mainly because it’ll be nigh impossible to try to get it right again for a couple of decades afterwards. “Getting it right”, admittedly, is a pretty subjective aim – but this, which sounds so much like Sci Fi’s Flash Gordon<\/em> reboot, will not be it.\n<\/p>

\nA pall of silence falls over the retro-future, and the people mourn.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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