{"id":3441,"date":"2014-05-13T06:57:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T10:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2014-05-13T06:57:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T10:57:20","slug":"swedish-movie-posters-at-109-brain-resets-and-injustice-on-the-satellite-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/swedish-movie-posters-at-109-brain-resets-and-injustice-on-the-satellite-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish movie posters at io9, brain resets, and injustice on the Satellite of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Things<\/a>\n

Here’s a Swedish movie poster for Alexander Korda’s Things to Come<\/em>, just one of a series posted over at io9<\/a>. Lovely design.<\/p>\n

The last time I watched the film I saw Raymond Massey’s character as a sinister figure, certain that he knew what was best, dammit, and you’d take it – and like it! – which wasn’t really what the film was trying to show me. It’s always interesting how our perceptions change over time, especially when we’re watching or reading things from decades past. I noticed this again last night: I had to reset my brain during the first few pages of Barnes’ Interplanetary Huntress<\/em>, mentioned earlier (and still a free download!<\/a>\"\")<\/p>\n

Eventually my brain stopped commenting “Well, this<\/em> wouldn’t play too well today” and I was able to enjoy the peculiar Venusian wildlife in the story. There were these armored beetles that liked pipe smoke, for example.<\/p>\n

But this morning, and these posters, reminded me of what has aways seemed like an injustice in Mystery Science Theater 3000<\/em>. Joel and\/or Mike and the bots skewered several Swedish fantasy films that had been dubbed (badly) for an American audience. One was even turned into a “Sinbad” story. It was that<\/em> bad. But it always seemed to me that in their original versions these may have been pretty cool movies. I guess we’ll never know. ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a Swedish movie poster for Alexander Korda’s Things to Come, just one of a series posted over at i09. Lovely design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}