{"id":110,"date":"2014-08-09T04:07:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T04:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=110"},"modified":"2014-12-09T20:09:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T20:09:22","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-war-of-the-worlds-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: &#8220;War of the Worlds&#8221; (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Spielberg remake of sci-fi classic \u201cWar of the Worlds\u201d (1953) seemed like a bad idea, but the special effects were spectacular, especially the introductory scenes of the alien spacecrafts destroying a bridge, the \u201cwhirlpool-sphincters-of-the-gods,\u201d &amp; all. Though, the 9\/11 parallels came off surprisingly exploitative, considering Spielberg\u2019s penchant for sanctimoniousness. This one appeared in the UK&#8217;s Hotdog Magazine as well as free weekly The Montreal Mirror. Original print header: \u201cBring on the mayhem!\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/waroftheworlds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-111 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/waroftheworlds-669x1024.jpg\" alt=\"waroftheworlds\" width=\"669\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/waroftheworlds-669x1024.jpg 669w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/waroftheworlds-196x300.jpg 196w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/waroftheworlds.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&amp;W inks (signed &amp; dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), &amp; a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&amp;W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage &amp; framing not included. To see full-sized image, click on image to open in a new window &amp; use magnify function. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One &amp; Two available at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"FAB Press\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fabpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAB Press<\/a><\/span>. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Spielberg remake of sci-fi classic \u201cWar of the Worlds\u201d (1953) seemed like a bad idea, but the special effects were spectacular, especially the introductory scenes of the alien spacecrafts destroying a bridge, the \u201cwhirlpool-sphincters-of-the-gods,\u201d &amp; all. Though, the 9\/11 parallels came off surprisingly exploitative, considering Spielberg\u2019s penchant for sanctimoniousness. This one appeared in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-picture-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}