{"id":3015,"date":"2004-12-20T04:58:40","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T20:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/20\/odd-movie-combinations\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:49:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:49:22","slug":"odd-movie-combinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/20\/odd-movie-combinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Odd Movie Combinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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11:04:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9550,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.netflix.com\\\/MovieDisplay?movieid=70018795&amp;trkid=134852&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.netflix.com\\\/MovieDisplay?movieid=70018795&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8174,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/tg\\\/detail\\\/-\\\/6305350221\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310055758\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/tg\\\/detail\\\/-\\\/6305350221\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/tg\\\/detail\\\/-\\\/6305350221\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 22:02:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 20:14:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 20:14:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I saw a couple movies in my Netflix New Releases feed that made me laugh today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B00064X5L6.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00064X5L6\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Dwight H. Little: 'Anacondas - The Hunt for the Blood Orchid'\">Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0767802497\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"'Anaconda'\">Anaconda<\/a> plus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00005JLRE\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"'Adaptation (Superbit Collection)'\">Adaptation<\/a>? It&#8217;s actually a sequel to Anaconda, has gotten <em>worse<\/em> reviews than the original (which is amusing, as I hated the original), and I&#8217;m sure it has absolutely nothing to do with Adaptation, but the idea of trying to combine the two amuses me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00062IESM\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"'Alien Species'\">Alien Species<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00011V8IQ\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"'Alien - The Director's Cut (Collector's Edition)'\">Alien<\/a> plus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B0002KPHWE\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"'Species (Special Edition)'\">Species<\/a>? Aside from both being sci-fi\/horror films featuring creatures conceived by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrgiger.com\/\" title=\"H.R. Geiger Official Website\">H.R. Geiger<\/a>, they&#8217;re not really that similar, and this just looks like a generic sci-fi flick. The cover image (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/MovieDisplay?movieid=70018795&amp;trkid=134852\" title=\"Alien Species\">here it is on Netflix<\/a>, Amazon apparently doesn&#8217;t have one) even looks like they&#8217;re ripping off the martian attack machines from the old film version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/6305350221\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"'The War of the Worlds'\">War of the Worlds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some days it really seems like we&#8217;ve run out of original ideas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLords of Acid%2526albumTerm=Lover Boy\/Lover Girl%2526songTerm=Lover Boy\/Lover Girl (B[Eat Me Up])%26partnerId%3D30\">Lover Boy\/Lover Girl (B[Eat Me Up])<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLords of Acid%26partnerId%3D30\">Lords of Acid<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLords of Acid%2526albumTerm=Lover Boy\/Lover Girl%26partnerId%3D30\">Lover Boy\/Lover Girl<\/a><\/em> (2000, 5:36).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a couple movies in my Netflix New Releases feed that made me laugh today&hellip;some days it really seems like we&#8217;ve run out of original ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}