{"id":1228,"date":"2012-08-07T20:27:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T00:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2014-01-03T19:35:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T00:35:36","slug":"movies-that-had-the-wrong-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/movies-that-had-the-wrong-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies that had the wrong title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alice in Wonderland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m talking about the Tim Burton movie from 2010. The <strong>Alice in Wonderland<\/strong> story is a very well known story (written by Lewis Carroll) that&#8217;s been filmed many times. But this isn&#8217;t that story &#8212; this is a sequel that takes place when Alice is a young woman and about to be married. It certainly could have been called <strong>Alice&#8217;s Return to Wonderland<\/strong> (or something like that) but it just doesn&#8217;t make sense to call it <strong>Alice in Wonderland<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I, Robot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a Will Smith movie from 2004, directed by Alex Proyas. It&#8217;s a decent science fiction action movie, although some of the action is a bit unbelievable.\u00a0<strong>I, Robot<\/strong> is the title of a collection of stories by Isaac Asimov &#8212; an extremely well known title in science fiction circles, and a highly regarded collection (which I would give 5\/5). The problem is that people who see the movie might think that this is what an Asimov story is like. If you&#8217;re not even going to try to film an author&#8217;s story (the credits say the movie was &#8220;suggested by&#8221; the book), don&#8217;t use their title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice in Wonderland I&#8217;m talking about the Tim Burton movie from 2010. The Alice in Wonderland story is a very well known story (written by Lewis Carroll) that&#8217;s been filmed many times. But this isn&#8217;t that story &#8212; this is a sequel that takes place when Alice is a young woman and about to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}