{"id":286,"date":"2007-05-27T22:00:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T02:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/286"},"modified":"2007-05-30T23:12:31","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T03:12:31","slug":"the-blob-1958-irvin-yeaworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/286","title":{"rendered":"The Blob (1958, Irvin Yeaworth)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;this has never happened before&#8230; what am i gonna wear?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/theblob2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Starring Steve(n) McQueen as a 28-year-old teenager, with his 25-yr-old teenage girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/theblob1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Awful dialogue and delivery, low budget sets, long talky parts, nothing-special cinematography, inept sound editing, really it&#8217;s near-mst3k fare minus McQueen&#8217;s capable lead and a cool premise and neat creature.  I suppose the criterion commentary&#8217;s gonna go on about how symbolic the thing is (note: no, just talking about the making-of, giving a little context).  Weird movie for them to release&#8230; is it &#8220;important&#8221; or is it just a cool sci-fi movie with a big star to which they could secure the rights?  Website says it was an indie movie (unusual for the 50&#8217;s) but can&#8217;t help throwing in that the blob was &#8220;comparable to if not incarnating the growing consumerism of 1950&#8217;s America).  Probably not a must-see&#8230; the 1980&#8217;s remake will do fine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/theblob3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/theblob4.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;this has never happened before&#8230; what am i gonna wear?&#8221; Starring Steve(n) McQueen as a 28-year-old teenager, with his 25-yr-old teenage girlfriend. Awful dialogue and delivery, low budget sets, long talky parts, nothing-special cinematography, inept sound editing, really it&#8217;s near-mst3k fare minus McQueen&#8217;s capable lead and a cool premise and neat creature. I suppose the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,13,54],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-criterion","tag-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}