{"id":10916,"date":"2013-11-30T23:52:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T04:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10916"},"modified":"2013-11-30T23:52:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T04:52:09","slug":"we-got-movie-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10916","title":{"rendered":"We got movie sign"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night, I watched How to Steal a Million<\/a>, which, while enjoyably pleasant, was maybe less than you’d expect from a romantic heist movie set in Paris starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole.<\/p>\n

This afternoon, I re-watched 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/a>, which I haven’t seen in several years. It’s still quite stunning, and a hugely important work, but it’s a movie I probably admire more than I enjoy. (I’m sort of tempted to seek out the sequel, which I remember having something of the opposite problem.)<\/p>\n

After that, I went for a walk, then came back and watched Akira Kurosawa’s Ran<\/a>. I do think I like his earlier movies, like The Seven Samurai<\/i> and Yojimbo<\/i> better, but there’s no denying this is much more epic and beautifully shot. Seriously, I could watch the castle attack — which this clip<\/a> shows but doesn’t really do justice to — almost all day.<\/p>\n

After that<\/i> — I took a short break to go to the local diner with my parents for dinner — I watched John Carpenter’s The Ward<\/a>, which I was just kind of waiting to be over. It’s really not very good, boring more than anything else, with a twist ending that almost seemed clever the first hundred times I’ve seen it in other movies. A couple of months ago, I watched Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness<\/i><\/a>, which is at least interesting in its flaws. Weirdly, unshakably interesting. The Ward<\/i>, on the other hand, isn’t even representative of Carpenter at his absolute, crazy worst (like the terrible In the Mouth of Madness<\/i>). There’s nothing distinctive about it at all. It’s not even risibly<\/i> bad; it just kind of is<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Which isn’t a great<\/i> way to end the evening or a day spent mostly in movies. But there you have it.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to believe the long weekend is almost over. There’s still tomorrow, and I don’t go back to the office on Monday, but it’ll be back to work for me soon. Of course, that’s only for a couple of weeks. When the heck did it become December already?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, I watched How to Steal a Million, which, while enjoyably pleasant, was maybe less than you’d expect from a romantic heist movie set in Paris starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole. This afternoon, I re-watched 2001: A Space Odyssey, which I haven’t seen in several years. It’s still quite stunning, and a hugely … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,28,52],"class_list":["post-10916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10917,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions\/10917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}