{"id":13453,"date":"2024-02-04T14:18:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13453"},"modified":"2024-02-04T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T19:18:07","slug":"weakly-movie-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13453","title":{"rendered":"Weakly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things went a little sideways a couple of weeks ago, and while they seem to be returning to as close to normal again as can be hoped, in the last two weeks I&#8217;ve watched only two movies, and re-watched a couple more.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0041452\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Heiress\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0422720\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marie Antoinette\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082340\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/3-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Escape from New York\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/3-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/3-670x1024.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/3-768x1174.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/3.jpg 858w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0079588\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/4-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Muppet Movie\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/4-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/4-660x1024.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/4-768x1192.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/4-990x1536.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/4.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>There are a lot of really lovely performances and moments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0041452\/\">in The Heiress<\/a>, but Olivia de Havilland is especially fantastic in every scene.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>While it&#8217;s true that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0422720\/\">Marie Antoinette<\/a> isn&#8217;t the place to look for historical fact, doing so seems to be missing not just the point of the film, but also the joys of Kirsten Dunst&#8217;s performance. These sorts of criticisms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/marie-antoinette-2006\">Roger Ebert wrote<\/a>, &#8220;would alter is fragile magic and reduce its romantic and tragic poignancy to the level of an instructional film.&#8221;<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>For whatever reason, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082340\/\">Escape from New York<\/a> didn&#8217;t really click for me the first time I saw it. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s that I&#8217;ve grown to appreciate John Carpenter as a filmmaker even more since then\u2014or if it&#8217;s just that I&#8217;ve now seen what happens when this idea goes <em>really<\/em> wrong, in <em>Escape from L.A.<\/em>\u2014but it worked a lot better for me on re-watch.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0079588\/\">The Muppet Movie<\/a> remains a joy from top to bottom. One thing that struck me, on this re-watch, is that, as a child, I wouldn&#8217;t have recognized the wall-to-wall cameos <em>as<\/em> cameos. They were just other characters in this fantastically fun movie.<\/li>\n<ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things went a little sideways a couple of weeks ago, and while they seem to be returning to as close to normal again as can be hoped, in the last two weeks I&#8217;ve watched only two movies, and re-watched a couple more. There are a lot of really lovely performances and moments in The Heiress, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13453\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13455,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453\/revisions\/13455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}