{"id":14388,"date":"2025-10-12T13:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14388"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:36:18","slug":"weeklyish-movie-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14388","title":{"rendered":"Weekly(ish) Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been traveling recently, so it&#8217;s been three weeks since I last wrote about any movies, and since then I&#8217;ve watched 16 movies:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5950044\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Superman\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10548174\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"28 Years Later\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30135174\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Trail\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0035899\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4-768x1147.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4-1028x1536.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4-1371x2048.jpg 1371w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4-scaled.jpg 1713w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>I liked James Gunn&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5950044\/\">Superman<\/a> but fell well short of loving it. The fundamental problem is, the movie simply does too many things. It helps that a lot of those things are a lot of fun, stacked with good performances and colorful design, but it&#8217;s still too much. I appreciate that it&#8217;s not telling yet another origin story, but the story it is telling doesn&#8217;t always get room to breathe, or its characters room to grow. I&#8217;m still interested in what Gunn does with this sandbox he&#8217;s been given, but I hope next time he brings a little more focus to it.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10548174\/\">28 Years Later<\/a> is surprisingly beautiful and elegiac for a movie so filled with ravenous rage-zombies. The framing device, leading directly to next year&#8217;s <em>The Bone Temple<\/em> sequel\u2014and presumably whatever the third film in the planned trilogy becomes\u2014does feel a little tacked on, even if that second film promises to be equally audacious, and I might have preferred for this to feel more standalone.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Film critic Christy Lemire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/ghost-trail-movie-review-2025\">described<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30135174\/\">Ghost Trail<\/a> as &#8220;an intimate study of trauma that plays with the gripping suspense of a globetrotting spy thriller.&#8221; So much of the movie rests on the quiet performance by Adam Bessa, but it&#8217;s a deeply affecting film seen through his character&#8217;s eyes.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0035899\/\">Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man<\/a> could more maybe more accurately be called <em>Larry Talbot Just Wants to Die<\/em>. Lon Cheney, Jr.&#8217;s Talbot is the center of the movie, and pretty good, just as he was in the original <em>Wolf Man<\/em>. The same can&#8217;t really be said for Bela Lugosi, as Frankenstein&#8217;s monster, whose lines were reportedly all cut because of his thick accent, and doesn&#8217;t feature in the film as much as the title might suggest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26342662\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"M3GAN 2.0\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-646x1024.jpg 646w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-768x1216.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-970x1536.jpg 970w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-1293x2048.jpg 1293w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-scaled.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt21815562\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Alto Knights\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8866456\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Legend of Ochi\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7-695x1024.jpg 695w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7-768x1132.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7-1042x1536.jpg 1042w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7.jpg 1075w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3402138\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Naked Gun\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Give <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26342662\/\">M3GAN 2.0<\/a> credit: it goes off in a lot of unexpectedly strange directions. Make no mistake, they&#8217;re very <em>dumb<\/em> directions, but given how much I disliked the first movie, this one proved to be a surprisingly amount of silly fun.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt21815562\/\">The Alto Knights<\/a> makes so many baffling decisions that its initial one, to cast Robert De Niro as the two (unrelated) lead roles, barely qualifies. It&#8217;s maybe one of the few interesting things about the movie, watching De Niro build two distinct performances, but it never rises above a gimmick, and those performances never create distinct characters. (De Niro&#8217;s Vito Genovese, for example, mostly just feels like the actor imitating his friend and frequent costar Joe Pesci.) The movie is soporific, seems at times almost intentionally tedious, and just because it&#8217;s based on true events and real-life gangsters doesn&#8217;t make any of what&#8217;s on screen interesting or well executed.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8866456\/\">The Legend of Ochi<\/a> never exactly settles on a tone, and casting recognizable faces like Dafoe and Watson\u2014though they&#8217;re both quite good\u2014is maybe too much of a distraction. Still, there&#8217;s a lot that&#8217;s lovely about the film&#8217;s very straightforward, familiar story, and its effects work is genuinely impressive, especially if the reports that none of it was CGI are true.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3402138\/\">The Naked Gun<\/a> is silly and stupid in all the ways you want a <em>Naked Gun<\/em> movie to be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26581740\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Weapons\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30645201\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Honey Don&#039;t!\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060094\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Alphabet Murders\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0367153\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/12-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Toolbox Murders\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/12-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/12-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/12-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/12.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26581740\/\">Weapons<\/a> is scary and strange, maybe for the <em>way<\/em> it tells its story more than the story itself, how it keeps the audience on edge and guessing until everything ramps up to a fever pitch.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot that&#8217;s darkly funny in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30645201\/\">Honey Don&#8217;t!<\/a>, with some good performances all around, but it very much falls apart at the end and isn&#8217;t very satisfying overall.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060094\/\">The Alphabet Murders<\/a> bears very little resemblance to any Agatha Christie I&#8217;ve ever read\u2014and indeed only a passing resemblance to a movie at all. It&#8217;s such a weird experience, from the casting of Tony Randall as Hercule Poirot on down, played for what I would charitably call laughs.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t especially enjoy Tobe Hooper&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0367153\/\">Toolbox Murders<\/a>, which felt more muddled than scary in the end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30253473\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"Materialists\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13-658x1024.jpg 658w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13-768x1196.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13-987x1536.jpg 987w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13-1315x2048.jpg 1315w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13-scaled.jpg 1644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14205554\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"KPop Demon Hunters\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14.jpg 1013w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0027194\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"Werewolf of London\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15-660x1024.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15-768x1191.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15-990x1536.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15-1320x2048.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15-scaled.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0037099\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Mummy&#039;s Ghost\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30253473\/\">Materialists<\/a> is quite the equal to Celine Song&#8217;s debut film, <em>Past Lives<\/em>, but it&#8217;s so charming and self-assured, and the performances, particularly from Johnson and Evans, are so good, that it&#8217;s hard to complain.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14205554\/\">KPop Demon Hunters<\/a> is bubbly and kinetic fun, but with real heart, and a lot of the songs\u2014particularly &#8220;What It Sounds Like&#8221;\u2014legitimately slap. I was kind of shocked by how much I enjoyed it.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0027194\/\">Werewolf of London<\/a> does exactly what it says on the tin. It&#8217;s not amazing, but for a lesser 1930s Universal monster movie, it&#8217;s not bad.<\/i>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>For such a short movie, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0037099\/\">The Mummy&#8217;s Ghost<\/a> spends a lot of time meandering around a plot, but it&#8217;s an entertaining enough ramble.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also rewatched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0044121\/\">The Thing from Another World<\/a>, which as 1950s things from another world movies go, is still pretty good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been traveling recently, so it&#8217;s been three weeks since I last wrote about any movies, and since then I&#8217;ve watched 16 movies: I liked James Gunn&#8217;s Superman but fell well short of loving it. The fundamental problem is, the movie simply does too many things. It helps that a lot of those things are &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14388\">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-14388","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\/14388"}],"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=14388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14390,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14388\/revisions\/14390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}