{"id":3264,"date":"2008-12-17T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T21:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2008-12-17T16:20:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T21:20:18","slug":"thats-one-way-of-putting-it-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3264","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s one way of putting it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/feature\/my_year_of_flops_its_a_bird_its?utm_source=from_tag\">Nathan Rabin on <i>Superman IV<\/i><\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">The result suggests the Cliffs Notes&#8217; version of a book that wasn&#8217;t worth reading in the first place.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">He also writes:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Getting Reeve, Kidder, and Hackman to reprise their roles lends the film an air of authenticity but <i>The Quest For Peace<\/i> still feels like one of those creepy DirecTV commercials that drop clumsy commercial plugs into classic movies. It looks real but it still feels disturbingly ersatz.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I can remember seeing this in theaters. My ten-year-old self didn&#8217;t hate it, but probably should have. I&#8217;ve had no desire to ever re-visit it, whereas the suckiness of <i>Superman III<\/i> still has its limited charms.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it wasn&#8217;t all bad. As Rabin points out, Reeve only agreed to participate if the studio also bankrolled his pet project, <i>Street Smart<\/i>, which is the film that introduced the public to Morgan Freeman &#8212; and for which Freeman earned his first Oscar nomination.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Rabin on Superman IV: The result suggests the Cliffs Notes&#8217; version of a book that wasn&#8217;t worth reading in the first place. He also writes: Getting Reeve, Kidder, and Hackman to reprise their roles lends the film an air of authenticity but The Quest For Peace still feels like one of those creepy DirecTV &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3264\">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":[238],"class_list":["post-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264"}],"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=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}