{"id":3354,"date":"2009-03-02T16:53:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T21:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2009-03-02T16:53:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T21:53:24","slug":"in-a-world-where-the-dead-are-returning-to-life-the-word-trouble-loses-much-of-its-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3354","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In a world where the dead are returning to life, the word &#8216;trouble&#8217; loses much of its meaning.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">&#8220;It&#8217;s easy to recognize our own reflection, even when it has blood in its teeth.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/land-of-the-dead,4475\/\">Keith Phipps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night, I watched George A. Romero&#8217;s <i>Land of the Dead<\/i>, and, y&#8217;know, I kind of liked it. I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any danger of it supplanting either <i>Dawn<\/i> or <i>Day of the Dead<\/i> as my favorites so far, but it has some really interesting things to say, some really decent actors to say it with, and it feels like a natural progression from those earlier films. <\/p>\n<p>If I have any complaint, it&#8217;s maybe that the movie feels a little rushed near the end, sacrificing some of the interesting world-building that Romero does before that, as it marches towards its natural, flesh-eating conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;d definitely recommend it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s easy to recognize our own reflection, even when it has blood in its teeth.&#8221; &#8211; Keith Phipps Last night, I watched George A. Romero&#8217;s Land of the Dead, and, y&#8217;know, I kind of liked it. I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any danger of it supplanting either Dawn or Day of the Dead as my favorites &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3354\">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":[],"tags":[14,24],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354"}],"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=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}