{"id":3442,"date":"2009-05-14T13:38:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T17:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2009-05-14T13:38:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T17:38:22","slug":"thats-one-way-of-putting-it-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3442","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s one way of putting it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/15\/movies\/15ange.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">A.O. Scott on <i>Angels &#038; Demons<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This movie, without being particularly good, is nonetheless far less hysterical than \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Da Vinci.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Its preposterous narrative, efficiently rendered by the blue-chip screenwriting team of Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp, unfolds with the locomotive elegance of a Tintin comic or an episode of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Murder, She Wrote.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Howard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s direction combines the visual charm of mass-produced postcards with the mental stimulation of an easy Monday crossword puzzle. It could be worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I was bored and annoyed by <i>The Da Vinci Code<\/i> &#8212; the movie; I&#8217;ve never read the book &#8212; more than anything else, so I don&#8217;t expect to watch this prequel-turned-sequel.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A.O. Scott on Angels &#038; Demons: This movie, without being particularly good, is nonetheless far less hysterical than \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Da Vinci.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Its preposterous narrative, efficiently rendered by the blue-chip screenwriting team of Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp, unfolds with the locomotive elegance of a Tintin comic or an episode of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Murder, She Wrote.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Howard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s direction &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3442\">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":[14,9],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies","tag-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442"}],"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=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}