{"id":397,"date":"2007-02-08T15:05:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T21:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2007-02-08T15:05:31","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T21:05:31","slug":"hollywood-a-no-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/hollywood-a-no-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood a No-No&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me or have new movies hit an all-time low over the last few years?&#8230;&#8230;  The plots are either extremely lame to the point of &#8220;Have I seen this before?&#8221; or &#8220;Who would front the money to make such a stupid movie&#8221; or so complicated that after you&#8217;ve seen it once the first 90% of the movie isn&#8217;t worth watching a second time&#8230;..  The action sequences are the worst&#8230;&#8230;  Most of them are lit extremely dark and are made-up of fast close-up cuts that are not only hard to see, but hard to follow&#8230;&#8230;  I&#8217;m sure making them that way keeps the old production costs down in the modern CGI world we live in, but there should be a limit&#8230;..  I haven&#8217;t bought a new release in some time, a friend loans them to me (actually forces me sometimes), who does buy &#8217;em, and I have to admit I have trouble watching most of them all the way through&#8230;&#8230;  Maybe this is Hollywood&#8217;s new anti-piracy protection&#8230;..  With what&#8217;s out there, they don&#8217;t have to worry about me bootleggin&#8217; any of it&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me or have new movies hit an all-time low over the last few years?&#8230;&#8230; The plots are either extremely lame to the point of &#8220;Have I seen this before?&#8221; or &#8220;Who would front the money to make such a stupid movie&#8221; or so complicated that after you&#8217;ve seen it once the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}