{"id":3541,"date":"2010-06-02T20:16:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T03:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2010-06-02T20:16:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T03:16:48","slug":"movies-from-my-india-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/02\/movies-from-my-india-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies from my India Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my flight from San Francisco to India and back in February, I had a LOT of time to watch movies. And it did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gi Joe: Rise of Cobra<\/strong> &#8211; splosions! Lots of splosions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Invention of Lying<\/strong> &#8211; a totally awesome and fun one trick pony<\/p>\n<p><strong>Astro Boy<\/strong> &#8211; awful<\/p>\n<p><strong>Love Happens<\/strong> &#8211; I really enjoyed it! A bit disjointed but I saw through that<\/p>\n<p><strong>All About Steve<\/strong> &#8211; a mistake. Poor plot, direction, script. 25 minutes was wayyy enough of that<\/p>\n<p><strong>Imagine That<\/strong> &#8211; 30 seconds strongly suggested that it was a bad &#8220;hilarity ensues&#8221; movie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs<\/strong> &#8211; slapstick comedy for the 5-12 set. Not for grown ups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Management<\/strong> &#8211; I gave it 15 minutes. Feh, it&#8217;s another blandly plotted Jennifer aniston movie<\/p>\n<p><strong>District 9<\/strong> &#8211; wholely incomplete :-(. Unhappily amoral. Filled with dumb humans and aliens, pretty much too dumb to be believable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terminator Salvation<\/strong> &#8211; the first 15 minutes demonstrated poor storytelling.  20 minutes in, they gave a magic skynet shutdown code to only O&#8217;Connor, wha???  It&#8217;s a total retread but it has enough explosions to make up for it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my flight from San Francisco to India and back in February, I had a LOT of time to watch movies. And it did. Gi Joe: Rise of Cobra &#8211; splosions! Lots of splosions! The Invention of Lying &#8211; a totally awesome and fun one trick pony Astro Boy &#8211; awful Love Happens &#8211; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}