{"id":2698,"date":"2008-04-09T10:47:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T15:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2008-04-16T07:28:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T12:28:32","slug":"the-ruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=2698","title":{"rendered":"The Ruins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Ruins\" alt=\"The Ruins\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/08188.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nWhile not the greatest horror movie ever made, &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ruins_%28film%29\"><strong>The Ruins<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; is quite a nice little thrill ride. I <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=2155\"><strong>read the book<\/strong><\/a> in 2006 and really dug it. The movie holds up very well against the book even though some of the events and characters have been switched around somewhat. I don&#8217;t guess we can really complain since the author of the book (Scott Smith) also wrote the screenplay. My main complaint would be the new ending that was added for the movie. It just really didn&#8217;t work for me. Otherwise, we get to enjoy a fun roller coaster of traditional scares and some pretty intense gore sequences. I think that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gaywired.com\/article.cfm?section=70&#038;id=18647\"><strong>Carter Smith<\/strong><\/a> has done a fine job with his first time major motion picture.  The cast is really solid as well. I really bought into the characters and actually cared what was happening to them. Plus &#8230; who would have guessed that Jonathan Tucker was so freakin&#8217; hot?!?!<!--10036768119678cf7af0579e9fc92676-->~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While not the greatest horror movie ever made, &#8220;The Ruins&#8221; is quite a nice little thrill ride. I read the book in 2006 and really dug it. The movie holds up very well against the book even though some of the events and characters have been switched around somewhat. I don&#8217;t guess we can really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-horror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-Hw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}