{"id":3828,"date":"2010-12-22T20:33:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T00:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2010-12-22T20:38:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T00:38:42","slug":"movie-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=3828","title":{"rendered":"Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"The Disappearance of Alice Creed\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/10222.jpg?resize=505%2C746\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"746\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>The Disappearance of Alice Creed<\/strong> (2009, UK)<br \/>\nI got this movie off Netflix after reading some good buzz on the web a few weeks ago &#8230; and I am glad I did. &#8220;The Disappearance of Alice Creed&#8221; is a tight little 3-person kidnapping thriller that has more twist and turns than the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tailofthedragon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tail of the Dragon<\/a><\/strong>. I won&#8217;t say too much as to not give away this movie&#8217;s charms. I&#8217;ll just say the acting and top notch and the directing very tight. You should check it out if you like a good thriller.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Black Swan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/10223.jpg?resize=505%2C746\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"746\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Black Swan<\/strong> (2010, USA)<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to say too much about &#8220;Black Swan&#8221; as this is another movie that is best experienced cold. After winning the lead role in &#8220;Swan Lake&#8221; is ballet dancer Nina (played with utter precision by Natalie Portman) really being stalked by a jealous rival &#8230; or is she slowly loosing her mind from the pressure of having the role of her life? Darren Aronofsky has crafted a dark nightmare that is at times utterly terrifying and utterly beautiful. It&#8217;s the best movie of the year. You seriously need to get to the movies and see &#8220;Black Swan&#8221; right now.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"TRON: Legacy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/10224.jpg?resize=505%2C744\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"744\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>TRON: Legacy<\/strong> (2010, USA)<br \/>\n&#8220;Totally Disappointing&#8221; would be the two words I would use the describe &#8220;TRON: Legacy.&#8221; There was so much opportunity to make a fun exciting update of the TRON universe. That never happened. Instead we are saddled with a talk heavy CGI film &#8230; and it&#8217;s not even talk heavy because it&#8217;s plot heavy. Actually the plot is paper thin and ultimately makes no sense, so that makes the fact that there&#8217;s lots of dialogue and exposition all the more frustrating. Part of me wonders if they wouldn&#8217;t have been better off just doing a straight up remake of the original. One the plus side, Daft Punk&#8217;s score is cool and the visuals are really sweet. But, that&#8217;s just not enough to save &#8220;TRON&#8221; Legacy&#8221; from being a big bore. My advice would be to watch the youtube video for &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_6Afc2uzw4g\" target=\"_blank\">Derezzed<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; and you get all the cool shit in 2 minutes as opposed to 2 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009, UK) I got this movie off Netflix after reading some good buzz on the web a few weeks ago &#8230; and I am glad I did. &#8220;The Disappearance of Alice Creed&#8221; is a tight little 3-person kidnapping thriller that has more twist and turns than the Tail of the [&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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-ZK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828","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=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}