{"id":16867,"date":"2018-07-30T08:22:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T13:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16867"},"modified":"2018-07-30T08:22:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T13:22:51","slug":"current-movie-reviews-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/07\/30\/current-movie-reviews-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 396px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-64089970%2Cwidth-643%2Cimgsize-415308%2Cresizemode-4\/avengers-infinity-war-becomes-indias-highest-grossing-hollywood-film.jpg?resize=386%2C289&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"289\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>They tried to trade for DC&#8217;s Batman, but when DC asked for Stan Lee&#8217;s head, the deal fell through.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s tempting to simply label\u00a0<i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Avengers:_Infinity_War\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Avengers: Infinity War<\/a>\u00a0<\/b><\/i>(2018) as tripe and move on. After all, the only discernible theme in this story appears to be the all-too serious question of over-population (except in this case it&#8217;s of the Universe, not just Earth), which the bad guy offers to fix by killing off half the population of the Universe, but it&#8217;s not developed in the least. After that, the movie seems to consist of<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Action<\/li>\n<li>Superheroes piled on superheroes with a few on the side as seasoning<\/li>\n<li>More action<\/li>\n<li>Screw character development<\/li>\n<li>Murder excused by theme<\/li>\n<li>More meaningless action<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s dull, outside of the occasional pop-culture reference, which is itself meta-associated.<\/p>\n<p>My only caveat is that perhaps this movie thrills the knowledgeable Marvel Universe fanatic. Maybe. And if you happen to be such a fan, go see this movie.<\/p>\n<p>But for the rest of us, it&#8217;s a waste of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tempting to simply label\u00a0Avengers: Infinity War\u00a0(2018) as tripe and move on. After all, the only discernible theme in this story appears to be the all-too serious question of over-population (except in this case it&#8217;s of the Universe, not just Earth), which the bad guy offers to fix by killing \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/07\/30\/current-movie-reviews-45\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16869,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867\/revisions\/16869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}