{"id":38017,"date":"2022-12-29T18:23:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T00:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38017"},"modified":"2022-12-29T18:23:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T00:23:27","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-788","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/29\/belated-movie-reviews-788\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38073\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/now-you-see-me.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38073\" class=\"wp-image-38073\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/now-you-see-me.jpg?resize=403%2C226&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/now-you-see-me.jpg?w=474&amp;ssl=1 474w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/now-you-see-me.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/now-you-see-me.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/now-you-see-me.jpg?resize=250%2C140&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An entire movie about ambling. Whoda thunk?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Now_You_See_Me_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Now You See Me<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2013) is about seven magicians. Four are a team, working together to accomplish amazing feats of illusion; one is a monitor, tracking and deconstructing them.<\/p>\n<p>And the last two? Ah, but that&#8217;d be telling.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, none of them come to life; they are a collection of cardboard cutouts in this story, a story formulated by tellers captivated by their own cleverness, and not about the impact of the plot on those who&#8217;ve been plotted about. As a result, there&#8217;s merely an intellectual question of where this is going, how the tricks are accomplished, and no driving need to see the plot succeed, or not, because of a connection to the characters.<\/p>\n<p>At best, it&#8217;s a paean to the importance of planning and preparation.<\/p>\n<p>And, maybe &#8230; well, that&#8217;d be telling, too.<\/p>\n<p>Important to completists, I suspect, but not many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now You See Me (2013) is about seven magicians. Four are a team, working together to accomplish amazing feats of illusion; one is a monitor, tracking and deconstructing them. And the last two? Ah, but that&#8217;d be telling. Sadly, none of them come to life; they are a collection of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/29\/belated-movie-reviews-788\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-38017","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\/38017","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=38017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38074,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38017\/revisions\/38074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}