{"id":3847,"date":"2016-06-18T10:51:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T15:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2016-06-18T10:51:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T15:51:47","slug":"belated-movie-unreviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/06\/18\/belated-movie-unreviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Unreviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We could not get through <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Empire_of_the_Ants_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">EMPIRE OF THE ANTS<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (1977). It was awash in leisure suits, floating cans of nuclear waste (clue: cans of nuclear waste are heavy), and unsympathetic characters: guys on the make, ladies unable, except for one, to assert themselves; the exception is a land developer ready to sell shares in a disastrous island. The latter is played by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joan_Collins\" target=\"_blank\">Joan Collins<\/a>,\u00a0who tries but fails to make this mess work.<\/p>\n<p>When we gave up, we hadn&#8217;t even seen the ants. We did fast forward and the ants were not awful, but they might have ranked as the least objectionable part of the show.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad enough to laugh at, not good enough to watch: stranded in the chasm of mediocre awfulness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We could not get through EMPIRE OF THE ANTS (1977). It was awash in leisure suits, floating cans of nuclear waste (clue: cans of nuclear waste are heavy), and unsympathetic characters: guys on the make, ladies unable, except for one, to assert themselves; the exception is a land developer ready \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/06\/18\/belated-movie-unreviews\/\"> 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-3847","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\/3847","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=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3851,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/3851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}