{"id":40528,"date":"2024-07-06T10:42:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T15:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40528"},"modified":"2024-07-06T10:42:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T15:42:48","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-854","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/07\/06\/belated-movie-reviews-854\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_40537\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Adele-Blank-Sec.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40537\" class=\"wp-image-40537 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Adele-Blank-Sec.jpg?resize=474%2C201&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Adele-Blank-Sec.jpg?w=474&amp;ssl=1 474w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Adele-Blank-Sec.jpg?resize=300%2C127&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Adele-Blank-Sec.jpg?resize=150%2C64&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Adele-Blank-Sec.jpg?resize=250%2C106&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Something on your mind, lass?<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Extraordinary_Adventures_of_Ad%C3%A8le_Blanc-Sec_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><b>The Extraordinary Adventures of\u00a0<span title=\"French-language text\"><i lang=\"fr\">Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/i><\/a><b><span title=\"French-language text\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b>(2010) features a 1900s Ad\u00e8le striving to revive her beloved sister, Agathe, who appears to be brain-damaged in a most unfortunate manner. A horde of incompetent men hamper, pursue, and otherwise annoy Ad\u00e8le &#8211; and the audience &#8211; as she searches for a solution in the ancient ways of the world. But will she find it, or will those ancient ways find her?<\/p>\n<p>Gorgeously photographed and not badly acted, it is far less than the sum of its part. Buffoons as foils has its virtues, but sharply limited virtues; Ad\u00e8le working in the company of competent men, good or evil, would last far longer as an entertainment mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>And the pterodactyl, as much as a scene-stealer as it is, made little to no sense.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, I cannot recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Extraordinary Adventures of\u00a0Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec\u00a0(2010) features a 1900s Ad\u00e8le striving to revive her beloved sister, Agathe, who appears to be brain-damaged in a most unfortunate manner. A horde of incompetent men hamper, pursue, and otherwise annoy Ad\u00e8le &#8211; and the audience &#8211; as she searches for a solution in the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/07\/06\/belated-movie-reviews-854\/\"> 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-40528","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\/40528","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=40528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40538,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40528\/revisions\/40538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}