{"id":41465,"date":"2024-11-18T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41465"},"modified":"2024-11-18T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T01:52:00","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-865","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/11\/18\/belated-movie-reviews-865\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Portable_Door\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Portable Door<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2023) is a whimsical little story concerning starting a new job that happens to involve goblins. It&#8217;s all very silly, and then it comes to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The problem? There&#8217;s no real risk for the characters&#8217; choices. Think of <em><strong>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/strong><\/em> (1981). Right from the start is a man driven by his ambitious moral choices in one framework, and how they collide with those of another &#8211; and the presence of the woman he loves as the background to it. By the time the Ark is opened, the audience is quivering in near-panic.<\/p>\n<p>But this? A colorless Brit with magical powers that he hasn&#8217;t earned, another Brit in a fast track to division leadership, oddball management&#8230; it may be worth a laugh, but that&#8217;s it in the end.<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s a reason I&#8217;ve never heard of this movie: there&#8217;s nothing memorable about it.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portable Door (2023) is a whimsical little story concerning starting a new job that happens to involve goblins. It&#8217;s all very silly, and then it comes to an end. The problem? There&#8217;s no real risk for the characters&#8217; choices. Think of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Right from \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/11\/18\/belated-movie-reviews-865\/\"> 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-41465","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\/41465","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=41465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41469,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41465\/revisions\/41469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}