{"id":43039,"date":"2025-10-05T09:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43039"},"modified":"2025-10-05T09:43:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:43:58","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/10\/05\/belated-movie-reviews-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice<\/b><\/i><\/a> (2008) is the third in the Librarian series<\/a> of stories concerning a secret library, or museum collection, of insanely dangerous artifacts, and the guy in charge of it. Shouldn’t he be known as the Curator? The Director? The Too-Smart Guy?<\/p>\n

This time around we’re visiting charming New Orleans, in search of the purpose of life. This appears to be, in the Librarian’s case, being<\/em> the Librarian and not getting the girl.<\/p>\n

And searching for the chalice of Judas Iscariot, because drinking from it restores the humanity of, ah, vampires<\/em>. Wait, why does the museum need it? Anyways, the Librarian’s girl is a vampire who is desperate to be good, and after 400 years of life, she’s a bit tired, although it’s not explained why she doesn’t just take an afternoon walk and dissolve in a whirlwind of glowing particles.<\/p>\n

So there’s plenty of adventure, but the theme, which seems to be Fulfill your destiny!<\/em> is dubious. If the purpose of life is to fulfill your destiny, then why bother? It all becomes a deterministic and muddled mess, devaluing free will and making watching the movie a depressing exercise in some philosopher’s sordid assertions concerning existence. Unlike, say, the moral conundrums of Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/strong><\/em> (1981).<\/p>\n

This story is sort of fun, if you’re not thinking about it too much, but you won’t remember it the next day. It asks a question about life, but it’s not an intriguing, challenging answer.<\/p>\n

And if the purpose of life is to devote ourselves to Bo-bo-bo-ob Newhart<\/a>….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice (2008) is the third in the Librarian series of stories concerning a secret library, or museum collection, of insanely dangerous artifacts, and the guy in charge of it. Shouldn’t he be known as the Curator? The Director? The Too-Smart Guy? This time around \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-43039","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\/43039","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=43039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43041,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43039\/revisions\/43041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}