{"id":43378,"date":"2025-12-26T11:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43378"},"modified":"2025-12-26T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:01:17","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/12\/26\/belated-movie-reviews-919\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_43381\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mvk.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43381\" class=\"wp-image-43381\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mvk.jpg?resize=330%2C474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mvk.jpg?w=263&amp;ssl=1 263w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mvk.jpg?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1 209w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mvk.jpg?resize=104%2C150&amp;ssl=1 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The shark tip-toed into the room. The door creaked, and Kolossus turned, startled. He didn&#8217;t remember that door!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mega_Shark_Versus_Kolossus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mega Shark vs. Kolossus<\/a>\u00a0<\/b><\/i>(2015), the fourth in a series unfamiliar to me, is a wretched piece of work, but at least it has the basics of a plot &#8211; attempt to kill the eponymous shark, fail, losses, another attempt, more payment, that sort of thing. All logical in context.<\/p>\n<p>But details matter, and here the details are silly. We could compare to an old favorite, <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/29\/belated-movie-reviews-195\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Pacific Rim<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2013), which also features sea monsters and robots &#8211; and is way beyond this. But the latter had believable characters, and this does not. It&#8217;s populated by tired cliches.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t waste your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mega Shark vs. Kolossus\u00a0(2015), the fourth in a series unfamiliar to me, is a wretched piece of work, but at least it has the basics of a plot &#8211; attempt to kill the eponymous shark, fail, losses, another attempt, more payment, that sort of thing. All logical in context. But \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/12\/26\/belated-movie-reviews-919\/\"> 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-43378","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\/43378","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=43378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43382,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43378\/revisions\/43382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}