{"id":7333,"date":"2016-12-24T09:27:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T15:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7333"},"modified":"2016-12-24T09:27:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T15:27:39","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/24\/belated-movie-reviews-125\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cloverfield\" target=\"_blank\"><i><b><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arewenotentertained.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015Cloverfield_StatueOfLiberty091115.hero_.jpg?resize=549%2C308\" width=\"549\" height=\"308\" \/>Cloverfield <\/b><\/i><\/a>(2008) is a movie shot entirely from the viewpoint of hapless, powerless civilians in the midst of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kaiju\" target=\"_blank\"><em>kaiju<\/em><\/a> attack. Over the eternity of a single night, we see how the attack begins, endures, and ends as the civilians strive to survive, take care of each other, and even achieve\u00a0wondrous accomplishments, while a city rains down its pieces around their ears. Their hand-held camera captures intriguing bits and pieces, and, in the end, we&#8217;re left with our questions, foremost being <em>What would I have done<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>All aspects of this movie are good &#8211; special effects, acting, story, characters &#8211; although you may not appreciate the latter all that much.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy us against the monster movies, then this is a must-see. If you don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s still an interesting show, unless you like your movies to have an obvious moral, in which case you may not think much of this movie.<\/p>\n<p>And pay attention during the last scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloverfield (2008) is a movie shot entirely from the viewpoint of hapless, powerless civilians in the midst of a kaiju attack. Over the eternity of a single night, we see how the attack begins, endures, and ends as the civilians strive to survive, take care of each other, and even \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/24\/belated-movie-reviews-125\/\"> 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-7333","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\/7333","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=7333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7335,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions\/7335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}