{"id":8764,"date":"2017-03-28T08:41:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T13:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8764"},"modified":"2017-03-28T09:33:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:33:53","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-177","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/28\/belated-movie-reviews-177\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRqJVrnbD6zDOtJV-Yd_yGigY21DZqxZFwA0rgG0-q8GaZ05BfZ\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"275\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Miniature Marines Are Here To Save You!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Attack_of_the_Puppet_People\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Attack of The Puppet People<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1958) follows the scientific exploits of a lonely old man who has discovered how to shrink people down to doll size, which is convenient as he is a doll maker and marionette repair artist. For him, the little people are friends, keeping him company and amused when he awakens them from their drugged sleep.<\/p>\n<p>They feel a bit differently.<\/p>\n<p>Some OK special effects, a flaccid attempt at tension, and a bare hint at amiable madness. At bottom, this is a competently made movie, technically speaking, but the characters presented by the story are little more than cardboard: the doll-maker&#8217;s best salesman from St. Louis, after knowing the new secretary for less than a week and humiliating her at work, proposes to her; the new secretary has no family, no spunk, and no personality; some less well-defined mini-people; only the old man&#8217;s friend, an active puppeteer, has something approaching life.<\/p>\n<p>I was actually cheering\u00a0for the rat that jumps them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attack of The Puppet People (1958) follows the scientific exploits of a lonely old man who has discovered how to shrink people down to doll size, which is convenient as he is a doll maker and marionette repair artist. For him, the little people are friends, keeping him company and \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/28\/belated-movie-reviews-177\/\"> 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-8764","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\/8764","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=8764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8777,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions\/8777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}