{"id":1169,"date":"2024-03-01T21:58:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T05:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2024-03-01T21:58:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T05:58:45","slug":"movie-pass-adventures-dune-part-2-oscars-live-action-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/01\/movie-pass-adventures-dune-part-2-oscars-live-action-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Pass Adventures: Dune Part 2, Oscars Live Action Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dune Part 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Dune<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gosh, what a lovely looking film about far-future political intrigue centered on a sandbox planet. 160ish minutes with lots… of… slow… intense… talking… but it never dragged. Most difficult suspension of disbelief for me: Timoth\u00e9e\u00a0Chalomet, hardened desert fighter fighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bet it was hard to deal with all the sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Shorts<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

It’s hard to talk about these with out giving stuff away, so I’m going to be extremely vague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The After<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"The<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Holy cow, David Oyelowo can act. This could have easily slipped into unnatural melodrama, but Oyelowo never wavers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red, White and Blue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Red,<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Strong story and performances, but unlike The After this one can’t quite avoid the melodrama. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knight of Fortune<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Knight<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My favorite of the nominees. Funny, sad, heartfelt, touching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invincible<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Invincible<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve ever wanted to see a 16 year old deftly anchor a 30 minute film, watch L\u00e9okim Beaumier-L\u00e9pine in Invincible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wonderful Life of Henry Sugar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"The<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know if it was seeing in a theater or just having more time to digest it, but I enjoyed this more the second time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good news: only three of the five Oscar nominees feature children in terrible physical and\/or emotional danger!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}