{"id":1745,"date":"2024-10-05T19:05:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T02:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2024-10-05T19:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T02:05:03","slug":"movie-pass-adventures-a-different-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/05\/movie-pass-adventures-a-different-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Pass Adventures: A Different Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a-different-man.jpg\" alt=\"A Different Man movie bar\" class=\"wp-image-1746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a-different-man.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a-different-man-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a-different-man-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think Megalopolis broke my movie judgement. I&#8217;ve seen two movies since watching it. First was Joker: Folie a Deux, which most people hated and I thought was okay. Today was A Different Man, which is getting strong positive reviews&#8230; and I thought was just okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had no problem with the handwave science that gives Edward his new face &#8211; the movie is a look at appearance versus perception, not a fact-based medical procedural &#8211; but I did struggle with some very strange choices made by the characters. Also: there&#8217;s an early scene where the doctors make a lifelike mask of Edward&#8217;s face, supposedly for reference. As soon as they made it, I thought &#8220;well, he&#8217;s going to miss his old face later and put that on.&#8221; And you&#8217;ll never guess what happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I need a willfully silly movie to reset my film brain. Good thing I&#8217;m going to a special screening of Earth Girls Are Easy tomorrow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also: this is the third &#8220;person deals with an alternate version of themselves&#8221; movie I&#8217;ve seen in two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has to FACE his issues. GET IT? Man, I am clever and subtle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1748,"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-1745","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\/1745","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=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}