{"id":1798,"date":"2024-11-01T20:26:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T03:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2024-11-01T20:30:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T03:30:28","slug":"movie-pass-adventures-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/01\/movie-pass-adventures-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Pass Adventures: Here"},"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\/11\/here.webp\" alt=\"Tom Hanks and Robin Wright as 50 year olds in Here.\" class=\"wp-image-1799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/here.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/here-300x38.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/here-768x96.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like when film makers try difficult and different things, and a whole movie shot from a single locked down camera position that takes place over thousands of years (though really mostly over about 100) with multiple timelines on screen at once certainly falls into the &#8220;difficult &amp; different&#8221; camp.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But a movie needs more than a gimmick to work, and this movie does not work. Some reasons it doesn&#8217;t:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dialogue that no humans would ever say.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tom Hanks and Robin Wright are not convincing teenagers, no matter how much CGI you throw at them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Startling coincidences and extraordinary luck (what are the odds that before the house was built an indigenous person was buried in that location, and then a road ran through the same location and Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s coach got stuck right there, and after the house was built archeologists would find the indigenous person&#8217;s remains &#8220;just a couple of feet&#8221; underground, undisturbed by centuries of road and home construction?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;We need a way to show when things are happening- make sure we show the TV a lot!&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;We&#8217;re only going to show exactly what can be seen from this spot- but later we&#8217;re going to be able to see through the house sometimes.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A score that screams &#8220;THIS IS A HEARTFELT SCENE AND YOU SHOULD FEEL EMOTIONS.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look- some of it does work, but not much. The final scene works, but it really only does because of the hour and a half that mostly doesn&#8217;t work before it. The weirdest thing about it: I think with the right director, this could be a good play. All it would take is some creative projections to show the different time periods, reusing actors as multiple characters, and losing Ben Franklin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barely there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1806,"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":[78,226,225,224],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","tag-movies","tag-robert-zemeckis","tag-robin-wright","tag-tom-hanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","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=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}