{"id":2247,"date":"2025-01-31T18:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T02:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2025-01-31T18:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T02:07:52","slug":"not-quite-retro-movie-adventures-barb-star-go-to-vista-del-mar-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/31\/not-quite-retro-movie-adventures-barb-star-go-to-vista-del-mar-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Not-quite-retro Movie Adventures: Barb &amp; Star Go To Vista Del Mar (2021)"},"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\/2025\/01\/barb-and-star-go-to-vista-del-mar-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie Dornan as Edgar in Barb &amp; Star Go To Vista Del Mar\" class=\"wp-image-2248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/barb-and-star-go-to-vista-del-mar-copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/barb-and-star-go-to-vista-del-mar-copy-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/barb-and-star-go-to-vista-del-mar-copy-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This movie came out in the middle of COVID. I started to watch it at home, got about five minutes in, and turned it off. It wasn&#8217;t for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then Alonso Duralde from Maximum Film was excited that there was going to be a screening in an actual theater, so I decided to give it another shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I discovered the movie isn&#8217;t for me if I sit alone and watch it on my computer, but is much more for me in a crowd of BASGTVDM superfans. It&#8217;s wild and silly and a bunch of fun. I&#8217;m glad I found the right crowd to watch it with. Thanks, Alonso!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And as a bonus, a pretty damn good fake poster:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/barb-star-go-to-vista-del-mar-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for Barb &amp; Star Go To Vista Del Mar that's an homage to  Barbarella.\" class=\"wp-image-2250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/barb-star-go-to-vista-del-mar-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/barb-star-go-to-vista-del-mar-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/barb-star-go-to-vista-del-mar-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/barb-star-go-to-vista-del-mar-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This movie came out in the middle of COVID. I started to watch it at home, got about five minutes in, and turned it off. It wasn&#8217;t for me. Then Alonso Duralde from Maximum Film was excited that there was going to be a screening in an actual theater, so I decided to give it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2249,"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":[161,63,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","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=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}