{"id":2553,"date":"2025-03-16T18:07:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T01:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2025-03-16T18:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T01:07:29","slug":"movie-pass-adventures-black-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/16\/movie-pass-adventures-black-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Pass Adventures: Black Bag"},"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\/03\/Black-Bag.jpg\" alt=\"Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender almost kissing in Black Bag\" class=\"wp-image-2554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Black-Bag.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Black-Bag-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Black-Bag-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-bag-1.jpg\" alt=\"Brightly colored image of Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett looking at each other in Black Bag.\" class=\"wp-image-2555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-bag-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-bag-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-bag-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soderbergh released two movies in the same year? Who does he think he is, Luca Guadagnino? This is a lot more traditionally constructed than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/10\/movie-pass-adventures-presence\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Presence<\/a>, but it does have some fun playing with spy movie conventions.  Bonus points for getting a former James Bond as the spy version of a cranky middle manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s poster parody came pretty easily, but a romantic comedy probably would have been funnier.<\/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\/03\/black-bag-2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for Black Bag that pretty closely matches the poster for Men in Black.\" class=\"wp-image-2557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-bag-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-bag-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-bag-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-bag-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Also: whoever did the original Men in Black poster didn&#8217;t spend a lot of time picking fonts. The text on top is Eurostile. And the title? Eurostile BLACK. I bet they just looked for fonts with &#8220;black&#8221; in the name and picked the cleanest one. <br>Sure made my work easy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if James Bond but married and sort-of rom-com?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2555,"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":[253,78,10],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","tag-men-in-black","tag-movies","tag-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","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=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}