{"id":2882,"date":"2025-06-09T10:57:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2025-06-09T10:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:57:29","slug":"san-francisco-movie-pass-adventures-the-phoenician-scheme-and-the-life-of-chuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/09\/san-francisco-movie-pass-adventures-the-phoenician-scheme-and-the-life-of-chuck\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Movie Pass Adventures: The Phoenician Scheme and The Life of Chuck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Phoenician Scheme<\/h2>\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\/06\/the-phoenician-scheme-1.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Hanks and Bryan Cranston on The Phoenician Scheme. They are rendered in muted cyans and oranges\" class=\"wp-image-2879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-phoenician-scheme-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-phoenician-scheme-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-phoenician-scheme-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\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\/06\/the-phoenician-scheme.webp\" alt=\"movie bar for The Phoenician Scheme\" class=\"wp-image-2880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-phoenician-scheme.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-phoenician-scheme-300x38.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-phoenician-scheme-768x96.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wes Anderson certainly has a style, doesn&#8217;t he?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My fake poster for this is pretty weak, but I enjoyed trying to push Anderson&#8217;s color grading into superhero territory.<\/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\/06\/the-phoenician-scheme-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for The Phoenician Scheme poorly mimicking the poster for Deadpool\" class=\"wp-image-2877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-phoenician-scheme-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-phoenician-scheme-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-phoenician-scheme-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-phoenician-scheme.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Life of Chuck<\/h2>\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\/06\/the-life-of-chuck-1.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Hiddleston as Chuck, smiling and wearing glasses\" class=\"wp-image-2878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-life-of-chuck-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-life-of-chuck-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-life-of-chuck-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\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\/06\/the-life-of-chuck-2.jpg\" alt=\"movie bar for The Life of Chuck\" class=\"wp-image-2881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-life-of-chuck-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-life-of-chuck-2-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-life-of-chuck-2-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is more like three related short films than a single movie. Some of it works well, and some of it is trying far too hard to look like deep wisdom. But that&#8217;s also how Stephen King writes, so that makes sense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This fake poster also isn&#8217;t particularly great, but I thought the tagline at the top was pretty funny.<\/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\/06\/the-life-of-chuck-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for The Life of Chuck poorly mimicking the poster for The Secret Life of Pets\" class=\"wp-image-2876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-life-of-chuck-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-life-of-chuck-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-life-of-chuck-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-life-of-chuck.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wes Anderson should do a Stephen King movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2878,"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-2882","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\/2882","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=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions\/2883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}